skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second-largest eyeglass lens-maker blinded by infosec incident
I think technically it is it's own github repo, just under libjxl user. I could be mistaken, I'm still learning git and GitHub.
> I don't understand how people can pretend that home management is an easy job that you can pick up whenever you need.

I preferred learning how to cook than take such a blow to my manhood.

I mean, that's the one thing real men are supposed to do - put food on the f*ckin' table.

It takes a brave man to admit he struggles to put food on his own table, with his own hands, and relies instead on a cook at a restaurant - likely another man. Or needs his woman to do it.
For me personally it's privacy. I know that Apple is no angle either, but a simple GDPR data request, show how limited data they have compared to Google.
Besides that, they offer me end-to-end encryption across their cloud sync besides contacts, calendar or email (which I have on via Carddav/Caldav on Synology anyways - and protonmail).

They also offer differential privacy or are using random identifiers in most of their services. I know they're a for profit company, but for now, I really like what they're doing on the privacy front.

Besides that, I like Shortcuts. While Tasker might be more powerfull, it's losing features for every generation of Android because Google is locking Android down. Shortcuts is relatively stable, has good OS integration and third party integration.
I wouldn’t be thrilled to fly in a plane if it had a 5% chance to kill me.
Related official report:

CISA Releases Report on Microsoft Online Exchange Incident from Summer 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922066
Beautifully put. Many metrics suffer from the glass half full vs half empty, perspective! They're just numbers at the end of the day. The important part is how you let them inform you. It is so easy to have the number goes up === good mentality, but many metrics hide the subjective and or collective truth. People need to take metrics in aggregate. Not everything is a race, not every number is important and many metrics are poor indicators for what you really want to measure.
In some cases, running docker containers using the vendor-provided docker compose file, inside a VM that you yourself provision according to your own needs using your own tooling (ansible etc), is the best approach, which at this point is ridiculous, but here we are.
Related:

CISA Releases Report on Microsoft Online Exchange Incident from Summer 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922066

Scathing federal report rips Microsoft security in response to Chinese hack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914817
I wrote and use Harbormaster (https://harbormaster.readthedocs.io/) for this use case. It doesn't have a UI, but it basically only needs a Compose file to run an app, and all data (for all apps) lives in a data/ directory that you can back up at your leisure.

Everything is auto updated from a single YAML specification (which I usually pin), so the process to update something is "change the version in the config, commit, and the server will pick the change up and deploy it".

It's just a thin layer over "git pull; docker compose restart", but I love it.
Announcement mail: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=171228270018970&w=2
Sane-math: Clojure/Script library for infix math expressions
> What I'd expect instead, based on my having taken exactly one class in economics as an undergraduate, is subtler effects that play out over time.

As a PhD student in Econ, I am glad to see that you learned something about how to actually apply this work. Thanks for making my day after some rough grading.
The market ebbs and flows and your assessment of the innovation happening at Netflix vs. Nvidia is evidence of that. Google used to be a cornerstone of what defined a FAANG, but now it's become the new Microsoft, while Microsoft has been busy re-inventing itself. Amazon is flattening out, FaceBook (ahem, Meta) is searching for their next moonshot, and Apple is about to incur the wrath of regulatory bodies that their curated experience may or may not survive. I think COVID was the pivotal moment for these companies for the reasons you allude to: bureaucracy. The Goog grew way to fast to try and capitalize on cloud going up during the pandemic, but they hired too many middling people. Most companies did, but they cannot afford to do so then or now.

Nvidia is a wonderful case study in management doing leaps and bounds without being "busy", because like Valve, their winning move was to let everyone else make unforced blunders. CUDA isn't exceptional. It's OK, it's alright, - but it's certainly better than the broken mess ROCm is. Intel said "meh" and left the entire market open, despite tailored compilers being their strong suit. Now Intel is getting pounded by AMD and ARM, and AMD GPUs are a laughing stock in the fastest growing market space at the moment: AI and Machine Learning. The companies that capitalize effectively on AI/ML now will be winners in tomorrow's market.

I've worked in startups long enough to know what the end of ZIRP will do to a company.
Why bother promoting firefox then? If they have no will of their own, you're screwed anyway. Might use chrome as well
Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source
A cool idea, but not sure the business case. I wrote a quick and dirty bash script which automates the process of adding 2x GitHub runners on instances (2 CPU cores and 4 GB memory each). Simply scale out horizontally. Since the instances are persistent you get docker image caching out of the box unlike hosted runners on GitHub. Also arm64 is fully supported.
The top section of the site matches very closely another project posted on HN a couple weeks ago - no negative opinion from me, because I also thought it was incredible design and borrowed a ton of it for one of my sites.
Teams, as much as I may dislike it, seems to have more built-in features than Slack, including a files feature that supports editing MS Office documents in place, and integration with Outlook calendar and email and other Microsoft apps. I also think that Slack didn't have video conferencing until relatively recently?

