skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In this case, the crime they're investigating would presumably be conspiring to do terrorism.

On what basis do you make this assumption? The indictment is for racketeering and makes no mention of terrorism.
Microwave oven has its own microbiome
Which small cities, in your opinion, are more dangerous than, say, Albuquerque? How many chances, say, a high-tech professional has to regularly find oneself in such a city because his company offices are located there and they have no choice but to go there regularly?
I don't understand people who don't want to be immortal.

At five years old I cried because I learned that I was going to die one day.
What Works in Taiwan Doesn't Always in Arizona, a Chipmaking Giant Learns
> crimes like having mud on your feet or a lawyer's phone number written on your skin

If the Wikipedia article is the whole story, you are correct. That said, as I noted in another comment [1], it appears to be badly sourced.

Do we have any primary evidence? Presumably there are charge sheets and statements from the university and cops, too.

> people that went to study groups

The Guardian article quotes the university claiming that the protesters were trespassers and not students [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188054

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/emory-univer...
> 3/32 German

What is this even supposed to mean?
You should make them remove the gutter guards. If you're losing by that much water to your foundation, the gutters are kind of pointless now.
Scalable Toolkit for Data Curation
The government funds a lot of early stage preclinical research. These are the inexpensive stages of the pipeline.

As soon as you move into humans you can add another 2 or 3 zeros to your burn rate.

It is not politically feasible for the public sector to fund later stages. The numbers are just too big. Just think of the campaign ads that would run around $200M late stage failure funded by the government.

The reason why mega giant pharma companies exist is because they make enough money and are capitalized enough to withstand multiple $100M failures without going belly up.
While technically this sounds interesting, using an old phone to install ONE App and call it a NAS is not what I expected.

Additionally, a storage solution (NAS) relying on a single eMMC or microSD neither seems very reliable nor fast enough.

Considering the small size and the lack of connectivity of "an old phone", there are way better solutions out there in my opinion - even if you'd just like to use it as a "vacation device" in a hotel.

I personally use a GL.iNet Beryl with OpenWRT, which is about 50 bucks used, but there is also stuff from FriendlyElec (NanoPI NAS Kit).
The Cornucopia Reloaded link in the OP is actually to the paper implementing this, I think, which I hadn't seen before.
I had two cats, siblings, growing up. One died unexpectedly. We thought about showing it to the other cat for closure, but decided instead that the cat might interpret it as a Mafia-type threat.
According to their website, the robot dog weighs 112 pounds (51 kg) and has four legs, not two, so it's both lower to the ground and has a wider stance compared to the average human. I don't see how shooting .223 is going to be an issue.

I agree that there might be a better weapon to use, but having it shoot the exact same ammunition as the accompanying infantry squad is probably more important.
> "Who's defending Imperial Japan?"

When you repeat the justification that the Japanese government used for going to war with the US more or less verbatim without explaining the background, well, that would be you, sir.

> "I dislike the wholesale excusing of one sides actions because the other side was worse."

That's not a moral or principled stance. That's just whataboutism.

> "Given that Imperial Japan was so awful I'm wondering how far you would allow the U.S. to go?"

You seem to be looking for an answer to paint me in a bad light and I'm feeling magnanimous today so I'll oblige you: like most Asians other than the Japanese, I see no moral problem with either the atomic bombings or the firebombings of Japanese cities in WW2.
World weariness hits many who live past middle age.
Does a 7 day expiration matter if the tracker can just set new cookies with new 7 day expiration dates as it tracks you?

Also, Firefox partitions cookies by site (aka Total Cookie Protection), so first-party facebook.com cookies, cross-site facebook.com cookies on example.com, and cross-site facebook.com cookies on example.net all get separate cookie jars.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-pr...
In an eternity all individual events lose their meaning. An endless life is a meaningless life.
> Unrelated, but I recommend everyone who can to visit Hiroshima and visit the museums there. Hopefully it will instill in everyone a fervent desire to never again see such horrific things enacted again.

The Nagasaki muesum is very good, too. And it's a nicer town to visit today. (We were just there last month.)
The rifle shooters wear stiff clothing, while pistol shooters tend to wear looser things (and there are lots of rules around clothes not being allowed to provide support).
I’m the author of the original issue — I agree, we’ll have to ensure the struct layout is solved. I think the only thing that makes sense is to just waste a little space and store the fields side-by-side. In almost all cases where people would use a struct I think this is an acceptable tradeoff.

