skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid the Democratic party will learn absolutely nothing from this resounding defeat at the ballot box. Nothing at all...
> Then, when you have received at least one lock and unlock request for a car, start retransmitting lock and unlock requests, but delayed by one request.

For this story to play out with a non-spoofable implementation the attackers would have to be present for and able to jam/intercept every use of the fob between the first one in their sequence and the present.

I'm not saying it's not technically possible, but any use of the fob that slips through the cracks resets the sequence so if the target takes the vehicle somewhere else or even just uses the fob while close enough to not be jammed the idea falls apart. Unless the target is in the habit of going back out to their parked car to retrieve things and then locking it back up it seems like that'd be a rare catch.

> (the car only needs to see to fob present briefly to start the engine, but I believe that bit is done with a relay attack. I see the guys who do this waving their suitcase antenna around peoples doors regularly).

Relay attacks on pushbutton start vehicles are an entirely different matter as they do involve two-way communication and if you have the ability to start a car with one you also have the ability to unlock it with the same method. I'm just talking about traditional long range one-way fobs here.
I'd love to be able to make stuff like this, very cool!
> [discovered in] gut bacteria from a researcher’s pet chinchilla

wow. we could be surrounded by so many extraordinary organisms and not even know it because there's so much variety just in our own backyards
I worked on WebSphere back in the day. There were a lot of pre-compiled libraries provided by other IBM teams. I too made good use of decompilers (probably jad at the time) as it was often easier than trying to track down the source.
Libadwaita is a horrible design language. It wastes so much space, the disparity between gtk3/4 hurts the eyes and you pretty much depend on extensions for the most basic of things.

KDE is the superior DE by far
Great do I have to setup LDAP , oauth, and troubleshoot corporate-style single-signon systems for the next 6 months just to get a chat server running now....
Will Trump's Tariffs Spur U.S. Manufacturing? Executives Are Split
Really just a piece of wire? I would have thought that there would be too much noise to pick up WWVB without a somewhat more selective antenna (loopstick maybe?)
Pretty much. The purpose of the IARC monograph is to inform other researchers and regulatory bodies to look into carcinogenic substances more closely to determine if they're worth restricting or not based on the level of risk they pose. IARC doesn't make recommendations to consumers or set standards itself. It's not meant to be a public-facing organization. That's honestly a problem with a lot of science journalism is people taking research that is meant for other scientists to propose lines of further research and add evidence to eventually come together into larger metanalyses, but then presenting these as if they are revolutionary game-changing findings on their own, which contributes to this public feeling of whiplash, as in the whole "wait, today eggs and coffee are bad for you, but yesterday they were good?" In reality, no single research project is saying either of those things. They're producing tiny bits of evidence one way or another that is meant for standards and recommendations bodies to aggregate and produce larger findings from.

IARC's piece in this puzzle is to aggregate research showing something is a carcinogen, but this includes a lot of things that are harmless or even healthy in low doses. Sunlight, for instance, is obviously a carcinogen, but the amount of exposure you want is not zero. X-rays can cause cancer, but the optimal lifetime exposure to x-rays is not zero. Once IARC classifies these things, the purpose is to recommend to other researchers to now go look into these to find dose/response curves in animal to see what a safe and unsafe level actually is.

As far as the EPA has been able to tell, glyphosate at the level any human would ever get exposed to from its use as a pesticide, is safe, even though it's a carcinogen. Think of like being in the same city as smokers exposes you to cigarette smoke in the shared air, but at levels nowhere near enough to meaningfully raise your cancer risk in spite of the fact you're regularly breathing in carcinogens. Living in the same room with a smoker is a lot worse. Actually smoking is even worse than that. Probably don't drink straight glyphosate on a regular basis.

Similarly, you don't want to drink bleach, but cleaning your counter with bleach and then eating off of it is not only perfectly safe, but arguably even better than just eating off the counter beforehand, because bleach disinfects it.
Nationalistic/ethnic/racial/whatever-this-is attack will get you banned here. No more of this please.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017707.
> Elon has said repeatedly he doesn't care if X makes money.