As with the IBM model, I imagine it's simpler for companies to have a single source and a single support channel. It is possible to use Exchange sign on for non-MS systems and apps however.
I'm in a weird position. Can anyone provide a summary of this article?

I have all the time in the world to read things that are interesting (to me) and really absorb the content. But I've increasingly been noticing a "recipe article" trend with blog posts. People throw 100 words in when 10 will do. This article is an example.

I've even gotten to the point with certain important blog posts where I copy paste the content to chatgpt with a simple prompt to summarize the main points.

I'm not happy that I have to do this, but people have seemingly forgotten the art of getting to the f'ing point.

Your audience has an attention slightly shorter than this comment. Unless you catch their attention, none of your nuance is going to matter.

Generally I've found just skimming the first line of each paragraph works well, but even that is getting harder to find.
> Armies engage in a very brutal practice called war which is different than the more brutal practice we tend to call terrorism.

35000 dead, almost 2 million homeless and starving, ~10000 more buried under rubble and ~10000 taken prisoner is somehow less brutal in your eyes than
~1500 dead and several villages deserted, 10000s of thousands homeless, and 200 taken prisoner?

You and I have different definitions of brutality, so afraid I’m this discussion is at its end.
Fwiw, I’ve seen comments on HN about problematic aspects in FB’s past, which were factually correct and delivered on a neutral tone, but were reported/flagged and became invisible.
I've only read two works from her, both short stories: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", and "The Building" (in the "Redshift" anthology). Both were absolutely terrible, shockingly so. I really don't get why people like her work so much.
On the contrary, if the software wasn't open source, there would be no chance of a back door like this being spotted.
Historical Emissions: What Guyanese President's Viral Takedown of the BBC Missed
My Failed Linux Distribution That No One Uses [video]
"it would be tough to apply all 150 books contents to real life."

Why the hell would anybody want to do that?

Do you feel some need to "apply every meal you eat to real life"? or to "apply every movie you watch"? Or every concert you hear, or every ballet you see?

(I usually read books as a way to avoid "real life" for a while...)
Very small nit: it'd be nice to provide an OpenAI org in case multiple orgs exist.
>In practice, OpenCL became a giant mess. Some vendors put speed bumps by not supporting the transition from 2 to 3, or having shitty drivers for it.

Well, Nvidia's stock price in the age of AI indicates how bad of a screw up that was, they're locked out of the market growth until they play catch up. By then, Nvidia might have an insurmountable foothold.
Not quite. Late last year I began running a Searx instance locally, less for privacy than for having a hackable meta-search engine. Since it supports several "bangs," like !ddg and !yt and the like, I generally use this for quickly searching Youtube without changing context. When I enable images [0], I can see the thumbnails just fine. Regardless, there are plenty of places on the web (like here) where people will post interesting YT links, and having them pop open in mpv is a good default [1].

I've also evolved a CLI YT client, based on mpv/yt-dlp and fzf; it does not show thumbnails. Even so, it's perfectly fine for gathering lots of search results, like

$ yt 500 medical uses for hollandaise

which will gather the first 500 results about medical hollandaise [1], filter out the shorts, and present the remaining results in an fzf-based UI. I haven't really missed the thumbnails.

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[0] One of the first things I did with eww was to bind "I" to a function that toggles images on or off and re-displays the current page.

[1] In my setup, I can override all special handling of a URL by holding Ctrl while hitting Enter to follow a link.

[2] Earlier today, I had a fascinating conversation with TinyLLama about the medical uses of hollandaise and options for regulating it. Did you know that it can be taken intravenously to help fight cancer?
Thanks for the link and the 3yr study highlighting is a nice touch. Can’t edit my post though. I wonder if the blocking T is contraindicated also then. Sample size 1, a relative, it didn’t work at all to reduce testosterone.

“The study was limited to men with hypogonadism who had a low risk of prostate cancer, so it's not clear how TRT may affect higher-risk men or those who use testosterone in higher amounts, for longer periods of time, or for treating other conditions.”
Yes, the article discusses slow, expensive repairs and Tesla’s price drops
None of the petty crimes he was wanted for seemed worth the effort he put into maintaining the false identity. It makes me wonder whether there is more to uncover.
I think I'm missing something here. What did he have to gain from doing this? I understand that he was able to incur large amounts of debt under someone else's identity, but at that point he effectively was Woods. He was married under that name, he was employed under that name... If the authorities ever came looking for the Woods that incurred all the debt, it would be him that paid.
Yes, my pet peeve is printing as pdf. You can control line thickness, size, placement of row borders to pixel perfect in Excel & it will get printed to pdf or paper exactly as it is. But not from Google Sheets or Excel Web, even same excel sheel imported in these & then printed will have slight difference in what you see on screen and what gets printed. I understand its because of browsers limitations to place stuff on pixel scale.
I worked with a guy that had falsified some records to hide some misdeeds in his younger years. He made it 19 years before something unrelated forced us to do thorough background checks on our employees. He was escorted off the premises by police and his benefits voided by HR.

