skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the psychology is that someone with a lot of money wants to pay to take an artwork and put it in a vault, never displaying it.

From what I've read, much contemporary art is purchased with that in mind. Some collectors have warehouses filled with artwork that nobody sees. It's like collecting baseball cards.

Edit: See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40000250
https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
Sorry, which hardware APIs? Webusb? Others?

Excellent as usual chery picking. Way to be perpetually offended & antagonistic & address nothing. We should all be done with whining nothing's like this crap roll.

You have sold fear fear fear & your counter of trying to disregard & ignore is a strong strategy indeed. Strongly cast down then say nothing when the time comes! Well done. Expert moves. Have you at any point obeyed the HN guidelines that discussions should get more specific? No, you just moan and belly ache. Insult belittle & degrade. More broadly & pitiful than the last time.

Society would be better without these shit show tantrums. Sound & thunder, full of nothings.
But that's the thing. This is basically public knowledge at this point. I realize that almost every regional or super power has or tries to have this type of corporation for their own usage, but in this case it's public knowledge and it also openly targets Israel's allies. A good example is how France's president was targeted.

I'm not sure the US wouldn't at least pretend to shut down/restrain a corporation that's helping Israel's ennemies spy on Netanyahu for example.
Why wasn't this immediately flagged when the same boarding pass was used for the second time?

Hereround an alarm is raised if a passenger uses a QR code, which was already used on the same flight.
> didn’t they at least having billing alerts for the terabytes of AWS bandwidth?

AWS is notoriously bad about this. You can't set hard limits. Even if you set a limit, your notification won't come in until long after that limit has been hit and blown through.
Awesome project. Suggestion: turn off autofocus for close-up videos. Focus lock on the mid-to-closest subject. Phones and their tiny sensors have plenty of depth of field.
Don't build a JavaScript JIT. A fast interpreter will be enough
I converted my old phone into a 24/7 retro sales dashboard
"Back in the day, I ended up IP banned from the whole of free node because my internet connection was flaky while I was away, and I ended up banned for spamming join/quit messages. "

Ouch. I feel you there. Intermittent connectivity can truly suck. I've had issues like that before.

I try not to connect to IRC in situations like that. but these issues can often be resolved with a Bouncer.

like, I was beginning to wonder why you were saying what you said.

I was going to be like what do you need logging or such? I honestly prefer the logging situation on IRC. People will expect you to read the entire backlog on discord.

Discord is indeed free of cost which could save enterprises money I suppose. The ocst of maintaining a BNC for networks that don't offer it for free can get high. Running ZNC was beginning to cause hash ocean to ask me for over 100 a month.

But Rizon and the networks I use most frequently run their own free of cost that provides permannence so you get your backlog.
You can’t create a proper client for it because IRC does not have a standardised backlog functionality.
VPN companies are next I'm sure.
If your application language/framework allows, you can do the batching there. e.g. have your single request handler put work into an (in-memory) queue. Then another thread/async worker pull batches off the queue and do your db work in batch, and trigger the response to the original handler. In an http context, this is all synchronous from the client perspective, and you can get 2-10x throughput at a cost of like 2 ms latency under load.

I gave more detail with a toy example here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245416

I've since played around with this a little more and you can do it pretty generically (at least make the worker generic where you give it a function `Chunk[A] => Task[Chunk[Result[B]]]` to do the database logic). I don't have that handy to post right now, but probably you're not using Scala anyway so the details aren't that relevant.

I've tried out a similar thing in Rust and it's a lot more finicky but still doable there. Should be similar in go I'd think.
He was only discovered once the plane was taxiing, which doesn't sound like it pretty much worked - if the flight hadn't been full, he may well have got away with it.
Am I alone in thinking assistants were useful when they had a constrained set of operations that fits our heads? Now Google Maps tells Spotify to play a song called "Whats the name of this road?"
> I really believe the only way to maintain standing forests is a compensation fund for conserving standing rainforests.

Someone on HN suggested this to me once. I thought they were crazy at first but the more I think about it the more sense it makes.

Simply put, not burning down the amazon costs us money and growth. We have much more important things to worry about than the amazon. It's economically worthless land that could and should be used for any number of profitable activities.

Other countries have been getting obscenely rich and powerful by exploiting the planet's natural resources for centuries now. I won't accept being denied the same rights. They really have no business telling us what we can or can't do with this part of our territory.

Things change if they're prepared to compensate us for the opportunity costs though. If managed properly, such a deal could be great for this country. Big if, given how utterly corrupt the government is.
Actually I think you want to use Nix for the whole shebang, system & projects.
Do you think a feature like this is tied to distancing OpenTofu from Hashicorp, e.g., AWS & friends have less incentive to do enterprise feature gating around security?
You're right it's also torture.
Waves across I-35 to Reality Labs.

Sounds like something Numba should include perhaps.

