skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The murders not being solved aren't "Perfect crimes". It's a matter of resources and timing.

99% of murder investigations mostly boil down to:

1. Literally witnessed by one or more people, possibly officers or on camera.
2. They brag about it.
3. A brief investigation of friends and family where it turns out so and so always hated them and happens to have a gun, and hey look at that the ballistics match.

There are a very small number of officers in comparison to the total population (as it should be), and the vast majority of them are not the kind being assigned to homicide.

Some major % of the "unsolved" murders in the US that mostly just get thrown on the pile because they find out 2 weeks later and either can't identify the victim, or can't find enough useful information to start investigating. Forensics is very useful, but hardly as portrayed in shows like CSI, and the simple realities of "well we didn't find much, found out weeks later, and it'll be weeks before we get any lab results back" often just mean there's 10 other "no shit" murders to deal with instead.

And this isn't even on the core topic here of "could this have been a hit by Boeing", which is just insanely unbelievable, ESPECIALLY given the method. People are off handledly mentioning things like Ricin or Polonoium attacks, but the important things about those is that they are INSANELY LETHAL and extremely easy to control.

"Lets infect him with pneumonia that turns into MRSA" has got to be one of the most risky, difficult, expensive, and unreliable methods of killing someone ever.

Hell if you want deniability there's probably at least 10 or so ways to easily cause a human to have a heart attack and look like they died of natural causes as compared to some magic MRSA gun.
In this case the problem becomes that while one can define a 100% consistent, coherent order for the compiler to use, the human's ability to understand what will happen when they call a method of a particular name, and also what that resolution method will do as the code is refactored and changed over time, exceeds anything a human can be reasonably expected to have.

Really, all the problems with multiple inheritance are that the humans can't handle the complexity that results. The compilers can be made to do "something" that is arguably sensible.
No. The Internet is routinely used for porn but it is not its primary purpose.
I'm not convinced this is doing much - images with exif geo data seemed to just return the location literally described in the image. Images with no exif data returned every image location based on my IP location - a city a few 100 miles away from me, and even further from where the pictures were taken.

Some of them (pictures of a small town beach) were described as:

"The photo was taken from a boat in the XYZ Harbour, looking towards the city of <Large City Name>. The distinctive shape of the <literally tallest building in the country> Tower can be seen in the background. The ferry terminal is also visible on the left side of the photo."

needless to say, the tiny town in question is about 300km from the city mentioned, it does not have a single tower (I think it may be looking at a traffic pole?), and does not have a ferry terminal (there was a boat in the picture).
Is there any evidence he was assassinated or are people just trying to meme it into being the truth?
Hi wells, I'm working on a project that goes in the same direction: https://github.com/PR-Pilot-AI
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"

― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
"Do you have reservations, sir?" "Yes, but the missus wanted to eat here anyway, so I'm going along with it..."
5 years is "a while"?
I don't think we have the technical ability to make a real life FOXDIE yet.
Topological Quantum Error Correction [pdf]
I see, however I was under the impression that Jews in Arabic countries (including Palestine) spoke primarily Arabic, and it was only after they migrated (or were otherwise absorbed into) Israel when they converted to Hebrew. And that the modern Hebrew language was a Zionist effort (a European colonial enterprise) to convert all immigrants to Israel to Hebrew speakers. So even though today most Israeli Jews speak Hebrew, the only reason for that is the colonial prospects of European settlers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Arabic_dialects#Present_...
Flutter is cool, but does Dart have a decent library ecosystem for the needs beyond a rich client application?
You didn't make any coherent argument at all!

It would have been more productive to actually explain in concrete terms what wrongdoing you believed Anduril was involved in rather than trying to guess at my perception or understanding of your comments.
Correct, people buy a phone for the branding, and the software. Apple should be sponsoring the development that drives their ecosystem.
If you don't know that what are you doing trying to run a business?
You're right. We also have proverbs like "two heads are better than one" and "standing on the shoulder of giants" so people recognise that both sides are important and have their value.

Right now, I'm working on my own on a personal project attempting to do something a little novel and I appreciate being able to go back and refine my ideas/previous code based on things I learn and additional thinking (even rewriting from scratch), when I'm more likely to face friction (like "stick to the suboptimal approach; it's not that bad") and cause trouble for teammates if I was working with someone else. So the value of working alone speaks more to me currently than the value of working in teams, but they both have their place.
I'd say it was exceedingly rare for people in that cohort to die suddenly without warning. Now, though?

and one died after ventilation?
That's where the economics question comes in. How do you make a living as a farmer selling a very specific variety of squash, when there are now (let's say) 9000 varieties of squash on the market, and the same number of people out there buying squash?
[dupe]

Discussion over last 24 hrs or so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790
The fighter jet that was 'too fast' – The French Leduc 022 [video]
I don't understand how they lost their startup though? Doesn't the accelerator only take a small percent?
> Why force some other company (Apple) to bend to your will?

