skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> announcing SGI’s intent to migrate to Itanium (and collaborating on projects Monterey and Trillian) while simultaneously launching an IA-32 series of machines running NT known as the Visual Workstation.

That's pretty wild, I had completely forgotten about that. It was too late of course by then.

I was working at a CAD/CAE the company which leased SGI workstations in the early 2000s. Was just a fresh grad wondering why were they leasing them, then realized they were more expensive than some cars.

Some of the developers were starting to use NT workstation with 3D graphics, they were not cheap, but they could run circles around Octanes and Indigos at a fraction of the cost. They were rushing to port everything to NT as writing had been on the wall for a while by then.
I would say the quality of this article is a bit lacking. Offers absolutely nothing new other than speculation from a “widely read” cybersecurity researcher speculating about it being a Russian op.

If the original maintainer can work with LEOs, “jia tan” may have left some clues in the “off list” communications. Maybe headers off original emails show a pattern.

Maybe even coordinate with Google since the attackers used Gmail accounts. Quite possible an attacker accidentally logged in from a non-sanctioned device or sent email from non state owned device.

We are human after all and can make mistakes. Just as the attacker(s) got clumsy towards the end due to patching out loading of unnecessary libraries in systemd
I'm not offended but I don't understand what your confusion is. I have said anything that is not easy to understand.
“Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"

The Christian world has long acknowledged a division between the secular and the religious. Islam never has. This has hurt both scientific and industrial progress, and the productive synergy between the two.
Very interesting, and the likely culprit. Thanks!
The emulator change is a minor rule change about bundling and is not what many of the reactions to the change think.

What people seem to think this means: Open-ended retro game emulators like Snes9x and Dolphin are now allowed. (I don't think this is correct.)

What the change is actually doing: If you are the licensed publisher of a retro game collection, you can now offer them in one app (including perhaps downloading additional games added to the collection later) instead of splitting them into individual apps. Each game must be individually vouched for.[1]

What is not changing: "Emulators" have long been allowed if the emulated code is bundled with the app and it is officially licensed.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

"4.7 [...] You are responsible for all such software offered in your app, including ensuring that such software complies with these Guidelines and all applicable laws. [...]"

and

"4.7.4 You must provide an index of software and metadata available in your app. It must include universal links that lead to all of the software offered in your app."
You have not answered the very straightforward question.
Correct - but something I would say is that by and large you can get 'pretty good' wines for cheaper in Europe, or at least where I was in Italy.
One for the program, one for the data. It made storing the files easier. In a file cabinet, natch.
Ah duh, for some reason my mind didn't go to hosting the search instance locally and I misunderstood.

btw thank you for Marginalia! The spirit of the small web is very important to me.
It can solve the same problem, but it also solves it better. If you're using DoH to e.g. Cloudflare, Cloudflare can still see all of your DNS queries. If your own local device operated recursively using DNSCurve to the authoritative servers, there is no such third party intermediary who could be compromised or betray you. Moreover, it could also be used to encrypt the queries between Cloudflare and the authoritative servers for the people doing that.

The lack of adoption is mainly that authoritative nameserver operators have no incentive to spend resources on encrypting DNS unless their customers demand it, but the lesson from this should be to demand that your DNS provider support it.
5,000 isn’t a guarantee, but your already at 10% odds of at least one hit with 527 trials.

Considering how many of these get conducted and the odds are often better than 50/50, I expect multiple trials have cured everyone.
Only if Apple approves it. They have time and money for lawyers.
I troubleshot, fixed, and learned a bit of a new spoken language for a project that was definitely being shut down over 6 months and the equipment destroyed.

The new project would take over once it passed acceptance testing but the bugs of the old system were a daily annoyance to everyone. All of the knowledge learned does not apply to modern tech at all. I wasn’t even directed to do it.
It can be (and is) both at the same time.
Or this one, from today

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1776318157348540724
> Parts of India did

Parts of everywhere have fundamentalist nutters. What happened in the Arab world is distinct from what happened in Korea, India or China, and I don't think we can dismiss what happened to it as being analogous to their experience.

> you can characterize any region like that. For example, arguing that China was basically in a century long civil war from 1850-1950

Come on, the Levant has probably seen the highest frequency of violent redrawings of boundaries and governments per square mile in human history. (Baghdad would have probably won had we not ruined its soil.)

I think Western and Ottoman colonisation are valid explanations for why the Arab world looks the way it does today. I don't think it's an adequate explanation for why it fell from being the centre of the world in its heyday.
How did you know who he is? I'm slightly curious. I remember Bocock from 20-odd years ago when we were on a couple of the same mailing lists.

EDIT: I assume this'll be the same person. The name is not exactly common. And one of the lists was 99% British people.

