skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the authors of this paper works at Duck Duck Go. This was conspicuously not mentioned in the header information.
Absolutely agree that xz is a paradigmatic model of how well things
can go with free open source. However, that also led me and others to
a lot of dark reflecting on how vulnerable and exposed open source
devs and maintainers are [0] and about complex social engineering
attacks on the supply chain. It also raises troubling questions about
how proprietary vendors can take advantage of that and spin it to
their own ends.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/poison-code
> shows

> paints

Exactly. You can show and paint all you want. And then there's reality.

> Unclear what specific specs you are trying to throw under the bus here.

Almost all the hardware specs (most of which are "not on any standards track", shipped in Chrome), things like Backround Fetch and Background Sync (same).

There are also others that Google shipped even before there was consensus and there were glaring issues in the spec (like Constructible Stylesheets)

> A lot of people are really offended the web has MIDI & Gyrometer & other support, to the degree that they wouldn't let others enjoy this.

To call this a misrepresentation of reality is a gross understatement
The Rise of AI Security Engineers
$50 to skin my buddy's band's MySpace page. $200 for an actor friend's portfolio website shortly thereafter.
Figma has a paid plan that we're happy to pay for.

Penpot currently doesn't even have a paid plan anywhere. And their pricing page says that they are planning to offer paid tiers in a year (Q1 2025). A sibling post has answered some questions that they do have some VC funding, which is good. I was concerned about "how have they paid the bills so far, and how will they pay the bills until a year from now when they start charging?"

I've been burned in the past by open source projects that didn't grow enough to have a critical mass of skilled talent (Ember.js being a big one, finding talent was a supreme headache so we abandoned it after 5 years). So I'm always nervous now about "who is going to know this tool, and who is financially motivated to keep it vibrant and going" and also, "is it worth paying to have someone learn this skill if it isn't growing", all tradeoffs we have to make when picking tools/technologies.
The Distribution Problem: what's wrong with internal CAs (and what to do about
Claim: "In fine print, compared to python,"

Reality: In bold call out:

Up to
2.6X
faster than Objective-C
To me, the genius part is how they've forced the industry's hand. There's demand for cloud gaming, USB APIs, Bluetooth functionality and graphics libraries, but many OEMs don't implement it on their system. Chrome tells them that they either brush-up their native APIs, or lose their users to an arena where their browser is more capable than their smartphone.

That part I fully support, and it's Google's "die by the sword" answer to Apple's stubbornness. Google's AdSense abuses are a horse of a different color though, and absolutely deserving of antitrust remediation. The impact of AdSense has been so harmful that I genuinely fail to imagine a "solution" to the scale of it's harm. Alongside the Apple case, it's a posterchild for "Things the DOJ Should Have Done Years Ago" in this industry.
I still remember in the 90s seeing homes in uk with carpeted kitchens... Never understood what people were thinking.
> Acedia comes from the latin acedia, which itself comes from the Greek akedia, which translates as “lack of care”. Prior to the Christian era, ~the word denoted the act of not burying one’s dead. Thus it connotes a dehumanization~. Man buries his dead; animals do not.

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> Our teams and products will merge

From the article, not a rumor.
I find everything about OGS superior to KGS except for the quantity of strong players. In particular, its active development, community involvement, and modern tooling all make it more appealing. KGS is very closed source, running ancient software on ancient hardware, very static, very DIY and individual. It's about the game of go and little else. That is admirable in some regards, but not suitable for a growing niche community that is Western go.
yes it can, if you tag your log stream correctly - either by having the stream externally tagged via attributes, or internally by following certain conventions in the log line.

You can also do something like

select client_ip from requests where elapsed_ms > 10000

which is incredibly powerful
Yes, and that was the title when I upvoted it a few minutes ago. I'm flagging this because the OP appears to have obfuscated the title.
My AI generated avatar will nod along your AI generated video. Win-win.
But why not just buy a rug, make it washable for heavens sake
More like 5000 https://github.com/bitbank2/JPEGDEC/blob/master/src/jpeg.inl
I hear this on reddit-like social media all the time but I am disappointed to see it here. This is a low-effort and reductionist take. According to the GAO from 2009 through 2017, private ISPs made about $800 billion in capital investments and federal contributions for rural broadband in that period totalled about $50 billion. What would success look like for that 50 billion? Broadband to everywhere? America is very big and infrastructure is slow and expensive.

That doesn't mean we can't ever do useful work by subsidizing the deployment on infrastructure.

