skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(labelling people A and B, because 1) there'd be layers of >, 2) I want to signal I'm not curious about you and me or a verbal battle, just how someone else reads the article in a way where EFF does not discuss if they are crucial tools)

A: "I'm not sure why the EFF would be schizophrenic for disputing [that the program is a crucial tool]"

B: "They don't dispute that"..."the argument boils down to "historic border surveillance tools have been pork-barrel debacles"

B's two clauses seemed to me to be in direct contradiction at first blush. Ex. "debacles", seems to indicate awareness that they were not "crucial tools"

My steelmanning is that debacle is only meant to cover they were costly. There's numerous bits of the article that go beyond cost. The EFF article cites, inter alia, GAO[1], DHS[2], and RAND[3] saying it wasn't shown to be effective.

[1] In 2017, the GAO complained the Border Patrol's poor data quality made the agency "limited in its ability to determine the mission benefits of its surveillance technologies. In one case, Border Patrol stations in the Rio Grande Valley claimed IFTs assisted in 500 cases in just six months. The problem with that assertion was there are no IFTs in Texas or, in fact, anywhere outside Arizona."
[2] CBP is not well-equipped to assess its technology effectiveness to respond to these deficiencies. CBP has been aware of this challenge since at least 2017 but lacks a standard process and accurate data to overcome it.
[3] RAND Corporation published a study funded by DHS that found "strong evidence" the IFT program was having no impact on apprehension levels at the border
My experience as well! Pragmatism over idealism is a fantastic virtue for everyone — but turns out a vital one for communists :P
Here's an example I've seen with my own eyes.

An onsite oil rig chemical engineer for https://www.slb.com/ starts at $17k/year in Mexico but $150k in USA for the same job doing one month on, two week off land rig rotations.

You make more money in the US working minimum wage than you do in most jobs in Mexico as a high skilled graduate of a good university like https://tec.mx.
Even outside of UI, use-from-one-thread-only is perfectly valid and acceptable. The issue at that point is with the tools (e.g. C), not the API. If the API provides thread-safe entry points, that's because it is taking on the responsibility of synchronizing. Maybe that's fine for a particular API, but it shouldn't be expected for everything. It's an added layer of complexity, hidden from the programmer, so expect it to be absent in more optimized cases.
Wow I hear for the first time that some TLD registrar would explicitelly allow zone transfer of the whole zone... talking about the Swedish TLD mentioned in the article.

This really works

dig @zonedata.iis.se se axfr
Because a returned letter must be associated with an account / account holder to be processed.

Though they knew this information when they sent it to the author, presumably it would be laborious to manually associate the same information with each returned letter (one would have to look it up anyway), so they probably print the data on the letter that may someday be returned, to allow quick lookup in the event it is returned.

It's equivalent to a conversation ID and interface crafted to avoid lookups, making this letter exchange idempotent, which I very much appreciate.

Why it was not requested to be returned is beyond me, but likely all such letters contain this.
It seems like you're comparing jobs to other jobs. If you reverse your logic, "Software jobs should have to go to the workplace, not because they need to, are more productive, but just so that other people feel like it's fair."

You stated correctly when you said "most jobs do not have the luxury", and some people have specifically chosen these jobs for this luxury.
I am working from home and this reminded me to check the laundry
The fact that past programs failed to collect good data or failed to make good use of the data they were getting does not imply that having data is unlikely to improve operational results.

I think it's plainly obvious that if your goal is to stop people from illegally crossing the border, then monitoring that border is a necessity. We could hire humans to stand all day in watchtowers and scan for people sneaking in with just their human eyes, but (working) cameras have a lot of obvious advantages.

There is plenty of evidence and data showing that cameras can be a highly effective part of solutions to the problem of monitoring. There are countless companies, governments, and individuals using cameras right now with great success. Cameras are not an unproven technology and their usefulness is not theoretical.

I don't think that anyone would be opposed to a better option that would eliminate the need for cameras and sensors, but if one exists I've never heard of it. Cameras and sensors seem to be the best options we have. The cameras and sensors (when they were functioning) were never the problem with past systems. Those past problems were more like "We paid for a bunch of cameras but we never budgeted for anyone to respond to them, or to maintain them, or to maintain the systems we need to collect data from them". Those are all very solvable problems which shouldn't have happened in the first place.
The answer is a little nuanced.

We train on real records, and even though they are de-identified in training we still have to keep the model closed and under careful management to protect against the possibility of information leaking.

We are, though, definitely invested in this corner of research, and want to be able to work with others to push medical AI forward.

Given that, the best model for us is to collaborate on an engagement-by-engagement basis. For now we'd look to find ways to do the work directly involving LLMD within our systems.

If you research in the field and have some ideas, I'd love to chat!
Fairness related to other professions seems to be a very odd metric. I fail to see why software engineers should feel guilty about WFH because others can't.