At the point where you have more than 5 cases, the GC overhead starts to get shrink in comparison to the calling convention and copying overhead anyway.
Victim's Windows PC patched? Just force undo its updates
I dont think there would be software drivers to run Zigbee/Zwave USB controllers over usb on android, even rooted...
George's Garage Kits (1999)
That's a really good point. I think it's even possible that my personal experience of lack/grief/loss is 0% present-moment and 100% reflective. Noting of course that this includes reflection on the super-recent past / future.
Yeah. crc32 may be simple in theory, but doing it as fast as possible utilizing the various execution units of modern hardware is challenging.
Discerning Fabrics (2013)
Have you read the article, it mentioned Lisp machine in the very first paragraph?
Good thing IMO. We can't keep expanding. We're running out of places to build housing and as a result it's becoming extremely expensive.
It's just disappointing that the direction of computing is towards ever stupider lower more basic levels for the foreseeable. This sort of guarding & lowering of expectations is the only thing the OS seems to be working on these days.
If you go to a pubic library the bible tends to fall open at Ezekiel 23:20
Use ebs as wal in streaming system like Kafka is really a nice try. I will keep an eye on it.
Node.js Takes Steps Towards Removing Corepack
It’s not so much that I don’t want to be immortal - although I do think it’s a huge positivist assumption that your current human existence is the “peak state”, the best possible thing to continue being forever. It may turn out that this life is just an unpleasant dream of a superior consciousness. Maybe it’s not, and this life is all you get. But we don’t know that and it seems extremely self-absorbed and myopic (a common trait throughout human history) to consider this existence as the only real thing.

My concern is more that the world required to keep people immortal is almost certainly one removed of all risk, danger, adventure, and dynamism. I don’t want to live in a world where people hide inside staring at screens, because they’re afraid of physical accidents ending their otherwise immortal lives.
China Launches Starlink Rival
> I think there are a lot of engineers out there looking for something more meaningful than their FAANG or tech job. Immense potential to be leveraged here if we come together.

Amen. I want to build dyson spheres myself. Gathering the money right now for it. Of course I know it won't happen in my lifetime but you got to start.
I'm confused by this. It's open source, it's been forked. The code doesn't disappear because you delete one copy of it.

This move primarily makes AMD legal look frightened of Nvidia, which seems a bad thing to put out there on every axis.
I believe uBlockOrigin browser extension has a filter to restrict local access
It’s pretty clearly stipulated in their TOS, for what it’s worth.
It need not be active to send a message. If you build a giant diamond cube or some other gigastructure, it could last for billions (?) of years even after the builders have become extinct. You need it to be detectable at interstellar distances, but the message is simply "we were here once." Maybe you could encode your civilization's knowledge on the gigastructure itself for visitors.
Tip: in Github, press `y` when looking at a `/blob/branch/something` url to turn it into the current commit.
Again this isn’t about champagne glass vs cognac.

> That's clearly not true... It's not the patterns on the glass

I was calling attention to where aeyes said “I had these glasses with kids prints.” clearly a reference to decoration not the types of glasses produced.

The company varied both the types of gasses and the decoration on those glasses, but the article is only giving them credit to the types of glass not the wide range of purely cosmetic designs.
Safari adds support for WASM GC
You don't need io_uring. For many workloads being slow & inefficient is acceptable, isn't awful. But gee I'd rather start from a modern baseline that has high levels of mechanistic sympathy with the hardware, where things like network & io work can be done in an efficient async manner.

Why do I need io_uring? Because it sounds awful and unhackerly to suffer living in a much lesser worse world.
Do people really think that death is optional, and the problem is that we're opting into it?
Today was the first time I was presented with a scanner at Costco
Bird flu is less scary than we feared. But we're not working to control it.
> I also do not feel that I misunderstand life.

Respectfully: You do. You must. Or if you don't, then life misunderstands itself. For life has adopted this pattern of death in essentially every conceivable domain, every ecological niche. Further, any hypothesised lifeform that has discovered death as unnecessary, they curiously have not arrived here for us to interrogate. The significance of that seems vaguely familiar, but perhaps just Fermi ;)

You don't know me, but I usually air toward speaking humbly about things I suspect I know. Readers are free to decide which perspective is true hubris: my hubris that aligns with all known living systems and their failed aspirations of immortality, or the other hubris that stands alone with cancers and brainless jellies, where death is a failure of all historical life to discover otherwise... that the cleverness of life we laud so much praise on -- the same life which has invented every enchanted bit of protein machinery that runs this whole beautiful mess -- that it has somehow had a blind spot all these millennia, that we humans have seen clear-eyed.

Death is hegemonic for a reason. It's the Chesterton's fence around the whole damn bustling city, that we've never seen what comes from the other side of, if we finally remove it.

Much love here. I don't mean to be dismissive, this is just something I care about deeply and wish to speak firmly on.
https://archive.ph/EDbVZ
I built the list while scrolling on my feed so if you knew me it would make sense that I haven't felt the need to mute tankies.
You can rant against it all you want, but we already live much longer than is justifiable from the evolutionary perspective. If it was up to the evolution alone, we wouldn’t live past 50. So try to make something of your life while it lasts. Or just enjoy the festivities, that’s perfectly valid, too.
There is a person watching. Don’t know what they see, but at least now it’s in your face at the entrance
I'm not a fan of rust, but if microsoft required that those sort of critical software be written in rust, it would be a good thing.

