skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has implications for more than just the inability of the poor to have any privacy. If you impose a deterrent to the anonymous payment method then it becomes less widely used and less widely supported, creating more barriers for the people with sufficient legitimate need for anonymity that they would suffer the additional fee in itself, and making them stand out more.
How does that even work with envoy? The magic sauce behind istio is that every connection is terminated using iptables into the envoy process (sidecar), and istiod spaffs envoy configurations around the place based on your vs/dr/pas/access controls etc.

I suppose you could have a giant envoy and have all the proxy-configs all mashed together but I really don't see any benefit to it? I can't even find documentation that says it's possible..
Wherever they came from, I suppose. There’s a reason they left.
I ask "what do you think about tests / what's your favorite test framework" and "what is your favorite os / what os do you use at home"
Probably. Is it a worse problem than Amazon inspecting themselves would be? Is it a worse problem than Amazon demonstrably already has with policing counterfeits? I'm just saying, you could hardly ask for a less-qualified authority for product testing. At least with independent certs it's vaguely possible to align the incentives correctly. With Amazon the incentives would be hosed from the start.
GM eliminated Apple CarPlay and Android Auto – this upgrade adds them back
Very cool! Also makes me curious what will happen to this project next - will it morph into some other product or feature that we'll see a few months from now.

Anybody know of fun stories of what's happened to previous Google labs projects like this one?
This is such a staggeringly bad idea I cannot even express how bad it is.
I remember when we were using an experimental SDN router, it was 0'ing the MAC address field in the packets, pretty fun to debug
Can you highlight the resources that you used to level up this way? I can design my own microcontroller boards, but the complexity of SoCs and required peripherals seems too much for this part-timer.
Show HN: VoiceAuth: Deep Fake Detector
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Windows app link: https://detectfakes.lemonsqueezy.com/buy/bcbe8cfb-3f5b-4826-...
> And yes, many places have eradicated mosquitos with no shift in the ecosystem.

I read that the tropical rain forests are unlivable by humans because of mosquitos and that limits the amount of deforestation that occurs.

Whether that's really true or worthwhile I'll leave it to others to argue over.
Hey, thanks for that Mastodon link. I think I remember at least one of those guys. I think that building over the road is nothing of note - just some generic commercial real estate.
I had exactly the same experience (minus reading the book). Often, I'd just see the function signature and no further explanation. I do realise that it takes a lot of time and effort to build up extensive docs, but it happened enough that I put it down and started looking for another Lisp that compiles down to a binary.
There are also multiple actors from The Wire in Bosch.
This was about C#, not C or C++. So it's a little more involved. The CLR, which C# targets, has explicitly sized types. There is no "int", there's only "Int32", which is a signed 32-bit integer.

C# maps keywords to certain CLR types. "int" always maps to Int32. It's a guarantee in C# and I think a requirement of all languages targeting the CLR.
Environmental "Justice" Recreates Redlining
so in your world anyone that uses anything which is connected to the internet (which is basically everything) needs to be a cybersecurity engineer? :)

my dad (and most dads) will be pissed he can’t drive his EV or anything of the tech gadgets he likes cause he’s not technically qualified for ownership and responsibilities that comes with it…? that sounds reasonable :)

in this world I would say the very least business could do is put up a disclaimer on the product “requires PhD from Carnegie Melon to own”
The whole point of Agile is to organically grow what processes make sense in that particular context, not "process control" for its own sake. Even Scrum was designed to be deliberately incomplete so organizations can do what makes sense for them, not just blindly follow a checklist.

And it's not about someone not being "the right person" because they're human. It's about having the right skillsets on the team working on the right products, architected in such a way as to be releaseable easily enough to be responsive to what customers need.

What needs to die are managers stuffing unrelated work into one team, splitting work across teams so dependencies get ping-ponged back and forth, and then making people do 30-45 minute dailies because it's a status report, not a team sync.

What is dead is TACO Agile . . . Terms And Ceremonies Only. Although it was arguably never alive in the first place, more of a shambling zombie with about as much brains.
We're talking about the user-visible behavior. You argued that because Cloudflare's CDN has an obscene amount of bandwidth, R2 will be able to saturate user bandwidth; that doesn't follow, hence my counterpoint that it could be bottlenecked on storage rather than network. The question at hand is what performance R2 offers, and that hasn't been answered.

