skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post includes a link to an earlier blog post on "reduce your supply chain risk" in 2024-02-29:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/polyfill-io-now-available-on-cdn...

In the earlier thread, there was a link to triblondon's post on 2024-02-25 where he urges users to remove that dependency:

https://x.com/triblondon/status/1761852117579427975

Unfortunately, neither of these early warnings seem to have gotten much attention. I wonder if there is some news site or service that would make suspicious ownership transfers of this sort more noticeable? Or maybe this type of supply chain changes actually happen all the time and we just got used to them?
The Coming Great Conflict: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
> I chalked it up as the reality of booking in the most populated city in the world.

Sorry for being pedantic but I believe this isn't really true.

New York ranks 11th in the world [0], it's not even the most populated in the Americas, nor 2nd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is basically training yourself that you have the agency to fix things and imrpove yourself and situation.

The current fad of playing victim is basically the opposite of this. By playing victim you're actually making your own mental health worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
I actually think it does.

I'm imagining a human-sized tank, continuously growing things by electroplating, slowly, slowly, but eventually making something quite big.

I find this concept very appealing. I don't quite understand how it though, because I have view of electroplating as something which is very different from this precise and presumably at least somewhat fast process.
And that's the optimistic take.
Could Calibre (or any other software) generate an OPDS feed? I know that at least KOReader has support for OPDS[0], maybe vanilla Kindle firmware has it too. That would let you forget the part of connecting your device to a PC.

[0] KOReader also has an RSS reader, but I'm not sure how good is it and what it can support in terms of feeds "complicatedness"
The biggest group of people paying lip service to security are software engineers, and ops people. Both groups regularly choose implementation speed, and reduced work over sound security practices.

A good example of this is in C/C++. Most C code bases I have seen spread buffer use and allocation code over hundreds or thousands of files. Anyone of these files could have a security bug because some code does not check the buffer size before writing data into a buffer. There is no way this pattern will ever be secure because it requires software engineers to get every check right which is impossible.

Even worse, many software engineers do not care about security, or even correctness. They will happily write dangerous code because it takes less time.

Another example of both operations and software engineers having a blind spot is cloud computing. When you write software in the cloud, you want to minimize secrets for the following reasons:

1) They have to be periodically rotated (changed). Rotation takes time, and it is error prone. Making a mistake leads to an outage. Not rotating them can lead to a hack when an employee leaves the team or when a breach occurrs and the attacker gets a copy of the secret.

2) If a breach occurs, secrets have to be rotated very quickly. This is hard to do unless a team has spent a lot of effort on automated secret rotation.

The solution is to use managed identities (i.e. identities which automatically rotate their credentials every X days). I know Azure provides them, and I bet AWS, GCE, etc. also provide them. It takes a little more work but now, you do not have to worry about secret rotation anymore.

The problem is, more work means a lot of people just won't do it.

The final example is the principal of least privilege. Convincing people to only give the appropriate privileges to an account, managed identity, person, etc. is hard. Lots of people just give as much access as possible "in case someone needs it", or because it is easier. This leads to much worse security breaches.

My basic point is security problems are not just because companies don't care or are not punished enough. They also occur because software engineers, ops, and other technical people don't really care. If the people doing the actual work don't care, the situation is not going to ever improve.
Hawkish Biases and Group Decision Making [pdf]
Who are you quoting? The second speaker in your conversation seems to have a pretty negative, incurious, and arrogant tone.
I think your sentiment is very common, and I’ve started writing about the underlying feeling.

The answer is no, if the answer is no for you. It turns out that people fall into one of two buckets: either your job doesn’t take over your mind, or it does. And when it does, it becomes difficult to do anything else without neglecting the job.

Most jobs are 90% meetings and docs. This is roughly the definition of a job. Startups are the exception, but those will definitely take over your mind.

My creativity level has been in the basement for the last year or so. It happens. Don’t try to fight it; try to be happy. In my experience it’s the only way to restore my creativity.
This fits well with what we know about AI and Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning, which goes from 'remembering' on the lowest step to 'creating' on the top step (remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, create).

Undergrad exams are usually somewhere around 'remembering', simple fact or definition regurgitation. Most of these facts should be in chatGPT's training data. As the degree proceeds things get harder and we move up the taxonomy, and that's where we know LLMs fail: there's nothing in there that can really 'understand', let alone 'create'.
>Organisms that appear blue must absorb very small amounts of energy, while reflecting high-energy blue light. Since penetrating the molecules that are capable of absorbing this energy is a complex process, the color blue is less common than other colors in the natural world.

