skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it’s not, the massive increase in the number of sensors dramatically improves reliability and changes the game more than the appearances would suggest (A rocket may look the same as 100 years ago but the data stream is completely different and invisible to humans at first sight).

The sensors and lightweight compute were not available during World War II.
There was the Ross SPARCPlug[1] that was a whole Sun SPARCStation 20 clone the size of a 5.25" hard drive. Now you can have your Unix workstation and Windows machine in one box![2]

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/components/rossTechnology/Ross_SPAR...
[2] It was a way better idea than reality, mostly because M-bus CPUs ran really, really hot so the whole thing was kinda flaky and loud.
During the last decade, ATT’s leaders decided to burn tens of billions of dollars by overpaying for obviated businesses like DirecTV and Time Warner.

I can only imagine the quality of mobile and fiber networking we could have had if that money was spent on telecommunications. And maybe they would have spent a few million on having proper security.
May 16 Dow Jones Industrial Average surpasses 40,000 points for the first time, before closing at 39,869.

public disclosure of a cataclysmic security breach in a darling of the stock market could have significant repercussions.
Android 15 beta has an optional desktop mode
I would want to ask the manager how the company is going to be loyal to me. I’m curious what they would say.
If it's done well, then that sounds exactly like what we need! Wonder whether something similar will land in Vulkan too, at some point.
Among other things. The data's mostly from May-Oct 2022.
https://dwm.suckless.org/

> Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist.
gpt at franzai dot com – ChatGPT-4o Powered Email Assistant
The human x-ray scientists
Unprecedented Warming Threatens Earth's Lakes and Their Ecosystems
yeah I also memorized that answer, but my follow up question is: storm drain grates[0] seem to be commonly made in a rectangular form, why doesn't the same issue apply there?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_drain
Strategic update from the Linux KernelCI project
i am waiting for version 2.0 "Enclave"
> How would that differ from having the 50 microservices cloned separately?

Usually, not everyone needs every single microservice, so they only checkout the handful they need, instead of the full monster. And usually one will accumulate repos over time, instead of getting them all at once. Similar, you will also only pull updates for the repo necessary for your work today, instead of getting the full update the whole company creates every day.
Also, escapees
Could probably attach some watch to his collar and write an app.
It redirects client requests to S3 endpoint, so yes, in the end all heavy traffic goes from S3.
For whatever reason, chat seems to definitely encourage tribalism. The last company I worked for eventually bought into Slack because so many people WOULD NOT use anything else while a lot of us were like "ANOTHER chat app??" because we were perfectly happy with Gchat which we had as part of Google Workplace.

I know there are some historical reasons for non-SMS because of text pricing outside the US but everyone I know in the US would look at you funny if you wanted to use some special app for texting.
Yes, there are lots of auto generated thrift templates, we have tried our best to keep deterministic generation.
One receives grants for doing new research and writing papers about that research. There's no financial incentive for reviewing the existing body of work, and since one needs money to eat, guess what doesn't get done?

It's basically a case of lots of people are talking and few of them are listening. It's understandable that a lot of trash talk gets ignored.
Well he's probably right. There should be fixed and immutable company policy for automatic raises and bonuses based on independent quantitative measurements, i.e. inflation, local cost of living, and project metrics. No buts, no exceptions, on both the employer's and employee's side. This is how it works in most government jobs and it makes everything fairer, easier, and more predictable overall.
Why would AT&T even need to keep this data?

All i can think of is billing for a fraction of plans from the early 2000s who still pay per min/per text. Or maybe for capacity metrics but even then you only need the overall data point not the actual records once collaborated.

What's the US law for keeping data as long as its relevant and needed?
Competence crisis? Crikey, that's a lot of crises! Sounds like we're in a crisis crisis.
And [4] Energy-hungry, already breaking green transition targets, and already becoming an issue for arbitration (as to what goes to IT/AI, and what goes to supporting existing life/society-critical systems).

Blockchains, crypto and NFTs had the same red flags, just without anything as demonstrable as ChatGPT or image/video/music generation.
You can still recover that without timestamps. It also looks like if anyone interacted with an ATT customer or used an MVNO your data is in there too.
!! Thank you, I've put up a PR to fix this
Lowest turnout in UK election since universal suffrage, report shows
This is stupid. What if you need to speed away from a dangerous situation?

I expect there will be increased amount of accidents and this law maybe be reversed.
Biological strangelets
From the abstract: "making it applicable to real-time communication scenarios like calls and video conferencing, and addressing use cases such as voice anonymization in these scenarios."
Kubernetes is extremely bare-bones, there's no way they'll embed a registry. Kubernetes doesn't touch images at all, AFAIK, it delegates that to the container runtime, e.g. containerd.