We can and should spend public money to improve broadband infrastructure. I have seen quite a few hugely successful subsidized broadband deployments from PUDs and small municipal power distribution companies in even lightly populated counties. For my money, continuing to subsidize these organizations and empowering them to sell broadband access direct to consumers is a huge value for the money.
That depends on whether a significant fraction of those workers really are skilled (doing old-school manual machining, manual welding etc.) or they are just semi-skilled and thus interchangeable CNC operators and robot maintenance technicians.
An exercise (whether writing or verbal) that helps me redirect or alleviate some of the anger is to simply ask "How do I imagine that person might be feeling?"

The trick is, when I'm feeling angry, I don't often want to answer. But when I do, it can help me realize that the current situation may also be hurting or frustrating the people who had been the targets of my anger, and then maybe we can work together to get rid of the problem. This seems to help me when calling customer service, because now I'm not fighting against them but fighting alongside of them.
> Beeper was in the bin after the beeper mini fiasco, and resulting massive brand damage

I don't think that's true at all. I'd never heard of Beeper before their integration with iMessage and the fact that it was disabled by Apple was seen as a negative on Apple, not Beeper. They raised their profile, now they're cashing out.
and that while limiting quantities per customer
as long as safety standards match, I don't think we should slap them with high tariffs. If we start protecting car industry, we all know the consequences. There is a reason why many people prefer toyota over American brand car.
>electric rickshaws

Life is cheap in India, there are tons of videos featuring people falling off bikes/overturned rickshaws head first straight under the wheel of a truck.
I once had to convince someone much smarter than me that UUID collisions (for a messaging system we were developing) would not happen. It was a surreal experience.
> Or, are we simply re-inventing the wheel each time,

This is how it has been since I've been in the industry (2005). it's part of why I got out of web development; it felt like a whole lot of relearning how to do the same thing every few years. At first, there was incremental feature gains, but after a while, it felt like newer frameworks or approaches were a functional step back (i.e., NoSQL, the fact that it eventually came to stand for "not only SQL" tells all).
Google just released its AI chip rival to Nvidia
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I thought the same thing. If I were loom this is a very scary news. Expect loom response to look like “we are not competing on the same product” and then loom to be acquired by salesforce
It virtually never works. ORMs letting you change databases is something ORM proponents like to suggest but very rarely does it work without a ton of work (nullifying the point.)
As a Python developer, I am happy that Apple mentions Python and acknowledge its existence.
Why the Chinese government is sparing AI from harsh regulations–for now
That’s why I got excited here. If I could just record short videos and then easily create something that stitch all of that then it would simplify the flow greatly.
If you've followed Beeper, you know that roughly 50% of our product is already open source (https://github.com/beeper). You can run your own Matrix server and use our bridges, or self-host the bridges and use Beeper clients (https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager). For all intents and purposes, Beeper _is_ the rejuvenated and very open Pidgin.

Automattic is a fantastic home for us. We needed a home (or new investors) to keep working on Beeper.
Thanks. I remembered 1 dan, I didn't remember if regular or pro.
I prefer to only use ORMs that can be used "everywhere." PostgreSQL needs to be used on production for performance; SQLite is good, but not _that_ good :), but it's perfect for testing things locally.
It is true though? The Russia collusion story is the biggest hoax of my lifetime. There is no remorse, no post mortem by any credentialed journalist who peddled that hoax for years.
>Tarifs in Europe would mean a tit-for-tat for German cars in China ruining them. That's why they don't want tarrifs.

Yes, but this is just the nature of competition. If they think they couldn't compete, either in China or Europe, they would beg for Tarifs.

>What German companies will probably do in Europe is import Chinese EV designs from their partners, and rebadge them locally the same way Renault does with the Dacia Spring.

I assume you mean cars not designs of cars? That seems like the thing least useful to import.

Yes, if they want/need low costs for their cars they will build and import the budget models from China. If you have seen Chinese EV prices you would know why, they are insanely cheap, even if they are more or less equivalent to European cars of the same brand.
But they don't need to rebadge, they just build the actual badges cars and ship them to Europe.

I think the one important question is how long china can compete in the race to the bottom. The lower prices are due to many factors, labor cost among those. Surely that will not be sustainable indefinitely.
Look no further than developers on Ethereum, who are still doing shit like voluntarily writing assembly for basic software to account for compute constraints. I can say from some brief experience, it’s a reality that I’m glad we don’t all occupy.
I hear you but I polish my loom videos so they can be as short and concise as possible. And by polish I mean I rerecord myself like 5 times
Continue + deepseek local model has been working reasonably well for me
You can not go to war with India. It has nukes. And those incels are the pension of 2 parents. No socialism in China. China will remain repressive but peaceful.
To the people who keep downvoting this, you should explain why.
I'm not clear from the article on whether Vids is already available, or even if there's a timeline for its release.
I have been DB-agnostic for 20 years, and it has never been a problem, except when I meet ORMs or "SQL-based solutions" (usually procedures and/or views) that are specific to one database.

