skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said it was a lack of will from police. And I also don't think a 5-year-old pants-wetting video from a company well known for pushing right-wing views will convince me of much of anything. Especially that Seattle was dying 5 years ago, given that it doesn't seem to be dead. [1]

Homelessness is not a problem that will get solved with violence, which is what police have the monopoly on. It won't get solve with criminalizing homelessness, either, because it's mostly not a choice people make, but a situation they end up in. So I think it's generally good that cops generally ignore the homeless, because as this article shows, bad things can happen when they don't.

[1] except for comedic value: https://theneedling.com/2023/09/20/after-courageous-3-year-b...
I once spent six months working the hardest I've ever worked in my entire life with a mechanical engineer, two technicians, a machinist, and all of the supporting cast of procurement and scheduling to build a test fixture for a control board for a satellite.

There were four control boards per panel and four panels per satellite and a projected order of 12 satellites so were going to have over 200 boards (enough plus spares) to test and last go-around it took two days to test a single board with failures due to connector issues and I wanted to get that down to two boards per day and no failures.

It was my masterpiece. Place a board on the fixture, pull down an assembly, and six micro-D, two nano-D, MCU and FPGA programming connections, remote thermal and multimeter probes, and a canbus connection with onboard amplifier to traverse the absurdly long cable all slotted with perfect precision into the board and were routed back to a test rack via a single cable bundle. Automated test bench scripts powered on the board, took voltage measurements, programmed the devices, and ran a suite of tests automatically and then printed out a report with a signature block for me to sign at the end.

The board experienced no stress, every connector was mated with perfect force at the perfect angles, and it would cut down the amount of time needed to test the hundreds of boards we were going to build by months.

It was featured in marketing materials for my employer.

We built four of them and with all of the labor they probably cost a quarter million each but would put the program back on track as it was delayed.

Additional delays in another part of the program led to the government cancelling the entire thing and we turned over all of our tooling and prototypes to the customer who probably put my fixtures in a warehouse for fifteen years before selling them for scrap value.
Breaking fiduciary duty would be the first that comes to my mind.

Previous user took a very huge risk. I've seen similar stuff happen, you can get sued (along whoever told you, but you need proof) just for the sake of making an example in front of the rest of the company.
Prius's EV is very small.

Prius EV is less than 100hp, and the ICE is under 150hp. But together they combine for 220hp.

But rumor is that Prius's EV motor is battery limited, not size limited. So it makes no sense making a bigger EV motor on this vehicle, not until Toyota adds a bigger battery al least.
> Apple's offfensive pricing on SSD and RAM upgrades are the one that offends me the most. I feel like I'm being scammed everytime I look at spec'ing up a new Macbook. Which is completley different to the feeling I got when ordering a new Framework 13" for school use!

I've been holding out with my 13" Intel MBP for that reason, I guess until the wheels fall off. Thankfully they don't really verify the education purchase program.
> The second approach is organizational. For example, Iron Bank currently offers only one price to its users: free. While this may seem “low cost,” software companies have no motivation to provide secure and high-quality components to Iron Bank because they cannot charge. If Iron Bank created “private” repositories that allowed companies could charge for access to high-quality software building blocks, it seems likely that Iron Bank images would have dramatically fewer known vulnerabilities.

Ah yes, because this is historically what has happened.
There is an ugly reverse side of this that people don't like to notice (in a "difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding" way).

If this appreciation is a good deal, it suggests there is a wealth transfer happening between new residents in an area to old ones. In a vacuum house prices shouldn't reliably appreciate compared to the interest rate. For all the complaints about the very wealthy, this wealth transfer by real estate is likely one of the major effects that stops people improving their own living standards. Once people are forced to be long term renters they aren't going to be as wealthy as they otherwise could have been, due to the theoretical concept economists call rent seeking (distinct from the usual meaning of rent).
Nobody pays you in the corporate or startup world if what you do isn’t monetizable, preferably in the short term. And the measure of “awesome” there is how much and how quickly it can be monetized. It seems you haven’t understood the purpose of academia.
Change this from ERP to POS and you've scripted 9/10ths of the pains for many quick service restaurant chains.

Story time: people are dense as hell. This one idiot put in his personal SSN to open $XX/m a year POS account. This account currently manages just over a hundred locations, and this fool's TIN has just been raking in millions for a few years all because 'I needed to get us signed up!' And what's better!? They still can't get out of the wet paper bag, because otherwise "we'll someone might start selling candy or something unapproved" > we'll isn't that's what your franchise liaisons and agreements are for?! I'm just beside myself.

I'm so hyped on this because this one 'immovable problem' prevents me from having API access to my locations accounts. Everything just hurts. /rant
“Defenestration” is my favorite word in the whole wide world <3
You just described the last 3 years of my life, but instead of one pipeline, it's about 20 (of various sizes)... also, completely rewrite the old one so it keeps working, while at the same time writing the new one, which will take over and make the old one obsolete the second it's released to production... maybe even before.

