skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. France has been "centre" for a while. Recently the far-right gained some ground. A left alliance appeared but now Macron's centre doesn't want to bring the largest party of the left alliance into the government.

That's at most a 25 degree turn IMO, but in reality it's probably going to be crazy steering and hoping not to hit the guardrails or run off the cliff.
Very cool.

What are you using to rate severity in the security scan? Is there a full list of checks being performed?

I recommend having both resources in your documentation. If you're referencing another document, link to it. That way there's some context to the results as to why a policy author should change it. Just something to add to the improvement list.

Looks good overall! Thanks for sharing!
“Unproven”, I don’t get how anyone can use LLMs and come away with this opinion. There is simply no better way to do a fuzzy search than by typing a vague prompt into an LLM.

I was trying to find a movie title the other day, only remembered it had Lime in the title and had a Jack-the-Ripper setting. ChatGPT found it easily. Sure you have to fact check the results, but there’s undeniable value there.
I think that falling back to the lowest common denominator is an immense cause of complexity in software, and holds us back back. I think we'd be much better off if we didn't optimise for "person who wants to write a CLI in haskell who is using an 18 year old version of bash that only runs on Plan9"
Not to be confused with Rye, the programming language: https://ryelang.org
More about Black Arrow [0], which used a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water (85% concentration), which apparently is quite common. So the improvement introduced by the ILR-22 AMBER is the use of a 98% concentration.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILR-33_AMBER
Streaming it away and then merge is exactly how it's intended to with jackd streams. You create a dummy slave off the first one, then you have clients off that.

The point being that if I had take a potentially easy way of just recording directly from the device to write the files, then I would not easily at the same time be able to perform real time analysis of the stream. So the way I've done it you can indeed do this.

Note, with manual examination of the sound files with raven lite, I'm able to reliably determine the start time of a sound to less than a millisecond of error (Jitter in the pipeline, otherwise it would be a lot more accurate).

Making it entirely possibly to locate the position of bat calls in real time to quite a good degree of accuracy if you wanted.
The problem is people didn't understand that BSD/MIT license gives the same freedoms to all. The previous moat was to license permissively, but make it hard/impossible to install on traditional hardware without the (closed) architecture docs, and go closed source at any moment, since BSD allowed that.

Given enough eyeballs and persistent people, this moat started to be passed with relative ease, allowing big(ger) corporations to deploy intended-for-your-eyes-only, open codebases to production.

Naturally, people didn't like that, and started to move back to xGPL licenses to force modified copies to be open. This forces the parent company which started the project to keep the code open (or make people sign a CLA or don't accept PRs, etc.), but prevents their code from being cannibalized, and makes more sense on the long run because the added value is the service itself rather than the code. CE versions allows deployable open-core versions for the tech savvy.

[Actually Plausible says "A stronger moat for hosted Plausible", so the plan is exactly it].

So, Plausible at least, is returning to the root of Free Software, not OpenSourceWashed software. This is a good move in my book, and makes me happy that I was right about BSD/MIT in the long run.
> interested parties aren't incentivized to increase the supply of labor further

It's good when a profit-driven industry decides to stop trying to cut expenses.
Closing the age gap feels like an artificial goal. It’s like forcing 50-50 on a group. Id much rather see incentives that change behavior and whoever the heck is inclined to be in the group feels welcome and isn’t spooked.
New Hackers, I like it. A Hacker News clone strictly for new developers. Instead of articles, the links just map to posts on r/programmerhumor

Welcome btw!
From my purely anecdotal experience, it's not imploding. It's just not a way to get a salary that's $250k+ as easily as it was.

If you enjoy software engineering and are willing to take a job in some place that's not SV, NYC, Austin, Seattle, etc. you can still find jobs that will allow an above-average salary and comfortable living. It's just not going to be at FAANG or Evil Omnicorp LLC.
Good article, I've seen this covered from the materials science and system engineering perspective before but not the mechanical perspective.

Ask any first year materials science graduate how Challenger failed and they'll confidently tell you about glass transition temperatures in fluoropolymers, but if any chartered engineer gave you that answer, fire them. People in the room at the time knew about that, but somehow a clear warning became a point of uncertainty became a minor interest became a footnote.

What I find more interesting is, ask any first year economist about 2008 and they'll tell you about Gaussian risk cupolas. Somehow in that field sticking with the level one explanation as if the PhDs in the room there didn't know is accepted.
Yeah - another place to have to check for messages seems to be cluttering mindspace rather than helping.

What might be useful, if done well, would be adding tags to messaging similar to GMail's use of tags in lieu of folders, as a way of grouping related messages (e.g. notes to self). OTOH, maybe with message search, perhaps "AI" assisted, it might not be needed.

