skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is the Wails project being managed?

Does it have a backing company or enough sponsors to ensure its future?
Amgen Soars After CEO Gives Update on Experimental Obesity Drug
> When I TAed, a lot of incoming 2nd year students didn’t know how to do for loops yet, which really set them back for basic algorithms.

I'm surprised anew on the rare occasions I come across statements like this. The first time was when I applied for my first programming elective class. The teacher actively tried to dissuade me from it, saying that by the end of term they'd be lucky if they even got to for-next or do-while loops. I was shocked, having first understood these from BASIC code listings in the back of magazines, with only one or two weeks per year having a few hours of access to an Apple II on which to actually run anything.

I tend to fall into the trap of feeling that loop constructs should be so trivial, that understanding should come from a tiny fraction of one class session plus maybe a few minutes tracing the code by hand. So, I thank you for being my irregularly scheduled reminder that people's first exposures to such things can be very different.
A deterrent to prevent additional whistleblowers from coming forward? If the issues are as massively systemic as facts to date suggest, it seems like there might be a number of other shoes that could drop. Boeing's reputation (as well as that of its higher ups) could get a hell of a lot more tarnished and even breach further into legal culpability territory.

I'm not fully convinced that's what's happening here, but two whistleblowers on a massive US company that also happens to be a defense contractor dying in suspicious and unusual ways (especially that first one "killing himself" after he said if he died it wasn't suicide and also smack in the middle of his deposition days...) certainly warrants a non-trivial amount of concern and a deeper investigation.
If you look at what IBM did to centos and redhat, its definitely worth getting worked up about.
The argument is that pressuring Mozilla is a valid second line of attack, on top of pressuring Google. That seems fairly benign, given that Google and Mozilla both have power in the browser ecosystem.

I don't see any assumptions about Mozilla's motive, or think it would be relevant to assume motive one way or another. The assumption is that Mozilla has power to help fuel JPEG XL adoption, so that pressure wouldn't simply be wasted.

Now, I'm not sure it has this power given its 3% browser market share. This might invalidate the particular argument.

That said, there are many valid reasons to give Mozilla execs grief, and many valid reasons to work to deconstruct Mozilla's leadership. So I don't mind if people do it over JPEG-XL, even if Mozilla's had zero power to affect JPEG-XL.
Many mid-higher end spots charge a deposit using toast, opentable, resy, etc. Keeps utilization higher and no-shows down.
That article is an absolute hodgepodge of statements and retractions, but the same hitman appears to have also killed the laywer's clients, who were causing problems for the regime. That seems like pretty strong evidence that it wasn't a suicide by hitman, unless the lawyer also had his own clients killed?
A better book for what audience? The scientifically minded can do much worse than "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" by Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup (on which the online cryptography course is based). For a more practical angle, I agree with other commenters on this thread: "Cryptography Engineering" (Ferguson, Schneier, Kohno), "Serious Cryptography" (Aumasson) and "Real-World Cryptography" (Wong) are pretty solid.
I'd like to see more auctions.

I lived in places where a dedicated parking spot (and even child daycare) had multi-year waitlists. It created a scenario where everyone joined the waitlist because, hey, maybe you want it in a few years when it becomes available. And if you finally got it, you could sell it.

I'd rather see some price discovery.
Let me start with this: I fully support any effort to regulate markets and ensure rights of users especially privacy.

The fact that not a single European company was declared a gatekeeper is getting a lot of attention, some are even calling it a “shakedown of American companies”.

There are a lot of European companies that have monopoly-like powers in the markets they’re in. ASML is one for semiconductor lithography. Just look at the patents many European companies hold and how Europe makes money.

The point that I’m trying to make is that yes the mobile computing platforms should be open and free. However, the line between regulation of markets and going after specific companies not because they’re stopping innovation but instead because they’re not European. I’m afraid that if Trump gets elected, there will be a similar trade war between Europe and the United States as well.
I'd be interested to hear about the bucket thresher. Most of the DIY options I found when I was looking where larger with custom flail mechanisms and bike-chain drives etc. Honestly, building the thresher itself seemed like kind of a cool project on it's own, but it was just more effort than I was willing to put in. But a 5 gallon bucket option that runs of a drill sounds much more my speed.

