skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, in some places it gets dismissed as "low effort posts". Even if they otherwise accept scribbles on lined paper by people who clearly don't have so much as high-school art.
export compliance is a total absolute tire fire, its full of non-sensical policy, and contrary opinions, and the more countries your product goes thru, the worse it gets.

Have a part made in Japan, integrated into a product in the states but sold by someone in the UK to in France? you'll have to comply with Japan, US and UK laws.

Neat fact, the UK considers the Cisco C9200 switch to be a munition, because it has ipsec.
I am very sympathetic to this. However, much of that hate is born of fear. When some sociopath deliberately and systematically tells old people that various "they" are coming for them, can we really blame the ones that react in terror with the hope that someone will protect them?

Dementia is an excuse. It may be the only excuse. If someone isn't thinking clearly, we can't get mad at them for not thinking clearly.
you are quoting the party-line.

i am saying, the thing is snake-oil - a solution looking for a problem.
Yeah, probably true, but joke's on you - I'm just a B2B SaaS PM so making me a bad programmer is a huge step up!

But in all seriousness, these models are getting to the point where they're really useful for me to just build one-off tools for my own use or to prototype things to show other people what I'm looking for (like an interactive mockup). That's the power of turning a non-programmer into a bad programmer, and it's certainly worth something!
Prefix Note: I am a Rust Nerd

This Problem exists all the way down in Rust‘s crypto libraries. OpenSSL just uses bindings, Ring uses BoringSSL which is just again C under the hood.

The only real Rust-only crypto project is RustCrypto, but they got a bit too clever with traits and generics. Also, the project is pretty undocumented.
On my phone? Tons. My phone has a boatload of data, and I readily install apps. I don't want one rogue update of a rarely used app (supply chain attacks are very real as we know) to get access to all my text messages and email, or to whatever my banking apps keep as state.

On my Mac? Less, but it happens. But text messages, photos, and the banking apps installed there etc. are still inaccessible by anything except the thing's I've explicitly given access.
Keyword there is may. Putting aside whether the sentiment is justified, it is currently extremely unpopular to impose Chinese tariffs.

It's also worth noting that Chinese prices are so low that certain tariffs can reach the stratosphere (eg: American 100% tariff on Chinese EVs), further making them unpopular with the commons.
Exactly this...and since the US is by far the biggest revenue source for semiconductors it would be stupid to ignore this rule. Taiwan in general wants to maintain favor with the US because of the invasion threat of China as well (although I'm not 100% confident the US would get involved in that fight).
Pygfx
It's somewhat ironic that, while the individual books are still accessible, their index pages https://www.oreilly.com/free and https://www.oreilly.com/openbook both redirect to some AI propaganda these days, with no links to the books left.

A third party page still has links to some (possibly all) of the books: https://zapier.com/blog/free-oreilly-press-books/
Sometimes.

In my case I have a bunch of nurses that waste a huge amount of time dealing with clerical work and tech hoops, rather than operating at the top of their license.

Traditional RPAs are tough when you're dealing with VPNs, 2fa, remote desktop (in multiple ways), a variety of EHRs and scraping clinical documentation from poorly structured clinical notes or PDFs.

This technology looks like it could be a game changer for our organization.
By default I'd assume most chips don't get serialized (their package may have a date/lot code). The article doesn't say what the chip is, so I don't think there's a reason to think that it's one of the types of chip that does usually get a unique ID.
Which is not portable. But also if you wanted to find your stuff again in other processes that you can't arrange to inherit shared memory and/or open FDs from the one creating it, then O_TMPFILE is not a relevant answer.
> Germany is a stable constitutional federal republic with proportional representation and power vested in the Bundestag. No reason why the US can't have the same.

The government of the United States is both far older than Germany's Bundestag and has been far more stable over that time.

I'm not explicitly arguing one way or the other here, just calling out that I think it is a little early to say that Germany's Bundestag is a stable republic when it is so young.
I had assumed it is by definition instant?

Surely anything else would imply a mechanism with additional complexity and indirectly void the entire concept. Delayed entanglement effect doesn't quite have the same cleanness for lack of better word
This could be seen as protection for candidates against lawfare, which is widely used in tyrannical governments.
Interestingly new claude only knows content up to:

> I'm limited to what I know as of April 2024, which includes the initial Claude 3 family launch but not subsequent updates.
Everyone really needs to have an up-to-date Power Of Attorney Directive and a trusted agent who can act on their behalf once they lose their cognitive ability and financial judgment.
The main problem with passkeys is that perfect became the enemy of good. Passkeys 1.0 should have been nothing more than an exportable private key synced by your browser or password manager.

