skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing a culture of reproducible builds (and thus stable hashes) however does provide is a lack of excuse as to why the build isn't reproducible. Almost nobody will build from source - but when there's bugs to be squashed and weird behavior, some people, sometimes, will. If hashes are the norm, then it's a little harder for attackers to pull of this kind of thing not because you trust their hash rather than their blob, but rather because they need to publish both at once - thus broadening the discovery window for shenanigans.

To put it another way: if you don't have reproducible builds and you're trying to replicate an upstream artifact then it's very hard to tell what the cause is. It might just be some ephemeral state, a race, or some machine aspect that caused a few fairly meaningless differences. But as soon as you have a reproducible build, then failure to reproduce instantly marks upstream as being suspect.

It's also useful when you're trying to do things like tweak a build - you can ensure you're importing upstream correctly by checking the hash with what you're making, and then even if your downstream version isn't a binary dependent on upstream (e.g. optimized differently, or with some extra plugins somewhere), you can be sure that changes between what you're building and upstream are intentional and not spurious.

It's clearly not a silver bullet, sure. But it's not entirely useless either, and it probably could help as part of a larger ecosystem shift; especially if conventional tooling created and published these by default such that bad actors trying to hide build processes actually stick out more glaringly.
You don’t know latin I see. Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a well known fallacy where one assumes that something that follows an event in time was caused by that event.
Electrochemical Acetylene Synthesis via Metal Carbides from CO2 in Chloride Melt
Unreal Engine 5 just got a WebGPU/WASM port:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39911041
The Madness of the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence
Ask HN: Best local LLM to summarize web pages?
Is there an local LLM which can summarize long web pages, even if it requires handing it over the actual text instead of whole web page? I know there is LLama-7B which can run locally (8GB VRAM) but I haven't heard anything nice about it for practical uses like this.
When they started, I understood them as a CDN - storing copies of your static(ish) bytes on lots of servers distributed globally.

Happens to be that a globally distributed network of endpoints is also pretty great for absorbing DDOS attacks, so they started offering that too. And then I guess they parlayed that further into offering other T1/T2 level Internet services too.

I don't use them for CDN / DDOS but I do use them for other things and I think they're great.
Not OP, but I recommend and use sipstation. I moved from VoIP.ms because they often had troublesome outages. Sipstation has been reliable and a good value.
Why they're so popular? I'll tell you why.

Because 90% of the people are irrational buyers. They buy to impress their annoying cousin, or prove that they're more worthy than his wife's sister's husband. Because Apple's products are pricey and iPad case costs more than a iPad's competitor itself.

Same reason why my friend business owner in Dubai says his employees from India buy the most expensive phone with their first salary. Just because you buy the most expensive product, doesn't mean you get the best quality. And good marketers know it.
I am able to drive the car very very practically. It is an actual alternative.
RFSoC 4x2 Kit
yes.

But companies will be scared into only releasing devices that meet the spec if there is a decent risk that non-spec compliance leads to the whole company having their imports blocked.

Besides, forwarding packets for another wifi user will likely all be handled in the wifi chipset, so there will probably only be ~10 implementations by the ~10 companies worldwide who design wifi silicon. And if you're splashing out tens of millions of dollars on a wifi silicon design, you probably are going to make some effort to getting it sufficiently spec compliant to not be banned.
I've tried to dial from Mexico and it seems like the phone is not available.

I'm dialing +1 442 667 2337
https://rigor-mortis.nmrc.org/@simplenomad/11218486968142017...
You can compile to WASM to work around that, with some performance penalty.
Also in Europe competition is ramping up. Tesla has been complacent and is now falling behind. For instance BMW, Renault and Mercedes all have much better "self-driving" than Tesla (capacitive steering wheel, efficient automatic overtaking, no phantom braking, 360° cameras, fully automatic parking that actually works, etc), and there are good, much cheaper models such as the Cupra Born or the MG 4.
Even easier to scan organic tomatoes as regular ones, similarly with other fruit/vegetables. The “self check out discount”
William Morris Endeavor (WME) to Use Loti for Deepfake Removal
This is great! Thank you

In college, a long time ago, I wrote something like this, for n bodies, but in c++ and OpenGL

More recently I’ve built something similar in python

For anyone interested in this, I recommend this Wired article that goes from the 2 body problem to n, with simulations and code that run on the browser: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/way-solve-three-body-problem/
Site sucks but it gets better with a dns filter. Might make your life better in other scenarios too.
Maybe its because I made an honest effort of getting a PhD in physics, but I absolutely do not understand this perspective.

