skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree obviously. But each time I look at my code, it’s subtly different from one entity to the next, each one with its intricacies.

Yes I’ve coded permission systems a hundred times. But here it’s wired to the app we integrate with, and here it’s wired with groups. Here it’s by document, here it’s by space. A thousand hoops, never the same exact logic. Like a thousand humans, never the same identical one. We humans can see the same parts and easily designate “a human”, but this pattern recognition ignores a lot of important details. And those details are what makes IT accurate and reproducible, which has been the trait we’ve liked about it.

Since 1970, have we misled ourselves in believing we were repeating the same patterns, while in fact, every program really was different?
Is that meaningfully different from reverse engineering? You can't use individual functions without knowing the data structures they operate on, and info about data structures is usually not present in the final binary*.

* (excluding languages that compile to an IL like C# of course, but decompiling C# is trivial)
I guess both work but chef makes more sense.
What happens in that case is that competitors copy your hardware and throw the open source firmware on it to undercut you. Consumers don't know how to differentiate your products without marketing/segmentation and OEMs mostly care about the BOM cost. It doesn't matter much that your competitors are 2-6 months behind because they're still killing the long tail sales that sustain a company.

Note that I'm still pro-open source, but I've seen this cycle play out in the real world enough times to understand why manufacturers are paranoid about releasing anything that might help a competitor, even if it benefits their customers.
The First True Smartphone
Issues:

(1) With Itself:

Consider Young's double slit experiment: So, have plane with two slits and some distance away a parallel plane with detectors. (A) Several times, shoot a photon at the slit. Observe that the detection locations form parallel lines, i.e., fringes. (B) Cover one slit, repeat, and observe that the detection locations from a smooth hill without fringes.

So, from (A) we conclude that the something about the photon went through both slits and interacted with itself to form the fringes, the ones we didn't see from (B).

Q. Between the two planes, where was the energy?

(2) Mass and Charge

Set aside (1) with its photons and two planes.

Now one at a time shoot electrons, i.e., with not just energy but also mass and charge. And shoot the electrons at a beam splitter, i.e., a plane, partially transparent to the electrons, and at 45 degrees to the path of the electrons.

Some electrons pass through the plane with no change in direction and some get deflected 90 degrees.

On the paths after the plane, have some very sensitive detectors for mass and charge. These detectors are distant enough that what they do cannot affect the electron, i.e., the electron does not know about the detectors.

Q. What do the detectors read? For each of the two paths, whole mass and charge, half, or something else?
How unsafe? Cars are rolling death machines, especially to pedestrians, but we sell plenty of them anyway. I don't have particular sympathy for Ford or Honda, but I think they should continue to exist.
Sessionless UDP Load Balancer
From an outside observer, the black hole is finite in width though, though. and if the speed of light is constant, isnt that a contradiction? Or is a black hole somehow of infinite width?
Good shout on the getting of the token!

The limit of the emails was added mostly, so I can restrict my demo on grap.email, so it is less convenient for abuse. It is a configurable system setting.

As for the comparison, I mostly started this because I couldn't find a self hostable solution at the time and did not like the pricing models of existing services. They were an overkill for my needs. That being said I wouldn't say I can compete on features with any of the established solutions, they are much more sophisticated. I just needed something simple, so I coded it.
I never thought about this before, but product competition is basically evolution in action. Entities with more desirable traits that adapt better to a given ecosystem survive, the rest don't. (In addition to things like a pre-existing dominant species having advantages over new ones)

(fwiw, Windows won out because it had better business strategy. Apple wanted to be in everyone's homes; Microsoft wanted to be in everyone's business. One of those is easier to sell to in bulk, and easier to charge more money. In addition, Windows being more hardware-agnostic, and encouraging an ecosystem of competing hardware manufacturers, allowed them to invest less in hardware themselves, while creating an industry that would vie for business on Microsoft's behalf. This is of course different than the "workstation" market of uber-high-powered individual computers, which sort-of still exists, though with PC hardware)
Related: cheap device to track pollution + mesh + visualization: https://luftdaten.info/

