skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> either if I can at all help it.

Sometimes you can't help it, you need a phone today, and need to go into a store for your phone company. No, buying a phone from Walmart or Best buy and waiting for a sim or doing some eSim thing won't work, you just need to get into a branch today. If an MVNO with no branches works for you, great, but some people need to be able to go into a branch of their cell phone provider/bank/utility.
It wasn't that long ago I was using tools like Spybot and Ad-aware to remove things that were considered malicious. Now it's built right into the OS and browsers.

"Progress"
In 2017 The Intercept helped the NSA identify Reality Winner after a classified document detailing Russian interference in the 2016 election was mailed to The Intercept offices.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner#Release_of_cl...
"The +972 report indicates that the use of this technology has led to the dispassionate annihilation of thousands of eligible—and ineligible—targets at speed and without much human oversight."

Execution of an AI selected target with no human oversight is pretty crazy.
The F-35 comment seems especially relevant as (for some reason) negative F-35 posts show up on hacker news all. of. the. time[0]. I don't get why negativity on this plane is such a hot topic here, it's like the lab leak theory of military planes.

On at that note why is this post here? Is there a theme to hacker news anymore?

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
My gut is Iran wanted the missiles to be intercepted. They wanted to show they are not pushovers but don’t want to escalate too much. In some sense the whole thing was a fireworks display by the countries involved. Like a warning shot.
Isn't tinnitus about certain tissues/bone pressed against each other?
Thanks. Mods are looking for the flag already. Don't need to email them.

Better would be stop posting dupes. Discuss over there on the ongoing thread.
The next gen systems being developed are laser based. Bringing the cost per interception way down.
Elon lives in the US and directly tries to influence american politics. Cant say the same for chinese car companies.
Many people--rich or poor--would rather get shot and survive than lose all their wealth.
Slow drones can be shot down even with machine guns, but missiles require expensive interceptors, and fast missiles can't (practically) be intercepted (yet).

Cheap drones are evolving fast, but so too are counters for them.
What's missing in this conversation is the notion of "computational complexity".

For practical purposes, everything can be modeled as a computer. But some things are impractically complex.

What's interesting is that modern computer software, and to some extent computer hardware (even after assuming perfect digital abstraction at the transistor level), is itself becoming impractically complex!
Great article. It’s not so bad as a user of python honestly. Venv goes a long way, and with docker its get the rest of the way there.

The problem is when you want to open-source a package. I consider myself a professional Python developer, yet I was completely overwhelmed with all ways you can manage and release a package. Hatch, poetry, rye, setup, and a million other things that can make you a waste days fighting the language.

I highly recommend this cookiecutter from Simon Willison: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/16/python-lib-pypi/

I just open-sourced a project last week[0] and it took 5 minutes (after 2 days fighting other tools).

0. https://pypi.org/project/agentrun/
My car is aerodynamically designed to use less fuel, are you going to claim this makes my car lazy? Should I go talk to my car and ask it if it's being lazy?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39918245
> I don't think playing Devil's advocate is misanthropic.

Masterfully phrased :) i.e. you agree you were bored and looking for an interlocutor.

> Do you even remember middle/high school?

Yes.

> It's easy to keep long-term motivations in mind when following the path towards distant reward keeps yielding smaller rewards along the way. Take that away, and people check out or burn out.

Yeah I'm an economics college dropout from nowhere with a 2.8 GPA who couldn't make it to class. I flushed a 1560/1600 SAT and 173/180 LSAT down the toilet (read: Ivy League tier standardized test grades). I ended up working for Google as a SWE. How? After dropping out, I worked as a waiter, thought that rumored iSlate thing sounded pretty cool, and maybe I should make a restaurant app for it. Taught myself programming, launched after 2.5 years, sold it after 4, interviewed for Google expecting to fail.

To peer poster's point: everyone is smart and stupid at the same time, about different things at different times.
The cost per unit could be dramatically lower for drones soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Beam

A 100 kW shot is a big one. 100 kW is around $15 from the grid in Israel. Maybe double that a few times for inefficiencies, it's still a lot cheaper than an effective drone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...

where the bulk of scientists agreed in various ways that the confounding problems made it exceedingly implausible that differences were either entirely genetically based or entirely environmentally based?

> This is an area where the science all points in one direction but popular opinion is in the other direction.

Or maybe an area where the science is inconclusive but personal opinion shades the reading and subsequent presentation?
Do we know for sure what has been reported is true, was it really only a few?

Perhaps we should consider that the goal wasn't to do a lot of damage but instead saber-rattling. It would seem wise for Iran to both to satiate the demands of their constituents desire for retribution without triggering escalation. That Israel was told to 'take the win' by the US seems to be as good as result for Iran as one could possibly hope for.