Instead, the push for storing them non-exportable in TPMs means that the UX is completely busted when trying to use them across Microsoft/Apple/Google/Linux.

I'm currently considering adding passkeys to my services. If I do, the plan is to attempt to detect if the user has a password manager and only offer passkeys if yes. It's the only way I've thought of to ensure decent UX.
Coding a GeoGuessr AI Bot with Vision LLMs (LangChain) [video]
> There needs to be public funding of elections. That would go a long way.

I’m going to push back on this.

Not a single dollar of public money should be spent helping anyone at all acquire a seat in an office of power. This includes running primaries through State election apparatuses and laws governing primary selection processes.

I’d be okay with zeroing out contributions to individual candidates and limiting political contributions exclusively to political parties to dole out to their members as they see fit, even if that required a constitutional amendment, but not with public money. You’re effectively subsidizing the acquisition of power by interested parties with taxpayer money, while simultaneously cementing an additional incumbent advantage for those already seated and able to write the rules for the public funding of elections.
not legally i guess, but in spirit i'd say it is?

also obviously depends on the case, copyright law is often very stupid and broken, like there's no reason why this book written 100 years ago isn't in public domain, but scraping millions of images from artists' websites kinda is
... go on..
How DRAM changed the world
> The question of why the US has the right or power to tell TSMC, a Taiwanese company, who it is allowed to do business often comes up in these discussions.

The US doesn't have to justify what it asks for, it does that as a convenience for Taiwanese politicians. Why it has the power is a historical question irrelevant to whether it has the power. Why it has the right? Rights are implemented with power.

Proving that the US is wrong according to some moral or rational standard is just an intellectual exercise.
Different person. In the 2010s I was at a big co for which any "installation" of code had to go through procurement or some big architectural review, because the whole system was built around customer facing products, not internal tooling.

So when we needed a wiki (before confluence was bought and we only had file shares) I put dokuwiki on a server that already had apache and PHP from years prior. When we wanted to build internal web guis for automation and jobs, we used Bottle.py, since it can run a web server and operate without installation - just copy and paste the library.

Tldr bureaucracy leads to shadow IT.
I don't have insider knowledge... But I could believe that there is no per-die serial number unless the customer wants one. It would be extra manufacturing steps, and require integration with the customers design.

Due to the way lithography works, it isn't easy to make each die different. The usual way to put serial numbers into chips is with efuses, but not all chips have any efuses at all, and it would require collaboration with the customer to design a way that they be programmed and read (probably on a JTAG chain).
Everyone forgets that the DNC forced out FDR's two-time VP for being too buddy-buddy with socialism, giving us Truman and a half century of the ultimate in hyperpartisanship (the kind with Nukes of Damocles hanging over everyone's heads).
Powers of 10 is the classic presentation: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0
Appreciate the correction. I also can’t say where I got that idea but it occurred to me nonetheless.
>is that information worth the cost of producing it, or even valuable to anyone in any way?

It's valuable to the SEC, because they're the ones tasked with enforcing these rules and specifics are what allow for enforcement. If you publish an actual percentage, then they can ding you for lying if the percentage was wrong. being vague isn't misleading on its own, but it can be used to be misleading.

if they actually know what was exfiltrated, then putting specifics in the disclosure should be a trivial matter. maybe not a percentage of lines in the codebase, but you've got to give the SEC enough that they could potentially check it and determine if it was a lie. and "a limited number" isn't specific enough to do that.
I just wanted to point out that some unixoid systems (even some who are actually UNIX certified, but that's not really relevant to the issue) employ protection of temporary files stronger than what was suggested in TFA. The containers/jails/zones that you mention are an example of this.
A Mac wouldn't run Ubuntu (would it?)
Libressl is openssl with a coat of paint (a sane interface) and improved documentation.

They are doing good solid work, but I would not expect any dramatic improvements in security and seeing as the openbsd project values correctness over speed, very likely a small hit in the speed department.
I get that ambulate just means to walk around but it gives the sense to something medical (as an American).
The Ballad of the Inquisition's Greatest Witch Trial
Rust projects tend to go for these broad, generic, self-aggrandizing names, and I honestly think it’s a huge mistake. Crates.io is just going to become a graveyard of abandoned projects squatting on legit-sounding names.
Endless political spam texts are infuriating enough even for the mentally fit. I actively advise people against making political donations now unless they're extremely careful about it, because they will be hounded by political groups for literally the rest of their lives (literally literally, not figuratively literally) if they ever share any kind of contact information.
Reality doesn't necessarily agree with its model though, so it makes sense to verify?
It's not only the UK that considers cryptography to be a munition. It is also classified as munitions in the US:

> Encryption items specifically designed, developed, configured, adapted or modified for military applications (including command, control and intelligence applications) are controlled by the Department of State on the United States Munitions List.

