skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nothing new. A few years back, I implemented a very basic firewall rule: if I received a TCP packet with SYN=1 and ACK=0 to destination port 22, the source IP would get blacklisted for a day. But then I started getting complaints about certain sites and services not working. It turned out that every few days, I'd receive such packets from IPs like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1, as well as from Steam, Roblox, Microsoft, and all kinds of popular servers—Facebook, Instagram, and various chat services. Of course, these were all spoofed packets, which eventually led me to adjust my firewall rules to require a bit more validation.

So, I can assure you this is quite common. As a personal note, I know I’m a bit of an exception for operating multiple IP addresses, but I need the flexibility to send packets with any of my source addresses through any of my ISPs. That’s critical for me, and if an ISP filters based on source, it’s a deal-breaker—I’ll switch to a different ISP.
What do you think of the St. Martin's Handbook ?
People made rack mount kits for the previous generations. Not sure if the dimensions changed, if they did I'm sure products will be updated and you will be able to 3d print your own or buy a professional version from Amazon shortly
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> A couple of years ago I spoke at a conference about mathematics that brought together philosophers, psychologists and mathematicians. The proceedings of the conference will appear fairly soon

Can we do better?
Pretty much guaranteed. They explicitly said there would be 3 announcements, and the remaining one is almost surely MBPs.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/28/apple-promises-two-more...
Thunderbolt is significantly slower than gen 4 NVME. In the PC world, gen 3 speeds are considered an extreme budget-tier option these days.
Bandwidth it’s at 273 GB/s for the m4 pro. I hope the m4 max is two times that. It will allow using llama 70b a little bit faster
The various message-queueing products, Kafka, et al. Sorry for late response and not responding sooner...
Can you be more specific? I wasn't sure if I'd got the idea across there but maybe it seems narcissistic/sycophantic anyway. I'm not married to the idea at all, but it is something that's occurred to me. Also not sure about Peterson himself recently, especially with the video on Trump's character leaving out anything about the bad business deals and Trump University stuff.
I have to disagree, it is definitely not legal in the US to use unauthorized access points to access authorized data. Thats like saying you're allowed to get into your apartment through breaking your neighbors door and climbing between the windows

In the US this is pretty simply covered by Computer Misuse Act and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, both federal laws

Im not claiming you're liable, just surprised no lawyer pointed this out at YC
> Mac mini is Apple’s first carbon neutral Mac

Hats off! I didn't expect the Mac to be next in line for the carbon neutral goals. But they did it!
It's not a dumb question. I actually used to use an iMac 27" with an Nvidia 680 that I would boot into Bootcamp / Windows for my primary gaming computer. I covered it in "built, not bought" stickers at Quakecon one year.

You can't do x86/x64 Windows on M-series Macs without emulation and it is generally a poor experience. There's a few things like Crossover, Parallels, etc that can help you run Windows games.

But I have found that most of the games I care about are either Mac native or on GeForce Now at this point. There's a surprisingly large game catalog on Mac now.

So the short answer is that some of them run on some sort of Windows compatibility layer, some are Mac native, some I stream. But most of my favorites run native on Mac.

To be honest, there are so many games to play these days that I don't mind missing out on a few titles. Valorant is a good example of a game that I can't play on Mac, GFN, or Crossover. But it's OK, I still have CS2.
Many (I think most) monitors have an audio output port. I think that's good enough for most people. Audiophiles use external DACs anyway.
Get rid of Windows on it! Digital Foundry put out a great video on this exact process the other day, weighing the pros and cons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWRCrGoXV0

Neither MacOS nor Windows are very good console OSes - you're really better off using Linux where anticheat isn't concerned. Even on the Ally.
You didn't see the "1.7x more Excel productivity" chart from yesterday's new iMac?

https://youtu.be/eaB7nCdId0Y?t=364

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/28/24281965/honestly-this-i...
LaTeX: https://katex.org

Image generation: https://github.com/bubkoo/html-to-image
> I have a 5yo daughter, and I appreciate that What Do People Do All Day? have female characters in homemaker roles, which is still common in most of the world. Many of her other books have female protagonists doing everything else.

