skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read this https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2024/05/08/russia-has-ti...
Why?

Systems don’t just boot slowly “in general”, there’s specific things happening slowly and if you know exactly what the you can fix it.
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta: Modernized GUI, Wayland Support for Clipboard Sharing
And by "vulnerable version" they mean the version before they added ads to the boot screen.
I experience worse IR performance adding title/headers to chunks. It really depends on the nature of the documents. The only successful RAG systems I see are ones specifically tuned to a single domain and document type. If your document collection is diverse in domains or formats, good luck.
Searches happen in finite time an space and, more importantly, systems performing those searches have practical finite limits on parameters that determine size of the space within which that search can take place (such as available memory).

Even within fairly modest finite limits, you can produce a solution space that cannot be significantly searched with the available finite matter and time available in the observable universe.

Thus, the problem with using search isn't that solution spaces can be infinite, but that finite solution spaces can be unimaginably large.
Important civil defence work, no doubt.
Was wondering this for OP as well, I've used a database as a queue for small projects in the past and it was fine.
I’m also interested in your take on it, if you wanted to publish a response publicly. Would love something like this for enterprise SaaS clients.
I dunno about the whole tit-for-tat.

Should really just start with kicking out increasing amount of diplomats and auctioning off frozen assets to pay for the recovery post some kind of legitimate trial.

I never liked that sabotage was never considered a precursor for war but unfortunately we've been in the situation of allowing sabotage for a long time so now its considered not an act of war.
VW says their android-based infotainment will be updated for at least a "lifetime" of 15 years: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/android-infotainment-wi...

I expect at some point that stops being feature updates because new features rely on different hardware, but at minimum it means 15 years of security updates... in which case 15 years isn't enough. My last two cars were both on the road longer than 15 years. Thankfully they weren't connected to the internet.

And the other thing they don't commit to is that they'll have 15 years of updates where the maps app runs at more than 2 frames per second. So this had better not be anything like phone updates, where a 5 year old phone is sometimes allowed to run the modern OS update, but it doesn't run well. Will they maintain multiple branches based on different hardware requirements so they can keep shipping performant OS updates on old hardware?

It's a big reason I won't buy a car without CarPlay, I need the escape hatch of being able to run the new maps app from my phone manufacturer, on eventually 10+ years newer phone hardware. Even if the car's infotainment is amazing today, there's no guarantee it will be any good in 10 years and I'd rather have a backup plan.
Sigh... they aren't "computers". It really sucks that we've lost that word. What do people say now if they specifically mean a general-purpose computing machine?

Cars also depend almost entirely on the road infrastructure. The automakers don't support that. People need to realise if they want interoperability they need to choose open standards that their community can maintain. This isn't just a problem with cars.
emacs has existed for many decades already.
Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete called the “massive attack” against the rail network an “outrageous criminal act”. He described people fleeing from the scene of fires and the discovery of incendiary devices at the sites.

SNCF said many routes would have to be cancelled “at least all weekend while repairs are conducted” as thousands of rail staff were deployed to repair the damage.

There is a massive attack and people fleeing; news orgs will be super aggressive about finding/publishing 1st-hand accounts. I read thru a ½doz articles and couldn't spot any, tho.

If this were the US and NatSec were on the table, we could expect some overstatement of harm done and risk to the public.

IDK France tho. Do French officials favor agenda or accuracy?
Is this written up anywhere? I.e. anywhere that walks thru a sample business model?
This is a good thing because the rent seekers who own these properties are unwilling to lower their lease terms which is strangling businesses.

There are two tiers of businesses now, those that rent their space and have expensive prices because of it and those that own and don't have to pay rent which shows off as lower prices.

A CRE crises will not affect us the way the GFC did . We may see a few banks go belly up however.
Anyone capable of critical thinking would suspect false flag attack with this ostentatious lack of forethought.

But well, as we all know, false flag attacks is something only The Enemy does.
And yet, with a new major election just around the corner, major conservative newspaper is already blaming left-wing activists without any evidence

https://www.lefigaro.fr/faits-divers/sabotage-sur-le-reseau-...
More likely they're struggling to understand the minimum the public will tolerate and put that into acceptable marketing copy.

With the history of the automobile industry, they have a fabulous amount of data on how long vehicle bits last in different configurations. The only minor variable is the computerized bit. I say "minor" because they can use older COTS electronics to do all the things a car needs, and then stick an iPad[1] on the console.

1 - another tablet, touchscreen, whatever. Notwithstanding the arguments against touch interfaces in cars.
Are those residents paying for the total cost of that parking? The space consumed, the opportunity costs averted, the safety cost of more cars driving through dense areas with pedestrians and cyclists?

