skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’ll also setup a new office near his current home just for him.

> Starbucks also notes that it will set up a remote office for Niccol in Newport Beach
I wonder how this is possible. As far as I understand, tails uses two VMs, so the entire VM uses tor without running the tor service. So how did it send the real IP if all the system's traffic is routed through an external Tor router? It's also quite surprising to me that the FBI spends so much resources on catching ordinary paedophiles, I'd expect such a high level of operations to be used to find high-level ransomware groups or something.
Why won't it hit the same limits of frame problem or qualification problem?

Expert systems failed in part because of the inability to learn, while HVAC is ladder logic, that I honestly haven't spent much time in, LLMs are inductive.

It will be a useful tool, but expert systems had a very restricted solution space.
Yeah, so the OS would feel neat. Although the UI is far from neat.
As a freediver, the author is not correct that “freedivers often hyperventilate.” Not hyperventilating before diving is one of the most important safety rules in freediving. It drops your blood CO2 so you don’t feel like you need to breathe, but doesn’t actually increase your O2- leading to losing track of how long you’ve been down, and blacking out. Instead, you just learn to handle the feeling of high CO2, but use that feeling as a timer to tell you when you’ve been down too long.
It reminds me of the plot of the novel "The Three-Body Problem."
DRAKON supports multi-level diagrams.
Mini*
> Say some country in eastern Europe, where average salary is $500 / month.
Then you only hire from the top CS programs in the country and pay them, say, 3 times the national average - so $1500 / month.

This is 10-15 years out of date. And even then it was hardly ever as straightforward as that. And only ever applied to junior and maybe mid level developers or those who couldn’t effectively communicate in English. High skilled one were significantly more mobile and were basically competing with a much more global pool of developers. They could relatively easily move (if not to the US then at least Western Europe so your potential savings were usually limited to the difference in CoL + some premium).

This led to pretty high inequality based on skill/experience e.g. to top CS graduates could expect their income to increase by 3x if not more over the next 5 years after graduation.
The core is heavily inspired by AutoGen. The main difference is that ours runs in the client/browser in case of a web application (both can run in terminals). We're also less focussed on the generate -> critique/run -> re-generate loop that AutoGen was built for and more aiming for a system that supports natural sounding multi-participant chat.
OP was not referring to the headline, but the general narrative. Have a clickbait headline if you will, but in the article have that thoughtful perspective.
- any as long as they meet my criteria

- see above

- see above

- what?

- any crimes that involve coercion of others and nothing else

- to the extent I can help stop coercion of others and nothing else

- no.
New programming languages that explore different ways of doing things. There are so many interesting ideas.
I love this comment! Why have I never read this key insight in the form of an essay. Having recently watch Chimp Empire on Netflix I have a good feel for the “lower” foundational levels of our stack.
Pretty cool. Have you seen considerations regarding port knocking by Moxie Marlinspike? I think he raises some valid points: https://github.com/moxie0/knockknock

Instead of using UDP he reads the firewall log. Also he prevents replay attacks (even though his implementation is apparently not secure in this regard). Unfortunately his code is ancient and in Python 2, so a rust implementation would be awesome.
Quite to the contrary, copper is the usual material used (either pure, or slightly alloyed to improve tensile strength and abrasion behaviour and things like that without compromising too much on copper's superior electrical conductivity, though that extra tensile strength is only really important for high speed railways – conventional railways could perfectly get by on pure copper alone). Sag is solved by tensioning the wire and using a catenary wire for additional support between poles, and eventual abrasion of the wire is just a fact of life for electric railways.
> Passwords give you an account - this gives you everything done with the account.

Passwords give you control - not just view-only access. You could transfer over much of what they own (money, servers, games, projects, ...) to yourself, use their identity for phishing their friends/colleagues, etc.

Even just for viewing data, I think having all files and passwords can be a greater level of invasion:

* You don't just have screenshots of some files they happened to open recently on this device (which for some formats, like audio, is useless) - you have every file they have saved on this device, every file they have in online/cloud storage, and every file on work network shares they have access to

* You don't just have a screenshot of them typing a subset of recent emails and chat messages - you have their full emails and chatlogs going back years, and can likely make a data access request to get a significantly larger portion of "everything done with the account" than recent snapshots would give you

* You don't just have their location the couple of times recent snapshots show Google Maps open - you have full location history from their phone
Sahil,

I don't know anything about trademarks, service marks, etc but I do know that the product name "Surfer" has been in use for about 40 years in my industry, geoscience, by a company in Golden, Colorado. [0]

Maybe you can make a new product in a different industry and recycle the name. I don't know how that works but right now, you're playing in an established product's namespace.

[0]https://www.goldensoftware.com/products/surfer/
The only job llm would be able to successfully take over is journalism.