I’m not a biologist, but these sentences immediately reminded me of reading articles about my company/technology after press briefings and feeling like they butchered a basic concept (or more correctly, I failed to explain it in an accessible way). Like, the sentences are grammatically correct but don’t make technical sense.
Discussion (20 points, 65 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117815
I imagine the factories of the future will be 3d printed and look like metallic fungus. They will be serviceable only with robots that can slide around in narrow gaps to inspect them. They will mostly be operated in the dark. Perhaps they will be operated deep underground.
In other words, Meta is happy to have their users' politics exported to the Fediverse, but unwilling to expose their users to the politics that are already there
So historically, all business with the feds were done via your representative. It's fairly new that there's a bureaucracy for everything.
The examples start out looking like recruiting, and heavy on the usual school obsession (MIT, Stanford, Harvard), with no improvement over existing simple queries that every bottom-end sourcer is doing.

Ideally, smarter tech will let us get closer to what we're really trying to do like "Find me a person, who I can hire, who will do great work at responsibilities X, Y, and Z."
We should provide science teachers in public schools a little SDR receiver so they can show kids all of the RF in the air around them, pretty much everywhere all of the time. If RF radiation caused health problems, it would easily be the most widespread and persistent condition known to medicine simply because of how steady and ubiquitous RF radiation has been for the last 80 years.
Or better 4dos
Who said they cause climate change? Is the impact of domesticated cattle a measurable impact on global methane production? Yes. This has been measured, observed, and accepted science since at least 1995[1]. Does methane have an observable, measurable effect on climate? Yes[2], and agriculture is a major driver for anthropogenic climate change[3]. If you want to argue it doesn't or isn't, bring data, because there are too many articles, research papers, and studies arguing that it does that have for your unbacked opinion to be accepted.

Does this mean that cow farts (or burps) are the cause or driver of climate change? No. Is it something that we can meaningfully reduce the impact of? Well, probably, based on some of the resources linked to in other comments.

Does it mean that solving this for cattle is going to solve climate change? No, but incremental progress helps (insert 1.01% effort per day over a year = 37.8 meme).

You know what doesn't help? Clearly ignorant reductive comments that conflate a contributing factor with the entire problem while ignoring the preponderance of evidence contrary to your claims.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/73/8/2483/4632...
[2] http://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/1234567...
[3] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-methane-tracker-2022/meth...
[4] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/methane-emission...
[5] https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/methane/?intent=121
The Electoral College exists as a compromise regarding two needs:

* The need to keep the Executive and Legislative Branches separate.

* The need to represent States in a manner they already agree with, for sake of brevity.

Thus the Electoral College: Composed in the same way as Congress is (plus pretending D.C. is a state) whose sole task is electing the head of the Executive Branch as representatives of the States thereof.

Japan (and Germany? I don't know enough about German politics) is based on the UK's Westminster system, which has its own pros and cons and isn't necessarily better.
The Case for building Client-First software [video]
Would there still be a benefit to rapidly producing metal molds/forms for other materials?
Each time a checkbox is checked, a backend job asks ChatGPT to analyze the board state and write a script using Brainfuck that updates the checkbox states and runs it directly in production.

AI LLM cloud crypto.
and Meanwhile Meanwhile, years after it was well known that the JS dependency model was an utter security disaster the rust ecosystem went on to copy it.
> fixing America's industrial problem would benefit American workers and middle class, but come at the expense of the financial and political elite. I fear that means it's going to take a lot more than some "American Dynamism" memes and investments to fix it (though that surely helps).

Sounds like a win-win.
> The Cortex A9 had 32 byte cache lines for one prominent counterexample.

Ok, all arm-designed cores for the last 15 years then :)
thanks, this is really solid feedback - we will make a more inclusive docker image to make the setup easier/faster.

Think of R2R as an SDK with an out of the box admin dashboard / playground that you can plug into.
They do care though if you express an opinion they don't like.
Had a great lab experience in the early 2000's, loads of people helping each other, sharing ideas, the odd practical joke but nothing nasty. Labs were always busy too. Dual booting Solaris and NT4 PCs, plus an embedded device for assembly class. We also had free use of the ancient dot matrix printer with continuous holed paper... I still have some code listings somewhere in a drawer. I miss those days sometimes, working remotely.
I got 55, though a search limited to the past year (as of 6/26/2024 EST) yielded 188 results, somehow. Still too low but also contradictory.
What it offers is additional market capture, which leads to additional data capture for their AI projects.
Australia is introducing new legislation around the "right to disconnect". This doesn’t prevent employees from putting in additional hours, but it ensures they have the right to disconnect from ‘unreasonable contact’ outside of designated working hours.