I mean I'd love to be able to enjoy a nice sky or a beautiful view of the sea while I'm working but alas, my work tool is neither a plane nor a boat.
One could also say that your opinion is very American centric. Only US devs get "heavily" or extra compensated, the salaries in Europe or India are comparable with other professionals, specially when you are getting started. What's more, if you stay in the IC role the salary will hit a ceiling after some years and management salaries are again comparable with other positions.
Bill Gerstenmaier was talking about the flight test 4 landing accuracy, which landed on the open sea in the Gulf of Mexico, not on the tower like the recent test flight 5. The only thing nearby was a buoy. I'm pretty certain it didn't have advanced laser systems.
Show HN: NanoGCG – automatic LLM jailbreaks via gradient-based optimization
> Bitwarden has been trying to move away from a fully FOSS system

Again, as Harvey Dent said it…
Regardless of the merits of the claims in this “report”, normalizing this kind of deep archive stalking to build up dossiers on people is a really bad outcome and I hope the author realizes this now.
I'm extremely sorry about this. It's been such a huge wait for everyone who supported me. Thank you so much for holding on so long.

I finally have time to complete the material and updates will start appearing in the next few weeks.

Also, I am more than happy to issue well warranted refunds.
Do you watch TV through a computer? But also, how does that make the Apple TV able to tweak the image?
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Likeliest situation is all their stationary destined for send outs have the line; and in situations where the line serves no purpose it does no harm to leave it: so there is little use in having additional process around completely blank stock.
again, you're falling for the assumption that proprietary corporate data is fact — the CNBC article you cite also cites zip recruiter and you couldn't audit that data if you wanted to...

I'm doing the exact same thing zip recruiter is and you can't prove otherwise, you are providing me with 0 data that can be independently verified... you can't even look up their methodologies
My final year project was a 120 page report of measurements of electron spin resonance together with the design of the experimental apparatus. I had to defend the design, conclusions (which I have long forgotten, it was in 1977), and justify the methods and calculation all orally to two academics.

I doubt that anyone could have produced a plausible report without actually doing the work. And to defend it one would have to understand the underlying physics and the work that was done. Plus I think my supervisor and the other two students who worked with me on the project would have remarked on my absence from the laboratory if I had simply bought the paper!

You can still have long term projects and dissertations so long as the degree is awarded for the defence of the dissertation rather than the dissertation itself; that is the student must demonstrate in a viva that they understand everything in the dissertation rather than merely regurgitate it.
Even if they're Bluetooth-only: AdTech will invent some way to send Ethernet packets over it, sooner than you might expect.
Interesting read, ans kind of wild when I think in retrospect.

Back some 15-20 years ago, the thought of using a different search engine was ridiculous. In fact, every Google product seemed destined for success back in 2005-2010.

Fast forward to today, and I find their seach engine to be absolute crap and nearly useless. I view gmail with utter suspicion, and have been gradually moving over to Proton. Android is something I begrudgingly use, mostly because of a lack of alternatives (and no, iOS is not an alternative). And I actively avoid any new product they release, like the Google brand is synonymous of crap.

In fact, the only Google product I still think is fine is maps. I wonder how long until it also becomes crap. Seems more inevitable than anything else.
Friend of mine worked for BMW in Germany. The 35 hour work week was strictly enforced.

It's the law, it's the system, so of course that is what they are going to do.
Is there an Apple TV app for that? Or do you expect Apple to bake this into tvOS?
"Please do not park next to our nondescript White Van" would suite just as much.
Compare to: "If you can copy-paste from a Stack-overflow answer, is it controversial to say that copy-pasting is more efficient than reading through documentation and/or learning how to use a new library?"
I did not release the code but it's incredibly basic, and I believe OP's one is just the same.

You collect N links from HN api with any heuristic you want, then scrape those urls - preferably using pupeteer-based tooling or online equivalent (think Jina).

I then ran each url's content in an LLM to get a summary, then from all the results ask a LLM to create the conversation (and give it a tone). Then decide on the voices and characters and feed each turn into 11labs (or any tts). And finally, concatenate all audio parts, add music and effects.

If I remember correctly, mine could perform all that from a single Cloudflare worker. The catch is it can become a bit pricey because of the TTS. I remember toying with making it a product (podcast everything) and quickly discovered there's a couple of company already offering this.

NotebookLM is slightly different on the TTS front, I think they are using the amazing model google showed off a year or so ago (without giving it public access) that can generate actual multi speakers conversations with "hums" and cutting, and talking at the same time.