How much did you process? What is the maximum amount you think you would have been willing to process with that method?
No. In the case of Ethiopian airlines they knew exactly what was going on when MCAS kicked in and almost immediately responded. MCAS pushed the plane down SO hard that something in the tail got stuck. Boeing spent a lot of time trying to blame this on pilots when 1.) they initially didn't even train them on it, and 2.) even if trained...once it happens...you have extremely little time to react.
Found a clean cut of the cool double flute performance:
https://youtu.be/6JFa8BZt2B0?si=h3cugZ5KtyNGZXTG
In America they allow oligarchs to just whack people left right and centre?
Talc is used medically as a treatment for recurrent pleural effusions. It is introduced into the pleural space and triggers an intensely inflammatory reaction which more or less fuses the pleura together to prevent the accumulation of fluid (pleurodesis).

When a patient who has had a pleurodesis gets an FDG PETCT, they will have intense accumulation of radiotracer for years. It is very inflammatory. Even more so than asbestos.

I wouldn’t want talc anywhere inside my reproductive tract or anywhere inside my body if I could avoid it.

If you buy the chronic inflammation leads to cancer hypothesis, talc leading to cancer is not so far fetched.
Show HN: I Built an API That Convert Temporary Image URLs to Permanent Links
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2024 is the current year and it's the same as the number of lines of code. I don't think describing it as ironic is correct though.
>I think if Boeing care's about their reputation so badly, they'd get out of the defense contractor business.

Huh? Boeing's defense products are a separate division from commercial aviation. And those products are the best out there. Maybe expensive, I guess, and the usual criticism of scope creep and project management applies.
You seem to imply I think it's better without them. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying we could do it without them, if we, collectively, wanted to. Is there a cost to that? Of course there is, there is a cost for any big change like this.

Private Equity seems to do just fine without any of these liquidity problems.

Bond Markets are completely private still, sure some market makers are now playing in that space, but it's still completely private transactions and you are on your own to find buyers and sellers. Seems to work well enough.

Certainly public markets and stock exchanges are great inventions, but we didn't have market makers in the early stock markets for a very long time. Well one might argue JP Morgan(the man, not the bank) was THE market maker for all of the NYSE early history. He certainly bailed out the markets once or twice before the Fed existed and decided to do the job for him.

So we can absolutely do it without market makers. So I stand by it being a trade-off. If one really wants to kill off market makers, we can, that doesn't mean we should.

> The more you restrict transactions and reduce liquidity the less utility an asset has. This is one of the often overlooked reasons Bitcoin has more intrinsic value than is assumed at first by observers.

This would imply that Cash should be more valuable than it is? USD cash has near infinite liquidity, but at best it's worth around 0%/yr real return.
I think in this case, a bigger factor would be this is a 'we will not attest to accuracy in court'.

As an odd sort of comparison, this is why you can't just take a magic 8 ball into the courtroom and shake it; 'for amusement only'
> The chance they died is 100%.

There you go. Because it is after the fact, it's a given. It's not surprising that you can find a connection of some kind between them after the fact. Just because you can, after the fact, draw the connection, doesn't change the probability that they are dead.
> These guys were running a local tree-cutting serving, not a Fortune 500.

I imagine Boeing can do anything a local tree-cutting service can do.

> And they weren't just accused of negligent business practice, they were accused of human trafficking and theft. They murdered a whistleblower to keep themselves out of jail, not to protect share prices.

Boeing execs are accused of committing massive fraud which endangered the lives of thousands, as well as other crimes to cover up the safety issues. They are currently under criminal investigation, with many individuals facing possible jail time. When people say corporate assassination, they mean people working for a corporation orchestrate the death of a person for reasons associated with the corporation.
So the point of AutoContext is so you don't have to do that two-step process of first finding the right document, and then finding the right section of that document. I think it's cleaner to do it this way, but it's not necessarily going to perform any better or worse. But then spRAG also has the RSE part which is what identifies the right section(s) of the document. Whether or not that helps in your case is going to depend on how good of a solution you already have for that.
Even Sisyphus wouldn't attempt to convince a HN crowd that not everything in the world is a big tech conspiracy...
Any source on Apple selling user data?
“ significant chunks of it were hand-coded in Arm assembly code” as all modern OS should be at the kernel level
I forgot about this. I actually had to ignore a test in Miri because of this exact issue.

https://github.com/denoland/deno_core/blob/98b09fa4f77db1131...

Anxiously waiting on https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3467
Agreed. I've gotten a lot of feedback along those lines today, so that's my top priority now.
ricin was used BY the Soviet Union and Russia also used radioactive agents to kill someone not super long ago. And a nerve agent was used to kill someone close to Kim too
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-na...
This level of snark isn’t really productive to the conversation.