Like yes, we have a really hard time talking about just about anything as finite object with physical extent, but jokes about frictionless spherical cows moving in simple harmonic motion started in secondary school. The gaps and shortcomings should not come as a surprise. But most of us also hold devices in our pockets that leverage actual quantum phenomena to function at all (diodes of any stripe only work because of quantum transitions). So while its true that there are a variety of unsolved and potentially unsolvable problems in physics, its a gross misunderstanding to say that it can barely answer simple questions.

I think about the Born-Oppenheimer approximation a lot, as its so obviously a hack to even do the math at all, but it undergirds basically all of solid state physics.
Unreal Engine 5 was just ported to WebGPU and WebAssembly, see below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39911041
The park's been open for 40 years.

It's entirely possible I'm wrong about this, and I missed an environmental closure, could you find a news article for it?

Yes, there's definitely a comedy of errors when it comes to remediating the site. I believe that there's a 2027 dredging plan.

As I understand it, the consensus is that the environmental danger largely lies in the buried waste poisoning the waterways, and the watertable, not picnic-goers. Am I wrong? Is the consensus wrong?
OK but once you've learned this fact (that I think you could have learned from numerous sources without any technology), what is the ongoing value of the sleep tracker? I feel it is in the category of things that you learn from but then stop needing, including a cadence meter on a bicycle, bathroom scales, and similar devices.
voip.ms has been pretty good. They got DDoS'ed shortly after I signed up which soured the experience for about a week, but I haven't had an issue for the 2 years I've been using them since. I like that they have a wiki that explains how to set up ATA devices for their service -- that's what sold me on them initially.
I think there's another technical issue with using RFID. If you have a basket of a few dozen different RFID chips, there's going to be a lot of collisions in the data they transmit, further reducing reliability.
No, they don't. Everything Israel is doing to Gazans now, the Houthis are doing themselves in Yemen. It's baffling that people can read anything about them and still support them in any way. They are themselves a genocidal movement! There's literally a Dril tweet about this.
Training needs lots of bandwidth, at least as done today. Something easier to distribute and do in a small scale is dataset creation.
I don't know about that, maybe in the tech nerd crowd that's true. But repair costs and mainly Teslas being very unreliable and breaking down a lot has been going viral on instagram and probably tiktok for months.
“AI will undermine trust that applicants know what they're doing?”

Yes. Is that not obvious? It’s already a major problem in educational settings. I’ve seen video of people using it for job interviews.

Have you been handed any code yet that was written partially or wholly by gpt? If not, you will soon, and then you’ll get it.
> A subreddit might have been better as I wouldn't need an account to view proir posts for troubleshooting

Subreddits are not suitable as forums - you just have two sticky posts, and the Reddit format punishes long discussions in a single thread.

If you need to search older posts or want to keep context of some specific subject in a thread, a phpBB-style forum is better.
Also in the 1980's, corporate customer service was still staffed by reasonably competent and empowered employees. So having that for comparison, the government failure modes of incompetence getting entrenched plus layered bureaucracy looked quite poor.

Now the corporate fashions have gotten rid of all the competent reps, through underpay and disciplining anybody that speaks up. And corporations have developed even more bureaucratic diffusion of responsibility than government! Add in the cherry on top of offshoring (heavy accent plus lowest-bidder voip jitter), corporate customer service has become generally terrible.

So with that backdrop, one expects that calling the government will be even worse. But what you actually find are reps that have the bandwidth to actually understand at least some of what they're talking about, as they haven't been squeezed like the corporate world has.
But do you like having to constantly change oil, filters etc.?
Every item in the Internet archive has a torrent file served by the Archive. A list of every item can be retrieved. One could, if motivated, build the equivalent of an ArchiveTeam warrior; instead of grabbing content for archival, you would start up, query for the least available items, retrieve, and then seed the swarm (limited by local disk space available). I maintain a copy of the Internet Archive catalog/item metadata in Backblaze B2, it’s fairly lightweight (comparatively).

You’ll need ~500PB of coordinated decentralized storage to ensure high durability, but can still achieve a somewhat favorable outcome with ~220PB.
Probably because they had a fire a few years ago, and weren't able to fully recover everything.

https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-ple...

"We lost maybe 20 boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable"
It's a hundred times less polished than rebound (that readme looks seriously cool!), but in 2021 I also wanted to toy around with orbital mechanics / gravity and couldn't find a quick and easy simulator so I made this to run in a browser: https://lucgommans.nl/p/badgravity/

Since it's so rough on the edges (especially on mobile, initially I was surprised it works at all), here's the steps for the mentioned example of making Jupiter 10x heavier:

1. Open the scenarios on the left and click play on the inner solar system to load that up
2. Click the plus on the outer planets to add them in (if it looks like nothing happened: zoom out. Space is big and this is to scale)
3. Fold out the "bodies" section and alter the mass for "J"upiter. The change is applied live.
4. Optionally press Restart to restart with the current settings but back at their initial positions and speeds

