skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reality is, only exceeding common codebases (Linux and Postgres for example), can survive with an open source model. If the value created by the product is 1M times greater than the costs, fine, a way to support it will materialize. Otherwise, economics take over and people need to get paid. The fact that source is publicly available is largely irrelevant.
What does this process look like and how can I follow when this happens?
From one figure:

> These are lines 31-34 of the second column of Sennacherib’s clay prism, probably from Nineveh, now in the Israel Museum (IMJ 71.072.0249). The text records eight campaigns of the Assyrian King, including the siege of Jerusalem which is well known from the Book of Kings. The line reads: ‘On my return march, I received a heavy tribute from the distant Medes, of whose land none of the kings, my ancestors, had heard mention.’ (translation adapted from A.K. Grayson and J. Novotny’s edition available on ORACC, Q003497).

Here's a full translation (without the OP's technique): https://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/meso/sennprism1.html
It varies from place to place. In some states, judges are elected positions and their appointment comes to for review; in others, they're not.
> The teenager was visiting the 36th District Court for a trip organised by the environmental charity The Greening, whose other excursions include kayaking and bird-watching.

> [...] Mr King said he stood by his decisions. "I wanted this to look and feel very real to her, even though there's probably no real chance of me putting her in jail," he said. "That was my own version of Scared Straight."

Is it "https://www.greeningofdetroit.com/"?

> The Greening of Detroit is a non-profit organization focused on enhancing the quality of life for Detroiters by planting trees, providing job training and involving our youth in the education of the natural environment. We involve Detroiters in the process through community engagement, green spaces, education and jobs.

Is this primarily an at-risk teens program, without saying that directly?

Why were these teens visiting a courtroom?

Why did the judge think "Scared Straight" trauma was appropriate under the circumstances?
FYI, you're right about GNU (by and large), but mistaken about Linux.
There was a HN article about the same book about a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940799

So maybe you saw it then.
Agreed. I don’t at all see Mega in the same light as SciHub for example.
good luck w/ that
When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others
I think the story is a lot more complicated. Talking about "the best possible output quality" is a big claim, and I have no reason to believe it can be achieved by mathematically simple techniques (ie linear convolution with a kernel). Quality is ultimately a function of human perception, which is complex and poorly understood, and optimizing for that is similarly not going to be easy.

The Mitchell-Netravali paper[1] correctly describes sampling as a tradeoff space. If you optimize for frequency response (brick wall rejection of aliasing) the impulse response is sinc and you get a lot of ringing. If you optimize for total rejection of aliasing while maintaining positive support, you get something that looks like a Gaussian impulse response, which is very smooth but blurry. And if you optimize for small spatial support and lack of ringing, you get a box filter, which lets some aliasing through.

Which is best, I think, depends on what you're filtering. For natural scenes, you can make an argument that the oblique projection approach of Rocha et al[2] is the optimal point in the tradeoff space. I tried it on text, though, and there were noticeable ringing artifacts; box filtering is definitely better quality to my eyes.

I like to think about antialiasing specific test images. The Siemens star is very sensitive in showing aliasing, but it also makes sense to look at a half-plane and a thin line, as they're more accurate models of real 2D scenes that people care about. It's hard to imagine doing better than a box filter for a half-plane; either you get ringing (which has the additional negative impact of clipping when the half-planes are at the gamut boundary of the display; not something you have to worry about with natural images) or blurriness. In particular, a tent filter is going to be softer but your eye won't pick up the reduction in aliasing, though it is certainly present in the frequency domain.

A thin line is a different story. With a box filter, you get basically a non antialiased line of single pixel thickness, just less alpha, and it's clearly possible to do better; a tent filter is going to look better.

But a thin line is just a linear combination of two half-planes. So if you accept that a box filter is better visual quality than a tent filter for a half-plane, and the other way around for a thin line, then the conclusion is that linear filtering is not the correct path to truly highest quality.

With the exception of thin lines, for most 2D scenes a box filter with antialiasing done in the correct color space is very close to the best quality - maybe the midwit meme applies, and it does make sense to model a pixel as a little square in that case. But I am interested in the question of how to truly achieve the best quality, and I don't think we really know the answer yet.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fussell/courses/cs384g-fall2013/l...

[2] https://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~eslgastal/SBS3/Rocha_Oliveira_Gast...
I usually find out about it by reading the news.
Well, still, at least it does not defy common sense or logic.

When the Media and governments were confidently pointing fingers at Russia, it made absolutely no sense unless you thought Putin had lost his mind completely. It made absolutely no sense, but in the same way they peddled that Biden "runs rings" around his younger staffers, they said it often enough and assertively enough that people took it at face value.
+1 from italy
I mean the highest court in the land, the US supreme court has members openly taking bribes a la Clarance Thomas and he's still around.
One of the reasons the US is viewed as such a good place to start a business is that the country will go to bat for their (favored) businesses internationally.