You, however, responded to a claim about number of users with a statement about revenue.

> If the platform didn't generate revenue for these companies, nobody would be advertising on there, would they? No they wouldn't.

Many did in fact stop. That is specifically why the revenue is down, that they stopped.

> Then I pointed out it still generates billions in revenue. You said, "Well, it used to generate a lot more."

I specifically denied that it generates billions in revenue, linking to a statement of 114 million in a quarter:

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-is-still-far-from-pr...

Your claim of "$4.4B in revenue" is what it did, past tense, in the year before Musk bought it — it's not the revenue it achieves now.

> If you take into account the reduction in human capital, and the overall reduction in other overhead costs, the profit margins are still very close to what they were pre-acquisition.

Not even close.

The purchase added $1.2 billion in annual costs for debt servicing, which is — all by itself even if it had zero servers, zero staff, zero other costs of any kind — 2.6x the total revenue.

The profit margin before the purchase was also a loss, -221m on a revenue of 5,077m in 2021.

So, even though I don't have a full financial report, I can say that at best it's now got a loss of at least -744m on a revenue of 456m. Probably worse because that's calculated on the assumption he's replaced all his staff with an LLM, has no bandwidth costs, no hosting costs, no rent, no electricity, and no lawsuits like the one in Brazil or all the previous staff who are suing for un-paid contractual obligations.
Nice, I ran across that a month or two ago and it was great. I got to the OC71 germanium transistor and found out they're obsolete.
I don't see why it needs two. Should be plenty of RAM left, unless I underestimate how much esp-idf and co consumes.
IMO "Gaming" is a level above "Desktop". You wouldn't play games on FreeBSD either yet it is a perfectly acceptable desktop OS for productivity apps. The question, can QNX still run Firefox and LibreOffice?
Astronomers discover one of the fastest-spinning stars in the universe
“Scoop: Elon Musk joined Trump's call with Zelensky”: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/musk-trump-zelensky-ukraine...

Uh, yes. It’s viscerally depressing.
"Enable Google Play services. Phone won't work unless you enable Google Play "
Of course the truth is that Phone will still make and receive calls, i.e., "work", if Google Play Services is disabled.

Just for fun, search on Google for something like "Phone still works when Google Play Services is disabled". "AI Overview" returns a statement such as

"Yes, a phone can still work without Google Play Services, but some features may be limited..."

Credibility zero.
I like ChromeOS' security model: Nail everything shut, but leave a Linux VM as a escape hatch.
> Poor Python DX is a skill issue

Oh yes, the language whose ecosystem only hears about backwards compatibility in their own death marches? Not their problem. It's the developers, it's _their_ problem.

Not the standard library which _removes_ packages, breaking code which I recently cloned. See "imp".

And not the next python version, which throws a syntax error on bare excepts, breaking old code for absolutely zero benefit beyond pretending to be a linter.
I have used several distributions and daily driven linux for long periods of time (2-3 years) since 2008. Even today multimedia apps have issues, these can be solved by going through online forums, but it's always a frustrating start. Usually upgrades to software will re-introduce these issues and you will need to follow the same steps.
In great Czech movie "Obecna skola" (The elementary school, 1991) principal warns students over PA not to lick metal railings in winter and of course students try it and get stuck. He complains about it to a new teacher who responds "Students are young, they want to try everything". Principal then asks "are you telling me, if I say - Don't drink sulphuric acid, it will burn your intestines - that they will drink it?" And the teacher says: "I don't know, but better not say anything over PA".
"For example, watching a Swedish TV show on Spanish Netflix doesn't let me have English subtitles for example. "

This is so weird, why are they doing this?
That the localized audio might have stupid local licenses ok, (or not ok) - but even the subtitles?
> Here's what's coming soon: A globally distributed database

This is very exciting.
Show HN: RL Agent that can auto-optimize your LLM prompts
Hey everyone!
Along with my team, I've developed a reinforcement learning system that automatically optimizes LLM prompts, complete with a visualization feature to track both prompt structure and learning progress over time.
Take a look here: https://nomadic-ml.github.io/nomadic/cookbooks/Nomadic_Promp...