Once had this thing on a balcony of a shared flat in Heilbronn, Germany. Wondered what that was, previous tenant told me about it and it was never removed from there.
Not allowing end-users to disable telemetry is actually awful. The gold standard is that IP addresses are considered personally identifiable information.
regardless of theatrics or not, meta products does have lots of dark patterns to fetch the same data apple and google and amazon and samsung have access by shipping OS level ad networks on their devices. You simply cannot use whatsapp and other meta products without willing or unwillingly, give them full access to upload your contact list to their servers and fetch list of also-running apps.
There is a middle ground possible as mentioned in the paper, e.g. SipHash is a non-cryptographic hash function that provides security against DoS against attacks.
And it produced a lot of shareholder value too!
Is there any point to this comment other than rage bait?
Figma's New UI
People who are in pain need effective pain medications bruh
UI/UX standards in general are dogshit in most modern software. It's actually baffling how nobody bothers to do even the most basic polishing of their application as the OP. Like they note, clicking around for 10 or 20 minutes would reveal many imperfections, not to mention actually having testers and experiments and any semblance of a scientific design methodology.
Just put the input inside the label. Problem solved, no need for for=
> Tactics used to persuade U.S. doctors that potent painkillers could be safely prescribed have been used abroad, an investigation shows.
For what it's worth: Damien Miller has commented repeatedly here that OpenSSH did NTRU before the NIST competition completed, and they always planned to add the NIST PQ winner.
The NYT article is based on https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/most-expensive-tow...
Here’s something else that I’m concerned with with about black holes. If a mass is one nanogram below that of a black hole, how similar is it to a black hole?
The goto tactic for this specific `<label>` problem is:

<label>
Foo
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</label>
Seems like he was targeted by people of his own political persuasion in both cases. So, yeah, maybe Trump should in fact tone down his violent rhetoric.
It is finite in circumference, yes, but its geometry is not the usual geometry so diameter does not equal circumference divided by pi.
I take your point, but to me it doesn't seem like much of that time would be spent in friendship mode anyway, and if you can legitimately call them friends (instead of something more akin to casual acquaintances you met at work and might still have the contact info of or occasionally play games with), you'd need to spend that time outside of work anyway to cultivate those relationships more substantially. Imo there isn't even close to enough time in that 40h block to form enough of a relationship—one that will survive on its own on a regular basis outside that workplace—without also going to a bar after, getting coffee on the weekend, etc..

At least, I'd think the point would be to spend other unrelated time doing other stuff with whoever you have chemistry with, and maybe go so far as to suggest if the only capacity in which you've spent time with someone is at work, it's not really a friendship.
We made an entire class of medications (cannabinoids) illegal because of one bad actor (Regan), why wouldn't we do it again?
Purdue is responsible for somewhere between a quarter million and half a million excess deaths due to opiates. It's a shocking number. The Pinto scandal is rightfully notorious, but this is a different order of magnitude.
Yes, and then your user's personal details go on a darkweb leak.

But who cares! You made bank and no law or liability will actually punish you for it, so what the hell.
Anyone with the patience to read through an existing github repo can do this? If there are valuable bits to be salvaged it's easy enough to copy-paste them into a new library if you so choose.
Not all companies float on PE money.
Article title: IBM Simon https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Leaving Google Voice but Taking My Messages with Me
A more 'direct' link to the release notes:

* https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.9

* https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.9p1
The sibling comment to this by sieabahlpark is already dead but to respond in case they get a chance to read the thread again anways:

The engineers already closed the hole, the blog post was already published, more work was (/is still?) going to be done to make a new site to hide them in. I wasn't asking for them to move engineers off patching to blog posting, I was asking for the already created blog posting to be made as visible in the blog the same as the posts were (which is now the case, so at least there is that).

In regards to whether or not they did analysis to show it wasn't exploited that was indeed nice to see but you still have to make the post visible anyways because you're not always right, even if you're one of the biggest companies in the world https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/17/microsoft_zero_day_sp... The measure to meet here is transparency, not perfection.

And no, I wasn't really sitting around waiting for a good opportunity to delete my account and uninstall my main browser. That would be... very odd? I'm free to change browser without a reason to blame haha. I didn't say what I was switching to either (it's quite irrelevant to the topic), which can certainly be more than one of 2 options you have quips for. Regardless which option, the measure to meet here is again not perfection but transparency and yes, others do meet that well and above how Arc did in this case.

More than anything, the reason for responding is less to argue about most of those points (I even debate just removing them now as they may detract from the point) and more to point out "real" transparency on security incidents (not just what a PR person would say gives the best image) is as big a factor in trusting a company with your data as their actual response to vulnerabilities. It doesn't matter that a company looks great 100% of the time they tell you about things if you know they are being intentionally stingy on showing you anything about it since you now have no way to trust they'd show you the bad anyways.
I’d say address sanitizer is a better starting point, and likely to show memory issues faster than this
Because that was the wrong decision and a disaster.
Related to the hybrid post-QC crypto stuff, similar moves have been done for Chrome:

* https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/a-new-path-for-kyber...

