skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jack Ma didn't just try to build wealth like your average mid sized software or HVAC company. He built a monopoly and the company was fined for it and eventually broken up [0]. He obviously didn't like this and left the country to do billionaire things.

To me there's nothing 1984 or dystopian about this. The guy was building a company that was hurting the people. If anything we need more of this in the US.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/07/tech...
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> Boeing immediately pushed back.

> "These claims about the structural integrity of the 787 are inaccurate and do not represent the comprehensive work Boeing has done to ensure the quality and long-term safety of the aircraft," Boeing spokeswoman Jessica Kowal said in a statement. "We are fully confident in the 787 Dreamliner."

If Boeing is lying, that means they're willing to put even more lives at risk. There'd be no hope of them improving, ever again.

Unfortunately, it really seems like they are given their current track record.
Wait a second, are you saying your car insurance will cover damages for up to half a million?
I think there should be changes in laws that limit someone else's liability based on what you are driving.

For example, look at the viral report of a minor fender bender of a Rivian that was quoted for 40k in repairs. While going in-depth this particular instance looked more like border-line insurance fraud, I think it's ridiculous that if you decide to drive an exceedingly fragile (at least when it comes to repair costs) vehicle that other people on the road should be responsible for that. Like if I use a faberge egg as a hood ornament and someone dings it, do I get to sue them for a couple million?

It feels like limits on vehicle liability will at the very least force car makers to take repairability into consideration when designing their cars.
This was presented at a conference (maybe FOSDEM?) some years ago. I as impressed, this showed what I had tried to train at work for years with mixed success.

Unfortunately there was no .deb or .rpm available at least at the time, that would be acceptable to distribute in Linux shop. So I built one myself. It was not perfectly easy (at least not for a greybeard not used to such game engine stuff), but in the end I got it building and running myself, still with some quirks not making it suitable for distribution.

I never found the time to polish it and whenever I looked at the repo again there was no activity. Now I see 2 months ago there were at least some commits.

Potentially useful project, but stalled before it got popular? I would wish it a second chance.

Edit: Downloading and installing random binaries is not something I can promote at my work. Of course a .deb or .rpm is nothing but a binary, but at least in theory (hello xz) you can audit what is built there and rebuild it yourself.
I knew the Titanic was discovered in the mid 80s, but was pretty sure it was not not by this submersible, but a ship pulling a camera. So that took the entire sentence into question and that could IMHO very well been an AI that merged nuclear sub in the 60s and Titanic in the 80s because they were both deep sea operations by this vessel or something.
Use the IP address to guess and preselect the country, and let the user correct it. No need to privilege any country.
Fluent CI: Programmable CI/CD Engine Without Containers
> Like the 2024 Lexus GX has a hitch included in every model (yay, finally), but then it sticks out several inches and is welded to the frame so even a minor fender bender can total the car — it’s the first thing that gets nailed when someone rear ends it and it goes straight to the frame. [typos fixed]

A hitch needs to be strongly connected to the frame or it's not very useful for towing. Welded or bolted. Most factory hitches are just a bit inside the bumper though, not sticking out?
The ADS-B Out situation with gliders in the USA is complex. Many high-performance modern gliders used for racing and cross country flying are equipped with Mode-S transponders with 1090ES Out (either 14 CFR 91.227 ADS-B Out compliant or TABS/TSO-C199 ADS-B Out compliant) as well as the glider specific FLARM traffic awareness system that broadcasts and receives proprietary low-power position data. FLARM systems, at least as used in the USA also typically receive 1090ES In so they drive the integrated traffic display and warning systems in these modern glider cockpits. For historical and technical reasons gliders use a FLARM modified NMEA serial data protocols for traffic data in the cockpit instead of what is found in GA aircraft ADS-B traffic display systems.

