skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the reason why "out-of-tree modules" exist, there's really no way to eliminate initramfs or something like it entirely in the general case. It might be possible to speed up the process of building the image (as long as the results are not "redistributed"), but this is a licensing and legal problem, not a technical one. FreeBSD is under a much more permissive non-copyleft license and so can legally bundle things that Linux cannot.
I'm glad other systems offer it as an option for people who enjoy it. I can't fathom the decision process that permanently enabled it for everyone.
Yeah the market has been brutal since interest rates went up.

anecdotally:
I applied lazily around in late 2020 and was drowning in offers from big names.

In mid 2023 I started applying again and it was absolute silence. I was a much stronger engineer, my resume was better with 2+ years at big co, but I was getting nothing. It was a huge wakeup call that your abilities are not as important as the market.

So if tech gets hot and engineers are in demand take every penny you can get, because once it cools down they will not want you.

I did eventually find another job but it took 6ish months, my advice is the obvious stuff, get your resume strong, make sure you can crush any interview you get, and lean on your network. I don't think learning new technologies or doing elaborate side projects is worth it unless you enjoy doing it.
Great story. Did they fire her for that one time she didn't show up? Thats tough
For Older People Who Are Lonely, Is the Solution a Robot Friend?
Digital fentanyl on wheels?
If “all this undeveloped land is a huge carbon sink we want to take credit for,” then we’re going to have to take responsibility for the terrible amount of carbon release as peatlands continue thawing.

This is frankly a dumb article. It’s an unhelpful reframing of the issue at hand by trying to take credit for what’s happening across large swaths of undeveloped land that happen to be within our border. It will quickly
be abandoned the moment the natural carbon release of former permafrost regions cause us to be a colossal emitter instead.

Consider how unhelpful it would be if countries began trying to solve their emissions issues by laying claim to vast swaths of ocean, to take credit for algal carbon sinks.
Are there any instances of features being utilized that the old version of the code is unable to cope with well enough to be able to boot the system?
> or business travelers would be traveling on leisure fares.

Don't they already do that anyway? Every time I've gotten on a plane for work purposes, there was no differentiation between "business traveler" v. "leisure traveler" as far as the ticket purchasing process was concerned. Hell, in the most recent case it was even with my own credit card (for which I submitted an expense report to be reimbursed) - so for all the airline knew, I was just taking a week-long vacation to Colorado Springs (in that case) instead of being there for work.
And the developer job market has changed. We can act like everyone can just go get a job that pays well somewhere else, but I’ve got friends who are very senior developers who’ve been laid off and had a hard time finding a good job in recent years.

The market isn’t what it once was and while overall still good, we do all have bills to pay.
I'm sure there's non-zero amount of impact, but it's unclear what exactly that translates to. We still have free competitors like from Apple, Here, and various apps based on OSM. There's apps with subscription models. There's still paper maps and dedicated GPS devices from before google maps. What exactly do you think we've missed out on?
Hopefully pretty hard.
In autoregressive models we can "feed forward" the model by injecting additional tokens. Computing the KV cache entries for those tokens (called"prefill"), then resuming decoding. If we can do this quickly, and on the same node that has a hot KV cache (or otherwise low latency access to shared KV cache), we are quite a ways closer to offering a full duplex, or at least near zero latency, language model API. This does require a full duplex connection (i.e.: Websocket).

For true full duplex communication, including interruption, it will be more challenging but should be possible with current model architectures. The model may need to be able to emit no-op or "pause" tokens or be used as the VAD, and positional encoding of tokens might need to be replaced or augmented with time and participant.

I imagine the first language model which has "awkward pauses" is only a year or so away.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but the device the story is complaining about is a TV, not a Roku device.

> On June 6th, my TCL TV’s Roku OS was updated to version 13.0.0.
Time to containerize your pytorch app
Their software hasnt always been the best. It sounds like this is them acknowledging that.
Actually, the french Panrama [1] invented by Philippe Jaulmes (1958) totally inspired the Imax Dome, after a demo the Expo'67 in Montreal [2].
The Panrama story is long, documents only in french, and I'm still learning bits. For la Géode, the Panrama team tried hard to make a deal to use their french-made tech, so they would have installed 4 smaller omni screens next to the big Imax dome. This was scrapped from the beginning, as la Géode was built on the Omnimax spec from the ground-up. The panrama team still managed to operate a 18m screen in Paris Montparnasse [3] (Espace Gaîté / now Théatre Rive Gauche), and there is one screen left fully equipped in Montpelier, but closed [4]. The Panrama tech was originally 16mm wide, then 35mm, and finally horizontal VistaVision 35mm.

[1] https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panrama
[2] https://vimeo.com/199136507
[3] https://www.panrama.net/pages/histoire.html
[4] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4htqhr
> Why isn't it that you simply are in the correct environment when you're in your project folder?