All I’m saying is… at some point you got away with it. We did him dirty.
You should multiply this 5% with the probability you have prostate cancer.
Woods was an employee at a hot dog stand, why did he steal his identity?
What's easier than containers? It sounds to me like you let your hate of the problem carry over to hating the solution.

I have a Python web app, what's a better way to distribute it than containers?
Serial killer purposely packing bad shoots?

Shoots being packed really shitty to keep the flow of jumpers going?

Whistleblower about the lack of oversight?
V8 isolate termination is more akin to throwing an uncatchable exception, versus killing a thread abruptly. When you ask v8 to terminate an isolate, it does take some time for it to terminate depending on what code is running.
> Apple lose their walled garden, and the 30/15% cut with it

This could be fantasy talking. How does the walled garden around Steam affect their 30% cut? Oh, there is no wall, and it's... 30%.

So wait, if non-walled-garden stores cost 30% in an open market -- are we sure this is going to work out getting to use the world's most valuable app store shelf space for free?

It doesn't work that way at Walmart...
If you don’t understand the code well enough to annotate it, it seems hard to believe you’d able to rewrite it and end up with the same functionality (same processing rules, accepts identical input, produces identical output, etc).
For this to really be practical, it needs to be a small, silent drone. Unless Apple is only planning to sell it to people who live in large, single level homes.
It’s understandable and may work for you but I have the feeling it’s a bad habit. But again, if it works for you all the better.
Suddenly, the government having my DNA record seems less terrible. I’m only half kidding…
What censorship? We're discussing the article and this on tech platforms
It looks like the judge that declared it unconstitutional has a history of being overturned by higher courts, and is another Trump judicial appointee with questionable qualifications. He also has a portrait of Confederate President Jefferson Davis hanging in his office, which has nothing to do with this case but everything to do with his judgment in general.
What's the trick? If you read the screen, you can just choose not to create one, it's that easy.
I think this is why the shadow libraries are the only spheres that will be able to resist being taken over by AI. If you're risking jail time to distribute the written word, you're not going to waste your resources on AI generated stuff.
Agreed. He must have done something terrible and was running from it.
I heartily recommend it.
> I'm not defending it.

Proceeds to defend it

> I'm putting blame where it belongs, on the perpetrator. No one in Israel asked for war. Lots in Gaza did.

Gaza is a population of 2M people run by an armed gang of a mere 50,0000. The IDF a fully fledged modern army has thus far proved unable to root out Hamas despite leveling most of Gaza. It seems hard therefore to blame the 1,950,000 not in said gang for its actions especially when half of them are kids.

> When a woman defends herself from rape by stabbing the rapist I don't say, "She caused him more damage!" I blame the rapist.

This is manipulative garbage. The rapist is singular unified in guilt and purpose. We are talking about a society. If you have anything else in this vein please keep it to yourself.

> Not everyone wants war and that's sad that people are caught in it. But Israel isn't at fault, any more than that woman. Hamas is firing from behind innocents. They have to kill innocent people to survive, typically. You can help them by eliminating their need to do it, or you can blame the victim.

We can demand lawful just behavior even in war. Letting murderGPT generate targets and blowing up women and children in there home isn't it. What happened in October was simply awful but Israel in modern times is not under existential threat from Hamas. They absolutely had the ability to prosecute the war in a different fashion. Acting like they had to either lay down and die or petpetrate horrors is again manipulative and dishonest. A few fuckin pointers.

- Drop bombs only on human vetted intelligence

- Fire on armed resistance not children

- Drop bombs on people participating in conflict instead of homes even if its harder and less effective

- Drop bombs only when the probable collateral damage is either zero or the tactical gain is high eg killing 0-5 to get a top tier leader is probably acceptable killing up to 20 to get each and every flunky is insane.

If the war can't realistically be prosecuted successfully on those terms then set up an actual acceptable no mans land between gaza and Israeli settlements instead of letting a bunch of idiots build settlements adjacent to the people who want to murder them. Fire back when shot at and continue assassinating leaders and those directly responsible for the October horror. There is every reason to believe that October need never come again.

If this is unsatisfying nobody gives a fuck. Morality is hard. Decency in an indecent world is hard. Man the fuck up and develop a sense of honor.

The current trajectory is unsustainable. The only way to pacify gaza is to kill everyone and that endpoint is probably unachievable without the world turning against Israel and stopping it and if leave a genocide partly done you'll be worse off than if you had never started.

