skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have been very clear in repeating the same argument again and again. I and few other commenters here think it is flawed, because you just assert rather than demonstrate sufficient care about preventing civilian casualties. It is obvious that Israel did target Hezbollah operatives. It is not obvious - and you did not prove that — they were not indiscriminate when triggering the explosions.
whut.. transferred TB of data per hour with Rabbit.. does it not scale anymore?
What about the part of the Python ethos where "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"
Ask HN: Show featuring a company turning internal MVPs into profitable companies
I remember seeing a show about an already profitable company that tasked a lean team of maybe 4 people to come up with ideas.

The team would then vote on the best 4 or 5 ideas. Those ideas were then turned into MVP and put into the wild with minimal marketing. If they had a little success they would turn them into a company and assign a team to build it out.

They ideas ranged from software to new hardware.

If I can recall correctly they have done this 4 or so times turning them into multi million dollar companies. And the idea team get a small piece of each company.

Anyone know of companies that do or did that?

This is driving me bonkers.
One more thing: she posted Russian propaganda to her LinkedIn feed.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cristiana-b%C3%A0rsony-arcidi...

She also regularly reposts antivaxx posts.

Which does not really mesh with her supposed education level.

Weird.
Perhaps my ethical framework does not match your framework? Note that I start from the premise that genetic data is not possible to keep secret (you shed skin cells in public, state-level agents can get warrants to grab a cup you used from the garbage, etc).

(no, I did not ask my children or my spouse or my parents or any other relatives for "consent").
Thank you - yeah, that smells pretty bad. But, although it says "can't be changed", could it not be changed if SwiftUI were changed? An up-to-date compiler would no longer be able to compile projects using older versions of SwiftUI, but is there not a path to get there by updating SwiftUI to not require this exception, then some time later, deprecating the older versions of SwiftUI, either throwing a warning on compilation or putting it behind a compiler flag, and then finally removing it altogether?

It would certainly take a while, but could be done if Swift is aiming to be a mainstream, long-term, cross-platform language - unless this kind of thing is just not done, or there is some technical aspect I am missing?
That's kinda the only lever a lot of government has.

If you don't build out a bunch of civil positions then you can only solve problems by throwing money at ideally somebody who can.
In NetworkManager, you set your DNS servers using `ipv{4,6}.dns`. Similarly, you set `ipv{4,6}.dns-search` with zones that you want to be looked up via DNS over this link. By default, the default DNS is the link with with default route. If you want to designate the default DNS via different link, set up the search for `~.`

Then `resolvectl status` will show you each link, what DNS is configured for it, what domains it will resolve and which one is the default.
> Even for me, who was perfectly aware of the problem long before this legislation, and who was privacy-oriented to begin with, it isn't clear, what's the consent I'm giving.

Indeed, and that's exactly what the industry wants. Show me where exactly GDPR mandates the cookie dialogues. Or ePrivacy Directive for that matter.

> Well, it's not GDPR you should blame, it's Strava and all their partners/competitors

Yes. And yet you somehow twist it to blame GDPR

> but it doesn't seem GDPR is effectively enforcing what it is supposed to.

Yea. Enforcement has been sadly lacking
I'm not sure what your classification of "old-timer" is with how it compares to me but I would think of myself as an old-timer as Gen X.

I feel like there's another term for what you're thinking of but I cannot come up with what it is.

Self-hosting definitely was locally hosted on your own hardware back when hosting providers like Linode, Digital Ocean, AWS, etc existed or were as customizable.

Even corporations "self-host" GitHub Enterprise or Gitlab when they set it up on AWS. Self-host just means you're not reliant on creator of the application to host it for you and manage the server.