One use case for this sort of occasional "notes to self" and later search/gathering that I've been thinking of recently is for a shopping list, but it would have to involve basically zero effort to be useful. The idea would to allow you to say things like "shopping list: milk, bread", then next day "shopping list: cat food", then next day "show shopping list", or something similar.
At the risk of posting a reflexive comment, what should we be doing here? It seems like everything has unintended consequences (not on a cost-benefit basis):

- Minority affinity groups pull people from majority groups and decrease integration.

- Anti-discrimination/sexism/etc. movements often add social barriers to interactions (e.g. things I do within my identity group would be misperceived if done across)

- Affirmative action makes minorities feel like they don't deserve to be there (and often leads to resentment and other consequences)

Progress in the past few decades has been limited, so it seems like we're taking the wrong approach, but I'm don't have a better approach to propose.

Green fields, blue sky, what should we be doing to resolve the historical issues we have around sex, race, socioeconomic status, etc.?

I think looking to countries which made better progress might be helpful....
For good or not capitalism is efficient at incentivizing people to exploit resources. It's easy to project that into guessing that at least our early forays to heavenly bodies will be propelled by that impulse. It's probably the reason that earthly new world cultures are more capitalistic than the old world's. Some ideologies promote exploration more than others. You don't have to like it to predict it.
Much of what you’re describing (besides the live hitching and unhitching) is made possible by Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) [see link below]. This has been implemented in many rail systems globally, mostly urban rail. It helps reduce headways a lot. However:

1. It’s not just a software problem - installing the hardware is time-consuming and expensive. The engineering requirements are much stricter when human lives are at stake so you can’t just strap on a radio to each train. You still need additional infrastructure along the tracks to manage communications.

2. There are other limiting factors in reducing headway - having enough trains and having enough train operators. Somewhat easier to solve perhaps but still costly and non-trivial.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con...
> If v1.1 docs are tied to the version tag in VCS, that incorrect statement cannot be fixed.

It can be fixed, just checkout the branch, git cherry-pick the updated change set, or even write it by hand, then do a re-release. You should have a process for this anyway as there might be a critical bug in that code that needs to be fixed and a re-release must happen.

Of course git's handling of branches leave much to be desired (I want mercurial to come back just for it's branch handling) and so developers often forget they can do this and it isn't really that hard. It is tedious though, and you will eventually have dual maintenance where you have to write the same code twice just because the two branches have diverged - this shouldn't be an excuse not to do it though.
I'd be.. much more concerned with a rip current than a sneaker wave. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuAlDTC_gIQ for how to spot a rip)
Since it's founding, we've seen Gamergate, the rise of Brogrammers (https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/tech/web/brogrammers/index.ht...), and Changs book on Brotopia.

I could see it if stakeholders feel they are engaged in a quiotic endeavor...

As a father of 3 daughters, I still see a push for women in stem, but anecdotally my youngest is often the only girl in such activities.
Some secrets can be shared with GitHub and Microsoft. Not my secrets, but some.
Software engineers have a lack of self-esteem when comparing to other STEM disciplines. The reason we see more fuck-ups in software than in other fields is not because software engineers are stupid, but because software is inherently difficult.
It does have its fair share of 'people under a train' and people preventing doors from closing.
I seriously wonder what HN thinks is a valid business model for writing open source software. Everyone here seems to insinuate that people want to create a business and use open source as a growth hack. But how do you differentiate those from people who want to write open source (because they believe in it) and have to have a business to support their livelihood?

This is a team of eight people that tried to do everything „right“ by changing to a FOSS license (which happened four years ago) and the changes announced here sound very reasonable (changing branding and removing undocumented APIs). But all comments are dunking on them as if they haven’t even read the article.
Self hosting is the whole point of this.
Not a good sign...
> And the CEO wrote it like that originally because he didn't want to mess with IAM. I can see why he did it, but man was that a bad idea.

This is a very common case. It's okay in the very early development (rarely we start projects with a definition of IAM policies), but then it gets shoved into backlog forever.
The best part of any new stack: Spending 4 days repeatedly destroying and creating it while you figure out a single god damn policy to add to the project at a time
A setting to go and change when you install the latest firefox.
Perhaps we should stop concentrating so many opportunities in areas with exhausted resources that are needed to host an economic sector.
The word "work" is being overloaded here, their work as in output might matter but I am asking why they must work at all in the first place. If your answer is because they must procure money to survive, that is an economic failure, not one of AI. Jobs are simply a roundabout way of distributing money for output to be produced, if an AI can produce the output, the job need not exist. This is the same argument that has been used for centuries as automation advances in every field, but suddenly, when it comes for my white collar high tech industry? It's an outrage.