I think the new rules are pretty fair, but it turns out it's a bit of a spicy topic in our startup ecosystem. I thought the engineers in this community would appreciate my response to some of these Musk wannabes.
draw.io is pretty good IMHO. The fact that it has a reasonably rich set of built-in shapes, and you can add any arbitrary jpg or png file to your diagram, makes it immensely useful IMHO. I also love that it integrates with Google Drive or you can download/upload an XML file yourself.
There is also that I have different expectations for different types of work relationships.

I don't want a manager pinging me 7 times a day with questions. But I am OK with a coworker messaging me 15 times about their progress on something we're trying to get done together for that manager. One disrupts the maker cycle and one is two makers making together in the same cycle.
That's exactly the use case—I think after they switched to wayland, and RealVNC didn't work (it was included with the default install on every full version of Pi OS), they wanted to make sure there was an easy to use replacement.

Most of us on HN use our own VPNs, or have a dozen other ways to get at infrastructure from anywhere (and mosh, as others have suggested, is a better alternative for simple shell access over high-latency flaky connections)... but there are a _lot_ of people who don't want to (or couldn't figure out how to) maintain their own VPN. Or they want to deploy Pis at remote sites and each one has a weird and unique networking config, and they don't want to mess with Tailscale or the like.

It's a useful service, but it's not supposed to compete with homelabber setups, or enterprise solutions. At least I don't think so.
If they had asked the computer to design them a 981kN thrust engine they might have needed to be a little more cautious about lighting it up on a test stand. 5kN seems plenty for a first proof of concept.
Discussion (30 points, 2 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40775252
Reminder to everyone:

Plants are green(On earth) because they reflect the green color (which the sun spectrum is strongest) because they have probably adapted to better regulate different lightning condition during the day, for this they use two different pigments (chlorophyll a(blue), chlorophyll b(red); or other pairs)
I have never heard that being brought up in a (serious) conversation about UBI tbh. I've had quite a few discussions about this, the most common things people were happy about would be

- Having a financial safety net and removing some degree of existential fear (note, this is in a country with an existing social safety net)

- Switching into a career with less pay but better interest alignment. Interestingly, most of the women I've talked to would strongly prefer a switch into more social careers while basically all men I've talked to (claim) they'd switch into trades.

- Having the option to obtain educational credentials one couldn't get earlier in life for a plethora of reasons, without too much financial concerns (that is in a country with publicly funded free universities)

Certainly there are people who would see not doing anything as a godsend, but I think we generally over estimate our intrinsic desire to do something by working and tend to assume this desire doesn't exist in other people.
Wow all these years (and countless references as the "original puzzler") and I never knew Myst was built in HyperCard! That's amazing. Even today I try and find games for my kids that are the "Mysts of our generation".
> In 2022, I worked on a contract as a software engineer at Apple

> Formerly Apple, Amazon

Hm
H2 also has large amplitude motions. Becomes a quantum solid where one can obtain single-photon absorption spectra which would normally be forbidden. Among other very interesting phenomena.

https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.52....

The solid molecular hydrogens in the condensed phase:
Fundamentals and static properties

Isaac F. Silvera

Rev. Mod. Phys. 52, 393 – Published 1 April 1980

"Abstract

The molecular hydrogens (H2, D2, HD, etc.) form the simplest of all molecular solids. The combination of the light mass, small moment of inertia, weak interactions, and the quasi-metastable ortho-para species result in a fascinating low-temperature behavior that can be understood to a large extent from considerations of first principles. After discussing single molecule properties and intermolecular interactions we discuss in detail the ortho-para properties, conversion and diffusion. This is followed by a description of the crystal structures and the orientational ordering phenomena. The thermodynamic properties are reviewed. The article is concluded with a discussion of the translational ground state of the solid and the effect of the large zero-point motion on the solid state properties. A large number of data are collected in tables and graphs to provide a reference source."
It sounds a lot like semiconductor manufacturing, except electrochemical instead of photochemical.
On an APL keyboard no less!
You pretty much described how FFI works in .NET :)

When you are passing a pointer across FFI which points to an object interior, you "pin" such object with `fixed` statement which toggles a bit in the header of that object. Conveniently, it is also used by GC during the mark phase so your object is effectively pre-marked as live. Objects pinned in such way cannot be moved, ensuring the pointer to their interiors remains valid.

It's not as simple implementation-wise - .NET's GC has multiple strategies to minimize the impact of pinned objects on GC throughput and heap size. Additionally, for objects that are expected to be long-lived and pinned throughout their entire lifetime, there's a separate Pinned Object Heap to further improve the interoperability. In practical terms, this is not used that often because most of the time you pass a struct or a pointer to a struct on the stack that needs no marshalling or pinning. In the rare case the pointer needs to point to a long-lived pinned array, these are allocated with `GC.AllocateArray<T>(length, isPinned)`.

