skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof, that "don't" in the code comment within the single quotes was causing your single quoted command to end, causing the command to be parsed incorrectly in your shell. I wonder if that was the only issue originally because it actually looks pretty good to me. Regardless, I can tell you with confidence it would take much less time for me to construct a working version based on the first input than starting from RTFM, despite already having some jq experience myself. Was this 3.5 or 4?
norway isn't in the EU
And not everyone is you, either.

OP was saying about devs needing to build their product/applications/websites on underpowered hardware, presumably as a way to have the same experience as most people. That's reasonable, provided that this is the context where people will use your product/application/website. The context you are giving (slow phones on spotty connections) is so specific that becomes irrelevant for any project manager that could be interested in evaluating the merits of the claim.

So, yeah, I don't know why you seem so upset about my question, but if you detach yourself from the case, you'd see that your response to "are slow phones really an issue?" does not make a strong argument.
I like the quote in your about @ Dang. Very helpful:

"Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it—the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist's job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression."
Marion Milner, 'The Toleration of Conflict', Occupational Psychology, 17, 1, January 1943
One of the arguments was that you improve your insulin sensitivity because by limiting your feeding window, you are not constantly eating, snacking for 16 hours a day and causing multiple spikes.
Don't you find it a bit frightening that this tech is daily giving a smaller and smaller subset of people in the world the unilateral ability to project their will onto the world? At least if they tried to draft in an unjust war, the people could withhold their physical support. This was pretty effective during the Vietnam area, but it's a bargaining chip we've lost.

As we saw with 702, we really have very little leverage left in what our gov does anymore, the threat of being voted out even carries little power, exactly because they're systematically removing humans from every loop they can for the purpose of working unilaterally even when--perhaps especially when--it's against the will of the people. The spooks themselves have literally said exactly as much in their fight against privacy.

To me, the latest 702 is more terrifying than any adversary. When we, who the government should be beholden to, cannot even know the text of the laws which apply to us, it really puts a fine point on how the those who run our government view themselves in relation to its citizenry.

"The liberties of people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -Patrick Henry
What are some of the main use cases for this project?
Are you the first owner?
Have you watched the Black Mirror episode in question (S1E3)? Because the point of it was the tech itself and had nothing to do with sharing or the cloud.
But you didn’t have a blog post AND a LinkedIn announcement
This... Is a good thing? Time goes on, production scales up, and and things get cheaper, no? Shame to see the Elon hate on HN, he has made an exceptional product that is kick-starting the green energy revolution.
rr: Lightweight Recording and Deterministic Debugging
Indeed. Doing this to a game console is more "badass".
> If you think Cloudflare is mangling traffic

I'm more concerned with the data they receive being leaked or sold.

And by most websites I guess I meant large ones that people frequent every day, because these days it's almost impossible to have any sort of useful DDoS protection without using such a service.
Author of rem here.

Come join in on development!

It's MIT Licensed.

I also kicked off a cross-platform version in rust https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/xrem which is earlier in development and could use even more help.
Based on the institutional chart, 27 million shares owned by this investor represent less than 1% of shares outstanding.
What about motorcycles? Or pedal powered bikes but with boomboxes? The term peacock comes to mind.
> Partly this is due to the concentration of wealth, inaccessible to taxing.

This has nothing to do with it. Contractors cost notably more, so if the goal was economizing it’d be an obvious step to cut out the middlemen by hiring staff directly.

The problem is that there’s an entire political ideology holding that government is inherently wasteful and its adherents will oppose any attempt to track market salaries because that allows them both to say they’re saving money at the time and later to cite the struggling/failed project as proof that they were right.
I was in iirc junior high when that happened. Cell phones were banned through high school, nonetheless. I think by the very end they were allowed but only in lockers, never to be seen, and they better never make a sound, mostly as an accommodation for sports kids who’d be around for practice and such after school was out. It didn’t become normal until after smartphones, some time in the 20-teens.
While this brings to mind that scene [1] from Steve Carrel's "Space Force" show, you can't blame the scorpion for stinging you if you give him a ride on your back.

The dependency on (pretty much) a single vendor across the entire military organization is such a monumental single point of failure, I can't imagine what level of obtuse bureaucracy led them there. It seems self-inflicted at best; if it wasn't MS it would've been some other corp.

IMO the military (especially given their incredible size and access to resources) should have 100% rolled their own IT solutions from first principles, and built upon that.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ
A previous coworker-friend who eventually became a manager practiced a shortened version of this, which I called an "open-face shit sandwich". He loved the term and adopted it.
That quote is already a quote in the article. The article author himself writes:

> What is really happening?

