skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>If a driver is delivering a pallet to the FooCorp warehouse, he doesn't get given a copy of the FooCorp org chart, or get an example signature to compare against the signature they're given, or get given a map or a secret password or anything like that.

Obviously. But if there is 400 grand on the line, you'd think someone would actually check(when the claim is made). The receiver would say "you have a signature from person X. Person X doesn't actually work here". Fedex then says "ok, prove it" - and then the receiver does, in whatever way is legally acceptable.

Edit: in fact, let me add a bit more - if the shipment was delivered to the right address just signed by someone who didn't actually work there then sure, I think FedEx would be in the clear. But they delivered the parcel to the wrong place - the fact that it was signed for by someone is almost irrelevant, it's the same as having no signature at all.
Interestingly, that same argument was made for Nokia and in the end seems like it was probably true in that specific case.
Huh, they made TPUs ...

Also, making silicon is closer to making software than you might think.
the article in astronomy and astrophysics https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa51820-...
Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti
'you cannot sue us for not doing the only thing you are paying us for (delivering your goods)' sounds like an inconscionable clause. Surely any worthwhile legal system would make such clauses illegal. Otherwise many scams (fake invoicing, for example) would be essentially legal as long the perp buried a clause in a contract.
Yeah, I don't personally reckon it's going to happen any time soon either.
It seems I was unable to generate the image for the "SWAT ESPORT" logo at this time. Let me know if you would like me to try again or if you'd like to adjust the description.
Because someone's messed up their encodings.Â
40 years ago, the personal computer was marketed at boys. That's just a type of marketing we are still trying to correct over 2 generations later.

And that's how we should treat it. It's too later to get people interested in engineering in college. you need to start 5 years earlier minimum. Ideally 10 years earlier.
Do you want a BYD because of supposed cheapness/high value for money, or does the car/brand offer something else you want that other brands do not offer?

I'm genuinely curious. I do think pricing being equal, people will probably still opt for more well known European/Japanese/Korean brands. It takes a generation or two for a new car brand to really penetrate a market, people are sometimes really really weird when it comes to their perception of and loyalty towards car brands.
Google has canceled the Pixel Tablet 2
I'm with you on the sunsetting of ChromeOS, but I'd like to offer a counterpoint to your experience of the Duet. I've been using the newer Lenovo Duet 5 with PostmarketOS[0] (linux for ARM) as a daily driver for more than a year and it is almost always great (minus no functioning webcam, which is abysmal anyways)!

[0] https://postmarketos.org/
I guess it means "discernible single star outside our galaxy", because of course we can see distant galaxies.
The Unlikely Popularity of Grape-Nuts Ice Cream
A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt
You have to be so far beyond the Balmer peak to understand a Bavarian that I doubt that will happen :-P.
I also wonder what kind of invalid moves they are. There's "you can't move your knight to j9 that's off the board", "there's already a piece there" and "actually that would leave you in check".

I think it's also significantly harder to play chess if you were to hear a sequence of moves over the phone and had to reply with a followup move, with no space or time to think or talk through moves.
Yeah. The headline had me thinking of cash reserves, fractional lending constraints, etc.
So it’s mainly a science and engineering challenge that may or maybe not have any practical application. Quite similar to manned space missions and even bigger particle accelerators etc. The diminishing returns on these mega projects will strain the public’s support both financially and politically. James Webb telescope was a huge success. But many other projects have not resulted in much either science or business.
I came to the comments to say this too. If you were prompting it to generate code, you generally get better results when you ask it for a result. You don’t just tell it, “You are a python expert and here is some code”. You give it a direction you want the code to go. I was surprised that there wasn’t something like, “and win”, or, “black wins”, etc.
Unless I misread they don't state exactly how the attack escalates privileges to install the driver. Could there be two versions of the attack with varying levels of severity?
Microsoft urges Donald Trump to 'push harder' against Russia and China hacks
So that's how it worked with MacOS and Windows? Color me surprised.

