skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So caveat that I am not a small business in need of any of this stuff, but I'll give you an example of the kinds of things that I have struggled with in the past where I think a solution like this could add a lot of value if extended in the right ways:

- certificate management amongst a plethora of hosts, both SSL/web certificates for external use, and management and installation of self-signed "root" certs for validating internal applications and services
- keymastering server: an appliance that acts as a genuine root of trust for an organization, using a Yubico HSM for key storage, but providing middleware & admin controls to manage issuance and distribution of intermediate certificates
- AD/LDAP/SSO/etc user management, key issuance, etc.

If you have a small team and you don't need global redundancy for these functions across a large fleet, then it makes a lot of sense IMO to shell out $5-10k for a set it and forget it security appliance that makes certificate/key management simple and easy.

I think the biggest challenge is that it's hard to build trust as a startup without open-sourcing your stack, but that makes it a lot harder to get buy-in for an appliance model unless you have some creative dual-licensing ideas.

But "your keys/certs are stored securely on your hardware in the room next door" is a compelling value proposition & probably a much easier pill to swallow for certain companies than a cloud HSM or other solutions which sorta boil down to "trust me bro".
There is some insane statistic about apple where they could cease selling of every product, bring revenue to $0, and still carry on with all other expenses for something like 75 years.
That would be more analogous to the build toolchain than the source code, but yes
Differentiating as a SWE in VC
> Has anyone written on this issue dispassionately?

Chris Williamson of the Modern Wisdom podcast has interviewed many public intellectuals from different sides on the subject in a fairly even-handed way.

I'm currently reading Mary Harrington ("Feminism against Progress") and Louise Perry's ("The Case Against the Sexual Revolution") books on the subject, and find them fairly convincing.

> This baby brained “men bad” or “women bad” discourse belongs in the dumpster.

Amen.
Understanding Performance Implications of Storage-Disaggregated Databases
There's a bunch of douches who will buy the cyber truck no matter how bad it is. But semi customers require something fit for purpose.
The Soviet doctrine was never particularly concerned about losses, to the degree that it jeopardized whole operations.

You can see echos of the same in the current "meat attacks" in Ukraine. Shturm, poshli, vperyod, into a hail of FPVs and cluster ammo.
If he hadn't had loads of money to fight this for ages he would have been rotting in jail right now. Perhaps the solitary confinement he was put in initially.
Why does cycling have such a reputation for this kind of thing?

Is it just that we see it more there? Or is there actually more cheating in that sport than others?
Agreed: don’t end up like Lot’s wife.
There's also "Fawn". i.e. play along in the hope you don't get hurt.
Hardware stack. While Waymo stuffed their cars with all possible radars and lidars, Tesla sticked to cameras. I didn’t wash my model Y for a while and it is continuously complaining about not working cameras. Looks like that camera based autonomous driving isn’t low hanging fruit.
we played it until we ran out of cards
> And if the right wins, then he has bribed them and will get preferential treatment.

That it would largely be about Musk winning, rather than doing all that he can to support global EV adoption, would absolutely track for him.
"In practice it is intractably hard to make any significant modification to a binary, and even if you could, you would then not be legally allowed to e.g. redistribute."

It depends on the binary and the license the binary is released under. If the binary is released to the public domain, for example, you are free to make whatever modifications you wish. And there are plenty of licenses like this, that allow closed source software to be used as the user wishes. That doesn't make it open source.

Likewise, there are plenty of closed source projects who's binaries we can poke and prod with much higher understanding of what our changes are actually doing than we're able to get when we poke and prod LLMs. If you want to make a Pokemon Red/Blue or Minecraft mod you have a lot of tools at your disposal.

A project that only exists as a binary which the copyright holder has relinquished rights to, or has released under some similar permissive closed source license, but people have poked around enough to figure out how to modify certain parts of the binary with some degree of predictability is a more apt analogy. Especially if the original author has lost the source code, as there is no source code the speak of when discussing these models.

I would not call that binary "open source", because the source would, in fact, not be open.
Up to chapter 6 the method is completely database-independent. In chapter 7, a classic relational table approach is explained.

You can choose a different approach if you want to use something like Cassandra, MongoDB or DynamoDB (or some other NoSQL solution). I am not an expert in all three, but I hope some day to write "alternative ending" for this tutorial and show how it can be applied in those environments.

Whatever database you choose, you still must do all the work of logical modeling (first six chapters) for your application. If you don't do that explicitly, you would have just to do that implicitly, intertwined with physical design and thus inherently more confusing.
I'm talking about the people in the video who saw what happened, then very casually and slowly turned and strolled away.
This is interesting because…?
> All without spending a single dollar on content creation.

YouTube paid out $70 billion to "creators, artists, and media companies" over the past three years.

https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2024-letter-from-neal/
> But waitlists of > 1 year are the norm (at least for all the parents I've talked with).