Gliders potentially face very different risk scenarios and their owners will hopefully equip for what is the most significant risks to them and others. e.g. gliders often fly close to each other, especially when thermalling together, if flying with other gliders in remote areas then the FLARM system optimized to handle glider on glider threats is optimal (where GA focused ADS-B produces far to many false alerts), if flying near lots of GA aircraft ADS-B Out (and In via FLARM) is likely optimal, if flying near airliners, fast jets and tactical military aircraft then transponders alone even without 1090ES Out may be most critical item for their SSR, TCAS and IFF compatibility. Ideally owners do equip with all three... Mode-S, 1090ES Out, and FLARM.

The challenge may be more where there are low-cost/low-value gliders, maybe trainers and glider club owned gliders especially those located in busy traffic areas. You would hope those owners long ago got the message they should be equipping with some forms of supplementary traffic broadcast/awareness systems.

UAT adoption in gliders is nearly non-existent as FLARM systems only receive directly on 1090ES In and you don't want to rely on ADS-R coverage in remote or mountainous areas.

TABS/TSO-C199 is an easier route to an approved installation of ADS-B Out systems in type-certified gliders. TSO-C199 was developed by industry and the FAA following the 2006 mid-air collision between a glider and Hawker business jet near Minden NV. Experimental category gliders will typically have 14 CFR 91.227 compliant installations done under the same "meets performance requirements" clauses as many experimental power aircraft.
I think you're interpreting something into my comments I didn't say.

My point is that every product was hilariously under delivered, not that the product itself is unusable.

Let's address the products you're citing:

The Tesla model s was marketed heavily on price and the full self driving.
There were essentially no electric cars in the 100k price range the Tesla cost, so comparing the cars at the time the car was announced with when the car actually was delivered, 5 yrs later is extremely questionable.
But without Musk's hype, we probably wouldn't have the rivian etc, as they were all riding his hype wave. But we'd still have electric cars. Just less then we've got right now.

Now SpaceX's.
It got billions of taxpayers money, there can be no second company because nobody else can get such funding.
In the nineties pretty much everything was delivered by NASA. It just threw in the towel for price reasons, so Musk came along and promised a lunar base & manned missions to mars, netting him all contacts.

So yes, now we have SpaceX. The only player that can deliver things to orbit, because Russia is too poor, European nations somehow don't want to spend money on it and China is mostly interested for military applications, so they're not publishing what they're actually delivering to orbit. They're definitely shipping things however, you occasionally get leaked videos from failed launches that spread toxic fumes close to population centers and similar fuckups.

What you're using as an argument is really an inevitability.

Starlink is another highly exaggerated product, which is still decent value if you need/want an Internet connection in an area that doesnt have usable cable connections. It's not the cheapest, nor the most expensive. It's in the middle. It's a solid choice (and so are the Tesla), it just didn't have quite as much impact as people attribute to it.

I'm not even bashing Musk. What I said from the start is that his contributions are exaggerated.
very well done! love it!
That's not even in Leninism, no. Read Lenin's "State & Revolution" and you will definitely come away with a different impression -- he speaks openly about the abolition of the authoritarian state and a radical democracy... just not a parliamentary one.

Though clearly what happened in the USSR in the 20s was something different from what he wrote. What you saw in Russia in that period was a response to an ongoing civil war, followed by the rise of Stalin.. who, yes, really did believe in brutal authoritarianism.

All these Stalinist states (and I would classify China this way too) will pay lip service to Leninism as a way to seek ideological legitimacy. But their "official" readings of Marx and Lenin are very... creative... shall we say.

But it's 1:30am and I should no be getting into this argument.
How's the Saudi ski resort coming?[1] That's part of the same project.
That's supposed to be ready for the 2026 Winter Games.
Google Earth shows roads, a perimeter fence, a water tower, and some buildings as of August 2023, so work is going on.

[1] https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/trojena
That comes unexpected. I really would like to see how this works out. It's a possible way of living in the future. If the earth becomes more fiendly, such cities would offer autonomous compounds for the people. Now i would like to know if somebody is building the ARCs ...
Yeah, my mom would totally understand that prompt.
The real costs of theft and personal injury lawsuits.
Masquerading Digitalization
Aren't you presenting a false dichotomy here? Perhaps they are having their cake and eating it too, so to speak. Not to comment on the supposed economic malaise of the moment.