But bth, Google doesn't seem to care about Android either. Chrome supports it on Snapdragons and that's it. Do you have Xclipse GPU? Like, I don't know, Samsung's current flagship line Galaxy S24 does? Too bad, not good enough.
Sounds like landed gentry. They can eat and have the cake they are also selling.
>"Content creator" is not a real job. That's something you do for fun.

This is dismissive. Some do it as a hobby or simply to expand their reach (even Tim Walz had a few gaming streams this year), but the people making real money easily put 40+ hours into analyzing trends, understanding their audience, preparing content, editing media, and overall being a business person. Those CCs very easily be the hardest workers in any sort of communications company, but that's not how the market works these days.

I suppose by that metric, most of HN just working on some website frontend or server backend are just typing away for easy money

>considering that the entire rest of the society spends all their time ranting on social media and not doing actual work.

well, no one wanted to give me a full time job this year. Gotta do something between the Workday applications draining my soul and the boring Leetcode practice.
Child, the Sophisticated Language Learner
The article is talking about ChromeOS merging to an Android base.

Ninja edit: this article should clarify some things: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/06/building-faster-smarter-ch...
Genymobile/gnirehtet: Gnirehtet provides reverse tethering for Android
If one wants to ignore that German scientists were working on the bomb as well, and the American scientists just had more resources to pull it off first.
Be my guest!
from the article

>The RSGs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have the great advantage that their distances are much better known (50 kpc, Pietrzyński et al. 2013) compared to those of their Galactic counterparts. WOH G64 is the brightest RSG in the mid-infrared in the LMC, exhibiting a huge infrared excess with a high mass-loss rate on the order of 10−4 M⊙ yr−1 (Goldman et al. 2017). For this reason, it has been a subject of multiwavelength studies from the visible to the radio (e.g., van Loon et al. 1996; Levesque et al. 2009; Matsuura et al. 2016). Ohnaka et al. (2008) succeeded in spatially resolving the circumstellar dust environment of WOH G64 using the mid-infrared interferometric instrument MIDI at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI).
Google Is Shutting Down ChromeOS in Favor of Android
Show HN: Sol – Query metrics on people and code behaviour from Git
Klarna's Planned IPO Sets the Stage for More Fintech Listings
https://archive.is/CqZED
Except when your mistakes stay etched in silicon forever. The software industry is by now very deep in the fail fast and fail often. Maybe the hardware industry is taking a page from that book too but they’re many, many chapters apart.
Sigh... you seem to have a very short memory

When apple had antenngate, they first went on a big campaign of denying the issue, then claiming other companies were affected as well and finally claiming you are holding it wrong.

Google has a lot of issues too, but let's not kid ourselves about Apple.
Raspberry Pi 5 successfully accelerates LLMs using an eGPU and Vulkan
Some of these devices probably make nice Linux laptops if you can get them unlocked.
You'd must pray no emergency landing is ever needed. Probably too much of a risk to take chances.
NSA Director Wants Industry to Disclose Details of Telecom Hacks
The difference between a malicious value function and unethical conduct is intent; at least in some systems of ethics. Beyond that I think the discussion shifts to the realm of philosophy papers and becomes unsuited for HN comment boxes.
I need this so much, someone please build it ASAP. This would be so useful!
There's very literally currently a whole wealth of papers proving that LLMs do not understand, cannot reason, and cannot perform basic kinds of reasoning that even a dog can perform. But, ok.
I don’t think lack of hardware expertise is the problem. The biggest issue is that Google leadership does not seem capable of thinking long or even medium term. Waymo, Glass, and the myriad of discontinued software products are a proof of it.
Priors on parameters are not an issue. On models of scale, priors are just some computationally convenient shrinkage, and what works is found empirically and canonized into the practice; projecting prior knowledge of the problem at hand by parameter priors does not really happen except in some vague sense ("I think most predictors are irrelevant, so make it sparse by Cauchy/horseshoe/whatever").