(Never met him and I know nothing about him other than his name. (It ends in "cock", so it stuck in my mind. I was 23 back then.) I have nothing to contribute one way or the other regarding the accusations.)
Calm down - I’m just using a metaphor to point out a relevant historic fact. No judgement of value whatsoever implied in either direction.
Elon says many things. Some of them nearly true.

If this robotaxi doesn't have a living driver in the vehicle, I bet many $$ that there's a remote control operator working it somewhere. Unless by "unveil" they mean "show something that just sits there."
Thanks!

Sure, all it takes to add support for a new service is a small sample of the `.csv` or `.json` file provided by the service--as the ones in the /examples/silo directory. Anyone can submit a request for support with a sample.

I've been logging my listenings on last.fm since 2011 and the idea of adding support for it never crossed my mind lol

Unfortunately, as it seems, last.fm currently does not provide a way for users to download their data other than using the API. I found a website that seems like people use to achieve that, but for now I'd rather support only official files (I think).

I don't have a soundcloud account atm, but I added a TODO to check if they provide a data export option.
OP is not only informed, they're also entirely correct.
Variable Discovery.

Yes that isn't a thing; its a term I came up with, and I sincerely hope no one ever has to encounter such a situation.

So, someone wrote a complex data processing pipeline, that read from some tables in a DB, processed the data in small and large ways, finally producing a bunch of variables that were passed into a downstream ML model. No documentation was produced, and the developer had exited the company.

The problem: because of some high stakes issues with said pipeline's results, we needed to (quickly) find out which final variables were drawing information from which initial DB fields. And all we had were a bunch of scattered scripts (Python and Pig I think).

For me that translated to this task: read the scripts to trace a path of successive variable definitions in terms of other variables, eventually connecting each output variable to one or more input column name. It took me 2 long days to trace these paths by manually reading the scripts. The evening sessions were particularly mind-numbing, and involved a few glasses of wine.
1 very clearly did not happen, and 2 is awfully convenient for facebook.
> My company wants me it install Microsoft Authenticator but I find that unacceptable.

I had them give me a phone. It sits on my desk. 99% of 9he time, it's used only for Microsoft Authenticator. (That does not count the seemingly endless "Scam Likely" calls I simply ignore.)
Could it be because the Roman Empire directly shaped all the official precepts in the belief system through the ecumenical councils ran by the Roman emperor?
I was raised Greek Orthodox and that's not a message I receive at all. I commented as above because for me there is no association between Christianity and lavender. Asking others who were also raised Greek Orthodox, lavender has no special meaning for any of us at all. To clarify, that's not from an academic standpoint, but from the point of view of tradition.

Perhaps it's a Catholic or Protestant thing, but, if so, I don't know where it comes from. I used to love reading the New Testament and I really don't remember any mention of lavender at all. It could be an Old Testament thing though, so, to be fair, more Jewish than Christian. In Greek Orthodox practice the aromatic of choice is frankincense (every church smells of it because the priests burn it in long-chained incense burners that they swing wildly left and right during liturgy), and, separately, myrrh (although that's associated with death and funerals, I guess). Lavender we mainly use to keep moths off clothes, to be honest. I got small muslin-wrapped packets of it in my closet.

I also am not sure why Israelis would want to send a message to Christians about an AI system used to kill mainly Muslims. I mean, in practice, the Israelis enemies are Arabs who tend to be Muslim, so why would they send a message to Christians?

In any case, can you please share some of the information you found in your quick googling? I'm curious to see what people say. I had a quick look online also and couldn't really find anything specific. The wikipedia page on lavender also lists no specific relation with Christianity, as opposed e.g. for myrrh and frankincense.
Did any of you work on DVB-H or Qualcomm MediaFLO? There are thousands of us out there.

An entire ecosystem, killed overnight by the iPhone.
Among news sites that would ever run stories about Facebook, the share that have run critical news stories about Facebook has to be close to 100%.
This is true for explicitly adversarial actors. I can imagine a serious-business misinformation group investing the money required to train up a generator designed to defeat automatic detection.

For everyone else though, the people making common tools everyone uses explicitly want their images to be easy to automatically ID as fake. And, the users largely prefer it that way too.
While the article does present both sides of the classic open source debate ("It's vulnerable because it's open" vs. "It's safe because so many eyes are on it"), it seems to come down on the side of the former. Typical non-software-engineering readers may take away the notion that they should trust open source software less, try to not to rely on it, and become frustrated by the realization that that's almost entirely out of their control as a layperson. But typical software-engineering readers should take away the notion that they, too, should trust open source software less, and, as a solution, rather than withdraw from it, they should become more invested in its thesis of security through the wisdom of crowds.

The article quotes someone pooh-poohing "hobbyist" maintainers. But just because something is your hobby doesn't mean you're not a professional at it. Just because you don't get paid for it doesn't mean it's not an incredibly valuable part of your contribution to the good of your neighbors. Keep up the excellent work, everyone.