If you want some lightweight registry, use "official" docker registry. I'm running it inside Kubernetes and it consumes it just fine.
Like treat path as a object key, and put value as a json or blob?
I've been surprised by how many use cases I've come across lately that point back to XSLT.

This is one example. A website could very easily be written such that all of the XSLT, CSS, and JS are cached. The only data that would be refetched on each visit is the XML itself, and proper cache headers could even make sure that's only fetched when the content changed.

Another example, there was a Shoptalk Show recently talking about web components. It came up that one feature to make them really useful would be HTML syntax for logical flow (for loops, if/else, etc). That's exactly what XSLT did.

Writing XSLT is a real pain until you really learn it, the mindset is very different from many common languages. And it hasn't been touched in probably 20 years, with at least a few features that were just never implemented in Firefox. It sure is an interesting tech though, and made a lot of sense when the web wasn't about web apps and advertising.
It’s not part of the spec, apparently, but Adobe discusses it at https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link-html-pdf-page-acroba....
I would say I'm sad that the destruction of twitter also came with the erosion of the concept of blue checkmarks. It was a useful indicator, e.g. "am I interacting with the official handle of ...?". This is no longer possible today - one needs to always hunt down social handles from a website rather than trust Twitter/X "verification".

Also, happy to see the investigation didn't take that long. I can imagine Twitter/X is not the easiest company to work with.
Definitely doesn't seem like an AI based on sentence, paragraphs and word structure.
I am an ATT user and on a pixel which generally good at filtering spam messages. I have noticed I was getting so much spam messages recently ("wanna make money working remotely for x hours a day only") I was surprised and thought my number somehow made it to one of those spam networks. This confirms my suspicions.
Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says
This criticism is mostly outdated- including the analysis code is now required for most good journals. As a computational biology academic PI, I review a lot of papers, and don’t approve anything without code unless the analysis is trivial- like a standard off the shelf statistical test. In the past this objection has been overruled by editors, but not in the last few years.

That said, people misunderstand what peer review is and trust it too much. It is just a quick sanity check, and serves mostly to get feedback on how to make a paper more understandable. Good faith is assumed, reviewers do not look for fraud or hidden mistakes, that isn’t necessary or the point of peer review- fraud will eventually come out and consequences are severe. In most cases when I review a paper I have less than an hour to look it over, and mostly try to suggest things to make the paper easier to understand.
Are there any use cases that is driving this ? Is there a huge burning need for technology ?

Are kidnappers and con-men a huge under-served market that Google is hoping to serve ? Deep Fake videos not convincing enough to serve the need of fraudsters ?

I am totally against regulating AI but shit like this gives fodder to the other side.
I know also see media like CNBC doing basically a transcript of TikTok videos along with some reactions about the video from Twitter. And then call that “journalism” :D
Ah, i kinda expected the UI (https://i.vgy.me/beZtWa.png) to show the actual PDF page number, never noticed the "i" thing. Thanks.
many of the tricks we learned in the late 90s - 2000s can no longer be pulled off. We used to download jar files over the net. Running a major prop trading platform meant 1000s of dependencies. You’d have swing and friends for front end tables, sax xml parsers, various numerical libraries, logging modules- all of this shit downloaded in the jar when the customer impatiently waited to trade some 100MM worth of fx. We learned how to cut down on dependencies. Built tools to massively compress class files. Tradeoff 1 jar with lots of little jars that downloaded on demand. Better yet, cache most of these jars so they wouldn’t need to download every single time. It became a fine art at one point - the difference between a rookie and a professional was that the latter could not just write a spiffy java frontend, but actually deploy it in prod so customers wouldn’t even know there was a startup time - it would just start like instantly. then that whole industry just vanished overnight- poof!

now i write ml code and deploy it on a docker in gcp and the same issues all over again. you import pandas gbq and pretty much the entire google bq set of libraries is part of the build. throw in a few stadard ml libs and soon you are looking at upwards of 2 seconds in Cloud Run startup time. You pay premium for autoscaling, for keeping one instance warm at all times, for your monitoring and metrics, on and on. i am yet to see startup times below 500ms. you can slice the cake any which way, you still pay the startup cost penalty. quite sad.
> If Trump wins in November, they'll spoon feed him this document in bite-sized chunks. And he might actually agree to implement some of it. But I'm sure other bits he'll either reject, or only agree to in some watered-down form.

