skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it just because it hasn't gotten as far as making physical predictions yet? To put it charitably it's very abstract, but I wonder exactly where the holes are that real physicists see.
As if ransomware, money laundering, pump and dump schemes, and tax evasion weren’t enough, now cryptocurrency can be used to support pseudoscience! Will the wonders never cease?

Sorry, I know this is a bit snark-heavy for HN but I can’t help but feel impressed by the way cryptocurrency has somehow succeeded in associating itself with so many ills of modern society.
How many gig workers have you actually talked to? Most massively prefer it over what they had before.
just for giggles: http://www.unicode.org/Public/3.1-Update1/CaseFolding-4.txt
Reminder to everyone that Roam Research is still in business, still great, getting updates, and most importantly worth the subscription cost. While I don't use it anymore, it has served me extremely well.
> Yep. You just have to pretend that everyone who deployed Windows had an actual competitive choice available to them.

Could you elaborate? How is that related to security and availability being non negotiable?
That's an interesting theory. Do you have any sources for this? Because so far there has been no technical arguments to support your PoV.
Sure, if you want to go with wildly theoretical approaches, we can't even be sure if the rock on the ground doesn't have some form of intelligence.

Meanwhile, for practical purposes, there's little arrogance needed to say that some things are preconditions for any form of intelligence that's even remotely recognizable.

1) Learning needs to happen continuously. That's a no-go for now, maybe solvable.

2) Learning needs to require much less data. Very dubious without major breakthroughs, likely on the architectural level. (At which point it's not really an LLM any more, not in the current sense)

3) They need to adapt to novel situations, which requires 1&2 as preconditions.
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4) There's a good chance intelligence requires embodiment. It's not proven, but it's likely. For one, without observing outcomes, they have little capability to self-improve their reasoning.

5) They lack long-term planning capacity. Again, reliant on memory, but also executive planning.

There's a whole bunch more. Yes, LLMs are absolutely amazing achievements. They are useful, they imply a lot of interesting things about the nature of language, but they aren't intelligent. And without modifying them to the extent that they aren't recognizably what we currently call LLMs, there won't be intelligence. Sure, we can have the ship of Theseus debate, but for practical purposes, nope, LLMs aren't intelligent.
It's very true ham radio has a very rich almost unique culture.

I obtained my license many years ago whilst I was still at school and I've developed many friendships with those within the Amateur community, and despite me not having been on air for many years, many of those friendships forged in the days when I frequented the airwaves have endured to this day. In fact many have turned out to be more rock-solid and stable than just about every other friendship I've had.

I'm not alone, when questioned many amateur radio operators will express exactly the same view.

Why this is so is perhaps up for debate, but I'd put it down to a number of reasons: Amateur Radio is unique amongst hobbies in that it operates in a very different way to most other hobbies perhaps the most significant of which is that it requires a government-issued license before one can operate on air—and to obtain that one has to demonstrate both technical and operational proficiency in radiocommunications by way of passing examination. There's no shortcut or other way around to obtain an Amateur license, as passing the examination is a mandatory requirement.

Of itself, that requirement alone binds amateurs together. Thus not everyone can become a member of this unique club, as it's only through the involved procedure of passing the Amateur examination that one is able to be initiated into the Amateur fraternity.

One's solidarity with the the Amateur movement becomes even more solid after one learns the rules, procedures and etiquette of Amateur Radio culture. In a sense once one becomes an Amateur one then becomes indoctrinated into this long and esteemed culture that owes many of its origins to government-necessitated rules and procedures—rules that have still deeper origins in that they derive from ITU—International Telecommunications Union regulations.

Having to conform to ITU regulations is perceived by Amateurs more as an necessity rather than an imposition, as by the time one becomes an amateur radio operator, one knows that he or she—along with others—has the privileged responsibility of ensuring that the electromagnetic spectrum is properly managed. Not only is that responsibly not seen an imposition by Amateurs but rather it's seen by them as a necessity, as proper management of the spectrum is vital for all radiocommunications services to operate in an optimal way. Mismanagement of the spectrum would result in interference between services and from external sources, radio regulations and procedures ensure that interference is kept to a minimum.

Being part of the worldwide fraternity that sees itself as having such an important responsibly—a responsibility that doesn't flow from being paid but out of the love of it and of one's hobby—further strengthens bonds between Amateurs.

Even though I've not operated on air for many years I still consider myself to be a member of this tightknit community. Once an Amateur radio operator it's forever.
Is that actually true, or only that you can serve it from one server behind a lot of servers named CDN?
I do have to wonder how many agonising layers of review this went through with the marketing and legal departments as part of shifting the blame.

