skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> xz is unsuitable for long-term archival

Neither is lzip since it doesn't contain error correction codes. You can add those with an additional file (to any archive) e.g. via par2 but then most of the points in the linked rant become irrelevant.
Where's this option?
Are those resources more valuable just sitting at the bottom of a deep sea?
What are you talking about?

Most people’s effective purchasing power have skyrocketed.

e.g. A single solar panel 40 years ago would have been more than a years‘s income for the median American. (And much less efficient too)

Even the crappiest healthcare plans nowadays offers options beyond what the absolute top of the line healthcare plans offered 40 years ago.
Reading: Jo Walton (1998): "The Lurkers Support Me in Email"
> How far does the AI system go… is it behind the AI decision to starve the population of Gaza?

No, the point of this program seems to be to find targets for assassination, removing the human bottleneck. I don't think bigger strategic decisions like starving the population of Gaza was bottlenecked in the same way as finding/deciding on bombing targets is.

> is it also behind the decision to kill the aid workers who are trying to feed the starving?

It would seem like this program gives whoever is responsible for the actual bombing a list of targets to chose from, so supposedly a human was behind that decision but aided by a computer. Then it turns out (according to the article at least) that the responsible parties mostly rubberstamped those lists without further verification.

> can an AI commit a war crime?

No, war crimes are about making individuals responsible for their choices, not about making programs responsible for their output. At least currently.

The users/makers of the AI surely could be held in violation of laws of war though, depending on what they are doing/did.
https://archive.is/yH38z
More than optimistic, I found it funny. Then I realized I misread crow as cow.
Another site covering this story:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...
> What's most game-changing, though, is that you have a backend, stateful process that is collaborating with a frontend, stateful process.

...given that managing state is the thorniest of issues, what could go wrong with this approach?
This is a horrible tactic - allow them to promote their product. Why did you mention Tooljet (a particularly bad alternative) when they already mentioned it?
Nah. We aren't creating rutters to navigate tough waters for enforcing colonialism. Sometimes the past doesn't predict the future with much confidence.
I own one and I like it.
The build quality is very good.

There's a number of things promised (like proximity unlock) that haven't been delivered, otherwise the latest 2.0 OTA is acceptably stable.

It has been a rollercoaster of an experience and the initial software my vehicle was delivered with was quite bad.

I wish others would understand there are many that do not want to see them succeed and, while Fisker has made many mistakes, some of these reports are very much sensationalized.

On topic of not being able to exit the vehicle, the details are unclear. When child lock isn't enabled, there's supposed to be an emergency exit procedure (two long pulls on the door latch should release the door, independent of electronics). I was locked out of my vehicle once with a very early software release and that lasted 20min. Upon opening the windows remotely via the app, the manual latch procedure worked to open the door from the inside handle (and set off the car alarm).
> Opera has been bundling in a mail client, rss reader, calendar app etc for ages now

No longer the case since they switched to Blink. Nonetheless, Opera still comes with more built-in functionality than other browsers, such as ad blocker, in-browser VPN, and builtin ads occasionally.
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No argument there, but that has nothing to do with my point that novices at chess aren't just playing constant blunders when playing each other.
Exploring Incinerator a powerful Android malware reversing tool
Does anybody know which consistency model Cloudflare offers compared to AWS S3?
I think the algorithm, in this case, makes a suggestion and then a human evaluates it. The article claims they've only looked at the sex of the target (kill if male) but also claims 90% effectiveness. I'm curious if 90% is a good number or not? War will always have collateral damages but if technology can help limit that beyond what only a human could do then I'd say it's a net positive. I think the massive efficiencies the algorithm brings to picking targets is a bit frightening (nowhere to run or hide now) but there's no real turning back.

People thought this way about the machine gun, the armored tank, the atom bomb. But once the genie is out there's no putting it back in.

As an aside, I think this is a good example of how humans and AI will work together to bring efficiency to whatever tasks need to be accomplished. There's a lot of fear of AI taking jobs, but I think it was Peter Thiel who said years ago that future AI would work side by side humans to accomplish tasks. Here we are.
The most interesting part is the funding came from Japanese motorboat racing profit. Imaging if we could funnel profit from NFL to benefit science or local communities.
I'd just like to take a moment to thank you for releasing it as AGPL.
This is a very bad idea. So if I want to conduct an experiment I have to convince the fund raiser or play to his tunes. I wish I could downvote it 10 times :)
TSMC still assessing chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan
Using prompt injection mitigation techniques is akin to directly interfacing untrusted clients to your production database, but just organizing your tables that contain sensitive data in a confusing way in the name of security. If you depend on a language model behaving correctly to avoid leaking sensitive data, you've already leaked the sensitive data.

