skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage (aka corporate espionage)

Happens all the time. Maybe it's a state actor. Maybe it's a disgruntled employee. It's just not in the same lens as you expect (software supply chain attack).

Apple has trouble keeping the lid on top secret projects. Leaks about designs happen all the time prior to scheduled debut at WWDC.

MS has had trouble in the past as well when it came to developing the Xbox (One?).

"Owners of China-Based Company Charged With Conspiracy to Send Trade Secrets Belonging to Leading U.S.-Based Electric Vehicle Company" - https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/owners-china-based-comp...

"Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies" - https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-03-07/ex-goo...

"The US Hits Huawei With New Charges of Trade Secret Theft" - https://www.wired.com/story/us-hits-huawei-new-charges-trade...

"U.S. charges China-controlled company in trade secrets theft" - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-charges-china-contr...

"Ex-Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski charged with trade secret theft" - https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/27/20835368/google-uber-engi...

In the case of Levandowski, the dude didn't even bother with covering his tracks. Straight up just downloads trade secrets from source control and transfers them to personal computer - https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1197991...

In this small sample of cases, were the exfiltration attempts as elaborate as the "xz attack"? Probably not, but all of these people were vetted by internal procedures and that did nothing to stop them from acting maliciously.

Forget back dooring the project when getting through the front door is so much easier! People are very relaxed in their walled off garden and cubicle :)
I thought this was quite a good article on the topic: "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?" – https://www.gq.com/story/what-its-like-to-hunt-an-elephant

While I understand the need for wildlife conservation, all of this sits quite uneasy with me. What kind of person thinks it's just amazing to shoot such an intelligent being as an elephant?

Then again, is it really worth making a huge fuss about a relatively small amount of animals who get to live most of their lives in freedom, when there are billions of animals every year being raised in far worse circumstances? It seems to me that's a far more pressing matter.

Also, according to [1], "elephants roaming the country have killed 36 people over the past two years", which complicate things even further. Elephants are beautiful animals, but they're also wild animals. And quite large ones at that. You'd probably lose a fight with an elephant – badly.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-a...
Hmm you make a good point, but have you considered that your health insurance provider really wants to know these things, and will pay up to $0.35 to learn them? It would be criminally negligent for Amazon not to build and sell that profile!
Is it more ridiculous than having someone standing at a cash register in the store doing the same task, while also having to bag for you and pretend to smile?
If the stakes weren't so high, this would be a damn fun game of murder mystery.
whew game engine running on WASM + WebGPU would finally be what it takes to power browser based AAA titles. We shouldn't have to download executables via garden walled ecosystems that take a huge chunk of devs revenues
Part: 1 — Choose the SQL Database, Create the Schema, and Load the data

Part: 2:Agents & SQL Agent

Part: 3:Using Prompt Engineering

Part: 4:SQL Query Validation:

Part: 5:Non-descriptive or language-specific table and field names in databases

Part: 6:Challenges

Part: 7-Text 2 Visualization:

Part:8-Using Ollama for Text 2 SQL

Part:9-Text 2 SQL Evaluation

Part: 10 -Other Articles and Repositories to Refer

Part: 11 — Text2SQL Using Llamaindex

Part:13 — Finetuning a LLM with SQL Dataset

Part:14 — Pandas AI

Part:15:Some more relevant papers
I'd love to play against the original algorithm.
The ifunc part looked more legitimate, it was used to switch between optimized implementations of CRC. So that part was in the git repo. https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667
Same name, same idea, better-looking implementation: https://github.com/cyphar/paperback
He said petaflops, not exaflops
Or it's a tech-literate journalist who knows that usually it's the latter and they have vague plans to transition to the former later.
Just in the past month or two, in my (low-crime suburban) area, Walmart appears to have closed the two large self-checkout areas entirely and replaced them with a (relative to before) army of cashiers. I have always found their machines to be very hassle-free, but the shockingly-adequate level of cashier staffing made my last visit surprisingly quick and convenient. I could live with this.
Lets start with best country of the world that is made of 300 million consumers and 1000 factory owners (also known as polluters) each of which has identical share of the market.

To reduce pollution, factory owners would need to use less polluting means (i.e. less profit) and produce less (again less profit).

What happens if 999 factory owners do adhere to pollution-reduction, while 1 of them is polluting a bit more than others? (Answer: The polluter increases his share of the market, as more profits can be reinvested; and with more market share the profit will grow even more)

The point: consumers incentivize factory owners to polute, if consumers buy stuff despite polution.

This exercise ignores legislation, but law will not change until enough of consumers/voters start to care of the topic and will be ready to pay more for less and demand for it.
> People can own things != minority of people should own all the things. Gradients, ranges, distributions, not binary.