I hope the xz lesson is one that moves us toward the ideal of open source, not away from it.
I'm in small and medium business. A lot of homegrown and unique processes that are just dandy. I mean it they're fine. But when faced by things like standard GAAP accounting processes, or even EDI. You can't argue with it. You can't tell walmart oh no well actually I didn't mean to send that 850. It costs you money. You can't willy nilly charge credit cards anymore. Its just life. It makes it hard for them not just in IT but also to hire new people or replace retiring ones. Only Bob knew this process.

What makes the clients we work with great and unique and what I love is the products they make or the problems they solve for customers, but they're not tech companies or banks. The ones who succeed are the ones who focus on thier core value and core skills and not random accounting process X Y or Z.
It should be 0. It should never query this to begin with.
OP mixes different centuries that are far removed from the root cause that is correctly identified in the article.
UEFI is basically protected-mode 32/64-bit DOS.
That still does not let you know how you ended up at the error site. There could be multiple paths, and this approach does not help you determine that. Stack traces are still more useful.
Largest digital camera to research elusive dark matter, dark energy
The banjo is a star of Beyoncé's new album. Turns out it has African roots
So Apple tried to do some virtue signaling by having Jon on their platform, but now they got burned by Jon's own virtue signaling exposing them.
Here's a screenshot of his latest claims: https://i.imgur.com/VPkPkgd.png

And here's his first, quieter explanation, along with a couple of the replies proving him wrong: https://i.imgur.com/bUAwRuh.png
Tiny Biosensor Is Just a Cup, a Membrane, and a Magnet
I don’t disagree much with the paper’s premise, except that I am turned off whenever there is a handy new tool for us to use and then some people come up with reasons why using the new tool is a harmful thing to do.

We humans evolved to be very flexible and naturally use what is in front of us to solve whatever problems we need to solve. For some tasks LLMs are very useful and for other tasks they don’t offer much help. I feel sorry for people who don’t learn how to use common tools because they are stuck in place or have unreasonable fears.

It is reasonable to worry about how powerful actors might use AI for surveillance and removing privacy rights, but I strongly disagree that it is a bad thing for individuals to sometimes save time and sometimes get better results by manually using tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT, and automating things using LLMs as sources of general common sense knowledge, as language processors, data transformation, etc.
>It would be fair to characterise the region that way going back to the Bronze Age

It would even fairer to say that that region had advanced civilization, huge riches, stable organization, culture (music, poetry, literature), science (math, chemistry, engineering), and so on, at times when America was still inhabited by the Native Americans, and Western Europe was a bunch of barbarian tribes living in shitholes, and well after it started turning into medieval shithole fiefdoms (and then started using the loot of the Americas and the advantage of gunpowder to dominate).

Rome and Byzantium excluded of course.
Smartphone app could help detect early-onset dementia cause, study finds
This is not really the case. The entire ROM catalogues of retro console systems are archived on sites for download.
I will run Firefox with uBlock on mobile. I hope many others will as well.
Unfortunately, accessibility under Linux at least is considered lagging and problematic. Microsoft Windows seems to have better accessibility support all round than Linux.

See:

https://scribe.rip/@r.d.t.prater/linux-accessibility-an-unma...
I went to my state school instead of a private university purely because of cost. It just never seemed worth it to spend so much for 4 years of my life.

It's funny too, since I went to a high school where everyone felt the need to go to expensive colleges. Guidance counselors would assume you were going to an out of state or private school. There was no push for in-state schools.

Other than technical reasons for college being so expensive, such as legislation making it extremely easy to take out huge loans, a big factor is "prestige" and social status.

Going to my school was extremely uncool where I lived. But over the years the school I went to has gotten more and more enticing for students, I'm guessing because more high schoolers are wondering what the purpose of spending so much on college is.

I suspect (or, at least hope) US state schools become something like public European universities, where they become increasingly more "prestigious" as costs increase.
> even fairer to say that that region had advanced civilization, huge riches, stable organization, culture (music, poetry, literature), science (math, chemistry, engineering), and so on

Yes. This is the entire point of the article. It was an advanced civilisation. Then it fell to the point that it could be colonised by its former inferiors. How that happens is objetively interesting.
Buy Phillip Morris
Don't like half the cars have the parking brake in that position?

Even my 2010 Prius, which has an... Otherwise unorthodox set of controls - has a foot-pedal parking brake.
The 35mm system was a huge consumables business down through the food chain. That basically doesn't exist with digital. (Aside from ink jet supplies and I'm not sure how true even that is any longer.)
I am from Portugal and in my experience this is the reason.
Maybe it will work in the las Vegas convention tunnel, making it only much worse than a people mover instead of ludicrously worse than a people mover.
> If I wanna make an app for my mom's iPhone, I can't because Apple is preventing me

You can. You just add her to TestFlight and renew the app every 3 months.
This is a great read. The anti rationalist movement was a huge turning point. I worry some of it is happening in the US right now. And once you go down that path, there is no turning back. There is no polemicist like Christopher Hitchens in the US right now in popular culture and that worries me too.
As I said I go back and forth between jetbrains products and vim and neovim.