Is that a new copy or an old one?

The newer editions of Best Word Book Ever were updated to be less stereotypical (I think there's a gallery somewhere that shows the changes). Unfortunately the updated art is noticeably inferior (even to my untrained eye), and in some places kinda dumb (on one page I think they decided they needed more girls, so they phoned it in and slapped a big "LISA" on the shirt of some androgynous animal). Also they dropped A LOT of content, so the newer editions are something like half as long.
Hm, I think it’s slightly more useful than that.

Imagine a company that is driven by actual salespeople — like car dealerships, or any telemarketing or charity operation — where someone is making phone calls and trying to make sales.

Salesforce is their CRM, a Customer Relation Manager. You can get a complete history of an individual and their buying history within your company.

I worked for a travel-adjacent company a couple years ago, the entire thing was predicated on a half-dozen sales reps making handfuls of deals worth $50k+ each. Nothing like e-commerce. Salesforce was their Rolodex and their beating heart.

That said, it isn't a good CRM. It's nineties tech that became very essential to very very big companies. Someone else here described it as akin to PhpMyAdmin and he absolutely nailed it.

I think Salesforce is likely to be worth more someday for their Slack acquisition, not unlike how Meta is worth more for Instagram than Facebook.
You say "no solution" like form validation isn't one of the most common things that all web forms do today. Solutions exist. What I'm trying to say is instead of browser building adding high-level functionality like this they should simple continue to provide better ways for us to do it ourselves.

If you code for Windows or Mac OS, you get standard controls, and they do come with a lot of functionality, but ultimately it's still just building blocks for you to build your own functionality. That's what browsers should provide -- low level building blocks.
I had the opportunity to help Cohere work on scaling transformers in the last year. If you have any questions about the article leave them below and I’ll do my best to answer openly. :)
I am not talking about DIMMs. Talking about the chips themselves. I am pretty sure they don't make different APUs for different memory sizes, it's just a fuse or something like that. If CPUs can use sockets, so do memory chips.
We support mcap (the data container format that ROS2 uses) and Foxglove for viz. Shoutout to Foxglove, it's a much nicer experience than rviz. Something like tf is on the todo list - I recognize it's important.
What does it mean for the gold to be "recycled"? I get that the aluminum probably came for a pile of cans, but does this mean that the gold definitely came from a pile of electronics? Or could it be that they melted down a few old $20 coins from the US? It's not like a lot of gold ends up in landfills.
<cough> what type of project?
This is like saying that if I walk out of my house, turn right, and walk 10 minutes to the local food store, it's the same as coming out of the house, turning left, and walking 15 minutes around the block. The destination is the same, so surely these are "the same".

I'd argue that this is not the case.
> monitored by a third-party observer not affiliated with Apple

Your friendly neighborhood NSA agent :p
The http protocol uses human readable addresses for a reason.
check out FitTrack for an open source fitness tracker for Android: https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack
That's regular Apple pricing for you. Great deals on the baseline models, but insane margins on the upgrades that make them usable. And of course the ability to upgrade the devices yourself has been phased out in the name of performance and power efficiency
Presumably servicing wired headphones, but agree it's an odd choice to not also include one in the back— particularly when unlike a laptop there's no built in speakers, and Apple has been pushing hard on bluetooth audio since the iPhone 8 in 2017.
Show HN:FastStream - A powerful library for building services with event streams
FastStream (https://github.com/airtai/faststream) simplifies the process of writing producers and consumers for message queues, handling all the parsing, networking and documentation generation automatically. It is a new package based on the ideas and experiences gained from FastKafka and Propan. By joining our forces, we picked up the best from both packages and created a unified way to write services capable of processing streamed data regardless of the underlying protocol. We'll continue to maintain both packages, but new development will be in this project.