Luckily, I'm in a position where I can choose for our clients, so... :)
I've been toying a little with self hosted Penpot and it was really nice. I haven't used Figma too much, but Penpot was easy to use though it felt a little difficult to handle components.

This is a very welcomed release, kudos for the team for delivering.
What they describe has happened to me many times. It's always a free gate-check.

Sometimes the bags are unloaded at the gate, sometimes you have to go to baggage claim.
without saying what repos they prioritize, it's hard to take them seriously since some pretty simple searches were "uh-huh"

e.g. https://searchcode.com/?q=kubelet&src=2&lan=55 versus https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=kubelet&literal=1 or the gold standard (although regrettably no longer open source) https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+kubelet&patt...
Did you read the comment chain you are replying to? Your comment makes no sense at all in that context, that the bug was introduced to revive console sales.
I mean, there is no reason Python couldn't special case something that looked like an operator call into shorthand for a comprehension instead of shorthand for a method call, other than the fact that it would make the parser more complex and make it harder to understand the language.

It would be bad for this case, though. As confusing as the particular case of:

[[]] * 4

might be to people who haven't learned how it works, list multiplication doesn't just apply to single element lists, and is useful and usefully distinct from what people are suggesting the behavior should be for the operation based on this one case.
Sure, but there would still be additional metadata not captured in SVG, right? Things like layers, components, variants, etc.
Compromised LinkedIn account. anything to do?
Last night I got a stream of emails from LinkedIn.

* here's your PIN XYZXYZ
* your password was successfully reset
* here's your PIN XYZXYZ
* Robert, a new email address was added to your account

The new email is a hotmail account that is not mine.

I reported it via some LinkedIn tool but I'm concerned that will get discarded by a robot. Is there anything to do?

Also, https://linkedin.com/in/robertkarl/ is no longer me.
And with Google's track record, eventually end up on KilledByGoogle.com
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How does Automattic even survive and remain profitable (?) nowadays? What’s the niche?
Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
I actually wonder if they can't just openly commit to something like a five-year plan for support, along the lines of commitments to security updates to android. Just a resolve that they will not terminate their product in its first five years.

I think a good way to address the crisis of credibility Google has with their commitment to their own products is to just make articulated timelines of support something considered as fundamental as the code base itself.

It could admittedly be perceived of as a negative, because a "cliff" could approach. But the flip side is that we are where we are in the absence of credible commitments, and I think the present status quo is worse.
Kinda sad. Beeper owns a ton of Matrix bridges. I wonder what will happen now.
San Francisco-to-L.A. overnight train inches closer to reality
SS is easy to fix by just lifting the income cap on it and making it more progressive. But Republicans aren't going to do that, I guess.

Even today if you retire on SS alone, that's basically welfare that you paid for, it isn't really enough to live but might prevent you from starving to death. Thankfully, our life expectancies aren't rising so fast anymore (and actually falling a bit), or we would have a huge problem (forgive the dark humor).
How does Automattic make money? Do they get paid to look the other way when people’s Wordpress blogs get spammed by SEO links?
> Why not sue major offenders like India or Russia, just to name a few, who could actually make a difference to world climate?

India is not by any sensible measure a "major offender". They do have the third highest total emissions but that is because they have the largest or second largest population. Their per capita emissions are half of Switzerland's.

And yes, per capita is a far better measure than per country unless you can make a case that the people of some countries have some sort of natural or divine right to live a higher CO2 lifestyle.
It's tough to prioritize migrating to a new platform for the engineering blog, without a very good ROI. Airbnb's eng blog was set up on Medium a while ago, it's doing fine, they have no real reason to spend a lot of resources on switching.
Didn't we have just that?, i'm sure there are tons of history that can fill in any gaps you may have in what it was like.
An image of Calif.'s Point Reyes National Seashore launched Pixar to stardom
I was just playing with you :)
Yes, anything can be an input token.

Patch of pixels ---> token
Fragment of input Audio ---> token
etc
The new trains are superior in every aspect except they seem to oscillate in a weird way that gives some people motion sickness.
I remember it was a challenge to get the machines to accept your dollar bills.
Metro, not light rail. Light rail is an ambiguous anglophone North American term (because anglophone North America kind of sucks in transit) that can mean anything between a tram and a mini metro, but it's wholly inappropriate for BART and for the Movia trainsets.