No one is actually doing any planning or looking to see if certain work is worth it. Just do all the things, do them all at once, because we can't be bothered to pause for an hour to ask if the juice is worth the squeeze.
Rarely are people ever that honest to you in a corporate environment.

Usually you have to spend years working away and trying to guess why everything you're told to do makes the software worse.
This table with the logo is pretty cool, thanks for creating and sharing.
I know but I saw some comments on here painting arabs with a brush as if we don’t believe in medicine/doctors etc.

Im ashamed to say but im annoyed and tired of it (especially lately)
The reliance on the tool in front of you can constrain you.

Some tools are fads, some make you less of a thinking person.

When I faced a second wave of IDEs I figured that any IDE is a fad - there will be better IDE in near future and your boss will require you to use it.

The use of IDE can make you know less about project at hand, because you always can investigate, as opposed to internalize/remember. The difference? If you know internal relations, you can judge changes easier. You are better programmer that way and I would say a better person.

The same goes to LMs - they help you not to know/remember and/or create thoughtfully. LMs constrain you to not know fully.
I only skimmed the paper, but judging by the abstract/intro and the definitions at the end, it's not concerned with "hostile" anything, but rather, with AI mediating access to knowledge.

Specifically, they mention that "knowledge collapse" is the narrowing of the "human working knowledge" and the universe of things "worth knowing" or "epistemic limit", which may result in obscuring/hiding what they call "the long tail of knowledge" (they define all these terms). They explain this better than me, but I think it's all about constraining the human relation to knowledge by these new "recursive AI" processes, without any malice involved.

I don't know if the paper mentions this, but I've thought about this (in less smart terms). It's probably not that AI is a radically new process in this sense but, like a lot of tech, it makes it faster.

We often say "well, things were like this with [written language|printing press|the internet]" but isn't it possible that a relatively harmless process could be accelerated to a harmful level by technology, even if it's not "fundamentally" something new?

Can we always fall back to the belief that "people from previous generations complained of $THING and it turned out ok, therefore $NEW_THING is probably OK too"?
I certainty hope so.

But I hope even more that "Meta" will be broken up into a lot of pieces.
Another way to look at it is as part of a major, unremarked change in society:

A couple years ago I was talking to someone who came of age since 2016, when I think many of these changes began moving rapidly. When I said something about a community project, they ridiculed the idea that people could and would come together and do good, productive things. I used FOSS as an example, and also of course, democracy.

The lack of social trust is a well-known concept, but I don't know if people see the massive change where instead of defaulting to trust, the default is paranoia and also being distrustful - scamming others ('animal spirits', as Jamie Dimon calls them). It's also ridiculing, like my friend, the idea of democracy - for example, the popular notion that doing anything to stand up to power, especially organized protests, is pointless. The briefest glance at history shows otherwise, but of course fact & reason are not the mode of analysis these days. Cui bono? People who have capital and power; people who want to take down the power of the people and democracy.

If you look at FOSS from the usual humanistic democratic perspective, with social trust (which is part of human nature, despite attempts to destroy it) - that free people generally do good and well and can self-organize, and that now the Internet provides a way for them to do all that easily - then these big coordinated FOSS projects are a happy thing and make sense.

But if you look at it from the current madness, the paranoia and hate, then FOSS becomes suspect. Without social trust, how could such an organization work? Only an organization controlled by a powerful person could acheives something. Think about it: why is the latter type of organization more likely to work than the former?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
In the history of the world, i am pretty sure there have been more than 5000 cancer trials.
Ok I see what you mean and maybe I should’ve paid a bit more attention to the specifics, but I still stand by my original comment.
it was hidden in tests, so it didn't appear if you press "download source" button and build yourself / start crawling through each line of code, iirc

in some sense, exact specifics of the attack were discovered because norm of open source is even more open than the gpl-and-co require
Do we have any evidence that geniuses (as measured on an IQ test) excel at making good decisions in the real world, or are especially productive in any useful way?
Why not mines as tunnels under the bottom of the sea?

(entrance in terra firma, obviously - like the Channel Tunnel)
Basketball fans might remember the time Charles Barkley threw a man through a plate glass window: https://archive.is/yZra5
So the point I'm trying to make is, for folks who are from other parts of the world but moved to the US (I also grew up in the Middle East), western values may seem great if _you live in the west_.