I retired from HPC around the era of iPython, Open MPI, Infiniband, OFED, GPFS/Panasas/Lustre, Rocks Cluster, and Condor/PBS/SGE.
Can someone explain what this is and when I would use it in layman’s terms? I understand it’s a fuse filesystem but don’t understand quite what it does?
From the article:

"He made sure that he boarded before the the passenger who had the boarding pass information that he stole; when the other passenger tried to board, the system suggested that this passenger had already boarded, though the gate agent assumed it was a glitch, so allowed that person to board"
Except in this case, it didn't?

1. The ID should be checked along (and preferably) before the boarding pass is scanned. Most airlines do this; so this is an oversight from the agent to "quickly" let people through.

2. The agent was also lazy to investigate the situation and just assumed it was a "computer glitch". Again, probably breaking procedure.

This could have been worse but I wonder what's the point of all the security theater that the US goes through when simple security procedures are not strictly followed.
Or maybe cat is more your style: https://suno.com/song/ee467d00-5813-4a74-9792-c9ae4a09d344/
That's probably it. Thanks for easing my perpetual forgetfulness!
Most powerful phones, fastest browser, but still Safari crashes out-of-memory all the time with some data heavy webapps. (16MB png viewer in canvas)

7 year old Samsung with 2GB ram does not have this problem...
Jobs conspired with Google to suppress wages of employees with no-poaching agreements. He even stole from his founding partner, and avoided paying child support.
It's highly unlikely that a typical end consumer will pay subscription fee just to have a conversation with a device. Not saying there won’t be niche domains where this is useful but it won't reach mass adoption to justify the costs to keep Alexa up and running. Maybe they can charge for LLM + Smart home features, perhaps there could be more takers?

Either way they need to figure it out soon because the cost will keep accumulating and they can write them off only for so many quarters.

It seems they had sold 500 million Alexa devices until last year [1]. Just the hardware infra to keep servicing them is massive; not to speak of developer cost.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-has-sold-more-than-500...
Imagine a sufficiently advanced LLM enriched with the context Facebook or TikTok have about a typical user. That’d be spooky.
Art of Gyotaku, Japanese fish printing [video]
Wild to see a Jackson Crossing reference on Hacker News. Haven't been there since around the time you would've had your business, but I don't think I remember an arcade like that. What was it called?
That's done before they issue you a boarding pass.
No, they said that anti-Semitism originates in Europe and you countered that the text had anti-Semitism in it. You were clearly insinuating that the text is historical and disproved their argument.
Perhaps by sharing the fruits of the result, even if only afterwards?
I've only seen people use alexa to control the music player. Why do you thing they would be keen on paying for pro features while all they wanted since the very beginning was just not having to handle a remote or grab their phone to play music?
Ask HN: What are the most important skills for an engineer to develop?
It sucks that Chrome's permission model requires "read and change all data on all sites" for so many plugins. I don't mean to trivialize the difficulty in compartmentalizing permissions, but I wish we'd see some progress on it.
But that‘s not what happened according to the article.

> The problem is, there were no empty seats on the flight. So when he emerged from the lavatory and the plane began taxiing, flight attendants realized something was wrong, and the plane returned to the gate.
Start here and work backwards...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

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> there's something about the practice of software development that causes, or can cause mental illness.

I think i have figured this out :-) It is a combination of multiple factors; the major ones are listed below (note that the articles linked to are not specific to software developers but the factors in the studies can be extrapolated);

1) Biology - We Humans are evolved for Activity and Motion. Long periods of prolonged sitting (the norm in the software industry) and physical inactivity are injurious to both physical and mental health. There have been lots of studies validating this; here is one done during the covid-19 pandemic - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8190724/

2) Biology - Messing with our Circadian Rhythm ruins our health. We Humans are not evolved for staying indoors but need to be outdoors in direct sunlight at specific periods of time everyday. Most software folks hardly step out in the Sun during the day. The circadian clock is central to our physical/mental well being and needs to be respected. Here is Sachin Panda (one of the foremost experts on circadian rhythm) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fciGNBN0nKM

3) Psychology - Software Development Management/Processes/Methodologies have devolved into stimulating "constant chronic stress" as opposed to "episodic acute stress". There have been many studies linking the former with depression/anxiety disorder/etc; here is one - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3380803/

4) Lifestyle - Junk food, Energy drinks/Caffeine, Alcohol, Lack of proper nutrition, Too many distractions/context-switching, Too much exposure to artificially lit screens, Lack of sleep etc. etc. Here is a relevant study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10771855/

Finally, a pdf on implementing "Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes" by Roger Walsh is helpful Lifestyle and Mental Health - https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-66-7-579.pdf
No one checks id on domestic flights in the U.S. at the gate.
Automatic data generation and clean up in Postgres in 60 seconds
Are any of those rechargeable li-ion batteries sold at the drug store to put in your smoke detector? Industrial standards exist, but that's not the same as consumer standards.
Also,

> I think most people don't know that, and/or don't know how to separate the two.

