skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But that's false equivalency. The attackers also work for organizations.

You've missed my point or I wasn't clear enough. It doesn't matter that they're part of a larger organization. That organization's goal is attacking, or at one step removed, selling/using the resources gained from attacking. Defenders are never in an organization whose business is the Defending.

Or lets use your CIA example, and for the sake of argument, lets pretend there are no other counties in the world other than the USA, Russia and China. In a world where there are no Russian or Chinese Attackers, the CIA would not spend money on defense against Russian and Chinese attackers. But in a world where there are no defenders in Russia and China, the CIA would still spend money on attacking and exfiltrating data from Russia and China. They would just be vastly more successful at it.

Or as a different analogy, mining companies mine because they want to sell the ore and gold in the mountains. But we still call them "minim companies" because thats their job. And they are often opposed by environmental groups working to defend the mountain. In a world where there were no mining companies, no one would be organizing an environmental group to defend the mines because there's no gain to spending time and resources standing around and guarding mountains and ore that no one is trying to get access to. But in a world where there are no environmental groups, there would still be mining companies.
Seems to be happening more and more, here is a huge bust from may: https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/iphone/dollar5-million-w...
Building a toolkit to save hours of time when working with LLMs locally. For example, adding a TTS or Web RAG to the Open WebUI setup both are a single command.

https://github.com/av/harbor
Ive only ever watched the first Ghost in The Shell, do the others have the same animation style and feel to them?
Like certifications (A+, Linux+, RHCE, RHCSA, CISSP, etc.), but specifically for software developers?

Sounds like a business opportunity:

https://education.oracle.com/java-certification-benefits/cer...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/browse/

https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-developer-ass...

"Save money"? This would make money.

Just think how much businesses would pay to keep their employees' credentials current!

You could also charge exorbitant fees for training, books, and videos people would use to prepare for the exams.

Maybe you could even setup a school business built on teaching people stuff for all the exams and then give them an "everything" certificate after they took all the exams the school had?

Oh, wait.
Position-dependent function of human sequence-specific transcription factors
The FCC foots the bill, via your phone bill(cell and land line). They don't want to foot the bill for every person on the planet, or even every person in the USA, just for those of us that are deaf/hard of hearing and need the service.

If you need the service, it's free. If you don't need the service then you can pay for it yourself if you want it. Or do what most do these days and use AI and hope for the best.

Yes the AI captioning stuff is improving, but they regularly break all the time. In my last call with AI captioning, the AI kept talking about lawyers. That was not a topic of discussion at all during the call. I was of course confused as all get out, and the hearing people had to type in what they actually meant.
I personally find the syntactical flow of SQL to be quite logical: you SELECT tuples FROM a table, JOINing others as needed, filtering WHERE necessary. It’s much like list comprehensions in Python, which I love, so maybe that's biasing me.
I'm imagining a reading curriculum that regards the irregularities as funny little foibles, oddities to point out and wonder about. Like if you go to a park and there's that one place it's too steep to walk, or the other that always floods and is muddy, or the place where mushrooms grow. Complaining about orthographic exceptions is like saying everything should be perfectly flat lawn, a giant grotesque golf course.
Im not sure if this is evolution really.. Maybe.. divolution? Why? Because AI tools like that are "FINAL" tools. I will repeat myself, but I will say it again. Smart people around the world develops those tools, and they provide them as IS for anyone (smart, dumb, adversaries, etc). Most people have NO clue how they work, but those tools does the job so who cares. NOW, the problem. All kind of "managers" and "politicans" who DO NOT care about knowledge are happinly grab all those tools on enpower them even more. And once those tools will be able to sustain themsels (one step before of true AI) you all guys/gals are obsolete. And I mean it really. No joke. It happened before, it will happen again. Because those who are in power have NO respect for you.

Wars and genocides happens because some small minded dickhead in power try to pour sweet on his ego or fullfill his ambitions and sends milions of people to war. Sad is, that all those people just DO IT, no resistance.. like WTF?

And this is the main risk. If you do NOT get it, im out of words.

Also, I have no problem being replaced by true AI. I am mortal so, I will die eventually. And that new AI will be different from humans. Will it be better. I have no idea, but lets give it a chance. Humans had it, and failed miserably.
Just went through each commit- this is an extremely engaging way to document a project, nice work
Make has warts. Users generally expect their build system to handle spaces in the parent directory name without any issues.
>Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

The most fun and rewatchable M:I movie IMO.
Heh, I should skim better then. ;)
I'm working on an invite-only, personalized medical education platform called MedAngle, particularly for emerging economies. I started it in my third year of medical school, and we're now at 90,000 doctors/medical students, along with over 100 million questions solved and billions of minutes spent studying and excelling.