There are any number of ways they could implement R2 that would allow it to run at full wire speed, but S3 doesn't run at full wire speed by default (unless you make many parallel requests) and I'd be surprised if R2 does.
Jay Bhattacharya at the NIH
From my experience helping my company with GDPR, IMO it's true that the principles of GDPR are straightforward. But there can be a fair amount of ambiguity in how certain parts are interpreted, so in practice if you're taking it seriously (which every company should), you'll want to loop in your lawyers. Then there are more and more conversations to make sure everybody understands what the company is doing and what their stance is on GDPR.

Sadly, GDPR is not a black-and-white (pun intended with the chess project) checklist with black-and-white checklist items.
A paper by the authors John Regehr et al. from 2012 explaining how it works https://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/publications/regehr-chen-cuoq-ei....
> Tbh await should be default function call semantics and there should be special keyword for calling without awaiting.

Your comment made me realize this is exactly what golang "go" keyword does. This is actually great.
Early LLMS just make shit up and don't double check

Early Facebook had no provision for sharing different things with different people

Early HTML had (and current HTML still has) hyperlinks to nowhere

Early Oracle would occasionally lose your data

Early Macs and Windows* lacked preemptive multiprocessing

Early Unix made no provision to keep a process from overwriting its own code

Early business computers didn't process lowercase alphabetics; early scientific computers didn't process alphabetics at all.

Early desk calculators would just go into an infinite loop if you were foolish enough to divide by 0

Early telephone calls had to be manually routed

Early steam engines were only economically feasible because the mines they were pumping out were coal mines

Early saddles didn't have stirrups

Early alphabets didn't have vowels

etc, etc

* there was even folk wisdom at the time that any sub-3.0 microsoft product was bound to be woefully lacking in at least one area
It continues to work while the Mac is sleeping as long as you have an Apple TV, HomePod, or AirPort Express (as those devices run the bonjour sleep proxy).

I’m working on making the script run seamlessly on Linux as well. The only benefit to Linux is that one probably has an always on server or raspberry pi running 24/7.

The macOS version is good for those that have a Mac that’s plugged in at home even if it’s sleeping. Also resource utilization is 0.0% so not too shabby.
A good engineer is one that has a job, doesn't put their employer out of business, and produces work that fulfills the requirements they're given.

Many people think there's some unethical conspiracy going on, and consumers actually want a product that lasts a long time, but companies are refusing to give it to them. But this is projection of individual preferences on to the market as a whole. Consumers want cheap shit that is in fashion, and their buying preferences prove this time and again. Maybe you want a 50 year old toaster in your kitchen, other people are buying products based on other factors.

If consumers really wanted to pay a premium for high duty-cycle equipment with premium lifespans, they can already do that by buying commercial grade equipment. But they don't.

If you are familiar with the history of home appliances, you'd probably come to appreciate the phrase 'value engineering'. Even poor people can afford basic electric appliances now because of the ingenuous ways that engineers have designed surprisingly usable appliances out of very minimal and efficient designs.

If you look at ads for electric toasters 100 years ago, you'd see they cost over $300 in today's money adjusted for inflation. Thank god for value engineering.
I believe I nothing, but even I know that ed is the standard editor.
It’s working out for many of the gifted kids I meet because it pushes their parents to put them in charter/private/montessori

There really isn’t a “gifted” program in a public school setting. Mostly it’s just more volume of work, not acceleration of learning. Head Start is certainly one of the better programs, but it’s not great compared to a Montessori or Project-Based Learning approach.

Another factor: in public school kids are generally punished socially for doing significantly above average. They learn to isolate their emotional selves from everyone and become a “success object” for the school.

It’s so critical for all children, including our best and brightest, to experience being valued as a person distinct from their performance. As Paul G has often said, following your interest is how to maximize your potential for impact.

Public schools for a long time fought to hang on to top performing students to improve outcomes. I think the push against outcome-based approached is necessary, if misguided in this case. Outcome based policies have failed, wholesale, across the globe. They create strange, unproductive learning environments where signals of learning become the only thing children work on. “Most Likely to Succeed” is a phenomenal book on why outcomes-based learning is a farce and what the better way is.
There's a big difference between intentionally exposing a single consenting person to a modified pathogen for the purpose of giving them resistance and intentionally releasing a modified pathogen into the environment and allowing it to spread by its usual vector to the consenting and unconsenting alike without any regard.