If you want to decide which OS/distros to avoid for critical stuff, look to see who's learning from the incident (even if not bitten by it) compared to those saying "it wasn't our fault" (and that's not just MS).
Ah yes, the famous “more or less factual statements”, a useful contribution to any serious thought process
6.3.2 "shortest job first": https://www.cs.uic.edu/~jbell/CourseNotes/OperatingSystems/6...

> SJF can be proven to be the fastest scheduling algorithm
Hello, I exist! I once bought a house when I would have preferred to rent, but there were no rentals available. Now I rent that house out to other people who are in a similar situation. There are many houses for sale in that area, but that's not always what people want.

Earlier in my life, I continued to rent for six or seven years after the first time I could have afforded to buy. I liked the flexibility.
Or maybe page your managers, such that they can escalate the situation. They will be more aligned on solving the cultural problems if they get waked up too.
You're parroting the EU Commission/IMF/ECB line, and not looking at it any deeper.

The Greek economy wasn't good enough to join the Euro, but the EU wanted them in anyway, and pretended to not notice. Why? Probably because German banks lobbied the German government, because joining the common currency meant a lot of security, and the German banks could loan to them knowing if the debts go bad, the ECB/other Euro economies would have to bail them out, i.e. it's "privatize the wins, socialize the losses" for the banks.

So Greece joined the Euro, all the banks offered loans, the Greeks all thought "Wahey, booming economy, let's spend, spend, spend!" (and don't say "Those greedy lazy Greeks!", this is a natural reaction, just look at the subprime mortgage times of the US before it blew up and almost brought down the world economy), and when it all went bad, the German government fought hard to bail them out (with EU taxpayer money) because it was bailing out German banks, despite them offering irresponsible loans.

The Greek Syriza government and Yanis Varoufakis fought hard against the measures, e.g. austerity (proven to be bullshit, just look at Tory Britain), wanting a loan haircut to punish the irresponsible banks and the bureaucrats in Brussels preferred a government that would just take their "punishment" quietly...
What I think is worth knowing is that compute units in GPU’s also use SMT, usually at a level of 7 to 10 threads per CU. This helps to hide latency.
Show HN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js
I've been working on a football pass visualiser for the past week.

It uses open data from StatsBomb to analyse and visualise passing patterns, allowing users to explore and filter the data by pass distance, team and players.
On a more palatable note: Prison-Style Meatloaf – How to Stretch Your Meat Further -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41093796
A candy bar cell phone, paid for by your employer and handed to whoever is on call. People who don't want it can just forward it to their phone.
>Often, grocery stores that sell liquor have entirely dedicated wings for it.

When alcohol was allowed into the grocery stores here (before only liquor stores could sell alchohol), food was removed -- the store wasn't expanded.

>This is a product that one drinks - like juices and milk - introducing arbitrary inconvenience to obtaining it doesn't really track.

Alcoholic beverages rarely contain any nutritional value. Juices and milk do. Really -- milk?

>What are soda, sugar, candy, ice cream for some folks?

Are you serious? There isn't a Candy Anonymous. There's no Mother's Against Indulging in Ice Cream and Driving. There's no Adult Children of Parents who Really Really Like Skittles.
The EU development was akin to putting two dozen of sardines or so into a tank along with a couple of sharks and hopping for the best. Oh, and they all get their vote so it's all democratic, who cares if the shardines can be unilaterally economically and politically bullied to vote in favor of the shark'?

This tells parts of the story going back:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/97813155429...

If you know what to look for, you can find tons of sources on various aspects of the process, e.g:

https://www.robert-schuman.eu/en/european-issues/750-europe-...

or:

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-central-bank-nepoti...
The Canadian province of British Columbia just recently enacted "rent control" on a massive scale, by making most AirBnB rentals illegal (thereby ostensibly "forcing" the owners of these units to rent these units to local long term renters).

Of course, this immediately has these first-order effects:

- Putting thousands of home owners into financial dire straights, by reducing their income at the same time that their refinanced mortgages are increasing by as much as 100%.

- Eliminating thousands more rental units of coming onto the market, by eliminating the AirBnB income stream necessary to rationalize building or renovating those units into existence.

These first-order effects are so obvious, that it cannot be an accident -- the assumption would assume such a low intelligence on the part of the politicians enacting this legislation as to be deeply insulting.

But the alternative explanation; that this was an intentional result, also brings into question:

Why would a politician want to simultaneously destroy both tourism (making short-term rental accommodations both less plentiful and more expensive), while also destroying thousands of rental units from being constructed, making long-term rentals both less plentiful and more expensive?

The obvious alternative -- goosing the production of all types of short- and long-term rental units by encouraging the production of AirBnB units (increasing their supply, thereby decreasing their cost and profitability, encouraging the migration of existing AirBnB stock to long-term rentals) -- appears to have bypassed the BC political elite.