.NET has another interesting feature that is important to FFI: ByRefs which are special pointers that GC is aware of that can point to arbitrary memory. You can receive an int*, len from C and wrap it into a Span<int> (which would be ref int + length), and GC will be able to efficiently disambiguate that such pointer does not point to GC-owned heap and can be safely ignored while should it point to object memory, the memory range needs to be marked and byrefs pointing to it need to be updated if it is moved. That Span<int> can then be consumed by most standard library APIs that offer span overloads next to the array ones (there are more and more that accept just spans, since many types with contiguous memory can be treated as one).

This works the other way too and there is a separate efficient mechanism for pinning byrefs when passing them as plain pointers to C/C++/Rust/etc.
Why assume bad faith and bring pitch forks out? The actual scammer needs to be out - not some person who maintained it for free.

Nobody paid this OSS person - only when there is a problem do we ’accuse’ OSS maintainers not when they were actually doing their job for free.
Lol like ordinary programmers have a such a great ethical reputation... Cambridge Analytica, Ad Platforms, and on and on.
Besides a familiar UI/UX.

It adds that I don't need to reach for yet another tool.
> Who said the choice is between coal and nuclear?

If an existing nuclear plant was shuttered while a coal plant was still running, that was the choice.
For a time teachers resisted calculators because they learned the hard way. But learning with a calculator doesn’t mean we suck at math, we can still learn what’s behind it. AI have to be a tool for learning better and faster and expand our reasoning abilities. It’s of no sense to be stuck in the past and resist it. We have to develop a more critical thinking, use AI in schools and criticize the output and make something better out of it.

And we have to change the way knowledge is assessed. Teachers have to work hard to make better exams.

I hope it will destroy the stupid tests where students have to learn like parrots for a set date then forget everything after. It’s so stupid.
I mean, we 3d print aerospace engine parts, is this "common sense" logic really true?
There are many exciting products that enable users to perform RAG on their own data, the growing number of use cases highlights the need for developer-friendly tools to build such applications.

While building our own RAG system with existing tools, we encountered numerous challenges in experimentation, deployment, and analysis. This led us to create our own solution that is truly developer-friendly.

You can check our docs for more details: https://r2r-docs.sciphi.ai/introduction
I'd like to point out this is at odds with most of the mathematical community's interpretation. Caveat: mathematics itself does not have concerns about "interpretation" and your interpretation is completely valid of course.

My interpretation is that powerful axioms often prevent theories which asks for "too much" because the power of the axioms then can form contradictions. For example asking for everything to be a set => Russel's paradox and asking for all sets to be measurable => Banach tarski type contradiction.

Side note for mathematically trained peeps: Of course assuming all sets to be measurable and the measure to be translation and rotationally invariant leads to much easier contradictions with AOC. Banach-Tarski gives a finite decomposition contradiction (vs say countable). Also not a analyst myself, so take everything here with a grain of salt. But honestly analysis is basically completely not possible without excluded middle so I think analysts would have opinions more on classical side than myself.
With the way figma has been rugpulling free features for paid ones Im worried prototyping will be enshitefied (or some other needed feature) so we can no longer present from designs without paying for slides
reminds me of
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
They changed their policy, it now says "if the governmental client can convince anthropic that the government client needs to use Claude for purposes of anti-human trafficking. Then, anthropic will allow the government client to use Claude."

It doesn't require you to believe anything. It is not a modern version of any slogan. It's simply that, anthropic will allow government clients to use Claude if anthropic are convinced it's for certain, listed purposes. You are looking at this and approaching it ass-backwards.

It used to be a forbidden use case, or not an expresssly permitted one, for governments to use Claude to fight human trafficking.

Now it expressly permitted. You don't have to drink kool aid to understand this.

The Kansas city FBI field office's human task force, can now get some api keys, as long as they can convince anthropic that it's for a "catch a predator" sting.
We do have one in St. Louis (I'm lucky to live 10 min away), but I was out in Charlotte for one of their grand opening days—they sponsor a few video creators to come to a grand opening and do a special build/project.

They also have an industrial automated 3D printer filament retrieval machine customers can use, so I was lucky to get to try that out!
> "The only exception in nature is the obrina olivewing butterfly, which is the only known animal to produce a true blue pigment."

That is a bold claim, but a false one. A few butterfly species share that pigment. Mussels also have other blue pigments based in carothenes that don't depend on iridiscence.
If you see a Windows exe anywhere not from a Mozilla domain, you should report it as unofficial.