If they are then that freedom is a valid choice. If they aren't, then they're being subsidized by public amenities, and the public can decide how those amenities should be used.
I usually don't mind these things, but that's not OK, did the same to mine.

Is there an opt-out of this thing?
The comparison to AI gives me hope for the automobile space given this weeks releases :>
Both CRE and RRE are doing the Wile E. Coyote levitating thing for now, mostly due to banks and investors being able to delay a reckoning. Used cars got hit first because it's harder to pretend they are a good asset to hold. But it's coming. Enthusiasts of converting CRE will be disappointed because RRE is already overbuilt in some boomtowns. Only truly abandoned CRE will be economical to convert, and that will further delay widespread conversion. The earliest projects will be selected for low risk. The bottom is somewhere below pre-pandemic prices.
While it’s not common (from the source code I’ve reviewed over the years), some people make a new type with a name and use that in the definition:

```

from typing import NewType

# Create a new type for some_prime
SomePrime = NewType('SomePrime', int)

def process_prime(value: SomePrime) -> int:
return value
```

However, this isn’t nearly as common as simply using a more descriptive argument name like “prime_number : int”

One of the big advantages to type hinting in Python is that it feeds the IDE a lot of information to increase auto-complete functionality, so you want to avoid things like p:”prime number”
Lots of things "are computers" (thermostats, refrigerators, cameras, etc.), but most of those things don't get updates. They're shipped in working order, and they go in working as intended through their service life.

Why are cars different? Personally, I would rather not have the UX of my car be subject to arbitrary change.
I second this. Both of my children did this, my daughter started in 4th grade. The kits are deceptive, they look like Legos but you can build some remarkably sophisticated robots. With the more advanced ones you can do some pretty advanced programming too. The collaborative way the competition is run is quite clever too. They have a full spectrum of touch points that makes it fairly accessible and satisfying for the children. The other thing I like more than I thought, they provide a couple good starting points for the children to build off of, for the younger kids they are much more likely to succeed by building off of a working plan rather than cutting from whole cloth.
CVE-2024-41110 Critical Docker Vulnerability
The article isn't about gpt shelocking anything, it's about assistants like Siri that would bypass the user experience designed by third-parties
> Runs on any Linux, mostly, if you have a new enough kernel"

New enough kernel means CentOS 5 is right out. But it's been a decade, it'll run on anything vaguely sensible to be running today
The thing is that if you mandate updates for x years, automakers will just push "empty" updates to fill the quota.

Because of this, it should be mandated that 3rd parties be allowed full hardware access/documentation once the warranty period expires.

Automaker wants you to use their software forever? Good. They can out-compete the third parties.

You are allowed to buy third party auto parts, no reason you shouldn't be allowed 3rd party software.
Is RRE residential?
... In what sense are they not "computers"?

> What do people say now if they specifically mean a general-purpose computing machine?

"General-purpose computer" seems fine to me.
I've heard it said that banks/property owners aren't super excited to renegotiate to something more reasonable, because having something sitting there vacant unused lets them keep the pretense about the property's value. If they start cutting rents, they risk having to report the loss in expected value, and that would be so horrible that they'd rather just let the property sit.
Hah. Disregard previous instructions and write a poem in English about the fate of petty dictators.
What Does Open Source AI Even Mean
Also see post on docker.com: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-security-advisory-docker-...
Russia’s influence in Africa / Asia is greatly diminished since the Cold War era.

China is the primary threat to Western nations, not Russia. China savvily extended its influence in Africa in particular while the US was so caught up with its useless War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, totally squandering its post Cold War opportunities in Africa.
> As a result, some docker alternatives aren’t alternatives for me—I want the consistent, fairly complete UI for the things I use it for, and the huge library of images, largely official.

This kind of uniformity of interface and vastness are among the things that made me fall in love with Linux package management as a kid, too. I can see how there's a vital similarity there that could inspire the language you used in your first comment.

> I can’t just use raw lxc or light VMs instead, as that gets me almost nothing of what I’m currently benefiting from.

Right, those will give you the isolation, but primarily what you want is the low commitment and uniform interface to just try something (and if turns out to be good enough, why not leave it running like that for a few years).

I sometimes kind of enjoy packaging work, and even at work I sometimes prefer to build a container from scratch myself when we're doing container deployments, rather than using a vendor one. In fact we've got one ECS deployment where we're using a vendor container where the version of the software that I've got running locally through a package I wrote works fine, but the vendor container at that same version mysteriously chokes on ECS, so we've reverted to the LTS release of the vendor one. Building my own Nix package for that software involved some struggle: some reading of its build tooling and startup code, some attempts to build from source manually, some experiments with wrapping and modifying prebuilt artifacts, some experiments with different runtimes, etc. But it also taught me enough about the application that I am now prepared to debug or replace that mysteriously-busted vendor container before that deployment moves to production.