Especially that anxiety-ignorance type ;)
My understanding is that a higher standard of discourse is expected on HN than linking to an XKCD comic and expecting it to make a philosophical argument for you.

Regardless, there are at least five problems with the assertion that this argument is "relevant":

1. The things Mr. Peters said bear at most a superficial resemblance to the CoC WG's characterization.

2. Several of the stated supposed offenses imply a standard for conduct that is not supported by the text of the Code of Conduct.

3. Several of the stated supposed offenses imply a standard for conduct that is grossly unreasonable, bearing no resemblance to what is actually required to maintain civil discourse.

4. Nobody in the discussion raised any prior argument regarding freedom of speech.

5. Regardless of that, Mr. Munroe is simply incorrect, and presents an ignorant, US-centric view. The concept of "freedom of speech" has nothing to do with the First Amendment to the US Constitution, and indeed nothing to do with any specific law of any specific country at any point in history. It is a philosophical principle, which the Founders saw fit to enshrine in that constitution due to belief in that philosophy. (This is the point I raise every time I see this comic, which generally adds nothing of value and is only used to snark.)
I'll add some examples – in the meantime you can see the current version in action in our Writers Room (http://writers-room.com) and play around with it. Maybe I should add that fact to the documentation too. Thanks!
> I point cameras at their houses, at their doors & driveways from my property

Good god!

If a neighbour insisted on filming me and my family every time we left our front door, I'd either think they had a mental illness (paranoia) or were a bloody perv and in need of percussive attitude readjustment.
Doesn't a logging system need a storage system that can keep up with it, if the goal is to persist logs for later analysis? What storage could keep up with this?
ESA's Juice Spacecraft Just Performed a Daring Slingshot Around Earth
I think Google Search is much worse than Gmail. You tell it things you wouldn't tell your family or even your lawyer or therapist. And it can infer things you didn't even know about yourself (e.g. you are pregnant or suffering a health condition).
Encrypting with the private key has the name “signing” because it’s convenient. Both are technically correct.
This assumes that

A) The institutions in the country make it possible to identify good from bad local candidates.

B) There are enough experienced people in the region to have a healthy functional workplace.

C) The outcome is at least proportional to the cost.

In my experience none of these are true.
Python has lots of libraries, and is known as the 'second best language for everything' so suck it up and learn a bit to complement your PHP. You don't need to learn it comprehensively- just a bit. (Alternatives to python are c# or Java).

Then I woudl say invest the time to learn Rust, as a long term strategy.
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My first thought: “Uh… isn’t TI still using chips designed in the 70s and 80s for their calculators?”

My second thought: “Oh, yeah. They also make guidance units for all kinds of weapons systems. That makes more sense.”
Open source, based on Electron.
Who Wants to Buy a Missile? Social Marketing in the Military Industrial Complex
I'd be curious to see how you can do it. Try launching an fft of any size and batches and see if you can hit 100%
I don’t think HTML5 had anything to do with the fall of offline apps.

We have much better features for building offline apps than we did before html5 anyway (local and session storage and web workers)

Offline apps aren’t as common because they don’t make money and if someone is using a web browser 9 out of 10 times, they have an internet connection.
Well as others have pointed out, it's one thing to deliberately engineer a backdoor, its another to find an exploit in an existing system and then use it to stop a scumbag from hurting people. One is a total violation of someone's privacy and expectation, another is simply good ol police work.

So I'm happy with this outcome and even not opposed to the procedure, but I'm very much against deliberately engineering backdoors in systems. I think that position is pretty consistent and sound.
Understanding code to automate PR reviews
There was also a windows performance regression, the performance is in line with what AMD's IPC stats said it should be on Linux. Microsoft is working on a fix for it, but most YouTube channels haven't really covered it. Wendell from Level1Techs has a video about it. The 7800X3D will probably still outperform a 9950X in gaming, though, because the 3D V-cache is basically magic.
Or `nix run nixpkgs#epubcheck`
DDoSecrets Telegram shut down after publishing Israeli ministry of justice leak
Who is the "we" behind this fediverse.info? They seem to be missing a couple of server flavours in the post. I can't tell if it's serious or sarcasm.
Well that sucks, you can't access the settings app unless explorer is running at the shell, since I use an alternative shell; I'm outta luck. I have to kill my shell and let the start menu load up.

You'll be missed Panel.
This seems cool. Maybe one day it could help people take apart existing programs and use them how they want in a more accessible way.
There is research like Meta's LLM Compiler and decompiling with LLM's, breaking apart programs and replacing parts of them would be an interesting, data rich space for LLM's to explore and maybe self-improve at! For people training, there are lots of interesting tokens lurking there, and interesting things to do with them!
I might be biased, but I think there's room for a service that can make BYOK frictionless. Best of both worlds, unless you're a money sucking corporation trying to turn a purchase once product into a subscription service because late stage capitalism.
The company I work for does 3 a year, over 3 work days. Being given 24 paid hours to work on ANYTHING is pretty cool. I usually look into interesting technologies not strictly work related.