Even then, their work as output can matter but that doesn't necessarily mean they (should) have a per se right to their work without other people also using it, especially in cases where their work is not used as outputs directly, which is what plagiarism is. If that were the case, no one could learn from a other's work, regardless of whether that one is a person or a computer.
Rent Control
Full paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105113772...
I replied to the other comment.
Made me wonder if the article was GPT-generated and they didn't catch that particular hallucination
It doesn’t say it goes to the artists. It says artists can choose not to participate. It says most of the fees go to the venue, which is true, that’s how they get exclusivity.

Perhaps they give artists a little to encourage participation in some ancillary revenue, I don’t know. I’ve mostly worked non-TM venues. But I’m sure the promoter gets most of that too and it’s not a lot of the overall ticket sales.

I can tell you for sure, everyone but the venues feels they would get more without the monopsony. There is not a functioning market for concert promotion once you get to the 10,000+ seat level, and TM is actually even buying up the ones below that too.

Your only end run around it is the festival circuit since a lot of them are out in a field rather than a venue, but guess who is buying those up now also…
Did you read the linked paper which talks a lot about TCP pacing?

https://sammy.brucespang.com/sammy.pdf
What are some other examples of startups that 'failed' because their model was not VC friendly i.e. were unable to sustain hypergrowth, but were profitable at a small-scale?
Doesn't CEO and non profit operate out of Nashville?
Making it easy for Roko's Basilisk.
Yes, anyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to diminish the price of something.
Educate you? I wouldn't waste my time so. Just calling you out on your bs son
Genuine question: What's the motivation for getting a PhD in an engineering field? I’m guessing you just really really love researching and have enough money/low enough lifestyle to take the oppertunity cost financial hit of not working in industry for five years?
It can be all of the above.
Wow what a fake headline. Not extinct as still found in Caribbean and Cuba.
This does not actually answer the question of why it is bad (in your opinion) in the first place, it just states that bad things are mitigated. I am looking for a concrete answer to the former, not a justification of the latter. The former is what usually AI opponents can never answer, they assume prima facie that AI is bad, for whatever reason.
I have yet to encounter a soda that uses sugar alcohols, most use aspartame, ace-K, sucralose, or stevia. Those don't bother me at all.

But the side-effects of sugar alcohols are pretty well known (especially to anyone who has had the pleasure of eating beyond their threshold). I haven't searched for any papers but I'm sure you'll find plenty that conclude that many people have adverse reactions to sugar alcohols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_alcohol#Side_effects
Find another passion is a passion.
Or give the money to a more “working class” med school that trains regular doctors to work in regular practices and hospitals.

Hopkins is the elite - those doctors are going to be the best of the best, and they’re going to be well connected and compensated regardless of where they started.
I am fairly sure that’s not true, and also that platinum tickets are a small percent of tickets.

Do you have a source for that statement? The article about it linked below does not back up either assertion. I’m pretty sure they’re dynamically priced by a TM algo, and I’d bet little of it goes to the artists.
They are trained to duplicate, we just hope they do so by abstracting patterns. Various techniques stack the deck to make it difficult to memorize everything but it still happens easily, especially for replicated knowledge.

"You train them by comparing the output to the original." ->

You train neural networks by producing output for known input, comparing the output with a cost-function to the expected output, and updating your system towards minimizing the cost, repeatedly, until it stops improving or you tire of waiting.
Cost functions must have a minimal value when the output matches exactly the expected to work mathematically. Engineering-wise you can possibly fudge things and they probably do so ... now.

I don't agree with your critiques. It isn't an oversimplification, published code literally works as stated.
There are solutions of course. But they quickly break down when you're iterating quickly, copying in code from libraries like flowbite, etc and want to go back and restyle later.

A better approach that doesn't seem to exist would be some after-the-fact automated cleanup that could at least restructure the class list on attributes to e.g. sort class names alphabetically, replace where you copied text-blue-* instead of text-primary-* to fix issues like that, or other tools to aid refactoring.
The lack of funding reflects the lack of interest. For-profit investors don't see the business opportunity and governments don't see the need. There are other uses for the money, and the people with money don't want better rockets that much. Rockets are not particularly expensive, but they are also not particularly relevant.
Vision language models are blind
This paper examines the limitations of current vision-based language models, such as GPT-4 and Sonnet 3.5, in performing low-level vision tasks. Despite their high scores on numerous multimodal benchmarks, these models often fail on very basic cases. This raises a crucial question: are we evaluating these models accurately?
I have 4 young kids and really appreciate this video. My wife and I have tried to teach each of them to swim at an early age because drowning is SO SILENT! Once we were at a local park lake with my daughter who really young. She was in like 1-2 feet of water, and we were both within 5 feet of her watching as intently as possible. Suddenly a little girl playing next to her said something like "are you ok?" which made us look and see our daughter's face was underwater and she was drowning. The whole thing lasted like 10 seconds, but it was still really scary. I think we would have seen in time regardless, but the fact that we were trying to watch so closely and almost missed it was crazy.