And isn't this already scary enough to reject a Trump presidency? That's what I mean about the Overton window shifting, when some parts of that tome are acceptable as public policy given the foundation of the whole document... It shouldn't be acceptable that any of it would be considered as policy, even less by a stupid ignorant like Trump who won't even read it, much less have any semblance of knowledge for the consequences of applying those policies.

The guy openly states his ignorance and stupidity, and his voters accept that ignorance as a good trait, it's absolutely unfathomable.
X under Musk isn't a free speech platform though.

https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-...

https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-a...
With that much generation that im assuming changes regularly you almost want a seperate solution or to gitignore them and generate the files at build time...
British chipmaker Graphcore bought by Japan's SoftBank
They specifically mention "homemade vodka" in the paper, which would mean grains. The whole case report title contains "due to home distillation of methanol". There's a chance they weren't precise with the vodka description, but then we're just guessing the source itself is incorrect... that's path to madness.
Fantastic. This is why efforts to defeat web scrapers will ultimately prove futile unless the human/computer interfaces require constant biometric authentication. I imagine in some dark timeline, content will not be displayed unless the finger touching the trackpad is a human finger. Or the keyboard keys wont register unless they detect a fingerprint or other bio signatures. Same thing with online multiplayer games. Only approved controllers that have some future tech that constantly polls that fingerprint pressing the buttons to ensure it is a human.

Perhaps something like the eye tracking tech in modern vehicles to ensure you're paying attention if the lane assist is turned on.

Of course, that would be awful. But what other recourse is there?
Brilliant. Now, the final missing piece - custom domains (can be paid option). I need to be able to continue to use my domains by just pointing to your service.

So, I want "https://cdn.daminik.com/dam-2024-91b1f1b/oinam/picture.jpg" to be "https://cdn.oinam.com/dam-2024-91b1f1b/oinam/picture.jpg"
I think NextJS lead reactjs to a doom way
I'm a front end developer, use Reactjs a lot, heard of nextjs for a long time, but never use it.

Finally I maintained a nextjs based project.

Yes, I know they create Server Component/Server-Side Render

But, everywhere are server components, it means, you can't use useState, useEffect and such client-function at all.

It means, nextjs turns the SPA to refresh page.

It means, you can't use console.log() or debugger; easily in a component, otherwise you have to turn the component into a client-component.

A lot of nextjs pages call async/await request, do they optimized these actions, combined many request into one? I don't know, but I don't feel pages loaded quicker than before.

And when I counter a real situation:
* props.dataSource pass into

* component(use client), processed props.dataSource (React.useState(data.slice(0, defaultShowItems)))

* props.dataSource updated

* useState() return an old value

I have to give the component a fresh new key every time to fix this problem.

That's awkward, I heard motto, nextjs re-invent PHP,
now I really feel it.
Sigbovik is full of these...
https://www.sigbovik.org/2024/proceedings.pdf
I guess… how do we get people paid for reviewing? It’s an interesting point that the incentives are not helping us here.
Snowflake is saying they knew of unusual activity "around mid-April 2024", confirmed "May 23, 2024", around which time they made MFA mandatory (although their customer AT&T say they knew of the breach "Mar 20"; these timelines keep shifting back):

"Mandatory MFA option unveiled by Snowflake" - Jul 11, 2024
https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/mandatory-mfa-option-unveil...

> "US cloud storage firm Snowflake has already required the implementation of multi-factor authentication across all user accounts a month following the widespread breach of customer accounts, including those of Ticketmaster and Santander Bank, reports The Register."
Yes, that is a better one for the actual list of alternatives. The one I mentioned has a little "history" blurb talking in broad strokes about source control from the 1960s onward.
No, that's not true. Atlas V and ~Delta IV heavy had a 100% success rate.

Ok strictly speaking atlas V is not 100% yet. There are 16 more opportunities for failure.
Interesting! And it seems like they are fairly well-supported among major browsers, with the exception of Safari [0].

Writing links by hand is rather cumbersome, though, they ought to be better exposed in PDF viewers. It certainly doesn't help adoption when the list of allowed parameter values is locked in a proprietary spec!

view=<keyword>,<position>
The arguments correspond to those found in [ISOPDF2] 12.3.2.2
"Explicit destinations". <keyword> is one of the keywords defined
in [ISOPDF2] "Table 149: Destination syntax" with appropriate
position values.

[ISOPDF2] ISO, "Document management -- Portable document format --
Part 2: PDF 2.0", ISO 32000-2:2017, 2017.

