skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> phosphor-converted LEDs, which are uncommon

No, they're extremely common. Every white LED in the market is phosphor-converted: they're blue LEDs, usually ~450nm royal blue, with yellow-emitting phosphors on top. Different phosphors and concentrations give different color temperatures for the final LED, from about 7500K through 2000K. (Last I looked, anything below about 2000K didn't look right at all, no matter what its manufacturer claimed.)

Bigger LEDs are often phosphor-converted as well. Most industrial grow lamps use this type of LED. So they're around! You're probably looking at some right now!
This article is so good. My favorite quote:

"The actual goal of any “behavioral interview” or “culture fit” estimation is simple, but nobody ever lays it out. The goal of culture checking is only: determine how a candidate handles the tradeoffs between progress vs. kindness."
This seems to be affecting Windows VMs hosted in AWS, as well. I'm seeing status check failure for Windows VMs across multiple AWS accounts in our Org.
And even better, print the website, and print the code!
Jack Dorsey's Block to Shutter Cash App in UK
I'm sure more are qualified than they think. but as the other reply goes, it seems they aren't willing to dig during a gold rush for it. They just want to wait for someone else to uncover the purple squirrel, if it exists at all.
While looking for something else on San Francisco's heath departments website I found the following two things.

In San Francisco

Deaths from AIDs dropped 70% from 1996 to 1997. That's in one year it went from a relentless death sentence to manageable chronic.

While almost everyone that got HIV in the mid 80's are dead most people that got HIV in the mid 90's are still here.

If that's not winning it's close.
Bell Labs R&D budget in today's dollars would be about $1.5 billion. Google is closer to $10 billion, with DARPA around $3 billion and NASA at $10-15 billion. The total budget for all national labs is $12 billion.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/comparing-research-bud...
This sort of approach always made more sense to me than RAG. I am less likely to try RAG than something that feeds the LLM what it actually needs. RAG is risky in providing piecemeal information that confuses the LLM.

The way I thought would work and like to try out is ask the LLM what info it wants next from an index of contents. Like a book. That index can be LLM generated or not. Then backtrack as you don't need that lookup in your dialogue any more and insert the result.

It won't work for everything but should work for many "small expert" cases and you then don't need a vector DB you just do prompts!

Cheap LLMs make this more viable perhaps than it used to be. Use an open source small LLM for the decision making then a quality open source or proprietary LLM for the chat or code gen.
I’ve had the same frustrations with referral programs. It’s extremely frustrating to refer an amazing candidate and then have them not forwarded to the head of the line.

However, I’ve also experienced the other side of referral programs, where we collected referrals from people across the company for open roles. It wasn’t until I saw this side of the process that I realized that different people have completely different ideas about what referrals mean. I understood referrals as meaning the person was exemplary and that I was vouching for them. Many others understand referrals as nothing more than throwing a name of someone they casually knew one time into the queue. Others saw referrals as a type of nepotism mechanism, where they hoped they could use the system to get a friend, family member, or someone from their church (happened more frequently than I expected) pushed through the system.

When the referrals turn into a numbers game and the company is collecting lists of hundreds or thousands of people all the time, it stops being a system to vouch for candidates and it starts being just another system for adding people to the normal funnel. The post says something about referring “hundreds” of people, so at that scale it may have been viewed by the companies as a system for collecting potential candidates, not a system for vouching for people.

If you want to run a real referral system where people are expected to vouch for referrals, it takes a lot of work. You have to really drive home the point that vouching for someone means something. You also need some way to keep track of referral performance, which I know some people may dislike. However, once you’ve lost dozens of interview cycles to referral candidates who were not up to the task, you need some records to start down ranking or ignoring referrals from that employee. Likewise, someone who consistently refers good candidates should get more urgency and attention. It’s a lot of work, which is why most companies don’t bother and just treat referrals as more names in the funnel.

Referral bonuses make these systems even more difficult. Many people will see the potential for a referral bonus and then jam your referral pipeline up with the names of every single person they’ve ever worked with. They see it as an asymmetric bet where they lose nothing if nobody gets hired, but they might get a bonus if one of those people happens to get hired some day. You have to be really careful about what you incentivize.
> if they made 5050-sized LEDs

I doubt they can. Probably the process only works (or yields) small pieces, otherwise they'd be doing exactly what you suggest.