The cost of the attack seemed to be 1/10th the cost of the defense so that does appear to be a net win for the attackers.

I worry that the west will become over confident with our missile defence and use it as an excuse to push conflict as close to nuclear exchange as possible. To paraphrase Bertrand Russell; 'like teenagers playing a game of nuclear chicken'
"cyber security" is a misnomer. "HCI security" is more accurate.
Let's compare these statements.

> You think it's irresponsible to anthropomorphize software which iterated through versions of itself until it was best able to model and extrapolate the largest trove of anthropomorphic training data to date?

> You think it's irresponsible to anthropomorphize a model developed by a team of researchers using backpropogation to fit the model to a large corpus of text?

Do you see how framing it as "software iterating through versions of itself" gives the model agency that makes it seem more human? And how calling it "anthropomorphic data" presupposes that this is data that, when trained on, results in something anthropomorphic?

This isn't something I'm reading in I'm afraid, these decisions about how to frame the problem influence the conclusions we come to. It's implicitly taking some very strong priors before the process has begun.

I don't have any anxiety about this, I am just telling you from one human being to another, these cognitive biases exist and will foil your efforts to understand this phenomenon if not accounted for. I'm not suggesting anything apocalyptic or hysterical here, I'm just saying you're more likely to end up at the wrong conclusion than the right one if you anthropomorphize AI models.
>side-channel attacks

Can be prevented[0][1][2].

0. https://trustworthy.systems/publications/

1. https://trustworthy.systems/publications/papers/Sison_BMKH_2...

2. https://trustworthy.systems/publications/papers/Buckley_SWMM...
I don't believe so. Maybe I should buy a stethoscope and check. I've been referred to an ENT but the waitlist is stupidly long, in Canada.
A yes-no debate would help you discover those cruxes fast, but I think the setting is rarely right for one
The bluntest tool I can think of would be to block companies above a certain size from acquiring other companies.

That could mess up the entire VC/tech startup system, but it would also prevent large companies from killing competitors in the cradle. So many innovative startups in the last decade have been absorbed into big, much less interesting companies. Where would we be if all that tech wasn’t lost?
Alas, the article itself is touting a normal SD card, so in a way it's a weird comparison in the first place...
The UHS-1 speed really limits what you can do with this; I think you might be able to do some light 4K video on some cameras in limited modes but generally I expect it'll be best for FHD which isn't as storage-hungry to begin with.

I think 4TB of 60FPS FHD ALL-I compression on my Canon R5 would take 38 hours of footage to fill; if you aren't going to do any grading and use a 24/30FPS FHD IPB that number jumps to 97 hours or 4 days of footage.

I also don't know how useful it would be for burst-mode; I filled 256GB in a few hours but that was on a v90 card and I expect on a UHS-1 card I'd have spent a good chunk of that time waiting for the buffer to clear.

I'm sure there's some application for this -- I just can't see it for videography or photography.
It depends what you mean by "antivaxer", what is the subclinical myocarditis rate for ACAM1000 again? (Not ACAM2000, I'm very specifically talking about ACAM1000)
Appreciated. Could be a fascinating read, how societies through history have maintained internal order with various approaches to security. Did Rome have police? What about the Venetians or 16th-18th century europe? Any reading recommendation?

Also, I’m now curious what a the future of homeland security could look like. Is anyone writing rationally about this?
Metrics of success are going to be:

Ratio of cost of defense vs attack. The US and it's allies spent X on the missiles. Iran spent Y on the attack. If the ratio of X/Y is 1k or more, then it's probably not a feasible long term solution. IOW we're spending a billion to defend against a million dollars worth of materiel (no that's not a misspelling).

Percentage of effectiveness to cost. If a smart missile is more effective by a dumb(er) missile by 20% but costs 10x less to make, one can probably just make up for it by making 10x more of the cheaper missiles.
I stumbled into a hobby business of building the ultimate Mac OS 9 machines
I knew requiring public key authentication *followed by* password authentication on my SSH server was not paranoid!
Kansas couple sues MaxMind for turning their life into a "digital hell" (2016)
This is where I get off the Windows train…
Now your feet feel trapped and uncomfortable inside their shoes.
No justice in life but what we make…
I had a top tier Samsung phone the s22ultra. Within a little over a year the service basically stopped working. Samsung had tons of reports of other s22ultra with the same problem. Samsung basically said no refund no exchange. You can trade it in for 400 towards a new Samsung. This was a 1000+ dollar phone that barely made it past warranty.

I will never ever use a Samsung again. It was my fault for not checking the warranty. I should have known better when a 1000+ flagship phone only has a one year warranty it can't be very good, right?

