skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terminology.

Since they targeted very low risk, they did a geographically-segmented rollout, starting with Phoenix, which is one of the easiest places to drive: a lot of photons for visibility, very little rain, wide roads.
Presumably A lot of great engineers are going to quit, and AWS is going to lose a lot of people. That is going to have an impact on their business. Is there a way we can measure this impact?

It would be an interesting study to look back over the last five years at the company's performance, and then compare it moving forward now that they are going back to the office fully.
Conversely, CGNAT also means that if someone in your neighbourhood decided to be a malicious actor, you will likely be affected too.
UTSA researchers reveal oversight in AI image recognition tools
>The costs would be astronomical.

Countries have no problem spending astronomical amounts on old people. If the country wants productive young people, the country will find a way.
Show HN: Generate and follow Structured Feeds from any web page
Hi HN,

I created this product to monitor specific search result pages. It’s rare to find RSS feeds for SERPs, this tool also works well for any page that lists items. I used LLM for wrapper creation (with an average cost of $1 per list). The wrappers are maintained as long as the page structure remains unchanged. Each feed is scheduled to crawl every 4 hours.

I'd appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or questions you may have.
The current in one transformer loop does not control the current in the other loop.

The power from one loop is transferred into the other, there is no control. The same for two copper wires.

"Control" means that you can determine the value of the power in some circuit by consuming less power to do this. If you have to use the same power, not less, then you are the provider of power, not someone in control, i.e. this is the difference between bosses and the workers commanded by them. The bosses do not lift heavy parcels themselves, they order to some worker to do that.

A device that apparently looks like a transformer but it is an active device is the magnetic amplifier. There are 2 differences from a transformer, the magnetic core is saturable during normal operation (any magnetic core is saturable at a high enough magnetic field, but when that happens in a transformer this means that the transformer has failed, which leads to overcurrents that would destroy the equipment unless a protection is triggered), and the second difference is that the control coil has a very high number of turns, so that a very small current can saturate the magnetic core.

In a magnetic amplifier, the output coil is inserted in an AC circuit where the power must be controlled. When the core is not saturated, the impedance of the coil is high and the output AC current is low. When the core is saturated, the impedance of the coil is low and the output AC current is high. Whether the magnetic core is saturated or not is controlled with a very small current and power on the control coil, which makes this an active device.

Magnetic amplifiers have been heavily used during WWII, especially by the Germans, who had improved them, and they continued to be used for a few decades after the end of WWII, when USA had captured the German technology, because of their very high reliability, until the transistor amplifiers have become reliable enough.
Thanks so much for taking your time.
My eyes! They burn!
I mean, you can just go and plug in the same prompt into ChatGPT and cut out the middleman, really.

Just did it for a laugh, and for "High Rise" it recommended "The Road" and "The Dispossessed". Sounds about right.
Looks interesting.

I found that the blog links are broken. Blogs really do themselves a disservice by using generated imagery. It make me assume the content is AI too and cheapens the whole service.

Maybe this is just a placeholder for now.
The "dark skin problem" is mostly the camera sensors, not only the training...

Low light scenarios are just a thing, you would need more expensive hardware do deal with it.
Civil disobedience is a good start.
Unless it's just me, it doesn't seem to work in Safari
Enpass is supported on all platforms and you can decide how and where you want to store your passwords (local up to cloud infras)
Would it? Or is it undefined? No C++ runtime I know of will generate a new, different vtbl just to switch it out when invoking the non-owning base class destructor on an object. Nor am I familiar with any part of the C++ stnadrd that mandates this behaviour, or even mandates vtbls.
It's an ancient but mostly settled debate - some sixteen years of tptacek commentary (it was already ancient and mostly settled 16 years ago as well):

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Except "once it has been abandoned" is often too late because the source code/artwork/whatever has been lost by then. We need to make sure that things can be and will be archived before that.
I don’t think this hits at the heart of the issue? Even if we can catch AI text with 100% accuracy, any halfway decent student can rewrite it from scratch using o1s ideas in lieu of actually learning.

This is waay more common and just impossible to catch. The only students caught here are those that put no effort in at all
The LLM can't abstract PCI, USB, SATA etc from itself.
That's more like contracting than a full time position.
I made and use my own.[0]

It's most similar to posthog or matomo, but focused on self-hosting, so pricing is a lot easier to predict.

How much traffic do you have?

