skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US and Canada:

All mass influxes of immigrant communities will have some crime element initially due to poverty and discrimination.

This is normal and should be expected.

It’s a part of the integration process over initial generations.

For the US, you can trace the phenomena to the influx of Irish Catholics in the early 1800s and from there to…

Eastern European Jews, Italians, Armenians, Russians, Cubans, Chinese, Indians, Puerto-Ricans, Dominicans, Central Americans, Nigerians, Somalians and other immigrant communities.
The classic Escape Velocity Nova used ResEdit as it's official modding support

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10504182
that’s called a "dialer", haven’t used that word for a long time
Linus would definitely defer to lieutenants when it comes to understanding the specifics of code in specialized parts of the kernel.

Even these experts would probably want to consult with others instead of trying to just grow what's going on on their own.
Python 3.13.0b4
It could well be if corporate lobbying was banned and power was given back to the people.

Democracy is just a word bandied about to convince "the people" that their vote is worthwhile and they are somehow having an impact on who gets into power.

Its money that chooses who gets into power and the rich pay for this.

True democracy has never been put into practice.

Same in the US as in the UK.

Undemocratic two party bullshit.

I have never voted because none of the political parties represent me or my views of living in a fair and equal society.

Living in a fair and equal society. Now thats a thing!
Yes, I'm planning to bake in spaced repetition here, figuring out the workflow.

The free tier gives you 10 quiz generations + document uploads while pro tier (~9$/mo) is unlimited for both.

The granularity can be controlled based on your use case.

Dropped you an email, happy to have a chat :)
Hasn’t this been debunked?
It wasn't a code update. It was a data file update. It certain seems that they don't include adequate testing for data file updates.
lwarp's output is phenomenal. Both https://tikz.dev/ and https://tikz.dev/pgfplots/ are rendered with lwarp and I daresay they are a noticeable improvement over the PDF equivalents.
What a strange take
Show HN: A *simple* Python interface for multiple LLM providers
Langchain was too abstracted and complex for me, so I made a simpler alternative. LLM Nexus is an open-source Python package that provides a single interface for interacting with multiple Language Model providers. The idea is make it easier to experiment with and integrate various LLMs into their projects without getting bogged down in provider-specific implementations or a heavy abstraction layer.

Key features at launch:

- Consistent API across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI LLM providers

- Support for both text completions and function calls

- Easy switching between models and providers

- Simplified error handling and response parsing

Sharing with HN community in the hopes that it might be helpful, get feedback on it, and find others who want to help improve and extend it.
Certain people advocate a compromise where a company may be allowed to be limitedly liable until a certain size then it has to transform to unlimited liability.
I'm curious about this bad 'news' about Kolide. Could you tell me more about your experience with it?
They really are delusional, as a security person crowdstrike was overvalued before this event, and to everyone in tech this shows how bad their engineering practices are.
Worst thing is that to fight a lawyer you need another lawyer, so if taken as a category they never lose.
Wow. Cause a global meltdown and only lose 18% of your stock value? They must be doing something that investors like.
Yes, that is why the owners of the computers (corps) use these tools - to maintain control over their hardware (and IP accessible on it). The end user is not the customer or user here.
whether you morally agree with surveillance software's purpose is not the same as whether a particular piece of surveillence software works well or not.

I would imagine an open source version of crowdstrike would not have had such a bad outcome.
"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack"
Ventilation Made Easy
> Thousands of litigants

i would imagine a class action suit instead of individual cases if this were to happen.
Yea! The quiz is a way to quickly review any topic days/weeks after consuming them.

I'm still figuring out the spaced repetition workflow. I'm experimenting with creating a memory database for each user after doing a quiz. For example, if you did a YC quiz and we're getting questions related to "equity" incorrect, it will take that into account when generating the next quiz.

Happy to have a chat! You could dm me on twitter: @Aayush_Mathur7 or email: aayush@studychat.app
See also Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Look at Large Language Models • Jodie Burchell • GOTO 2024 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv0cfsastFs
I’m always a little confused when people are blown away by the “the program IS data” revelation. What did they think the program was? Why is this seen as transcendental LISP enlightenment when it’s the main feature of a von Neumann architecture?
Ah yes, the sandbenders. [0]

0: http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/sandbender.html
> And then, once again, Europe blames the groups it refuses to accept.

Can you explain in what way did this manifest in Sweden for instance? Or have any data/evidence besides some semi-vague claims about antisemitism and some immutable characteristics of European societies (which are hardly monolithic to begin with).

It's not that I even necessarily disagree with what you're saying but unfortunately your comment is 80% demagoguery and 20% substance.

> Why is it that economic migrants do, after a few generations, become successfully integrated in America, while they tend not to in Europe?