Making streaming microservices has never been easier. Designed with junior developers in mind, FastStream simplifies your work while keeping the door open for more advanced use cases. Here's a look at the core features that make FastStream a go-to framework for modern, data-centric microservices.

- Multiple Brokers: FastStream provides a unified API to work across multiple message brokers (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS and Redis)
- Pydantic Validation: Leverage Pydantic's validation capabilities to serialize and validate incoming messages
- Automatic Docs: Stay ahead with automatic AsyncAPI documentation
- Intuitive: Full-typed editor support makes your development experience smooth, catching errors before they reach runtime
- Powerful Dependency Injection System: Manage your service dependencies efficiently with FastStream's built-in DI system
- Testable: Supports in-memory tests, making your CI/CD pipeline faster and more reliable
- Extendable: Use extensions for lifespans, custom serialization and middleware
- Integrations: FastStream is fully compatible with any HTTP framework you want (FastAPI especially)
- Observability: Add OpenTelemetry or Prometheus support to your services.
Ethereum Co-Founder's Firm Consensys Cuts 20% [162 positions] of Workforce
https://archive.today/qIO9Z
What a great little computer at a very reasonable price. A few interesting things with this announcement:

1. Interesting that they did not have this as part of an event. I think this either means they do not have much else to share around the Mac right now or the opposite, there just won't be room to talk about the iMac or Mac Mini. I am leaning towards the former as a I suspect the other computers in their lineup will just receive a spec bump soon.

2. On the product page (https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/) Apple highlights a number of third party accessories. Notably the PS5 controller and several keyboards and mice from different manufacturers. This seems small, but it would have been almost blasphemy under the jobs era.

3. This is quite the little powerhouse. Honestly it is so good it eliminates the need for most people to even consider the Mac Studio.
GitHub support can (and currently is) restore all of that. The fork network should already be fixed for Elasticsearch again

[I work for Elastic]
It won’t ever be able run as fast as a soldered system.

Have you installed a server CPU?

It’s really easy to fuckup and lose a few channels of memory due to the contact being bad. Right now I’ve got a 3647 Xeon phi cpu that’s refusing to train dimm a1 for _reasons_

That’s not an experience Apple wants any user of their products to have.

Here’s an example BGA socket: https://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/products/bga-sockets/

Not something that’s going in a tiny laptop chassis.
That smells very much like a scam to me. Unless you're at an elite level, nobody is going to be cold-calling you with a $5k/hr job. And if you are at that level, you know it already and the people cold-calling you are people you already know about.

My rule of thumb for telling scams from non-scams is that non-scams won't be dangling the promise of money in front of you like that. If the position is legitimate, it sells itself.

Even just being cold-called is a bit of a red flag. In my experience, the best defense against scammers is to develop your own network that includes trusted recruiters, lean on that network, and ignore cold calls. Or, if you're really tempted by a cold call, run it by people in your trusted network first.
yes : if two discrete semiotic symbolic networks point to the same signified value they are the same in the way two different poems with the same meaning are the same. which is to say they are unique but have the same meaning.
The upgrade process on Kinoite (KDE Atomic) was extremely fast and smooth. Fedora has always been among the most reliable when it comes to upgrades in my experience.
> Which means, if you just find one transit provider which doesn’t do BCP38 filtering… you can send IP packets tagged with any source IP you want! And unfortunately, even though the origins of BCP38 date back to 1998… there are still network providers 25 years later that don’t implement it.

What would it take to get enough network providers to start rejecting traffic from all ASes that don't implement this, so that spoofing was no longer possible?
> Them along absolutely everyone else. ChatGPT was an iPhone moment.

Old guy here, but it feels more like a Netscape moment than an iPhone moment. We'll end up with our pets.com of the LLM age, the whole thing will implode, and the few companies that were actually doing useful stuff with LLMs will survive.
I don't think these even boot once the SSDs die.