There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to self-hosting on your own hardware, as there are to using a hosting provider.
I mentioned Handbrake without checking its DVD authoring capability - probably used it to rip DVDs many years ago and got it mixed up with burning them; a better FLOSS alternative for authoring would have been DeVeDe or bombono.
Instead of inventing some new delimited formats, we also already have nearly ubiquitous interchange formats like JSON. If you wanted to reduce the in memory footprint versus plaintext encoding the JSON there are good options like BSON and CBOR.
Great catch, Thank you! We'll fix that.
200 for gaming might be cutting it close for me but I am using a 10 year old PC with an upgraded GPU. I guess thats "bad" lmao. Can we end of life the people who will decide and implement some shit like that? :)

Also enterprise will buy new and then sell, why Thinkpad etc is popular. Should that also be banned?

No used cars too, sound good. No used goods at all. Imagine the productivity!!!
'Ghost' cybercrime platform dismantled in global operation, 51 arrested
I feel bad for people who can't charge at home. I get to charge at my residential 11.5¢/kWh. Though I don't go far from home very often so I've never charged anywhere else. If I wasn't getting this rate the savings over gas would get a lot narrower.
I agree. Is this a hardware startup or a software startup? Is this a paid position (in real green dollars)? The area is full of scams, so they have to provide more info to get someone interested.
For context, here's the NDR report: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/aktuell/Inve...

And more info here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2024-Septe...

Edit: The NDR alleges a timing attack (no further explanation) that allows "to identify so-called ‘entry servers’" Very little information is actually available on the nature of the attack. The NDR claims this method has already lead to an arrest.
In government procurement positions, I would be in favor of giving a small %-ge (to the tune of a few hundred thousands of dollars) of money saved from budget to the people in charge of procurement.
1. People don't generally use the (big, whole-web-corpus-trained) general-purpose LLM base-models to generate bot slop for the web. Paying per API call to generate that kind of stuff would be far too expensive; it'd be like paying for eStamps to send spam email. Spambot developers use smaller open-source models, trained on much smaller corpuses, sized and quantized to generate text that's "just good enough" to pass muster. This creates a sampling bias in the word-associational "knowledge" the model is working from when generating.

2. Given how LLMs work, a prompt is a bias — they're one-and-the-same. You can't ask an LLM to write you a mystery novel without it somewhat adopting the writing quirks common to the particular mystery novels it has "read." Even the writing style you use in your prompt influences this bias. (It's common advice among "AI character" chatbot authors, to write the "character card" describing a character, in the style that you want the character speaking in, for exactly this reason.) Whatever prompt the developer uses, is going to bias the bot away from the statistical norm, toward the writing-style elements that exist within whatever hypersphere of association-space contains plausible completions of the prompt.

3. Bot authors do SEO too! They take the tf-idf metrics and keyword stuffing, and turn it into training data to fine-tune models, in effect creating "automated SEO experts" that write in the SEO-compatible style by default. (And in so doing, they introduce unintentional further bias, given that the SEO-optimized training dataset likely is not an otherwise-perfect representative sampling of writing style for the target language.)
I’m curious, what puts you off of them? Actors are pretty standard ways to do it, and I feel like most of the successful rust implementations are actor based as well.
I put it on top of my Fellow kettle and let it heat up. The steel heats quickly and holds heat with the insulating sleeve.
>1 patient in 156 was helped by this intervention

the headline says we're talking about death: does that mean 1 life was saved for every 156 patients?

>In addition, they had 2 false alarms for each true alarm and ... and possibly increased risk from said interventions

but wouldn't this study have captured any deaths from those interventions, so the 1 out of 156 life-savings was net?
Uuuh can you tell a bit more about wasabi, the Python LSP? Saw a post years ago and been eager to see whether it’d be open sourced (or why it wouldn’t).
For anyone into cyberpunk, I recommend checking out Alfred Bested, who seriously influenced the genre.

His two masterpieces, The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man, could both be called "proto-cyberpunk", but the one that I think comes closest is Extro (1975, also published as The Computer Connection). It's a crazy, fun, ballsy, flawed novel that was panned when it came out, but way ahead of its time.
I can't post the exact tests but these aren't difficult tests, they are smoke tests and representative of the type of work we do every day (I'm not asking anyone to invert a b-tree or <insert any other stupid "look how smart we are"-type test>).