I typically have several environments for my main project. Mostly I use a Python 3.12 version with the full set of optional third-party packages installed, but I also have a "clean" version with none of them installed so I can test error handling, as well as a Python 3.10 version as that is the oldest supported version for one of my third-party optional dependencies, plus a 3.8 version since I still support that version in my core system.

In that way I can quickly test code against the typical deployment cases before committing.

The project has about 500K lines of C code, mostly in one Python/C extension which takes over a minute to fully rebuild, but most changes are to Python code or other bits of Python/C or Cython code which are faster to rebuild, so I do editable builds for most of my work for the quick edit cycle.

I don't know how to nominate one of these environments as "correct".

(The full test suite against the various permutations of Python versions and 10 or so optional components is a mess. I've given up on testing all combinations as it wasn't proving worthwhile.)
pip is so easy, but unfortunately i've found that if you add package signatures to requirements.txt, pip chokes on it when installing it later. And subdependencies aren't always named perfectly, e.g. they might specify ~=1.4, and a subdependency that what was once 1.4.0 is now 1.4.27, and incompatible or compromised.

conda is so heavyweight installing whole pre-approved builds. and the command line options I find extremely frustrating.

I need supply chain security and perfectly reproducible builds, so poetry was the only real option.
I got an Apple TV 4K a while back to replace my Roku.

It sets my ancient sony 1080p TV to 24 fps when playing back 24 fps content.

On top of that, it let me recalibrate the colors using my iPhone camera.

Anyway, I bought it to reduce ad tracking, and was pleasantly surprised that it was roughly equivalent to buying a new TV.
Agreed people talk about features Affinity dont have but there are also many things that Adobe doesnt have or does so much worse.

Hige part of Adobe dominance (with pros especially) is the inertia to switch because of the workflows baked into muscle memory. Often the wierd quirks and inconsistencies became the standard. And adobe has many because all three softwares were developed by different companies.
Reminds me of "Don't Shoot The Puppy"

https://archive.org/details/noshootpuppy_flash

https://rrrrthats5rs.com/about/
You can create on-demand Hide My Email aliases[1] that deliver to your Apple account email address without using your AppleID to login.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/create-and-manage-hid...
Probably a good idea in China because China blocks what appears to be all things Google. (I certainly haven't found an exception.) That means there's much more opportunity for malware to slip in via sideloading, and devices are liable to be way behind on security patches.
Drinks and towels for first class?
But why a semicolon? Sentences have been terminated by periods for hundreds of years until programmers decided to be special snowflakes.
its more amusing than accurate, IMO
I would be interested to hear more about how much they were discussing their failures/challenges with others. It sounds like this might be a case of, "I finally talked to someone about it and they unblocked me in an hour."

When I was in grad school I was very hesitant to ask others for help or feedback. Big mistake! I see similar things with interns: they'll wait until a daily or weekly check-in to raise problems.

My approach now is to set a time budget; if I don't figure it out myself within X hours, then I have to ask someone for help.
There's no reason to load things like the nvidia driver if all you want to do is offer a choice to kexec into another kernel, which makes things easier - you can continue just using the display environment the firmware set up.
The rates are typically different if you stay a Saturday night. Business travelers go home on Friday night. (SFO-NYC on Friday night was always a tough flight to book. I usually stayed the extra night so I could fly 1st or Business for less money.)

If you could buy someone else's ticket on the secondary market, then you could do a split ticket thing where you both stay Saturday night but neither of you actually do.

Everyone should change their name to Pat Smith and end this scam once and for all.
Raid (Real World AI Definitions)
Another red hat "improvement" that causes another decade plus of churn and documentation and support chaos?
I also use venv and pip and I'm happy with the solution. I don't get the knock on JavaScript node modules though. Why wouldn't you want to list out your dependencies and their versions? It can be greatly helpful and I don't see how it contributes to bloat
Google's Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse
It's almost never going to be that bad unless you're going out over a terrible internet connection. Worst case you could have a way to configure one camera to run its own NTP server and have the others sync to it over LAN. That would get you sub-frame (<1ms) precision easily.
They're just piling on anything they can regardless of reason. A real damage count would be lost sales due to web scraping, but they don't sell anything.

> For example, the organization spent $1,548,693 on upgrades for its hardware infrastructure, and an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract [..] Other costs include the salaries of 34 full-time employees, who were tasked with mitigating the harm caused by the attacks, as well as various other investigation, security, and hardware-related costs.

> “OCLC has incurred damages of $5,333,064 as a direct result of Anna’s Archive’s cyberattacks, but that amount does not fully compensate OCLC for the harm from Anna’s Archive’s wrongful actions. OCLC continues to suffer from harms that cannot be remedied by monetary damages.”