Also, it's kind of by luck - BART uses the so-called Indian gauge, and Movia trains have been acquired by Indian cities for their metro systems, so Bombardier/Alstom already had everything in place.
Griffin: Mixing Gated Linear Recurrences with Local Attention
My theory is Beeper being a sacrificial lamb so Google/Samsung can cry to EU about iMessage. ”See they’re restricting this poor little startup from competing! Pay no attention to the funding coming from Samsung, this is definitely a poor underdog of a company!”
Not everyone has top secret clearence and likes to compromise themselves whenever the oportunity presents itself.
Thanks, that's useful.

My design should be OK - I'm planning on having the workers retrieve jobs and send back their results via an HTTP API to a single process that wraps the SQLite database (Datasette with a custom plugin).
Note that this decrease in traffic is after a huge influx of visitors. Highways in and out of the area of totality were overwhelmed in most areas. I live in Michigan and drove 2 hours south to find myself in a small town park in Ohio surrounded by other Michigan residents.
Do you call them “brown bags” and “tech talks”? For a lot of people those terms imply a one-way presentation.
See also: newsletters of all sorts.

I’m pretty sure everyone’s just using LLMs to write those now, and nothing of value was lost versus ten plus hours of actual human labor, since nobody reads them.

[edit] I mean internal corporate newsletters. “What department X is doing!” OMG nobody cares unless they’re just reading it out of sheer boredom as a plausibly-work-related distraction during avoidance of doing actual work.
I'm personally skeptical because the only thing I want to do less than watch a presentation is be forced to watch a video.
> That's a different statement and expected, but in a language like Python, it isn't always clear whether my_list is a value or a reference

It is always clear, and it is 100% always a reference, with a set of cases where that reference is to a singleton or immutable object, and a subset of those cases where, in particular Python implementations, that singleton may effectively be implemented as a special case value.

If you treat it as a reference, you will never, ever be wrong.
The fact that statutes and courts are used for other purposes than originally envisioned does not justify those purposes or actions. It is quite likely that this tactic will eventually be used to push through policies which go against "progressive" doctrine, some of the more likely areas for this to happen are migration and criminal justice.

Given your nick I assume you're from the USA (and/or work for Intel...) so there are already some examples of this happening in both directions, e.g. first the establishment of a federal 'right to abortion' in Roe vs. Wade which was then withdrawn when the supreme court decision on Roe vs Wade pushed abortion legislation back to the state level. The laws are in place - both on state as well as federate level - for forcing your state and federal government to restrict migration and clamp down on district attorneys who are unwilling to prosecute criminals, all it takes is for some entity to manage to get a case in a 'friendly' court. Will you see such decisions in the same light as you're portraying this decision?
Adaptive Software Development (ASD) offers a compelling alternative for projects where flexibility and continuous learning are paramount. This article dives into what ASD is and how it compares to other Agile processes like Scrum and Kanban.
Yeah, I wrote about that last year: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/#diversif...

Again, that's not a GPT-4 thing: that's a ChatGPT interface running GPT-4 with DALL-E as a tool thing.
It's not that they forgot how the multiplane worked. They understood it...in theory. However, they were quirky beasts and it was knowledge of those quirks that was lost. Like getting an old car to run--most people these days don't know about pumping the gas pedal to keep it running.
Indeed! It only takes a couple rounds of that mess to learn that anything you actually need has to be carried on, and once you're used to packing all of your necessities into carry-ons, it's easy to wonder "why am I bothering to bring all this other stuff"?
Datadog Has a Security Footgun
Some people still use google this days when they haven't heard about something.
Sure, but outside of a few SSDs (that aren't worth buying currently, need to wait for the 2nd gen pcie 5 controllers to tame their power draw), what consumer (or enthusiast) hardware is actually using PCIe 5 right now? If you slot 2 4090s into those x8/x8 5.0 slots, they'll "only" run at x8/x8 4.0 speeds.
AIME API Server is a scalable open source AI model inference API Server
Horrifying. If you want to transfer information, then text + illustration is the best way to accomplish that.

Now we get a 10 Minute Video of an AI narrating a 5 Bullet point list the user gave it with AI generated visuals. Productivity just has to go through the roof.
With AIME API one deploys deep learning models (Pytorch, TensorFlow) through a job queue as scalable API endpoint capable of serving millions of model inference requests so you can turn a console Python script to a secure and robust web API acting as your interface to the mobile, browser and desktop world.
It's not doable at the board level. High-end GPUs use HBM in the same package, connected using a silicon interposer.
It’s not at all a given that this would be profitable. Apple is not paying the same prices for AWS/GCP that mere mortals do.
If a normal PC had an ISA bus (like they did 30 years ago), my network card could have been connected to it with just some minor modifications.
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Sounds like they're planning to still run the Beeper service, perhaps merged with Texts. I'd bet they'll still use Matrix, it seems to be the very core of how Beeper works.