Our interview process is 4 steps:

1. Get to know you interview, talk about your resume a little, go through a set of questions we ask all applicants - 1hr

2. Very basic test where you need to fetch data from an endpoint, and render content based on what your retrieved. It's very straightforward and simple (HTML/JS), after this we run you through a real issue we ran into giving you all the background information and ask you to talk through how you would solve it (and you can ask any/all questions). We guide you as you go and it's not a "gotcha" question at all. You don't need to guess exactly how we solved it to "pass". - 2hr

3. Simple debugging test, existing HTML/JS + PHP code with a few bugs scattered through it. We are talking raw PHP here and a TLOC of <300. None of these bugs are "gotchas" either. You can find them all by looking at the logs and/or the server response (basic debugging skills for this kind of job). After this you meet some more of the team - 1.5hr

4. Meet the owners, talk compensation, etc - 1hr
I think Python's OO is a bit suboptimal even if the goal was to have method-centric OOP like in C with classes. For example, mechanisms to hide information, a fundamental part of the OO paradigm, are hacky. You need to use name mangling.

Same applies to FP, a few things are weird and crippled. IMHO, the net result is that Python code tends to look longer and much more algorithmic than in Ruby, Smalltalk or various Lisps, where the language favors lots of little functions that call each other.

Things are changing a bit, though. For example, pattern matching (PEP 622) brings some conciseness. Fixing those other issues would be great.
Fortunately reports never would lie
sure but i was alluding to stuff like this

https://netflixtechblog.com/maestro-netflixs-workflow-orches...
Yup Windows 10 EOL will be fun...

Windows 10 is "still" on 47% of PCs with Steam installed.

Windows 11 is at 49%.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
I've worked in a large government organization (the IRS) and at a large tech company.

I think it is fun to pretend like the issues in private industry vs public sector are similar in magnitude, but in reality it's not even close. I have never seen even remotely the level of dysfunction I saw in the public sphere in any private company.
And what about the future of social media?

This is such devious, but increasingly obvious, narrative crafting by a commercial entity that has proven itself adversarial to an open and decentralized internet / ideas and knowledge economy.

The argument goes as follows:

- The future of AI is open source and decentralized

- We want to win the future of AI instead, become a central leader and player in the collective open-source community (a corporate entity with personhood for which Mark is the human mask/spokesperson)

- So let's call our open-weight models open-source, and benefit from its imago, require all Llama developers to transfer any goodwill to us, and decentralize responsibility and liability, for when our 20 million dollar plus "AI jet engine" Waifu emulator causes harm.

Read the terms of use / contract for Meta AI products. If you deploy it, some producer finds the model spits out copyrighted content, knocks on Meta's door, Meta will point to you for the rest of the court case. If that's the future for AI, then it doesn't really matter whether China wins.
> What are you even talking about? Do you think a country of 9 million that's existed for 70 years doesn't have any unique identity?

Yeah. It has no unique national identity. There's a lot of Jewish culture, sure, but I'm hoping we can distinguish Jewish culture from Israeli culture (i.e, Iran is a Muslim country but Iranian culture isn't a subset of Muslim culture).

> There's Israeli cuisine, a lot of which is based on other cuisines imported from countries that Jews fled from or were kicked out of

Agreed. That's the point here.

> What do you think Israelis are doing on a daily basis, sitting around worrying about existential threats on their life?

Israel as a nation, yes. You sort of reaffirmed that by adding "countries that Jews fled from or were kicked out of" in your reply. The existential threat quite literally shapes all of Israeli day-to-day culture. The agriculture, tech and everything else is based on that existential threat.