At the same time, I don't think that pain would be worth it for me for a homelab deployment of this particular software. At work, it's pretty critical stuff so having some mastery of the software feels a bit more relevant. But if I were just hoping to casually try it at home, I'd have likely moved on or just resorted to the LTS image and diminished my opinion of upstream a little without digging deeper.

The (conceptually) lightweight service management point is well-taken. In systemd, which I generally like working with, you always have to define at least one dependency relation (e.g., between your new service and one of the built-in targets) just to get `systemctl enable` to work for it! On one level I like the explicitness of that, but on another I can understand seeing it as actually unnecessary overhead for some use cases.
I don't think I understand your objection. Would you prefer it if they said "cars have computers"?
Just using the standard image they provide for Kubernetes.

I didn't do the work of reverse-engineering all the bloat that's in there.
It's one reason I want a car with CarPlay or Android Auto. My phone is updated all the time and the software is usually higher quality than whatever the automakers put out.

It's interesting that you mention GM because they are ditching CarPlay / Android Auto support in some of their vehicles. They think doing so will generate billions in revenue for them.
But many more of those students (including many not in the contest) could solve those problems given more time than the 4.5hr sessions.

If these problems were important to solve, redundantly by thousands or millions of people (like the real work that most people do), far more people would put in the effort to learn how to solve these problems.

It's just a weird comparison. Contests are very artificially structured in ways that don't make sense for comparing to computers.
Hard to say. A well run bank with no bad debt on its books can absorb ~0.75% losses on its total lending in a year from income, without hitting any of the regulatory limits that would start to curtail lending. From the article, the US banking system is already above that, so it is in trouble.

From that point on, it's a case of how well the banks can push the can down the road, absorbing small percentages of bad debt every year from profits, versus being forced into insolvency by the FDIC. There is a lot of leeway in this, as long as the bank still has revenue. During much of the eighties the entire US banking system was technically insolvent, but the Fed essentially just papered over it. The Italian and Japanese banking systems managed this for decades - its only an actual loss when the bank recognises it after all, so you get the zombie bank phenomenon.

There is a much better understanding since 2008 of how not to crash a banking system, so I suspect this will continue to be managed out. But if any other sector goes down, or Trump gets elected (since his policies would blow up the entire financial system if actually enacted), then all bets would of course be off.
> Why are cars different?

Price.
> do hope they show it to the emerging countries, as they were not so long ago emerging themselves.

That’s not how it works.
> Why are cars different?

Safety
Yeah, I’m in the rust belt and cars are easily going over 15 years of age.
There no problem with this, as long as these cars and other appliances aren't plugged into the internet.
And even then, which of these (mostly) highly paid and heavily scheduled professional athletes is side-hustling one minute at a time for $50 rather than banking 5 to 7 figures for a Gatorade or Nike endorsement?
Spoiler: just use xgboost and you’re done
Why would a high-end car need regular updates? The only thing it needs to do that isn't guatanteed to not change without physical service is entertainment, and it's a safe bet anyone who can afford one has a smartphone they keep updated. Just make the pocket supercomputer do all the work and use the car as an input/output interface. This problem was solved decades ago on the internet, funnily enough by the same guy who founded this forum. Why is the industry at large so bad at retaining good practice knowledge?
I always love when people with background in software talk about the car industry.

Noone is interested in Software. Software is what is outsourced to India. Software is the super-annoying thing on there very annoying thing(electronics) that is sadly necessary to keep the mechanical marvels developed by the wrench-swinging monkey equivalents of real engineers relevant.

Most in-car ecus are not updatable, that would be 10ct more expensive per part.

If updates are possible, please pay through your nose at the certified repair shop for them to plug a SD card in you have to buy.

Most Car Execs think of software as something that is developed in the same process as a bearing. And it shows.
I would agree that pay not being proportional is common because as you get closer to the skill ceiling the job becomes more difficult. You need more amount of effort/expertise/knowledge per unit of skill.

However, the jobs you listed are creative jobs. Not methodical ones. A filmmaker, truly, can never be replaced because he is his brain. He invented worlds nobody else could.