Anything that is doing something sensitive or critical that can crash the system should be written in rust.

If not, insurance companies would be mandated by law to run static analysis on such C++ code.
DoTheWorld, The most advanced IO Handle lib
I remember reading an analysis that if people only died by accident then the average life span would between 900 and 2000 years. That assumes no more conservative living than today. Surely things like cars and guns would be much less prevalent.
Agree with the general principle of knowing your buffer sizes, but the issue with memcpy (evidenced over many years with various CVEs) is that someone invariably takes a string length and forgets to plus one, leading to non-null-terminated strings.
Hello, I am the author of this article, any questions are welcome about AutoMQ(https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq)
you've painted yourself into a corner, how exactly are you going to define meaning? As far as we know the universe is infinite, and as such all actions fit your description anyway, so why not be infinite along with it?
Blame the court for this bad decision -- it's the SEC's position that the sales to retail were also problematic.
That's a good question. I don't have an easy way to rerun the comparison since this happened actually a while ago, but I do remember some relevant numbers.

In the first iteration of the Rust extension, I actually used the parser from RustPython. Although I can't find it at the moment, I think the RustPython parser was actually benchmarked as worse than the builtin ast parse (when both returned Python objects).

Even with this parser, IIRC the relevant code was around 8-11x faster when it avoided the Python objects. Apart from just the 35% spent in GC itself, the memory pressure appeared to be causing CPU cache thrashing (`perf` showed much poorer cache hit rates). I'll admit though that I am far from a Valgrind expert, and there may have been another consequence of the allocations that I missed!
I really want to do something similar, but I have a problem: I need to always have my screen on to be able to connect to the phone on localhost:{port} as I regularly needs to talk on the phone.

In addition to not always needing to have the screen on, it would be good if I could schedule some "extra" battery saving during night when it is not needed.

If it is possible to give only one app possibility to use the internet it would also be good, now I have not bothered to delete all junk apps, and I guess they also waste a lot of energy.

Right now I have seven android phones awake 24/7 with their screen on (dimmed), but I am a bit afraid of fire / battery exploding.

Appreciate any advice on this!

My devices:
Samsung Galaxy A41 64GB
Samsung Galaxy A14 64GB
What could I say? It reeks for itself.
You’d still end up with any slightly dangerous activity being banned or discouraged. No bicycling, no skiing, no martial arts, etc. The risk would be considered not worth it.

And that’s not mentioning inherently dangerous things like exploring the cosmos.

It would be a very small, sad, scared little world, in my opinion.
NASA official acknowledges internal "disagreement" on safety of Starliner return
> On what basis do you make this assumption? The indictment is for racketeering and makes no mention of terrorism

I think the top comment about this being Atlanta's homeland security department or whatever threw me off.

Conspiring to do something. The something isn't important for my argument so long as it's a crime. That conspiring is the crime in progress or already done. For all intents and purposes, it's preëmptive to the actual thing we want to prevent. But that's why we criminalise, in addition to the crimes per se, possessions, intents, et cetera.

Police are not a purely reactive security element.
Some of us need a do-over. (In my case, I had a disabling disease that robbed my youth and a treatment only became available when I started nearing old age)
I couldn't bother myself to read the whole article. Got GPT-4 to summarize the main points. Not as much insight as I thought I would get going in.

1. *Testing in Staging vs. Production*:
- Most engineers prefer testing in staging due to a sense of control.
- There's a misconception that it's an either/or situation between staging and production testing. In reality, both are necessary.

2. *Importance of Production Testing*:
- Staging environments can’t replicate all possible real-world scenarios.
- Production testing is essential to identify complex, real-world issues missed in staging.

3. *Uber's Approach to Testing*:
- Uber tests its payment systems in production.
- They have developed tools (Cerberus and Deputy) to facilitate transparent interaction with real systems and gather responses effectively.

4. *Every Deployment as an Experiment*:
- Every deployment is treated as a hypothesis to be validated against business metrics.
- Metrics and monitoring are crucial to determine the success of deployment.

5. *First Rollout Region*:
- Uber chooses a specific first rollout region to minimize risk and impact.
- Initial rollouts are conducted in regions that are small but significant for practical monitoring.

6. *Canary Deployments*:
- Uber conducts canary deployments to a subset of users to detect and mitigate potential issues early.
- This approach helps in identifying and fixing issues with minimal impact.

7. *Examples of Issues Discovered Early*:
- Uber detected significant issues with GooglePay during its cautious rollout in Portugal, which would have been difficult to identify in a staging environment alone.