As I've mentioned elsewhere though, this lack of culture isn't unique to Israel, it's just heavily multiplied due to the population being a collection of diaspora. This might change over the next couple hundred years but it's equally wild to assume that a 70 year old country is somehow going to have anywhere near the same level of culture (and cultural resilience) as undisturbed groups.
Wheat doesn't grow well that far South, it's too warm. [0] Just look at the map of wheat production in the US. So it's a trade item and that's where the embargo and all it's effects come in.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Winter_W...
> Voting for the monetary policy action were Jerome H. Powell, Chair; John C. Williams, Vice Chair; Thomas I. Barkin; Michael S. Barr; Raphael W. Bostic; Lisa D. Cook; Mary C. Daly; Beth M. Hammack; Philip N. Jefferson; Adriana D. Kugler; and Christopher J. Waller. Voting against this action was Michelle W. Bowman, who preferred to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point at this meeting.

This would be the first dissent by a governor in the FOMC since 2005.
if you can do 100x more efficient training with open source, closeAI can simply take that and train a model that's 100x bigger/longer/more tokens.
Ask HN: Predictions for the Next Low Interest Rate Tech Era?
With the recent 50bps rate cut, how do you see this affecting the tech industry? Could we see a return to ZIRP-era behavior? How might lower rates influence startups, funding, M&A, and IPOs? Will companies stay cautious, or take more risks? And where does AI fit into all of this?
Its just an address in Hungary

Which can be decoupled from where the company was incorporated, or where any shipment, manufacturing, or tampering occurred
The threshold they are referring to is the Alice/Mayo test.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12563

> The Supreme Court decisions referenced above established what has come to be known as the two-step Alice/Mayo test for patentable subject matter. The first step of the Alice/Mayo test addresses whether the patent claims are “directed to” an ineligible concept (i.e., a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea). To be directed to an ineligible concept, the focus of the claims must be a patent-ineligible concept, as opposed to a technological process. If the patent claims are not directed to an ineligible concept, then the claims are patent-eligible.

> If the claims are directed to an ineligible concept, then the invention is not patentable unless the patent claims have an inventive concept under the second step of the Alice/Mayo test. Step two considers the elements of each patent claim, both individually and as an ordered combination, in determining whether they contain additional aspects that “transform the nature of the claim” into a patent-eligible application of an ineligible concept. Claim limitations that are conventional, routine, and well understood, such as implementing an abstract idea on a generic computer, cannot supply an inventive concept.

An extremely over-reductive TLDR is that the Alice/Mayo test limits patents to specific, concrete, and well understood applications of technology. The test exists because of overly broad patents that essentially attempted to patent the idea of using a computer to do anything as well as attempting to patent ideas that were not yet invented in the hope someone would invent something infringing so they could extract a payday.
Go ahead and disable 47% of gaming PCs in 2025 then. lmao ur insane.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
They should just switch to reasoning in representation space, no need to actualize tokens.

Or reasoning in latent tokens that don’t easily map to spoken language.
The main reason for TSMC to build plants in the US is as a hedge against a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

That outweighs anything like jobs or economic efficiency (given no such war) by a couple of orders of magnitude.

And this really applies whether or not the US would join the war on Taiwan's side. TSMC production would be likely to be shut down for 5-10 years, regardless.
> I wasn’t aware those terrorists organizations had exploded devices in public spaces

They've done much worse.

The UN found Hezbollah (on behalf of the Assad regime) guilty of massacring 700 civilians in Daraya in 2012 [0].

The Daraya Massacre is what ended the prospect of a negotiated end to the Syrian Civil War, and radicalized a significant wave of Sunni FSA fighters to join Jabhat al-Nusra and the then fledgling Daesh.

The same leaders in Hezbollah that Israel has targeted over the past several weeks are the same ones that lead the Daraya Massacre [1] as well as other human right abuses in Syria and Lebanon.

More recently, Hezbollah has been indiscriminately shelling Northern Israel, which itself has lead to incidents like the Madjal Shams attack, which left 12 children dead [2].

Israel absolutely has been indiscriminate in Gaza and Lebanon, but so is every other actor (Hamas, Hezbollah, etc) in this tragedy.

This is war.

[0] - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/25/t...

