skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Open-sourced, LLM-based, full autopilot for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

https://github.com/AmberSahdev/Open-Interface

Working on testing local LLMs right now.
Genshin Impact from miHoYo is also a PRC AAA game before Wukong, but it’s a copycat of the Japanese ACG culture rather than the Chinese culture in Wukong:

https://expertbeacon.com/is-genshin-a-aaa-game/
I don't know much about arbitration but I assume it cannot be a good thing if you don't have the right to sue any more.
We would love to support you. All of us are online on the discord [1], and you can always reach out to us over email: hello@instantdb.com

[1] https://discord.com/invite/VU53p7uQcE
I always want to buy these types of apps (window management) but they rarely play nice with multiple monitors, especially if the monitors aren't all in the same orientation and/or if you want a smaller monitor to work differently.

I've been using phoenix [0] for many years now for my window management which uses some JS config/code I wrote. It took a little bit for me to pick the hotkeys I wanted and how things should resize/move/jump monitors but now it's muscle memory.

[0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
Okay, guys, come on now. back off here.
Beta carotene. Vitamins. Shortage in food.
The thesis is along the lines of "near-perfection but non-perfection flaws that people miss are important, OH NO, they're not important because everything was fine when they weren't perfect" -- but AHA! what about tomatoes with suboptimal vitamin levels! you couldn't even taste that! Honestly this is ridiculous, tomatoes, seriously?

Guess what. There's a lot of ADEK vitamines (fat soluble) out there. There's a lot stored up in our bodies. So much so that you can get a disease by pumping up the stores too much! Typically: TWO YEARS worth. And if that didn't set off a flag in your mind "oh, you mean vitamin A, of which two units are metabolically extracted from beta carotene" than you need to shut up right now throwing around beta carotene as an essential nutrient because you don't even know fundamental human metabolism!

Long story short, you know what else is really good at handling sloppy near-perfection-but-not-perfect differences -- -- -- biology. We've got 30% or so of our genome made of self-replicating viruses that snuck into a germ cell a billion years ago, yet somehow it all works, we've got 10 gorillion cells made from a single cellular machine at one point, building a functional reproductive-worthy body, and somehow that all works. People understand gusts and ideas as to what it's all doing, but do we know all of it, maybe not even most of it? No, we don't even know. It's like how magnets work, nobody knows. But big picture, the body has some capacity of adaptation and ranges of acceptable conditions, yet this TOMATO HYPOTHESIS seems to view the body as some sort of formula one engine that requires micrometers level clearances so it can go 20,000 RPM instead of the typical 6,000, and oh the medical castastrophe that should happen should someone eat a tomato of diminished nutritive content.

Now, I don't know what kind of world we live in here. Do we live in TOMATOLAND where people eat with every meal ketchup and marina sauce as the main dish? Are we worried that in TOMATOLAND that a 90% drop in essential amino acids of our favored cuisine will cause problems in population health? Because I'm pretty sure if a damned tomato comes up 90% short on beta carotene, that said food eater has TWO WHOLE YEARS to eat NON TOMATO FOODS such as CARROTS or FORTIFIED FOODS WHICH IS MOST FOODS which will easily replenish their vitamin A levels.
I'm not. The Swedish government is a lot like California's: it's a lot less progressive than it pretends to be.
Goole Translate works good enough for this article, there is also one from "FiloSottile" but I haven't read it and iirc it still references this one, it's called "The most backdoor-looking bug I have ever seen"
It seems like it would be a lot easier to just have students call, e.g., `ta_fork()` rather than `fork()`, and then provide an implementing file to be linked with their program. Then `ta_fork()` allows the TA to trigger errors, either probabilistically or deterministically (say, by setting environment variables).

This approach would also give students insight into testing strategies like mocking, plus it would work on more operating systems.