You've just described capitalism, and our current situation.
It worked for me just as you dialed! My carrier is Telcel.
I don't see where you're getting the impression that 1,000 workers are monitoring every single individual that walks into the store. The figure used was the total amount for the whole program (many locations), only one person was reviewing each case, and they were only even reviewing 70% of cases. Your argument is no different than saying that every time you go to McDonald's, you're entitled for expecting the hundreds of thousands of McDonald's employees globally to band together to make you your burger.
I thought that website is a user-generated?
> I shouldn't be expected to pull down changes and test locally (unless that part can be automated and made super easy to do without fuss).

It's super easy and there's no fuss. You literally just switch branches. It's really easy to think the experience is analogous to code but it's not really. There's not a complex IDE setup or any complex local environment setup -- so it really is like just pull the branch open your browser, navigate to your website and test the changes.
Was there an issue with the inbox? I check them manually, so it takes me a bit to publish them
That link defines it in terms of simulation as well: "The term "real-time" is also used in simulation to mean that the simulation's clock runs at the same speed as a real clock." and even states that was the original usage of the term.

I think that pretty much meets the definition of "you can watch it happen".

Essentially there is real-time systems and real-time simulation. So it seems that they are using the term correctly in the context of simulation.
The article is talking about the motion detection that falters when it encounters kangaroos but works flawlessly with quadrapedal animals whose motion follows more easily predictable patterns.

Kangaroo deterents have existed for a while, e.g. https://www.shuroo.com.au/, although their actual effeciency is not well known (or, I do not know). It will be interesting what VW will bring to the table once the Roo Badge becomes commercially available.
I think the parent comment was a joke along the lines of "bitcoin is for speculation and everybody knows it."
If anything, I would expect consumer SSDs to use the cheapest/lowest grade of flash available.
AI solutions haven't taken anyone's job yet. Current AI solutions do make copy-pasta a lot faster though. I believe the reason all these engineers lost their jobs is because of companies greedily re-budgeting to hire AI talent and acquire AI startups. AI still hasn't replaced any developers yet, although that might still happen one day.
So far I've only marked 1 out of 50 as a "no". There are 2 more I need to translate. So, ~94-98%? The sample size is small so far though
I think it depends on how much each human reviewer did.

If they manually reviewed most of the items on each shopping trip, then it's mostly manual.

If they only manually reviewed an item or few per trip, I'd consider it to be mostly automated.
Thankfully technology continues to march on, and the march of progress will continue to free us from being required to buy cars instead of starting new companies.
Is Intel Back? Foundry and Product Resurgence Measured
Anyone has useful mac shortcuts?
Here is a paper if you are interested. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.13681.pdf

The key is not to compress but to leverage the property of neural radiance fields and optimize for entropy. I suspect NERF can yield more compact storage since it's volumetric.

Not sure what you mean by "unacceptably low up close". Most GS demos don't have LoD lol.
Many (or probably even all) of the elephants hunted in Botswana butchered for meat by locals. And why wouldn't you eat elephant meat?
Quick question for anyone that may have more technical insight, is Gaussian Splatting the technology that Unreal Engine has been using to have such jaw dropping demos with their new releases?
That's assuming that the other 95% stays the same with this new agent (vs creating more work for you to now also have to parse what the model is saying).
All the local self-checkouts where I am in London are just scan and go, no scales.
Raising the minimum wage? Study using US tax data finds more gain than pain
Sounds like you might have a start-up idea?
You can't stop it anyways, no one can, why bother then
And good on them for allowing use on other manufacturer's vehicles, attached to number plates. Hope this works.
I'm probably the worst person to ask for advice about applying to YC - it just kind of happened.

I was sad when UE4 sunset HTML5 support, and glad to see a spiritual successor! There are a lot of parallels to other large in-browser apps in terms of load time for games - not just for the content but the size of game code itself. Are you able to use streaming compilation or some sort of plugin model?
That's a life-long memory right there.
We obviously don't need private offices, given that most of us have been getting by without them for a long time now, but it sure was better for us when that was the norm.
face to face, background checks. they are all superficial.

A smooth talker can get you to relax your guard.

Identity can be faked, especially if you have a nation state backing you.
love this site. Check out Justine Tunney’s blog posts for pre-processing content filtering with AI using bash commands:

http://justine.lol/oneliners/

http://justine.lol/matmul/
The advantage comes during shopping trips when one is not planning to use a cashier to check out, wherein: You're going to have the weigh the produce yourself, anyway, so you might as well get that done in advance.
Although HN has translated the umlauted url to punycode for display, it uses the original umlauted url in the anchor's href attribute. Firefox is happy with the href in either format.
> The Crew does not seem like an example of this since it is a multplayer game.