National security is very far from the only scenario where the government will intervene in geopolitics, for better or worse.
>Why were these teens visiting a courtroom?

It's not really that unusual. Every student in my district (thousands) visited their local courthouses in Civics class in 10th grade.

>Why did the judge think "Scared Straight" trauma was appropriate under the circumstances?

Power tripping.
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Radicals are a "natural" extension in a certain sense, just as subtraction and division are. They invert an algebraic operation we often encounter when trying to solve equations handed to us by e.g. physics. I find it understandable to want to give them a name.

Why not something like "those things we can solve with Newton"? As you note Newton is broadly applicable; one would hope, given how popular the need to invert an exponent is, that something better (faster, more stable) if more specific than Newton might be created. It is hard to study a desired hypothetical operation without giving it a name.

On a related note, how come we don't all already have the names of the 4th order iterative operation (iterated exponents) and its inverse in our heads? Don't they deserve consideration? Perhaps, but nature doesn't seem to hand us instances of those operations very often. We seemingly don't need them to build a bridge or solve some other common practical engineering problem. I imagine that is why they fail to appear in high school algebra courses.
More than that. They gave the media basically a tool to identify music that they owned, then either remove it or take all the money from it.

I don't think Kim ever paid content creators. Youtube is pushing probably $5 - $10 billion a year to them in cash plus serves as a promo / branding / ad vehicle (all the sponsored content or product placement stuff in music videos).
Maybe they just need to invent LeetCode interviews for PM and BA roles
Well last I checked words have meanings. And you needing to resort to ad hominen when facts state otherwise is telling, especially since I am the Great Gatsby of parties.
If your threat model includes someone with a quantum computer intercepting all of your traffic and storing it to decrypt later, you probably don't want to share your keys over a non-PQC channel unless you can guarantee that they haven't started eavesdropping on your traffic yet.
> One thing you'll learn about my courtroom is that I'm not a toy. I am not to be played with.

What a narcissistic piece of shit. Not everything is about you...
Isn't PRK safer because there's no permanent flap, instead removing outer layer that can regrow?
Really does appear to be memory-holed, rather than just having moved. Not a good look. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acockroachlabs.com+"Co...."
Book Review: On the Edge, Nate Silver
Tell me how
I think you would have to take your kids to some remote area, with no traffic, no internet and very few people and tell them to 'go out and play'.
Ask HN: ChatGPT is down, new model being released?
It's hard to see what other message would be communicated by this.

Also:

> I wanted this to look and feel very real to her, even though there's probably no real chance of me putting her in jail," he said.

Probably no real chance??

> "That was my own version of Scared Straight."

Oh, he means that program that not only doesn't work, but tends to result in the opposite of what it purports to be trying to accomplish?

https://psychcentral.com/blog/scared-straight-not-really

> The program effect, whether assuming a fixed or random effects model, was nearly identical and negative in direction, regardless of the meta-analytic strategy.” In other words, Scared Straight not only doesn’t work, it may actually be more harmful than doing nothing.
I'm surprisingly annoyed that I cannot guess what word you you are censoring, and AI wasn't helping much, mind spoiling it for me?

Also, I don't think you have to censor words here in general.
If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be Northern Virginia
Looks a bit deadish?
I worked incident response for years, logging thousands of hours of actual on site work with impacted clients.

No on cares.

Clients see this as the cost of doing business and have no incentive to do better. Even after Equifax and OPM.

Until we have a GDPR style law in the U.S. it will continue to be status quo.
That's a good point but my point was more that if we listened to public opinion we may not have broken up Standard Oil!
At this point I'm convinced judges are among the most corrupt, despicable government officials in the US.
From the standpoint of the people paying the developers of said software, it is exactly like paying $0.
yes.

GPT 5.
Show HN: Vectara-Agentic
I've been working on a Python package to enable Agentic RAG with Vectara (disclosure: I work there). It uses LlamaIndex behind the scenes, and provides a quick and easy way to build Agentic RAG assistants.

I hope you find it useful, and please share any questions or feedback.
If anything people would fault me for saying “no” so much. It’s part of why I tried my hand at security for a bit but found it exhausting. I was never more “the adult in the room” than in that position.

I’m not saying own all the decisions. With a largish team you want at least three people who will stand by a decision even when it’s not a unanimous vote. (Don’t ever do four or six unless you have a good boss. Jesus Christ that was awful.) When I do say something will definitely work, I’m almost always right.

