skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's not.

They cloned the bios by observing how it behaved and writing code that behaved the same way. Nobody even looked at the bios code.
What about the heterogeneity of the original cells?
A Wine fork built using an LLM trained on leaked Windows code might be pretty useful.
In 1942 the US had the largest manufacturing capacity in the world. The US also had a large population of military-age men.

Today that position is held by China. How long do you think that the US could replace its lost materiel and men against a country that is four times larger in population and probably ten times larger in manufacturing capacity?

The WHOLE OF THE WEST (5 eyes, Europe, and Japan) is smaller than just China alone in population and in manufacturing capacity.

We in the West won't know what's hit us when WW3 comes along. It'll be a lot worse than Germany's disastrous war against the Soviets in WW2.
> A lot of hills have passing lanes _specifically_ for this issue

Sure, but not 100%.

I'm not arguing that speed limits are useless. Just that the speed limits have always been for steady state driving. You can drive all day at them and never get a speeding ticket. However in the interest of safety you should be able to exceed them to pass, this gets the pass over more quickly and is safer and less frustrating for everyone involved.
0.05 gram Helium assuming: (1) half of drive volume is used for platters, (2) at 15° Celcius (3) at 1 atmosphere (I'm guessing not pressurised since that would defeat purpose of using Helium, although might be less than 1 atmosphere)..

0.376 litres for total 3.5-inch HDD volume from my first Google result: "Width: 101.6 mm, Height: 25.4 mm, Length: 146 mm". Actual volume used for platters is less than that.

Helium is light ~ 0.169 g/litre from "0.169 kg of Helium is 0.999 m3 at 15°C": https://microsites.airproducts.com/gasfacts/helium.html Note that I think comment assumed one litre of normal air not Helium: "The density of dry air is 1.2929 g/litre at STP".
> But I think at a certain point you can only care so much and dedicate so much time to it.

That is most likely what _Linksys_ did.

Please! Lets not just accept this poor state of security and somehow try to be apologetic for this issue. The BAR IS SO LOW .. Do not send unencrypted PII over the internet. And bonus points for not sharing someone's WiFi password with a third party. A third party in the US. We can probably assume that some three letter US government agency has intercepted all these requests.

The bar is really low. This is basic stuff. Zero need to be nice to Linksys.
He created Oculus headsets, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine
when you are hungry, poor and desperate, the lines between shameless, guilt all starting to vanish.
You can say “just sort out who is doing this!” and you can say “what has happened to the world that it’s come to this!” And the answer to both is the same:

Drugs.

You’re stealing copper wiring because you’re an addict. You’re not getting a minimum wage job because you’re an addict. You live in poverty because you’re an addict.

Comments lamenting the state of society are as useful as kicking dirt. Either build better bridges or make better medicine.

Now one of you smart people comment something useful in this thread about tech that can cure dependency issues!
You might not get your ass kicked. Copyright doesn't protect function, to the point where the court will assess the degree to which the style of the code can be separated from the function. In the even that they aren't separable, the code is not copyrightable.

https://www.wardandsmith.com/articles/supreme-court-announce...

https://easlerlaw.com/software-computer-code-copyrighted#:~:...
I'm getting a "no healthy upstream" error from the demo link.
Is documentation that important? Even when I think is excellent like postgres, I've only ever had a few pages of it. Which leads me to think, who's reading the other thousands (?) of pages?

I think the amount of effort you should put into documentation varies wildly on the scope of the project.
It'd be nice if people were well-off enough that they didn't have to strip-mine the infrastructure.