Possible different population samples that don't overlap as much? By and large (unless you're crossing the Mexican border I guess...) immigrating to the US has been significantly harder than to the EU even if you're educated/relatively high skilled. The US can afford to be much more picky.

> One might ask: Was that the Jews' fault? Or the host society's fault?

There are 2x more Jews in France than before WW2? Guess from where most of the threats/attacks towards them are coming? (hint: not the host society).
So many citations needed.
but they are able to insert themselves into this many enterprise machines! So regardless of your security credentials, they made good business decisions.

On the other hand, this may open the veil for a lot of companies to dump them.
Not only that, the necessary resolution to the paradox is inherently narrow.

Suppose you have some fools who assert that their opponents' ideas are too dangerous to be heard and have to be censored. Actually doing this is itself too dangerous to allow because once the censorship is in place it would be used to quash dissent and suppress the truth and people would be punished for challenging the prevailing dogma, even when they're right.

But to prevent the harm you don't need a system to prevent people from proposing the harm, you need a system to prevent them from enacting it. It doesn't require censorship, it requires a robust system of checks and balances for protecting fundamental rights, so that the people who propose censorship or violence are thoroughly incapable of bringing them about.
I don't know if there's a way to outsource ongoing endpoint security to a third party like Crowdstrike without giving them RCE (and ring 0 too) on all endpoints to be secured. Having Crowdstrike automate that part is kind of the point of their product.
> leaked 131kt +/- 34kt of methane

> The eGHG potential of methane is 20x CO2 over 100 year timescale

It’s hard to not feel hopeless. Keep recycling your single use plastics, I guess we’ll be fine.
The same!

“We are optimistic that A.I. is actually allowing us to make significant — not transformative yet, but significant — progress in being able to identify vulnerabilities, patch holes, improve the quality of coding,” Kent Walker, the president for global affairs at Google, said at the Aspen forum.
$5-$15 per ~year~ you say?
Er...
speaking as a liberal American, this is a wild oversimplification. Housing is not a zero-sum resource. For one thing, to be a bit cheeky, when the white settlers stole the land from the Indians there was absolutely no housing at all. When my grandparents arrived in the US in the 1920s they lived in a tenement with one bathroom per floor. My grandfather saved his money as a tailor and a bartender and eventually built modern apartment buildings. If you harness the ingenuity and resourcefulness of immigrants they will build!

This is why I think welfare states in Europe are on the wrong path toward trying to integrate foreign populations, not because it takes resources away from native Europeans (the demand side) but because it chokes off the supply side of what immigrants should expect to need to add and contribute to the society.
> financially stable

> halves the risk of divorce

For men, becoming unemployed more than doubles your chance of divorce. This effect is not seen for women.
A similar thing I've been thinking about is extracting open github issues and using LLMs to triage them. Might look into that.
I am guessing from the brief vague description of the "hack" that they had like cdn.pokemon.com/pokemon/1025.jpg and the kid incremented it to 1026.jpg and found the next Pokémon and that's what was construed as "hacking"?
Microprocessors with tiny features are a chokepoint, but I suspect you could make a primitive one if you really worked at it, i.e. go back to 1960's technology, such as the AL1 or 4004.

Even going to 1925 and teaching how to make a MOSFET would help.
Poe's law strikes again. I'm unsure if you're being sarcastic or not. I think the consequences of our actions will find us one way or another regardless of immigration policy. That's not an argument against screening, but for policy reform.
'Analysis' of the null pointer is completely missing the point. The simple fact of the matter is they didnt do anywhere near enough testing before pushing the files out. Auto update comes with big responsibility, this was criminally reckless
that's not what a CEO wants to hear.

They want to hear that they can pay $X dollars to this service provider, and tick all of the cover-your-ass boxes in the security checklist; where $X is the cheapest option that fits the bill.
It's funny to read that comment, when the argument includes:

Tcl has a peculiar syntax that appeals
to hackers because of its simplicity.
But Tcl syntax seems strange to most users.

That could be used to describe (emacs) Lisp too!
Just curious if you've tried posting a 2 star review? Wonder if that would get past the filter?
The 'La' in 'LaTeX' stands for 'Lamport'. Leslie Lamport set up additional macros atop the base TeX language to make life easier. To this day LaTeX code can still be compiled with `pdftex` (note, no 'la' there).

The `article` document class is actually some `article.cls` file that resides somewhere in your TeX install root, is loaded, and implements macros such as `/title`, `/section`, `subsection`, and so on. All LaTeX eventually expands into a pile of TeX macros that are evaluated.