Added : someone just made a python lib for the usecase (also found on HN 5 days ago) https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy
I don't touch finance, but I'd be curious to have you elaborate on the data sources that a professional does care about.
You do, they're on SciHub.
I just want to say that, without having read the article yet, on the surface, that title is absolutely hilarious.
Ask HN: What's your favorite YouTube video, ever?
Post a link in the comments :D
hey wait, what would happen if I wr
This reads like a sponsored/promoted article. Would be nice to see a disclosure if it is or they get affiliate link revenue
My understanding was one of the goals for SVG+JS was an intentional need/desire to replace SMIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integr...

"Lost" standards can be fun rabbit holes sometimes.
Next.js 15 and Turbopack Dev (Stable)
> Because a returned letter must be associated with an account / account holder to be processed.

But they didn't ask for the letter to be returned at all.
Everyone is reading this as intentional anti-competitive practices. While that may be true, isn't another reasonable explanation that the Copilot development team is moving as fast as they can and these sorts of workarounds are being forced through in the name of team velocity? It takes a lot more time/energy to push public APIs and it's probably a very different team than the team developing the copilot extension. Seems a bit like a "don't attribute to malice..." kind of moment to me
I'm not saying those guns shouldn't be confiscated. I'm just saying that how much they confiscate says nothing about their capability to confiscate gun brought with malicious intent. There's way more stupid people with guns than malicious ones.
Hi! I am a startup attorney -- of course I can't give you specific legal advice here, but Mindcrime makes some excellent points!

Many states have explicit laws that protect employees from having to assign IP that they have developed on their own time, with their own resources. If you live in CA, CA is a very employee-friendly state and any restriction on competition is generally against public policy.

Without having seen any of your agreements, I would say that if you work on a project on your own time, with your own resources, it is unlikely that will run afoul of your employment restrictions. In addition, staying away from your employer's bread-and-butter revenue streams is also just generally good advice if you're trying not to draw attention or make people angry. ;)

Happy to chat more if that's helpful!
I was relatively impressed with AWS support (business) back in 2016 or so. It’s been absolutely atrocious lately. Anecdotal of course.
It's almost like you shouldn't connect random ass appliances to the internet.

My ancient roombas clean just fine with no cameras, internet, or AI nonsense.
I am always surprised companies create these distractions in their product. Agree on all your points. Little to no value in this tool based on the data they listed. All of these things already exist and for anyone doing work of any value, you would already have these datasets at your fingertips.
That doesn’t sound right. Where do you see 200gb ram?

Building a tileset can often require a lot of ram, but hosting usually does not.
I love silly, pedantic, obstinate stuff like this. This was a very funny read!
The studies I've read on bilingualism state that it delays onset by a few years, not that it prevents it. Let me duck for a cite though...

Here's one "Recent meta-analyses report that active bilingualism is related to later onset of symptoms and, thus, diagnosis of dementia by as much as 5–7 years relative to comparable monolinguals, despite brains in both cases accruing increased pathology similarly"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8847162/

It also notes..
"However, as outlined below, simply being bi- or multilingual it is not sufficient for protection against cognitive decline, otherwise, a clear majority of the world’s population would be equally protected (considering that more than half of the world population speaks more than one language; De Houwer, 2021). It is important to keep in mind that only certain types of so-called ′active ′ bilingualism will have the maximum effect upon brain health, i.e., those who are amply exposed to their languages, use them regularly and are otherwise highly engaged in contexts that require linguistic switching."
Async usage is overblown in some cases, but not in others. The mistake of async Rust is not that it's unnecessary, just that it's being pushed for general purpose usage. Which is probably impractical for any async abstraction, or for any abstraction in general.
Somewhere in the Paul Harvey archives[0] there should be the episode where he closed with the account of an elephant that had been in the US for a number of years, but eventually had become despondent and it was the regular trainers who could tell the difference.

One day there was a visitor from India who spoke to the elephant in their native language and that was what the elephant had been longing for.

[0] "The Rest of the Story"
https://trotsarchive.com/
As I've been working for myself, this is exactly what I've noticed. The exhaustion and stress of pushing myself "another day" for "just another feature" is absolutely not worth the burnout that comes immediately after.
I’m immediately envisioning the watch dogs 2 “jumper” bot.

https://youtu.be/f5oKFufx2Z0?si=xGMEkAMZRgIqJuH_
Doesn't ALL solar power come from space?
I mean both are fairly complex tables. The ipv6 addresses are longer, but really I'd use hostnames in either case. Ipv4 includes the client id's, dhcp lease time, Mac addresses, etc.

I just wish routers had better / easier support for local DNS. Also a true tld reserved for internal network names would be awesome. Technically `.internal` is undefined.

That said, I do use ipv4 for easy local addresses just because local DNS is such a PITA to setup. Though I use ipv6 in my hosts file for setting reliable access to specific hosts where the ip doesn't change.
A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK.

Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.
Tofu of all things doesn't really need to be synthetic. It's the meat eaters who are putting tons of time and effort into making their unsustainable diet possible with synthetic replacements.
> Its more likely that a random individual's opinion about a random niche of scientific study will be wrong than that of an individual trained on that niche

Well ... this intuition should definitely be true in theory, but in practice some fields are sufficiently distorted by biases (financial, ideological) that it's possible to be more correct as a random individual than an individual trained on a niche. The random Joe Schmuck may or may not have less knowledge, but they definitely have less career-related bias and that is often decisive.

There are plenty of examples where ordinary people manage to systematically beat the experts. A good recent example was the COVID lab leak theory. The entire field of virology and public health came down on one side of that issue, even though it was obvious that a lab accident was highly plausible, and then it turned out they all knew were all lying through their teeth and did it deliberately anyway. The rando nobodies who said "yeah, well, I don't trust the experts" came out ahead and this is now widely acknowledged. In the UK both Boris Johnson and his at-the-time health secretary have admitted that it is the most likely explanation for where COVID came from.

Ultimately, training is of no use if incentives cause people to mislead.
Scanning the ones returned as undeliverable. Those would of course not have been opened and therefore nothing written on them.
Contrary opinion: USB-C sucks for any sort of demanding use case, especially video (i.e., gaming monitors). There are so many different versions and specs that all fit into one lookalike cable/connector but which will fail in various ways, usually at some combination of refresh rate, resolution, HDR, etc. HDMI is so much more reliable (though not without its issues) and DisplayPort is even better, though that's rare to see on a laptop. If your monitor supports a USB-C input, there's a good chance it will work with your laptop (especially Windows), but the situation on Linux and Mac can be very different. If it only has a HDMI input and you don't want to waste time exploring the different USB-C video modes, a HDMI output on the laptop and good cable will make it much, much simpler.

Audio is probably fine... the standards there don't change as much.

Ethernet is hit-or-miss for me. On my Macbook with an expensive ($300ish) dock, the port works 90% of the time... 10% of the time it'll just randomly shut off until restart. Another USB-C ethernet dongle (with only that one port) works 100% of the time. But either is a PITA compared to a built-in ethernet port in the laptop.

I don't have a choice now that I've gone to Macs, but if I were buying a Windows/Linux workstation PC, I'd absolutely get all the ports I can – ESPECIALLY HDMI and ethernet. USB-C is a nice idea with terrible real-world implementations that are usually 75% compatible but almost never 100%.
GBCC Tech Notes
I had to block all network traffic from VSCode that shit is spyware out of the box.

Maybe the vi crew is actually onto something.
IE had over 50% market share for over 10 years. It was likely a major factor for Windows holding the desktop OS monopoly.
Sorry for the huge delays and also for missing the LinkedIn message.

Your support for creators is very much appreciated. There is now light at the end of the tunnel. More info here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907594
As a lifelong gamer as long as Valve has existed, in Gaben we trust. He built this empire treating gamers fairly and delivering great product while never exploiting his customers.
Makes for an excellent easy-to-sell bogeyman, though.
Seems like the only sensible comment in this thread so far.

Here's what I imagine it's like working on the Copilot team:

> Mgmt: "We need this feature, and we need in 2 weeks."
> Devs: "That feature is not technically possible."
> Mgmt: "Well, figure out a way to make it possible. That's _your_ problem."
Show HN: Determinate Nix
Microsoft VSCode, as far as I know, is not purely what is published under https://github.com/microsoft/vscode.
> What's the harm here if the APIs are temporary

The “if” is carrying a lot of weight.

It gives Microsoft a solid competitive edge and a form of vendor lock-in in their otherwise mostly open product.

We don’t know that they’ll be temporary forever.

> They've stated the purpose of these "proposed APIs"

Just like how they said recall would not be a required feature, but is a dependency of the file explorer in the next version of windows?

Microsoft will say whatever looks good for them, obviously.

> last decade

But we do from the last 11+ years ;)

I’d always err on the side of not trusting giant monopolistic corporations with a history of garnering good will to cash in on it later.

Especially when that company has been very aggressively inserting itself in nearly every JS projects dependency/software delivery pipelines.

I gain nothing by trusting them, but I stand to lose my project’s independence from them.
World class guerilla marketing might have something to do with it, it is arguably the most adored institution in existence.

If you're the best, resting on one's laurels is not an uncommon consequence.
But it's relatively easy for China/CPC to squash them if they really want to. Western media is even reporting on changes in particular keyword censorship.
One of the smartest people I know did 4 degrees in 4.5 years: undergrads in physics, chem, biochem, and math. He graduated with like a 3.2 gpa, low because he took 18-22 credits of hard classes every single semester, and couldn't get into med school. They made him take some stupid biochem masters, at which he excelled, particularly with a reduced course load. He then easily got admitted to med school.

If you don't want people to prioritize grades over everything else...