Draft for adding it to TLS (1.3):

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe...
"well known design deficiency" is the subjective part.
I recommend llmstudio for this usually
I believe it boils down to what we teach as “finished”.

Is a feature finished when the code works? When the pull request is merged? Or when a feature works well?

I also believe there’s a lack of care. The difference between a craftsman and anyone else is care.
Impressive project and maybe it's just hubris talking but I think he could have made this a whole lot easier on himself if he built a duplex modem program and implemented something like TCP on top of it rather than trying to raw dog 100MB through a string.

This video feels like a triumph of working harder not smarter.
is "PC platform" the standard term here? I'm not saying it isn't, it just sounds a little odd to me.
That's a highly compassionate reason to get into an industry, bravo.

Is there a specific type of game you found healing, or especially one that you prefer to create for such a purpose?

I personally strangely find a mix of 'brain turn off' games such as ARPGs healing but then can also find great peace in crushing my brain through another Factorio run.
Arithmazium
Except we don't, because technology advances and techniques get lost because they're no longer useful. I have no idea how to make a buggy whip or drive a horse to market, because we don't do that anymore. I'm sure someone can find a manufacturer that survived the downturn but a lot of that knowledge has simply been lost to the sands of time.

Fortunately we have YouTube University and (for now) the Internet Archive, where hopefully current techniques won't be lost, but we'll just have to see how the future goes.

The privilege to use old timey techniques and then sell furniture on the basis that no power tools were used in the making of it is practically the definition of snobby, as if using power tools to make furniture lead to bad energy being imbued in the table that makes it unsuitable for being used as a table. You don't have to buy any furniture if you don't want it, especially if it's poorly made, but power tools don't automatically mean it's poorly made. You can make really shite furniture with hand tools just as much as with power tools.
Tell us something new, please.
I'm currently pondering an IR format for a mildly optimizing C23 implementation, and am curious how C11 atomic operations would look like in sea-of-nodes. The representation seems to be completely opposite to the programming model, where strict ordering and memory fencing are required. libFirm[0] is probably the most sophisticated sea-of-nodes based AOT compilers I'm aware of, it's a shame they ceased development before implementing atomics.

[0] https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/Features.html
As small models get more capable there will be a growing amount of use cases that they'll be able to do competently. Is that so hard to believe?

Leave the problems that require competent reasoning ability to the larger models.
In state parks, but I haven't seen it really enforced in most of the US. The point is that litter isn't the primary problem with plastic. Most of the issues with it have nothing to do with the littering of random citizens, to the point that it's not even worth bringing up in a conversation about plastic.
Patlabor: The Movie is pretty good but (IMO) nothing special. The OVAs/TV shows are very slice-of-life and have a much slower tempo than the movie. (From the article: "One memorable episode of the TV series was about the tribulations involved in getting a Chinese restaurant to deliver to the base.") The second movie is much darker and more cerebral, a la Ghost in the Shell (same director), and was previously discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37916306. Overall though the whole franchise is very enjoyable
I was abroad recently, and my mother couldn't get service because her phone was SIM locked by cricket and the requisite six month period haven't passed for it to be eligible for an unlock. She had bought her phone full price from Cricket. If she had purchased the same phone for the same price somewhere else, it would've come unlocked.
I loved Planetes, but it's unfortunately unique, as there's not a lot of other hard scifi out there, and even less animation
Back in the day I used to think this was taboo for some reason, but maybe it was only for XHTML to enforce one-to-one label -> input association. Flexbox seemed a bit redundant, since even with the non-nested syntax I'd think it would lay out inline and you can just add some padding in the same way.
Hey, thanks for the one extremely useful comment!
Honestly what it probably comes down to for me is this:

> If you were a slow reader would you like to be constantly be reminded that you're "below average?"

I wouldn't care. I'm comfortable in myself, and I don't see it as being an issue that most of the world is structured around the average/normal case. I might be a competent reader but then there are tons of areas in which I'm lacking.

If there's an option for me to enable to add that my walking speed is 4km/h or 6km/h or whatever, great, win. It's not inherently discriminatory to not have that though.
With cars they go under testing certification that defines their safety level, which is readily available. In this particular drug case they fraudulently misrepresented the risks of the product.
The question was for the general case, so yes that is exactly what you are claiming in this thread.