I also notice that their blues look terrible in the provided images. Which will be a problem. I don't think they get much past 490nm or so? That would also explain why they don't talk at all about phosphors, which seem like a natural complement to this tech... I don't think they can actually pump them. Which is disappointing :(
Thank you so much for sharing. This made my day. It’s so wholesome, it makes me want to cry happy tears.
I'm not sure I agree that 8 interviews, including 2 all day on-sites, was ever regular for a new grad role. I haven't even come close to such a gauntlet. Does an employee need to round robin interview with every interviewee these days to get a good hire?
The Linux Out-Of-Memory killer process list can be misleading
This is why I swear by chess. Bluffing has minimal value against best play.
CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
My workplace has a number of people reporting Windows blue-screening and going into a boot loop. The IT Department have a number of servers recently gone offline and have said there's a chance that the two issues are related, and potentially due to a Crowd Strike application update.

My laptop blue-screened and rebooted, but is working fine after the reboot.

A local radio station has also said they've got the same issues with their laptops and their phone system is down as a result.

Not seeing anything on news sites yet. Anyone else seeing similar?

Above is all based in Australia.
Brilliant. Wish I had gotten that advice before selecting my first advisor.
I'm pretty sure mdf applies to rivers when you are last to act. I'd be interested in being proven wrong however if you have solver output that shows it. I remember studying solver output and seeing it in action.

I know that before the river there are range advantages that make defending mdf a losing play.
Yep happened to us too. Its global. And it just started happening.
It's crowdstrike: https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_e...

> 7/18/24 10:20PT - Hello everyone - We have widespread reports of BSODs on windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions. Investigating cause. TA will be published shortly. Pinned thread.

> SCOPE: EU-1, US-1, US-2 and US-GOV-1

> Edit 10:36PT - TA posted: https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Tech-Alert-W...

> Edit 11:27 PM PT:

> Workaround Steps:

> Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment

> Navigate to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory

> Locate the file matching “C-00000291*.sys”, and delete it.

> Boot the host normally.
The Situationists were arists surely?
> Old Soviet style communities get hot water from central plants, mainly used for heating but also for showers, so when winter is over, they shutdown the heating plants for the season and no hot water at all.

That's not quite correct. Thermal power plants supply heat, but local water heating stations can typically work autonomously.

Hot water is typically turned off to allow for maintenance and tests. Hot water pipes corrode about 10-20 _times_ faster than cold water pipes.
I've heard this response and it still doesn't make sense to me. If I get caught downloading a movie, it's not a defence to point to the ripper and say "I didn't violate the copyright, they did!"

I don't see how it's a valid defence at all.
In the narrow range of poker variants (all heads up, ie only two players, not full ring like all but the last few hands of the Main Event) where it's meaningful to talk about a truly optimal game, any theoretical optimal play will still take money from all humans it's just slower (but with zero risk) compared to exploitative play.

In live cash games, speed matters, you want to take all the available chips before the fish realise they're out-matched, but to protect yourself the optimal play, if you could memorise it, would be safer because it can't be exploited yet it does take the opponent's chips.

Poker players are gamblers. So "safer" isn't really what they were going for anyway.
Oh thanks for reminding me!
We definitely won't be getting a postmortem.
GitLab was so great in the early days. But they started chasing after the enterprise market and stopped innovating. They dropped their cheapest paid plan, and features get introduced that no one wants and bugs don't get fixed.

Maybe this publicity will get them to rethink their strategy, but I doubt it.
I do feel like we've reached a local maxima with the current state of LLMs, and researchers need to find something completely different to hit a new maxima (whether that is the global maxima or not, we'll know when we hail our new AI overlords).
> my 15-countries 2-week solo road trip

That's barely a day in each country. Why the speedrun?
And my frustration is that java had that API for 20 years, it is used everywhere and absolutely battle tested, and now they are adding those virtual threads which break third party libs and make JVM more complicated with various degradations in exchange of benefits most will not notice..
> CLP(Z), which does not have an ISO standard

CLP(FD/Z) is a candidate for inclusion in the Prolog standard: Several Prolog systems provide it with notable commonalities in features, it fits perfectly into the existing language, and it follows the logic of the standard including its error system. It can even be implemented within Prolog, provided a few basic features are present in a Prolog system. For instance, the CLP(Z) system I provide and which is used in the paper runs with little modifications already in several different Prolog systems, including SICStus, Scryer and Trealla. CLP(FD/Z) is an admissible extension of the existing standard:

5.5 Extensions

A processor may support, as an implementation specific
feature, any construct that is implicitly or explicitly
undefined in the part of ISO/IEC 13211.

This is completely different from modifications of the standard that do not fit at all into the standard. For instance, interpreting double-quoted strings differently from what the standard prescribes is not an extension in the sense the standard defines it, but a modification of the standard.

In addition, Scryer Prolog has an execution mode where all its extensions are turned off. This is called a strictly conforming mode, and is also prescribed by the standard:

5 Compliance

5.1 Prolog processor

A conforming Prolog processor shall:

...

e) Offer a strictly conforming mode which shall reject
the use of an implementation specific feature in Prolog
text or while executing a goal.

