skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open Source != GPL. Nor on Github. I don't know what the parent fully meant, but I do know that some agencies have full access to some Microsoft source code.

From where I sit, I find it absurd that everything we use isn't open source. Again, not free, but the code given to purchasers.

You don't need closed source to protect IP, and the proof is in all of these API lawsuits, and copyright law.

I don't want my missiles to not have code I cannot edit, and stepping back from the top secret sphere, tangential I am appalled at how crappy car firmwares are closed source.

In the old days, a country's national transport agencies could look at evey linkage, every rod, every part of a car design.

Now 90% of the design is hidden. And with electric cars, it's even more firmware.

And the idea that OTA updates are a thing for cars. The madness. The absolute madness.

How much do you want to bet that charging firmwares are remotely updatable?

Now imagine that 9am on Monday, every electric car explodes?

Even today, that would mean an immense number of houses on fire. How could the fire department handle it?

And how could it be handled as the fires spread? And what if lots of other infra goes up?

And that's today. What about when 90% of transportationn is electric? Even if not a single house or building burned, or person was hurt,
how would you replace all those buses, trucks, delivery vehicles, and cars? As COVID showed us, you cannot ramp up and down overnight.

And what if it happened to all our allies? Would they still sell part to us?

What of all the tractors are electric, and we miss corn and wheat planting season?

My point in this tangent is... no one is even looking at the important bits. And to reiterate, how much do you want to bet charging firmwares are remotely updated? Really, they should be air gapped from the entire rest of the car.

Letting potential hackers have access in this way, is just plain lazy and reckless.
I went the opposite way (in the UK) and moved from development (mainly C#) to lorry driving (everything from 12T rigids to 44T artics) however in my free time I’m enjoying developing (some RoR, some Golang) more than when I was paid to do it.

Although I’m working more hours (average 50-52 hours a week compared to 38-40), I’m also much better compensated doing HGV driving than I ever was as a developer (although that may reflect more on my skills/level as a developer than anything else)
You shouldn't run a BSD on a PC
“All”
Can we be absolutely sure the "normal resolution mode" is always used? I'm happy to accept that impact might be not as severe as stated, but to me it's very scary that a simple nslookup for google.com returns the IP address of fritz.box.
> "We basically gave descriptions of all our coffee types and their flavors to AI and instructed it to create a new exciting blend,"

Smart business move. Would make sense for any B&M to be doing something like this just for the novelty factor/potential news writeup.
With self-driving cars the nominal situation does not require hard AI. I remember sitting in a TGIF back in 2012, when Waymo was still called Google Chauffeur, and they projected what the self-driving car sees as it drives down a road. It's just boxes of potential hazards, detected largely by LIDAR but backed up by cameras and traditional computer-vision approaches.

The non-exceptional case for self-driving was a solved problem in 2012. My boss rode in a self-driving car at the time; they were available for beta testing by Googlers in Mountain View then. Heck, this is what L3 self-driving is, and is offered on the market now by Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Kia, and others.
After 500 LoRAs made, here is the secret (2023)
In short, the Israeli military is using a wide array of tech, including AI, services from tech companies and social media posts to create a “hit list” of questionable quality, of people who may or may not be active combatants. For example:

> A young Palestinian man who requested to be identified only as “A.F.” due to safety concerns, for instance, was seriously injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential house in Gaza City’s Al-Sabra neighbourhood.

> The house was targeted shortly after A.F. posted a video clip on Instagram, which is owned by Meta, in which he joked that he was in a “field reconnaissance mission”.

> His relative told Euro-Med Monitor that A.F. had merely been attempting to mimic press reporters when he posted the brief video clip on his personal Instagram account. Suddenly, however, A.F. was targeted by an Israeli reconnaissance plane while on the roof of the house.

...and:

> A separate Israeli bombing on 16 April claimed the lives of six young Palestinians who had gathered to access Internet services. One of the victims was using a group chat on WhatsApp—a Meta subsidiary—to report news about the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

> The deceased man’s relative, who requested anonymity due to safety fears, informed Euro-Med Monitor that the victim was near the Internet access point when the group was directly hit by a missile from an Israeli reconnaissance plane. The victim was voluntarily sharing news in family and public groups on the WhatsApp application about the Israeli attacks and humanitarian situation in Sheikh Radwan.
I see and hear about the mistakes that my coworkers make that don't make the news, and I still have no problem flying. There are many layers of safety including the systems and pilots onboard the planes, and statistics still show it is still safer than driving.