What I left out and thought of later is that it’s more important to own the cleanup than the decision. Once you do that people trust you more, and the trust leads to other opportunities. So it’s not really, “I was wrong” although that already filters out way too many people. It’s the “here let me help you fix it.” That makes it stick.
Ads are just going to migrate into the context via bugs or in video popups/banners like we now have on cable and network TV in the US. Of course this won't reduce ad breaks at all.
I'd have thought the correct procedure is to have the bailiff remove them from the courtroom, handcuffs would only be needed if they refused to go. They can pout in the hallway.

From the article, it was more than just handcuffing and the judge caused more disruption than she did.
There are now some torrent apps in the Altstore that are not allowed in the Apple app store. So the Apple review is more limited.
You generally need line-of-sight for microwave links and the longest known link is something like 350km, and even using tropospheric scatter you can't go over ~500km, so you'd need multiple relay stations with microwaves.

Using a lower band and bouncing off the ionosphere gets you much further but only works if ionosphere weather is OK, and it'll have lower bandwidth (not necessarily a problem though), and encryption is a no-no for amateur radio in most countries
AdWords came out in 2000. Google acquired DoubleClick in 2007. AdWords was much better before the DoubleClick acquisition. It turned into crap as DoubleClick management forced the engineering-focused AdWords management out.

I don't know if you have any personal experience from that time period, but AdWords was magical for an online business in the mid-00s. You could get conversion rates orders of magnitude higher than display ads like DoubleClick. Whole businesses were built off of providing a solution to a problem that people were searching for. It was also a hell of a lot less intrusive than the banner ads that occupied the web in the late 1990s - AdWords was text only, and worked because you had a need, somebody had a solution, and Google matched them up. You didn't have to see all these products that you didn't need.

We're unfortunately going back to the brand advertising days of a corporate monoculture, largely because Google Search (and the web in general) sucks now.
AGPL + commercial license is a solution for keeping a project open while avoiding the situation where profit goes to cloud hosting.

Is there a better solution?
Not just handcuffed. Also dressed in a jail outfit, and threatened with juvenile detention. I'm not sure which is worse.
If not the US, then who do you suggest could plausibly lead (I would even say prop up) the free world and the global economy?
> Once an announce has reached a node in the network, any other node in direct contact with that node will be able to reach the destination the announce originated from, simply by sending a packet addressed to that destination. Any node with knowledge of the announce will be able to direct the packet towards the destination by looking up the next node with the shortest amount of hops to the destination.

Do I understand correctly that routing always priorities the path with the fewest hops? With Reticulum being "medium agnostic", I imagine this would not always be fastest in terms of ping or throughput: A destination might be reachable via a single hop via Mars, even though three hops across town would be faster.
I said it somewhere else, but this FAQ is likely because most people think "source available on GitHub" = "open source", so they're just answering the low-hanging-fruit even if the question is technically incorrect. Not everybody is aware of the differences between "on GitHub" vs OSS, the OSI, the FSF, etc.
It doesn't solve for required multi-region data storage. Nor for data center failure resilience.

Scaling up is fine for a few things, but hopeless for many others.
>ran out of options

He'd have one more option to fight tyranny, if your government didn't disarm the populace.

Imagine being yanked out of your home country by a foreign power and their corporate overlords with the prospect of living the rest of your life in third-world prison conditions, for the crime of allegedly reducing their balance sheets from $550B per year to $545B per year.
I would imagine that some of that is going to be because trucks don’t just compete on fuel efficiency like economy sedans, they compete on power as well.

In an Accord Hybrid the only number they are trying to push up is mpg. In a Tacoma they also are trying to maximize torque,hp, towing capacity etc.
> I... kinda think he was right.

He often was, to be honest.
He's a popular voice of dissent on Twitter and someone must be cracking down right now. Scott Ritter is another--he had his passport seized recently and his house raided by the FBI a week ago.
Meanwhile nothing for mega corporation pirating data to train AI.
Yes, it's a good way to lose respect.
>the fact that US prisons are have many citizens of other states, but there are very few US citizens detained elsewhere

Americans commit exceedingly little crime internationally. Even in ultra-low crime countries, US citizens rank below native citizens per capita. That is probably why.
How do we un-car centric design the ~60million people who live in rural USA? Should we move everyone to urban environments for public transit?

How do you figure someone like me traverse the 40 miles from my 800 population rural town to my work place?
It’s a rather unfortunate launch. It’s showing itself at the top of synthetic multi thread and single thread benchmarks and then failing to beat the 7000 series (even non x3d variants) in games seemingly due to thread scheduling going across ccds.

I suspect it’s a hiccup and easily fixed with a software update but unfortunate since the launch benchmarks tend to be the ones that stick around.
If you're representing dates back into the 1600s you need to keep in mind that calendar maths and things like "was this year a leap year" become more complicated. The Gregorian calendar was introduced in the 1500s but worldwide adoption took a long time - for example, the UK didn't adopt it until the 1700s. So you've got more than a century where just having "a date" isn't really sufficient information to know when something happened, you'll need to also know what calendar system that date is in.