0: https://pdfa.org/pdf-fragment-identifiers/#Browser_support_f...
This works well when the problem.stays the same for long enough, and you're not in a particular hurry. Good for radio telescope control (the original application of Forth), good for spacecraft design (some of Moore's CPUs have flown in space). Harder in a typical business setting, alas.
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Yea they do E2E checks with playwright as well, among other things. A bunch of stuff could get cached from those checks I suppose, especially if it's user-written code.
Born into slavery, he rose to the top of France's art world
Oh hey that’s my Floppy8! Never woken up to find my stuff on HN before! So cool!

I actually just released a video earlier this week about the progression of my SD card based cartridges[0] which started with the floppy cartridges for this. If you like the Floppy8 you’ll probably enjoy seeing the dozen iterations I went through after this blog post haha

I’m mostly a YouTuber not a blogger so I have a bunch of other projects on my channel[1] in a similar vein which you might enjoy as well.

[0] https://youtu.be/END_PVp3Eds

[1] https://youtube.com/@abetoday
Consciousness is a completely different matter and not what we were talking about.
From an earlier comment:

I have long maintained that the NIH should set aside 20% of its budget to fund spot checking of the research output of the remaining 80% of funded research. Even if this funding is only sufficient to review a handful of papers each year, it stands to have a transformative effect on the level of hype and p-hacking in many fields, and could nearly eliminate the rare cases of actual fraud. It would also improve the overall quality and reliability of the literature.
I don't think you're right. I won't pretend to be an expert on any of this, but as a speaker of modern Greek I can confidently say that λαβύρινθος (labyrinth) is the only word in Greek to describe both your definition of a labyrinth and a maze.

For example, this Wikipedia article[1] on labyrinth in Greek, which has the picture [2] of a maze and calls it a labyrinth.

[1] https://el.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CE%B1%CE%B2%CF%8D%CF%...

[2] https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Tablette_1287...
In Howard Shultz book about Starbucks he said one of Starbucks goals was for it to be a third place to be able to safely go to chat and socialize. Home is one, work is two. He wanted Starbucks to be able to be a/the third. Similar to what a church or pub has provided throughout history but a lot of people no longer go to church.
Wow, this looks amazing.

The authors have developed Cradle, a multimodal-LLM-powered agent framework with six modules: Information Gathering, Self-Reflection, Task Inference, Skill Curation, Action Planning, and Memory. Once Cradle has processed high-level instructions, its inputs are sequences of computer screenshots. Its output is executable code for low-level keyboard and mouse control, enabling Cradle to interact with any software and complete long-horizon complex tasks without relying on any built-in APIs:

Oversimplified Big-Picture Diagram

+------------+
| Cradle | executable code
screenshots -> |(high-level | -> for controlling
| planning) | keyboard & mouse
+------------+

The authors' experiments show what to me looks like impressive generalization and performance across software applications, successfully operating daily software like Chrome and Outlook, and across commercial video games: It is able to follow the main storyline and complete 40-minute-long missions in Red Dead Redemption 2, create a city of a thousand people in Cities: Skylines, farm and harvest parsnips in Stardew Valley, and trade and bargain to make a profit in Dealer's Life 2.

There are of course many caveats -- the technology is still in its infant stage -- but still, I'm impressed at how quickly things are progressing.

We sure live in interesting times!
You are not correct. LLMs understand "ramen without egg". Image gen models generally do not as this is not how images are described.

If you want to generate ramen without egg, you'll want _negative weighted_ prompts. "eating ramen, (egg:-1)"
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Russia's GDP is a bit more than half of California's.

Civil aviation there is a few hundred planes (about the size of Southwest--in total), and is heavily government subsidized.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-sp...
Create Nobel prize category for proving existing research false
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My girlfriend and I are working on a website (lovebynotes.com) to store your relationship's treasured memories, love letters, and anniversary details in.

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I don’t think it’s fair to blame people for not understanding the subtleties of encrypted communication.

Everyone only has so much attention to give.
Natalie Portman?
Sure, but the exact opposite will also be getting done by groups of people, why not mention that?… I have over the past year seen many comments on specific topics being closed down for no specific reason than to protect the powerful. If you want a more secure system to protect against manipulation, you won’t get it unless HN drastically changes the sign in measures (which would also be a nuisance)
actually ModelBox(model.box) offers that, the autorouter function can dynamically switch to different models according to latency, geo-position and costs.
> or that being shown (relevant) ads is the user's interest when browsing the web.

the author brushes this off as unlikely. certainly it's not in my interest, but especially from non-tech friends, i hear this a lot. they actually enjoy the high-quality, targeted ads

> unreadable, pre-processed JavaScript

this is where i'm starting to switch off. yes, let's forbid any improvement in DX, so that a user can inspect the source and understand it. seems like the perfect tradeoff