Sometimes state-owned enterprises might be able to outperform a private structure!
64kb is a lot when you’re hand coding assembly. You just assemble to a .com file and pretend segments don’t exist.
I took a couple of year break from the US; things seems to have gotten much worse.

I have decades of driving experience in the US, and even I find it a difficult environment to drive in. People are just extremely unpredictable and are apparently always in a hurry if they aren't instead slyly stroking their Instagram feeds on phones nestled in their cupholders. Maybe it's worse in California, but it seems pretty bad everywhere.
Exactly my thoughts, this isn’t really an LLM. I understand it’s just a personal project but it’s probably good to know LLMs are not just lookup tables.

Also, I’m not sure I understand the explanation of why js objects are so great for this, you could do the same thing with a python dict for example or equivalent mapping types in any programming language.

This is also missing an attention mechanism which is very important to understand even for a toy LLM as it’s part of what makes the responses so accurate to the context, rather than it just predicting what word usually comes next to another word (or sequence of words)
The above number is for Buffalo's metro area. Buffalo is actually under 300k today and was almost 600k in 1950.
Signal is what we use
AFAIK Blazor and Livewire (Laravel) were both inspired by LiveView.
So many AI coding agents popping up that claim to build entire projects but all I'm interested in (happy to pay):

- Review GitHub PR and suggest fixes.

- Improve the readability of code with a single command (devs suck at naming variables).

- context aware autocomplete for real
It is crazy how the German Nazis looted German paintings.
Brazilia does OK.
1. Given that Mom doesn't understand the bulk of the prompt, should we take away the prompt and encrypt the e-mail; i.e. treat the e-mail in a way she doesn't understand? (Maybe! After all sending an e-mail over TCP/IP and SMTP, and adding various headers and whatnot also treats it in ways Mom doesn't understand, and those have to be done. Or maybe not. Encryption literally obliterates the content, making it unreadable without the key.)

2. Your mom would likely understand "If unsure, answer No", and end up sending a normal e-mail. That text should be in bold, probably. Some of the verbiage could be behind some "learn more" link, where there is space and scope for a better explanation.

It is probably better if the switch is on the receiver's side, as some kind of Boolean field in the key registration record.
No one weapon system will change the tide. Ukraine plans for 2M fpv drones in 2024 alone. We are in a war of production and attrition now, but it seems only one side is willing to acknowledge and act accordingly. (Though it does seem this last point is changing in Europe)
Human eye accomodates well to darkness.

When I enter a dark room from a lit room, I initially can't see anything. But given 60-80 seconds, I become able to clearly see the shapes of furniture around me, and even the pattern on the carpet, even though the room is lit only by a couple of indicator LEDs from a router sitting on the top of a closet.

I bet that after a few minutes in a dark room, the petunias will look very visible and detailed. The room has to be dark though; a distant streetlamp through the window would easily overpower a flower.
"All My Fingers Fell Off Today (And my nose and all my toes)" (girl group pop rap)

https://www.udio.com/songs/bSoWQT8jcMZkNF9qNYW3cT

# Stomp the ground, no sound, toes M.I.A.
Wouldn't that be the formaldehyde in embalming fluid? And mercury from amalgam fillings.
I'm a backend engineer. What would be something you recommend on learning? Was thinking about learning GraphQL
fuck management
So all the governments of the world are in on the plot to hide the true nature of the Moon. They go as far as faking gravity research data from satellites. (Seems like it might be a bit easier to just not fund this research in the first place, but whatever.)

What’s inside the hollow Moon that requires this kind of coordinated long-term secrecy by governments that mostly don’t agree about anything? Russia, America, China, India, Japan, Europe — they all do moon research, so they must all be part of this.
You don't want to be cheated or receive substandard services from your vendor.
> Not saying David Icke is right but I'm curious why its so dangerous to think the Moon can be hollow.