Scope the information that the language model has access to to a subset of the information that the person interfacing with the language model has access to. Prompt injection doesn't matter at that point, because the person will only be able to "leak" information they have permission to access anyways.
A lot of companies historically wouldn't have an API at all, but MBAs started learning about it as a way to differentiate yourself, probably around the time the Jeff Bezos "API mandate" started to make the rounds on news sites. So now we get "APIs" outsourced to bottom-dollar firms.
[edit: This was in response to your previous post, but self-forking conversation tends to lead to a mess, so I am replying here - I believe it largely applies to your response to yourself as well in any case]

I'm not starting with an opinion and then seeking facts to support it. That's the beauty of the past - I don't really care about Debs one way or the other. If anything I'd be quite aligned with him on many things, particularly his views on imperialism. But I tend to give near 0 weighting to words and opinions, because assuming the truth of words is itself little more than a proxy for a view on the person saying them. The reason I gave Trump as the example there is to emphasize that I think most people also intuitively think this way, and only resort to words when convenient. In either case, I give immense weighting to actions, and in this regard I see nothing to support the notion that Debs wasn't more than fine with violence.

The Pullman Strikes were not a one-off thing. Debs was also involved in the Burlington railroad strike of 1888 [1], and it also turned violent. And in general taking a role in labor conflicts in the 19th to early 20th century was an implicit acceptance of violence. It was an era when workers were cheap and easily replaced. Nobody cares about a bunch of people running around with signs - companies would simply hire new workers, 'strike breakers.' So strikers would respond to this by carrying out sabotage, attacking or intimidating the strike breakers, and so on. The rare time strikes ended peacefully tended to be when the strikers were able to get some form of leverage, like convincing a town to boycott the business.

I also hold no judgement against this either. To me it's just another interesting part of history. And I can see many parallels between the past, and the present.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_railroad_strike_of_...
Homicide defense attempts to submit AI-enhanced video, judge says "no"
I bought a Transcend ESD310C specifically because of this. Really performant, too!
There are certainly times when killing is justified. Defeating the Axis in WW2 is a great example of this.
It's the old story of a an outsider group (AI researchers, in this case) re-inventing the wheel discovered ages ago by experts of the domain.
Like the lzip author when he wrote that hitpiece?
This succinctly describes how old MacOS allocated per-application resources. Each app had a minimum and preferred RAM requirement tagged to it. When launched, it would take up the whole preferred slot, unless that amount wasn't available in which case it'd take up less than preferred (and fail to launch if it couldn't get minimum).

The system allocated the heap (and libraries, I think) at the bottom and the stack at the top of that physical-RAM slice, and off you went.

I believe around system 8 they added a virtualization layer that started to obviate the need for that approach (and of course by the time of MacOSX they were using paged memory like everyone else was and so such fancy tap-dancing was no longer needed). But it's fun to think about the era where this "one weird trick" from Art of Computer Programming was how we allocated RAM for multiple concurrent applications.
I agree with these points. Nextjs, from my understanding, is primarily aimed at websites. I also worry about lock-in.
This. EuroPol/FBI have no jurisdiction in Pakistan. As long as they don't target victims in their own country, they are most likely able to act with impunity.
There is a satellite-based surveillance system. What is missing (or was) is will to actually enforce.
How well do screen readers parse other compiler errors?

This isn’t me trying to be snarky, I actually have no idea! Reading a C++ template error is hard enough as a sighted person
Yeah, thought it was fine, but some comments said it was devolving into flamewar. Let's just stick to one discussion and article post and not archive workarounds
this AI problem for sure it will make some job lose on other people field and can make mental health problems. https://empathyhealthclinic.com/
Not quite, I'd say that SignalR is comparable to Phoenix Channels. It's a communication protocol that can use different transport protocols, Websockets being one of them.

LiveView builds on top of Phoenix Sockets. When the page is loaded for the first time, it starts a lightweight server-side process on the BEAM VM. This long-lived process renders the HTML template (which can consist of multiple SPA-style components) and keeps all of the relevant "props" (called assigns) in-memory.

Every time a new event is received, either client-side (e.g. button click) or server-side (typically via a PubSub subscription), that long-running process will update its assigns (props) to reflect the new state. The framework then intelligently re-renders parts of the HTML template which depend on those modified assigns, and sends a minimal HTML diff to the client.