Is web scraping now considered a cyberattack? Was it eating their bandwidth even if it was served through Cloudflare? LOL.
@shadowgovt Genuine question: if i wanted to create new software nowadays, and i wished for it to be as you noted "mmaximally unencumbered from interoperation", which license should i choose for my software? Which license would you use? Again, not trying to be snarky; just wanting to learn and understand. :-)
It says on the page: Don't leave or you'll lose your spot. The queue worked fine for me as long as I stayed on the page. I assume it uses focus/visibility events and puts you at the back of the queue unless you keep it open and focused.

The queue length is jumping about a lot as people are visiting and leaving, because hn.
> If you know some interesting project you can share it here

Indeed. My post is more about making people aware of how to raise awareness of products in a way they haven't thought of.

> As a sugestion, don't post two articles of your site the same day unless they are amazing.

Fair enough, didn't plan to be honest. It's just I wrote a big post and realised I should split it into two to fit the length of article I tend to like writing (and reading).
> If you take a closer look at your ticket, you may notice that it has a gliding movement, making it in a sense, alive. That movement is our ticket technology actively working to safeguard you every second.

This part made me want to throw up, preferably a couple of buckets full, right onto the heads of the marketing team who came up with it.

Kudos to the author of the article. Great work and a great read to go with it.
Yes, I'm talking about Waymo.
I have never seen a social media site ask for consent for A/B testing their new things. Everyone does this, I am pretty sure even the big news sites that wrote those headlines also does this without asking. The only thing facebook did differently was calling it research rather than A/B testing.
If the content is to be trustworthy then using LLMs to compress it makes no sense.
>I don't think it has much to do with that.

Sure it does; Russian police do nothing about credit card theft because (and to the point that) that money is ultimately coming out of Western pockets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Chp12sEnWk).

Same as the North Koreans with their industrial-level counterfeiting of USD (to name one example), for the same reasons.

Might as well be an unofficial letter of marque.
HDMI can be used to move tcp/ip packets [HEC], all it takes is one media device with connectivity, and a firmware that provides tunneling capability, and your TV will leak over the HDMI connector.

one pin [pin14] on the HDMI connector allows this to happen; disable it and that problem wont exist until specs & standards revision happens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
How do you send email or reply from the alias that you create?
The Switch memory expansion is probably much more useful than this, for general users. No standing software is able to utilize this memory expansion, only homebrew software specifically coded for it can.

In contrast, the Switch OS manages memory for apps and would be able to allocate additional memory automatically, as long as it's been made aware.
OK, would you say poetry is the best for ML engineers?
Oh c’mon there are people who have thought about it for more than the ten seconds you have and it’s not feasible and not effortless - you want to give every cam an internet gateway??
Sorry, I don't follow, more of what?
Yes, this is the protocol that makes the "magic" and show your heart rate in a treadmill when using heart rate monitors like Polar, Garmin, etc. All this without a bluetooth pairing...

It is also interesting from the security point of view.
The Grandiosity of Grundnorm
I think you’re missing the broader point I was trying to make by hyperfocusing on 1 example of an issue that can arise from kexec and is solvable in a number of ways. Ultimately the critique raised in the video about focusing on the VM and not trying this on real HW yet is a very real one and is the single hardest problem here I suspect, so punting on it can’t go on for too long.
It's a PCIe card. Bought in 2016, seems to be this: https://www.tp-link.com/us/home-networking/pci-adapter/tl-wd...
Ask Aaron Swartz
We currently transport already energy from big producers to small towns left and right.

Solar Energy reduces the load of the grid because the renewable energy will be consumed locally first. This puts less strain on it.
Scribus is unfortunately pretty bad and also almost dead. Its maybe interesting if you want to layout embeded LaTeX but the ux will make you hate yourself.
None of those things are what the poster said (slowness), so I don't know why you're bringing them up.

It's more that congress has zero incentive to fix what benefits them, regardless of support.

For instance, the COVID relief bill was a handout to the very folks that bribe them. Obviously they will pass that quickly.

You're confusing correlation (support) with causation (benefits them).
Should definitely add a chat function so people can yell at the guy taking forever
There should be only one source of truth.
But then why did my spot jump _down_ by 60 spots when I alt-tabbed?
No idea, I just summarized TFA.
> Tho nowadays that means a trip to a FedEx store for me

I've really appreciated my local library for allowing 20ish pages of printing per day, which has allowed me to limp through the no-printer lifestyle. Plus I usually grab a DVD movie while I'm there.

Life's good in the mid-2000s.
Refuse, or legally can't? Oracle doesn't own the copyrights on commits made after illumos forked from the corpse of opensolaris.
Ms's new video editor transcodes video by sending every frame to sharepoint
They’re more than just a little bit expensive when it comes to small builds and trying things out. It’s impractical to pick up as a part time hack.
This is what I do essentially. I make a new conda env for each project and use pip or conda install. What if I have a new project that needs components from two projects? Sometimes there will be impossible to solve dependencies when trying to use both components. Its not feasible to dive into each dependency within each dependency to figure out how to resolve them.