It takes 1 year for a batch of similarly aged kids to age into the next classroom. >1 year sounds like math to me, especially under the selection bias of adults only talking about this hassle when commiserating.

> Look, the US is the only country that has this issue.

The US stinks at domestically developing young talent vs its relative ability to attract skilled adults from across the world, raised to adulthood on the dime of other other countries' infrastructure. The US demographics pyramid relies on and will increasingly rely on immigration. Right or wrong, it's a feature not a bug.

I didn't realize how hostile some locales were to children until I left NYC (which stinks for kids in many ways) to NJ (which excels for them, a complement to NYC, attracting families in the process). Ever seen an entire city glow at your dog but glower at your kids?
I have written Ruby, Elixir, and Typescript on Nodejs.

I have yet to see a good reason for async/await, other than syntax sugar on a flawed language architecture. The very thing people like about Nodejs (async reactor), creates a lot of problems in production web and data pipeline code.

As an aside, Elixir’s Task.async and Task.await are function helpers that work with message passing primitives. Code execution can be truly suspended, and messages are queued. Javascript’s async/await queues code execution rather than messages, and I think that leads to error prone code by design.
>Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Apple, NVIDIA

So OpenAI and Anthropic are decacorns that are paying far far more than any FAANG so it's hard to compare them. Meta, Apple, Nvidia, sure, I can understand the sentiment, even if I don't completely agree. You see a lot of people shuffling between Apple and Google so it's probably org/team dependent.

Meta pays the most of FAANGs so they certainly have a lot of talent.

Microsoft is not even close to being on the same level. I did multiple interview loops there and I can't say enough negative things about the company. Every other FAANG company pays more and values talent and intellect higher than microsoft does.

The only employee I met at Microsoft in my interview loops I was impressed by is now...at OpenAI.
Yes, it’s like a video scrubber. But it’s perhaps more like the timeline in Blender/Maya, and maybe even Cinema4D ;)

You are correct though, they both serve the same function.

However, I’ve yet to see a video player that lets you reposition the camera as if you were using photo mode in a video game. That’s (essentially) what this thing offers.
Hackers Leak Documents from Pentagon IT Services Provider
more Rye I see... seems like I'll have to spend a weekend and learn me some more
The author is not complaining, but pointing out how complicated it is to determine programmatically the number of processes to use, and that most software doesn't take all the different possibilities into account.

Even if it were a complaint, the solution isn't only 'make one yourself' but includes 'write about it and see if someone knows of an existing solution'.

Which is what happened here. A commenter wrote: "I think that hwloc understands as many CPU limits on Linux as feasible, including the cgroups, but it's really overkill for something as small as a build tool. The end result is that a lot of limits must be checked in order to find out how many processes can be used."

That hwloc links to https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/ which among other things 'may also help many applications ... find out how many cores and/or hardware threads are available'.
That's great but not every note taking program requires a database to attach metadata.

I personally use Obsidian and it has support for all kinds of templates/metadata/tagging etc without a standalone database feature.
Everyone is always an expert in hindsight. "If I saw that, I would have". You need to first determine "this is unusual" which takes a long time. That's why despite so many Internet experts being instant responders, most people in these videos are not. If you're like that, how come you're not in the video running? Because you're not a fast responder in real life.
I don't quite agree there. Based on other comments it sounds like Meta doesn't open source the code used to train the model, that would make it not open source in my book.

The trained model doesn't need to be open source though, and frankly I'm not sure what the value there is specifically with regards to OSS. I'm not aware of a solution to interpretability problem, even if the model is shared we can't understand what's in it.

Microsoft ships obfuscated code with Windows builds, but that doesn't make it open source.
I second that. When I tried it, even with the initial versions of ChatGPT, it was shockingly good with translations.
The underlying economics don’t really change. In 2023 81% of Australian beef cows went to feedlots vs 97% of the US. So there’s some differences in Australia, but it’s steadily moving in the US direction because demand keeps increasing and farmland isn’t.

Cattle also get feed outside of feedlots, but that’s a different question.
The beauty of this spec is that it defines a set of basic components to build multilateral federations between various types of entities (without a need to rely on Web PKI + of course, the types of these entities are limited by the imagination only). Regardless of what's going to happen and what isn't going to happen to existing SAML multilateral federations, I think this this specification might begin to be adopted for various other use cases.

It's worth mentioning, the spec was also written by people who aren't new to anything from that, they were already deeply involved in SAML multilateral federations.
Llama 3.1 now has images support right? Could this be adapted there as well, maybe with groq for speed?
> - Not having skip levels

Do you mean not having skip-level 1-1 meetings?
Try implementing XMLDsig yourself and you'll quickly learn how awful it is. Aside from the other comments mentioned in these replies, one of the horrible things about XMLDsig is that it requires you to mutate ("canonicalize") the XML that is to be signed. Then, the signature is injected into the document that was signed ... to be removed by the verifier before it has to canonicalize the document, etc, etc
Cycling has the second strictest out-of-competition testing regime (second to athletics). They put pro sports like football (US) and baseball to shame.