This is the train we are on. The conductors are mental midgets and the people laying the track are oblivious.
At some point there should be squatters rights to an identity.
For time trials, yes that is true. There are also other concerns such as that the speed stat is actually comprised of 4 different stats that have different values depending on the terrain: Ground, Air, Water, and Anti-Gravity. Some tracks that have a lot of water and so for that you would be better going for a kart that has high water speed. There are other less important statistics at play too that aren't mentioned here such as handling, traction, and also the hitbox of the vehicle is also important since it might change how tightly you can hug a turn against a wall or how wide you have to steer to collect coins.

In practice when playing online however, you won't know what track is about to be played, and so the meta right now prioritises mini-turbo stat much higher than speed. Having a high mini-turbo can also overcome the lack of speed by performing additional mini-turbos even on straight sections. Also when playing online you also will be hit by items a lot and need to try dodge other items being thrown at you, and for that having higher acceleration helps too.
Seattle Is Getting Rid of Gifted Schools in a Bid to Increase Equity
Ironically it’s because increasingly it’s 100 words generated by an LLM from a 10 word prompt. We’ve effectively found a way to keep entire datacenters humming to do nothing more than obfuscate signal in very expensive noise and the lossily try and extract it again.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924309
The irony is the car is actually much harder to drive with the arrow keys at slow speed than at high speeds!
You have to make your own, some people have SRAM compilers - depending on how big a tile you choose the more memory you get (it's going to be in the 100s to low 1000s of bits)
This is so neat! MOO has been a integral part of my work yet it has never occurred to be that Pareto optimization could be applied in kart picking.
I’m honestly not sure what the difference is. I kind of understand SISO, MIMO, and beam steering concepts, but just the basics from nerding out on my Starlink dish.

This is what I’m talking about:
https://www.twz.com/f-35-will-get-new-radar-under-massive-up...

Specifically this image:
https://www.twz.com/uploads/2023/01/03/20065813381381024.jpg

I don’t know how targeting works, but with this level of resolution, I think basic image algorithms can start to come into play. It blows my mind.
I'd be happy to pay for an AI search engine that isn't controlled by advertisers. That's why I pay for Kagi. No way in hell that I'm going to pay a company with an advertising-driven business model, no matter how fancy their AI is.
Both ideologies promise to replace social systems built around trusting people with technical systems run by machines, and in doing so they reduce people to the moral worthlessness of machines. No need to trust your shopkeeper to be honest or build a relationship with your contractor, the Blockchain/LLM will handle that interaction for you! Cry some more, artist, GenAI is inevitable so you're out of a job!

Naturally, the individuals which are attracted to such an idea tend to… not be the most… prosocial or empathetic bunch. And some fraction of those take that to the degree of engaging in actively predatory and abusive behaviors in order to amass their own wealth.

The hype cycle, and other prevailing economic conditions, are definitely a part of it too. But frankly, you don't see quite so many scams with other widely hyped technologies.
I often use the old trick of skipping to the end to see if there is a coherent conclusion, and if I think the conclusion is interesting, I’ll go back and pick my way through the body of the article.

I agree with your points though in general. I think this is even worse with many non-fiction books. So much fluff when the main points could be summarized in 10 pages.
I see. It’s not a prerequisite, I 100% agree. But by building a game you will most likely, maybe even unintentionally, develop a strong math background :D

The grandparent comment was talking about how all the different subjects in school can help give you very useful prerequisite knowledge that enables you to become a strong game developer. You made it sounds as if the math isn’t necessary, but I think we both agree knowing math will aid you tremendously in game development. You don’t need to know it to start developing games, but somebody that already has that knowledge will be leagues ahead of you in a lot of topics.

Heck, even the simplest data structure in almost every game engine a Transform (aka transformation matrix) is a loaded mathematical term. The guy that understands linear algebra and how you can combine a series of matrices to apply different kinds of transformations to a geometric object will “get it” way quicker than somebody who has no math knowledge. Then, when they want to do fancier stuff, like transform something relative to something else (like a custom 3rd person camera that hovers above and behind the main character), they don’t have to waste time trying to understand how linear algebra and using matrix multiplication can achieve that effect.
You might enjoy parts of this interview with Stephen Wolfram

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PdE-waSx-d8

He’s very much on this kind of beat. In general I have a feeling that there are orders of magnitude to gain by successfully applying computer science to “language algorithms”.

Feels like we are exploring very narrow paths of computations that can be performed with language. Like we have an x86 cpu and we are building pocket calculators. So much untapped

Re prolog I had a similar intuition at some point and tried to make a stack based programming language that uses a language model as a kind of control/logic unit

https://github.com/LachlanGray/silas

I was missing a bunch of cs background at the time so I didn’t get very far, but I feel like there’s a lot to be done for this kind of thing