I now just buy cheap phones cause that experience ruined me. Their support was so bad and they didn't care at all about the forums of people with the exact same issues.
I don't know how this company is top seller. This surprises me so much.
I believe there are telecommunications regulations in olved that prevent them from erecting barriers during the sim swap process. This might be one of the mains reasons it's such a juicy vector.
I’m imagining the alternative is going to be some kind of AI powered robo cops. Not sure I like that idea any more than the current one.
Show HN: YouTube Shorts Redirector
I am neurodivergent and noticed the Youtube Shorts format was hacking my brain to engage longer than I wanted. I wrote this quick extension to gain my time back. If you have suggestions for improvement, I'm all ears. Thank you :)
Discussion 3 days ago:[0] (190 points, 189 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40018948
Storage devices aren't 100% reliable, and nobody is claiming them to be.

Backups and RAIDs is how we deal with that.
How I Write Posts
I'm not quite sure what you're asking here but note that 521 != 512, and the former is not a typo.
I have to say, I tried it but at that time the self hosted offering was too limited, and the good stuff, the useful stuff was behind the cloud subscription paywall.

The initial experience was easy to get going, but the devil was in the details.
Much of the logic should be server side also for security reasons and that wasn't possible when I tried it.

People like to hype things that are easy to get started with but don't go much further so the initial impression remains.

I think the appeal is to people who like doing frontend but don't like doing backend.
The discussion above was about what makes you blithe and fact-free, which I implicitly agreed with the other commenter was the case, and so, yes, the age of your account is one way how people sanity-check for trolls and shills, which is relevant to having a "discussion" at all.
Shout out to StartAllBack, the replacement Start menu. It started back when Microsoft had abandoned the Start menu altogether. These days Windows 11 Start is more or less OK but shoving ads into it definitely is user hostile.

$5 per machine gets you a nice third party Start menu. It's more flexible too; these days I mostly use it because it lets you move the taskbar to the left edge where it belongs on an ultrawidescreen monitor.
This already is in place at T-Mobile, but it seems the it can be overridden.
Fair, but you could just define the term cost as 'replacement rate', see that the replacement rate for ballistic defense missiles is way higher than the required resources to do the same for decoys, and still see the problem

That said I'm super happy that we have best in class missile defense systems, I truly hope we continue to do so, solve the decoy problem behind closed doors (better detection all the way down?), and then have a similarly long if not longer period of relative peace where we get to argue about their effectiveness from our armchairs rather than on the battlefield.
Cool idea. Never gonna work. LLMs are still generative models that spits out training data, incapable of highly abstract creative tasks like research.

I still remember all the GPT-2 based startup idea generators that spits out pseudo-feasible startups.
It seems only through incompetence though, I think that's important to note.
It's a pretty old system; had it over 10 years now, so I didn't expect too much re the blur. I'll likely revisit after I've upgraded to something more modern. Maybe by then I'll have the camera position figured as well.

Love to get into the XR space myself.
>Presumably Efani accomplishes that additional protection by maintaining a human support staff they put more resources into training than the average carrier. That's expensive, especially when you consider that it's a relatively niche service (so small user base to amortize that cost over) and presumably only used by people that really care about sim swaps, likely because they are frequently targeted for sim swaps, and thus the training needs to really work.

According to the BLS "Computer User Support Specialists" get paid $30 on average[1]. Whatever training they give to staff to resist sim-swap attacks, I can't imagine they can't be more complicated than the certifications that "Computer User Support Specialists" have to get through, so I think it's reasonable to model their support costs at $30/hr per person. With the premium they're charging over a budget MVNO they can afford two support people per customer. How many fraudulent sim swap attacks could the worst client possibly attract? Is it really that hard to train someone to deny sim swaps until they go through 11 steps of verification like their website says?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

>That, plus the fact that it's a premium service that is mostly only useful to higher net worth / higher income people, makes it seem reasonable that it would be quite expensive relative to a regular provider.

I mean yeah that's the more reasonable answer. It's a luxury product and priced accordingly.
These are not small pieces of code by any means :) Professional kernels used by the likes of Autocad and Siemens have fourth to fifty years of development and hundreds of thousands of engineering hours.

It’s not as simple as taking a mesh of 3D points and calling it a day. Typical kernels can add chamfers, fillets, spins, and constraints to all kinds of form representations based on mathematical descriptions of the target shapes. Getting that working reliably is super difficult!
The only internet database I know of with a search interface that satisfyingly queries its structured data is vndb [1]. You might laugh, but I think it's a good example of an open-source project where an opinionated maintainer rejects lowest-common-denominator design. For once I don't feel like I'd rather use bare SQL (looking at you, every web storefront ever), but vndb even supports that! I do wish were more sites like it.