[Edit: Not to disparage this project. It seems like it would have lots of uses, and it was probably a lot of fun to develop.]
I would be very surprised if any human actions are required for delivering people into and returning them from space, or even any controls being present in the capsule to allow the human payload making any changes to flight parameters ;)
> It is an incredible but true fact there’s often no known way to repair large organizations once they have gotten sufficiently sick.

I believe that this is a form of the Anna Karenina principle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle )

> All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

There is no scripted formula to repair a large organization. Each one needs to be addressed in a way that is particular to that organization, its culture, and its ultimate desired end state.

One could look at the Gil Amelio to Steve Jobs Apple - that was a turn around of a not small organization. However, what worked for Apple certainly won't work for Boeing.
>member stations

It's different. I dropped NPR News after the 2016 primaries. My local member stations are excellent.
Thank God for the media
lol'd at the 1974 AMC,

As an experienced drone pilot - if you can, DJI is unbelievable at stopping you from crashing. Start there to get the feel of it (and more importantly not get frustrated and give up)

If you want to learn more freestyle without assistance, i can't recommend enough getting a simulator on your computer and crashing a digital drone a million times first. It's much cheaper. I think there is a lot out there now but i used Liftoff for many hours before i tried to fly a proper drone
Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche
That's one way of framing it, but China has worked this way for a while now. China has great jet engines now, but it took them decades to get there once they were deprived of foreign assistance. It's not hard to see the new chip sanctions having an identical chilling effect, deterring a land invasion of Taiwan until China's lithography is self-reliant and competitive. Right now, they are arguably forced to import foreign technology if they want cutting-edge or competitive AI hardware, similar to where they were with engine design.

Maybe they do turn things around, in the long-run. But the US can invest just as hard, and they haven't burned their bridges with ASML/TSMC. On top of that, the US can license IP from companies like ARM that previously weren't even shared with China to avoid unlicensed clones. The US wants their IP and global industry to prop them up here, and I don't think it's crazy to suggest they've got the upper-hand right now.
I decided to write more. Just redid my website to be more of a blog, and am committing to publishing every Friday at 9am.

Posts in draft:

- "The next evolution of my product studio"

- "With AI, data isn't evil any more"

- "The AI mullet strategy"

- "COGS analysis on AI products"

- "Two-tier tech companies"

https://contraption.co
> Changing my underwear so I can drive to hardware store.

If there was a fair chance I’d die on the trip, damn straight if be in my super hero undies too.
Ah, while you're in there, IIRC you mention NonMaxU8 in the code still and probably that's worth updating at the same time.
Great question, answered in section 4.1.5 of the paper (page 6): it turns out that the single character | is already used for bitwise OR, and although that's rarely used and in most cases there would be no confusion, there are at least a few cases, and at this time, “More drastic solutions requiring users to migrate queries did not seem desirable.”
A golf swing measurement app using 3 sensors and an esp board. Just started practicing golf and made sense to understand how the swing works. Claude AI is helping me with some of the coding, fun stuff.
"About to" feels like a stretch to me, unless there's actual evidence for that. Temporal has been stuck in the bikeshedding phase for years, the same as a bunch of other promising JS proposals.
Telegram is not E2EE (with the exception of phone-only 1-on-1 Secret Chats, which are also questionable security-wise). Telegram has access to everything ever shared on their services, even if users delete it.

Signal by design can't moderate their service.
Telegram by design has full access, but doesn't act on it.
telegram isn't e2ee
I'm working on Devlog — https://dev.log.xyz — software that I hope will help teams work better by making it more obvious who is doing what. It should help answer questions like "what did Sarah do last week?" or "who worked on frontend performance in the last year?" It's very much in alpha-stage, more a tech demo than a product, and I'm not sure if it will actually succeed. My cofounder just bailed on me but I'm going to keep trying to make it happen. Dogfooding it has made me a better engineer — I write better and clearer PRs — and as a former Senior Engineering Manager, I know it would save me time if I were still managing a larger team. But the setup is onerous (you have to connect your Github so it can analyze your PRs) and the value prop is more vitamin than painkiller unless your team is somewhat disfunctional, and no one likes to admit their team is disfunctional.

Happy to talk more about this with anyone. If you're at all interested in "software to make your team run better" I'd really love to hear what you're having trouble with and how your team runs, maybe I can figure out a way to help you, even if it's not at all related to what I've built already.
Speculative, sure. Fiction? As much as any other theoretical technosignature is.

Does our understanding of science allow for this? At a surface level, it seems like it does. Is it likely? Who knows.

The comments on this article are kind of weird. Dr. Loeb is one of the handful of scientists where SETI-style research is their bread and butter - it's not like we're throwing thousands of our best and brightest at this research at the expense of something more practical. Do you just fundamentally disagree with the idea of scientists doing research and theorizing potential technosignatures?

Calling this a blog is also quite dismissive - it's not like this is some random dude who wrote some random stuff and got picked up. It's a work in progress from one of the most knowledgeable scientists in this field.
Wow, thanks for this link. This is so in depth, I'm definitely going to read it later more than my quick skim. Looks like a good idea to use rotating wheels, too
I am working on https://hacktrack.info a SaaS that alerts you when a new CVE or exploit is published for the software you use. The idea came to me while working on an incident response team, where I noticed that many companies were hacked due to using software versions affected by recently published CVEs or exploits. Most of the similar solution I know of are really expensive or part of a larger product suite.
It's not a random suffix, but a length suffix. So for example putting "hello" and "world!" together looks like "hello" | 5 | "world!" | 6. Concretely, you probably represent 5 and 6 as eight little-endian bytes, i.e. `n.to_bytes(8, 'little')` in Python. If you want to stop attackers from guessing/constructing hashes, you need to get a secret key involved, which is what the "YoloMAC" section of the post is about.
Writing an NIH SBIR grant to fund a software idea a friend and I had. The software we’ve developed seems to directly match what the solicitation is looking for, but it’s our first time applying for a grant of this type. My friend is a researcher and is familiar with NIH grants, so that definitely helps.
I have been reading the Reinforcement Learning textbook for the past three years religiously- didn’t get the concepts clear until this week, made it past Chapter 3 finally. The excellent YT lectures by David Silver and Emma Brunskill have been helpful but it took me a long time to ‘get it’.

Next, I will try to build something using RL next but try not to use the Gym/Farama stuff to force myself to learn this from scratch.
Right, but there must be a reason why the Bank put that clause into the fine print. It must be beneficial to them, I assume, else they would not have included that clause right?
This is great, my brother is a history buff and a few years ago I bought him a Hadrian coin for his birthday. I'll look through this and see if I can find something else he'd be interested in, holidays are coming up and I'm always looking for nice gifts.

EDIT: is there any way I could set up an alert for when you add some non-US currency into stock?
I’m pretty sure it will be blamed not on the vehicle, but on the company that manufactured it.
> "cost effective"

Jet set was a thing in 50/60s Jet travel was viewed as a play thing for the extremely rich . Even today there is staggering 80% of the world population who have never flown in airplane ever in their life[1].

From the perspective of that 80% they can say airplanes are "just evidence that there are people in the world with more money than they know what to do with".

It takes a long long time for transportation to become affordable. What SpaceX has done so far is just make it a bit cheaper to make it possible for civilians to be able to even pay any money and do this. No innovation will be ever enough, that doesn't mean we demean it.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/boeing-ceo-80-percent-of-peo...
Use the CEO as lever to gain control over a Russian controlled medium used to deliver unfiltered information about a lot of ongoing conflicts right now. Can't have that when you're hell bent on war.
https://www.audiomatic.app/

An automated dubbed translation service. Supports translation into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. The other options on the market often have jarring audio artifacts and glitches, which Audiomatic avoids.

My friends and I are currently working on improving the voice quality and adding new features.
Golang is my favorite right now, but I think it’s possible to create readable code in many languages, even ones I like less. The JavaScript and its ilk strike me as some of the worst of the “modern” languages. Again, no hate here. I started out with JS and PHP, 20 years ago. I just cringe any time I see modern JS syntax, and wish it were simpler so I could get back into it.
Boeing and the US military are effectively congruent and coterminous.

That said, I too wish for this outcome (the final destruction of the US military and all of their too-big-to-fail supply chain).
It depends on the use case. If, for example, you want to hash a username–password pair, I find

write(toUtf8(username));
write((byte) 0xFF); // never occurs in UTF-8, hence unambiguous separator
write(toUtf8(password));

to be most straightforward and parsimonious, and the assumption is maximally local.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

This is awesome.
Same. I'm pretty confident we can, though. Not to take too much away from ASML who has done a good job in the time since, but don't forget that the US invented EUV with taxpayer money and basically only allowed ASML(and a company they bought) access. And the rest, as they say, is history.
It says a lot about the insane dangers of the Space Shuttle in particular. There were several issues with its design that made it an accident waiting to happen, notably its spotty abort coverage on ascent (even worse pre-Challenger) and the exposure of its fragile thermal tiles to debris falling off the external tank. Both issues stem from basic architectural choices and could not easily have been solved without a radical redesign.

I think Dragon 2 could easily be roughly an order of magnitude more reliable than the shuttle, if not more. It has full abort coverage and a TPS that doesn't habitually receive damage from falling debris, and is more robust to impacts besides; and its record so far is exemplary.
Are there clear and certain rules, that cannot be interpreted differently by different judges, about how you should run the messenger? For example, are you required to ask for a phone number and passport photo to sign up, etc?

By "clear rules" I mean not something vague like "you should not cooperate with criminals" (does "criminals" include not yet convicted criminals? does it include Trump? what is "cooperate") or "you should not allow illegal content" (what is exact definition of "illegal"? how can a person declare some content "illegal" without going through the court?).
I'm working on https://currentkey.com/ - a way to assign names to your Mac's desktop Spaces. I've also been working on a couple of games in Godot, but they are pretty far off from being interesting-enough to share.
FTA:
>> The default policy allows making requests, but you can’t read the results.

This seems like the central premise of the article. Is the author just wrong about this? I'm confused. As I understand it, if the remote site sets Access-Control-Allow-Origin to a wildcard, and doesn't explicitly name the origin, then by default the browser will not send credentials with a request. Isn't that CORS working as intended? Was there some time in the past when browsers defaulted cookies to `SameSite=None`?
Telegram – "Secret"? Yeah, Right
How pythons can eat such giant meals
Different tools for different jobs. Sometimes you need a hammer; sometimes a drill. So, you have both in the toolbox.
A friend of mine and I have been talking about ways to consolidate and improve online commenting. If you look up my profile and contact me about it I'd be glad to talk about it.
I need to clean up this page but I'm working on a local(-ish) book collection tool (calling it Livtet for "book head" in Haitian Kreyol). https://www.jacky.wtf/projects/livtet/ has some notes but https://man.sr.ht/~jacky/livtet is much better. It's been fun using Lua to externalize a lot of logic (and I'm looking into using https://github.com/teal-language/tl because I love me some typing.

Outside of that, I've been blogging a lot more (https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/ - August looks so full, ha) and now I'm writing about things I'm reading too (https://www.jacky.wtf/links/). Been doing this to try to ween off social media and rely on places like this to share stuff.
> It kept going up and up with NASA/Boeing.

It goes up and up with every aerospace company doing government contracting.
Thanks for the links. I can't find in the article how much DARPA gave SpaceX, in dollars, and the second link talks about payment for the launch, not the grant.