All of this can be done without writing any custom JS. Basic client-side events are usually set up with special HTML attributes like `phx-click=my_custom_event` and automatically wired up by LiveView JS bundle to be received by that long-running process.
Currently flagged discussion about the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
Actually it sounds like its from renders of an Unreal demo. So synthetic photos from a game engine. LOL
It's your right to delude yourself that the runtime does not matter. That's not a discussion I am willing to have though, especially when exactly 100% of my 22+ years of programming experience have demonstrated, time and again, that the runtime inevitably ends up making a lot of difference (sometimes all the difference even).

Or, when you don't have a runtime -- as is the case with Rust, kinda sorta I mean because technically `tokio` can be classified as a runtime -- then you rely on a stricter compiler.

Both strategies work pretty well.

I am not shitting on C# / .NET, they are solid as hell. But some things the BEAM VM just does better and everyone who worked with old-school VMs (in my case the JVM) and the BEAM VM can tell you that.

But again, you do you, think what you will. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Quintic, the Icosahedron, and Elliptic Curves [pdf]
Overselling supposedly magic software is not a kind of fraud?

I said that "I'm sure" that Palantir has a bit more than Bernie because they actually produced some software, I believe.

"Not by much" was my guess given my experience of living 45 years on this planet through AI winter and spring (multiple?), working with software and computers. Experiencing how much of marketing is straight up lies. Seeing firsthand how government spends money on future predicting software that doesn't actually accurately predict anything, just presents results of some modelling.

But that's just my guess. Maybe it is magic this time. After all my expectations were contradicted once already with ChatGPT. Not strongly, but somewhat.
What you are describing is not just impractical, it is actually impossible. Someone linked to "falsehoods programmers believe about time" but I think maybe "falsehoods non-physicists believe about time" might be more apt.

There is no such thing as a universal frame of reference is the somewhat depressing outcome of Einstein's theories.
I'm just perplexed by people who make this claim. How could you possibly be in a position to judge his intelligence?
It looks like an interesting tool.
Turns out "get the hell out of the way" is very good baseline advice for a lot of situations.

Want to make a sale? Get a customer in the room with a good product, then get the hell out of the way.

Want your team of engineers to build incredible things? Hire good people, then get the hell out of the way.

Its not perfect, it hinges a lot on starting from a good place, but if you're in a situation where everybody in the room wants essentially the same thing (for the project to succeed, for the customer to drive away with a new car, etc), the best thing you can do is simply not interfere with the process that arises organically.
This reads heavily like it was written by ChatGPT. It's not all that insightful, either.
Nice to see that believing in fake news are not an intelligence related tract.
those grow wild all over the land here, i just found out what they were called last year; although i had heard they're not edible but to leave them for birds. I'll ask the Ag Center if they're safe to eat.
The previous story was suppressed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
Was this already public info? I feel weird about people sharing classified info on the forums I frequent. (Even information that I don’t agree should be classified)
> Also the picture you're painting is not what passes for suburbs today.

Of course it is, that’s just what suburbs are. Some are crazy expensive and some are not.

> There are true suburbs but they are for rich people.

You can’t define suburbs as being expensive and then complain they’re expensive. If you’re happy living in an expensive concrete jungle good for you, but you don’t need to make excuses for hating suburbs.
It's the same as any other web page, it doesn't work when you receive or send data from the server.

Liveview isn't that special, the liveview paradigm works best for what would already be online actions in a normal page.
RFC 3986 says that * is a sub-delim. It cannot be assumed to be URI safe.

A base 38 alphabet is the maximal possible URI unreserved alphabet.
Oregon governor signs bill recriminalizing drug possession into law
They just overdid it with prices. They’d sell like hot cakes for under 40K.
Need the `-Wanalyzer-out-of-bounds` option and it's only static. At compile time so.

It can catch easy one, not the obscures cases.
Phones are able to capture MiBs per frame via their cameras, so I wonder if you could make an app that has both playback and recording of data, like displaying an animated QR-like code on one phone and recording it on another.
A relative of mine works there. I can confirm that they are hyper focused (at least he is) on fixing all the issues customers have reported.
They could be one of many parties considered liable. Lawyers will justify spending $20k in legal work on themselves for an extra $100ks in recoveries, even if that’s a part of $billions.

Quite possible the captain has their own liability insurance. Dunno how the professionalization works at sea.
PSA: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
>He is effectively paying for these flights by buying Canoo stock.