It was part of the whole crypto wars, and the lawsuit brought by Bernstein vs the United States.

See more:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Is there a single example on how it will look like somwhere? I dont see any? (Mobile Browser)
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None of the small LLMs are good enough yet. You could certainly build a system around local VLMs but it would require much more task specific programming baked in.

I’m certainly interested in building a product (not entirely controlled by an LLM but I see lots of utility in building interfaces with them) but not really sure what this would be useful for. Looking into some spaces now but there has to be a clear ROI to get any sort of funding for robotics.
Given how badly sd3 flopped, curious if this is better.
Yep, subreddits like /r/cosplay had to add rules strictly banning AI images despite it being blatantly obvious that they're against the whole point of the sub. People spam AI anyway unless the moderators intervene to delete it and ban repeat offenders.
Roma and Romanians are two different things.
Wikipedia Citations: Reproducible Citation Extraction via Multilingual Wikipedia
Title edited for length:

Wikipedia Citations: Reproducible Citation Extraction from Multilingual Wikipedia [2024]

> Wikipedia is an essential component of the open science ecosystem, yet it is poorly integrated with academic open science initiatives. Wikipedia Citations is a project that focuses on extracting and releasing comprehensive datasets of citations from Wikipedia. A total of 29.3 million citations were extracted from English Wikipedia in May 2020. Following this one-off research project, we designed a reproducible pipeline that can process any given Wikipedia dump in the cloud-based settings. To demonstrate its usability, we extracted 40.6 million citations in February 2023 and 44.7 million citations in February 2024. Furthermore, we equipped the pipeline with an adapted Wikipedia citation template translation module to process multilingual Wikipedia articles in 15 European languages so that they are parsed and mapped into a generic structured citation template. This paper presents our open-source software pipeline to retrieve, classify, and disambiguate citations on demand from a given Wikipedia dump.

Prior work referenced in above abstract with some team overlap:

Wikipedia citations: A comprehensive data set of citations with identifiers extracted from English Wikipedia [2021]

https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/2/1/1/97565/Wikipedia-cit...

https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00105

Datasets:

A Comprehensive Dataset of Classified Citations with Identifiers from English Wikipedia (2024)

https://zenodo.org/records/10782978

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10782978

A Comprehensive Dataset of Classified Citations with Identifiers from Multilingual Wikipedia (2024)

https://zenodo.org/records/11210434

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11210434

Code (MIT License):

https://github.com/albatros13/wikicite

https://github.com/albatros13/wikicite/tree/multilang

Bonus links:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/01/guest-post-wi...

Related HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917016#41919074
ArtIV.S4 "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government", meaning elected by the People.
And a potential cudgel with which to strike those who's success is inconvenient.
That's one good news!

Yes, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were some kicbacks involved, at some universities
Ya the point you make is one the so many of the 'only the strong survive' type miss. Maybe that person would be employed and fine, but the person that just lost everything may be willing to burn down the world.
Yes, please continue. What else did your friend tell you?
blackmail, deepfakes, misinformation, impersonation?

literally any website containing images is in most cases overwhelmed with an unlimited supply of ai generated garbage

ai image generators are barely two years old, and have already caused a lot of damage in basically every sphere they interact with, i'd say you don't need a lot of foresight to be able to make a judgement here
every hype cycle runs through a predictable course.

we are at a phase where the early adopters have seen the writing on the wall.. ie that llms are useful for a limited set of usecases. but there are lots of late adopters who are still awestruck and not disillusioned yet.
It's the same picture.
No, I found that using separate browsers is easier. I have 5 browsers on my machine - Arc, Brave, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Arc is for daily use, Brave is for financial apps, Chrome is for work, Firefox is for anonymous browsing, and Safari just exists. Each browser has a different theme color so I can quickly tell them apart.

Before switching to Arc, I used to do the same with installing multiple versions of Chrome. I'd have the Chrome release / beta / dev versions on my machine, each one for a different use case.
This seems like a great system, but in many years of sailing I've never encountered it actually used. For the most part is only possible to be used by large commercial vessels, but those vessels already have a dozen other redundant communication systems that are clearer and faster. Operators of small private vessels aren't likely to even know this system exists, not alone carry all of these flags, a code book, and a system for hoisting flags.
thanks, will be checking the book!

My intuition is that some people are able to develop abstractions on top of abstractions (compression is a key part of intelligence) that allow them to traverse the search space much, much faster than without these, and with enough repetition this becomes routine, even faster in the brain.