The economic optimization continues.
I only recently discovered Densha De GO! and apparently the most recent game in the series is based around this very line. Very interesting to see these photos, I love the vibe, and it makes me appreciate all the detail that went into the game.
I thought there was a "clean room", where the people reading it and the people writing it were different; and they made a written specification instead of a Vulcan mind meld.
Ditto New Zealand. The first time I took some scrap metal to a dealer, I had to fill in a lot of paperwork, but subsequent visits required me to only show my id.
Super interesting, thank you for posting.
AWS Charges a Hefty Premium for Graviton 4 Instances
Hmm, I see two examples from Los Angeles California, which isn't known for lower taxes and less government.
> I assume that I would get my ass kicked legally speaking.

Maybe, maybe not. It's not as simple as you made it out to be. If you write a book with lots of stuff and you got inspiration from other books, and even put in phrases wholesale, but modified to use your own character names instead, I'm not convinced you would lose.

The court would look at the work as a whole, not single pieces of it.

They would also check if you are just copying things verbatim, or if you memorize a pattern and emit the same pattern - for example look at lawsuits about copying music, where they'll claim this part of the music is the same as that part.

It's really not as cut and dry as you make it out to be.
I usually hear feminism defined as "pro-equality", equality being defined by women.
My old Araknis AP was just a reskinned OpenWRT, trudat.
In case you know -- is there a way to get into Ubiquiti without having a drop where I need the secondary AP? Today I use an Eero at the cable modem and a second Eero just mounted on the ceiling upstairs with . I'd like to move to something that isn't locked down the way Eero is (and which has a web UI), but I like the whole 'mesh with a dedicated backhaul on a separate channel' thing. My house is constructed in a way that would make running ethernet upstairs not convenient.
Not in copyright. The work speaks for itself, and the function of code is not a copyrightable aspect.
What's the telomere conundrum?
Zoltan did an amazing job integrating sljit into PCRE. I wonder how many millions of tons of CO2 emissions it’s prevented? Maybe faster jits are possible, but this is one that’s moved the needle.
Those emulators are very popular though to the point of potentially impacting another business's bottom line. Where an individual putting it out a small block of code isn't exactly going to attract expensive lawyers.

I'm skeptical Github Copilot reproducing a couple functions potentially used by some random Github project is going to be a threat to another party's livelihood.

When AI gets good enough to make full duplicates of apps I'd be more concerned about the source. Thousands of smaller pieces drawn from a million sources and being combined in novel ways is less worrying though.
Coping with Starship – By Jeff Foust – The Space Review
The highest tax cities I have been in have the worst police, the worst roads, and the worst trash handling. Police and other basic services are very cheap compared to many of the programs undertaken by high-tax cities.
I've asked them:
a) _what_ details may have been involved. Currently the criminals know more than we do.
b) why EBT had any data if Wise stopped working with then in 2023.

I'd except there to be a fairly strong obligation (probably on both parties) under GDPR to ensure that EBT destroyed that data.

I'll be following up
I wonder how this fits together with heterochronic parabiosis.
The digits on my watch face look like 7 segments. Works great!
Even then, in the download case, there's an easy fix:
download the video several times. The part that changes between versions is the ad
I see the question this way:

fn is_n_prime_whether_or_not_God_exists()
if (is_prime(3) && is_prime(5)) { // early return
return true;
} else {
return three_if_God_exists_five_otherwise();
}
}
Sounds like a filesystem with attributes in a database.
Does it serve as a counterexample? Or did the predicted loss of memory function come to pass?

Worth noting that people were smoking plain old opium back in those times; I'd be reluctant to apply their reasoning to fentanyl.
Ah good point, though I believe their FOIA-based articles are free.
This has nothing to do with the Romani people and your low-effort, racist tropes do not belong on this message board.
Phoenix does this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-beat-the-heat-...

> Experts say road temperatures in the Phoenix area can rise to 180 degrees on a hot day

I guess being only 160°F means the gray is working. I wonder how well it would do if it were painted white.
Not something or someone I'm a fan of, to put it mildly.
> I always thought trains (light rail, high speed, what ever) were so much better than cars. Have more traffic? Just add more trains, no extra rails needed. Yamanote line rush hour showed me how effective that is AND how you might need more rail eventually. Rush hour had a train there every ~2 minutes and they were still packed.