> • Programmers were typing on and off all day. Those 30 minutes are to recreate the net result of all the work they wrote, un-wrote, edited, and reworked through the day. It is not all the effort they put in, it is only the residue of the effort.

So at least there the article agrees with you.
> To bad modern Linux systems only support UTF-8 locales.

Do they? On my system:

$ grep _ /etc/locale.gen | grep -v UTF-8 | wc -l
183

That's 183 non-UTF-8 locales that are available on my system. OK, I don't have any non-UTF-8 locales currently configured for use, but I don't have to install anything extra for them to be available. Just uncomment some configuration lines and re-run `locale-gen`.

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/locales/locale-gen.8.en...
I mean, if the CEO of the television company had tweeted:

> The FSD price will continue to rise as the software gets closer to full self-driving capability with regulatory approval. It that point, the value of FSD is probably somewhere in excess of $100,000.

Then, eh, they might have a case.
From my time working in defense contracting, quite a lot of the software was open source, built on open source components (just like everything else) or even hosted on official military GitHub repos. Code written by the (federal) government itself cannot even be copyrighted (in the US). Obviously you are not going to find the classified stuff on GitHub, but even there it was very common for the government to take all of the source code from one contractor and hand it to another one to work on. You also design your systems so that as much as possible can be unclassified, because unclassified development is much, much easier.
Unfortunately what such analysis ignores is that a lot of this is a function of the person receiving feedback, not the one giving it, and so no matter how you hyper-optimize it, it won't help if the receiver is hell bent on getting upset / offended.

I live in an apartment community and we have assigned parking. Some of these parking spots have pillars next to them so it can be a bit hard to park if the car adjacent to yours isn't parked correctly. I am in one such spot. The guy in the neighboring spot technically parks correctly since it's within the lines, but the spots are somewhat narrow, and if he leaves no padding, then it becomes tricky for me to park my car since I have a pillar on the other side. On the other hand, he has a compact car and plenty of space on the other side.

After a few weeks of struggling to avoid the pillar, I left a polite note on his car requesting him to please leave a bit more padding on the right side if possible. I even acknowledged that he wasn't parking incorrectly, and that it would just make my life much easier if he could park just as bit to the left within his spot.

He left back a rude note on my car, basically asking me to pound sand and to not bother him and he could park anywhere he wanted as long as it was within the lines and to go talk to the leasing office if I didn't like my spot.

What do you do to difficult folks like these?
Academia can be pretty great if you can live with economic uncertainty, non-unreasonable pay and aren't interested in careerism or that your work has any real impact outside handful of other academics.

There's of course a lot of bullshit, but you can sort of choose the tradeoff between bullshit and career development/stability. If you're OK with a high chance of never getting a permanent job, in many places you can do practically whatever you want.

And if you e.g. know how to code, you can usually go to the industry churn as a backup when your grant streak runs out.

But yes, in the bigger picture, the latter are the sustainable course of action. There's only so many, or rather frew, grants.
Ask him If he is a techpriest, or the "personification" of the machine spirit
The Next Great Scientific Theory Is Hiding Inside a Neural Network
The audits in question are financial. There’s no doubt some overlap with security – e.g. failing to replace out of date software due to financial constraints exposes them to risk – but it’s not a simple relationship.
Decaying plants emit carbon. The extra nitrogen would just be changing is the length of the give-your-carbon-back-to-the-atmosphere queue. It's negative feedback: stable.
This game looks very low budget and simplistic. Perhaps with higher budget one could get to 99.9% and then one would have a proper simulation of the jobs of ATCs.
Then you hook in your AI prove that it can perform. Then you replace 99.9% of the human ATCs with this AI.

simple as.
It's about an old series of hacks between 2010 and 2015
Sometimes I wonder what kind of a world we'd be living in if places like Flatiron School and the various bootcamps taught Elixir instead of Ruby.

Also, "lorry" is such a great word, too bad there's no use for it in the US.
Yes, exactly. Homelessness is to a large extent mental illness, specifical mental illness so severe that it alienates everyone around you.

Blaming homelessness on a lack of social funding is just severely misinformed. But it is a very pleasant lie, because you can then imagine that a solution actually exists "if only...".
You don't get the "run everywhere" ability that threejs has. It appears you "fighting the js ecosystem" comes from lack of experience and familiarity

I recently tried Metal a bit. Some features are only available for visionOS (the headset) and not iOS or macOS and vice versa.
Show HN: AppView 1.0.0 is released Instrument, Observe, Secure your deployments
AppView is an open source, runtime-agnostic instrumentation utility for any Linux command or application. It helps users to explore, understand, and gain visibility with no code modification.

With one instrumentation approach for all runtimes, AppView offers ubiquitous, unified instrumentation of any unmodified Linux executable.