Apple knows how to make money, I can buy a quality 4TB Nvme for 300$( you can definitely go lower if you want to risk it ). The upgrade to 4TB on the M4 Pro Mini is 1200$(it's not supported on the base model) , on top of 1400$ for the actual computer.

It I had to guess, most of Apple's margin is on users riding the pricing ladder up into the stratosphere.

I had an experience a few years ago at an Apple store, where this clerk refuse to sell me the cheapest m1 MacBook Air. There's probably some direction from up top which is trying convince people they need the more expensive Macs.
this seems silly

seeing as you need an internet connection to access whether the doorbell has been rung, you may as well connect a physical doorbell to an app that monitors this and gives you a notification on your phone without the need for a QR code

the QR code is just a hassle
Acer: Automatic Language Model Context Extension via Retrieval
Wow, are you still using your original 386DX board, with minor upgrades along the way? /s

I actually think Apple's way of managing upgrades isn't as harsh as many people think.

The first thing to get to sustainability is to use less. If you don't need the hardware to make hardware easily upgradable, you simplify the hardware and use less of it. This is one of the reasons Apple do it.

Secondly, they're using a lot of recycled material in this thing. Their lede line on it is that its carbon neutral. Show me another desktop PC like this that can make that claim.

Thirdly, the "half-life" of a Mac is kind of insane. When I was buying Thinkpads, Dells, and the like, I'd get 2-3 years down the line and I'd "need" to upgrade the whole thing. I've got a 2017 Mac Mini, and an 2015 MBP in regular use. I have a G4 iBook that was in active use by my parents from 2004 until _this Spring_ - they only gave it up because they couldn't upgrade Chrome on it any more, so it's about to become a retro Linux term for me, because the hardware is still sound (albeit too under-powered for anything modern).

And lastly, they take old hardware in and recycle it back into the new stuff in the first step. They give relatively decent trade-in prices, and are one of the few consumer brands doing that.

Given that they're shipping it with 16GB of RAM, which is fine for my needs, I think I'm confident in saying I could buy one, use it for 5-8 years, and then get it recycled when I upgrade at that point, while most PCs with upgradable RAM being sold today are going to landfill within 4 years, perhaps.
> It is the workplace's responsibility to pay their staff adequately. NOT YOURS.

I don't get this argument, because at the end of the day you're paying both ways.

Either you're paying higher menu prices (because labor costs have increased) or you're paying tips (because labor costs are artificially low and you're supplementing them).

There is no magical "the business pays its employees more, but everything you buy stays the same price."

Especially not with food service margins.
And this also has implications for security.
Same. I think I've read C&T&TtG 200 times to my son.

Making it to the beach scene always feels like an accomplishment :D
Exactly right. Cursor makes it easy to get to "adequate." Which in the hundreds of places that I'm not expert or don't have a strong opinion, is regularly as good as and frequently better than my first pass. Especially as it never gets tired whereas I do.

It's a great intern, letting me focus on the few but important places that I add specific value. If this is all it ever does, that's still enormously valuable.
Russian charged by U.S. for creating RedLine infostealer malware
Thank you for your positive feedback.

KaTeX does not support all LaTeX features but initializes very quickly.

LaTeX via WebAssembly supports more features but might need longer to initialize.

There's an existing WebAssembly project: https://www.swiftlatex.com
It looks out of place and broken and that creates user confusion. That is also a usability concern.
You might enjoy Business Town: https://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com
Copper v0.4: a Rust-Powered Robot Engine. New Simulation APIs and a Demo
TLDR to run the little inverted pendulum powered by Bevy and Avian3d

`cargo install cu-rp-balancebot`

`balancebot-sim`

Head to our chatroom on gitter if you need some help starting your robot project with Copper!
The Stars are Legion and Alien Clay are the two best sci-fi books I've read in the last year and I don't think they've shown up on any lists, although the latter is another first contact book by the author of Children of Time which has gotten a lot of acclaim (although I didn't care for it).