If this were a virus created using gain of function research we would call it a biological weapon. But because the intent is different we're supposed to be excited and accepting of it?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
what apple era are those machines? is this before or after Jobs shafted the engineering department on the sale and Woz had to give them bonus to keep them on the factory?
I don't think there are any at the protocol level. At least not yet.
Yep or home especially for printing those return labels from your phone.
Shanghai's ambition to be the 'future of finance' fell apart
With a good interviewer, the right answer is anything that indicates you understand the underlying ideas of types and how they work. If someone says “I thought strong typing was when you use it for weightlifting” but they can still describe types being known at compile time versus runtime, type punning, checked versus unchecked conversions, etc., that’s still great.

With a bad interviewer, the right answer is whatever specific definition they’ve decided is correct, and if you don’t already know which one that is, too bad.
Yes! Those of use still running old school Javascript really appreciate it when JS libraries provide a plain old "classic" distribution file. Thanks Julia!
Studying the effects of large explosions in the ionosphere isn't attacking Musk.
Former Google, Stripe Executives Raise $56M for AI Agent Startup
Russia's rouble plunges to lowest rate since early weeks of Ukraine war
Avian research drone replicates tail twist-induced banking seen in birds of prey [video]
Contrats on the launch, this looks pretty good, interesting, useful, and especially for such a stage, integrated with a ton of things!

If you're taking feature requests, it would be pretty cool if you added support for Nomad[1] as an orchestrator too.

1 - https://nomadproject.io/
I’m guessing any American military member in the Intel or Cyber business would know that these days though.

Years ago when I was in the US military I knew many Russian weapons systems better than their US/NATO counterparts and had developed a decent working vocabulary of Russian words and prefixes in that specific area because it was my job to study Russian equipment.
This has something of a muddied and confusing analogy. If you buy Walmart groceries with cash (whether in an invisibility suit or not), VAT is priced into the goods and Walmart is declaring every penny of goods sold to the tax man without having to track who bought them.

Also, in terms of government focus, it gets most of its tax revenue from high earners - "the 1%" pay 45.8% of US taxes. The top 10% pay 75.8% of US taxes. These high earners make most of their money through ownership rather than labour, and ownership inherently has a paper trail; stable government and rule of law guarantees the legitimacy of their ownership claims. How much do they think is missing from unreported income, compared to how much is missing because US corporations hold their earnings in offshore accounts?
I have one of these (the axzez board) with two hard drives in a cheap supermicro 1U case, works fine
Show HN: Feels Like Paper
"Feels Like Paper!" is a series of prototypes about augmenting physical paper through AI. Various ML models, LLMs and a mixed reality headset are used to infuse physical paper and ink with properties of the digital world without compromising on their physical traits.
Bipartite Networks in Anime: Textual Analysis, Topic Clustering, and Modeling
If we can, there's the problem of where they would live. Looking at google maps, most of the good places for wildlife now is just a patchworks
of deforrested farming fields and roads.
Show HN: Create a Darkmode with Minimal JavaScript
Hello everyone,

I’m excited to share a new project I’ve been working on:

I’m building a blog all about frontend development, with a big focus on CSS.

The goal? Write articles that are not just informative but also fun, with interactive examples to help bring concepts to life.

It could be anything from building a component to diving into more abstract topics.

Since it’s my first time writing a blog, I’d really love to hear what you think!

Feedback on the writing style, learning value, or anything else would be super helpful.

Feel free to ask questions, drop suggestions, or just share your thoughts.

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X trying to block transfer of platform's InfoWars accounts to The Onion
Interesting! What type of integration do you imagine?
The difference is that Malaria can't gather consent from us. Unlike medical researchers, who have routinely been required to get consent before conducting research or before spreading synthetic materials into our bodies. Without consent you're essentially acting like Josef Mengele.
According to this page on Congress' web site, Presidents often terminate treaties by themselves:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C2-1...

If nothing else, the President can unilaterally declare that the other country is in breach of the treaty, so it's no longer in effect.
That's a fair distinction.

I would say "adding Result to the caller signature" provides a similar cascade, but it's not entirely true: Every call must separately be unwrapped. So consistently wrapping your Result calls with the '?' operator is similar to a gigantic try-catch block or adding 'throws CheckedException' everywhere.

So both the '?' operator and adding 'throws CheckedException' everywhere let you accidentally neglect proper error handling: You have a default that is syntactically almost invisible and frees you from thinking. The checked exceptions give you a little more freedom from thinking than the '?' operator.
Not really true.