Lowering standards is definitely the wrong way to go. Increasing pay to attract and keep good controllers is the better route.
The recent discussion around BloomTech/Lambda School makes me very wary about income share agreements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067939
There's a couple places in the book Skunk Works where the author laments the government's procurement strategy for planes that always ensured different manufacturers got at least some contracts so they wouldn't go out of business and leave the government reliant on just one supplier. He derided it as a form of socialism! Alas, it was a reasonable approach.
I honestly believe it does depend on the voter. For 2) Conservatives would never be able to even if they wanted this, however labour have the option of picking say Oxford or the home counties to do this in where they have very few voters to lose in the first place. They would still get in on a national election.
https://www.mengelke.de/Projekte/FritzBox-JSTool allow changing the domain of the fritz box routers.

It should be enough to fix that issue
This is mostly nonsense; the work is being done by this assumption that is mentioned quickly in passing:

> Let's suppose you can be sure that one of the three particular Sticky/Switchy/Steady hypotheses in Figures 1–3 are true, but you can't be sure which.

In reality, if you don't know what's true, you also don't know that it must be one of a small set of convenient models.
I made a Chrome extension that scrapes businesses spending $$$$ on floppy ads
I started an agency a couple of years ago. I noticed that the businesses I scrape from Google Maps and Apollo.io are not looking for my solutions...

So for me, the solution was to make a chrome extension that scrapes businesses that are in pain and need my solution.

That's why I came up with Scrabio. I now can scrape businesses that are spending thousands of dollars on ads that don't have great ROI. I know they are already in pain and need my help.

Check it out!
The Pentagon can’t even pass an audit for the past 6 years, but yeah Microsoft is the national security threat.
is there some tangible news that it's coming?
Weird miss to not call it Lunatix.
This is actually not a bad idea for an international peace treaty. If you make weapons, they must be open source. If the real power in these tools is the secrecy behind their design and implementation, seems like a great way to suck the power out of them.
I kinda wonder what will happen to TSLA if Musk were to just _walk away_. Which, to be clear, he can. And whether that'd be a net positive to "Tesla's largest retail shareholder".
Yeah, for me it's more than fast enough except for the Microsoft pylance and C# extensions, both of which I really need to feel productive, and both of which (especially pylance) make VS Code much slower and buggier. It has been getting bad enough that I've been looking around for other editors, but as far as I can tell VS Code really wins on having all the language features, plus copilot and git integration in a single place.
TL;DR - pages and pages of word salad and pointless math which boils down to – the gambler's fallacy is a fallacy if the coin is unbiased, but maybe it isn't.
All these rants are a classic case of some sort of emotional investment that isn't about evidence. Your links and evidence either don't apply to what you're talking about or they are vague references to "find it yourself" in something large.

First, you are now ignoring your own claims that "amortization is broken" when your own link just showed normal doubling and I asked what was supposed to be wrong. Your link before was about a trivial copying attribute not the doubling of a vector's size.

There's a CppNow talk from 2018 or so in which Arthur demonstrates a 3x perf difference.

A "3x perf difference" compared to what? Prove it and link a timestamp. This barely makes sense. It's a vague claim with vague evidence.

It's WG21, the C++ Standards Committee.

Now your evidence that "fixing this" (no specific of what 'this' means) is linking the entire 2020 iso C++ plan? This is one step removed from the classic "I'm not going to do your homework, google it yourself".

I think the problem is on your end, C++ demands a very high price in terms of safety, ergonomics, learning curve - and to some people that means it ought to be really good. Otherwise why such a high cost? Those are the same people who figure if they paid $500 for a T-shirt that must mean it's a good T-shirt. Nah, it just means you're a sucker.

This seems like some personal frustration. When I write C++ it's very simple and direct. Small classes, value semantics, vectors, hash maps and loops.

Then your 'answer' is that nothing is good enough and nothing works. You say C++ is a bad choice for codecs, yet half the planet is using video codecs written in C++ all day every day. You ignore browsers and games being written in C++ too. You have no solutions, it's just that everything sucks but you can't be bothered to even write your own vector.

This is just your frustrations wrapped in rants with some hand waving non evidence to act like it's based on something other than emotion.
currently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40101911
Even just watching VATSIM YouTubers will expose you to plenty of ATC jargon
Larger ships carry more people and can thus sink with more, let's cut the ships in half?

Point being, there's a lot of infrastructure that kinda doesn't make sense split up. If you want resiliency, build a second system in parallel not make management of an existing one times more expensive.
Think big: you are the universe
It's pretty egotistical to think that the universe was built to give us a purpose. We're part of the universe, situated squarely between the biggest and the smallest. If there is a grand design, we are part of it, not its beneficiaries. Now consider this: we have the uncommon ability to ponder purpose and meaning. We can find purpose and meaning in nearly anything, perhaps even create it.

Take it a step further. Our perception probably filters the universe heavily. Through this filter, we become one of the architects of the universe. Look at how we have changed our world. Our thoughts and actions help to sculpt the narrative of existence. Just by thinking about a better way to do things, for example, we help to redefine the cosmos, or at least, our small corner of it. We are a part of the universe that gives it meaning.