Who says that it is dangerous?
IME, it's also a pretty good estimate of urban 3-mile walking, at a typical adult pace.

Sidewalks are easier than dirt trails, but add significant time waiting to cross some streets.
It's supposed to be very unlikely, unless you're actively looking for trouble. In principle, patents are supposed to only be given out for inventions that pass a bar of novelty. If that were true (it often isn't), it should ensure that it's very very unlikely for others to arrive at the same patentable invention independently. If they do, tough luck to the second person.

Still, patents become public from the moment they are filed. So you can scour the patent applications database as well if you fear others have already filed for a patent for something you are trying to do. Of course, that will mean that, if you go ahead with your own implementation and the patent is later granted, you will not be able to claim that you didn't know about this, and will face higher damages if you end up in a lawsuit.

The principle here is that a company decides to publish some internal discovery instead of keeping it for themselves, and the government in return grants them a limited time monopoly on that invention. The company could instead keep the invention a secret, but in that case, they can't stop others from using it, and if someone else patents it, their secret invention can actually infringe on the patent granted to someone else later.
> increased healthcare and therapy is unlikely to make a large impact

In places where there is a lack of healthcare and therapy, increasing it seems very likely to make a significant impact. If they are against increasing it, then don't complain about the lack of healthcare.
I evaluate a lot of code, like ten-twenty applications per year currently, terminal tooling is my goto. Mostly the basic stuff, tree, ripgrep, find, wc, jq, things like that. I also use them on top of output from static analysis tooling.

It's not as slick as SQL on a RDBMS, but very close, and integrates well into e.g. vim, so I can directly pull in output from the tools and add notes when I'm building up my reports. Finding partial URL:s, suspicious strings like API keys, SQL query concatenation and the like is usually trivial.

For me to switch to another toolset there would have to be very strong guarantees that the output is correct, deterministic and the full set of results, since this is the core basis for correctness in my risk assessments and value estimations.
There is a key for encryption, signing, authentication and certification in OpenPGP. The flags are C, E, S, A. The use cases are separate.

Perhaps another flag for automatic vs non automatic would help.
I don't get it, it is quite obvious that there are many prior art examples. Some easy ones are freenet and gnutella, both predating the patent by months. Even CODA filesystem (1987) checks all their patent claims.
This is nice. It reminds of how miserable my life is.

— Which HTTP code I should return for my API? I already used 404, 403, but I need another one. Damn, HTTP is so old and it makes no sense.

— You can't use HTTP codes like that Bob, they're not a free choice. They're for the protocol, not for your app.

— Let's look at the list. Hm... "412 Precondition Failed". Hey, it sounds nice. It fits to my use case. I'm gonna document it. It means the account is out of balance.

— What is this garbage? Please read the spec. This is going to make our API gateways, CDNs, everything go crazy. Can't let you move on with this PR.

— Look. I documented it, made an enum with the code, it's clean. I'm an experienced REST developer.

— It... it doesn't work like that Bob. Please, read the spec.

— Hey, got enough approvals, "412 Account Out Of Balance" it is! It passes the tests.

For each dev that knows proper HTTP, there's 10.000 Bobs.
> devs suck at naming variables

This is the #1 problem I've faced with my contractors and I wish I could find a good solution for it
There’s the fauxpilot project. This is just the minimal stuff to use the AI completer. But you can sub out faux pilot and get the same result (modulo quality).
tl;dr: machine is unable synchronize its clock because it won't trust the NTP server's DNSSEC certificate because its clock isn't synchronized. Oof.
Same way they did it the last 20 years.

They don't need to understand the fediverse to sue everyone and than everyone will disable the feature or adds some filter
they did that already. you can sign up with just an account name now, i ditched my phone number from my account after it rolled out around a month ago.
> By "everything else", I also mean WireGuard. Did you know that if your machine gets far enough out of sync, that'll stop working, too? I had no idea that it apparently includes time in its crypto stuff, but what other explanation is there?

