skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's that some small percentage of births are intentionally induced for various medical reasons. Sometimes because the baby is full term but labor is not starting on its own yet. Other times an OB will attempt to rotate a full term baby that's in breach position to avoid needing a C-section surgery. Successful or not, this rotation procedure has a chance of triggering labor (which is why they wait until the baby is at or close to full term before trying it).

Bottom line: hospitals are short staffed on Xmas so they set scheduled procedures which may induce labor for the day before or the day after whenever possible which preserves their limited capacity on Xmas for unscheduled births and emergencies.
I think the most obvious sources of legal media are bargain bin DVDs/BRs which you are allowed to rip for personal usage and backup. This would justify all the discussions about episode numbering and so on. I have a small mountain of discs in boxes in the basement, which I bought almost for free (looking at you 17 EUR DVD box set of Friends) and will never see the light of day because they're all comfortably copied on a NAS too.

Same for games, I have titles like RDR which I bought from a bargain bin while it was still very much in vogue for ~2 EUR. I can't use it as a copy but the supermarket bargain bin can be an eternal Black Friday for your media consumption.
It would be interesting to see if it can also play chess with altered rules, or actually just a novel 'game' that relies on logic & reasoning. Still not sure if that would 'prove' LLMs do reasoning, but I'd be pretty close to convinced.
I hate the use of words like "understand" in these conversations.

The system understands nothing, it's anthropomorphising it to say it does.
I mean, they are extending support for Canvas2D, which from what I believe would allow for easier text rendering.
Estimate HR, BP, O2 saturation from video
New to me. Appears HR is validated, but not sure where they’re pulling BP data from. Thoughts?
The use of LD_PRELOAD as part of the attack surface makes me think that a statically-linked binary has some value. Not a maximalist approach like some experimental distros, but I think there's clearly some value in your standard userland utilities always performing "as you expect," which LD_PRELOAD subverts. Plenty of Linux installs around the world get on fine using BusyBox as the main (only?) userland utility package.
As much as I understand people need to feed their family, i hate how media access has all become paywalled. Why can't I choose which media to support? Why can't I pay 10 bucks to a Studio because I think they did a good job?
To avoid confusion with really big angry sharks
Strange things are afoot at the circle k.
Indeed. Work on any project that requires humans to carry out largely repetitive steps, and a large part of the problem involves how to put processes around people to work around humans "shutting off" reasoning and going full-on automatic.

E.g. I do contract work on an LLM-related project where one of the systemic changes introduced - in addition to multiple levels of quality checks - is to force to make people input a given sentence word for word followed by a word from a set of 5 or so, and a minority of the submissions get that sentence correct including the final word despite the system refusing to let you submit unless the initial sentence is correct. Seeing the data has been an absolutely shocking indictment of human reasoning.

These are submissions from a pool of people who have passed reasoning tests...

When I've tested the process myself as well, it takes only a handful of steps before the tendency is to "drift off" and start replacing a word here and there and fail to complete even the initial sentence without a correction. I shudder to think how bad the results would be if there wasn't that "jolt" to try to get people back to paying attention.

Keeping humans consistently carrying out a learned process is incredibly hard.
What do you think are the best option to avoid that? I was wondering what could I do with a project that I have that is a long lived code base, so we have some legacy parts.

Looking at the alternatives I was considering Vite with React and Vue plugins (and try to migrate my code so it works by default without any other configuration in Vite) or try Astro (because I have Vue and React) with their default configuration, but still not sure what would be the best option.

If it where just for me I would rather use React like framework (while I don't like that much React) but at least bun supports JSX out of the box and they seems to be working towards having a bundler integrated.
Europe's IRIS² constellation faces challenges of timing, scaling and competition
Source for the arrest? I listened to this the other day and I don’t recall an arrest being mentioned. The podcast in fact covers that the police weren’t very much interested, which is why they got a PI involved, who got the thieves to “return” (dump in an adjacent car park) the devices simply by asking questions.
Is that example representative for the LLM tasks for which we seek explainability ?
Not as good as the project from the OP: I tried to connect two cities in Italy, Padova and Riva del Garda (because I know the cycle roads you could use to travel from one to the other) and this project perfectly nailed it, while cycling Brouter suggests low traffic roads but seems to not be aware of many cycle roads.
It's not the same, but in my use for the past couple of weeks it's 99.99% the same
So basically preventing dead latents from occurring and whenever they do occur to possibly reviving them through the use of auxiliary loss term in the loss function? Thanks btw
When was the last time you saw a public website like that? prod.companyname.com websites are extremely rare especially outside tech.
These things always get really cool names, like "Wolfsbane" and "firewood". makes me want to make some malware to see what cool name security researchers give it lol
> I wonder if China little bit overplayed their hand in those massive exports.