It’s also nothing new. Cycling has been known for doping for 100 years or more. Armstrong took it to new heights but it’s always been there and always will be.

For me, I’m more interested in doping control for the safety of athletes. Potentially equalizing competition is second to me. After all, it’s “just” entertainment.
But then Flemish often claims to be a separate language from — as opposed to a dialect of — Dutch, doesn't it?
In what world is a title that says 2TB for a 32GB drive "honest"? Is your view that a lie becomes honest as long as you add some truths after it?
I like the term "open weights". Open source would be the dataset and code that generates these weights.

There is still a lot you can do with weights, like fine tuning, and it is arguably more useful as retraining the entire model would cost millions in compute.
I don't rely on the type system for my specification. I just rely on it to significantly reduce the number of bugs I inadvertently introduce into the implementation of my specification.
Are you really pretending that OSI and the open source label itself wasn’t a reactionary movement that vilified free software principles in hopes of gaining corporate traction?

Most of us who were there remember it differently. True open source advocates will find little to refute in what I’ve said.
> vs an actual open source system where you can understand how the system is working and modify specific functionality.

No one on the planet understands how the model weights work exactly, nor can they modify them specifically (i.e. hand modifying the weights to get the result they want). This is an impossible standard.

The source code is open (sorta, it does have some restrictions). The weights are open. The training data is closed.
I regret learning nearly everything that I know about SAML.
The cost savings have been bad for Google. Reduced productivity significantly. A lot of things are failing behind the scenes. A lot of the revenue lift is coming from short term hacks that will not lead to sustained growth.
Wiz has tons of competitors, and Microsoft is one of them, so are Palo Alto Networks, Tenable, Crowstrike, SentinelOne, etc... Wiz is definately a leader but are in no way a monopoly, so I do not see this as an FTC play to stop the deal.
Anyone got a gentle introduction to OIDC?
It's a big boardwalk feature at a high-profile park and sees hundreds of visitors a day with vanishingly rare incident. It triggers the same kind of passive trust that people bring with them to Disneyland or a dinner theater, where guests default to thinking everything is part of the show and needn't warrant actual concern. It's the same reason people get too close to the wildlife there.

It's thoughtful of you to encourage people here to be more vigilant, but the lack of that vigilance is a direct outcome of the park trying to culture an experience of safety and wonder instead of danger and awe (in its traditional meaning).
btrfs unable to accommodate further writes but not logically full, needs more space to start deleting stuff.

YOLO
plumbers
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...

truck drivers
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/h...

electricians
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electric...

I stand corrected. Thank you
About a decade or so ago, I was living in Poland for a few months and on a spare weekend, stayed in an AirBnB in Warsaw, on Smocza Ulica. This is a long street lined with 50s concrete block apartments, surrounded by lawns and trees. While walking around the neighbourhood I read a sign about a Yiddish poem written about one of the former Jewish residents, a girl called Khaye, who was eventually murdered in Treblinka and then incinerated. Much of that quarter of the city is in fact literally built on the rubble of the old Jewish neighbourhoods, and many of the remains of the former inhabitants still lie buried beneath the apartment blocks, burned alive in the terrible retribution of the German occupiers who decided to burn every single block of the Jewish Ghetto after the walled-in Jews attempted an uprising. Anyway, I looked into the history of this particular poem, and it led me to a modern song by the famous Israeli singer Chava Alberstein which I find very beautiful and sad. https://open.spotify.com/track/5JHgN8sWvcrG1u4rrk4yQM
> this should really start with an analysis of the entire problem so as to capture both the static structure of the system (i.e. class model) and its dynamic behavior (i.e. use cases).

How does the deliverable for this sort of analysis look? Do you have a link to some example documents (or maybe chapters in a book or whatever)?
Is there any other case where "open source" is used for something that can't be reproduced? Seems like a new term is required, in the concept of "open source, non-reproducible artifacts".

I suppose language changes. I just prefer it changes towards being more precise, not less.
Hopefully the death of Google will provide sustenance for a new wave of companies the way a whale fall provides for the scavengers of the deep.
Is that via cash holdings or stock holdings? I know Alphabet has had some buyback activity, but I don't really track Apple's moves here.

I am glad to see Alphabet paying dividends now though, it feels like the sign of a company that knows insane stock price growth can't go on forever.
cons:

- would set back solar adoption
Unicode encoding is elegant, until it added combining characters.

As for ASCII, I am well aware of its invisible characters. I am a veteran of many many years in the trenches fighting tab wars. (Is it 4 spaces?, or 8? 3?) I eventually realized that the only solution is to never use tab characters.