I don't think we have a good theory of how this works, or at least I haven't come across it.

Neural network guided search is somewhat similar but I think we are missing several key pieces
And to take a historic analogy, cars today are as wide as they are because that's about how wide a single lane roadway is. And a single lane roadway is as wide as it is because that's about the width of two horses drawing a carriage.
I said this before I left IBM, and I will say it again.

These and other models IBM is working on can do basic tasks that anyone else could. But it will all fall apart the moment you add complexity to it.

It's hilarious to see how IBM struggles to stay relevant, what did that lead to? A bot that summarizes stack trace. Why is this even on the front page of HN?
A programming style isn't automatically "good" just because it's financially and technically unfeasible to migrate to something else overnight.

The reason Unreal uses inheritance is because this is what people did in 1998. The reason it can't stop using is because it's too late to change. There's nothing more to it.
Do you expect that a year from now (or two, or however long you think is a fair amount of time to pass), online reviews will be noticeably better/more useful than they are today? I think the underlying thread here is that most people don't expect this to be any more effective than anti-spam or anti-robocalling calling rules.
WBS ... Wimpy Billionaire Syndrome ...
I just don’t install apps.
More like demagoguery: emotionally fueled fear-mongering.
Kind of amazing how these releases went from, the most mind blowing thing ever, to basically, meh, in a few months.
It’s fairly common in my experience for reports to initially be driven by a Postgres database until you hit data volumes Postgres cannot handle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link#/med...
Right. We don’t have a word for that. Like “using a bicycle” has the word “bicycling”.

Tho someone here suggested “computering” which is pretty good.
STOP seems to work.
No you don't have to?

joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp$ ll
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 joker joker 4.0K Oct 22 22:12 ./
drwxr-x--- 11 joker joker 4.0K Oct 22 22:12 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 22 22:13 tmp/
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp$ cd tmp
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$ ll
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 22 22:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 joker joker 4.0K Oct 22 22:12 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 joker joker 4.0K Oct 22 22:13 joker/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 22 22:15 z
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$ touch x
touch: cannot touch 'x': Permission denied
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$ rm z
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file 'z'? y
rm: cannot remove 'z': Permission denied
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$ touch joker/x
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$ ll joker
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 joker joker 4.0K Oct 22 22:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 22 22:15 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 joker joker 0 Oct 22 22:13 x
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$ rm joker/x
joker@e2509h:~/test_tmp/tmp$

Looks like it works just fine.
I'm explaining what words mean. Agentic approach has been a thing for years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent You can just say you don't like AI in programming, without saying incorrect things on top of that.
I am always shocked at the number of people who don't balance and reconcile their accounts each month. I go through each of our accounts at least monthly and compare each financial org's ideas of our transactions with our own record. I cannot fathom not doing this. And yet, people look at my like I'm nuts when the subject comes up.

Sometimes they err in our favor and I still try to have it fixed, expecting that eventually they'll figure it out and try to claw the money back. Goldman Sachs gave us about $200 earlier this year. It went something like this:

- Starting balance: $1000

- We paid: $700

- New charges: $300

- End balance: $400

I spent a couple hours on the phone trying to get them to realize their arithmetic was wrong. I finally insisted that guy I was talking to pull up a calculator, punch in the numbers, and see for himself. "Let's see, $1000 minus $700 is $300, plus $300 is $600, so... wait, why did we tell you $400?" "I don't know!" I even escalated to their audit department who said their math all checks out that I only owed them $400 instead of $600. I am certain to my core that someday they're going to ask for that $200 plus interest.
Tracking for thee but not for me
True, 2FA and all these little details that exist now have made this automation quite insanely complicated. It is of course necessary that we have 2FA etc, but there is huge potential in solving this I believe.
Congress wouldn't matter as much if the feds hadn't spend 200yr usurping so much power from the states.
Needs a way for listed sites to display a link ring component to counteract the loss of discoverability in modern search.
Using a wildcard cert doesn't leak anything much. I went with `*.home.example.com` for my internal stuff.
Ah spatial autocorrelation, my old friend.

Very good work - but typically we don't build prospectivity models this way (or rather we don't validate them this way anymore). Great to see the USGS starting to dip their toe back in this though, they and the GSC were long the leaders in this, but have dropped it on the last 5-7 years.
>It's also not theoretical as Elon's ex-wife + kids were attacked using this method and Paparazzi uses it regularly.

There's no evidence that this incident involved the jet tracking. It occurred in the neighbourhood where his ex-wife lives.

https://archive.is/RWW4T

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