Check out our website too:https://www.nomadicml.com/

In terms of how this visualization works: The RL Prompt Optimizer employs a reinforcement learning framework to iteratively improve prompts used for language model evaluations. At each episode, the agent selects an action to modify the current prompt based on the state representation, which encodes features of the prompt. The agent receives rewards based on a multi-metric evaluation of the model's responses, encouraging the development of prompts that elicit high-quality answers.

And see our github repo! https://github.com/nomadic-ml/nomadic
Haha, got it. Cheers.
Sometimes I start to feel like I'm pretty good at what I do.

Then I read one Raymond's investigations like this and realise I'm still not that good.
I ditched technology and switched to paper planners, in particular Japanese planners with time columns and enough space to dot down daily notes/thoughts.

After years of being tethered to Slack and other productivity apps, the only ones I use now are Google calendar (coordinating meetings with other people) and email for communication/correspondence.

I think it's been helpful for coping with ADHD. Attention is a finite resource that you only get so much of in a day, and everything online is fighting for it.

Here's an example of what I mean: https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Kokuyo-Jibun-Techo-A-3-in-1-Pla...
Salesforce to Hire 1k People for AI Product Sales Push
> I wonder whether the latter four knowingly made the error of addressing former president and president-elect Trump as “President Trump”.

While he's correct here in a strict sense, in practice, it's common to address former presidents in that manner

https://emilypost.com/advice/addressing-a-former-president-o...

See the part about informal settings
Elusive but Everywhere
There were some I found really hard, and required a lot of backtracking, ie watching "other" scenes but picking up who was there in the background and such.

I might have had a couple of lets say educated guesses, but the rest was hard work piecing together details.

Easily one of my favorite games ever, and I've been playing for almost 40 year now.
yeah I wrote python-wool and set it as my local alias for python so it does just look for a venv in the called program's path, and use that.

https://github.com/fragmede/python-wool
This is a perennial topic on HN, which is generally inhospitable to drug prohibition to begin with; it's possible to lay out the schematics of the counterargument:

* While there can't be any defense for the marketing of phenylephrine as a pseudoephedrine replacement, restrictions on pseudoephedrine are not irrational (that doesn't make them right, though I think they are).

* Pseudoephedrine by itself practically is methamphetamine, just in an unproductive chemical configuration. It is extraordinarily simple (though: not safe) to convert pseudoephedrine into meth.

* Pseudoephedrine is widely, practically universally available in the US without a prescription. It's a "behind the counter" drug, and, because of rampant abuse, access requires ID, like alcohol. Further, because the point of restricting pseudoephedrine is effectively a "rate limit" (to prevent people from acquiring enough Sudafed to make meth production practicable), Sudafed purchases are tracked.

* We've hashed out on HN the argument about whether that tracking results in spurious prosecutions. The one case I've seen us come up with, the arrest and prosecution of William Fousse, concerned someone who had a pseudoephedrine addiction (he was using it to come up from habitual alcohol benders).

* Restriction of pseudoephedrine does basically zero to staunch the flow of high-quality methamphetamine, which is produced at industrial scale with more sophisticated chemistry in Mexico and Asia.

* But restriction of pseudoephedrine might reduce the incidence of garage meth labs, which pose their own distinctive dangers to communities.