With AppView 1.0.0 comes the new threat detection logic that allows users to capture security-related events. Is your application accessing secure files? Is it making connections it shouldn't be? Is it exfiltrating data over DNS or is GOT poisoning in effect?

Other features of the 1.0.0 release include the ability to:

- Generate metrics on process and application performance.
- Generate events, reporting on network, file, logs, console messages and http/s activity.
- Capture (decrypted) payload data without the need for keys.
- Generate a stack trace, and a core dump when an application crashes.
- Generate network flow information.
- Create a report on unique file and network activity.
- Install AppView in a Kubernetes cluster.
- Secure file and network access in an application.
- Instrument both static and dynamic executables.
- Attach to processes while they are running or start when the process does.
- Normalize and forward metrics and events, in real time, to remote systems.
- Summarize metrics and detect protocols.

We are looking for users and contributors alike.
I hope you realize that this is essentially an argument for anarchy, as you may substitute for "space stuff" any of the many worthwhile things that free markets don't adequately incentivize, which is to say everything a government does. So-called "free markets" are not even self-hosting, as without the quite substantial socialist investment that a government represents, the entire system would rapidly collapse into warlord feudalism.
You'd be surprised at how little cloud vendors give a shit about security internally. Story time: I recently went ahead and implemented key rotation for one of our authz services, since it had none, and was reprimanded for "not implementing it like Google". Fun fact: Google's jwks.json endpoint claims to be "certs" from the path (https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs). They are not certs - there is no X.509 wrapper, no stated expiration, no trust hierarchy. Clients are effectively blind when performing token validation with this endpoint, and it's really shitty.

Other nonsense I've seen: leaking internally signed tokens for external use (front-channel), JWTs being validated without a kid claim in the header - so there's some sketchy coupling going on, skipping audience validation, etc...

Not much surprises me anymore when it comes to this kinda stuff - internally, I suspect most cloud providers operate like "feature factories" and security is treated as a CYA/least-concern thing. Try pushing for proper authz infrastructure inside your company and see what kinda support you'll get.
I build a lot of stuff and forget why I did things the way I did.

You can do things like find the point in history where you fixed a bug and go watch yourself debug and put in the fix.

Pretty wild. It makes a lot more sense once you experience getting the value.

Personally I hope Apple adds the feature natively to the OS at some point. They're plenty experienced to build it themselves over there, but maybe having a reference implementation will encourage them to give it a shot.
This is really helpful advice—thanks for sharing it.
Changelog-Driven Releases
rewind.ai is another example of this, but their recent pivot into cloud only storage for this and renaming to limitless.ai makes me glad that open source stuff like this popping up so you are not forced into a cloud storage situation. And I say this as a paying customer who will probably stop being one.
Oxford has two MPs - one Labour and one Lib Dem. But in a town as expensive as Oxford, there's probably lots of voters keen on lowering housing costs.
Considering everyone that bought FSD before this drop still has not been delivered a working product that was promised, they should be within their rights to get the difference back imo.

If you buy something and it goes on sale before it’s delivered almost every retailer will price match the difference if you ask.
This is so beautiful I could almost weep.

With this, we can proceed - easily! - to attain something I have long wanted: to replace all Linux userspace with Lua-only tooling. Yes, Lua all the things in userspace.

I know, "why would I do that?", well, because there is a thing I've wanted for 40 years of computing, and that is a very, very powerful computer that only requires me to use one (oh, okay, two or three..) languages.

I grew up in computers that booted directly to a single language (BASIC), and would let you do everything you need in that and only that. Imagine replacing all userspace tooling with a lua implementation. Yes, insane! But imagine the development flow once you get some good stuff ported/ffi'ed! Having the kernel interfaces available now, is just .. candy.

I would love to have this for a Linux distro, even experimental, even just as a toy, to boot directly into a LOAD81[1] interface that has a whole lotta new Lunatik in it .. I could imagine pushing LOAD81 very hard into a new OS paradigm with this. Wow!

[1] = antirez' LOAD81, which I have long thought of as a fun way to build a new userspace front-end: https://github.com/antirez/LOAD81.git
Unlike Israel, Iran is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. Meaning that if Iran wants to pursue nuclear weapons (which, to be honesty, they probably do) they have a long way to go, both politically and engineering wise. It also means there are many ways to prevent Iran ever getting one (the Iran nuclear deal was a good example until Trump cancelled it).

Israel, however, is not a member of the Non-proliferation deal, and very likely are own a few nuclear weapons. If anyone is are afraid of Nuclear Weapons, they should not support Israel under any circumstances.
My assumption is that the revenue figure is not exclusively the US government spending. Otherwise what percentage of their yearly revenue is security services to all the other countries as well as businesses in the world? The US government is of course a large customer, but a considerable part of the world runs on windows and other Microsoft products.
This was my last response in May 2023 when I reached out to him, hoping he was OK!

