skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keurig for microgreens.
A system whereby the user provides power, water, and proprietary seed cartridges to a device to manage scheduling, succession, water, light, and other environmental factors to successfully grow microgreens as easily as possible.
PS: I'm just annoyed being pretty much forced to "profile myself" there in order to be considered for jobs. I used to avoid it but several recruiters told me they would rank people without a linkedin profile lower and even people inside the company where I work now insist on it.

I really hate that kind of corporate evangelisation. If it didn't exist I wouldn't have to take part in it, that's all.

The company I work for is the same. We were one of the last to close our Russian offices when the war started. They say they're committed to LGBTIQ+ rights yet do huge business in Saudi and the rest of the middle east (and don't even display the rainbow banners on our site there). The C-Suite say they care about sustainability yet fly all over the world in private jets.

So that's why I'm a bit sour about that.
You just have to double check the results whenever you tell Claude to extract lists and data.

99.9% of it will be correct, but sometimes 1 or 2 records are off. This kind of error is especially hard to notice because you're so impressed that Claude managed to do the extract task at all -- plus the results look wholly plausible upon eyeballing -- that you wouldn't expect anything to be wrong at all.

But LLMs can get things ever slightly wrong when it comes to long lists/tables. I've been bitten by this before.

Trust but verify.

(edit: if the answer is "machine verifiable", one approach to ask an LLM to write a Python validator which it can execute internally. ChatGPT can execute code. I believe Sonnet 3.5 can too, but I haven't tried.)
Here's a real news source, instead of reddit: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-...
That was in 1918, it did work for ~400 years quite well. Also, Pandur is such a cool name.
Apple literally won a case against the FBI on this. That's the US tho of course with First Amendment and everything...
It's a trademark thing; there are some prerequisites and manual approval involved before you get to officially name your distro "[Distro Name] Linux".

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark
I don't think this is relevant. Even on-prem "air gapped" networks get breached. I would say it happens on as frequent a basis as any other network tbh. Microsoft hacks get headlines because Microsoft is a public company; there are lots of undisclosed breaches happening out there.

Security vulnerabilities come from the same place they always have. Where IO happens, where transactions happen, and where an operating system does a lot of work. How attackers get to these points, what happens when they do, and then how the system reacts when a malicious event occurs are the factors that matter.

In today's world of complex technologies, I have yet to meet a single organization that is invulnerable to these threats. I've seen a lot of organizations limit damage, patch vulnerabilities, and generally manage their risk profile effectively - but losses are a part of the business.

IMO, the only thing that will really make a difference is when we have technologies that are sufficient enough to male the user more resilient. Only then can we have a truly safer web.
But we've all already been using microwaves this way for decades. If it's so harmful, then it should be easy to point to the evidense of the harm. It's not all that interesting in this case to just go by what seems obvious intuitively, because we aren't talking about a new thing and guessing if it will be a good idea or not.
A little difficult for Boeing's stock price to tank on a Saturday, though...

But I bet the market will have some things to say on Monday, unless Boeing can do some damage control before then.
Yes! Very much so. And in fact, the grading services are owned by the same parent companies. NGC and PCGS are the big coin graders and I think their card graders are CGC and PSA respectively?
ChromeOS

SteamOS

PopOS

ElementaryOS

EndeavourOS

ZorinOS

CentOS

SerpentOS

Cosplayers, all of them!
Thank you. That aligns with what I originally thought.
Arrest Telegram channel mods then
And SpaceX was already beating the entire industry on price before they ever successfully reused a first stage.
I am building an Excel extension that lets me use LLMs in formulas. For example, I can write =PROMPT(A1:E1, "Extract keywords") in a cell to extract keywords from a row and drag the cell to apply the prompt to many other rows. I find this useful when I want to use AI for repetitive tasks that would normally require copy-pasting data in and out of a chat window many times.

I actually built it for my girlfriend who was writing a systematic review paper. She had to compare 7.500 papers against inclusion and exclusion criterias. She obviously did this manually because she cares about scientific integrity, but it sparked the idea to make an AI tool to automate repetitive tasks for people like her who would rather avoid programming. Now I just find it useful myself for a lot of ad-hoc analysis tasks like prompt engineering, rag tuning, and comparing model outputs from anthropic, openai, and google.
That doesn’t seem like the main problem to me. The original comment seemed more on point; it is for most companies a sideshow that makes no money and only works to enable their main business. That it gets a bad priority in the budget is a result of that underlying problem.
Yeah that’s weird
100% agree! I often get folks asking if their $2 are valuable, and tell them exactly what you do -- no, alas, they're not worth more than $2, but they are super fun to leave as tips because people still get a kick out of 'em.
Ongoing discussion (hundreds of comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341353
He's finding it applicable more than the narrow historical context and using it here. You can disagree with it but its not a 'misuse'
It will probably help if people take the time to read Article 8 in the European Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private
and family life, his home and his correspondence.