The argument in favor of continued pseudoephedrine restriction would be that the cost of the policy is relatively low (it inconveniences allergy sufferers, but most of those sufferers only marginally) vs. the public safety benefit (which is also probably low, but also probably nonzero).
This comment is now the first result on google when you search for "Neon Genesis title drop".
"Too rich to be liable". What a shame. Someday people will realize what he is responsible for. But if a poor man sells weed to kids, or even worse, truly addictive drugs...
Regulating this is always going to be impossible, and when it’s not, you’re in a surveillance state and you have bigger problems than the age you’re allowed to be on social media
This is fabulous, now I have a lot of reading, thanks for sharing
> As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life – a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no “high-minded orientation,” no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

— R. L. Carson
> by cultures of genetically-modified fungi

If it's grown in a lab and tastes like meat, it's lab-grown meat. It doesn't matter if it uses animal cells.

You may not even be able to call it "meat", it still makes no difference. Some people will be extremely offended by the difference, but if you don't force anything most people are always ok with anything that tastes good.
The more likely outcome is that they will learn the wrong things...
Aah, nice!
I read that note about it being in contrib. Never bothered to find out whether contrib is distributed with the built git package or not.
This is my field as well, although I come from the neural network angle.

Learned video codecs definitely do look promising: Microsoft's DCVC-FM (https://github.com/microsoft/DCVC) beats H.267 in BD-rate. Another benefit of the learned approach is being able to run on soon commodity NPUs, without special hardware accommodation requirements.

In the CLIC challenge, hybrid codecs (traditional + learned components) are so far the best, so that has been a letdown for pure end to end learned codecs, agree. But something like H.267 is currently not cheap to run either.
That happened 15 years ago, just a couple years after the policy is created. A more compelling example of a spurious prosecution would be one more recent, say, after 2016. We can probably find some! The last time people looked, we found a pretty interesting story.
Chloroplasts also evolved from separate organisms and are now effectively organelles. So this is t a one off event.
Why does it seem like people in Cybersecurity get paid so little?
It's about to get much worse. He's literally begging for his life on that phone call. And the answer is almost certainly "no".
The Swallowtail catastrophe is a beautiful work of art and theorem
https://archive.ph/iLVDm
It's super-easy for very short range, super-difficult for long range. Reason is the wavelength is so long (speed of length/60KHz = 5Kms) that you need a massive aerial for lange range, however for short range you can feed the MW or LW coil of an AM radio to spoof a time signal (ideally make it resonant by adding the right amount of capacitance, look up "tank circuit"). Watch out if you add amplification though, due to the lnog wavelength and the high inductances involved (if you get that far) it is possible to end up with dangerous voltages at the aerial feed.

A sound card with a true 192Khz sample rate should be enough to fool a radio clock next to the transmitter coil - though be aware a lot of sound cards may not actually output the 60kHz carrier frequency required.
We have defer, it’s called impl Drop
I need these multiple times every day, so maybe not. And this information simply isn't available elsewhere, regardless of what we think about it - in many cases it's not official but crowd sourced in a FB group, it's not a matter of simply publishing news articles on a different site.
Except that there isn't enough natural grass to keep all the cows fed.
> by basically any metric you look at

No, not by any metric. Area productivity is smaller, the plants take slightly longer growing, it creates dependency on a greed corporation that showed they will trow you under the bus if they wish...

But it's cheaper.
Like other gradients (heat, pressure, chemical) it might seem rare, the gradient guides its occurrence. A power efficiency gradient was going to happen eventually, accident or otherwise.
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would be enough electoral college votes to change the election result. The combined margin in those states is currently about 250,000 votes.

So if a few hundred thousand people had decided the other way, the electoral college would have gone to Harris, without really changing the popular vote outcome.