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com
LLMs are surprisingly effective recommendation systems. Throw in a list of your favourite books, music labels, tv shows, movies, you name it. And it will reply with some useful suggestions on what to consume next. I had particularily good results with music labels and books. In fact, I have a .txt file with my favourite books now, if I ever need a recommendation...
It really depends on what type of business you run and who will be building and maintaining the system. Azure gives the business the ability to integrate with other MS systems and has good sales teams who will hold your hand. If you are an ISV then it is not that important to you, instead you need specific SLAs, region support and an easy path for the integration. Overall nobody cares about small teams that count every penny and spend up to XXk a month on infra because they could spin up their openstack cluster at any moment and leave.

I agree there is room for improvement but your arguments are weak. The user interface (whoever is using it?) is questionable in AWS and in GCP as well, IMO it is because of the underlying complexity in all clouds. Reliability statement should be backed by the existing SLA, or is it some complaint that MS does not provide four/five 9s for every service? The bit about it being expensive depends on what you compare it with, AWS is notorious as well, every time you need something to build you do not know if that will cost 1k or 10k per month.

I am not some sort of Azure fanboi and love AWS but there are things MS is good at as well, however people hate that.
>Italy has an administrative blocking mechanism and a technical blocking platform, Piracy Shield, operated by rightsholders in the private sector.

>There’s almost zero transparency and any information of any use is routinely withheld from the public, even when that information relates directly to the public. People who demand access to information are routinely ignored, even punished.

Imagine selling out your country this bad.
We offer free and open source enterprise grade libraries & softwares can be use to download, extract, render, generate & upload the payment messages which are based on the SWIFT ISO20022 & SEPA enterprise standards.
Seems to have not heard of Thomas Hardy. Also quite buggy.
Kind of fun. I recently used Claude to generate scripts for Gnu Plot, with only slightly less convenience than this. It's kind of spooky what you can ask claude to do. e.g. "Rotate the x-ais labels by 90%; use "Arial Black" for the title, and "Roboto" for the rest of the fonts". Etc.
> Humanity's concerns don't matter in business and legal affairs.

Then it's only fair for humans to not concern themselves with business and legal affairs.
Ironically, the author became a "senior engineer" after 3 years of professional software development, some of which was contract/part time (their LinkedIn profile is not hard to locate). IIRC the last article on the same topic that was posted to HN was nearly exactly the same scenario.
Broken website that wants you to sign in if you want to do literally anything useful with it.

It displayed results in other languages, too, so I couldn't understand what was displayed.

Honestly, you could probably use ChatGPT directly for better results by asking it for suggestions or tweaking the prompt a bit.
This may be a random question, but do any of you have a working code (preferably C or Lua, without regexes but with regexes works too) for: 1) checking if a given string is a valid IPv6 address, and 2) checking if this IPv6 address is in the range? It should handle both IPv4 and IPv6. It must handle edge cases (number of chunks being 8, numbers must be less than 65535 if I am correct, then there is some stuff regarding ":::", etc.). There seemed to be too many edge cases, but maybe I was wrong.

The range check should be in the form of "isIPInRange(ip, cidr)", e.g. isIPInRange("192.168.0.255", "192.168.0.0/24").

It is trivial for IPv4, but not so trivial for IPv6.

If you are wondering why I am not asking LLM this, that is because when (at the time) I did attempt, it failed spectacularly, plus hey, it is HN, someone may find it useful and the more eyes the better anyways (to spot bugs, issues, what have you).
I think you're misunderstanding how these things work. People who post POCs for vulnerabilities aren't trying to invite hackers or cause trouble. They're helping developers and security researchers understand exactly what the issue is and how to fix it. Without this information companies take way longer to patch the problem.

> at the same time it also gives the attackers a readymade recipe to exploit this vulnerability. Now, an argument could be made that the attacker themselves may look up the openly published CVE and figure it out on their own, but that's quite different from handing them the master key like this.

You answered yourself here :) Attackers who want to exploit vulnerabilities will figure it out on their own if they have to. Once a vulnerability is public, it's public. The bad guys already have their tools and methods to reverse-engineer the flaws.

> In fact, looking at this from a slightly cynical perspective, the author of this piece could be seen as actually egging or inviting trouble to the said product from potential hackers?

Hackers aren't waiting around for someone to give them an easy way in, they're already constantly looking for these kinds of flaws. The author of the POC is just putting this information out there to help everyone, especially the people who need to patch and secure their systems. I don't see how the benefits of hiding this info and keeping us in the dark outweigh the benefits of publishing it.

Placing blame on the authors of POCs is strange. A larger issue is companies that either make shit soft/hardware, or who don't patch their systems in good time after a vulnerability is discovered.
And yet a staggering percentage of them are incompetent (both in their subject and as educators generally).

"and then a bunch" is somewhat misleading. They in fact take easier and fewer classes in the subjects that they are studying for, but they have to take extra classes on education, which afaik are not that hard to pass. Getting a "Lehramt" degree is much easier than getting the regular degree in a subject, which is why many people that are simply not good enough for the real thing do it.