How (and why) would they not want that?
Do you have more information on that? Hadn't read anything about the CS kernel module running arbitrary code. Was it a factor in the crash?

'course, Microsoft also put turing complete scripting in ring 0 years ago for performance reasons (TTFs - XML/HTML parsing and GUI rendering too - to beat other OSes apparently) and that certainly did lead to exploited vulnerabilities...

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-year-of-win...
https://gist.github.com/Nevor/ed3719dad0cf66893e42a9ba024c91... https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securityb...
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/one-bit-to-rul...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityA...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9769099 (this comment in particular https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9783863)
It would still have required on site presence and interaction during which there is still downtime, so this accomplishes marginally small gains.
If you don't mind me asking, what is your blood pressure with this abnormality? My gut feeling would be that it you have a much larger gap between your systolic and diastolic numbers than average?
It's not at all "new" anymore (published 1999), but if you enjoy source-code commentary then check out ISBN 978-1576104699 - "Linux Core Kernel Commentary: Guide to Insider's Knowledge on the Core Kernel of the Linux Code"

Very similar approach to Lions. There's a second volume that covers the networking stack as well.
That’s very easily mitigated - write the security software so it can’t crash. Like, you know, drivers should be written.

Malware can’t crash a well-written or memory-safe driver, so it will never be unloaded. Problem solved.
I don't know what "full Android compatibility" is, but I can run Android apps on my Librem 5 with the help of Waydroid.
Why the Bitcoin Security Model Is Broken
I must disagree with that take, your last quoted sentence is in response to all the supposed self-proclaimed experts asking "why does it need kernel access", the ones before that is to limit their own liability.

What I've heard from people in the industry is not this silly "oh no, crowdstrike is so incompetent" b.s. that is being spread on sites like HN and reddit but more of an empathic "it could have been us" sentiment. In this write up as well, Microsoft knows they have caused their share of outages, it is a technical write-up but in part, it is to cover their bases for government investigations and lawsuits that will arise from this incident.

And in part, they are also responsible for recovering from third-party driver errors and repeated boot failures caused by faulty drivers.
Sorry (heh). I think I'm out of the loop here... that article is paywalled, and I'm honestly not sure what it's referring to. Is there some broader anti-apology movement these days I'm just not aware of?
At the same time though, imagine you woke up and CloudStrike hit your organization.

For most users, they’ll try clicking “Yes.” And then it’s back to work. After all, “No” just causes a blue screen again, might as well try the other path.

This would have been the difference between the IT department handling 10,000+ calls or a few hundred (plus sending out a bulletin) in many, many organizations. It also could have saved billions at this point.

Heck, it would have saved lives in hospitals.
> Disagreeing publicly does nothing if I'm the one empowering my opposition in the first place.

Of course it does. It does spread the word. That’s important.

You can be an activist and have a real life. You can despise Meta but have acquaintances on WhatsApp you can’t or don’t want to move. You can be an anticapitalist and still agree to join a group of friends inviting you to McDonalds. You can be an ecologist and have a car because you live somewhere without car free infrastructures.

You have the right to be critical of your own life while still acknowledging you can’t control everything.

Having WhatsApp may be wrong for you but it may be less wrong than leaving your friends groups.
It’s a feature in two ways.

The first way, as the author point out, it directly disincentivizes developers from building new homes. The second way is more insidious: it gives politicians, typically progressive politicians, the needed cover to claim they are addressing high rents, while they continue to support the real driver of housing costs: restrictive zoning that bans new construction and leads to supply shortages.

Inclusionary zoning operates in a similar manner.
As a Ligurian, it was not so exceptional, surely, back then and still today passing though so many mountains and valleys keeping the road as straight and leveled as possible was remarkable in engineering terms BUT they have created a monster because back then it was a new road, so normal traffic goes through other roads, and start to took the new shiny fast one once done. Unfortunately NO ONE have planned how to re-create it because back than the idea was that the concrete it's like a natural rock, nearly eternal, so there was no plan on how to rebuild any bridge or tube when it will be needed. Meanwhile old roads essentially a re-paved ancient Roman Via Aurelia, was not much developed, still traversing ANY single Ligurian dwelling, so it's definitively unable to sustain today traffic even for short segment to re-made a single bridge or tube at a time.

Here and there some new segments are built and once done traffic got diverted on the new segment, but the overall aging infrastructure is in a terrible shape and while some new segments advance there is still no complete plan because in many segments there is simply no solution so far to build something new due to excess buildings around, not adapt orography and so on.