Was today the day you learned about governments and laws?
I like CL’s solution to constructors which is basically “specialize this generic function (SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE) with an :AFTER method”. You reliably run all the initialization code for each class involved and you don’t have to remember to call CALL-NEXT-METHOD (CL’s spelling of super)

Edit: I see that post refers to Dylan, which is more like CL than python in the important ways. IMO, sleeping on CL’s object system CLOS was a huge mistake of the “Java/C++ era” of our industry.
There is lots of popular consumer software that no longer runs on Windows 7.
While obviously horrific, there's a large difference between paying a bunch of paramilitary members of a country where out and out murder by government is already an issue, and murdering citizens using arcane secretive methods such as suicide by hanging and magic mrsa infection.

If boeing is SO important to the government that justice doesn't matter, then it's probably a fuckload easier to bribe a judge or two and make sure the court cases never get anywhere than to orchestrate not one, but two, clandestine hits.

Further, why the fuck would you do the hits now? In both cases the information was brought out YEARS ago, and already in court. It hardly matters if they're alive or dead at this point.
I'd be very surprised if organizations such as the CIA or similar haven't at least put some resources toward researching the viability of weaponizing MRSA or similar.
Yes they would. It would be a significant and catastrophic mistake to restrict trading based on feelings of envy. It would be technically negative in every measurement possible.

So many poor policies originate from Envy and poor reasoning not grounded in logic and understanding of free markets and economics. This would be yet another classic example of that.
Is TFA not about Apple choosing a data-vampire as default for money?
> A popular venture studio based out of NYC is like this

Sounds like Fractal. Supposedly, the value add is that they've already done the due diligence and market research on some product idea. They match a team (CEO + CTO) to the idea and provide the funding. Do not know of any well known companies to have come out of this model, but if they're still around, it must be generating some returns for it to be worthwhile.
Anything that uses their servers they could potentially charge for. Of course they must also make it possible to implement these things yourself without using their servers.
Super promising & interesting, but also not really an advanced in throughout vs today's switches (or 2017's 12.8Tbps Tomahawk 3). That's 16x 800Gbps. Awesome & boggling, but for something that'll be coming out a good bit down the road.

Just for reference, a MI300X is good for 5.3TBps aka 42Tbps.

Overally my hope still is we see some interesting disaggregated architectures form. Rather than be used for ToR switches only, I hope this sort of thing can be used for closely connecting small clusters. Ideally an advanced flash controller also would have such a device.

The material cost of cables and their energy efficiency grow terrifying. Photonics remain a key to helping us physically scale our systems effectively. Whomever can integrate & make this stuff cost effective, part of the rest of the chip making, has a huge lead. The numbers don't have to be colossal, if the integration is tight.
By that logic every large corporation in the world should be randomly killing people to deter prospective whistleblowers.
But it's okay to continue spamming postings that don't get updated for a year, wasting users' time on here? This is YCombinator forums right and these companies have to look good for VCs I suppose.

I'll keep that in mind.
Cool project, stared!
Good question. What is with Apple's obsession with native apps? Why are they gimping web apps every chance they get?

The answer is obvious, of course. To force developers to make native apps so they can steal 30%, or whatever these new ridiculous terms are.
The life and times of an Abstract Syntax Tree
It's... just barely probable with two people. Assuming 30 whistleblowers, and an actuarial likelihood of 1.2% death[1] in a given year at their ages, we can use binomial probability[2] to determine the chance of two dying in a given year.

The math works out to a 4.4% chance. That's a bit of an eye raiser, but still just believable. (Look, we all believe it can happen we roll a critical in D&D ;)

3 or more dying in a year, we're at 0.5% - I'd really assume that's deliberate.

[1] Actuarial tables: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

[2] Calculator if you want to play with probabilities: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=binomial+probability+ca...
This strikes me as something that will fade over time, though. We will eventually learn to recognize fake empathy, just as once upon a time when a corporation said "Your business is important to us and we're trying to get a support person on the line for you as quickly as possible", it was believable and there was a good chance your customer believed it. Now of course we've all got a pretty good idea it's not true.

An AI can not empathize. We don't even really want it to; who wants to build an AI that "really" experiences losing a limb or losing a daughter? Not anyone I want actually building AIs. So this isn't even about whether they're "really conscious" or any of those somewhat tedious debates; even if they are human-level AI already they literally can't empathize. See the recent article where Meta's overly helpful AI yielded an answer as to how New York's public schools treated its disabled child. Even if the text was completely accurate it still had no standing to emit such text.
What LARP involves academic comparisons of cryptographic algorithms? Whatever it is, it sounds like my sort of thing ;)
You could try a battery powered phone charger since it's a "relatively simple" first project. The big hurdle for learning these types of tools is usually "What buttons do I press to create the output that I want.