Rust's package manager, cargo, is able to handle this by allowing multiple versions of libraries to be installed in a single environment. Why can't python do that? How can one solve this with conda/pip or any currently available python tool? I've given up and decided to use websockets between different python processes from different environments.
This may be a bitter pill to swallow, but three years' experience rounds
down to zero. With no other information, it's enough to make me expect
basic ability to use git and execute well-defined tasks within a narrow
scope. If you have experience in another industry besides software,
consider using that as a differentiator that allows you to write code for
that industry. If you don't, see if there's anything in your job history
that tells me you actually know your stuff. If all else fails, take the
advice offered in this thread to light up the AI keyword detectors all
over your resume, but be forewarned that the kind of job you get that
way will be no better than its hiring process.
Native ZFS encryption is the major one I'm aware of
I'm definitely looking forward to this project!

Have you considered how Incidental might integrate with other open-source tools?

I'd love to use something like this in my OSS project.

https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven
Without making any claims about gender or non-binary people (not my wheelhouse, I simply don't know), there's ample evidence to suggest statistically significant population-level differences between males and females on a many cognitive measures.

I don't see how it's surprising that an new generation of signal-detection tool finds population-level differences in the brains that produce these cognitions.
Xbox Architecture A practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti
Is there an actual issue? Or is this someone complaining with zero understanding of how the backend works?
I agree they are great software, and I own an old Affinity Design license, but unfortunately not long after I decided to ditch Photoshop, I also decided I needed to ditch windows.

At the time there was no Linux support which made me sad. I have no idea if that has changed.
Health care industry pushes back against cybersecurity proposal
It's a relatively common setup known as Ebb and Flow (Flood and Drain).
How we tamed Node.js event loop lag: a deepdive
so my website pretty much is "hi" in index.html (two characters) and I got a "D". so to help me understand how to hack this installation, how can I use the websites evaluation to hack into it so I can understand the exploitation of the security holes I have obviously left open? Is there any guidance here?
> There is no evidence that the availibilty of Tor decreases sales in the works themselves. Quite the contrary, while i don't use z library specifically, i often use the open librarys to speed read through certain sections before i decide to buy the print, or through kindle just because the experience is that much better.

Seriously.

If you're an author, do you know how much it costs to have your book distributed, for free, via NetGalley? The answer is anywhere from $700 to $1500.

It costs anywhere from $1500 to $6000 to have an "Open Access" scientific paper published.

As an author, I love to see my stuff available on free platforms. To me, there's no downside. I've even paid open access fees out of pocket.
Awesome, finally.
These defaults are not bad if you use Emacs :) Or if you use macOS that (gasp) supports the very same ^A and ^E shortcuts in all edit controls.
Maybe a bunch of people left?
The Nazi Party wasn't particularly popular in Germany until the great depression, but I've never seen it described as having been viewed as insane or conspiratorial by Germans of the time.

Regardless of the often overused WWII analogies, how would banning voter rights work in your example of QAnon and the Republican Party? Would you want to see anyone believing QAnon conspiracies banned from voting, even if you are correct that the ideology has taken over much of the Republican Party? I'm not sure that banning most voters in one of two parties we have would go over well, nor would it leave us with a democracy or much of an election process.
Yes I have used msft recall feature. it works well. I feel tools which can go beyond OS and also implement this completely offline will be a game changer.
What would be the downsides of simply buying a big computer monitor instead of a TV? It seems to me like an easy way to avoid all the crapware that comes with Smart TVs.
Ask HN: How to structure / split up new venture between co-founders
I am technical and have found a non-technical partner who owns a legacy SaaS business (let's say $300k ARR).

In short, we want to rebuild the legacy product and relaunch as a new product, while gradually cutting over existing clients and gaining new clients. The end goal would be to deprecate the legacy product and close it down.

We both want to split this new venture 50-50, however it is difficult to separate the legacy from the new business. And the legacy product has to continue to operate while the new one is developed.

Does anyone have any advice or experience on how structuring a split might look? If we start a new company, how hard is it to share assets/IP/clients from the legacy company? Should we create a subsidiary of the legacy company? Should we just keep it all in the legacy company and figure out how to grant equity to that existing company?

Any help is appreciated!
Because Russian "offerings" are lacking in comparison, but they don't have access to a lot of it.
Your comment didn't say it did that. What did the total queue length do when that happened?
I re-read "Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server" 10 times and I don't understand what it means. Specifically the word "Comp".

What does this mean?
Reminds me of https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2017/blob/master/Presentatio...
Sure. It makes it incredibly easy to establish, for example, a reverse shell.

In a purpose-built environment there is practically no need for such a feature aside from mischief.