I get to lead a team of 175 doctors and students across premed, medical, and dental education. I am the first doctor + full stack technologist in the country. It's super rewarding. No funding, just off our immensely low price point that things are still growing quickly. All software written in house.
Jython, JRuby, and other JVM languages
Isn't the computer science version Peter Novig's, "Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know" table?

https://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers

Edit: This version is also quite nice - https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375
One classic set of numbers is Jeff Dean's "latency numbers every programmer should know", as quoted in a bunch of places including: https://highscalability.com/google-pro-tip-use-back-of-the-e...

(EDIT: apparently Dean got this table from Peter Norvig as another commenter mentioned.)

The disk numbers are a bit outdated now because of the overwhelming shift from spinning hard disks to SSDs, but most of the others have held up surprisingly well AFAIK. For instance, neither CPU L1 caches nor the speed of light have gotten dramatically faster in the last couple decades.
Putin seizes $100M from Google to fund Russia's war machine
Fair. I hope my kids invest some meaning in it (assuming I have kids someday). Or maybe I don't care if they assign meaning to graduation?

I always cared about school, but I saw it as a means to an end. I knew what I wanted to do from a pretty young age, the path to get there was pretty clear, and I went down that path and now here I am, happy that I made it. So, for me, the ceremony really was just a formality because I knew the real reward would be all the exciting stuff I get to do with my education.

But, now I'm considering having a family in the next few years, and someday I might want to show them photos from my graduation. I can't do that, though.
There are definitely ways like deauth all clients, grab hash and try to crack it; or evil twin attack.
But because of the privacy laws their surveillance laws get sacked in court.

Same with their attempts to make the data export to the US legal.

Safe Harbor, Privacy Shield, etc.
They try and try but fail every time because it's always the same just a different name.

Hopefully that prevails.
I mean, even if Apple knows the address of the people who bought it, it might have been re-sold since then - so it makes sense they don’t give out any info.
Nice project! Two bits of feedback regarding your pricing page: 1) you have a typo: "signle" 2) I would left-align your lists (those that start with checkmarks)
This is something I’ve been arguing for for a while[1]. I called it a “Framework Knowledge Base”. I think it needs to go a bit further and include specific code examples, especially for newer bits that are not in the training set. Ultimately RAG or even fine tuning might be better than a system prompt.
[1]: https://devops.com/the-rise-of-coding-assistants-superchargi...
> That's not in the domain of SQL.

That's my point, I think we've reached the point where SQL the langage can be more of a hindrance than help because in a lot of cases we're writing directly to the engine but with oven mitts on. If I could build the query from the tree with scan, filter, index scan, cond, merge join as my primitives it would be so nice.
I wonder how many of these "work ethic" stories are just undiagnosed ADHD stories in disguise...

I mean, this is the second time I see ADHD mentioned in this thread, and the story of somebody who just can't keep focus study for long hours kind of fits textbook symptoms.

To be clear, I'm not saying everyone commenting here with similar stories have ADHD, but uh... if it rings a bell, maybe think about it.

(FWIW, I suspect I'm also an undiagnosed case...)
Understanding people's incentives is extremely important if you want to understand their behavior. As Charlie Munger once said, "Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome."

Based on your replies, you seem to think neither incentives or promises are important in business and, given the context, possibly not even profits. To give you the benefit of the doubt that those aren't just shallow dismissals, what do you think is important?
The sad compromise of "sponsored results"
Same as on every other platform?
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-is-n...
No, it's not. Cloud provider's raison d'etre is selling access to compute resources. That confidentiality and integrity are resources they can also sell does mean that they might spend more on those things than would otherwise be expected but if their single and sole purpose was security, they would't be selling networked access to computer systems at all because that is objectively less secure than physical terminal access. But no cloud company that requires their customers to staff a physical presence at a terminal in the data center is going to be as successful as one that allows you to remote into your cloud from anywhere, even though tht is objectively less secure.
Company uses live bacteria in design of new logo
I mean, SpaceX has already been contracted for the flights for the remaining years that the ISS will be around. They already don't have the ability to raise prices that much.

NASA keeps Starliner around because they've already committed to the bit about redundancy when it comes to "new space" style acquisition processes (after all, they're still fully intending on flying astronauts on Orion without flight testing a fully crew capable version, and talking about paying for a backup option to it and SLS is a fast way to get fired or forced to resign).
Maybe not exactly what you meant...but you are not alone in your dream. Here's what i learned of: "Pushup - page-oriented web framework for Go" [https://pushup.adhoc.dev/]
Great question. Authenticity is easy - I mostly deal with certified coins, which means they’ve all been authenticated and guaranteed by a 3rd party service which stands behind their mark (they will pay you for the coin if they make a mistake, which does happen).