The important thing in bayesian (statistical, ML) modelling in general is the ability to gain in flexibility and do model structures that otherwise would be hard or impossible: latent states, hierarchies, etc.

In bayesian NNs the main advantages would be around uncertainty quantification (UQ) and in finding good optima and partly to avoid overfitting. These do apply in some cases of simple NNs.

Mostly however, especially with larger conventional models (not speaking of normalizing flows and such here), using explicit bayes is not feasible. Instead, people use approximate point estimates with tricks:

(1) UQ has been taken care of by post-calibration. (2) Stochastic gradient actually searches for large posterior masses like a variational approximation would do, so it is kind of bayes. (3) And those priors: using dropout is commonplace, it has a bayesian interpretation, and L2 regularization aka gaussian priors are frequent too.

So bayes is there in practice, just not in a neat, pure form but as a collection of practical hacks.
Don’t forget, you don’t pay for a stopped vm in azure! You only pay while it is running. This makes things like dev environments much more affordable, since you won’t be paying for nights/weekends.
For Google scale companies the difference between hardware and software is less than you would think.
I agree that being liberal in what you accept can leave technical debt. But my comment was about the place in the code where they set a cookie with JSON content instead of keeping to a format that is known to pass easily through HTTP header parsing, like base64. They should have been conservative in what they sent.
Tim Maudlin – Philosopher
I followed that story and something seemed off. Not that the person was lying, but something felt left out.

Apple and Uber know driver who the order was given to and the police are involved but they also haven’t been able to do anything? Just seems odd.

I’ve had trade ins go missing and after a short investigation Apple has always credited me.
What makes you think it's a software bottleneck instead of the 4GB RAM
nobody marketed personal computer to me 25 years ago. but my interest in hacking it was so much bigger than my sisters I became a programmer. Changing that isn’t a matter of correction. You need to actively remove boys that are more interested which not yield the best results
I have owned multiple chromebooks and they have all been fantastic.

Maybe limited in some regards, but still the best computing devices I have used.
I typically like to keep the registration of the domain itself in the customer's own registrar account (even if I have to set it up for them). I provide them with that information (or they provide it to me, if they have already registered it).

Then depending on the registrar, there may be features that help to facilitate this type of management. Porkbun, for example, has "subaccounts" and also "authorized users" where you can then set yourself up to be able to admin those domains on behalf of your client. Godaddy, as another example, has a feature called "Delegate Access", where you can set yourself up under your client's account to be able to make changes, perform renewals, etc. on their behalf.

I would imagine that other registrars might have similar features.
I find the problem of ad hoc polymorphism so interesting. It’s clearly a desirable feature, but we’ve been trying for nearly fifty years and still don’t have a solution that everyone’s unambiguously happy with. Compare that to, like, lexical scoping or parametric polymorphism, which most languages just have by default at this point. They’re almost mathematical facts.

And you’d hope there’d be a way to do it. Parametric polymorphism feels underpowered if you can’t make any assumptions about the things you’re abstracting over. But it might be a Halting Problem-esque situation.

FWIW if a real, near-trade-off-free solution exists, I think it’ll require a bit of a Copernican revolution in how we approach things. I don’t have any real insight to offer there.
Engineering productivity research (Stanford): ~9.5% of SWEs doing nothing
I guess it varies by K-12 rigor, but college was mostly easier for me... until the 4th year. that 80 hour workload was my high school, and I had no choice but to balance 5 classes + an elective every year. And ofc I pushed myself more by having an acedemic club and volunteer work. I was always so tired. My mom felt bad for being out of the house a lot, but truthfully I wasn't much different anyway and barely noticed.

College, I dropped a lot of that, and my class workload dropped to 3-4 classes a quarter. It was like a huge weight was off my shoulders. less time in classes, more time to myself to choose. classes were harder but I had more time to focus down on my majors instead of being distracted by 3 GE equivalents in high school. It just fit my way of working better.