But if you still live in those other parts of the world, US hegemony may have been net negative for you.
The biggest use case for this would be inspecting the powerlines, so presumably not stealing in that case.
Well you mentioned ratings, so yeah I looked up ratings on sites. Yeah, the barrel proof Elijah Craig is good stuff. The typical sale price of that is around it's MSRP - $70. The "best" bourbons are not going to be $50/bottle because the rating process ends up largely in a hype cycle and you see them going for $100+. But there are some lists of the best "obtainable" or "budget friendly" bourbons that have decent options in the $50 range.

Yes, Eagle Rare 10 is a good value for a 10yo, if you can find it around the MSRP ($30). However, it's commonly going around $50. It's also worth noting that the theory is they are thinning out the barrels that are good but not great - leaving the great barrels for the longer aging lines (not sure how true that is for this line). Usually the consistency/quality is all per the place at the lower end, and I've noticed more of it in the mid level segments now too.

Yeah, I get there is demand. The international market is driving a lot of that in recent years. The market is also seeing huge gains in popularity/consumption in the wealthier segments. Hedge funds might not be buying it up, but there are some people investing in bottles like there are some people doing so with wine. That's really only going to affect the top level exclusive stuff though.

But if you have a suggestion of a "great" bourbon for only $25, please let me know and I will check them out. I've found plenty of good mixer bourbons at that level and a few decent bourbons whose consistency/QC was wildly different from one bottle to the next.
> I generally believe someone is coordinating a media campaign.

You don't need centralized coordination. Companies that sell closed-source software are inherently incentivized to defend their practices and denigrate their competitors. It's not a cabal, it's the systematic perverse incentives created by financial interests.
I believe the devils advocate is that one of the 4 articles is an original article and the other three read the first one and wrote their own copy for eyeballs.

I do think for the defense and a lot of other industries it would be good for them to buy OSS code through a third-party that actually vetted the versions for bugs and other issues. Like the alternative is each of the defense companies expecting each of their developers to vet each library which is just a colossal wasted of work.
Any decent VPS provider (including DigitalOcean, unless they’ve changed anything) definitely doesn’t do this.
I'm suggesting that hanging random amounts of weight off of power lines is probably not a great engineering plan, less so if the wind or heat or load picks up significantly. My concern isn't for the drones it's for the actual power infrastructure.

Are the drones designed for inspection or for heavy lifting and applying mechanical leverage against other objects? Are you so sure they're going to be able to do both?

It's trying to solve two problems at once, and while the solutions individually may be clever, combined they seem like a total waste and fraught with complications.
Nuance can be introduced. Allow aged based price discrimination but not descrimination that is based on actual income numbers?
Ahhh, perfect pedantry. Constructive, illuminating, accurate, and (most importantly) calling the OP wrong.
Awesome! Thanks for creating and sharing.
I swear the only way to get an ERP or POS change to work is to start a competitor using the new solution and wait for them to acquire you.

And then live forever with two systems running side by side.
Socrates wasn't wrong. Reading a lot gives you a partial understanding but it isn't complete without experiencing the thing for yourself. Arguably the Internet is the natural home of authoritatively stated but uninformed opinions - the exact result of reading a lot about a subject without having any experience of it.
A better comparison is the (derelict) Mac App Store. Apple still continues to charge their 30%, and their most professional developers and customers continue to avoid their store. Adobe doesn't sell full-fat Photoshop through Apple's storefront, Avid doesn't bother with it for Pro Tools, Ableton, Bitwig, Sony, U-HE, Sonar, Spectrasonics, and even Panic don't fully commit to Apple's offerings. Nevermind the fact that ubiquitous components of modern professional software development (git, bash, grep, make, the lot) isn't even allowed to be distributed under their own terms on the App Store. If nothing changes, Apple will become Lord of the Flies.

If Apple wants to be Steam, let them play Steam's game and see how far their philosophy takes them.
It's actually pretty unfortunate if they heard that, didn't get confirmation, and just stopped going to class.
>create stepsis
>create stepbro
>evolve 5
youre welcome
I don’t know the context and details of course. But might the introduction of various microservices have impacted the cost / complexity of the project?
So discovering the exploit absolutely depended on FOSS. If the vulnerability was in a Oracle product, nobody outside Oracle would have access to their tests (and publishing the bug would be a legal issue).
Looks like the tests were run on a private line belonging to an airport. From the associated PDF[0]:

> “Testing was conducted at the outdoor three-phase powerline setup at HCA Airport in Odense, Denmark at the disposal of the authors…”

[0]: https://findresearcher.sdu.dk/ws/portalfiles/portal/25601008...
I gave it only two commands, presumably the same two would produce similar results in a reset universe.

"create One"

caused it to create an omniscient "ground of all being".

Followed by "create Rene" whereupon it created a detailed biography of Descartes, who "Overwhelmed by the influx of sensory data and perplexed by his own nature, he turns inward, determined to find a bedrock of certainty on which to build a worldview."