2. There shall be no interference by a public authority
with the exercise of this right except such as is in
accordance with the law and is necessary in a
democratic society in the interests of national
security, public safety or the economic well-being
of the country, for the prevention of disorder or
crime, for the protection of health or morals, or
for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

Thus a channel where terror actions are planned /can be made/ "against the law", but it will not automatically be so, unless there is a specific french law that makes it so.
> Not sure why HN removes indention between a leading > and the start of the text, makes quoting unnecessary hard

Because HN’s markup is the most dreary, half-assed, and useless one in the history of lightweight markups.

HN will remove a bunch of characters it doesn’t like because they might be used for fun, parse two+ newlines as a paragraph break, 4-indent as a literal block, and mis-parse * as emphasis.

That’s it. So you get all the drawbacks of HTML with almost none of the tools provided by even just the original markdown. No quoting, no line breaks, no lists, no inline code, …
It's never the encrypted database that gets hit, it's always the other database that was made because our first database was encrypted....
Loved this when it was shared in its own post recently. One piece of feedback is the bottom toolbar covers some of the content on mobile. I think ideally some extra padding on the bottom of the site would be needed when on mobile. Example: https://imgur.com/a/VXdtJ3m
Hey guys! We're engineers/designers from France, and we've built the Ultimate DIY Battery that you can repair and refill!

It works with 90% of the bikes/motor brands on the market, so I assumed that some people here might be interested, if they got a non-functional batteries but they still want to use their e-bike?

We believe that everybody should have control about stuff they own, and we should fight against planned obsolescence!

Here are a few videos about our founder on the battery itself, why we built it, and how to assemble it:

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We'd love some feedback from the e-bike DIY builder community

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LPI/LPD/LPJ video codec/modems that can operate in the UHF band.
> Physicists seem to be really good about this, and many other aspects of implementing the scientific method too.

That's because physics is relatively immune from politics. Other fields are on the other side of the "practice vs theory" spectrum and thus attract a lot of politics/interests which influence the science.

https://xkcd.com/435/
This is exactly right. There's also the underlying asymmetry; defenders need to get everything right, attackers only need one vulnerability. (Which is usually human behavior based.)
Building an #AArch64 code generator for the dmd #dlang compiler.
i've been making music in my spare time, picked up a guitar during the pandemic

https://m.youtube.com/@Listening_Stone/videos
Software is unfortunately a big part of the complexity crisis. What you are describing is an investible consequence of abstraction (not that abstraction cannot be handled sensibly at some level, but it at any point you reach a situation where nobody is capable of understanding the entire software stack, then we are in trouble. We are almost certainly at that point now in most industries).

There was an interesting lecture Jonathon Blow gave a while back that addressed this issue but it was predictably panned as the ramblings of an insane game developer, I think wrongly. A lot of the points made were true.
Okay, and apart from "two advesary countries collaborating on what the rest of the world is doing", is your claim (or support of) of China being involved in this specific case based on capability, it getting caught, or just abstract vibes and speculation?
Related:

The Treacherous Optimization (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533301 - Nov 2019 (7 comments)
This is great! One feature that I use ChatGPT for is “give me the closest foreground color to X that meets AAA accessibility on Y background color”. ChatGPT that calculates it with a python script. Has been super useful. Maybe it could work on your site?
Big nope.
I have still not graduated and this is my sixth year at university (in Europe). I find math too difficult and I still have calculus, linear algebra and probability. Discrete structures is the only math class I managed to pass and it took me too long to realize it's because the other classes have a long list of prerequisites. I have passed all of my software/IT classes aside from the maths and it's because they virtually are built from the ground up. On the other hand, strong math foundations are required even for the introductory math in my college. What I did was get great algebra and precalculus textbooks and went through them with great detail. After that I found the classes were not that hard to grasp.
>> could not be forced to wiretap

Couldn't they just quietly release an update, under a threat of a 20y jail time, or just $5 wrench? Any centralized solution is vulnerable. The only real solution is open source serverless p2p network.
That is not the definition of secure.
Thanks!!

Infra: I was hosted on Google Cloud for a while -- literally a single VM running Docker Compose, but I decided I wanted something a bit more flexible and interesting, so last month I switched everything over to Fly.io and I am incredibly happy with them. It's just so easy and fun to manage.

The retail site (rarity7.com) is just a small VM running a Crystal server process to handle web requests. Image hosting is all done on Cloudinary. My backend / inventory management / trading + research engine is a separate Crystal process in a separate VM. Both connect to a Fly Postgres DB. There's one other service which is a small python process on another VM which is doing inference on my regression model. That's super lightweight and I don't need any GPUs to do the inference (tabular data is nice like that).