I'm sure people will understand what "sign only" means when GPG prompts the user to choose what kind of keys to create.
This is quite interesting for the similarity hash function alone.

But the self-congratulatory tone from description is… unusual, to say the least.
Yeah, extremely bullshit on that takeover. Ruff and what I've seen so far of uv are very solid.
I mean, there's still a huge difference between somebody who buys a bunch of loop packs and just glues them together versus somebody who can sit down at the piano, improvise a new melody and then build an arrangement around it.
Bit of a 'fluffy' article, but this point grabbed my attention.

"The whole A.G.I. rhetoric is about creating God,” he said. “I don’t believe in God. I’m a strong atheist. So I don’t believe in A.G.I.” - Arthur Mensch

Er..what? God and AGI are related concerns? Seems a strange comment to make unless someone has some insight as to his meaning. Did he mean "people are saying AGI is a God"? Either way AGI is clearly not a God.
And SWT is built on calling system native components. Of course the “text editor” ends up being one large custom component that has nothing to gain from being in a “native” View.

All of that said, SWT and Eclipse do know that they are running on MacOS. It would be possible to mimic the same behavior, but that’s hard to do because there are so many minute details per platform.
Then justice system in those states are just archaic as this one too.
> easy as fuck

Behold, for the answer has revealed itself.
It's a story told to first-year law students: Look to your left, look to your right, only one of you three will become a lawyer.
That's my point. The ID is usually checked in other countries for internal flights. It's either a missing policy item or an oversight from the crew.
Sounds enlightened.

A lot of the comments here seem to use the term mental health days without irony quotes. A mental health day is not a psychological crisis. It is a plea for a timeout from the workaday grind.
You have to do both, on different branches. Rearchitect things in one branch, fix nothing but bugs in another. Forward port all the bugfixes you can from one to the other.

Though: version control ... 1992 ... haha.

Hey, that's when that unwieldy behemoth ClearCase was released.
Haha, same here. The UX of TLDRs…
While I don't use the ecosystem, I like the way Go approaches it with interfaces by being minimal, expressive, and flexible. It something works like something else according to a minimal specification, it's the same. There's no sealing off things or top-down mandates that require changes to other people's code. Rust traits aren't exactly the same because they require changes to everyone's code to follow an exact model that cannot be retrofitted to existing code without additional work. One downside (it may not be the case today) with the Go model is requiring a type to fulfill one or more interfaces requires additional hoops such as no-op init() interface assertions.
TypeScript template literal types can be used to type-check IDs with prefixes: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/39174998
When things fail, we gain little by punishing the person who was operating the system. Instead, we must ask, "why did the system allow this failure?" Fix that root cause, because the operator is not the root cause here.
Um if you need backlogging, as I noted, a Bouncer will provide. if they don't provide it for free hosting this on something like a digital ocean droplet can implement it, but then again, it can get expensive.

https://github.com/znc/znc
There's some significant geopolitical intrigue surrounding Cyprus -- probably the most obvious are its partition between between Turkey and Greece and its use as a tax haven by Russian oligarchs.
That's also censorship. He should not be silenced just because he lied. People should recognize him as a liar and stop trusting what he says instead.
Jaypee Group's failure is not the same as ghost cities of China. Ghost cities of China were fully built but people refused to move in. India has the opposite problem. Most people want to move in to the projects but the builder defaulted and could not complete the project.

India's half built cities are more of a financial fraud problem rather than people problem.

Not the same as China.
David Brooks is hired by the Elites to make a septic tank filled with sewage feel beautiful. It makes them feel good reading his poetry about the shit mountains they create.

Its not hard to find an army of middle managers that are chanting that Ted Lasso mantra - 'it’s about helping these young fellas be the best versions of themselves on and off the field'. Who doesn't feel good about watching a kid grow and bloom?

But then what happens when the army of Ted's have to layoff all those young fellas that are blooming in the abnormal environment that is corporate wonderland? There is nothing magical about every layoff season, and the number of decent middle managers I run into that are having total breakdowns watching what happens to their people.
Why not get the URL from Wikidata json instead of parsing Wikipedia pages? Some of these pages can be quite long, and you’re throwing away most of the data.
Why do you think that? What's the precedent?
It also creates a bad safety culture to over-punish mistakes, because then people don't report them for fear of being fired and the system can't be improved to minimize future mistakes.
It's not really worth the trade-off of slowing down boarding time by 2x just for the 1 in a million chance of someone sneaking onto a plane.
The comments here are giving me a great sense of how often people comment without reading the article. It's a minority, but significant.
I agree, the real deal would be an AI assistant that actively learns and remembers everything important about you, and can access and utilize all that information when having a conversation, while also having access to external services, your calendar and so on.