All this is to say... LaTeX comes with the templates, you've been using one all this while.
How feasible would it be to implement blue green deployments in that kind of system?
I'm still curious some 24 years later what it was up to.
> you do not buy software that does that

Note how the incident disproportionally affected highly regulated industries, where businesses don't have a choice to screw "best practice".
Same for me, my first foray was making changes to the game Escape Velocity using ResEdit, then I used it on anything and everything, then as soon as official modding support came out for games like Myth, Doom, Marathon, etc, I starting making mods, and then it was coding and so on. :)
The sad reality is probably not.

I personally would prefer organizations to own their hardware as in the early age of internet. It was meant to be decentralized. However in the last 2 decades centralization has prevailed.

I think it is sad because look at the CrowdStrike incident earlier this week. Or outages in AWS, cloudflare etc. These are examples why decentralization would give people/organizations power and control.

This mentality of making it “someone else’s problem” with outsourcing is a fairy tale. In the end your business is at risk. Let alone the overhead and inefficiencies.

Perhaps another analogy: if one eats out every day and never learnt how to cook a meal themselves. When the situation presents itself there is no cook around. One would probably starve or resort to simple food sources like whole fruits.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1814582631045955892.html
Yeah you go do that in the Congo. Get some up close and personal research done
> What's the basis for this claim?

The title of the piece is "Open Letter to the European Commission".

The EU commission has more important things to focus on than this low impact slush fund aspect of NLnet. Given the lack of impressive successes that you can point at, maybe there is an argument that they are and that NLnet just isn't doing very well. I dunno. If they could manage to get a Google-scale company to take root in Europe it'd achieve a lot more.
Great project! Thank you for sharing.
> Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

You also don't know this about random newspaper reporters. Even the "most respected" outlets have let print some real whoppers.
Exploring FPGA designs for MX and beyond
Same lesson for enterprise customers as well -- test new distributions on non-production within your IT setup, or have a canary deployment in place before allowing full roll-outs into production fleets.

It was mentioned in one of the HN threads, that the update was pushed overriding the settings customer had [1]. What recourse any customer can have in in such a case ?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003390
By "write only" do you mean "append only"? Just for my own understanding.
> Can you explain in what way did this manifest in Sweden for instance? Or have any data/evidence besides some semi-vague claims about antisemitism and some immutable characteristics of European societies (which are hardly monolithic to begin with).

If you live in Sweden then you will also know that the state puts refugees in the same areas (Rinkeby, Vivalla, Tensta, etc ...). These areas are then labeled as unsafe because of a slightly elevated crime rate and because they're labeled unsafe, swedes start moving out and quality of services and house prices drop and the downward spiral continues until the area becomes a ghetto even though they're usually not that bad.

Although SFI exists to teach Swedish to immigrants, the quality of the teaching is not great in most schools.

That's where the integration effort stops.

Even professionals who move to Sweden for work have a hard time integrating in Swedish society. That's how you end up with people living in upscale parts of Stockholm for 10+ years and can barely form a sentence in Sweden.
Absolutely agree on that and I personally always try to keep in mind that HN is a weird bubble when it comes to tech but especially when it comes to things related to either money or society.
The deprecate dead batteries list made me feel very old. I remember the Usenet arguments about all the c variations of getopt processing which proceeded gnu getopt, and here we are saying it's too old and argsparse is better
> And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that.

This, especially now that we're approaching the day when everyone could ask their personal AI to build a fake, albeit plausible, image of someone doing something wrong.
Greenspun's tenth rule:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule)

Arthur C. Clarke's third law:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws#:~:text=....)

Apparently we now have the following, as well:

"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack…"

(https://x.com/leighhoneywell/status/1814278230704111792)
I disagree with the concept of surveillance altogether. Computer users should be educated about security, given control of their devices, and trusted that they will do the right thing. If a company can't do that, that's a sign that they don't have good security practices to begin with, and don't do a good job at hiring and training.

The only reason this kind of software is used is so that companies can tick a certification checkbox that gives the appearance of running a tight ship.

I realize it's the easy way out, and possibly the only practical solution for a large corporation, but then this type of issues is unavoidable. Whether the product is free or proprietary makes no difference.
Syscall.sh
People are still using Twitter? Why?
Auto-updates of “content” (what it thinks is malware) are mandatory and bypass the option to delay updates: https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1814367918425079934
Works fine for me with "Enhanced Tracking Protection" set to "Strict" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did western and eastern Germans had different languages? Different alfabet? Different religion?

Better comparison is to protestant Germans with Catholic French people.
Firefox Focus works great. I have it set as the default browser in iOS and use it for browsing sites and opening pages from Feedly or other applications. As soon as I close it, say goodbye to cookies and all tracking info. It's like a private browsing browser.

If I need to go to a site and log in, then I use Firefox with standard protection (and then use the built-in password manager). But I do 95% of browsing in mobile that I want private, so FF Focus is a gift.
> There seems to be little that can be done to fight the onslaught of bullshit that these evil (yep, evil) bastards use to corrupt discourse worldwide. Other than doing something that will send you to jail. It might be time to do just that.