Also we have a teacher shortage and more and more teachers are not in fact people that received an education you usually have to get as a teacher, but are just regular people with either a degree in the subject they are teaching or a degree in almost anything (depends on how desperate the schools are and what subjects they are hiring for).
They appear to be a brand of a Czech company AI Touch - https://aitouch.cz/

I could not find them on TechCrunch
> I still find it shockingly bad, especially in the way it reacts, or doesn’t, to the way things change around the car (think a car on the left in front of you who switches on indicators to merge in front of you) or the way it makes the most random lane changing decisions and changes it’s mind in the middle of that maneuver.

I have said it before, I will say it again. It seems that this software does not posses permanence, neither object nor decision.
Oh, I assumed it was the zip code for Bretton Woods. Its funny how it works out to just the next state over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
It's this type of deep analysis of such an inconsequential piece of relative trivia that gives me the warm fuzzies about why the internet exists. For someone who only just recently watched the film for the first time (with my kids as an ongoing introduction to cultural references) this movie was surprising in so many ways - and this was another!
Entitlement is thinking everyone in the world should have their speech restricted because the business model you want relies on a legal fiction.
On GrapheneOS there is a prompt when installing an app that asks if you would like to grant network access. I am not sure if that pop up displays if network access is added later in an app update though.
Something I find weird about riding in a Tesla is that they have a mode that a bunch of Uber drivers seem to use where it shows a sort of diagram on the screen of what the car perceives to be its surroundings. This seems to be mostly bad - cars jump in and out, things appear from nowhere right next to the car, things randomly disappear. If that's produced using the same inputs the car uses for self driving then I'm not surprised it has all these issues.
while it is infuriating, it's common for every place where fraud is an issue. if the company gave feedback, it would open the door to probing and know what is being watched or not. same reason as why a bank will not tell you why you got kicked off.
I suspect that everything about the Blog section is AI-generated.
I use a Kobo Clara HD. I think Claras are the second cheapest ones. No colour. I find the contrast about as good as a cheap paperback book. Not as good as good quality printing on acid-free paper, but that's OK.

I actually prefer lower contrast, it gives me less eye fatigue and I've specifically chosen low-contrast themes on my computer for as long as I can remember.

I think there is a way to not create the account if you really don't want to. I put KOReader on mine straight away and never use the built-in software. That also incidentally has an option to adjust the contrast.
Well you're still hosed if investigating a back office breach.
But you can read 200 essays? At this point you can be replaced with AI, you’re not adding any value anymore.
Conversely, blindly categorizing all government mandation as authoritarianism sounds like a highway to all kinds of logical fallacies! Is mandating a fair market (by e.g. punishing monopolies) authoritarian? A sensible person would answer no.

Similarly, mandating an Internet Protocol that doesn't require centralization (you know, NAT) and renting an address from the Big Boys (AWS etc) sounds like a perfectly sensible decision to me.

> Agreement is how we have arrived at the imperfect solution we have now...

I disagree. What we have now is not an explicit agreement, it's a status quo which can be broken by an external force.
I'm not too well-versed myself, these are mostly parroting what I gather from blogposts.

1. Yes! There was even a semi-official solution for that: https://github.com/rust-lang/impl-trait-utils

2. No need for boxing and allocations and pinning the box, and dyn also limits the traits to the dyn-compatible ones. But yeah, maybe it wasn't too bad before?

3. I'm not convinced it's THE reason, but that is A reason. Besides that, there's at least the split between io_uring (completion) style APIs and epoll (readiness) style APIs. How to square that circle seems to be like an open question... Then there's the split between multi-threaded runtimes that require Send/Sync and single-threaded ones. Then finally, there is no standardized way to spawn new independent tasks, so every runtime invents their own. We'll see, but at least the current developments (impl Traits in traits and return type notation) would allow there to be a larger set of compatible types and traits. Whether that will solve the whole balkanization issue is beyond me, but at least it fill in some gaps.

4. Yeah, that seems to be a hard problem. Niko Matsakis and withoutboats have been blogging about some thoughts and designs to fix the ergonomics, and I think they will get better, but it might take years.

I think the situation will slowly improve, but indeed it seems like it'll take years. But at least now we have another "round" of stabilized features that will remedy some of the issues. Maybe, after playing some more with those new tools, we'll have a better understanding about the remaining ones, and what is really needed to fix them.
I said one conversation per student per class, and ten classes per year. Not 10 conversations per class per student.

> The costs would be astronomical.

Those 200 students have paid the college $549,600 for your class.

The costs are already astronomical.