I wouldn't be comfortable running that as a cloud-service though. Should be open source and run at home on my own machine.
Everyone needs backlogging. If you open your phone, check a chat, but can only read messages sent at the exact moment you had the chat open, it doesn’t work.

Telling everyone to rent a VPS and run a server to hack in an essential feature is insane.
discussed previously:

https://lwn.net/Articles/962782/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636915
Played all of those. DM in ROTT was such a nice change of pace. Gameplay focused on fun and ridiculous nonsense. Such a great time.
My first computer fair ever I got to try a virtual reality helmet with Descent playing on it. It was never really my type of game but I remember thinking it was pretty cool. On the next booth though they were showing Full Throttle, now that blew my mind.
Once I accidentally got on the wrong plane, because two flights at adjacent gates were boarding at the same time. Apparently the boarding pass scanner didn't even check that the flight matched! It turned out that the person who actually had my seat on that flight was really late and so we didn't find out until just before the plane left the game. Fortunately I was able to rush over and make it onto my actual flight. But it would have been awkward if the other passenger hadn't made it at all...
Having drug trafficking laws to prevent (potential) destroyed families is one thing (though I think all drugs should be legal and no government should have right to dictate what you can put into your own body, but that's not the point at this thread), but regardless of the extent of the crime, I think death sentence is unacceptable in any civilized justice system.
There will never be a human-superior AGI until we agree on what that means.

For at least 80 years that has changed weekly and continues to do so.

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Hi, I am one of the authors of the paper. The previous works on fine-tuning and vulnerabilities fine-tuned a model to produce toxicity using ~10 samples and showed that even small samples would break the alignment. The primary objective of our paper is to show fine-tuning for specific use cases will also degrade the safety alignment which can have unintended consequences. This was shown using the methods described in the paper - which is part of our red teaming suite. Yes, we do have guardrails that is not described in detail in the paper but that is not the core message that we want to convey in the paper - "Fine-tuning reduces safety alignment to a great extent". In fact, we have in the works, where we show not just jailbreaking, but toxicitiy, bias also get amplified post fine-tuning.
That's true, but we're trying to change that at ParadeDB. Postgres is still way ahead of ClickHouse in terms of operational simplicity, ease of hiring for DBAs who are used to operating it at scale, ecosystem tooling, etc. If you can patch the speed and cost efficiency of Postgres for analytics to a level comparable to ClickHouse, then you get the best of both worlds
> Yep, they had obtained access to the repo, like the burglar had obtained access to the garage.

I'm not going to talk in analogies. There's no more depth at the stage that the source code is compromised, regardless of how many credentials are put where. It's sort of a matter of opinion. I mean this is what I am saying by make-believe: everything you say is, quite literally, a bunch of analogies, because there isn't any actual hard evidence to any of it, it is wood carving traditions. Of course I agree that they're good practices, but man, there are unlimited good security practices, and only limited money and time.

Another point of view is, it's easy to provide generalized, vendor-colored advice about credential security. You know, just buy AWS KMS whatever the fuck, right? It is hard to write software that accommodates arbitrary changes to authorization requirements & stories. There are a lot of commenters here giving these Sisense people a hard time, and I doubt they're stupid, more so that they are really unlucky.

I feel like the comments miss the forest for the trees. Most startups have admin roles, and if you're using something like Next.js, Elixir, Ruby on Rails or Go, your application's API methods have ad-hoc, in-source policy enforcement and definitions.

This is what happened here: the developer's GitHub credentials are an Admin role. It could happen in any scheme. Can you develop an application without an admin role? Not a SaaS. Now you should see why it's okay for Postgres to have all its source code open, but not your SaaS company's, for the purposes of security.
https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory plus backlogging, I do appreciate that it's a module and not, you know, Standard.
That sounded unbelievable, but Wikipedia supports it[0]. Last US federal execution in 2003-03-18 was followed by 2020-07-14. The first person executed in 2020 had been on death row for 21 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_by_the...
Yes. 15+ year zsh user here. When dealing with bash, try to sneak in PackageKit-command-not-found and bash-completion.

And when running a shell, do it like this:

docker run user/image:tag -it --rm bash -li

Also, zshdb, bashdb, and shellcheck are good stuff™ too.

My mantra is all programs and widely-used company tools should have current man pages and shell completions. The whole "Go look at a web page" for "help" is slow, distracting, and lazy.
Patents for Startups (2017)
It’d be nice if chrome users could manually override the plugin permissions (downward only) in the browser gui and see if an extension still works as needed. Even better if those permissions would sync between browsers.
It feels a lot like “the last 10% is 99% of the work”. On paper matrix seems like a pretty perfect discord replacement. I think we just don’t realise the incredible feat of engineering that makes discord just work all the time.