For each export there is an import. The EU elite might be the ones overplaying their hand thinking that their voters care if a car is german or chinese.

I want a BYD.
Well, I know at least seven different people who are using Yuzu and a different fork still ekulating like crazy.
Aside from that the website also has a guide to install it with postcss, a tool I've never heard of before (forgive my intentional ignorance).
Amazing research!!
Do not lose the original point: some systems have a goal to sound plausible, while some have a goal to say the truth. Some systems, when asked "where have you been", will reply "at the baker's" because it is a nice narrative in their "novel writing, re-writing of reality", some other will check memory and say "at the butcher's", where they have actually been.

When people invent explicit reasons on why they turned left or right, those reasons remain hypotheses. The clumsy will promote those hypotheses to beliefs. The apt will keep the spontaneous ideas as hypotheses, until the ability to assess them comes.
I’m guessing the AI hallucinated it.
This is one of the reasons that pretty much all academic economists, regardless of political affiliation, agree that rent control is bad policy.

The economically superior way to help locals of lower means is through income transfers (because it fucks up the market way less), but the politically superior way is via price controls (because you hide the tax-transfer redistribution and can pretend that you're just sticking it to fat-cat landlords/corporations/investors).
Teach mode, Rabbit's tool for automating R1 tasks, is now available to all users
I find it really sad this was downvoted. This isn’t fucking Reddit, downvotes are not for that.
I read it for lunch yesterday. It wasn’t that bad.
This is very cool and very useful as a commuting cyclist. The routes that OSM and Google give me don't always have a high "reasonability" score in that they may be the most direct routes, but the road conditions are very uncomfortable for cycling for any one of many reasons.

One thing that would be very useful is to color the segments on the map based on the waytype. The proportions are given in the summary but unless I already know the route I can't tell where exactly those segments of difficult cobblestone are.
npm is for designed primarily for js dev. Many (most?) sites aren't written in js -- they're written in Java, C#, Python, PHP, etc.

Thankfully, tailwind is available directly as a downloadable binary. Unfortunately the link in their beta docs is buried, and also broken -- the correct link is here:

https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss/releases/
Meta gains steam in its push to make Apple, Google verify users' ages
As nobody has linked to it jet
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
That is the v3 manifest version of uBlock origin by the same author.

In my couple week usage it's the same in blocking as uBlock Origin.
I did research using Topic Maps. One of those meaningless R&D projects where EU burns millions to no avail. It paid well though, and I could attend conferences around the world.

As for the usefulness of the Topic Maps, Mind Maps and ontologies in general... they are useful instantly for the person who composes them as a way to organize thoughts. Pretty much what Notion, Evernote etc are doing, but with much less elegance.

They are utterly useless as a way to share knowledge.

Also, even 20 years ago, the field was full of old farts wasting everyone's time and consuming salaries. I doubt it changed for better.
> Here's one way to test whether it really understands chess. Make it play the next move in 1000 random legal positions

Suppose it tries to capture en passant. How do you know whether that's legal?
Hi. Thank you for pointing this out. I totally understand now that forking would have kept the commit history visible and made the attribution clearer. I have since added a direct note in the repo acknowledging that it is built on the original Zerox project and also linked back to it. If there’s anything else you’d suggest, happy to hear it. Thanks again.
So you need to compute this statistics and add just the right delay to even out the bias.
Are we holding LLMs to a higher standard than people?
This is strangely popular, but wrong impression. If you read the origin sources (Markus Meditations or Seneca's Letters to Lucilius) it's easily deducted from there.

It's not about disregarding, it's about understanding that what you feel and what you are and do are two distinct entities.

Stoics view emotions as a two-stage process: the involuntary experience (natural emotional reactions) and conscious rationalization (examining and responding to emotions thoughtfully).

The initial mental impression (phantasia) is an inevitable component of human responses. The point of Stoic training is not to achieve disregarding emotions, but to focus on how one reacts to them, specifically whether one reacts automatically to them. It's the opposite of disregard, because they merit a very close inspection and when possible a reasoned reaction.

The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is build on these principles and many studies (and meta studies) prove these principles work to improve many disorders:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3584580/
It is very funny!
I read it all just now, I quite enjoyed it. Its not my preferred format to read but it wasn't bad
According to HN and Reddit that would be spyware and and you are wrong for wanting that.
Please learn the difference of persistence and privilege escalation versus "hiding a binary".

They are certainly not trying to hide, and it has nothing to do with the initial exploit surface. You are mixing up things because you seem to be not aware how multi stage exploits work.