This is quite astonishingly good.
andres@fromatomstobits.com first comment on HN lol. I have experience being a beta tester, I am a heavy user of several AI tools and would love to give feedback.
I'm wondering if the CEO just understands their clients will buy more products if they have "AI" in the title, even if it's pointless.

Your job isn't to make good software, it's to make profitable software.
Disregard the comment you're replying to, they're either misinformed or deliberately inaccurate in their assessment.

The backdoor consisted of a combination of publicly visible code and binary blob test files available in the project's repository as well as obfuscated build scripts which were contained only in the released tarballs, tucked away, which, nevertheless, were also publicly accessible, decompressable and auditable[1]

[1] https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?lang=en&id=782
How much has state aid changed in 40 years? That’s also big
NIST researchers use cellphone compass to measure glucose
I think the article makes it pretty clear why suburban is in the title. The author relates the topic to her youth: "suburban life often felt stifling", for example. The link for her is the way American suburban culture involves distance and pretense, the keeping of secrets you may not be able to share with anybody. Something that PostSecret provides an outlet for.
The CIO demanded that we deploy Confluence for some special project. It had to be implemented with our external identity system for reasons.

It was flagged as a “CIO Priority”, so exempt from normal lifecycle activities and rules.

I did this work in 2009. I got a call a few weeks ago about it because it wouldn’t restart. Turns out in 15 years it was migrated a dozen times, and most recently migrated to GCP.
> I believe the devils advocate is that one of the 4 articles is an original article and the other three read the first one and wrote their own copy for eyeballs.

Without being pedantic, what do you think of my counterargument to that point in the GP? (No complaint if you missed it, but let's start from there.)
Make the federal government guaranteeing loans, the market would sort itself out.

In this specific instance, this is money slurped up by administration fees. If they stopped the loans, the prices would drop to meet reduced supply of loans.

I am against Biden forgiving loans when they keep on guaranteeing more loans. I'd be okay if they said the government is out of student loan business. Let the banks handle it.

Demand and supply - it's like the speed limit of light.
Is it OK to flag posts of sites with ridiculous cookie consent UI?
I wonder how helpful it is for g++?

Myself and my ancient h/w and s/w engineering friends have been having a discussion recently about how the modern C++ language features are generating code that is not readily debugged at the source level.

The compiler has always created assembly that implements the feature described by teh high level language, but histoirically these have had a relatively one-to-one relationship with the source code.

However in the world of post C++11 many more abstracted features are supported, and they no longer have any kind of relation to the source in terms of something you could inspect with a debugger (except in assembly).

So it seems a tool like this is really useful, but unfortunately almost inherently compiler specific.

Maybe GNU can port this to g++?
Sounds pretty short-sighted. Capitalism is not a system we can simply opt out of, and regardless one university is just one university.
I kid you not but it was a micrcoservice that added two numbers! This micrcoservice existed because management didn't want to clobber "specific business" logic in the formula of the addition, i.e., they don't want this service to own the arithmetic of calculating the two operands. We ended up having this service calling other 2 new created services to get the 2 operands then add them up and return. That's all. I remember the internal and cross-org discussions lasted a few weeks with several staff engineers of those orgs involved. Even sometimes, VPs of the orgs would show up to listen. The discussions were mostly about whether those 2 new services should computer the 2 operands or call yet another service! We have a few document reviews, design reviews and roll out plan.

I was pretty bored to dead but it was some sort a promote project for a few people including myself. I couldn't stand it at some point and ask my skip manager to help. My skip pulled me out and said that I didn't have to spend time in this shit show. But it did hurt my promotion case for what it's worth.
Oh but the scenario where the drone does it without permission is just way more entertaining.
Why haven't I seen that argument previously when there were vulnerabilities? Why are all these people suddenly saying it, all at the same time?
>cultural adoption reproducing itself
… what? You’ve gone to great lengths here to fabricate a phrase that is semantically equivalent to “influence” in the most obfuscated way possible.

>cultural hegemony
See previous … what?

Let’s get down to brass tax.

A does foo.
B notices A has done foo.
B decides it will also do foo.
A has influenced B.

There are other aspects about the original comment which were better targets than attacking the meaning of “influence”, such as America’s status as a melting pot whose traditions are in great part just the collection of influences from the multitude of ethnicities which can be represented by the single term “American”. Thinking America has such dramatic unique influence while ignoring its composition of influences from other cultures is not giving honest context. That’s the part I would have gone after.
> The real problem I had, I think, is that I was bad at lying to myself.

Or perhaps dr. Hossenfelder's grant proposal was simply bad and the ideas proposed clearly made no sense. Who knows?

It might be hard to judge for the HN crowd, but I just would like to ask why everybody is so keen on trusting the opinions of a contrarian youtuber and blogger instead of, say, anyone with at least a somewhat respectable academic career?