You also have to be very careful when multiple kids are in the pool. Sometimes a kid who is a great swimmer can drown when another kid starts panicking and climbs on top of them to stay afloat.
A new business model in the fine arts realm based on NFT and pearl codes
How is this offering "a slightly better license"?
Nice. Textual is awesome. I used it to develop a screenshot database app for an online game. It was ridiculously easy and the resulting app is speedy.
It’s a little more complicated than that. I’ve run into many instances where a particular Action involves many different Resources.

If you’re trying to do fine grained permissions you have to know every resource that might end up in the request context and then have an entry in a Resource section of a policy for that Resource type. For instance just creating an EC2 (RunInstances) might involve Subnet, Security Group, EBS, image, volume, snapshot, and a few other resource types.

This gets even more complicated when you’re using Condition operators because the conditions are checked against every resource in the request context but each resource type has different valid conditions (eg some resources have tags and some don’t) so you have to split up the policy into numerous statements specific to each resource type.

All of that would be fine if there was any way to actually reliably get the context of a request so you can see exactly what was denied. Sometimes you can get the context via the encoded authorization message in a failed API call but this is usually truncated in CloudTrail or if you’re using IaC tools like Cloudformation.

They’ve done a lot in the past few years to explain why a particular call was denied but none of it beats seeing the context and seeing exactly which part of the policy did or didn’t apply.
Using GPT-4 to write a scientific review article: a pilot evaluation study
Their mere description on that page makes me shiver.
> But even that does not explain why the existence of the API was not disclosed.

The existence of the API is documented: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/s...

To me it looks like Google wants to use some analytics on Google Meet to improve it (e.g. a/b testing on CPU consumption), or they just want to provide that interactive CPU% widget in it, but they don't think it would be a good idea to let just any website use it, as it can could be used for fingerprinting (e.g. if you have two different sites open in separate tabs, they could detect this by co-operating to correlate the CPU% time series data, even if the connections are over Tor or proxies).

For non-Google services they provide a mechanism to do the same by having the customer install an extension with the correct permission.
Everyone in the US, regardless of status, is represented by Representatives. Felons can’t vote in many states, yet they’re still counted and represented in Congress.

Voter fraud is a non-issue. Or more so a racist, isolationist issue.
Yeah, thinking about this more I now understand Clickhouse to be more of an operational warehouse similar to Materialize, Pinot, Druid, etc. if I understand correctly? So bunching with BigQuery/Snowflake/Trino/Databricks... wasn't the right category (although operational warehouses certainly can have a ton of overlap)

I left that category out for simplicity (plenty of others that didn't make it into the taxonomy, e.g. queues, nosql, time-series, graph, embedded, ..)
Yeah but you're still limited to the chat mode - you can't consume the data in any other way. With a bot, you could provide some sort of other interface - either via bot commands, or an alternative web view, with fancy exports etc.
Value is there, but it does not match the hype as of today
DoD's historical office publishes a book on every SecDef
Gov't historical offices are wildly underrated. Insanely comprehensive publications for free. Not as many as State Department's Foreign Relations of the United States series, but the volume on Harold Brown is great for anyone thinking on defense tech.
There is an expression which I think is fitting, in a weird way - a successful marriage does not have to last forever. For some reason, we always tend to imagine that, once a company or organization is created, it must last forever. That for it to ‘close its doors’ or ‘wind down’ is somehow a failure. And that’s just not true; a professional athletes career does not last forever, and neither does the lifespan of most corporations or non-profits.

The organization accomplished what it set out to do; make the tech industry more inclusive and accessible to women. To a large extent, though it wasn’t a primary factor, it aided that journey nicely with its thousands of events that it organized over the years, according to this announcement.

It didn’t last forever, but it was never meant to - that would mean the presence of women in tech would never become truly equal to the presence of men. While its goal wasn’t ‘achieved’, this organization did what it could to move things in that direction and now, with its energy spent, it leaves the door open for new contributors to take the next step.

The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice. Thank you to everyone who helped organize the events this organization hosted in the last seventeen years.
Also note how they say ticket master passes on fees to the promoter. That’s a clever way of phrasing because it makes it look like they’re not greedy, but the promoter is almost always LiveNation, which is the same company.