The article also mentioned that tomcat was targeted, but it didn't mention whether it was a zero day or a known vulnerability (like log4j vulnerabilities, for example).

- The initial access stage of that malware was a Tomcat exploit

- The privilege escalation stage was done via both userland + kernelmod, whereas userland's method was using glibc, hijacking any open() call of any process that is executed later. If you enter your sudo password any time for anything after that in any bash shell, it's escalated successfully and can install the kernel mod (that's what the .bashrc and profile entries were for).

- The persistence stage was done with a kernel mod that can now pretty much do whatever it wants.

Edit: After looking a little bit further, the initial access exploit was very likely CVE-2024-52316 [1], which is a Tomcat bug specific for that Jakarta Authentication system, given the described georegional malware campaign targets.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52316
https://archive.is/q3pXN
Oh wow, nice! I wasn't aware cycle.travel had this. I thought I had done something new but I see I was mistaken. By the way, good job on cycle.travel - the route finding is super smooth!
the TLDR seems to be incorrect
The thing that surprised me the most about it is that FedEx didn't just pay them the 400k for lost shipment. They had all the proof that it was lost, all that Fedex had was a signature of someone who doesn't even work at their fulfilment centre. Even after their "higher ups" got involved all that FedEx could do was "huh, sucks to be you I guess?" Does freight shipment not have insurance? What's going on here?
Bodging GenServers Together
The original version of read it later (now Mozilla owned Pocket) had that option. but then removed that option because it went against their commercial interests.
Apple and Google makes phones. All of them make tablets. Microsoft and Apple make laptops. All but Apple sell cloud computing. Google, Apple and Microsoft have office suites. Apple, Amazon and Google offer paid streaming platforms. Amazon, Apple and Google All offer smart assistants. I can keep going with things like game platforms, consumer storage,streaming music. Failing to see how they stay out of each other's way or have agreements with each other. Apple and Google literally give away their office apps which is the bread butter of Microsoft,
What is the issue? Except you not being up to date with the ecosystem and complaining about it?

Why do I need a car key and worry about gasoline? I can just hop on a horsie and ride away!
"Servers shall be strict in formulation and flexible in interpretation."
Almost certainly just a fedex mistake taking them to the wrong lot. Happens all the time. And, Hanlon's razor - never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

Its pretty easy to imagine construction workers just signing for everything that arrives, and only afterwards figuring out that the address is wrong.
They load a kernel driver so your avoidance of LD_PRELOAD wouldn’t really be able to protect against this anyway.
Is tailwind better than CSS modules, and if so then why?
So, if hello world is not trivial

Then you can easily generate e.g web assembly from your own lang input without linker and it will run fine

Aint the same viable for x86?
Let return to Kant’s third antinomy.

It is both possible that all actions are fully freely determined AND that everything moves with mechanical necessity.

Poeisis (or autopoiesis) in its model assumes that the natal moment is BOTH freely determined (created out of itself) and necessary (created in a chain of effects). But this makes a fairly large, self-contradictory claim about production.

To paraphrase Nathaniel Mackey, there is always some inistent priority behind every natal occasion; but it comes within the expression itself and then masks its own conditions of possibility, so that what happened turns out to have been happening. And what is it that’s happening is concrete insofar as it can be determined by its natality, but not given by it, and certainly any claim of autopoesis stakes itself on the latter: that it stands as its own proof.
Why is there an 'Â' after every sentence?
You know what, until your comment I haven't even considered that someone just copy pasted the entire transcript into ChatGPT and asked for a summary. It sucks - and I see that happening everywhere actually, especially in facebook groups, people are trying to be "helpful" by just copying output from ChatGPT or Gemini, but more often than not it's just completely wrong.
there's basic text support for most of those in pidgin 2 right now https://pidgin.im/plugins/
I think you have figured out where I am getting at.

As long as processes can rewrite their own cmdline and process names, you have a conceptual problem that you can only solve with kernel hooks (or eBPF modules).

The persistence techniques in the article were easy to follow, but all that alias mess, path mess, and glibc dependent mess makes everything that you execute untrustable.

The cli commands that were posted in the sibling comments all rely on procfs and the faked names :) so they won't actually detect it if a process rewrote its cmdline or has an in memory .so file that was changed and loaded from somewhere else (e.g. via LD_PRELOAD).

LD_PRELOAD is quite easy to detect, though nobody seems to be aware of its effects. And that is a 10 years known vulnerability and part of every standard audit by now. None of the posted answers even check for the environment files in procfs.

We're not talking about a bug in glibc here, because it is intended and documented behavior. If it was a bug, it would be much much worse.

edit: I wanted to add that the POSIX and Linux way of doing things would require a specific user for each program in order to be successful. But this is a prime example of what can go wrong when a user (and its groups) is used for multiple things. Any process that is running as the same (non-root) user can modify those procfs files. And I think that's a HUGE problem.
So when you say "intended target is KDE and Gnome" you mean target for persistence on the system?