For the electrical side, there are plenty of schematics online that you can try to copy or use as a starting point. And the CAD side can be a simple box with snap fits. I'd recommend OnShape if you're just starting out since it's the lowest barrier of entry, but Fusion 360 is also good. All in, it should be <$150 for the PCBs + Components + 3D Prints.

After you get the satisfaction of seeing your device charge from something you made, then you'll start getting the itch and find more excuses to make things.
They are 16nm, so yeh, "old". Newer tech means a newer node and considerably more expensive. At which point, why are you buying an SBC over some small intel/amd thing?
NASA's report server is a national treasure, especially the material from the 50s and 60s that he references. Some of the most crisp and succinct technical writing you'll find, and you can infer a lot about how they ran projects. Declassified NRO reports are also very good - you can see the Lockheed Skunk Works principles in action. Example: https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/documents/foia/declass/WS117...
Interesting benchmarks. I'm surprised vLLM is performing so poorly given all the corporate investment/attention it's getting. Is it because the contributions are more distributed than the average LLM team?
Always get super excited when I need to pay £10-50 cancellation fee per guest with a 48 hours notice period while booking 24 hours before...
No, it’s about Apple setting Google Search, by far the most popular search engine anyway, as the default in Safari. Nothing about Apple selling user data, which is the claim I’m interested in a source on. As far as I’m aware Apple does not sell user data to third parties, but I’m happy to be proven wrong with a solid source.
I'd give this at least even odds.

Based on some ancient personal experience you can also bet that the EULA will be rewritten to forbid people to use Windows 11 to develop this sort of workaround. Which is to say, if this is not a violation of the license today, it will be soon enough.
That makes sense and I'll run a few evals. Many thanks for open sourcing your work!
Good luck getting anything signed.
IDK but shopping in Japan felt amazing this year. Wish I could eat like that at home for a reasonable cost, not to mention how much better everything taste.
English is great for technical writing.
"Startups also granted Newchip the right to buy $250,000 worth of shares in the company at a later date, but at their current valuation"
It might be interesting to think about reasons a whistleblower assassination could happen. (I found #6 below kinda interesting, because I didn't think of it immediately, but only once I started thinking through possibilities.) Non-exhaustive:

1. Warlord-like show of power, signaling that they're so strong they can openly act with impunity. Such as gratuitously using a military weapon not publicly available and on another country's soil, or a straight-faced coroner's determination of suicide by two self-inflicted gunshots to the back of the head before throwing self through a skyscraper window. (I don't see this in the Boeing situation.)

2. Powerful person lashing out due to mental illness instability/pettiness. Where there's no gain to be had, but their ego or other trigger was stepped upon. In the news in recent years, we've seen at least a couple powerful high-profile personalities who might fit the profile. (I don't see a connection to the Boeing situation.)

3. Prevent the whistleblower from testifying further. (I guess probably the cat's already out of the bag on the Boeing situation.)

4. Warning to other whistleblowers by that same entity, if further testimony could do more harm than has already been done. (Again, I guess probably the cat's out of the bag on Boeing.)

5. Lower-ranking individual's self-interest. Let's say there's no advantage to an organization or higher-up persons in assassinating a whistleblower, but... some lower-ranking person doesn't want to be implicated personally by something this whistleblower knows, or there is some unrelated mini-scandal that could be exposed as the whistleblower is interviewed. In general, I suspect that lower-ranking butt-covering is the source of massive number of problems and misbehavior in organizations, including all sorts of "coverup is worse than the crime" outcomes. (But I'd guess unlikely there's a big enough motivation for any lower-ranking individual connected to the Boeing situation to murder anyone over it.)

6. Uninvolved party sending a message to all high-profile whistleblowers. Let's say you're a powerful person, and evil (or imagining yourself serving some worthy cause through evildoing), and you're sitting on top of what could be a massive scandal, and you're vulnerable to whistleblowers. So, on the occasion of whistleblowers being in the news on some other high-profile scandal -- unrelated to you -- and possibly planting whistleblowing ideas among people who are a threat to you, you take the occasion to shift public sentiment about the desirability of whistleblowing in general. (Farfetched.)

7. Foreign sabotage, sowing social disorder. Make it look to people of the target country like their country is so corrupt that whistleblowers are assassinated openly and with impunity. (Farfetched, especially since we have so much erosion of trust already, I'm not sure we need any more pushes.)
the stupendous risk taken on by founders confounds instincts, and we're already filtering to folks who have resorted to taking money from third- or fourth-tier options
Just to be clear, I take no issue with charging for these features. My qualms with Spotify have more to do with (1) advertising/user data as a major revenue stream and (2) I much rather "own" than "rent" my music.
Not to nitpick (I only stumbled upon this recently myself), but the mechanism driving a Crookes radiometer (which I presume is the type you're talking about) is not photon pressure, but interactions with the low pressure gas in the bulb [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crookes_radiometer#Explanation...
He had a sudden mysterious illness that caused him to have problems breathing. If this were a cover up, that illness would have been the cover up attempt, not the pneumonia. The breathing problems required the whistleblower to be intubated and he later developed pneumonia, and later still MRSA.