In Scryer Prolog, the strictly conforming mode is the default execution mode.

Regarding the other points you mention: Even though it may sound easy to say "as long as that dialect has a reliable specification and implementation", I know no such system that exists, and what I see from systems that do not adhere to the Prolog standard makes me doubt that such a thing is possible. The systems that do not follow the standard often have elementary syntactic problems, such as reading a Prolog term that they themselves emit into a different Prolog term, a recipe for disaster and unacceptable in every domain I know.
There's mostly two reasons companies invest in bullshit patents:

1) If you're a big company with lots of resources, and you're losing business to a smaller but faster moving competitor, you sue them for infringing on your bullshit patents. Distract them, drain their precious time and minimal funding, etc. Very effective way for large, slow moving bureaucratic companies to stamp out startup competitors. Doesn't even matter if you win the suit, even if you lose, as long as you can drain their time/energy/$$$ on fighting it, you've won. I you both drain $2 mil on lawyers and 500 hours of employee time, that's nothing for you, but it's crippling for them

2) If you're a smaller company, you really don't have the resources for "offence" (suing others as a strategy), but patents can still be useful for "defence." Basically, if you have your own portfolio of bullshit patents, when someone sues you with one of their BS patents, you counter-sue with one of your BS patents. This often results in both sides settling, giving each other a "licence" to use the patent (that is BS in the first place). And even without settling, it does make you a less attractive target - like if you actually win your countersuit, you could do some legit damage to even a bug company. While if you have no patents, you're an easy target, bigger companies can sue you freely without risk. Patents are actually pretty cheap to get, it probably is worth spending a few hundred thousand dollars getting a handful of patents purely for the defensive value

This use of patents as basically a way to "fight dirty" against competitors, plus full-on patent trolls, is basically the entire software patent industry.

Most software patents are serious, serious bullshit, the stuff that gets patented doesn't remotely resemble truly innovative work, and there's mostly plenty of prior art. But there are no repercussions for patent offices that simply mail it in, and just grant whatever bullshit comes across their desk. In fact, if you're a patent office, granting bullshit patents is good for business! It encourages more patent filing, more revenue for them, and it encourages more lawsuits, more revenue for their friends in the courts.

If you have no experience with software patents, I encourage everyone to go on a patent search site like https://www.lens.org/lens/ , and search for granted patents in your field. They're a bit tough to read at first - the relevant section is the "claims" section, and generally claim 1 is the "base" claim - as long as you violate that, you've violated the patent. Then most of the other claims build on the base claim (though there may be more than one base claim). Read a handful, you'll be shocked at how utterly garbage they are. For example, in my field, there's a good 10 or so granted patents that are simply descriptions of extremely basic versions of Vehicle Routing Problem solvers, all granted in the last decade or so, despite the fact that the published literature on VRP solvers goes back to the 1950s/60s.
"Backlog of bugs grow every year" - that'll be written on the postmortem of "what happened to GitLab?"
How long does it take for evolution to resolve that presumably long-term unintentional negative outcome?
More important than speed is variance. If you really crush your opponents you are less at risk of busting from bad bankroll management.
The rudimentary stuff terrorists are stuck with doing. Slaughterbots are more terrifying because they can track you in all the enviroments a mortar can't reach.
Thank you for replying, but I don't quite understand what you wrote in the context of a writing assistant where there is no sharing in any form with anyone.
> So no evidence any sort of law exists then.

The link I showed mentions this:

> If a mandated reporter fails to report, they can be subject to civil penalty, criminal prosecution, or both.

Not sure how subject to criminal prosecution would work without a law.

So that's good enough for me. Do I want to dig through the legal docs today to quote the exact paragraphs for all the US states or other countries? Nah, maybe some other time.
And what makes you so certain that they'll be solved? Some specific technology you know of or have in mind? I'm honestly curious. So far, I've seen nothing that has been completely impervious to circumvention.
Neither of them try to explain why he might have had a reason to commit suicide: mightn't have been Fandango itself, which is what a casual read of the headline might suggest - he sold Fandango in 2007 and exited it back in 2011. Was it his current portfolio companies? The market outlook in general? Something personal? Mental health/depression? Not his recent gallbladder surgery. His note doesn't clarify.
I think it'd be interesting to see if an AI with visual input playing exploitatively can out perform AI playing GTO. In doing so, we can measure the effect of visual tells.
How about letting OpenOffice go instead?
>> should be operated purely at cost, if not banned outright

> This sounds like a quick route to prisons with no working phones.

I don't think so, and it certainly wouldn't be with sufficient oversight.

> the prison-specific security component ... can probably be done remotely (or by AI listening for naughty words).