There is hope in this thought. No longer is the question, "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?" viewed in the same way. We can not claim that we are the only progenitor of universal meaning, but we certainly are one of them. That is tremendous responsibility, one that makes us useful and critically important in the grand scheme of things. It's also a clue to our potential future: if we are one of the purpose-defining elements of the universe, then the setback of scale is probably only temporary.

Think big: you are the universe.
Depends. I haven’t come up with the rubric yet but it’s something like “don't abstract out functionality across data types”. I see this all the time: “I did this one thing here with data type A, and I’m doing something similar with data type B; let’s just create some abstraction for both of them!” Invariably it ends up collapsing, and if the whole program is constructed this way, it becomes monstrous to untangle, like exponentially complicated on the order of abstractions. I think it’s just a breathtaking misunderstanding of what DRY means. It’s not literally “don’t repeat yourself”. It’s “encapsulate behaviors that you need to synchronize.”

Also, limit your abstractions’ external knowledge to zero.
Then it'd be very purposeful, the idea of this kind of patch would be that someone Googling random older PG answers to fix a random issue wouldn't be tempted to just issue an ALTER command, think the issue is fixed and then find out after a restart/rebuild that the fix is not there any more.

This not a security patch but more of a safeguard against hapless idiots manhandling themselves without resistance in an unsupported case.
A whole lot of words just to say that you can make any assumptions you want and get any predictions you want, in the face of ambiguous unreliable information.
But the author doesn't even realize that's what they are arguing.

I'm surprised that HN is so quiet on Sunday morning that 8 pts is enough to make #5 frontpage post for an article that fails the Wikipedia Test (”is the article better than the Wikipedia post on the same topic?”)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
But is it convenient? Really? I've tried this stuff and it's been without exception a subpar and slow experience. I can see how it could be a great experience, it's just that it's always contracted out, framework upon framework shovelware. ad infested if you're lucky.

The only upside I can find, and it correlates with what crowd is positive, that it suits those that really want to avoid human interaction.
That matches my observation on Windows 11. Looking at wireshark while doing the resolution I see the following: Normal queries never use the the suffix. nslookup does, which the resolver answers with NXDOMAIN

Fritz box allows you to capture traffic towards the ISP too and there I never see such a suffix query in either case. So I assume the fritz resolver directly responds to those.

That does not really match the behavior described in the OP but I would be very surprised if the behavior described there wouldn't have lead to a big outcry much earlier.
This is really cool! I’m super impressed at how quickly it loads on my phone.

Really great idea to compress the spatial data into Paths.

I would suggest using Natural Earth data instead of OSM so you could drop the ODbL license.

It’d also be really cool if you included the tool that converts the spatial data into Paths.
Penzai: JAX research toolkit for building, editing, and visualizing neural nets
Exactly. The code is the feedback loop.
Where did you find a modem card?

I tried to do that a few months ago too, as I'm already running a homelab server 24/7, but couldn't find any cards supporting vdsl nor cable

Or do you mean just as a wan connection/router? In that case... Sure, you can do that. I just don't see the value in that, personally.
In reference to 2. - I'd say that more reflects where you live as opposed to most people being 'upset/miserable/hate their lives'. I don't experience that whatsoever where I live (Santa Barbara, CA) or where I grew up (Boise, ID).
To be honest it sounds like America is just starting to experience face to face customer service like the rest the world has always had.

Describe the above scenario to any Brit and we would say “well of course” and they would probably then follow it up with how we would rather honest surliness than the fake saccharin type service of America.
And it could be biased in either direction, so no one knows anything.
Management tolerates the rule employee because that managers manager is being rude to them an likely spewing a stream of vitriol that is tantamount to 'lower costs, increase sales'. This goes back into the opening statement on point number 2, the business does not exist to server customers, the business exists to serve the investor class with higher profits. And while you would think that better customer service would lead to higher profits quite often that is not true. Instead the business starts operating in wild swings where you get good, but higher paid employees. Well that's too expensive so they get rid of them, and for a time the business is more profitable until the customer get tired of the bullshit. But at the end of the day the upper management sees the spreadsheet that shows that highest profitability occurs after getting rid of high paid staff.
Localtunnel – Expose Yourself
Oh neat, had this guy as a professor for "Linux Kernel Programming". Good to see he's still doing cool stuff
> Airlines take a lot of heat for poor customer service, but most customers will purchase the cheapest possible ticket no matter what.