For shipping, that’s just pretty standard across most industries - I have shipping insurance and if USPS fails, they’ll pay for it. But losses happen and it’s just a matter of business (thankfully they’re rare).
Unfortunately, the way we structure, fund, and manage modern corporations creates tons of poor incentives all on its own, no legislative influence needed. (unless your goal is to maximize short term profit signals at all costs)
In 1895 a young Italian studying Maxwell's equations wondered if perhaps you didn't need wires to send an electromagnetic message, and after months of tinkering beamed the first radio message which rang a bell on the other side of his parent's attic.

The first person he showed this to was his mother, who to her credit didn't accuse him of witchcraft but gave him a hug and supported him in all his future ventures.

He then went on to start a company building useful things on top of this discovery, including the first transatlantic wireless radio that saved tens of thousands of lives and is no doubt in part responsible for many of you alive reading this today.

Fast forward a century and skip the long hours and blood, sweat, and tears of millions of scientists and engineers and technicians and factory workers who have further built this technology so instead of just sending Morse code wirelessly at a few words per minute, we can send all of humanity's information to everyone on earth in seconds.

Wifi is one of the most beautiful creations and technological storylines in all of history.

Let's keep it open and free and not sully it with ads and passwords.
I meant there are no real intentions to settle Gaza with settlers, not in government or civil society.

In front of an impassioned audience of thousands of right-wing activists, 11 government ministers and 15 coalition lawmakers pledged Sunday night to rebuild Jewish Israeli settlements in the heart of the Gaza Strip, with some also encouraging the emigration of the Palestinian population after the war with Hamas is over.

Speaking amid a carnival-like atmosphere at the Jerusalem International Convention Center, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party, extolled the virtues of creating new settlements, declaring: “God willing, we will settle and we will be victorious.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/12-ministers-call-to-resettle-...
A safe generalization about Dynasties is that “no one cares”. It has about 2.5k players now, same as Attila (one of the most controversial titles released 10 years ago).

People keep bringing up Dynasties, but it’s obvious CA doesn’t know how to make successful historical titles anymore. They dropped the ball even on 3k which had some kind of potential.
I have just recently learned that the little voice can be amplified by people around you. Being removed from those re-enforcing that little voice is an amazingly freeing mentally.
Thank you for noticing me :)

My interests are many, maybe too many.

In tech, I'm interested in native systems programming, at the moment with C++.

Outside of tech, I do quite a bit of "long" distance running, swimming and e-biking.

When out on a run, it leaves lot of time available for listening on podcasts, mainly technical podcasts.

At the same time, when exercising, I want to publish tidbits I've learned, do projects with raspberry pies, arduinos, make statistics over time series (power consumption, electricity price, internet usage++).

When I'm home, I'm thinking I'll do it later :).

What I'm most curious about, is how people, and I, can stay organized. All information feels like a mess :)
If your object graph is a tree then you're using the most trivial <10% of the garbage collector.
Show HN: I made a math puzzle game
I'm not sure if this is the best strategy for a drinks company :P I don't want to think about bacteria when I'm thinking of food/drink!

But some of the variations in colours/patterns in the resulting photos are really stunning.
Error Handling and HTTP Handlers in Golang
Inspired by wafflegame.net
> SpaceX hasn't really reduced its customer-facing launch prices much since it's started regularly re-using rockets

Rocket reuse began in 2017, and their pricing per kg has fallen by about half since then.

Attributing this directly to reusability isn’t straightforward, since they’ve also introduced new launch vehicles. However, it’s pretty clear that booster reuse is part of their economic model, without which they could never achieve profitability.

SpaceX (not) coincidentally being the owner of one of the biggest beneficiaries of reduced launch prices is evidence for, not against, the paradox. Without the cost structure enabled by their launch tech, Starlink is a massive money loser, like every other satellite internet company before it.
Study time does not predict grade point average across college students [pdf]
You're trying to build a ground-up theory for why LLMs are bad for this sort of work. But the empirical evidence suggests they're quite good at it. Just try using it!
Every multi-GHz multicore computing device today would place on the Top500 in the 90s. Your phone is a handheld supercomputer.
> can't just be that Boeing is in the phase of accelerated decline

Peak air-travel.-
They might have discovered that taykh-optimizing the sisyphean is itself sisyphean..
Why is it green? It shouldn't be green. Ruby docs should be red.

If i stumbled onto this site while looking for docs about a ruby method, i'd think I landed on the docs for some other programming language or fork of ruby. That's how off-brand this is - to the point of being disorienting as a user.

There are not a lot of things that create a brand around a programming language, and color is definitely one of them.

This is such a tasteless design decision for something meant to be official ruby documentation that I can't even appreciate any other changes that docs may introduce. And then the fact that it doesn't even work on mobile...

I am truly baffled anyone would think this is in good taste.

the last time I saw such a fumble with ruby related docs was back around 2014 when relishapp was the only place to get rspec docs. It's UX was such a painful mess that i just avoided it at all costs. Glad to see it's dead now.
>Does it matter, no.