Come on, it's not like they monitor prison phone calls to keep the inmates from swearing. It's to prevent inmates from coordinating criminal activity from inside prison, and no "AI" is going to be able to detect and prevent that.
It's way more powerful. Something like dynamically generated child pipelines doesn't even have any equivalent in GitHub Actions.
Our company is in panic mode. 15 machines blue screened for no apparent reason and stuck in boot loop. I’m a gloating Linux user :)

Also in Australia
I love the deep technical discussions on HN, and I'm disappointed to see anything AI related start to just resemble Reddit threads of people with knee jerk reactions to the title.

This is interesting, it's about how you can represent spreadsheets to llms.
No, it's really not fine at all. It's not just websites, it's electronic devices in general. The UIs are very complicated with every conceivable function right in your face. My Japanese girlfriend even complains about it. Things like washing machines and microwave ovens even are needlessly complicated to use. (Younger) Japanese people love western web sites/services such as Instagram, Twitter, Google Maps, etc., and don't insist on a Japanese UI-style version of any of these.

Don't even get me started on how well Japanese websites handle non-traditional-Japanese names, or how banking apps that supposedly support English actually display most text and dialog buttons in Japanese.

There's a lot of great things about Japan, but the UX/UI here is absolutely terrible.
We looked into it, very briefly, and decided that a few hours or even a whole day of downtime per year wasn't really worth the time and cost it would take to mitigate this in our case. If our pipelines happen to fall over, and it also happens to occur during our working hours then the solution for us is to either work on something else or head down to the pub.
DNS is definitely capable of widescale disruption.

A dns error can take down the entire internet.
The microphone icon on the keyboard does this.
> That is RNNs. LLMs (usually transformers) are non-markovian.

How? They have a hard cut off context, and randomly generates next state from that. That is the definition of a markov chain.

It is a markov chain with a pretty large state at every point, but still a markov chain.
It’s funny they mentioned Magic: the Gathering, because the first thing I thought of when reading the headline is all the conversation I see in r/EDH, and less frequently in other related subreddits, about a reluctance or even disdain for “optimal” play, which would be trying to win as efficiently as possible. To preserve the excitement and surprise of gameplay, people discourage building decks out of “staple” cards that would quickly homogenize play. “Broken” or “busted” cards that turn out to be more powerful than anticipated by the game’s designers wind up banned in sanctioned tournament play.
Google's goo․gl links will stop working in August 2025
Show HN: Generate pentesting reports from pentest screen recordings
Onelook is an open-source, self-hosted project that generates pentesting reports based on screen recordings of pentesting sessions.

To be clear, it does not upload the video to a LLM service. The video is processed with OCR and the texts are sent to the LLM service when 1) generating contexts for the video and 2) generating reports.

You can choose which LLM provider (self-hosted ones too) to connect to.

Hope it is useful to anyone and possibly find more use cases for it.

Thank you!
Not going to disagree with you. We can all make our own choices and I know what you mean.

Personally, I am happy EU and Brazil put brakes on this because Meta deserves to learn a lesson about forced consent. That is not an okay thing to do.

Instead of earning goodwill, and actually represent open source and the wider community - they simply assumed that consent is a given.

If they had forced everyone in an unavoidable consent form when visiting Facebook/Instagram, the results would be completely different.

They knew this.
Not in blitz it doesn't
I used to work for a guy who was the exact opposite of the shock absorber, "crap umbrella" who can make for a good boss. Instead, this was the guy who was mixing up the Flavor Aid at Jonestown. I recall a bit where he was relaying how the organization was rolling out a new performance metric, and it was a full-on "Ratings of a full five out of five technically exist; you will never get a five, but you should strive for five and behave as if it were attainable" with a straight face and acted as if this were reasonable, not risible.

Similarly, I felt like I was being asked to try for that football.

At this point, I consider every performance review and self-evaluation to be an elaborate and shameful Kabuki routine I must execute while various entities in some star chamber play craps with my future.
And what consequences will this have for SAP? The same as with Microsoft who had major security fails over the last 20 years yet people still use their products and nearly every company uses Exchange.
What about Romania, which is basically the same country (and was before the Soviet Union decided to mess things up)?
Because drones are overpowered. So the defenders jam. Which means the drones can still fly but can’t be controlled. So they need a pre-programmed target. But things move around on the battlefield so drones need to track. The step from that to automatically identify enemy troops and kill them is just a hop and a skip away.
Drones have proven to be the key differentiator in Ukraine. They’ll be important for the next few conflicts (till we’re fighting with sticks and stones again) and they’ll be more effective the smarter they are.
Necessity is the mother of invention, we don’t know who the father is, but war blew through here nine months ago and the way they looked at each other oughta tell you somethin.
I'd recommend using https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh instead, no chance of some shell escape that way.
Can you post a summary? We're affected but I don't have access to that portal.