I mean they are much better, but this is only true to a point. You can't get better than 60-90s frequency per direction on a classic fully automated dual track line. Afterwards you need to add more tracks, or increase the length of the trains.
Integrating Economic and Climate Data Will Strengthen Climate Policy
The source code of Windows XP is widely available. Same with a ~2 year old version of Bing, Bing Maps, Cortana etc. Yet that doesn't seem to have had major negative effects on those products. If anything having the Windows source code available seems to be a net boon for Windows development. Sometimes looking at the source is just better if the documentation is unclear.
It's hard to value something you don't have a stake in.

Fewer and fewer people have a stake in their communities and their community's prosperity. Fewer have a stake in the housing market. Fewer have a stake in our institutions working properly. Fewer have a stake in capitalism itself. It's not surprising that these things are slowly becoming devalued. The solution may involve welcoming back more people as stakeholders in society rather than pushing them away.
Implantable LED device uses light to treat deep-seated cancers
Then why did Google build it into the browser?
Doesn't this suffer from similar issues to a pie chart?

e.g. https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/data-visualisation-a...

I'm kinda suspicious that any data visualization that uses a circle is going to be hard to draw meaning from.
One of the key insights is that every program is representable as an integer, and you can map essentially any integer into a program. (If this seems strange, think of a file on a computer--traditionally a stream of bytes--as just a large base-256 integer.) This means we can iterate every possible program, as there are only a countably infinite number of programs.

I should also note that this is required by our conventional definition of program (specifically, a Turing machine). There's definitely models of computation more powerful than Turing machines, but these are not believed to be physically realizable (the Church-Turing Thesis); in any case, the diagonalization form of the proof of the halting problem's uncomputability indicates that these more powerful methods are also susceptible to their own variant of the halting problem.
This API either shouldn’t exist or should be Google only. It would be an absolute disaster if everyone had access to it.
This is on purpose.
I vaguely recall a story from a long time ago when companies like AOL and CompuServe sent you CDs in the mail with demo versions of their products. You could dial up using them and access a subset of their services before purchasing full access. Someone figured out that although the rest of the internet was firewalled, they still relayed DNS requests to the original DNS servers (maybe needing a low TTL) and used this to tunnel via a custom DNS server. Et voilà! Free ISP :)
If the company cannot invest the human time into interviewing...

- they are cheaping out on one of the most important aspects of a business

- why should I believe they will invest in their people once I'm hired?

- how can I evaluate the people I will be working with?

I feel the same way about a first call vs a first programming test. If you don't put a person first, I'm passing on your company
( saving trees, no tables, indexing schemes :

https://archive.xmlprague.cz/2006/slides06/meier.pdf

https://doras.dcu.ie/19172/1/MscThesis_MFOCONNOR_2005.pdf ,

https://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/cords2/Samirs-Thesis.pdf 2011 )
Standups: Individual → Teammate – By Kent Beck
On the contrary, capitalism is based on providing value to others. It rewards those who do something that others actually WANT... as opposed to what some roomful of bureaucrats decide ought to be done.
What Is Old Is New Again – By Gergely Orosz
That is with regards to the points raised in the article, specifically, how hard it is to manage dependencies, and their security, when you have 300 of them instead of 12.

For a developer, crates.io makes managing dependencies a breeze. For a user, they might just download a static binary, or a FlatPak, and they'll be happy.

But for system binaries? Those need to be part of a small base, with trusted dependencies. The crates.io model works against that; the massively distributed ownership of micro-dependencies makes trusting the security of your system almost impossible. Statically built binaries means that updating your system means re-downloading the entire OS on every security update.