When I fly these days, all of biz/first class is full. I'm starting to think they need more higher end seats.
Will do, just wanted to make sure you realized it wasn't that small award feature we did :)
I mean exactly what I said: anyone who has this fear, which is untethered from reality, should not trust their intuition about what mechanisms are important for safety.
That's all fine and good but I don't want missiles with code you can edit. I didn't vote for you, nor do I trust you.
The illusion works even when the "red" items are blobs, not strawberries, so I think this has more to do with color differentiation than the actual objects in the image.
I love that I didn't have to translate this to know what it said
Why does my 2014 Camaro change to Spanish
When I drive by the Intel museum in Palo Alto, my 2014 Camaro's firmware changes to spanish. Anyone know why?

For clarity, I've driven all over the US and Canada. It only happens there.
? I was quite certain they have one after all these years.
> It's a problem with Unix filenames where the encoding is just a convention

UNIX filenames are NOT necessarily printable text, they're byte strings. Don't treat them as printable text. They're sequences of bytes not containing 0x00 or 0x2F, but with no encoding.

Same for Windows registry keys. Don't mistake byte strings for text.

Text is a byte string with an encoding which describes which byte values are valid and which characters each byte (or sequence of bytes) corresponds to. If the encoding information is discarded, it stops being text and becomes just a byte string.
1) Because vast hordes of people have become horribly confused about the purpose of business, so when they start optimizing for "making money" they get everything that is actually the purpose wrong.

2) Because people need jobs, apparently, so vast hordes of people who shouldn't be in a particular job (because they don't care about it) are doing it anyway, with predictable outcomes. Certainly related to #1.

3) Because mass consumers don't care, and if your decision-making capacity has been shattered by #1 and #2, you won't care, either, because ultimately you don't know what you're doing, you don't know why, and you don't care.

4) Humans do not know how to scale. This exacerbates the above.

5) Stupidity is a much bigger problem than you can probably recognize. This exacerbates the above.
Where you live is highly correlated with cost of living. That cost of living affects those at the bottom of the economic ladder the most.
Here's the fixed version with improved style and grammar:

I blame it on the influencers. People aged 18-26 used to work in retail or customer service. It sucked, but it was the only option for talented individuals. So you gained a varied experience. The pay was also enough to provide a living wage.

Nowadays, the pay is meager, so capable people find opportunities elsewhere. Those who are left behind are bombarded with messages like, "You're wasting your life," and "You could be a travel blogger," etc.

In many countries, instead of customer service or retail, numerous people have turned to delivery services since they allow more autonomy and no physical contact with customers. I actually think social media has made the human experience worse rather than improved it.
> What are uses cases for such a 'misguided' domain?

Anyone who has invoice.zip on an email should see that as a clickable link if the url detection is right

Then for example you put a file on / of your domain that downloads a malicious .zip file

See where this is going?
The era of global botnets, worms, and ransomware can be credited to Microsoft, as well.

Lax concern and slow turnaround for CVEs, poor update performance that led to much of the world turning off automatic updates, and updates being blocked on non-activated installs, if they weren't just easily broken gave root (literally) to fleets of vulnerable internet connected Windows systems being leveraged against the world at large for roughly a decade until Windows 10 brought (and forced) endpoint security practices into the 21th century.

It's reassuring that their official stance hasn't changed; "This is how big we are, and it'd be a real tragedy if we couldn't afford to stop something like what we caused before from happening again...", instead of being sued into responsibility by the world at large.

(Uh oh, not 5 minutes in and it looks like Microsoft PR is already here to downvote the trouble away.)
I wonder, seing the example of north korea and more recently russia, why don't everyone consider this a top worldwide priority. For some reason, only israel and the US ( and some arab countries) are worried. But once iran has the nuclear bomb, you can expect their nasty influence on the region to increase ten fold.

I don't understand how someone would take any chance to live in a world where a terrorist nation run by religious fanatics have the nuclear bomb.
If your own engineers and scientists already have access to almost all knowledge in their field, it seems unlikely that an invention would be so novel that they couldn't reverse engineer it.

You could have military engineering kept to a more select group, but independent reinvention by researchers or commercial entities should void any secrecy. Otherwise you get silliness like imported Chinese commodity thermal cameras being better than American ones because of ITAR. Or shutting down hobbyist radar projects; if a hobbyist can do it for fun, adversarial military engineers probably can too.

The other defense of course is to base our economy on making things. Pour more resources into manufacturing, industrial automation, and standardization so that when a new technology comes along, we can scale it up. An economy based on knowledge restriction is precarious exactly because others can simply ignore our restrictions. We're hamstringing ourselves and it's an illiberal policy.
What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people
If you find yourself arguing the gambler’s fallacy is not a fallacy you may have a gambling problem.
Might be controversial, but if saddam actually had weapons of mass destruction, maybe the US and buddies would not attack them as they did, while lying about the weapons.

Atomic bomb would give Iran an extra layer of protection from those few countries that can do whatever they want, start wars based on lies, steal oil, commit genocide and worse, and the "international community" turns a blind eye most of the time.