Making Jupiter 1000× heavier (and fast-forwarding the time in the Simulator controls by 10×) makes it eject Mars from the solar system within one minute, but interestingly Mercury and Venus seem pretty stable around the sun in that configuration

The help/about page (https://lucgommans.nl/p/badgravity/about.html) contains links to all other orbit projects I could find. Seeing Rebound as well as the OP, I should probably add a "libraries" section! Or do you think that should just go with "Software to download" alongside Stellarium and such?
Would be neat if there's planet level visualization in Space Engine like in the show where you see the suns whizzing around and enviroment freeze/burn.
It's time for a hard reset on notifications
"How the patriot missile works (include paid promotion)"

raytheon is really trying to hit those quarter projections.
Have you actually tried formal verification of software? It's extremely difficult. 99% of programmers will not be able to do it at all, and even for the elite who do know how to do it, probably 99% of programs are too complex to be formally verified anyway.

Even if that were not true, it has absolutely nothing to do with supply chain security.
While the books are a great project, I'm stunned that IA didn't take the step to do it as a separate corporate entity, so as to not put the whole enterprise at risk. Surely, someone must have seen that there is a risk going against the deepest pockets in publishing? Or, were they just so all-convinced of their own righteousness that they just ignored it?

As my grandfather said, "Just being right isn't always the end of it, you also don't want to be dead right.". It was about driving, and how sticking to your idea of "being right/having the right of way" is pretty meaningless if you get run over by the other guy being wrong — seems to apply here.

I hope IA doesn't become dead right, but it looks like they are on that path.
Do we know how much extra work it created for the real people who had to review the proposed fixes?
Grocery stores aren’t even fixed price. They are one of the biggest users of coupons and loyalty for price discrimination for instance.
I wish Target would add computers to their carts. For most people, it'd be a nice alternative towards the self checkout area with limited space to place things.

For the more unsavory customers, it could offer video evidence that they're stealing stuff, lock the wheels at the door if more than $X isn't paid for, and create GPS reports of where all the stolen carts end up.
Forget legs, Apple can’t even do arms!
We used Google Docs, Trello, and Stripe Atlas; hired a lawyer for legal work like contracts, immigration forms, etc; Invoicely for invoicing and payments;
Of course! And this was done many times in the past, probably with better results than current deep learning based gaussian splatting where they use way too many splats to render a scene.

Basically the problem with sparse pictures and point clouds in general is their lack of topology and not precise spatial position. But when you already have the topology (eg with a mesh), you can extract (optimally) a set of points and compute the radius of the splats such that there are no holes in the final image (and their color). That is usually done with the curvature and the normal.

The 'optimally' part is difficult, an easier and faster approach is just to do a greedy pass to select good enough splats.
That's about the only thing that makes any sense. Maybe it somehow faulted to route all traffic straight to the ONT, which could only give one address which I happened to get. And then the fiber got cut the very next day around the same time as we got the new router.

A lot of coincidences and extraordinary edge cases, but it's plausible I guess?
A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is".[1]

Science very thoroughly follows the drunkard principle, because there is no sense in looking at places were you unable to find anything. Science is looking for what it can possible see. It cannot see a bacteria under ice of Enceladus, so it doesn't even try. But it can see sometimes gases around Enceladus, so it looks for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
Quite a few of the current LLM chatbots from big players are at least partially trained in this way.
"Sorry, we had to kill open source software because bad people exist" -Microsoft laughing all the way to the bank.

The more paranoid walls you put up the more actual contributors getting into the movement say "eh, screw this, who wants to code anyway".

This isn't just a problems with OSS, this is a fundamental issue the internet as a whole is experiencing and no one has good answers that don't have terrible trade offs of their own.
12% fix rate = 88% bug rate
I see. Docfd right now should be fine for the id/uuid part, but the "piece of text" can be problematic as right now there is no way to ask Docfd to constrain search to line level.

I'll add a --line-oriented-exts command line argument that defaults to "log", so searching anything *.log will not be cross line boundaries.

Are there other file extensions you're dealing with?
This is pretty sad to read. Before Covid, the Amazon Go store experience was phenomenal. All the convenience of a 7-Eleven but with the pricing of a normal grocery store. The food options were really good and the BlueApron style meal-kits were amazing. The Alexa integration was also nice for being able to just verbally ask what's the next step on a recipe while you're busy stirring or chopping things.

When it rolled out to Amazon Fresh stores, it was a breadth of fresh air. The painful clunkiness of self-checkout was gone. The slow and pointless exercise of unloading and reloading your cart was gone. You could just bring your reusable shopping bags, throw stuff in, and walk home. By far the most hassle-free shopping experience to be had.