Mosquitos are an important part of the ecosystem, they (especially their larva) are important food sources for other creatures.

However, most species of mosquitoes do not bite humans and not all of those are capable of spreading disease. What you are probably referencing is experiments in extermining specific disease carrying species. I don't think those studies have claimed "no shift in the ecosystem."
Yes, and without understanding how it works, I'm left wondering whether it's even safe to use this way. Will creduce execute mutated versions of the input script, potentially deleting my files or eating my lunch?
> You are 101.38% through A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965).

well, that's a percentage!
Ask HN: Any tips for building a VSCode fork?
Hey HN! I'm working on a VSCode fork to work and develop on iOS apps. I'm curious if anyone out here has any experience with building a VSCode fork and has any tips that they'd like to share.

Any and all help is appreciated!
Can you give a tangible example of a vaccine that was evaded to the extent that there was no improvement in mortality from that disease?
Didn't somebody register dot.com and had an email address of dot.dot@dot.com? You could have dot.dot@dotsucks.com
This is not a regular mosquito anymore.

Imagine the following: we found the part of the brain that's making you love everything done by the authority. We developed a genetic vaccine against it and we are deploying it via mosquitos.

You wouldn't say the same thing.
Google not collecting data from their demo?
They're not putting shots into the mosquitos. They're modifying the parasite the mosquito injects that lives in your liver.

When you were 7, did you yearn for modified parasites?
single tank point of failure should be

single YAML point of failure

mobile autocorrect is super "helpful"
I think there's some space between MMM and agile and the former (as problem statement more than proposed solutions) holds up better. It's been a while since I last read it, though.

> Anyway. In your opinion, what the pathologies for _this_ time would be?

That's certainly an interesting question; I don't have a ready answer.
Suit Up for a Minor Bubblegum Crisis Mystery
I'm overall a fan of Krebs' work, but he has done some questionable things to reveal people's identities that feel more like immature spite, sometimes outside the context of any crime he's accusing the person of committing:

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/86867-infosec-r...
this is great, thanks for sharing
At work all our products do not eat children by default and it would require legal review to add any such feature. Therefore we don't need a procedure to make sure that any child-eating components get disabled in regions that have some concerns about child-eating.
Maybe if US companies weren't firing US engineers and hiring offshore to save money we wouldn't have this problem.
Digestive contents and food webs record the advent of dinosaur supremacy
"9.5% of managers are useless; might work multiple jobs."
Wow. It's so cool to see such a project.

I even remember in 2019 finding an app that was using a popup after unlock to learn words of a foreign language, unfortunately, it closed and I cannot recall the name.

I would be happy to see the notes.
Pretend you're 17 and are deciding on a career. Ignore this year's wages. What do you think about the prospects for drivers in the next forty years?
> As he explained it, the big problem is the field's dependence on funding from the Gates Foundation. Philanthropic funding isn't bad per se but the issue is that Gates specifically wants a legacy. That means he's not really interested in funding mitigation, he's only interested in eradication. A lot of researchers in the field think eradication isn't practical, but they keep their views private because you have to be gung-ho about eradication if you want access to the BMG Foundation funding stream. He said the result is a lot of grant proposals that are deliberately either vague or deceptive so money intended for eradication efforts can get spent on more useful stuff.

Sounds like a major downside of a philathropic monopsony, which is a something I hadn't previously considered.
Why should I switch to this from Wave AI? Can I pay a one time fee for the app and use my own API keys?
Either you went back to those chats in order to write this post down, or you have studied the matter yourself, because man that's a lot of detail for something your friend talked to you about a few years ago.

I'm not being skeptic, rather saying it's actually impressive.
There is no reassurance that can be made since there have already been examples of voice cloning that are not differentiable from the real people.

There is a very common saying in IT, "Attacks only get better".

Voice Cloning falls under the umbrella of deepfake technologies. When its done without consent, it is an attack on the person, it also violates any number of laws.

The ethics of building and releasing tools designed for deepfake generation have been widely discussed and debated. The general consensus by academics and industry (reasonable people) has been that it is not appropriate to build and release tools whose primary use is in causing harm or breaking the law.

Negligence is a pretty low bar to reach in this incidence, all you need is to show: duty, breach, causation, and damages to win such a claim.

It is almost certain that OP doesn't have consent forms from the people whose voices are being used on the front page.
> I found myself chatting to a guy

Can you provide some reliable sources for this?