I have never read a more fascist comment than this one on this site, congratulations on reaching such a low point.

I imagine you consider yourself a democrat, right?
Wasn’t the 8.5 million an estimation? I thought microsoft took the telemetry they got and then adjusted it based on the estimated ratio of machines where telemetry is disabled.
http://www.airtalk.com/z_ref-4_1.html

For people like me that didn’t understand why the cables are pressurized.
I agree that regimes or groups that determine citizenship along the lines of vague "values" are always fascist or authoritarian, but that's why I delineated the "values" I was talking about and restricted them to the same ones embodied by the French Republic. In responding to the case I was trying to differentiate between those vagueries of ethnic background or shared religious "morals", and the few common things enshrined in our Constitution which most Americans would agree on and which virtually all asylum-seekers are seeking as the prerequisites to individual liberty and prosperity for their families.

So I suspect but won't condemn the parent poster of conflating "values" with a blood/soil/religious code, but that is not what I meant talking about American values, which are applicable to all comers without surrendering one's belief system. In theory, French values should be the same. Jefferson thought so. And in practice, as you point out, there is a deep well of nativists in both countries who believe they possess some further mystic undefined value system which excludes this or that foreign practice. But as you say the law is enforced and the state is preeminent; the difference being that this simple equality under law is what people come to America to seek, with some conviction that they can become American while fusing those liberties to the elements of their culture that they wish to maintain.
Yes. My primary use case was to allow only some syscalls and block all others. Until I had to support multiple architectures and executables having different runtime behavior. I ended up attaching an debugger and searching every syscall I met one by one. My understanding to kernels then was not enough to reduce the development friction.
I know what you mean, but it’s probably quite the opposite. It’s engineering and science at its best, not invoking some esoteric spirits.

It might look like witchcraft though to the uninitiated.
GPs use AI to boost cancer detection rates in England by 8%
Ask HN: Are there videos of people using AI for non-trivial coding?
I read wild claims about how people boost their coding productivity with ChatGPT/Claude and even write significant portions of their codebases with them. I don’t know if these people are 0.1x coders and AI boosts them to 1x or their codebase consists of slapping together a bunch of libraries and APIs.

Are there any videos/streams of people writing non-trivial features for a non-trivial project (e.g. a more compact serialization format for Redis, a keybinding manager for Emacs, etc.) with significant output from ChatGPT/Claude? Nothing I could found on Youtube fits my non-triviality criteria so far. I want to know if I’m missing out by not using these AI tools properly.
I don't think anyone in research actually believes this. Note that the whole idea behind claiming "scaling laws" will infinitely improve these models is a funding strategy rather than a research one. None of these folks think human-like consciousness will "rise" from this effort, even though they veil it to continue the hype-cycle. I guarantee all these firms are desperately looking for architectural breakthroughs, even while they wax poetic about scaling laws, they know there is a bottleneck ahead.

Notice how LeCun is the only researcher being honest about this in a public fashion. Meta is committed to AI already and will at least match the spend of competitors anyway, so he doesn't have as much pressure to try and convince investors that this rabbit whole is deeper.

Don't get me wrong, LLMs are a tremendous improvement on knowledge compression and distillation, but it's still unreliable enough that old school search is likely a superior method nonetheless.
You’re right, I completely forgot WebKit. I would say there are currently 3 competitive engines, the rest are not very popular.
Maelstrom: Open-Source Stress Test Script for Your APIs
I just open-sourced on MIT license a new stress test tool ("Maelstrom"), that was useful to me. It’s lightweight and designed to be efficient for testing API endpoints with configurable parameters. Here are some of its key features:

Customizable Parameters: Set the number of requests, concurrency level, retry limits, and more.

Detailed Logging: Keep track of HTTP status codes and response times.

Email Notifications: Get summaries of test results via email (optional).

Graceful Shutdown: Handles interruptions smoothly.

Latency Metrics: Helps understand average latency of APIs

Graceful Shutdown: Handles interruptions smoothly.

Multi-threaded by design: Simulates multi-threaded concurrent requests to API Endpoints

GitHub: https://github.com/twentyone24/maelstrom

Check it out if you’re interested. I’d love to hear any feedback or suggestions!

Cheers! Thanks for your time :-)
What an incredibly tone deaf admission of unethical behavior.

As general counsel he happily admitted to making false accusations of a federal crime against a minor.

This level of comfort and pride in unethical behavior raises the question of what else has Don McGowan done that is improper?
They perform elaborate cleansing rituals on any item brought into the crystal-writing room. When they enter, they wear special clothing, lest the impurities of the outside world taint the crystals.