I’ve spent some hackathons doing open source Rust project contributions. Some people just do things like build bookshelves.

It’s meant as a benefit to the employees.
Is all potentiality that exists unlocked and harvested? Is science even looking in all the right places? Can a mind on science even care about such things (or better: to what degree do individual and a culture/society of minds on science have the ability to care (have non-constrained curiosity))?

In my experience, something about the mind makes it think it is able to know the correct answer to these questions, which is a remarkable but little studied phenomenon.
Kinda cool looking product, I like its perspective a lot especially the 'impact' view you can do. The physical view is something unique as well.
I'm not sure why but when I download some epubs and try to send to my kindle it fails. Only after using an online converter to convert them from epub to epub does it then work.
You are underestimating how difficult it is to communicate with people from different cultures.

I did an electricity project with developers from the Ukraine. We spent a week being confused because the Ukrainiens expected the electricity bill to be calculated based on the size of your house and how many animals you have. The concept of a domestic electricity meter was completely foreign to them.

I also worked with a Ukrainian graphic designer who had no understanding of copyright law.
I actually don't think the headline captures the point succinctly, because the definition of 'political' being used is obscure and quite specific:

> "Political activity is whatever shifts a body from the place assigned to it or changes a place's destination." (Rancière 1999, S. 30)

> What Rancière means by that is that politics occurs whenever a thing is not in its assigned place. This is perfectly valid for software: As soon as a person diverts from what is expected from them, software aborts with an error or "corrects" the "wrong" statement automatically. So at least from the view of Jacques Rancière, software is utterly political. It has a significant impact on our daily lives and we cannot do anything against this. And this is a problem that especially corporate software shows.
Yep great movie. Was filmed in 'Kloster Eberbach' germany, not far from where I live, always worth a visit.

https://kloster-eberbach.de/
This is enlightening. I prefer to lean heavily on my terminal for most things, but tui email + web browsing never quite "clicked" for me. And I feel like this perfectly encapsulates why. Thanks for putting words to the feeling!
We complement this weakness with tools. Now can we build tools that access all mass-energy scales is the question...(or do we need too :P)....
Very vague question, so here are some vague answers:

1. It is generally more profitable to target mass low end market rather than hi end (check how ferrari is doing vs fiat)

2. Yes, it is possible to plan for aquisition and sometimes startups are started with that goal in mind. But you have extra risk that big company will copy your product, instead of buying you.

3. “It depends” is the best answer on the rest of the questions.
Are there libraries like this, but in rust? As far as I understand, it relies on C's preprocessor, so it is impossible to create bindings for another language.
This is for very bursty logs. You don't log every 7 ns. On average you are not generating a huge amount of logs.

But you need each logging call to be very fast, cause logging calls are usually synchronous.
The money isn’t in the apps themselves. App devs pay Google to promote their apps and Google likely takes a cut of any micro transactions that go through their pay platform
Yeah I’d love to read the details of the exploit.

There’s a chance it became classified, if for example the exploit depends on the existence of FBI managed tor nodes, and we aren’t ready to let everyone know that the feds are all over the onion network infra.
As said, this is a very old article that has done the rounds on all the forums and social before.

All the major governments and the companies are known to have zero day exploits saved up for a rainy day.

Hence why countries like China ban Windows from government staff, and why USA ban Huwaei/hikvision etc in kind.
I think the question is who are MS making windows for, and possibly where they're getting rewarded for spending their efforts (who gives them money for windows).

The challenge as I see it is 'GUI windows' must serve a very wide spectrum of users from those that just want to use it as an appliance to just launch an application, through various definitions of power user up to workstations for full certified professionals, and I think it's the middle of the pack that really lean on control panel/settings. Appliance users probably never or extremely rarely touch settings, and professionals can take to it like ducks to water if they're using it at all compared to another interface. While I can appreciate some motivations behind what MS do with windows such as security, things like this seem like they're pushing the emphasis more towards appliance and cutting away the 'personal computer' which (without any more research than a wet finger in the air) I think would account for that 'middle of the pack'.