If a CEO is intentionally creating a situation to make a company unprofitable and paying it back by buying shares, that is 100% securities fraud and I'm stunned anyone disagreed with that assertion.
Why does every question have to have a purpose deeper than "because I was curious"?
The use of these AI systems are the biggest evidence of the Genocidal rules of engagement from the Israelis.
The Sales Execution playbook that helped Algolia close millions in ARR
I was an early employee at Algolia [YC W14] and had the chance to witness the hyper growth trajectory from $3m to >$60m ARR.

There is one sales methodology that really impacted our sales execution and helped us win more deals.

I thought it could be interesting to share it. I really recommend to use it if:

your ACV is >$10k
your sales cycle is >1mo (i.e. mostly sales led vs 100% self serve PLG).

At Palette we built our own tool to implement this methodology seamlessly, but recently decided to carve it out for other teams to use it.

It’s called TallyPulse.com
This entire webpage feels like it was written by chat GPT
>The HN crowd is overly enthusiastic to see Jews die, if anything.

I wouldn't be so quick to say that. I would guess that 99.99999% of us at a bare minimum don't want to see any innocent people die, regardless of ethnicity, religious creed, nationality, etc. In fact, I'd wager my life savings and my company on the guess that most rational adults don't want to see innocent people die regardless of where in the world they are. HN is no different.

Israel is not 100% scot-free and innocent here, and that needs to be stressed. I don't condone Hamas's behavior at all (it's abhorrent), nor do I condone bombing a clearly-marked vehicle delivering humanitarian aid (also abhorrent).

Also, Israel =! all jewish people world wide. You'll find some of Israel's largest criticisms come from non-Israeli Jews.
This doesn’t make sense, it’s not dependent on quality. You literally would have to spend an infinite amount of time pondering an infinite number of possible futures to accomplish anything, at even the lowest possible amount of ‘good’.

Hence it’s physically impossible to advance a single nanometer on this line of reasoning.
> What do people do now, just YOLO memory usage?

Yes, literally. Careful allocation has given way to "Use what's there and fail hard if it ain't enough" in the era where machines are cheap and the dominant paradigm is how parallel you can make your algorithm so you can solve your problem with scale.

In the modern era, for most online service software (which is, I'd argue, most software people interface with these days), you write it as fast as you can, prototype it small, start to care about RAM allocation (but build it to just die screaming if it runs out of RAM so you know you need to make a change), and keep scaling up.

You don't care a lot about RAM allocation until you're scaled to a lot of nodes because only at that scale is whether the app takes up a kilobyte less going to start to matter on machines that are swinging gigabytes of storage around.

There are plenty of application spaces where this isn't the status quo (embedded architectures, console gaming), but that tends to be considered specialist engineering in this day and age.
> I don't believe people starving is entirely or even majorly the responsibility of Israel.

I wish I could agree, but foreign aid is being forced to leave Gaza as a result of the IDF's actions: https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/israel-strike-kil...

> I don't see it as having overtaken the response towards an attack towards Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine
I don't disagree, I am not even sure what exactly you are arguing against.

I completely agree with your comment about the detection being the result of iterative low probability chances of detection. My point was that, even if that is the case, there was a major chance that it would have gone into many stable distos or would have been exploited.
That's not enough. Even if the LLM can only access information that should be visible to the user interacting with it (which I see as table stakes for building anything here) you still have to worry about prompt injection exfiltration attacks.

More on exfiltration: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=exfiltration
Ah SuperDisk, I only know about it because there was a drive for the PowerBook G3.
You don't know they "told" the IDF enough to be trusted as not being a threat, and you will never know unless the IDF does acknowledge something out of this.

And something does not add up: the IDF has no reason to trust those orgs in the first place... that should be actually the other way around as those orgs could be leverage in some way by the opponents as they are moving on war grounds.
You'd have to be mad to pay these prices.
It’s too bad — we need more entrants to keep the field competitive, especially for the U.S.
I know. That's what's missing from our current technology. I am honestly tired of everyone collectively pretending this is not a problem. Periodically we get very grim reminders that it's in fact a problem, everyone pretends to care for a month then it's all back to where it was.

It's depressing. (And no, this comment does not imply you are such. I am responding + ranting.)
The modern car is such a joke. So complicated, unnecessarily large to placate the insecure consumer, and heavy. So much shit can go wrong.
Well, there are better articles, but they have all been systematically flagged and the mods don't seem to be taking any action, so.
There is no independent frame of reference by which we can tell whose time is slower.

From the spacecraft's frame of reference, Earth's time is slower. From Earth's frame of reference, the spacecraft's time is slower. Both are right.

When we say that time is slower or faster on a spacecraft, the Moon, or an exoplanet of Christopher Nolan's, we are implicitly prefixing the statement with "From Earth's frame of reference..."
>During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing