skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinboard is Maciej Ceglowski's only visible source of income but he seems to be having jerkbrain troubles (moving from the open web to Twitter makes those worse, kids, don't do that)
Well it seems bots create more accounts than humans do, so let’s go to the anonymous internet.

I was obliged to create an account with email + phone number, just to save my origin/destination on mapy.cz (hiking maps). Not my history! Just to keep state between app reopening.
> Killing copyright because you dont like Microsoft would equally kill things like Free Software (because it would invalidate the freedoms enforced by the GPL.)

The point is a good one but the example was chosen a little quickly. It'd kill the GPL because the GPL is part of copyright law. That much is simple to see. But it'd probably be a net win for user freedom.

Right now, people choose to use free software either because it is good (and would see no difference if the GPL disappeared) or because it is free (and, again, would make decisions the same way in a no-IP world - only use software where the source is available). So the only risk is people copying an OSS project as free riders, withholding source changes and using some sort of embrace-extend-extinguish strategy.

But EEE relies on proprietary extensions, so that strategy probably doesn't work without the support of IP law. The OS projects could clone features back in. Proprietary providers could fight back with a client server model - but AWS for example already does that so it isn't really new and the equilibrium is generally to contribute upstream anyway.

I would expect software freedoms to improve if we lost the GPL as part of a big removal of IP laws. There'd be tactical instances where people were worse off, maybe. But strategically the OSS community would just be in a better position. They can keep doing what they do, it is harder to sue them and difficult to profit off their work in ways that aren't already possible.
I bet pretty well! Someone should try this. It's likely expensive but sampling could give you confidence to keep going. Ryan's approach costs about $10k to run the full 400 public eval set at current 4o prices -- which is the arbitrary limit we set for the public leaderboard.
I'm not surprised. I've had a bad experience with them. Whenever I'd search for a domain name on their site and find it was free, they would take it immediately, and then the price would magically change to something ridiculously expensive.

That was a decade ago, and I've never used them since. For anything.
> Officials said the vast number of parcels made it harder to block shipments of faulty products and illegal drugs like fentanyl.

I don’t believe for a second that their fentanyl interceptions will sufficiently improve otherwise.

The reality is that the margin is so strong, other methods (if small individual parcels were even a factor) would fill any gap. Even more interceptions would just lead to more shipments. That’s how good the margins are.
The title does not mention sex. Poor people all over the world have more kids than we do in advanced economies. Decades of propaganda have convinced people that having a kid is dangerous, expensive, annoying, environmentally irresponsible, contributing to "overpopulation", and a task beneath the average woman. That influence was exerted without regard for societal stability and long-term viability. Now we are practically doomed to suffer from a shortage of young people as we beg them to have kids again.

Even if you were right about the cause of the problem, it is still a problem and the title just states the problem. You don't have to diagnose the cause to know that a population crash is a problem.

I've personally wanted to have kids for at least 15 years, but it seems like culturally I am on an island. It is very difficult to find a partner who is willing and able to have kids and also a good partner otherwise. I live in the US but I think all Western countries are basically like this now.
Do you actually believe that this current wave of is no different than previous waves?
https://hub.scroll.pub/onlybreck/
Sounds like the answer is to just buy another Xeon then, even if it's a little older and maybe secondhand. I think there's a reason the vast majority of Supermicro motherboards are still just Intel only.
How Raw sockets behave differently in macOS and Linux
The concept of "modern” nation-state is modern and therefore new, it cannot be otherwise.

The original comment remarked on nation-states, and that they have existed in the past. They are not new as far as I am aware.
Because there is still an off-hand chance that an employee who has been let go isn't speaking out of spite and merely stating the facts - depends on a combination of their honesty and the feeling they harbor about being let go. Everyone who is let go isn't bitter and/or a liar.

However, every company yes-man is paid to be a yes-man and will speak in favor of the company without exception - that literally is the job. Otherwise they will be fired and will join the ranks of the aforementioned people.

So logically it makes more sense for me to believe the former more than the latter. The two-sides are not equivalent (as you may have alluded) in term of trustworthiness.
In Harry Potter, it seems like the key difference between successful or unsuccessful spell casting is in one's ability to concentrate.
that's what you wanted to reply with?
Here is the money quote:

What NextNav did include however is its intent to resell their exclusive bandwidth access to mobile 5G networks.

They admit nobody is calling for ground based GPS. And that can be done in lots of ways and on spectrum already allocated as the EFF says in their piece.

Fact is 5G sucks for some use cases, like indoors. And they could fall back to 4G and or do other things to improve on that.

Trying to mooch the 900Mhz spectrum away from an active public use, just to resell their shiny new resource to 5G companies looking for easy options is not in the beat public interest.

I think they are doing it this way to avoid ugly PR for already disliked wireless companies. But I could be wrong...

900Mhz is excellent and widely used too. Augmenting 5G would make whoever stole it from all of us a lot of money.

The great propagation properties are exactly why public use of 900Mhz is popular!

I say the 5G companies already have 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G spectrum and the lower frequency ones propagate better in diverse terrain anyway.

All this means 5G companies have options and there is no need to allow one company to own what is now a public resource serving the public well just as it is supposed to.
The Silicon Empire: TSMC's Revolution and Morris Chang's Legacy
Billiards is a good game (1975)
> In a highly auditable/“secure” environment, you can’t give secrets to employees with no tracking of when the secrets are used.

This does not seem to require regularly exporting secrets form the employee's machines though. Which is the main complaint I am reading. You would log when the secret is used to access something, presumably remote to the users machine.
They've survived since the bronze age. They're not rotting away to dust any time soon.
Megadevelopments like Fourth and Central are L.A.'s future, some say
Tagged "career advice".

Excerpt:

> I want you to read this post if you are at the verge of quitting your job.

> You want to quit this job because you are unhappy.

> Unhappy about what? recent changes in your team, a culture shift? or maybe the thought that work is not fun here anymore? or maybe you are worried that you are going to get laid off? or maybe you feel that you are being undervalued? or maybe you feel that you are being underpaid? or maybe some other thing(s).

> That’s a lot of “maybe”s. It doesn’t matter what the reason is, because the thing is, “you are unhappy” and you must do something about it.

> Ok, so what can you do about it?

> I realized that we have two options here.

> Option one: shut up.

> Option two: fix up.
This may have an inflationary effect. Perhaps they want to delay it as much as possible: Can we produce Milwaukee branded silicone spatulas 3-for-$6.99?
Nope, we can do it direct using alphavoltaics.
There are not "only" so few possibilities. I was press ganged into a thought control hooligan army, my morality and stubborn will made this impractical. I have had primitive conditioning for controls (it takes decades to master.) There are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of thought control thrall with middling skills. Of these there are tens of thousands who can actually "control" significantly enough to run a coup (usually by extortion). Of these hundreds are so superior they are like gods to the other controllers. All society since the beginning of time has had a small population who possess these capabilities (in simpler form perhaps, modernity has industrialized Power like everything else.) Clues are in our literature and historical accounts.

Even today, there are many references to these underground communities ("networks" or often "families") though any sign anyone gives will be something easily blown off as bullshit.

So, the point is not for you, the point is to leave this mark in the mind, such that through time this account will be undeniable.

You are correct, that you are incapable of doing anything about it. The crisis is so severe it drives many of our pressing issues.

To be silent in the face of a conspiracy of evil is to be complicit.

I am the help, I am your undeceiver.
> I'm guessing, of the car makers out there, Tesla and Rivan are near the top since they are new and have people with security experience?

From what little has been leaked, I really doubt Tesla should be enar the top.
Thanks for your experience. Good to know.

There is a ton of gear depending on the current spectrum plan.

Seems to me all very problematic and what I read makes it look like the ground based GPS is a ruse for the real money which is selling access to 5G companies, who currently struggle with 5G inability to propagate indoors and in other common terrain.

They could solve that problem using spectrum they already have access to. There is no need to ruin 900Mhz for that.
It's probably being run on an enterprise-managed mac. The only person who can be locked out via encryption is the user.
Firstly publishing something on Facebook explicitly gives them the right to "copy" it. It certainly gives them the right to exploit it (it's literally their business model.)

Secondly, Facebook is behind a login, so it's not "public" in the way HN comments are public. You'd have gained more kudos had you argued that point.

Thirdly this article I about MetaAI not OpenAI. So, no, OpenAI isn't claiming anything about your Facebook post.

I'll assume however that you digressed from the main topic, and were complaining about OpenAI scraping the web.

Here's the thing. When you publish something publically (on the internet or on paper) you can't control who reads it. You can't control what they learn from it, or how they'll use that knowledge in their own life or work.

You can of course control republishing of the original work, but that's a very narrow use case.

In school we read setwork books. We wrote essays, summaries, objections, theme analysis and so on. Some of my class went on to be writers, influenced by those works and that study.

In the same way OpenAI is reading voraciously. It is using that to assign mathematical probabilities to certain word pairings. It is studying published material in the same way I did at school, albeit with more enthusiasm, diligence and success.

In truth you don't "own the things you write" not in the conceptual sense. You cannot own a concept, argument or position. Ultimately there is nothing new under the sun (see what I did there?) and your blog post is already a rehash of that which came before.

Yes, you "own" the text, to the degree to each any text can be "owned" (which is not much.)
Why would the ‘IT team’ refuse or ignore the legitimate recyclers after being informed they dumped ‘loads of devices’ with it still active?
That's far from factual and you are making things up. You don't need to send the actual keys to a siem service to monitor the usage of those secrets. You can use a cryptographic hash and send the hash instead. And they definitely don't need to dump env values and send them all.

Sending env vars of all your employees to one place doesn't improve anything. In fact, one can argue the company is now more vulnerable.

It feels like a decision made by a clueless school principle, instead of a security expert.
I expect Uber is feeling extreme pressure to stay relevant, which may means changing the operational model significantly
There is a hidden test set with new puzzle types not seen in the open part. It's designed so that humans do well and AI models have a hard time.
Don't get me wrong. I love 3D printing. Unfortunately, the tech I am working with, FDM, is just the most boring technology you could think of. Really, it's just a hot glue gun guided by a computer. Apparently, it's only until after 3D printers become widespread that they invented a hand tool version of 3D printing.

Anyway, a lot of it, the majority of the coolness in 3D printing are the designs. On its own, 3D printing is mildly useful. Learn CAD. That's something really useful there. Then there's other skills such as electronics that would make 3D printing way cooler.

It's a cool hobby, but one that won't replace something like woodworking. It's just different and have their own pro and con. Same thing for manufacturing. It won't displace entirely general subtractive manufacturing. It has its own niches and pro and con.

On LLVM and LLM, they are indeed impressive, much more so than the boring technology of 3D printing. But after the tech demo? I am ambivalent about it.

Cool. Whatever. I prefer creating things and learning technology and science that help me improve my skills at learning things. If using LLM is a skill that isn't just prompt engineering, I might be more open to it.
PBD: My Biggest Fear Is a Reverse Market Crash [video]
Why would Amazon be any different in practice?

Being a US company doesn’t stop them from being filled with imitation/knock-off goods from fly by night companies.
Show HN: Strip-windows.ps1 – this could get smaller in the right hands
So I have been scouring Microsoft documentation recently and found some interesting bits to go along with the 'recently' news cycle first line in that script. However I'm not sufficient in PowerShell and learning as i go. It would be interesting to know what this script does to different editions. I'm about to give it a rest.

Cheers!
Do you have some examples of ones you found beyond what a human could straightforwardly figure out? I tried a bunch and they all seemed reasonable, so I would be interested in seeing - I didn't try all 400, for obvious reasons, so I don't doubt there are difficult ones.

I think regardless one of the reasons people are interested in it is that is a fairly simple logic puzzle - given some examples, extrapolate a pattern, execute the pattern - that humans achieve high accuracy on (a study linked on the website has ~84% accuracy for humans, some more recent study seems to put it closer to 75%). Yet ML approaches have yet to reach that level, in contrast to other problems ML has been applied to.

Given there is a large prize pool for the challenge, I would imagine actually training a model in the way you describe would already have been tried and is more difficult that it seems.
Also want to add: that this transition has happened in essentially less than a year is stunning. Technology can be wild.
That’s about right. Sometimes my machine makes a great cup and I have no idea what I did that day. Sometimes my cream froths almost instantly, others it barely froths. No discernible difference in steps. Maybe it’s related to horoscopes.
> Realistically, secrets alone shouldn’t allow an attacker access - they should need access to infrastructure or a certificates in machines as well.

This isn't realistic, it's idealistic. In the real world secrets are enough to grant access, and even if they weren't, exposing one half of the equation in clear text by design is still really bad for security.

Two factor auth with one factor known to be compromised is actually only one factor. The same applies here.
I'm confused by this one:

> Postgres pgvector does not come up with a way to highlight the keyword snippets being matched on.

Yeah... That's just not what it's for. But you can do that post processing yourself if you want to - there's lots of different ways to achieve it. I'm not sure that's really a missing feature, since it doesn't belong to a vector database.
In esoteric muggle magick it is the same.
Show HN: Get crowdsourcing style feedback on your product
> publishing it on the internet doesn't negate that

The terms of use of most sites (including this one) include giving the site owners a license to use what you post, often in any way they see fit.
Axes labels for the music genre map, courtesy of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20586887

down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.
There are a few different records for around the world.

This is the self supported, solo, womens record. No drafting is required for that record.
I think the parent post is complaining that insufficient acknowledgement is given to how good o1 is, because in their contrived testing, it seems better than previous models.