WireGuard only requires a monotonic clock, because it periodically rotates keys to provide the forward secrecy. Peer clocks are otherwise not required to be synchronized [1]. I guess the clock had a higher rate than usual and it couldn't be corrected due to the lack of RTC?

[1] https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf#page=7 "In fact, it does not even have to be an accurate timestamp; it simply must be a per-peer monotonically increasing 96-bit number."
I like the concept of Mana - https://medium.com/luminasticity/art-as-a-tool-for-storing-m...
(the link might not be to your taste as it is sort of criticism but written in a fictional universe)

"One of the primary properties of anything with Mana is a feeling of uniqueness. That one has never encountered something like this before, and therefore it is important. The uniqueness of the thing is a property that pulls you in to focus more closely, to attempt to understand more closely why the thing is unique."
haha how did I not see that! thanks :)
I only fear 2 things: nuclear war and dynamically typed languages
> +Asset +Income aka sold something

Don't you mean -Asset here?
The professional sports leagues educate the men who have just turned adult, are newly millionaires, and working in very high-profile jobs, on how to avoid trouble. One thing I've seen repeated: Don't put yourself in situations, or around people, that lead to trouble.
The point that Fastmail made in the article, though, is that if Fastmail is handling the encryption, then they know your key. So Fastmail cannot protect you against Fastmail's servers being compromised[0].

And the article linked from their article (hilarious itself) pointed out that this basically comes down to State Actors (Mossad as the example) or Everyone Else. If it's Mossad then there's nothing anyone else can do to protect you (because they can do secret-squirrel things through special security courts and stuff like installing black boxes on undersea cable routers). If Everyone Else, then the normal run-of-the-mill transport encryption is probably good enough, just don't click on any herbal boner-pill adverts.

tldr; If you want to be protected, you have to do PGP at the local machine level yourself.

[0] Given that Fastmail are Aussies, and that our idiotic government have given the spooks full, secret, access to anything they want, then this is a very real prospect for anyone that five-eyes might be interested in.
>You would have to define what you mean by "bank" in order for this to make sense.

Bank means bank ledger account. The bank balance and receivables cannot both increase because they are both assets.

>That's right. The distinction is based on whether the account represents an asset or a liability. ... A completely equivalent formulation is that liabilities have negative signs attached to them

Understood. My point was merely that you cannot just change the labels.

The downside of this approach is that you would no longer be able to see whether a journal entry balances out based on the labels alone.
patents, copyright are ridiculous concepts that no longer make sense in the age of AI and large language models

if you do not want somebody copying your idea, cutting the price and cornering the market, then you simply should not put it out in the world at all.

behind every patent litigation is the threat of violence pure and simple. violence is the building fabric of everything in the west.

the same european colonial attitudes from 15th century that everything can be divided, labelled and sold backed by violence.

skin colours, ideologies, copyright, patents are all cut from the same ilk!

so much of American concepts are echos of its European colonialism.
Ask HN: What's missing in RequestInspector and Webhook.site?
Hey HN!
Quick context: RequestInspector and webhook.site is used to inspect incoming HTTP requests in realtime.

I'm sure many of you good folks have used these tools or any other alternative(please mention). What are the things that's stopping you from either paying or using these tools.

One thing that I would have loved to have is a custom subdomain URL hook. Ex: hn.example.com

I'd love to hear your thoughts. Also, do mention if there are other alternatives that you might be using.
Perhaps more than the US-USSR coldwar, one should be looking at US-Japan relations before WW-II to see how things could pan out in the next 20 years.

US and Japan pursued policies over time that lead to escalation rather than de-escalation.
It's a bit hilarious that there are attempts to convince people on a board for hackers and startup founders that state owned enterprises are great and amazing!!
I think Linux uses it to implement thread-local storage.