The pneumonia and MRSA were certainly just an unfortunate illness. The more conspiratorial can debate over if the original breathing difficulties that brought him into the hospital were the result of an assassination attempt or not. For all we know he just had Covid.
These regulations are about consumer protection. They're not about protecting companies from each other, necessarily. Sure, in this case the focus is on iOS and iOS developers but in the end that's because end users are getting fucked because of it.

Do you have any example of EU companies that are fucking over consumers like the US ones tend to do? I'm not aware of any. I'm also not aware of any EU company that would be in the position to do so, sadly.
If you take unique photos, it's completely off. If you're taking boring photos that many other people have likely taken, it's very good.
Enlargement of Time and Being
Record at 4k with loom - that gives you mouse cursors. Then edit in Davinci to get the zoom effect
Thanks for thinking of the little guy.
Fractal seems to have addressed the entire market they had identified. It doesn't appear that they're still recruiting founders.

I was in their pipeline and interviewing potential business cofounders, but chose to go the traditional venture route - it didn't work out, but I don't think I'd have succeeded at the Fractal business either.
Indeed. The first aulete touches on this. He mentions the bore of his deer-bone pipes is larger than that of later double-pipes, which were made of wood, and when the second aulete plays the latter, the pitch is notably sharper. Not a thorough explanation of the perceived disparity, but the instruments might also seem a bit shorter on video than they actually are.
None of which are EU based?
I've a 4k monitor and we publish 1080p videos.
You assume that's a reasonable option for most people. Plenty of people have software, hardware, or other requirements to use Windows. It sucks, but it's quite common.

The enemy of good is perfect. Maybe we can't stop them spying or trying to force their way back in on every update, but we can fight back. If it's as simple as changing a few registry keys to disable ads, why wouldn't you just do it? "Stop using Windows or live with it" are not the only two options.
I don't normally use generators. I can't figure out how this syntax or functionality is in any way different from normal generators.
I don't know if they changed it, but the xcode certificates (used to?) expire every week or so, so you'd need to re-up from the apple servers via a mac with xcode.
It also colonizes a large fraction of hospital workers so unless you injected it into the victim or got them to inhale a large number of aerosolized bacteria, it won't be effective.

Assassination seems unlikely here to me. The presentation of sudden illness with multiple agents flu B, MRSA, and strep all at the same time is unusual. The presentation probably IS consistent with a sudden exposure to a very high number of infectious organisms into his lungs which could overwhelm the immune system and potentially lead to death. It wouldn't be impossible to orchestrate but it sounds difficult, finicky, unreliable, and tough to correctly execute without collateral damage. It would almost certainly require a state actor.

It's also plausible he contracted influenza B and suffered from an opportunistic infection of the lungs.

By Occam's razor I think the latter is quite a bit more likely.
The Forever AI Agent
Leap seconds scare the shit out of me. Do they matter? Do they not? So many libraries don't support them -- understandably, they're very hard to support.

I understand there was an effort to kill the leap second [1], we'll see where it goes.

[1]: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/341524-international-sta...
Using a 15 year old OS that hasn't had a security update for over 4 years as your daily driver isn't something I would recommend anyone do. ESU ended over a year ago, so you're stuck on an abandoned OS even if you're willing to pay for updates.

Apple has been keeping the user experience a priority in all their latest updates, and Linux desktops are more usable than they've ever been. There's absolutely no reason to use Windows 7 for anything important if Windows 11 is a dealbreaker.

Microsoft isn't about to reverse course and make Windows good again, so if you've already decided not to use Windows 11, start the process of acclimating to a new OS now, rather than stagnating on a dead OS that is only going to get less safe to use moving forward.

If budget is a concern, I promise you your Windows 7 PC will run Linux. If you are experiencing the sunken cost of all the Windows-exclusive software that you have already purchased, then pony up for a Windows 11 PC, because you're not going to survive on a EOL Windows OS for very long.
I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft not forcing updates upon their users was considered an existential threat to humanity.
Thanks ssddanbrown! We only published our server-side code under the BSL 1.1, and granting users using NPi in production[1].

Other parties under the Apache 2.0 License. you could check them out, SDK[2], Protocol[3]:

[1] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0...

[2] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0...

[3] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/main/proto/LICENSE
Just make it part of systemd, problem solved.
Seems like every big tech company's biggest innovation these days is massive stock buybacks.