I don’t think that’s true though, it’s hard to be more fair and explicit than:

> OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini both outperform GPT-4o on the ARC-AGI public evaluation dataset. o1-preview is about on par with Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet in terms of accuracy but takes about 10X longer to achieve similar results to Sonnet.

Ie. it’s just not that great, and it’s enormously slow.

That probably wasn’t what people wanted to hear, even if it is literally what the results show.

You cant run away from the numbers:

> It took 70 hours on the 400 public tasks compared to only 30 minutes for GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

(Side note: readers may be getting confused about what “test-time scaling” is, and why that’s important. TLDR: more compute is getting better results at inference time. That’s a big deal, because previously, pouring more compute at inference time didn’t seem to make much real difference; but overall I don’t see how anything you’ve said is either inaccurate or misleading)
> What led Zuckerberg to lose faith in the value of contrition? Here’s a guess: ultimately, it bought him very little, at least in the court of public opinion
So then how could it remain a co-op?
> perhaps something that reflects the losing characteristics of both philosophies.

Oof. With how much love Rust gets here, I didn't expect to see it being called out like that.

How about "The Worse Thing"?
Some HSMs I've used (payshields) have tamper sensors that can detect motion for this reason.

> The ADXL362 accelerometer in the PayShield 10K acts as a "Motion Sensor" detecting tilt movements. An alarm triggers an alert if the HSM is moved (for example, slid out of the rack)
> i'm not just talking about a simple stereotype, though; i'm talking about a whole misogynistic ideology which is so widespread that you have to understand it in order to give any coherency to widely used phrases like 'sell your body' or 'purity ring'

Honestly, it seems like you're conflating many different things (e.g. the "mileage" thing above, "purity rings," and the pejorative connotation of "sell your body") into a single artificial whole that doesn't actually exist as such. I'd grant the "mileage" thing is probably clearly a part of some "misogynistic ideology," but not the other two. The Wikipedia page on "purity rings" lists examples of male (now) celebrities who once wore them. The idea of "selling your body" being pejorative connects to the idea of commerce being corrupting (which is seen elsewhere, such at the concept of "selling out") and I don't think male prostitutes would be seen any more favorably than female ones.
and they might not have been able to without that MIC that everyone likes to dunk on
The Rambo Attack on RAM
Ipython quits without parenthesis.
Would be interesting to know from their employees if there have been any tangible changes in the blind pursuit of velocity, better QA etc in the aftermath of this fiasco.
In a highly secure environment, don't use long lived secrets in the first place. You use 2FA and only give out short lived tokens. The IdP (ID Provider) refreshing the token for you provides the audit trail.

Repeat after me: Security is not a bolt on tool.
Occam's razor is that what they literally say is maybe just true: They don't train any safety into the Chain of Thought and don't want the user to be exposed to "bad publicity" generations like slurs etc.
On the one hand, being generous in your inputs is always appreciated. On the other hand, the fact that both exit and quit will terminate ruby means the answer to "how do I quit ruby" now has two answers (technically 4 because `quit()` and `exit()` also work, and if we're talking about "least surprise" if you accept "exit" and "quit", why not also "bye" or "leave" or "close" or "end" or "terminate".

Python might be surprising, but in this example, it's only surprising once, and helpful when it surprises you. Now you know quitting requires calling a function and that function is named exit() (although amusingly python3 anyway also accepts quit()). And being fully pedantic it doesn't know what you mean, it is assuming what you mean and making a suggestion, but that's not the same as knowing.

From here on I'm not arguing the point anymore, just recording some of the interesting things I discovered exploring this in response to your comment:

You can do this in python (which IMO is surprising, but in a different way):

```
>>> quit
Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>> quit=True
>>> quit
True
>>> quit()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'bool' object is not callable
>>> exit()
```

But this also gives some sense to python's behavior. `quit` and `exit` are symbol names, and they have default assignments, but they're re-assignable like any other symbol in python. So the behavior it exhibits makes sense if we assume that they're not special objects beyond just being built int.

`exit` is a class isntance according to type. So we should be able to create something similar, and indeed we can:

```
>>> class Bar:
... def __repr__(self):
... return "Type bar() to quit!"
... def __call__(self):
... print("I quit!")
...
>>> bar = Bar()
>>> bar
Type bar() to quit!
>>> bar()
I quit!
>>>
```

Interestingly this suggests we should be able to replace exit with our own implementation that does what ruby does if we really wanted too:

```
>>> class SuperExit:
... def __init__(self, real):
... self.real_exit=real
... def __repr__(self):
... print("Exiting via repr")
... self.real_exit()
... def __call__(self):
... print("Exiting via call")
... self.real_exit()
...
>>> exit = SuperExit(exit)
>>> exit
Exiting via repr
```