As someone who crosses those boundaries I can tell you that you're dead wrong.

Im happy to sit down and write code in something like Goland. Im happy to pick pycharm to work on a LARGE python code base. But the moment that I need to deal with a JS spa, legacy code (python, ruby) and go im probably NOT going to pick intelij.

Sorry but IntelliJ is just as much plugin nonsense anything else and sometimes your going to go backwards just to get things working: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-70729/?_ga=2.1643681...

"tinkering with your vim plugins" is "tinkering with your Intellij plugins"... both involve search engines and RTFM, the former has more choice and a bit more downloading but the transition in either direction would amount to the same loss in productivity.

And I have played with VS code as well (and it too has its uses).

The only editor I dont like, is Emacs, and not because it is BAD but because you will spend more time tinkering with it than working.
> anti rationalist movement was a huge turning point. I worry some of it is happening in the US right now. And once you go down that path, there is no turning back

There is a lot of turning back. China turned back from the Cultural Revolution, for example. Hell, Europe was anti-intellectual until the Calvinist/Lutheran pushback.
> Why can I make money doing so? Because Apple built trust with the users, and because they developed the tools and technologies that made their OS worth paying significantly more for similar tech specs.

Nah. It's because developers put a lot of effort in making Apple's platform great for many users.
> To professionals who study and understand atmospheric science, the legislation bears all the hallmarks of the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, which posits that airplane exhaust is deliberately laced with harmful chemicals for various nefarious purposes, including forced sterilization and mind control.

Most small planes burn leaded gasoline, which does in fact leave a toxic trail. There was in fact a conspiracy to add lead to gasoline in the name of profit:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...

"But from the perspective of GM, Kitman wrote, ethanol wasn’t an option. It couldn’t be patented and GM couldn’t control its production. And oil companies like Du Pont "hated it," he wrote, perceiving it to be a threat to their control of the internal combustion engine."
Quoted from the article, from the National Sheriffs Association:

“The Sheriffs of this great country don’t often keep score on House amendments,” the letter read, “but on this one, we will keep score and know who our friends are by their votes against Congressman Davidson’s amendment, which empowers the cartels and further erodes the rule of law in our nation.”

Unsubtle, threatening language from a US law enforcement body?
A good example of how people treat rental cars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqCrGIyGxCo
I only see a baseless accusation to which I am not going to waste my time responding.
You still stubbornly fail to see how going to the media with the claim that you have actual evidence of felony criminal behavior is not just a "petty insult", no matter what someone said to you to begin with.

And let's be really real for a moment, Elon was as concerned about making himself a hero and savior and inserting himself in a situation that was time and resource critical, in a way that could actually have diverted progress AWAY from the rescue as anything else, and he did so by firing off the first idea that came into his head with zero inkling of its viability (because any more than 30 seconds critical thinking with a look at the cave map would show that there was ZERO chance this thing would get even a fraction of a distance towards anyone in the cave system), but figured "the world needs to hear from me now".

In your eyes, someone saying something vaguely insulting to you means you should feel free to go to the media or their employer and say "XYZ is a criminal who does abhorrent things, and I have proof", and that's a fair response to an insulting comment to you. That's one fairly small step away from SWATing someone.

I don't feel its tenable to continue a debate given that wide a definitional gap.
It does, I run it that way with an optional fan-out to my personal YaCy instance. Here's the relevant part of settings.yml:

- name: yacy
engine: yacy
categories: general
search_type: text
base_url: https://yacy.searchlab.eu
shortcut: ya
disabled: true
# required if you aren't using HTTPS for your local yacy instance
# https://docs.searxng.org/dev/engines/online/yacy.html
# enable_http: true
# timeout: 3.0
# search_mode: 'global'

Change 'disabled' to 'false' and point it at whatever YaCy instance you want to use. It can use the 'general' and 'images' categories.
Ask HN: Xor Operation for Embeddings
Hello HN, I want to gather 100 articles about homomorphic encryption and put them together to capture the topic's neural value without pollution.

By xor, I'm looking for an operation that finds the intersection set of their representation and cancels out pollutive elements that are not in all articles.

I want to capture the essence of a topic and shed all other neuron values so that when I can use this neural essence in combination with another one like snarkiness to get a set of articles that are close to e_Essence('homomorphic encryption') + e_Essence('Snarky Tone') to get snarky articles about homomorphic encryption.
None of that says anything about IQ.