Overall it's really nothing fancy and it works quite well. A few web-serving VMs and an inference service for my pricing model. I train/retrain the model a few times a year on a local box (my repurposed gaming rig running a 2080Ti).
Smarter people will get the prerequisites faster. Nothing wrong with that, I'm more of a persistent person myself, which is a quality in itself. The really accomplished people are both smart and persistent.

But otherwise I agree with the article. I have zero basics in physics because my first teacher was generally senile and there was noone else (small town), and it was always something where I automatically tried my best to just get a passing grade.
All I’ll say about Grozev is read his Wikipedia. A brilliant journalist. He’s in that video where Navalny calls the guy that poisoned him.
Omg instantly bookmarked.

How to find "Military science fiction series" that are "Complex and Strategic" and includes "Space battles and tactics", "Action-packed sequences", "Strategic dialogue", "Multiple book series expansions", "Futuristic space environment", "Spaceships and battle fleets"? Use yogurrt. Never found it so easy to narrow down my interests and find new books. Thanks!
God no, the internet SNR is low enough as it is without all my failed experiments, lol.
Somewhat similar to r/patientgamers - so r/patientreaders, r/patientwatchers, etc.?
I don't think that's an apples to apples comparison at all. An elderly person dying of natural causes is a relatively unavoidable, normal death that just happens.

People dying because a plane crashes because of the negligence and penny-pinching of the airline manufacturer is no comparable at all.

What we want to compare is the crash/fatality rate of the 737 MAX during that period with rates for other aircraft types. And I suspect we'll find the 737 MAX falling far short of the standard if we do that.

> I don’t mean to suggest the aircraft was safe compared to other commercial aircraft

Right, but that's the only kind of comparison that really matters.

> general aviation in the US for example is 5.3 fatal accidents per 100,000 flight hours

We're talking about commercial airline safety. It's pretty well-known that general aviation is less safe, but that's not really relevant to the discussion.

I agree that I'm safer getting into a 737 MAX than I am into a buddy's Cessna or a car or train(?) or boat or whatever, but I don't care about that. If I've chosen to fly somewhere, I would prefer to fly on a plane with a better safety record than the 737 MAX.
Yep! It just outputs GLSL. It doesn't do anything smart -- it's a single giant shader that gets recompiled whenever you change anything, so it wouldn't really work for something like a game. I mean, it could handle like basic instancing of the form "union these N models, where N<256" but there's no way to change the scene graph dynamically.
There are entire Telegram groups devoted to publishing CSAM. They're publicly available, not E2E encrypted. Being there in such a channel puts the data on your device, unencrypted. You can report it all you want. Nothing happens. Been there, done it.

It is not just that. Weapons. Drugs. Terrorism [1]. Pornography depicting rape.

[1] Includes accelerationism. France just had a terrorist attack on a synagogue. Germany had one on a city festival. Could be related to either. We don't know!

And yet, with all above being said, as much of a cesspool Telegram is, I much rather have such centralized there than in an application with group E2E encryption. But even then, every once in a while you want to scare the herd to demotivate their (criminal) effort, just be careful not to flock them to a better alternative. Which is a real risk.
This is me diving into leetcode without majoring in CS in undergrad.

There's are also a bunch of precalculus stuff that comes in handy that I completely forgot. Like how to compute arithmetic sums!
Do people use XSRF-tokens nowadays? That used to be the standard approach to this, before all browser CORS protection came to be. The server gives the client a token on the top level page, that must be included in any subsequent POST requests, while also requiring the cookies. Seems like a safer approach, unless you fully trust all browsers to get CORS correct.

It's similar to the Authorization header technique, except you would normally submit it as a parameter in the POST request instead of headers. Explicit credentials are good but has some drawbacks, by being in the headers, you must submit it using fetch(), making it difficult to use in forms or <a>-tags, there the implicit credentials work smoother.
Hey guys, I’m currently working on a design handoff solution similar to Relay by Material.io, but with support for iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native.

The goal is to streamline the design-to-code process.

Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who’s tackled similar challenges or has insights on optimizing cross-platform handoffs!
Hehe, two years ago, I wrote a similarly titled article - "You're not dumb, the prerequisites are bullshit." :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30035456
Rejoice in fact, No one will be wasting 0 day on you.
Yep. If the Swedish government really cared about children, they would do something to stop the massive underage gang violence problem the country has. 12 year olds being used as hitmen for drug gangs is not normal, yet that's the reality.
How is the GDPR big-brother-like-thinking?
1. Dubai has extradited to the EU in the past, 2. the EU can easily cripple his business and whatever assets he has in his "home" country of France in a couple of weeks. It doesn't even matter if this is about the alleged real criminal activity on Telegram or political persecution like Musk alleges, the moment Durov decided to stop playing ball his life would be miserable no matter his location.
Ask yourseld why does a VC organization want to run a news site?
Show HN: Chrono Piano – Never ending unique piano pattern
Wait, professional cricket doesn't make money?
depends on the company you keep. it's been that way in the US for a while.
Main links of interest apart from the OP research paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1529 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04589):

https://shufflecake.net/ Project website

https://codeberg.org/shufflecake/shufflecake-c Implementation (GPLv2)

https://fosstodon.org/@shufflecake Socials

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545393 Past HN submission
Interpolation would require deriving from the resultant and extrapolation would guarantee no inference is how I make sense of it
> Unfortunately studying/working 12+ hours a day

I am confused. Why didn't you reduce your hours to find mental happiness?
Looks very cool. Seems to have a very similar feature set to nixos, curious how they compare?
If they manage to human rate Vulcan, I don't think it would be technically hard to launch Starliner on it. Just looking at Cygnus which used three different rockets from three different companies.
AI Network Has No Spine – and That's a Good Thing
This is a good start … A press release may be a good next step.

Maybe announce a unique competition with a paid prize (if steam allows this).
Nice. Please reach out to cp12@gmail.com, would love to talk.
Attackers win so easily because corporate security teams play predominantly

1) regulatory games

2) compliance games

3) CV optimization games

4) political games and finally

5) actual security work games within their organization
It was #23 on the front page when you made this comment: https://hnrankings.info/41341353/
> Again it should be compared to modern aircraft

Right, exactly, and this is why this sub-thread is so maddeningly weird. I'm going to compare the 737 MAX's safety record to that of the 737 NG, 777, 787, 757, as well as to Airbus' current-gen 3xx planes. I don't care how it compares to the DC-8 or 707 or 720 because it's exceedingly unlikely I'll ever fly on one of those.

And I'm certainly not comparing to the kinds of small planes general aviation pilots fly, and I'm not comparing against other modes of transportation. I already know that I'm safer in a plane (even in a 737 MAX) than in a car, but if I'm choosing to drive, I'm choosing to drive. If I'm choosing to fly, then then the 737 MAX's record, coupled with how poorly Boeing has handled the situation, is a big concern to me.
You can use pthread_once() to simplify the initialization part: https://man.archlinux.org/man/pthread_once.3.en

I don't understand the desire not to link to pthread, it's about as ubiquitous as a library can be.

I doubt it's really a problem in this application... but naive userspace spinlocks are absolutely horrendous, see NOTES here: https://man.archlinux.org/man/pthread_spin_init.3.en

User-space spin locks [...] are, by definition, prone to priority inversion and unbounded spin times. A programmer using spin locks must be exceptionally careful not only in the code, but also in terms of system configuration, thread placement, and priority assignment.
To be fair literally no one else is doing this, not Russia, not China, not Japan, not Europe.
Temporal specifies using IANA Timezone Database for all time zone aware implementations and recommends them to "include updates to the IANA Time Zone Database as soon as possible." Moreover:

> If implementations revise time zone information during the lifetime of an agent, then which identifiers are supported, the primary time zone identifier associated with any identifier, and the UTC offsets and transitions associated with any Zone, must be consistent with results previously observed by that agent.

Basically, the timezone data must not change while a browser tab, a Node program, or a service worker is running.

AFAIK, this does not prevent possible timezone data mismatch between different versions of browser and server, or even different browsers on the same machine.

https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/#sec-use-of-iana-time-zone...
> not tied to any particular country

I don't think that's accurate. Like any other business, he collects money from the Western users, so that's one easy choke point. He is also fully accountable to Apple, otherwise he can forget about 1.5 billion Iphone users forever. (apparently, he also just seems to enjoy visiting France and other countries he decided to go against)
I’ve found that getting the ai to write unit tests is almost more useless than getting it to write the code. If I’m writing a test suite, the code is non trivial, and the edge cases are something I need to think about deeply to really make sure I’ve covered, which is absolutely not something an llm will do. And, most of the time, it’s only by actually writing the tests that I actually figure out all of the possible edge cases, if I just handed the job off to an llm I’m very confident that my defect rate would balloon significantly.
Working on a ton of new music - https://4D4M.com and 4D4M on Spotify.
Currently exploring production of new genres and some hybrids as well as some tech to improve live shows.
Divided we stand: The rise of political animosity
Interesting. Can you share more?
Presumption of reasonability in political prosecutions

Assumes facts not in evidence.