FWIW Beacon 23 has an adaptation on Apple TV+ and Project Hail Mary has a film adaptation starring Ryan Gosling that's already finished shooting, so I don't know how long they'll stay in the category of "you may never have heard of"
Why shouldn't they be? They achieved their goal. There is little shame in cloning something.
I've usually heard "volts hurt, amps kill".
For me, the main draw is Cursor's repo-wide indexing (presumably a RAG
pass). I asked Copilot to unify two functions, one at the top of a
massive file, and the other at the bottom. Since they were so far
apart, Copilot couldn't see both functions at the same time. Cursor
didn't give me a great answer, but it did give *an* answer.
> Windows drives me crazy these days!

At least it boots.

I purchase a Surface Pro 8 a year ago or something, thinking Windows would surely work better than usual when it is Microsoft's own hardware too.

But no, yesterday it got stuck in a boot loop, after a Windows update broke the audio drivers somehow. The Windows logs/reliability report can just tell me it "shut down abnormally" without any technical details what so ever.

I still have to use Windows on my desktop because of Ableton, but I'll never purchase any Microsoft hardware again, and as soon as I can, I'll run Ableton on Linux like the rest of my software.
Interesting to hear the perspective of an experienced developer using what seems to be the SOTA coding assistant of Cursor/Claude.

I thought his "Changes to my workflow" section was the most interesting, coupled with the fact that coding productivity (churning out lines of code) was not something he found to be a benefit. However, IMO, the workflow changes he found beneficial seem to be a bit questionable in terms of desireability...

1) Having LLM write support libraries/functions from scratch rather than rely on external libraries seems a bit of a double-edged sword. It's good to minimize dependencies and not be affected by changes to external libraries, but OTOH there's probably a lot of thought and debugging that has been put into those external libraries, as well as support for features you may not need today but may tomorrow. Is it really preferable to have the LLM reinvent the wheel using untested code it's written channeling internet sources?

2) Avoiding functions (couched as excessive abstractions) in favor of having the LLM generate repeated copies of the same code seems like a poor idea, and will affect code readability, debugging and maintenance whereby a bugfix in one section is not guaranteed to be replicated in other copies of the same code.

3) Less hesitancy to use unfamiliar frameworks and libraries is a plus in terms of rapid prototyping, as well as coming up to speed with a new framework, but at the same time is a liability since the quality of LLM generated code is only as good as the person reviewing it for correctness and vulnerabilities. If you are having the LLM generate code using a framework you are not familiar with, then you are at it's mercy as to quality, same as if you cut and pasted some code from the internet without understanding it.

I'm not sure we've yet arrived at the best use of "AI" for developer productivity - while it can be used for everything and anything, just as ChatGPT can be asked anything, some uses are going to leverage the best of the underlying technology, while others are going to fall prey to it's weaknesses and fundamental limitations.
But the core framework of every x11 server relies on a loop that does poll HID connected to your machine for events. You can have an x11 server running with no windows connected and your keypresses will still be broadcast to any program that knows where to look.
The existence of other minima does not imply all minima are equal.

In fact, without knowing the entire graph it's impossible to say whether a particular minima is the global minima or just a local one.
Whoa - that's a real series! I thought it was like a College Humor trailer.
Well, for one, KaTeX doesn't do "LaTeX" but a limited subset of the TeX equation syntax.
As such, it can't handle more complicated macros or typesetting anything apart from equations.
> Betrayal is when someone violates your trust somehow.

Which white lies do.
Not everyone needs a Lamborghini just to do their weekly grocery shopping.

The vast majority of people who will buy this will be just fine with that level of performance for many years to come.
Nope. Not reliable ones.

The pin density on a bga memory is like, 0.3mm for the type typically used by apple. That’s 200 0.3mm pins that have to line up and work at 4GHz and survive you dropping it 5 feet.