Additionally, 2019 was 5 years ago.
And to think I was almost ready to hire you for my branding needs
I thought so too. The developer posted on HN two weeks ago[0].. I hope they expand it (with mix/remix/remakes you can have dozens of versions of one track)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40074246
If I were considering blowing the whistle on some behavior at Boeing I'd sure think twice now that two people have died. It may be that their testimony was complete but there's still a chilling effect on future whistleblowers.
It's not nonsense. It's really not difficult to structure code for 100% coverage of unsafe code if you're thinking about it from the start.

You're also perfectly fine to write code that is free of `unsafe`, freeing you from this onerous task. We're pulling out Miri _because_ we're going outside the normal guardrails.

You also don't _need_ to get 100% coverage of all your unsafe code if you can be confident of the usage of unsafe. The most complex unsafe code should almost certainly be covered, but there are a lot of trivial uses of unsafe that can be shown to be correct through reasoning.

Where possible I prefer to split code into safe and unsafe portions, and test the unsafe portions under Miri with as much coverage as gives me confidence in the code.

I've made UB mistakes before with unsafe, but since adding Miri and code coverage, the numbers of mistakes I've made has dropped dramatically. No programmer is perfect, but one would be pretty foolish to ignore the tools at one's disposal.
Ask HN: LLM workflows to avoid copying and pasting from the web interfaces?
Are there tools out there that can help speed up the process and keep track of the results more easily?
Informative article from The Economist about disinformation being on the rise...flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238314)

Conspiratorial nonsense...#1 spot.

Is anybody else concerned about the health of this forum?
Don’t forget ANPRs that can track your vehicle all around the country. Doesn’t even have to cross paths with a police car - they’re at most major junctions and all over the motorway
Firefox reader mode works for this page.
You'd be surprised. Depending on the resolution of the photo, I might be able to get a low-res image of what's behind the door through the light leaks in its cracks. The more I know about the camera you used, the specific setting you took that photo in, the better chance I have at making a good guess of what's behind the door. Or behind the camera. These are the "assumptions" I'm talking about. External knowledge applied to resolve ambiguities.

For simpler examples, compare:

- GPS signal power at the receiver is under the thermal noise floor, yet they can still be recovered if you know exactly where to look.

- Nonlinear image transformations like blurs can still be inverted if you know or can guess the transform and exact coefficients used. Which is why, to redact something, you really want to paint over it with uniform color, instead of blurring it.

Or just a lot of what photogrammetry is about.
A popular venture studio based out of NYC is like this. They take 60% of the equity from the start, and provide 1M in capital (which is decent amount). The narrative is that they provide significant guidance, follow on capital, etc. But in reality, none of their guidance or follow on capital comes through. For a first time founder its okay for a year, any longer and its really a financial disaster versus just working your way up the corporate ladder.

People have no idea how few startups really cash out, and how hard it is when you start from low equity percentages/have bad terms.

The horror stories usually dont arise until a startup is actually worth something and has a future. This is usually 2 years+ into the journey.

I think the typical founders doing this are actually just people that want to say they own a company at dinner parties.
thank you so much for this detailed answer. now i just need to invest some time into learning CAD and KiCAD
Is there any kind of Bayesian modeling to calculate the probability of deaths in a subpopulation like employees of a company over a given period of time? I guess none of this would be public knowledge to know the background death rate of that population, but assuming it was all public where we knew how many deaths per employee was typical could something be calculated to show this pattern is a mathematical outlier of somekind?
At least in marketing or especially in sales, making it rain IS the sign of competence.
>and a poor choice for an assassination

And yet, it worked.
I just use a clipboard manager. I don't think an LLM could speed up any part of my workflow.
That's listed in their timeline for coming later on.
Is Moore's Law Dead? (2022)
I know this is a joke but this OS was first released in 1987... I forgot all about it, but it's pretty cool that you can still run it on hardware.
Sure. Can you please tell more - why "Show HN"?
You could both be right, especially depending on where you live and work.
fair enough :) apologies!
There is plenty of evidence, well documented, of how ancient Greek languages, and Attic in particular, sounded. Transliterations of Latin, Egyptian, Persian names, and words taken from other languages, and Latin transliterations of Greek names and words. Non-orthographic spellings and misspellings. Rhymes and the preservation of supersegmental qualities in poetry. Grammarians describing in detail how likely barbarians were to mispronounce certain words and how to best pronounce words. There's more to learn, but it's not unknowable.
Tricky as that would require some kind of quality control.
What I'm saying is, he's either proposing that every farm grows 1000x as many types of plants as they do today, or that a massive number of small farms (let us say 100 times as many as exist today) each grow a huge variety of plants (let's say 10 times as many types as they do today).