That's not an isolated case, essentially all other the world all infra are made without any idea about what to do after their expectable service life BUT the Italian issue is also due to the fast construction: if you build something SLOWLY some parts of a big infra will need to be rebuild at a certain point in future, while the others are still operational, so you can upgrade them at an equally slow speed. If you develop all at once as quick as possible well, it will reach the end of life all at once as well. So an original remarkable effort demand another one, than another one more etc and no one can foresee the economical, political, condition when the infra end of life will be reached.

In general MOST post-WWI infra and buildings are now at end of life, all together, since they was built quickly all together and as any quick thing was badly built, with mass speculation, no intention to even trying imaging the future and so on.

We now know in many fields that creating megaprojects might be exiting but way to often the outcome is TERRIBLE, so it's better build much little things instead of few big. A lesson learnt by many, but still to be learned by many others.
I agree. The points were deducted from the team's total. The team itself was not deducted (though I guess you could argue without the points, the team was deducted from the tournament, lol)
As an employer, it makes complete sense to keep some kind of employee funnel active. This is achieved by having a listing active for months at a time. It is by far one of the most effective ways to recruit. You build and maintain funnels for client sales. Why would that not be done for the most business-critical aspect of an enterprise, human capital ?

This will not work for all jobs. And its effectiveness will vary by industry. For example: I wouldn't be able to run this technique successfully to hire a nurse for school. But if I was hiring nurses for a hospitwl, you can bet I'd have a permanent listing up. Something to think about the next time you are applying for a SWE at Amazon.

Why do employers do it? Because the vast majority of applicants dont read job descriptions at all. If you take 200 resumes and only 10 are qualified, its more likely you'll keep the position open, perhaps permanently, until you find a decent candidate. Or run a few trials with existing candidates while you wait for more applicants
Further details:

> For higher rungs of the achievement ladder like "advanced" or "extra" you needed to pass an exam about electronics as well as receive and send Morse code at a fast clip.

The General license (which I got) required 13 wpm. I think I read somewhere that they still broadcast Morse code practice every night.

The Extra was 20 wpm. I don't remember "Advanced."
Heh. I'm not a gym bro, just a fat lazy guy who can't cook, but I eat something similar multiple times a day (Huel, which actually does have great flavor IMO). I'd honestly be kinda excited to try more of these food-like substances.
The issue with a raspberry case is that N100 Radxa boards have the N100 on the bottom. That's where the heatsink has to go.
I don't see the malicious part of the compliance here. Maybe lazy compliance?
> pushing new technology that Microsoft has that would push security vendors into user-mode

This doesn't exist. It's briefly hinted at in their conclusion, but right now it's simply not there.

There is no userspace equivalent of filesystem minifilters, ObRegisterCallbacks, etc.
M-497 Black Beetle – experimental jet-powered railcar
How about this: take as input something random from beyond the time horizon (e.g., brightness from stars 300 light years away). Then (if we assume the input is sufficiently random) they should be fine.
(Speaking from the Option 2 camp) Exactly! You finally get to fix them - doesn't that feel good!? :D (Yes, I understand your actual point :) )
Would this still have happened if the EU had not ruled against Microsoft?
Because some of the requirements and solutions are so niche as to appear invented. It’s not parody and appears earnest, but deeply specific to this one individual.

Examples:

“I believe that a phone should offer very reliably just these features:

Calls
SMS
E2E encrypted foss IM
Deep sleep and push notifications (or any alternative for notifications without draining the battery”

Very few people outside of HN would agree with this. A phone is currently the primary computing device for the vast majority of people.

And for radio:
“Just add some streaming addresses to a simple script.”

Podcasts: “ I listen to podcasts. Sometimes. With a modified version of the sxmo_rss.sh script.”

A staggeringly small population want to handle their radio and podcast listening by just editing a small script.

Even a lot of the HN crowd want an easier life than script editing to solve these sorts of needs.
It depends. I think the ham crowd skews older so there is a lot of misogynistic humor (which I enjoy) and a bunch of racist humor (which I don’t enjoy). Overall it’s definitely not boring, especially if you enjoy a slower paced, in depth discussion of topics.
I agree. Microsoft's core competency has traditionally been backwards compatibility, but if each security vendor can tamper with windows at the deepest level and is allowed to continue explore all of the ways that they can leverage that... What you end up with is a fleet of different windowses, each diverging further with time. It dilutes the benefits brought by investment into the stability of the system because whatever fights are won in one fragment must be refought in others before you can have confidence in the stability of all fragments.

It seems like madness to me.
Why do so many products that aren't an operating system calling themselves WhateverOS?
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He didn't "miss" anything. Microsoft had wrested dominance in smartphones from Palm just before the iPhone was released. Ballmer may have made a mistake in keeping him on but Myerson was the person in charge of keeping Windows Phone competitive with iPhone.
So Donald Trump, hated as he may be, speaking about further legitimacy of Bitcoin is also not proof enough?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/07/28/absol...