[1] - https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/25/world/meast/syria-violence/in...

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdal_Shams_attack
The Register link to the patents in question: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/ibm_patent_win_zynga/
They are also networked.
There are two different scenarios.

Scenario 1: You're doing something that every other business is doing. E.g. ERP/accounting, sales, contact center, etc.

Scenario 2: You're doing something few other businesses are doing. E.g. your actual customer business, creative, etc.

(1) is amenable to making your process fit software, to good results. (2) is usually a train wreck.

Unfortunately, figuring out if your thing is scenario 1 or 2 is non-trivial.

Canonical example: EMR/EHR systems in healthcare. You think they'd be the same... but actually there are so many integrations with other systems and/or different sorts of specialists, that a real world implementation has substantial functionality gaps (papered over with custom work).
Unfortunately, I don't know that we can know that there is such a clear distinction. Hezbollah also provides many other governmental services, so I don't think we can totally rule out the possibility that, e.g., ambulances could be driven by Hezbollah members who use these radios.
systemd-network is cut-down I agree. But it does not have an ambition to replace NetworkManager; it is usually installed only in cut-down environments (containers; ubuntu installs it for servers, but not for desktops). Redhat doesn't even have it in repo.

systemd-resolved, on other hand, is good. There's no other resolver stub, that has the functionality that resolved has. It is the only one for Linux, that can do per-link, split DNS properly.
Hezbollah launched a war against Israel 12 months ago. Why is it suddenly an issue for you when they get hit back? Is it only a problem when Israel fights back?

Stop launching rockets at Israel, comply with UN Resolution 1701, and the conflict is over. Why are you overcomplicating this?
If you pretend it's legit, I'd say you're breaking trademark law, even if it isn't explosive. The same way you can't put old laptops in Macbook cases and open an online shop.

In this case there would also be a contract with specific terms for the reseller/manufacturer that certainly includes language such as "purposefully produce devices that would damage the brand".

Of course I think the customers have a more serious case to bring on (particularly ones that weren't terrorists). As well as war crime considerations.
But isn’t using a 3rd party web host giving up some of that control. Hopefully a reputable hosting company won’t shutdown at a moments notice, but could. Or if they go down, you’re stuck sitting there waiting for them to come back online with no access to your services.

Hosting from home has its own challenges, so I get why people would go to a hosting provider, but I do think some control is given up in the process.
> From what I've seen / heard from others, it's generally better to adapt processes to the off-the-shelf tool

I have never seen this work even once. I've actually built entire businesses on the concept that people are impossible to change, but software is easy to change.
No mention of apple, xdr or nds.
That's less of an alliance and more of a dependance.
You could also for a long time send SMS (if you registered your number) to 40404 to tweet to Twitter. It's still in my address book from the era when I was tweeting T9 from dumb phones or using voice-to-SMS to tweet on early smart phones.
This obviously varies person to person, but I don't find it to be that. I carefully maintain who I am following (about 600 people and companies, mainly in the infosec / natsec space) and when I start to see bad behavior/content I'm quick to unfollow people. Also, I only use the Following tab, never the For You tab.
Dmg-acid2: The Acid2 test, now for the original Game Boy
This isn't written in the most confidence inspiring way

But the things that do inspire confidence:

Tor is updated against vulnerabilities pre-emptively, years before the vulnerability is known to be leveraged

Tor Project happens to be investigating the attack vector of the specific tor client, which is years outdated

They should have just said “we fixed that vulnerability in 2022”

with a separate article about the old software
It would be nice for the community, so they can at least try to fix things.

But mostly, I think it would clarify the responsibility and obligations for support. Obviously a device which hasn’t been opened up can’t possibly be the responsibility of the user, who is locked out and unable to administer it. By default manufacturers should be responsible for the things they manufacture and should have an obligation to make sure they are reasonably free of defects. Devices with known security vulnerabilities are defective.

If they want to release themselves of that responsibility, they should have to actually make it possible for somebody else to pick it up.