The only solution to this is to ditch crates.io and vendor a small base of dependencies, the same way the Linux kernel does it, the same way Firefox does it, and the same way the Rust compiler does it. Using crates.io is really hard.
I thought this was going to be about the no-child-left-behind mindset, which results in teachers spending most of their time focusing on the slowest learners and very little time on students who are already at/above grade level. That mindset is certainly common in our school, and learning for the latter students is closer to flatlined than maximized.

Maximizing learning via SR is interesting, but it seems like it's the furthest thing from our kids' teachers' minds.
If you can you re-register the domain and email address, that would be a convenient shortcut.

But more generally, they will need business closure docs, including asset disposal. The defunct account will become property of the asset receiver(s).

If there's enough money in the account to bother, hire a lawyer to remind them how things work.

If there isn't enough money in the account, then you were right to ignore it in the first place. The damage from this leak was not (especially) predictable, but regardless it's done now, and won't get any worse.
I don't even understand the impulse to lose the names. Names aren't achievement awards. We already have Best Paper awards at the Big 4 and the Pwnies (for however seriously you take that). The names don't cost anybody anything, and they're occasionally helpful.

Name them all.

You see the same weird discussions about CVEs, and people wanting to squash CVEs down (or not issue them at all) because the research work is deemed insufficient to merit the recognition. As if recognition for work was ever even ostensibly what the CVE program was about.
Increasing speed increases the chance that someone will die in a crash if it happens, and also increases the chance that a crash will happen. Check out these graphs:

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa1304/Res...
That's kind of hate speech. Do you really think people can develop software for a wifi router and cannot spell?
That beggar must have inherited a lot of wealth because you normally have to commit way more lucrative crimes to own an LA mansion.
I guess we solid fund the scrap yards taking this material and punish them too, since they enable it. I suggest we jail the execs and managers there for not putting systems in place to prevent paying for stolen materials. I bet this would stop it really quick, and we only have to prosecute a few people rather than every thief, because of supply and demand; reducing demand immensely will make it not worth stealing infrastructure.
People live in poverty without being an addict; it's not an either/or, and you're punching down on both poor people and addicts, neither of which is helpful.

Tech will not cure dependency issues, it's biochemists, biologists, and psychologists that are at the forefront of that, and there isn't a universal cure for addiction. Tech also won't solve poverty, which is a political issue.
What took long to find out is that zero is a number like any other. That having no apples is just a special case of having some quantity of apples, not something completely separate.
Speeding up to merge with traffic that is moving faster than you is not an edge case :/
> This feels very Big Brother, where someone (or some system) is watching over you so you don't break any laws

Is having a speed-limit in the first place 'pre-crime prevention'? Regulating technology that can have public health implications is standard for governments, so to me it seems normal that they might site this regulation in the vehicle itself, rather than at usage-time. Is requiring cars to have like an ABS system preventing users from committing the crime of vehicular manslaughter? Or is it protecting the pedestrian from being killed by a negligent driver?
With types as jsdoc annotations there is no compilation step at all, no matter where the script runs. Have your cake and eat it.
Show HN: Customize the gap between macOS menu bar items
Sorry, National Security as an excuse is still utterly broken from its abuse in the early 2000s. We aren't buying this "bomb the village in order to save it" bullshit doublethink.
> But the combination of the economic ills and social malaise lingering since the pandemic and soaring demand for metals, especially for copper, has brought this street crime to new levels.

Hmmm. There's something missing from this explanation.

While I don't think these reasons are wrong, we are being gaslit about some of the knock-on effects of our sudden cultural attitude towards our justice system that happened at this time.

Young people don't want to become police anymore and police don't want to police anymore.
Are you saying that none of the four Japanese carriers and one American carrier sunk in Battle of Midway weren't sunk in combat? Some were scuttled during the battle, but again, there isn't much practical difference between destroyed and sunk.

There were also multiple carriers sunk by submarines. Torpedo counts as "in combat" and a few were in battles. Yorktown was crippled by bombers and then sunk by Japanese submarine. Zuikaku was quickly sunk by aircraft in Battle of Leyte Gulf. If you are talking about gunfire, HMS Glorious was sunk by Scharnhorst.