One can play The Crew single player, it has a whole campaign. There have been tons of games that are single player with multiplayer elements. This is same as GTA5 or The Division or any other game which is single player and multiplayer

> That requires that it was ever a single binary in the first place

Or release all binaries / source code. The whole docker swarm config, or the terraform or whatever was used to run the stuff. Not sure if server side is two binaries out of a sudden it is impossible.

> Sure, that's an alternative but it still takes time for them to do it.

Why? release all the docs+source code as you have them, and call it a day.

> There is something to be said about as a consumer understanding that an "online game" will eventually shut down. This should be well understood.

Why? I had played tons of online games that were not shut down. Dooms, quakes, warsaw, etc. This is a relatively new thing that companies are both, not allowing single player run without a server, and shutting down the server part. I think in the past we had similar thing when GameSpy was shutdown, and recently Games For Windows Live which microsoft stopped supporting. However, these are mostly DRM cases with some bypass possible.

I want to add, I suspect Blizzard has complex architecture, but people managed to reverse engineer the server to run custom diablo/starcraft/wow servers. Now blizzard as they have not shutdown their services has been actively fighting these efforts of custom servers. All the ask is that companies that do shutdown their services do the opposite. Help community run the games longer.

In case of The Crew, the shut down was a deliberate push to get people to buy The Crew 2.
How far can projectile vomit travel?
Seems like a lot of ewaste to me for marginal convenience otoh
I don't want rfid tags in my apples, and putting them on the outside of each one seems costly.

And things like onions have a loose outer skin, which falls off. And grocery store clerks peel the outside (wilting) leaves off of things like local lettuce daily.

Seems like rfid on groceries would be hard for fresh produce, and we don't need everything wrapped in plastic.
> "That just begs the question of where all that money is going."

It sure ain't goin' toward fixing bugs on Discord's user wishlist in features that users expect from Discord, or adding features that most users really want (as evidenced again by votes on the user wishlist. Discord's user wishlist gets pretty much ignored really, in favor of adding shiny new "Nitro" garbage (stickers and such crap) for the masses that came after, and trashy little "apps" to set folks up for the advertising nightmare that's surely about to ruin Discord for everyone who just wanted a simple voice and video sharing tool.

Just for one example of such ignored issues, if they're hurtin' for money, there's tons of folks who would pay for Nitro, if they'd just fix this one long-ignored bug [1] in their streaming feature. I would have been willing to pay a monthly fee if this feature worked, but the way they've handled it, I doubt I could be convinced to pay them a single thin dime for anything at this point. They clearly don't want my money.

[1]: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600509...
Here's a quick test to run: if you have Windows and MS Office, File->Open your PDF and report the results. You might be surprised at the layout extraction quality.
always mturk all the way down
There are different ways of doing it, but when I microwave rice I boil the water in a kettle first
This right here. The web is the OS of the future - the standards are getting there, the tools are just starting to catch up.
> The whole thing is a brick.

The problem here is that apple, in their infinite arrogance, feel that they continue to be the owner of the device you bought. The owner is who gets to set the policy. Apple here is setting and enforcing this bricking policy thus they are effectively the owner. But they still want you to pay for the device as if you were purchasing it!

The job of a vendor is to provide mechanisms to implement any kind of policy the buyer wants; the job of a buyer is to establish the policy that is best for them.

Apple wants to sell a device but continue being both the vendor and the owner of it. That is wrong.
That’s how the popular grocery chains in the Netherlands all work. You just scan a few things, put it in your bag, and leave. I almost never interact with anyone.

It uses your rewards card to determine your “risk”, I think. Just a theory. But whenever I’ve gotten a new card, they come check my bag a lot. Then after a dozen successes or so, they stop checking so often. Then hardly at all.

One of my friends forgot to scan an item once when they checked, and he had someone come to check his bag way more often for a while.
Not sure how me pointing out none of their docs mention state transfer anywhere invalidates my issues with their API.

L take buddy
The DRC is living a quasi-civil war for the last 25 years or so, following Rwanda's genocide. It did calm down in the 2000s, almost managed to stop but then smartphone happened, and they have open air mines of the stuff we use for touchscreens, and the mineral is used to pay for weapons and salaries. Jihadists tactics in the Sahel are inspired from the DRC civil war one (rape and genital mutilation as terror weapons, random executions).
The latest evolution in these are really devious: A shelf tag advertises a price in large print: $7.99 with smaller print "with digital coupon" And then underneath, in the color usually used to show the "non-sale price," you see "$12.99." A lot of people just glance at the tag which looks a lot like the normal 'sale price' tag and thinks they're paying $8. Of course, you have to get in the sluggish, stupid app, and best case scenario scan the tag or the item and get to the right part of the app to "Clip" the coupon. Assuming you can get a good enough signal in that part of the store, and that you haven't become logged out of the app... etc. etc. And assuming you don't make a mental note to clip it in a minute when you get out of this crowded aisle and then forget.