Here is the question again: "Well pretty confused. You can't get exactly once delivery using proposed solution in general case because you can not have infinite memory for dedupe."
I get it but I still think these sorts of concepts are also just another level of mathematical abstraction that isn’t necessarily “really what it is” any more than a rotating ball or a math equation or any of the other ideas are “really what it is”
I don’t understand the justification for 60 days or for carrier locks at all. If a phone company wants to impose a requirement that a phone will not operate at all if money is owed for its purchase and hasn’t been paid, then maybe I’d be okay with this. But for some reason carriers seem to think it makes sense to prevent, say, using dual SIM mode with their SIM and a second SIM from a different provider for 2 years or 45 days or 60 days or whatever. This makes no sense.

I’m also a bit surprised that Apple plays along with this. Apple surely has the market power to just say “sorry, no more carrier locks”.
Qualcomm and Intel are both US-based companies.
Does anyone know what they mean by "wave synchronization"? That's supposedly their trick to prevent all those parallel CPUs from blocking waiting for data. Found a reference to something called that for transputers, from 1994.[1] May be something else.

Historically, this has been a dead end. Most problems are hard to cut up into pieces for such machines. But now that there's much interest in neural nets, there's more potential for highly parallel computers. Neural net operations are very regular.
The inner loop for backpropagation is about a page of code. This is a niche, but it seems to be a trillion dollar niche.

Neural net operations are so regular they belong on purpose-built hardware. Something even more specialized than a GPU. We're starting to see "AI chips" in that space. It's not clear that something highly parallel and more general purpose than a GPU has a market niche. What problem is it good for?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014193...
Nearly unusable what? High amount of RAM doesn't help with larger models what?

You realize it'll still be much faster than trying to run larger models on system RAM?
What does Julia have to do with this?
the dynamics are different but hackers get prosecuted all the time. they don't always live in non-extradition countries.
Do you think photons are real?

Because according to QFT they only exist because of the gauge symmetries. Photons are the solution to the redundant symmetries. Remove those redundant symmetries and you also need to remove the photons.

Universe "fixing a gauge" means no photons and no electromagnetic field, because the electromagnetic field IS the gauge symmetry.
> Now, the team is working on a compiler for their PPU

I think a language is also required here. Extracting parallelism from C++ is non trivial.
Joke: “birds aren’t real”

Woke: “electrons aren’t real”
Six of the top 50 are in Oregon, which is a bit of a surprise to me. But then again perhaps not — the small town lifestyle here is pretty compelling.
Is this like the Itanium architecture with its compiler challenges?
I wanted it to be "We've been observing your earth, and one night we'll make a contact with you." Like in that 1976 song by the Carpenters...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKkcPMNs4m0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8&t=5s
I think this is why “shut up and calculate” is popular
Unsatisfying dismissal. Duplication of efforts is WAI. Other two happen in government generally.

Can you name the examples you are thinking of where this happened to apparently an extreme degree?

Also not all government programs are equal. Space travel has the handy property of being easy to apply simple objective metrics (“did you land on the moon, y/n?”), unlike almost every other agency (“is our children learning?”).
I don't understand what is being claimed.

> A hidden mechanism exists within the code base that allows Meta to bypass any user-facing controls, enabling them to access personal data even if you’ve set your privacy settings to the most restrictive levels.

This isn't clear how it isn't just normal system architecture, just with substandard controls to prevent employees snooping on production data. (Of course Meta has access to all the data that is put into the system; that's how pretty much all these systems work, occasionally excluding payment data.)

But if we read to later in the piece, it alludes to ongoing effort into some intentional backdoor, for the use of unspecified parties, and which is hush-hush.

Maybe the writer was weighing what they can and can't say, and the process load of that tends to result in unclear communication (e.g., harder to track the mind of the reader, across edits and mental deliberations). Or maybe they were just stressed or fatigued, around a big career/life change like this.

Anyway...

If it's something illegal, then you have the option of contacting authorities. (Or, if there's a reason that won't work, and you're willing to have your life to possibly suck even harder than that whistleblowing mode, then you could contact a good journalist.) They can investigate and, if appropriate, communicate effectively about the problem.

If it's not something illegal, then maybe there's an employment NDA that applies. Appreciate the FAANG cushion to your finances, and make ethics/transparency/impact/whatever a bigger factor in what company you go to next.