***

Hi Charles!

All good here. I have been heads down building a new project - hence the lack of posts recently. Thanks for reaching out!

Ben

***
Ha - I remember Chequered Flag - very much a non-racing racing game...
cripes what country is that
> I don't even agree with Dennett

That's obvious. But I do.

However, it's also obvious that the Dennett I agree with is not the Dennett that you disagree with. And what's more, it's obvious that we're not going to resolve that here. We agree he's a famous philosopher. That's enough for here.
We got outsteped by C and C++ industry adoption, followed by doing everything in interpreted languages.

Finally 30 years later, the pendulum is turning around.
2 and it will always be 2 with the current hardware stack.
> And if it were ten open-source projects […]

The alternative wouldn’t be to use a smattering of open-source stuff, it would be to go with a different cloud provider like AWS or Google.

> Do you really think the alternatives are more diligent […]

That’s what the CISA report suggested.

I’m not shitting on MS, I just don’t want foreign adversaries to be able to pick apart our IT systems like vultures.
Yup, pretty sure he'd roll with

"The 'koin' is fixed. Bet Tails."
SeL4: The proof of functional correctness for the 64-bit Arm architecture
Dan Kaminsky once showed me a volume renderer he was noodling with, but instead of MRI data, he had loaded frames from video footage of an explosion. I remember it having a 4D feel to it.
>Well, sort of

All that's fine---but I think you would agree that Fermat's last theorem isn't true by virtue of its utility for counting sheep or anything like that. Similarly, I don't think that the fact the physical world exists in the manner suggested by sense-data is true by virtue of its utility for preventing us from dying.

>The thing that encodes propositions doesn't have to be a human brain, of course. It could be an alien brain, or a computer, perhaps even a thermostat (that one is debatable). But it has to be something.

Are you saying that if there were no humans (or anything capable of encoding propositions) to conceive of it, the proposition "the earth is round" wouldn't be true---in other words, it would not be true that the earth is round? That seems to defy common sense.
Prompting in the Age of LLMs
JEDEC DDR5 Spec Update Has All It Needs to End Rowhammer: Will It?
I own several Teslas, and have a trial of FSD. It is in no way worth $8k or $100/month as long as I have to fully supervise it. I am not interested in paying for Tesla to attempt to justify an unrealistic valuation based on “we’re a robotaxi company.” My auto wipers don’t even work on my “legacy” 2018 Model S.

The charging network and vehicle platform are exceptional. The “self driving” is driver assist and only an assist.
Study shows more than half of global infection
> Put in this way, we should naturally ask the question, are women in all cultures as averse to computers as in American culture?

Agreed, that's a good way to get closer to the truth. I'm afraid I don't know, but at least in my own experience it is also true in Malaysian, Indian, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and I'm sure more cultures that I can't think of off the top of my head. Again, this is from my _personal_ observations, but it's 100%, which has been enough for me not to dig any further and conclude it's true.

The next point would be why. Is it purely biological, purely cultural, or a mixture? I've explained why I think it's mostly biological, but happy to be proven wrong.

>> No amount of downvotes will change facts.

> I’m with you there. That begs the question: what are the facts?

I was referring to the "woman like people, men like things" fact. There are lots of studies on this, and their conclusions are often dismissed as sexist. To have a happy society, we need to agree that "equal" does mean "the same".
https://web.archive.org/web/20240421152037/https://www.newyo...

https://archive.ph/cCpHU
I'll never delete the Exit Strategy app, which is no longer in the App Store, for two features: 1. the "neighborhood map" for each station, showing the actual extent of the station underground, and 2. the app's main feature: diagrams showing which car to be in – and which door to use! – to exit right in front of the turnstiles at each station on each line.
IMO that is a more fundamental argument about removing information from the anxious and jealous who cannot handle the truth. Similar to medical paternalism where the doctor has to decide which test results to tell patients about. Which I understand, but can also be used to go full ham into china style totalitarian censorship regime for the 'peoples own good'.

Also you might not realize how much the hard of hearing, deaf, and other neurodiverse ADHD types would find a memory prosthetic like that very useful unless you are in their very own shoes, for possibly years.
Has anyone built something like this using accessibility APIs instead of (or in addition to) OCR? It seems like a waste to OCR everything when you could just get the text directly from the accessibility APIs. Also seems like potentially a good way to connect LLMs to UIs, and something like this would be the way to collect the training data.
Climate Doom Is Out. 'Apocalyptic Optimism' Is In.