I think the OP may be a bit strong in their language, but I think your quote borders on cult-of-personality. Can you name a business where delivering on promises does not matter? To take it back to the featured article, there's a lot to be said for Boeing not delivering on their contract (really just a legally binding promise) and how it caused all kinds of schedule and cost pressure.

>"What did he do to hurt you?"

Also, snarky replies go against HN guidelines. Please review them.
I’m working on a OSS version of a relationship hub for founders and investors. Think deck and Data room management, investors updates amongst others.

Really really early days but progress can be followed at https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak
Things I Learned from Doing Triathlon in My 70s (2023)
I'm working on my tech interview platform: https://onlineinterview.io/
It is a free platform that allows people to develop on the browser using multiple programming languages, draw on a shared board and talk over video.
TMI, Fukushima, Chernobyl. Those are the problems and "minor" real-world implications. That's why no one wants a nuclear plant in their backyard.

If those never happened, I suspect we'd have far more nuclear energy today.
Great-tables: Make display tables using Python
I am working on my YC application, not the application itself, but the MVP.
https://hypv.ai ... prototype ecom platform like Big Commerce etc. but with all the Algolia-type predictive stuff baked into the bare metal so can target content at a much more granular level than trad platforms and has visibilty on much higher-resolution signal data
It may be a silly question, but isn't there really a simple to use full-text search solution that has all complicated multi-language tricks baked in for all major languages? Or, well, at least European ones.

It was a really, really hard task 20 years ago, but I'd imagine that now there must be a drop-in grep/ag replacement for natural languages that you run once to build an index and it takes care of all this stemming, semantic embeddings and all other clever specialized things for you. Isn't there one?

And if no, what tools/libraries do exist in this area? To make something more sophisticated than in this post?
I have been working on porting concepts of the Windows 10/11 taskbar, tray, and window management, to macos. With emphasis on simplicity, speed, and function inspired by Linux Mint MATE.

It has been a wild ride. Often frustrating but rewarding. Some days I may spend 10 hours solving an API for which app is frontmost at a given second. Sure, there's a system API for that, but it doesn't even remotely cover edge cases that exist. And many times with no answers out there on how to do something, it feels like I'm the first, so finally solving it is a great endorphin rush.

Part of the complexity is I wanted the app to be completely pluggable, kind of like Obsidian. The app communicates events to a local socket server in full duplex, which enables cross-plugin communication (but also cross-app!). Plugins access the app's JavaScript system bridge API for pubsub and system calls through a Webkit interface. Edits are hot reloaded and instant, no compile time necessary. The first time I could change my "Start" menu in real time through JavaScript/CSS was quite a feeling.

Sadly, I couldn't leverage existing tools like Tauri or Electron. They don't have adequate system bridge APIs available, and would be more work to leverage instead of less. They are too general, whereas this project only builds to macos. Therefore it can be much more complicated (and useful) by design.

I originally set out to be more productive in macos. But I've also spent time making prototypes for fun. A desktop widget system, real-time system color theme set from Spotify album art, live video desktop backgrounds from Twitch/YT, a Destiny 2 macos system theme, etc.

I plan to open source it and build a community around it one day.
Very nice! Just snagged a number of scifi titles it identified.
Thanks, fastneutron! I might give you the code if you send me an email and you explain your intentions. No problem. For now, it is not full blown open source because I don't want the added headache of managing that (double checking security & quality... I have no time for this is a sideproject).
https://blogs.ethz.ch/kowalski/2016/02/14/is-mathoverflow-in...

>fourches caudines, Signori Quids

Poisson and peace-ing, both!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Caudine_Forks

> Its designation as a battle is a mere historical formality: there was no fighting and there were no casualties
Not necessarily.

I find LLMs very helpful when the task is annoyingly underdefined / understructured, but the result I want is easy to eyeball-audit.

This seems like one of those. Boiling down manpages to a consistent structure which a program can consume is going to involve a lot of special-casing a script, because they aren't written to be scraped like that.

But opening the result in one window, then loading the manpages one at a time in the other, and sanity-checking the contents, is less effort than manually copy-pasting everything and getting it into a consistent data format by hand.

Feeding the result of an LLM-grep sight-unseen into another program is an insane thing to do, of course. But using it like the above could save a lot of time.
Sorry, what do you aim to be left with?
Indeed. Also, it's even tougher to argue to stop increasing safety at some point, because it usually means arguing for accepting a certain number of lives or limbs lost. And yet we do, and we have to, because like with security, a perfectly safe system is one that does nothing at all.
> Everyone knows Python is green

...why?
Google productionized this with their Google Maps product. It’s how they know more about where you are by utilizing WiFi signals.
Is this a joke? You are comparing two very different things.