So what are you talking about? Do you mean "post-war", "with missiles", or "supercarrier"? Cause you should say that.

Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_aircraft_carrie...
It is things like this that make me occasionally think we are in the modern version of the library of Alexandria.

We have the peak of technology and knowledge and yet the core base of the society is rotting away, alas we know how it ended last time. Perhaps we to go the way of the neoplatonists?
I guess there's always a greater fool, but forging an oil painting using AI digital images seems pretty far fetched.
Not sure why you got downvoted, this is basically the logical conclusion of programming in some sense. Sure, generating code from docs via an LLM will be riddled with bugs, but it's not like the sloppy Python code some postdoc in a biology lab writes is much better. A lot of their code gets to be correct via trial and error anyway.

"Professional" programmers won't rely on this level of abstraction, but that's similar in principle to how professional programmers don't spend their time doing data analysis with Python & pandas. i.e. the programming is an incidental inconvenience for the research analyst or data scientist or whatever and being able to generate code by just writing english docs and specs makes it much easier.

The real issue is debuggability, and in particular knowing your code is "generally" correct and not overfit on whatever specs you provided. But we are discussing a tractable problem at this point.
The costs of repairing the damage vastly exceed the earnings obtained by the criminal. The article gives the example $85k in damage incurred to repair damage that yielded $394 in scrap. This destruction of wealth harms overall welfare, and deprives the government of resources, which hurts poor people especially. In other words, even if you only care about people who live in poverty, you should support a crackdown that will deter crimes like this.
> I'm not very happy with the computational content of LEM

> Ex-falso has trivial computational content, and we use it all the time: it's `panic!()`.

I have major issues with the computational content of a bottom type; my interpretation of the BHK semantics would not admit ex falso as constructive.

Of course this all of this really stems from one’s notion of semantic truth: any non-trivial semantic theory of truth can be argued as the “one true logic”, and there’s not much anyone can say otherwise! As I see it, it really comes down to how useful it turns out to be in modelling the particular domain of discourse.

As it happens, I’m more than happy to accept classical logic: I believe the principle of bivalence is how the world works, and as a result I’m forced to admit LEM if I want my proof calculus to be complete.

You are right that pointing out the connection to LEM is important and worthwhile, regardless of formulation.
Same, just last week on my Wise account. "Manual entry". First a 0USD "card check" was triggered, couple hours later transactions started going through.

I noticed a couple days later by accident, randomly checking my balance in the app. I got no notifications from Wise app at any time.

Thing is, although I have a physical Wise card, it was never used anywhere since the account was opened, so I suspected something was way off. Can't be stolen credit card info from some random store online, or ATM skimming etc.

While I don't know what all the possible ways to pull this off are, had a feeling I'd be reading about it on HN soon.
This breach, or some other breach, looks to me like someone has enough info to charge random Wise accounts.
No, because judges aren't robots applying the law like code. Intent matters. If you do this it will be painfully obvious that your intent is to duplicate a large body copywritten code.
> If you analogy was you were a human who memorized every variation of a problem (and every other known problem)

This is mere assumption. AI is supposed to work like that, but that's a goal, and not the result of current implementations. Research shows that they do memorize solutions as well, and quite regularly so. (This is an unavoidable flaw in current LLMs; They must be capable of memorizing input verbatim in order to learn specific facts.)

> and there was a tiny perctange of a chance where you reproduced that exact varation of one you memorized

This is copyright infringement. Actionable copyright infringement. The big music publishers go after this kind of accidental partial reproduction.

> but then added an after the fact filter so you don't directly reproduce it...

"Legally distinct" is a gimmick that only works where the copyright is on specific identifiable parts of a work.

Changing a variable name does not make a code snippet "legally distinct", it's still copyright infringement.