Scan as you shop is a big step backwards and feels like you've got the annoying self-checkout experience looming over you the entire time you're there.

The selection and operating hours both took a hit during covid and never recovered.
Would it make sense to explicitly implement conservation of energy?

I.e. do a simple method but calculate the total energy at the beginning, and at each step adjust the speeds (e.g. proportionally) so that the total energy matches the initial value - you'll still always get some difference due to numerical accuracy issues, but that difference won't be growing over time.
The attack was embedded in a binary test blob, or did you just not happen to read anything about the xy attack?
SWE-agent: autonomously solving GitHub issues
Exactly how many beans does this 23p 'can' contain? Is it more than a dozen?
I miss the Zeo. The app would still work locally long after they shut the backend down, until there just was no more aftermarket / eBay supply of their unique silver coated contact padded headbands that actually did the brainwave monitoring. I do find the Apple Watch Ultra seems to be close to at least being in the ballpark in terms of stage and duration accuracy as its output is comparable to what I last got with Zeo, albeit 10 years ago.
And as your error rate decreases, it gets exponentially more difficult to decrease it further. My guesstimate is that even ignoring the hardware issue, it would be at least a decade until we get AI capable of reaching human-level performance in household object manipulation (across a big enough class of household objects to be significantly useful in multiple tasks per day).
It will be fun to watch as AI tools flood mainstream.

We already had a lawyer having case thrown out because he didn’t do the job properly and got hallucinations from LLM.

Mostly because people don’t want to work.
I saw that and i was like, is the writer being sarcastic or was this written by a bot. Just plain funny.
How significant would this be if you have nearly negligible running costs (beyond say the cost of registering a business and renewing it)? Starting from a semi-hobbyist position where I would be the first client (think something like the stuff on Hackaday or tindie), I'd imagine nearly zero other bills. (I'm talking about a very low volume, building-in-your-garage type of thing.)
Why would it automatically fail just because others have ship their products first? It's always good when new ideas are tried and bring something new to the table. Never say never.

> I doubt the savings justify additional development complexity. As a cloud provider, your goal is to make your services as easy to adopt as possible.

I have been following the news on Unikraft development for a few years now (since 2019 I think) and now fortunately am a beta tester on kraftcloud. I have seen their website and documentation transform from something that only linux kernel wizards would use to what it is now. So definitely they put some work on making sure unikraft is easy to adopt.

As the current state of kraftcloud, some apps can already be deployed by copy-pasting the config file (that usually consists of 4 or so lines), install the CLI and hit the deploy button. If you want to enable the scale-to-zero you only need to put -0 at the end of the deploy command. If your use cases not covered in their documentation asking their support or joining the discord is a good start if you don't want to deal directly with the "complexity" (which from my experience mainly consist of copy-pasting some .so files into the root folder).
It is a bit worrisome but we manage to deal with subpar human code as well. Often the boilerplate generated by ChatGPT is already better than what an unexperienced coder would string together. I‘m sure it will not be a free lunch but the the benefits will probably outweigh the downsides.

Interesting scalability questions will arise wrt to security when scaling the already unmanagably large code bases by another magnitude (or two), though.
Feedback: I'm a Prime customer and I've never even got into one of the stores. Having the on-site staff waiting at the front of the store like bouncers just put me off as I walked by! Hahah ...

I also kind of like the idea of people having jobs, so that's also a factor. But I didn't even get a chance to try these out ... and I would have but for the henchmen and women waiting to welcome me, LOL
On errors, it exits with success.
I love Garmin watches for many reasons, but their sleep tracking is horrible. Even my ancient MS Band did a better job than my Garmin Fenix 6
Science fiction and the death of the sun
As a longtime autotools-hater I would say this justifies my position, but any build system complex enough to be multiplatform is going to be inscrutable enough to let somebody slip something in like this. But it really is a problem that so much software is built with what's essentially become a giant cargo cult-style shell script whose pieces no one person understands all of.
I have serious doubts that this is a legitimate company that can actually hire people. The parent comment claims that it is "an established electronic trading fintech venture" yet their website only has a landing page (and the position descriptions.)
Javascript is almost always executed in sandboxed, unprivileged environments. The issue here is that this type of obfuscation is easy to add in core os libraries. The JavaScript ecosystem, for all the hate that it gets, makes it super easy to sandbox any running code.

It doesn't matter if it's minified or obfuscated because you basically have to run unknown, untrusted code everywhere while browsing the web with JavaScript turned on. So the ecosystem and tooling is extremely resilient to most forms of malicious attacks no matter how minified or obfuscated the js you're running is. The complete opposite is true for bash and shell scripting in general
If the bug resulted from a rollout, you might be able to undo it. Or it might be a data problem, or it might be the result of factors out of your control.