I think they just really want to display one price and charge a much higher one to most people.
The actual, real usability of Discord is way better than IRC's, it's not even close.

Every time I tried to join IRC it has been a massive pain in the ass. So first if you want to join anything on libera.chat, you have to register through NickServ and provide an email, which is already nonsense. Why would email be required?

And here's the neat part: you can't register if you use Tor/VPN/whatever, which is mad funny and very ironic, considering how IRC is supposed to be this "hacker culture" thing. "Oh but please register from a residential IP", really?

Not saying Discord is better in this particular regard, but still.

If someone says "this isn't a problem with IRC, just a libera.chat thing", well it doesn't matter because it's the de-facto network for most everything open-source.

Notice how I'm not even mentioning all the really obvious usability aspects, like voice/video chat, images and everything else. The general nerd response seems to be "who needs that anyway"/"just send links instead". Literally noone cares about that, it's wasting time, people will just use Discord, which has all the features that are (rightfully) expected.
If you look at the list of (former) contributors of Tukaani, you will notice that an overwhelming majority of the names are Finnish, Lasse included, though he could also pass for Swedish. So FBI is going to investigate Github at most, unless Lasse has suddenly moved to the US or FBI has invaded Finland in some capacity.

https://tukaani.org/about.html

All meaningful new information will probably come from identifying Jia Tan, if that ever happens. I haven't done much reading yet, but it seems to me there was no connection between him and Lasse outside the Github project.
I work at a startup, and recently built the fraud detection algorithm we use to classify and process payments. I have a BS in CS with a minor in Data Science, and also have applied ML experience. My take is that your skills and knowledge are paramount over your degree, especially if you're building ML systems that are adding value to your company.
> Is it expected to read paywalled articles posted here?

It's against the guidelines to complain about paywalls in comments.
No. Mostly unrelated.
That's just exploitative business.

I know companies that operate in that space and they pay incredibly well, between $20 to $50/hour.

> GPT APIs which perform just as well

That's because they were also trained by exploiting third world groups, paying about $2/hour.

The problem here isn't offering work to developing countries, the problem here is major corporations squeezing them for every cent and not allowing it to be used as a means of getting out of poverty. And that's also why the workers end up performing half-assed work by using automated classifiers and faking their credentials. It's not hard to see where this goes for both.
Target allegedly has such good video capabilities they can recognize repeat thieves, keep a record of what they steal, and wait until it reaches felony level after multiple trips before they flag a person to be detained. All in super duper high definition.
> But the point is, Amazon excels at identifying friction points that others have just accepted as industry norms, but which, if unblocked, could actually meaningfully shift consumer behaviors

Someone remind the aws team about this
What if your application is written in Rust or C? Would you write your build scripts in these languages, too? I would much prefer a simpler scripting language for this. If you’re already using a scripting language as the main language, you don’t necessarily need to pull in another language just for scripts, of course.
Still waiting for my flying car that folds up into a briefcase.
If we could ask the dog "death now, or try your luck on the street?" I assume it would choose the latter. Being a street dog is a hard life, but it's not all suffering. We kill the dogs because letting them roam free is an inconvenience to us. It's not an easy problem to solve, hence all the urging to neuter and spay.
> Makes you wonder why they are so popular if this is the average user experience right?

Because people in general don't do risk analysis. Like in the 80s when everyone still smoked despite the risk of death being well known. Oh it won't happen to me!

Then when you have to throw away that perfectly functional $1000 apple device because apple decided you can't use it anymore, only then you realize you've been had.
Yeah I want that for detecting when my furnace cycles. One mic could probably cover everything in the utility room.

With multiple outdoor microphones I'd love to build a ShotSpotter, but I'm not good enough at audio to know how practical that is.
you're rolling the dice linking to "lolo latest" URLs https://docs.ceph.com/en/reef/rados/api/libcephsqlite/

the previous (2022) submission had one comment that seems interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32395905
I think Vercel and Netlify aren't aimed at developers, because if you are a developer and are using Vercel and Netlify you are literally getting robbed.

Bandwidth costs are 40x-50x more expensive on Vercel and Netlify that the vast majority of cloud providers. Cloudflare bandwidth is barely a cost.

Edge function calls are 6x more expensive on Vercel and Netlify than Cloudflare. Not including compute time costs which is free on Cloudflare.

I think the only reason Vercel is even popular is because it's by far the best place to host NextJS and that might be why they make it hard to deploy NextJS else where.
oh my god this is awesome! that's exactly what ive been dreaming about for the past few years... wasm has a lot of potential as a portable unit of graphics/audio/multimedia computation! im glad you were able to take the time to build it!