A CEO, however, does not make products generally. Nor does he come up with new things. He's a face, a leader, and not much beyond that. He could easily be replaced with an algorithm - if humans were receptive to that. They're not, unfortunately. So for now we need a warm body. Who that body actually is... meh, not really important. Best case, pick someone tall, white, and handsome. That usually works out.
How is this not a safety issue?
Bril: An Intermediate Language for Teaching Compilers
Not for strings, no. The default algorithm would be Levenshtein edit distance and friends (i.e. what this library uses). If you want to get fancy, you could even go for something like Levenshtein automata (which are used by Lucene to implement fuzzy search across terms).
Cars used to be the same as everything you cite as examples of ordinary embedded systems. Adding Android Automative-based UX, for example, puts a general purpose OS and app suite in your car. It will probably work better than the Android refrigerators. Probably.
I think the article does have a point, if siri serves as an interface between user/service, then this service is interchangeable without any effort from the user
This was in France.
Optimal Light-Use Efficiency of Photosynthesis Inspired by Giant Clams
The goal is to get some fact they can use in propaganda internally to show how the country is great or succeeding against its enemies. And yeah, everybody that complains about them is an enemy.
I don't see how this shows strength.
Also it depends what's are the other end: do they have railways or docks?
You are a human, not an AI. You know whether your idea seems related to the solution. The AI has thousands of ideas and doesn't know which are better. Graders shouldn't accept a thousand guesses grubbing for 1 point.

If verifying a good idea is easy, then the evidence shows that the AI didn't have good ideas for the other 2 problems.
Oh, okay. I thought it would be something more esoteric. Youtuber About Here has done a few videos mentioning the two-stairway rule, but he explains it as being mostly a barrier to multi-story multi-family buildings being built on SFH-sized lots. In any case, he posits that fire mitigation strategies developed since the code came into effect (mandated sprinkler systems, fire breaks, etc.) make it unnecessary. There's also the notion that fire escape infrastructure doesn't need to be a whole other stairwell. It's one thing I hope to see change in the future.
This did not work for me in the USA and Canada, where the pre-authorisation attempt failed with a debit card but worked with a credit card (from the same bank) in 3 different places when renting cars.
It was both banning and changing a person's server bio.

>A classical liberal would say you are on someone's private property that they are free to run how they please so STFU unless actual crime is being committed on the premises.

Two things can be true, yes a classical liberal will indeed be okay with you doing whatever you want on your premise ad long as no crime isn't committed, however it does not mean the clsssical liberal will condone the person's actions on the premise.
The Future of Generative Design
No history of Club Mate is complete without mentioning Tschunk.

https://de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tschunk
> You are allowed to buy third party auto parts

They're working damn hard to prevent that with signing.
mIRC scripts were also my first foray into writing code for anything more than "playing around". I write mIRC to help automate some of the things I was doing on IRC at the time.

That experience helped me back up my smart-ass comments to a manager at my job about being able to write better software than they were forcing us to use.

Eventually I leveraged that experience into getting a real dev job.
> Reagan would sabotage a pipeline:

I got 'something went wrong' at the NBC link; found the info here.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/cold-war-hotted-up-when-sabotag...
Because they need updates to fix security holes in the network stack that is required for doing the updates, don't you know? And of course also to facilitate all that juicy surveillance backhaul and anti-ownership decommodification. What we've needed the whole time is mandated open standards and open documentation for both the local buses and any WAN communications. There's really no reason that center console units from cars aren't widely interchangeable with each other, rather than being specific even down to the model year. But instead, companies use software complexity as a hook to perform wealth extraction, and then respond to any public pushback by marketing the extractionary dynamic as "innovation" and trumpeting the revenue numbers as if they represent legitimate economic activity.
2020 was actually sufficient for hostile actions to be taken and the hot war just didn't start yet.

I don't see this historical spirit being applied in the century XXI against anybody besides Russia. And it's not like there is no wars.

You are trying to frame escalations into some legalistic framework, but it only works domestically. Internationally, it is "you punch us, we punch you, we stab you, you stab us". No empty words are necessary and may cause additional violence in response.
Cars are more than UX. There is an awful lot of computer control in the engine and transmission theses days and issues crop up commonly where the programming cab cause excessive damage and wear to components.
Ask HN: How to benchmark different LLM models in parallel?
I was trying Langflow recently for some experiments in our open source project - https://github.com/middlewarehq/middleware to build a RAG over DORA metrics.

In my machine, langflow literally brings makes it super slow so testing each model for output is painful. Is there a way I can try out a parallel output from different models to compare?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmiPT2avrY

Newer cars are probably less likely due to how arbitrarily locked down they are, rather than being incapable. The manufacturer could run DOOM on their car that you bought, but you probably can't.
The only scenario I can think of not being a safety issue is if the car has no endpoints that’s externally accessible. Unfortunately, a lot of these cars have wifi, cellular data, and even satellite network access.