People use markup languages for formatting - Markdown, style sheets, Latex, etc. Unicode's markup is just a sad, crappy reinvention of actual markup languages.
A free alternative to their product has no impact to their business model?
Schumer plans to bring two major kids online safety bills to the Senate floor
pros:

- volcanic ash would replenish the NA bread basket soil erosion
I can’t believe that people still believe in MAD. It’s such a galaxy brain theory that weapons of mass destruction will actually make us safer because that other guy over there have them as well.

And the theory will only be conclusively disproven if someone pushes the button.
You are 100% correct... SAML is one case where ignorance truly is bliss.
They've used thermal cameras in the past to catch this. Motors, especially motors this small putting out this many watts will get warm. Carbon fiber tubes generally don't get very warm. You just have to figure out how to point it at the riders when (or shortly after) you think they may have had the motor running.
Standing stockpiles matter in a ever changing and destabilising world. We can't imagine it now but what if the US (or any other nuclear power) started to destabalise, maybe end up in a civil war, fracture up into smaller pieces, what ever. The less nuclear weapons you have lying around during and after that process the less opportunities for things to go terribly wrong.
Amazing idea, I will get that added!
No, it's just that nobody wants to look too closely at other big sports. The same Spanish doctor who got busted for working with a lot of cyclists was also working with a lot of Spanish footballers at a time when their national team won both Euros and World Cup. Yet, the last part was quietly swept under the rug...
lonely […], no life and no social prospects

Let’s say there’s a magical pill that gives you amazing hair. You’ll still be a lonely IT guy with no life and no social prospects.

I don’t mean to offend you, but don’t you think that you could work on these things for guaranteed massive benefits instead of hoping for a pill that might work somewhat?

Whenever I hear people this desperate about their hair loss I notice how it just exposes a psychological problem that was always there.
“Take a right at the next light. This might be a good time to roll up windows and lock your doors. And/or, if so equipped, lock and load.”
Some of these are why I would add reconciliation to the idea. Linear types, specifically. You can encode that you only send a message once. But, without doing reconciliation with the destination, you can not be sure that it was received.

I'm torn, as the examples from small programs make a ton of sense and I largely like them. I just cannot escape that every attempt I've seen at doing these in large programs is often fairly painful. I cannot claim they are more error prone than the ones that skip out on it. I can say they are far more scarce. Such that the main error condition appears to be to stall out on delivery.
> more to do with the Vietnamese (largest non-European) minority in Poland

Vietnamese are not Thai. They are entirely different cultures.

It's like saying a Poles are just knockoff Russians.

Vietnamese are proud of their culture and gladly export it, just like the Thai diaspora.

The train car conversion was probably done by Poles who formerly backpacked in Thailand
"The lies being pushed here may create errors in AI summaries."

They're welcome to fix their broken tech.
Japan Railways has giant robots doing maintenance work via VR-goggled operators
> you do have cursor positioning ANSI sequences which are designed to let text draw anywhere on your screen

They are not part of the ASCII standard.

> I wonder when they started putting the slash across the 0 to differentiate from the O

That's an issue for fonts, not character sets.
Agreed. Conflict of Interest.
Poetry will always have a looser syntax than poetry, almost by definition. Everyone has their own tastes, but it's odd to fault poetry for expressing itself poetically.
yeah, it seems weird that certain scientific and technological breaktroughs are seen as cheating while other are not.

nutrition and sports science have made training far more effective than it used to be. materials science has created lighter/better/faster everything.

the only harm i can see is if it encourages unhealthy behavior (i.e., convincing people to take dangerous supplements, potentially early in their career before theyve even come close to 'making it')
The Python/code block support looks interesting.

But Jupyter notebooks can run anywhere including local. Do you support that (via a local install or by relaying a connection to local python install)?

Or would all Python code have to run on your cloud servers (and thus not have access to things like high-end GPUs and such)?
Indeed. We've been witnessing nine months of pure retaliation for the October 7 attack, complete with tens of thousands of civilian deaths and controlled demolition of mosques, schools, and residential neighborhoods. An arrest warrant has been asked for Netanyahu for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and yet he will be speaking this week in front of a joint congress session. I imagine standing ovations will abound, as usual.
Even as far back as 2005-2006 there were stories of riders taping wrenches to bikes to get to the requisite weight, it's not even a new thing per se.
Comparing raw times isn’t accurate. The technology has improved Massively since Armstrong. Aero, weight, tire design, disc brakes (descending, wet).

And the training is just as drastically improved. Nutrition dialed to the individual, seven days/week. Power meters are ubiquitous. No more “go ride 5 hours with your roommate” for a Saturday training ride - it’s all planned all the time.

This has all happened since Pog was a small child.