What really bothers me is if it's taken them 12 years since win8 started their movement in this direction to get to the current state, how long will it take them to complete the change, let alone come up with something clearly better where no one would want to use the classic control panel. MS don't give the impression they have the capability or drive to execute that promptly. It seems more likely they'll just remove any mention of control panel from the UI/explorer, but leave the .cpls available unless they cause issues.
even worse....if you use GMAIL you get fraud spam from crooks breaking into the classroom google cloud platform to phish victims....
In a perfect world, everyone would verify all software.
He didn't get 24 hears for falling for a crypto scam. He got 24 years for embezzling money. It was just his stupidity that got himself cammed out of the embezzled money. He'd be in prison even if he had made a hefty profit with the proceeds.
AI training shouldn't erase authorship
Or the 40 year old geoscience software product Surfer [0]

[0] https://www.goldensoftware.com/products/surfer/

Cool name but it was taken way back when I was writing geoscience software. That's been a while.
This might help explain in-part the discrepancy. Perplexity.ai[1] also says 8,200 German postal codes. I set Claude 3.5 Sonnet in the LLM settings on Perplexity but it looks like it might use a ChatGPT model for the initial search of sources? At least we can see what it is sourcing to fetch the value of 8,200. Interestingly, asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet directly at claude.ai returned 16,000.[2]

1. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-many-german-postal-code...
2. "There are approximately 16,000 postal codes (Postleitzahlen) in Germany. These five-digit codes cover all areas of the country, including cities, towns, and rural regions.

To break it down a bit further:

1. The first digit represents one of 10 postal regions.
2. The second digit typically represents a sub-region within that area.
3. The last three digits identify specific delivery areas or post offices.

It's worth noting that the exact number can fluctuate slightly over time due to administrative changes, urban development, or postal service reorganization. However, 16,000 is a good approximation for the total number of German postal codes.

Would you like more information about how the German postal code system works or its history?"
They give almost the entire planet 85/100, because they've decided that every webpage must have a Permissions-Policy header. This is disingenuous.

Permissions-Policy is an extension of Content-Security-Policy. If you embed third party contents in your page, you will absolutely want a CSP and a permissions-policy. If you made the site yourself, if what's being served up is all yours and no third party code, you have no need for this header. Because you know you won't ask for permissions you don't need.

This service has no idea whether you're a 3rd-party-embedding site or not, and can't know because the 3rd-party data could appear directly in the HTML (e.g. blog comments). So they can't say you must have this header. It's a false positive to say you need it, and it's needless box-ticking to add one if you don't need one.

Ironically, my own site would pass this because for a fleeting time in the past, Google were trying to force new ad-tech on everyone, and the only way they offered to opt out (it was not opt-in as it should be) was for site owners to write Permissions-Policy:interest-cohort=() -- see https://amifloced.org/
It sounds like my misunderstanding. So is this just a nomenclature mix up? I'll have to do more research, because I am under the impression there is something special about the private key other than the fact it was designated as such at generation time. I have many holes to fill in my knowledge around this.
I think the idea here is to separate the log call site in application code from the log processing/persistence?

So, the nanosecond values quoted are the impact exposed to your application code, but some other process takes over the bulk of the work of the logging.

So as long as the offloaded process can keep up with the average log rate, it'll be fine - but also as a bonus the application does not see increased latency due to logging.
Uber and Cruise to deploy autonomous vehicles on the Uber platform
>> When I say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm. It is a great engineering firm, but people invest in a company because they want to make money. --Harry Stonecipher, 2004

> I think that outsourcing was a symptom of this disease. Not MBA cancer, not poor software, not anything other than a deliberate cultural shift which led to all those other things.

That is the MBA cancer. Focusing on shareholder value instead of making a great product.
> Most of the high paying customers would just kind of... take my work products, say "yup, this meets the requirements we agreed to", and run with it. The ones who were paying the least were the most likely to pull the classic "well... is what we agreed to but..."

Drawing on my experience: perhaps the high-paying customers are being represented by dedicated buyers/executives who do not actually use the product themselves day-to-day. So they're happy as long as it _can_ perform its tasks, even if it's slow or clunky to use - they're paying the workers for 40 hours/week regardless, after all.

Meanwhile, the more tight spenders are more likely to be small businesses where the person making the purchase is also a regular user, and any UX flaws will drive him mad every day.
> profoundly stupid mistake

Surely the PAF formed part of the sale price when privatising Royal Mail?

So if you removed it before selling (at a lower price), or you buy it outright after, is there really that much difference making it a profoundly stupid mistake?
As a kid I used to dive into the pool at an angle and spin round really fast at the bottom of the dive. The caused a small 'high' (from blood rushing into the brain?). It was probably quite dangerous!
> The worst is when a request starts out simple — I help them fix one hallucination — but then that customer wants to build more complex logic, and somehow I’ve set the expectation that I will provide unlimited free support forever. I’ve gotten a number of angry messages from customers who essentially want me to build their whole app for free.

Annoying, but a good way to weed out bad customers. Life’s too short to deal with people who feel this entitled.