IMO almost no directory projects get both the wiki and database parts right like wikidata and vndb do (at two very different scales). Those two have in common: (come to think of it, so does OpenStreetMap mostly):

- query builder in addition to the search form [1][2]

- web query runner (SQL, SPARQL) [3], both with a custom backend [4]

- open data license (ODbl, CC0) [5]

- db dumps as files over http [5]

- (A)GPL source. Both also self-host their git web ui [6]

- no login-walls, and no ads

[1] with relational subqueries https://vndb.org/v?f=["and",["olang","!=","en"],["staff","!=...

[2] wikidata's is experimental and incomplete https://query.wikidata.org/querybuilder/?query={"conditions"...}

[3] https://query.vndb.org/?sql=SELECT+'https://www.wikidata.org...

[3] https://query.wikidata.org/##defaultView:ImageGrid%0ASELECT%...

[4] https://dev.yorhel.nl/sqlbin [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service

[5] https://vndb.org/d14 [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Data_access

[6] https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/vndb [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase
Raft is a lot easier to digest than paxos: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
There are many things I would categorize as miracles. The current AI product offerings don’t make the list.
But intuition is something that animals also have. What specifically was human specific there?
I'll agree with the specifics that it looks like some military technologies are more effective than we realized.

I do not think that it's a fair logical leap to say "therefore the US should keep spending a significant portion of its national budget on it."

I think the biggest predictors of whether humankind is alive in 1,000 years are not military at all, and perhaps inversely proportional to military spending. If instead of spending 877 Billion on military per year instead spent that much on clean energy, AI, or health-related technologies I imagine we'd find humanity in a much better state.
Check your local laws. In some places, if either party announces the call can be recorded than either party may record it. Ie if the Corp says the call is being recorded, you can record as well without being required to say anything. It is already assumed the call is being record.
We talking a grazing, or a colostomy bag and a wheel chair?
Another potent alternative is perhaps Differentiable Search Index (DSI) based on Transformer Memory:

Transformer Memory as a Differentiable Search Index:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06991
I have been using urlwatch[1] for years, I have a cron run daily which will send a diff of the page(s) via email. You can also use it for checking local file changes and more.

[1] https://github.com/thp/urlwatch
An upgrade to windows 11 is a big downgrade. Whatever systems I have windows 10 (just one) I’ll keep at that. Will steer clear of anything Windows or Microsoft in the future.
This isn't an either/or scenario.

There's a reasonable distance that a law enforcement officer (or paramedic, or firefighter) need to be in control of, in order to focus on their job. Maybe it's 1ft, maybe it's 50ft: the courts should decide.

There's also a reasonable public expectation to be able to record police officers doing their job, for subsequent review.

Hopefully we can all agree that someone loudly "recording" shoulder to shoulder with police officer disrupts their ability to resolve situations? Just as we can agree that not having any recording of a police officer's potentially illegal actions is antithetical to ensuring justice?

There are disingenuous protesters who abuse recording excuses to disrupt law enforcement.

There are corrupt cops who abuse recording limitations to disrupt transparency.

Both of these things are wrong.
Didn't they already? IIRC they also installed Candy Crush and Spotify without my consent. Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry used most of my disk i/o for an hour every day, seemingly cataloguing everything I have installed. I will never ever use Windows for professional purposes, they are dead to me except for use as a glorified Steam launcher.
It's prescribed...fluocinolone acetonide oil
A few years ago I landed on pyenv + poetry, and this venn diagram set made me feel validated!
If I built distributed systems like I play Factorio, I'd be understandably blacklisted from the industry.
Spyware as a service?
> An upgrade to windows 11 is a big downgrade.

I've heard a similar refrain about every windows release since XP.

Not saying it was or is wrong.
I think there's a somewhat common failing in Haskell that because a larger vision is possible, smaller solutions get ignored.

Extensible effects (or doing tricky things with a monad stack, or...) promises to let you intercept (approximately) everything your function might do. Awesome. That's probably a thing you'd like in go when you say a function accepts an io.Writer.

It's not what you get in go, when you say your function accepts an io.Writer.

If your code mostly operates in `ReaderT ... IO`, then the simplest typeclass that's equivalent to io.Writer is a typeclass with a function that operates in that same `ReaderT ... IO`.
> Historically, this has been hydro from surrounding states (like Washington, but also from Canadian BC). I'm not sure what it is today given current water challenges.

And coal from Utah. That's still huge at night.
Actually that's a good idea... My parents are literally ENT doctors so one thing they told me to try was simple neck massages/movements. Basically cradle the back of neck with your fingers, then slowly tilt head up and down. It improves blood flow, releases muscle tension, etc., and there's a chance this or the CST that you mention can help with some forms of tinnitus. Now that you've reminded me, I'll keep trying it, thanks!