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But I think that is part of the point: the standard line of K-12 has been falling while the line for college wants to keep trying to go up. Those determined A/B students will meet that line, but not the people doing the bare minimum to pass. A "C" is not what used to be a "C". I don't know the solution to it, but the current "solution" of grade inflation is not a direction I agree with.
Under most US money transmitter laws, they can’t do that either, not even off the interest. (Hence why they charge fees to move money)
That is cute as anything! Seems like a lot of craft went into it, with a tiny bit of computer assistance.
That was amazing. I wasn't up for spending an hour listening to the podcast, but a few minute reading the article you created were well worth it. Thank you!
Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow From Perceived Status and Competition [pdf]
Perhaps you're already aware of it, but this paper by Andreas Weber and Francisco Varela "Life after Kant: Natural purposes and the autopoietic foundations of biological individuality" talks about this. Of special interest is the section 3.4 which more or less summarizes autopoiesis while taking into account Kant's intrinsic teleology.
https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/373/1/NCRG_94_004...

mixture density networks are quite interesting if you want probabilistic estimates of neural. here, your model learns to output and array of gaussian distribution coefficient distributions, and mixture weights.

these weights are specific to individual observations, and trained to maximise likelihood.
There are some limitations[0] to work around (can only compose 32 at a time and it doesn't auto delete composed parts), but I find this approach super useful for data ingest and ETL processing flows while being quite easy to use.

[0] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2024/07/merging-objects-in-google-...
I can confirm that an advanced amateur can play illegal moves by playing blindfold chess as shown in this article.
Gemini-Exp-1121
How is Waymo proof that they're incapable of thinking long term? They've been funding it since 2009, and are only now just getting to market in 2024. They are plenty of examples where Google's failed to think long term, but I have a hard time seeing Waymo as one of them. Waymo is operational in several cities in the US so it doesn't seem like Google's about to cancel it and they raised another 6.5 billion earlier this year.
This was already ‘predicted’ in the 90s iirc. I remember seeing a documentary where it was discussed
I’ve worked with people who I wish were in this category.
Probably, I’m just sharing how it feels to use it when you work on frontend once a year.
It would surely just be fluff in the prompt. The model's ability to generate chess sequences will be bounded by the expertise in the pool of games in the training set.

Even if the pool was poisoned by games in which some players are trying to lose (probably insignificant), no one annotates player intent in chess games, and so prompting it to win or lose doesn't let the LLM pick up on this.

You can try this by asking an LLM to play to lose. ChatGPT ime tries to set itself up for scholar's mate, but if you don't go for it, it will implicitly start playing to win (e.g. taking your unprotected pieces). If you ask it "why?", it gives you the usual bs post-hoc rationalization.
That's interesting, have you had the opportunity to test it on anyone with strong middle-ground views on that issue?
It does feel very reddit-esque the comment, because it seems a tad like an interesting yarn to farm attention without having content of substance.
Mozilla Warns DOJ's Google Breakup Plan May Hurt Small Browser Makers
A common way to use liquidsoap with icecast is to send a stream from liquidsoap to a remote server running icecast for distribution. Your pi running liquidsoap can then accept local telnet commands for control: https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-2.2.5/server.html
Then let's see how much innovation this feudal arrangement will bring.
Avoiding the official bike trails in Europe has advantages. For example, when you plot your own routes away from the touristic ones, local people might be more willing to chat or offer you a place to stay for the night because they have never met a foreign bicycle traveler before. Also, bikepacking is big these days, so a lot of cyclists want routes that don't have good asphalt surfaces.
This is such a biased take.
There's many ways to build a website, you just don't like the most popular way because you're not comfortable with the technology and ethos.