The mission carried a $6.7 million price tag covered by the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

How big share of about AFAIK $90 millions spent on Falcon-1 program was from SpaceX investor(s) and how big was from external sources? In other words, how material was that external funding?
Just added operator precedence rules to Unison doesn't break any code
They also aren’t investors. This person is claiming that relatives of some rich Russians are working at some financial firm that invested some amount into Twitter. There isn’t even any evidence their money is in Twitter as far as I can tell.
A text-yourself productivity app called tetr. I have always been messaging myself notes and thoughts on Signal and wanted something that would extend this habit to a funky productivity app and also do more advanced stuff like reminders, habits, mood tracking, etc.

Been working on this for nearly 2 years now and it’s been cool seeing people use it daily, some definitely a lot more than I do. I still feel like it’s not even close to its full potential; infinite more things to add but most often a joy for me to work on.

https://tetr.app/
I have always assumed that Telegram was a Russian op. Any doubts I had were resolved by this event. [0]

> Deputy Russian State Duma Speaker Vladislav Davankov said he had sent an appeal to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to seek Durov's release.

> "His arrest may be politically motivated and a tool to gain access to the personal information of Telegram users. This must not be allowed," the state-run RIA Novosti news agency quoted Davankov as saying.

[0] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/08/25/telegram-boss-pave...
OK, HN mangles the ellipsis in titles!

> I just added operator precedence rules to Unison (previously all operators had equal precedence and were parsed left to right). In other languages, this would be a major change and a Big Deal. But in Unison this is just a change to the surface syntax that doesn't break any code.
Perhaps be generous with your reading of the post and consider the 737 MAX's flight record and fatality rate on a per-mile or per-passenger rate to, say, cars in the United States. Because, by the standards of other transportation methods, even the 737 MAX was very, very safe.

It is a testament to the not-yet-entirely-captured regulatory regime of international flight that the 737 MAX was not considered safe enough.
For how long have they been claiming that these crew members aren’t stranded up there?
No, it’s because the CardDAV standard was not created with encryption in mind. It’s also why calendar and mail are not encrypted in iCloud.
I feel your pain. I was lucky enough to be around to enjoy the days when the ONLY place online where people were discussing serious topics (and non-serious ones!) was USENET (and maybe The Well). Google Groups just started to throw a web interface on USENET.

Sadly, once big money entered the Web in the late 90's, every Portal popping up felt like they had to include discussions/message boards into their features.

Yahoo Groups was big in the day and is now essentially dead. Same with Facebook, etc.

Now everything is very fragmented. There are some really great discussions happening out there (metafilter.net is a good example) but they are hard to find.

Reddit might be the closest thing to a groups/USENET replacement that we have.

I'd love to hear about anything else out there that may save civil discourse, but I have my doubts it exists (or will). (although web3 may save us yet - nostr is pretty interesting)

After all, what does it mean when 90% of people spend their time on Instagram and Tiktok?
I've bought a lot of different T-shirts and I'm always interested in trying to find a better (more durable; more fashionable; more comfortable) one. My current favorites are the Buck Mason Field Spec t-shirts https://www.buckmason.com/collections/mens-tees — could you explain how your shirts might compare? I'm willing to buy one just to try it out, but since you're the owner, figure I might as well ask you for more information — especially why you created a custom cotton fabric.

One thing I like a lot about Buck Mason is that their T-shirts are made in America from American-grown cotton, are any of your T-shirts made in America?

EDIT: just ordered a variety of your shirts, looking forward to trying them out. Very easy checkout experience!
I get what you are saying, but I would find it even more amazing if we are alone. It and we would be the most miraculous thing in the universe. Maybe we are, but the odds surely favor the opposite no?
In Unity's ECS they literally had to throw out every single thing from the OO game engine to get ECS working.

So it was like having two entirely different ways of building a game in the same game engine. Everything one knew about Unity was now gone and you had to learn an entirely new way of solving the same problems. Sure you can still do OO things like inherit systems or whatnot but it was nothing like the original unity.

Once they realized how big of a change this was they did come out with some hybrid approach where you can have OO objects converted into Entities. But really it was just a Band-Aid to the gaping wound they made of the engine.