Is it so unreasonable for some of that money to be spent on providing education?
Wow! At least for me this is by far the best, clearest and most useful quick intro to Rust I've seen.
>Of course, you're only screwing yourself because you'll negatively impact your learning, but that's not something you can easily convince kids of.

This assumes that homework helps kids learn, or that the knowledge required to succeed in school will help kids once they graduate.
I don't believe refresh rate captures the transmission of time onto other objects it would only capture individual time, they have to sync up somehow and gravity affects it so its not just matter, its the impression of matter onto the fabric of space
Especially the VPN was the biggest drawback for me. But a lot of commands wont just work, like lscpu or any other related to hardware.
Obsidian is not perfect, but IMHO it’s the best note-taking application out there.
I’m only saying this from my experience in Canada where every region thinks its drivers are the worst.
My first semester undergrad English course, the professor graded all my papers D or worse. Had to repeat the course with a different professor. They shared assignments so I re-used the same essays with zero modifications... but this time I got an A or higher!
Dependent Types in Haskell, Part 4
> as active is taken to mean electrical control of current flow.

Does the building of logic gates controlling a motor not show electrical control of current flow?
Have you spoken to any single parents? Money does not easily substitute for e.g. the ability to cook food while somebody else changes the nappy, or to leave the house on your own for five minutes.
Here in Amsterdam, this view is constantly bicycles approaching from the sides, flickering and disappearing, but most of the time the bicycles are parked, completely stationary, without riders.
The lazy essay assignment is 100% real. However, the driving force there is not the teacher, but parental complaints causing ass-covering administrative mandates. "Why wasn't there any homework on topic X before the exam?" "We apologize so much for that, Mrs Keen. First, we will change Precious's grade, but from now on..."
I have a major problem with every recommendation system - all these remind me a recommendation system from Amazon which after purchasing a laptop recommended me more laptops. I'm not interested in more books similar to the ones I already read, music similar I already listened etc.
I recently wrote about 12,000 words and I was constantly testing with zerogtp, the accuracy is absolutely off the charts. Every time I would ask Claude or ChatGPT to rephrase or expand on something that was picked up... every time...
We would have even better.

Elon Musk is a single man. There are a million "Elon Musks" on planet Earth crushed by the oppression of the system here, who weren't fed with a golden spoon of a rich family.

In a society that provided opportunities to people that are unconnected, we would have zero reliance on such personalities.

Simply because the general population lacks the vision to understand this and accepts these sort of hacks as extraordinary, does not make it true.

SpaceX and Tesla would thrive without such narcissistic leaders.
It's so that big Dave can sell his 8ths a little bit under weight
I cannot tell you how much this echoes what people were saying during the dot com days :) Of course back then it was browsers and not LLMs. Looking back, people were both correct about this, yet we’re still having the same conversation about replacing the OS cartel.
> trivially easy

That’s the problem. It is trivially easy, 99% of the time. But that misses the entire point of the article.

If I got 99% on an exam I’d say that was trivially easy. But making one mistake in a hundred is not ok when it’s someone else’s livelihood.
Space has no 'fabric'. Space is not a physical entity, but a set of coordinates.
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack in 2024?
Hello dear HNers. Each year for the last few years I have asked companies of one, meaning companies that consists of only one person of what tech stacks you use. Include as much and as little information as possible but the more the merrier! Feel free to link to your site or project for show case if you want.

What is your tech stack?

Why did you choose it?

Do you think your choices had any impact on your success or failure?

Here is the previous threads:

(2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37467429

(2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32960033

(2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299053

(2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25465582

(2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21024041

Thanks in advance!
There's a reason they are called the least of the great powers.
A lot of the problem is that a smart TV UI's primary purpose is to show advertisements. TV mfgers these days get a large chunk of their revenue from advertising tie-ins, making the hardware a loss-leader of sorts. The UI is designed for 'in your face' sponsored content, not to make it easy to access content you choose.
Or the apartment bombings debacle, where the GRU and FSB launched false flag bombing attacks against it's own citizens. Several of them were arrested by police planting bombs. At one point a Duma representative denounced 'breaking news' of an attack by 'terrorists' in a specific location 3 days before it actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombing...
I'm definitely no AI hypster, but saying anything will "never" work over an infinite timeline is a big statement... do you have grounds why some sort of AI system could one day "never" work at evaluating some metric about someone? Seems we have reliable systems already doing that in some areas (facial recognition at airport boarding, for example)
I love the front-end but the back-end doesn't work. I managed to get one Spotify playlist generated.
The problem, as most of the time, are bad actors. Which is the reason some permissions, SAF, disallowing targeting lower SDK versions etc were introduced on the Play Store.