You may be imputing a position that the poster you replied to didn't take (they said voting in a state with predictable outcome feels like a charade, without saying anything about how they vote).
When I first came to this site, I had just quit Reddit. I got into a nationalistic flamebaiting comment thread with a nationalist flamebait comment, and dang told me off for it. It made me realise that I'd brought things I didn't like about Reddit to this site, and that conversations here could be better, if I let them. Thanks dang, I appreciate you.
Except for the "involuntary" part, yes. But that's a pretty big difference...
Consider a scenario where you're editing a function:

function foo() { return a*2.1^2+0.52/2 }

So you do a find-all regex "1.*5" and delete all matching occurrences (à la CRISPER) to get:

function foo() { return a*2.2/2 }

But unbeknownst to you, the code is littered with a bunch of commented out versions of the same function you're trying to edit:

/* function foo() { return a*1.5/2.1 } */
/* function foo() { return a*1.95/2.4 } */

And now those commented out versions now become:

/* function foo() { return a*/2.1 } */
/* function foo() { return a*/2.4 } */

And now the whole program doesn't compile anymore--or your patients get Leukemia. Oops.
You really want to use a mike on this kind of precision. Calipers can be repeatable in a certain range but even then a readout from vernier gives too much error. Measuring a tenth of mm is acceptable (tho I'd never trust a vernier caliper measurement beyond 0.2). A hundredth IMO is wishful thinking.
That they should just say some brainless things, which people would like to hear, over and over again until they believe it. That they will magically "fix it" Preferrably at a slow monotonous tone. And that they should throw in between some racism, climate change and fraud downplaying. Fear enhancing is also a very good thing to take away from last events.
Neural-Generated Botanical Prints (2022)
I was frustrated earlier this week, watching UK coverage of the election, as US guests continually referred to an ex-PM of ours as "the Prime Minister". Whatever conventions the US has about ex-presidents, they do NOT apply to ex-PMs!
The downstream effects in other countries are pretty annoying.

Because of US restrictions on pseudo, bizarrely other countries have followed suit - it’s next to impossible to find a decongestant with pseudo here in Ireland, they will sell you the useless phenylephrine shit instead, and the packaging is almost indistinguishable unless you spend a while looking and arguing with a pharmacist who is convinced phenylephrine works just as good.
That seems to track pretty well with the rise of P2P meth. It's unlikely many people would return to setting up small labs using pseudoephedrine because large scale operations using P2P have driven the price down to the point that it wouldn't be profitable.

There might be an increase in people making tiny batches for personal use if pseudoephedrine became easier to get, but nothing on the scale of 20 years ago.
This was a quick and dirty post I put together primarily for people who are already on Bluesky and have dev experience, and peppered with appropriate links where you have actual guides and/or documentation for each bit.
Different field entirely
There are several inline ads on the page that are disguised as big CONTINUE and START buttons. On mobile they look like they’re part of the site. It makes this whole site seem scammy and suspect.
> indeed Protestantism was associated with scientific progress

I've always blamed this on there not being an "orthodox" Protestantism. Since every protestant preacher is a different religion, it enabled atheists to work freely (as unspecified mystery protestants.)
Each grain of sand on earth represents 1 billion planets in the universe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1af4prs/if_you_w...
Sub-millisecond? Literally nobody in large data analysis is doing that. Can you cite some sources or show me what sort of setups (with any DB tech) that you're able to run meaningful queries on S3 sources with even sub-second latency?
Rearchitecting SQLite for Asynchronous I/O using io_uring [pdf]
The astrobiology schtick is just a what if thought experiment though, and nothing proven nor claimed to be fact. It's just a way to show that the scale of the universe is "hugely, mind-bogglingly big" while trying to pull a number that our squishy lobes could comprehend. If 1% of mind-bogglingly huge number, then 1% of that, then 1% of that yields a still mind-bogglingly big number. The laws of large numbers would suggest something as well. Otherwise, "its an awful waste of space"
Thanks so much for sharing this HBR article, it is so useful!
I also had a huge library of decompiled Websphere libraries. IBM was always sending patches and we would go "ok, what does this do?" "Fixes your problem?""How""Really well." So it got decompiled to see what it did.

There were lots of "We think your patch is doing XYZZY, we see where our code should be doing that. We've updated our code and the problem went away."

Fernflower was awesome. RIP Stiver, glioblastoma can be an ugly way to die.