Sorry but not all of us have formal education in this field, I'm just trying to understand if you're saying that KDE and Gnome systems are vulnerable, or Tomcat web servers.
Hi. Thanks for the question. To clarify, the MIT license was never removed or swapped. The license was and still is included in the folder that contains the code from the original project. In the root of the repository, I added the AGPL license for the new code I developed and made sure to explicitly acknowledge that the code in the folder is still under the MIT license.

I’ve also added a direct note acknowledging and linking back to the zerox project.
But they still interact with frequencies lower than 20khz right?

Think about it like this - I have a single steady saw wave at 10khz. If I started playing waves above 20khz, would I be able to detect any disturbance in that 10khz wave?
French Startup Turns Greenhouse Gas into Sustainable Fuel
from my personal experience (an outsider trying to apply), the admission process was by itself intimidating enough to keep me from even applying. let me explain.

thanks to purchasing power parity and exchange ratio gap, i was already from a broke family that would meet the cutoff for most universities a decade ago. however, the act of paying hundreds of dollars for application fees was enough to not make it like you lose nothing by trying. to put things to perspective, a few hundred dollars, which could cover a handful of applications, were equivalent to the take-home salary for a month during that time.

maybe i was unaware of some concessions or perhaps there has been improvements on this front, but i wonder if some applications might still be this hard pressed despite these initiatives.
Exactly. The only solution to affordable housing is to build more. And if you run out of space to build more because the city is full and don't want to ruin the character with skyscrapers, then you need to invest in infrastructure and facilities in the smaller cities that are not yet full and attract employers and workers there. Artificially capping prices on life necessities such as housing is never a sustainable solution.
People gave their lives so Chernobyl didn’t destroy every well in Eastern Europe for a thousand years.
There are reasons like this: https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/...
Trump is critical of big tech that doesn't help him - I'm happy to bet he will oppose breaking up X as long as Musk is in his cabinet.

Trying to describe Trump on a coherent ideological level is a fool's errand, like most strongmen he's just an opportunist.
That's interesting, though I don't remember Demon Core meme to have come from Touhou. Touhou was nevertheless cultural upstream for lots of Japanese otaku community contents, as seen in Yukkuri, so it is believable if the general awareness of the incident came from there.
In this particular case, I was in the hospital after a major motorcycle accident. So, I didn't go anywhere. To be honest, after a couple of months in the dream, I had determined I had died and found the afterlife. I had never thought it was a dream.

The trick to time compression in dreams is two things:

- being able to generate false memories

- being able to skip the passage of time

It requires acknowledgment that there is no proof you existed 5 minutes ago, only your memories of existing (and surviving the existential crisis that may cause) matching up with the current perceived reality. So, to have a time-compressed dream means to simply 'skip ahead' for a period of time and have access to the memories in-between. This last part is the part that needed the most practice for me. I was able to skip ahead, but it took years before I'd be able to create false memories with coherency. These days, it isn't uncommon to have a dream with an entire lifetime of memories that aren't mine. Luckily, these are forgotten within seconds of waking up, making it easy enough to determine which of my dreamt experiences are fake and which are real.

On a normal night, you only have a couple of hours to dream (more or less depending on sleep deprivation and need for deeper sleep). So it works kinda like a movie that covers a greater period of time, skipping ahead to the interesting parts. Then the access to the memories in-between the interesting part to make decisions and sense out of what you are experiencing.
The 4% Reality: What GenAI Means for Software Development Productivity
This doesnt seem very useful for many cases, given that you NEED to specify a write offset in order for it to work. So you need to either track the size (which becomes more complex if you have multiple writers), or need to first request the size every time you want to do a write and then race for it using the checksum of the current object... Urghhh.
I can’t say for sure but the thing I thought was suspicious was someone saying “The episode provides an in-depth look at the challenges Panic faced during this ordeal and the measures taken to resolve the situation”. People who actually read the content and offer TL;DRs typically wouldn’t include statements like these that are basically just fluff.
This is the argument that submarines don't really "swim" as commonly understood, isn't it?
The consequence being, that whatever deadlines goverments set for full EV transition will be ignored, or dropped, when the large majority of population keeps driving ICE.
CSS first configuration is a good change! It seems like it would makes it easier to combine tailwind with regular CSS files which still uses the same design tokens. This is useful e.g. when creating a site with a component architecture where the components are styled with CSS, but some of the content comes from CSS or markdown.
At that point you’ve implemented a constant-time algorithm.
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