But, crucially, these small farms could not grow the plants they chose to grow, instead they would have to grow an assortment of diverse species or cultivars, for no other reason than to support a living diversity. 99.9% of the plants you'd be growing would be plants that people decided a long time ago that they didn't want to eat, or use for any other purpose, because there was a better alternative.

Ignore the money part. That was me saying that, if consumption/purchasing of plants is more or less stable, then if you introduce 200,000 varieties of plants into the world, every plant would be sold a lot less. It would be more or less impossible to make a living as a farmer.
I think etcd is basically a k8s only project now- Consul has a ton of quality of life stuff added on.

There's always Zookeeper.
Warrantless FBI searches of American communications drop 50 percent
But isn't that GDDR option something like 3-4x the bandwidth? So you'd fit far fewer chips to hit the same bandwidth.
>If that bothers you the only real solution is to stop using Windows.

I don't know, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit is still a pretty great solution, personally.
This assumes the risk of getting caught offing whistleblowers is less than the risk of more whistle-blowers coming out. Does it really make sense that you'd risk exposing a whistle blower murder program as opposed to whatever corporate problems they have? Not to mention, it's a lot easier to smooth over corporate screw ups than getting caught hiring hit men.
depends on the goal of the speaker
True.

But the tricky thing is at what level of supermajority should companies be allowed to discriminate against you based on your choices with your body?
I'm not sure, but I think in suspicious deaths like this folks should DNA sequence all viruses and other stuff found on the body of the poor individual. I've been curious about autopsies from a proactive angle. Can the family of the deceased, or even the person in their own will expressed before they died, can they force a municipality or county or whatever agency the coroner operates under to release the body for a private autopsy?
This may be a little tangential (sorry) how is the planet's carrying capacity calculated? The malthusian school of thought never made sense to me
Filter-Adapted Spatio-Temporal Sampling for Real-Time Rendering
Leading to this: Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation[0] - How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out (in NYC)

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-...
> an incredibly damning simile

I stand by my comment, however harsh it may seem. Some of the disdain held by cryptographers, especially of a certain generation, is in no doubt a reaction to Schneier's prominence in the public eye as Mr. Crypto. The fact that he is highly quotable and media-savvy makes him a go-to person whenever a comment is needed on something (anything!) happening in security.
We have hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vienna and nascent hubs in NYC & Boulder. Remote is not preferred, but acceptable for top notch candidates.
> well yeah but the previous whistleblower committed suicide after literally telling his family "If anything happens to me it's not suicide".

I mean if I had dedicated my life to taking Boeing down and was contemplating suicide, I'd consider saying that too.
> while C++ had optimized for the true case

Which is why we have Profile Guided Optimization.
syscall is only available if gdb is able to resolve libc. So for example this won’t work to stop a process running in a container, since gdb won’t be able to see the libc in the container’s filesystem. I did make my own variant using gdb, though, nicely explained here: https://thomasw.dev/post/killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident/
This is what we call a “brown M&M test”.

It’s a single data point that is indicative of an entire system.

The war on drugs failed and has caused more deaths than any drug.

And the criminalization of cannabis and psychedelics over the last several decades ought to be criminal - based in no reality of science.

The DEA is a failed organization and continues to be.
I feel a strong sense of respect and approval for people who would like to expatriate from the United States for anti-imperialist reasons, but do not do so, and instead use their citizenship in order to do work against the continued existence of the United States.

The risks such people take is great! The importance of such work is even greater. Please continue working to end the empire. Please continue working to end America!
That first video by Canberk Ulaş is a revelation. Wow. The music is as good as it gets. Albioni's music is sensational, and Canberk Ulaş plays with both artistic and technical mastery. The wind player in me freaks out seeing his cheeks blown out to cartoony proportions, which as I understand may be considered good form, but still.
The project is licensed under a Business Source License [1] which wouldn't be widely considered open source due to the limitations it's placing on use, so advertising this as open source may be misleading to many. Source available is a more common term for these kinds of license.

If you're interested in why I think this distinction matters, I've written some thoughts about that on my blog [2].

[1] https://github.com/npi-ai/npi/blob/
991bdc7e0c9830c89a81b07b0ebabca9b506677a/LICENSE

[2] https://danb.me/blog/open-source-available-distinction/
> That being said, the main source of OpenSSL releases will be OpenSSL GitHub. OpenSSL Source will remain only for backward compatibility and will redirect to GitHub.

Main? Or only?

Very 'open'