Overall, this means if you're representing historical dates I would question whether a seconds-since-epoch timestamp representation is what you want at all, regardless of range and precision.

Edit: yes, you can kinda handle this as part of handling timezones, but still, it's complicated enough that you may want to retain more or different information if you're displaying or letting users enter historical dates.
I personally would love for the world NOT to move towards MORE tipping, which a tax exemption would encourage.

Wouldn't it make more sense to bump standard deduction to $85,600. If someone is making more than $85,600, they pay taxes whether its tips or not.
I'm soon to be building an updated gaming PC (while ship of theseus'ing parts like my 3090, SSDs, etc), and it looks like this Zen 5 series is...not it. My sights are likely set on the 7900X3D as the processor I'm picking.
TLDR: Verizon store demo app with a variety of system privileges was downloading payloads over http and was not performing any authentication on what it received.

Not Google’s fault (beyond trusting carriers to not be incompetent :D)
Neither of those licenses require copyright ownership transfer. It's what makes Linux completely bullet proof against license changes. You'd have to track down every copyright holder (everyone that contributed, even if it's just a 1 line change) to get their permission for re-licensing their contribution. Which in the case of Linux is literally tens of thousands of individuals and companies, if not more.
you're moving the goalposts from "I didn't have money" to "I have money but it's not worth it".
I have 5950X. Looks like I am going to skip this gen too. Kind of looks meh.
you can fork it tho. this way you don't need to accept the CLA, you're just obligated to publish your mods if need be.
I find that a lot of DSLs are essentially "I need these N languages features in a serializable and dynamically runnable language." If you're already in a scripting language its not all that interesting but if you're in a compiled language, a small embedded DSL can scratch an itch.

Even in JavaScript, you might not want the full power of eval() exposed and instead you want something with less power that can be parsed and sanitized.
> Specifically relating to the Ryzen 9 9950X and the Ryzen 9 9900X, AMD has brought back their PPM Provisioning driver.

Very interesting this driver is needed.

Has there ever been a time in the past where a driver is needed just so the CPU properly functions?
I would have gone the pedantic route and point out that you can only fill a container with water if it has at least one hole.
> In terms of the origins of the app, Google told me “this is not an Android platform nor Pixel vulnerability, this is an apk developed by Smith Micro for Verizon in-store demo devices and is no longer being used. Exploitation of this app on a user phone requires both physical access to the device and the user's password.”

If an attacker has your phone and your password, it's game over anyway, who cares if some random app could allow MITM connections over HTTP.
No you are not. Your orders are not sent to the best exchange execution possible but to market makers who pay kickbacks to your broker and give you a far worse deal with every single transaction. The cost of poor execution is much higher than a 2 dollar commission (which is what Fidelity shows). It also reduces market transparency.
Good point! And a related topic, we call the organism that lives happily in our gut E. coli and we also call the organisms that cause disease the same name. What’s the difference?

It turns out that the Escherichia coli (to spell out its Latin binomial) that cause disease are in some sense “diseased” themselves: the genes that enable them to be pathogenic, or make them pathogenic, I should say, are originally from a phage, a type of virus that infects bacteria [1]. In a manner that is not the same as, but conceptually similar to how HIV inserts its genes into the human’s genome, phages insert their genes (termed the “prophage”) into the bacterial genome.

In addition, most strains of pathogenic Escherichia are also holding on to an entirely separate, small, circular “genome” called a plasmid, also of exogenous origin, that contains additional genes that make them pathogenic.

So in addition to wide genome variation within the “species” (which is not really the same thing for bacteria as for mammals, mind you) of Escherichia coli, many subtypes have additional genetic material from endogenous sources that substantially changes their observed characteristics (phenotype).

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli_O157:H7
MIT AI Risk Repository
How about compiling Cobol to machine code, and then using an LLM to decompile to <your source language of choice>?

This moves the focus from Cobol specific tools to Cobol agnostic tools.
I'd love to understand why this feature/product requires an entire startup. I dont mean to be dismissive -- obviously it does, as shown by my experience with Fidelity Baskets given they cannot achieve it!

Also, I used FolioFN and ShareBuilder for years to do the same and they seem to have flopped despite having a compelling product. I'd love to understand why such an obvious feature/product with sound alignment to financial recommendations cant seem to do well in the marketplace!
Ack, sorry! Too late to edit now :(
RIP.

The one button mouse was significantly underrated. Using the keyboard keys as modifier keys to the mouse was ergonomically great, and anybody who complains about the mouse seems to never really understand how that system worked.