That's ok, but don't go around spouting nonsense about about investors throwing their money away on js projects.
given that those mac's would have been 4-5k? I sure as heck would have at least consulted a lawyer. I don't want to just lazily have my package stolen in real time.

if no one else is seeking justice, I will at least poke the blind woman a bit.
An Unscientific American
This argument reminds me the classic "intelligent design" critique of evolution: "Evolution can't possibly create an eye; it only works by selecting random mutations." Personally, I don't see why a "next token predictor" couldn't develop the capability to reason and form abstractions.
In this economy? Don't worry just give it 20 years ;)
No bank anywhere in the western world will lend you money for a house on a single income. Double income is the norm, so it's reflected in the price.
It's not unusual to effectively self-insure for shipping.

If insurance costs you more than lost shipments, it stops making sense to pay for insurance. If insurance costs less than lost shipments, it stops making sense for the insurer to offer you insurance at that rate.

Insurance works when the loss is disruptive to your cashflow. If I can't afford to absorb that loss right now, it may be worth finding an insurer that can. If I can afford to absorb that cost, it's almost always better to leave my money working for me, than working for the insurer.

If you're shipping in volume, self-insurance almost always works out better. You can bet amazon don't insure their shipments to you. If they take the potential cost of insurance, stick it in a pot, and dip into it when there's a shipping issue - that pot should never run dry. If that pot runs dry, it means insurers are operating at a loss, and they're not going to stay in business long.
There is also Sysmon for Linux [1]. I work often with Windows systems that's how I know it (it's a popular choice on Windows to analyze Sysmon logs for suspicious events), but it's probably niche in Linux world.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/SysmonForLinux
Iceberg Tables in Postgres with Crunchy Data Warehouse
Timing context:
Debian sid currently distributes 2.14.13, which is the 2024-02-13 bugfix release of the 2020-06-10 minor release 2.14.0 which was already clearly specified to be the last of v2.
Then she asks why you spend $300 for a Gameboy when you already have a PS5 and Switch, and at this point you just get the guest room ready for yourself tonight.
I'm curious if there's more to nodejs's relatively high performance than just Google's time/money put into v8.

Would an equivalent amount of effort on Python have ended in similar performance? Or do python things like "everything's an object", etc, set a hard ceiling?
Also not quite the same as rotten! And, I would hazard a guess that the consumption ratio of inlagd-sill to surströmming is at least 1000:1, maybe 100000:1.
This site leans heavily backend it seems.
There's a strain of patent smugness that comes with a lot of comments about frontend on this site and it's quite disheartening to see it.

You rarely see frontend devs disparaging backend devs for their tech choices.
FedEx employees in our region are consistently grumpy, unhelpful, and extremely abusive with packages.

We got video of one FedEx guy kicking retail Apple Computer boxes off the back of his big rig (destroyed 2x iMacs).

Our UPS drivers are consistently cheerful, helpful and considerate with the packages they carry.

The contrast grows dramatically if you ever suffer some misfortune that requires a phone call into corporate. FedEx is reliably crabby, unhelpful and actively belligerent.

These two companies are a perfect illustration of what happens when you make it obvious to your staff how you feel about them.
I’m thinking of a really big difference so “less than I think” is probably still a lot. I’m sure time will show it one way or another. So far their phones for example were plagued by hardware issues. Maybe they’re just finding their footing but the point stands, hardware mistakes are forever and Google is 90% a software company with the appropriate mentality.

The only times I heard about Google being good at hardware were “trust me” anecdotal and unverifiable stories about DC equipment. At best this says Google cares about the HW they use not the HW they sell to an end user.
Irrelevant.

If you're doing anything even mildly related to ML/stat, Python is essential. It's close to impossible to replicate the eco-system that has been built out in the past 10 years (the Torch people were still in Lua back then).
You should not finetune the models on the strongest setting of Stockfish as the move will not be understandable unless you really dig deep into the position and the model would not be able to find a pattern to make sense of it, instead I suggest training on human games of a certain ELO (less than grandmaster).