8. *Philosophy on Software Quality*:
- True robustness and resiliency come from real-world usage and the continuous fixing of encountered issues.
- Only production can provide the real stakes and conditions needed for thorough validation.

9. *Author and Newsletter*:
- Alvaro Duran, author of “The Payments Engineer Playbook”, emphasizes the importance of sharing and learning from real-world experiences in payments systems.
- Encourages readers to engage with the content and share it with colleagues for broader impact.
Perhaps they just wanted to mount a rifle on a robot dog for eventually shooting people and used drones as cover. These are going to be used to shoot people.
no one seems to be claiming that it's a GPS replacement. the article specifically calls this out as a check on or a fallback for GPS and that getting accuracy to within 200m would be a huge success.
A lot of places where I go here (Ohio) are still that way.

Just tonight, I stopped in at a fairly new little Mexican hole in the wall for dinner. When I was finished, I just walked up to the register by the front door and paid my bill.

(See also: Waffle House.)
I'm sure I read multiple times that the universe is finite. Both in space and time.

Not that I agree with the "infinite life destroys all meaning". Just nitpicking.
My wife worked at Travelport in the late 2010s. They ran a lot of Delta’s systems but Delta of course has their own infrastructure. Some of the history of Delta’s teams is intertwined with the companies that were merged together to form Travelport.

From what I could tell from her talking about work it wasn’t particularly far off the state of the art at the time. They had a fancy new AWS hire to help lead them into AWS from mainframes. That didn’t fully work out but they still had a bunch of containerized .Net and Java running.

Mostly this whole back and forth argument sounds like a ball of pain with everyone upset at each other and very little of it mattering unless lawsuits are filed. If Delta is using Windows at IBM it doesn’t make them “ancient.”
Suffer a supplier failure, and your supplier is motivated to prove you are at fault.
Good question, even more so considering they were made by the same people. After the creators of puppeteers moved to Microsoft and started work on Playwright, I got the impression that puppeteer was pretty much abandoned. Certainly in the automation circles I find myself in I barely see anyone using or talking puppeteer unless it is a bit of legacy project.
there's reinvention and then there's innovation, wheels have come a long way since the bronze age
Every PC we have has IPMI. We can re-image any PC even--if it can't boot--remotely. Even if we don't have the bitlocker key, etc.
Microsoft didn't supply, recommend, or specify CrowdStrike.
Show HN: Vessal–Private and Secure Transportation
Is it time to version observability?
I would love to use this as a teaching aid... to teach the practice and value of argument.
Hi,

This is exactly what I was looking for, a great audio editor for shorts. I'll try it right away. What technology did you use? I'll try the basic version and give you some feedback.

Thanks
Otto
Can I ask why?
> That sounds interesting, but make sure it's only funding one-offs.

> We don't want a repeat of lotteries funding schools, where that money becomes expected

Making it exclusively one-offs doesn't address that problem at all. What it does is aggravate the problem of people going out looking for someone they can fine to cover their budget.

A construction company's entire business consists of one-off jobs. They expect the money to come in anyway and they're built to rely on the fact that it will. Other organizations funded through one-offs are no different.
The US dropped not just the nuclear bombs on civilians.

> The raids that were conducted by the U.S. military on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, are the single most destructive bombing raid in human history.[1] 16 square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.[1] The atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945, by comparison, resulted in the immediate death of an estimated 70,000 to 150,000 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
> it is essentially trained to assume that whatever you're saying to it is true and to not say anything negative to you.

Oh, it's actually worse than that: A given LLM probably has zero concept of "entities", let alone "you are one entity and I am another" or "statements can be truths or lies."

There is merely one combined token stream, and dream-predicting the next tokens. While that output prediction often resembles a conversation we expect between two entities with boundaries, that says more about effective mimicry than about its internal operation.
It is frequently faster to send an IP packet to another continent than to change a pixel on the screen.
Not much of a NAS

> For this basic project it was just internal storage over WLAN

Maybe someone can figure out how to access a USB-C dock and have drives attached.
When the engine doesn't stop, then it's running .. continuously, idling or not the motor is running.

Also, with due respect, you've never been present when I or my father have cut wood, shorn sheep, loaded hay, or otherwise worked in the field. These activities get optimised via repetition to have minimal slack time and maximal throughput.

With an assistant the chain rarely stops, as one cut is completed wood has been positioned already for the next cut .. perhaps you've never been that efficient.

It's not possible to clear five tonne of cutting and splitting rounds in a day without minimising dead time.
NOAA did the mapping already, making this like some kind of geoguessr for robots.

I wonder how much those anomalies change over time and how updates would get rolled out without breaking that "unhackable" aspect of it
this is above my head but just wanted to mention that apple m chips have 128bit registers, tho I don't know if that means anything wrt the overhead
Marketing gets them more money, which then increases the amount they can put into R&D. They aren’t spending on marketing without expecting a return.