skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see it easily happening. People were not "tuned in" back then as we are now. People used the newspapers to see what was playing and what times where available. Trailers weren't available 24/7 for instant viewing. You saw previews before the movie you were about to watch. The TV advertising wasn't so prevalent for movies. My parents would go to the movies and see whatever was playing on the one screen the theater had when they were kids, not just go to see a specific movie at the cineplex with 30 different screens. Things were very different back then.
Logging some PII by accident is also an issue and can also lead to compromises, but I think intentionally collecting it in bulk is the primary concern here. With google I assume bulk data collection is their default stance and that's why they need to carefully trim it down just enough that the lawyers say is justifiable rather than the other way around. That's the problem I'm gesturing at.
I bought a laptop specifically so I had less objects and wires to carry around.
The Barbenheimer of the 1960s...
We mostly discussed coding issues in epidemiological modelling. Science has big problems with bugs because scientists tend to assume programming is easy (they don't get exposure to professional standards and they rarely test their code). He'd been at the forefront of damage control and had lots of stories.
I don't think they would waste a high value capacitor just to keep a led lit for longer, also a led directly lit by a capacitor would be noticeable by slowly dimming when the capacitor discharges. It's more likely that the signal driving the led comes out of a monostable implemented in code: pin_on() drives the led on; pin_off() waits n secs then drives the led off.
> In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error is a cognitive attribution bias in which observers underemphasize situational and environmental factors for the behavior of an actor while overemphasizing dispositional or personality factors. In other words, observers tend to overattribute the behaviors of others to their personality (e.g., he is late because he's selfish) and underattribute them to the situation or context (e.g., he is late because he got stuck in traffic). Although personality traits and predispositions are considered to be observable facts in psychology, the fundamental attribution error is an error because it misinterprets their effects.

[Wikipedia]
In fairness, Mastodon apparently is working on quote-tweeting. AIUI to do it properly (ie, like Bluesky, with the ability to remove quote-tweets etc) requires changes to ActivityPub.

Bluesky, at least for now, has the advantage that they essentially control the protocol, and are the only significant user; they can move a lot quicker. It’ll be interesting to see how this evolves.
Libgen is one of the databases that are currently available (and was probably a good fit because they already had their files on IPFS), but I think that this architecture, in which the UI is decoupled from the database, the database doesn't hold any copyrighted materials, and the files are downloaded from IPFS, is quite resilient and could be used for serving all sorts of content.
How to tell me you use VScode without telling me you use VScode.
An old tradition is to be replaced with the current hot trend: selling condos as investment assets. But land speculation and development predates everything in london.
I was not very popular with the camera firmware folks for a while. They had to re-architect a bunch of things as they used to occasionally power on the camera logic without powering the sensor array to get information out of the built-in OTP. Because the LED now came on whenever the camera was powered they had to defer all that logic.
> that probably means a credible threat at least in abstract

When has this worked in practice to the benefit of those making the threats?

(Versus bargaining for more rights by dividing the elite.)

> Extreme military power has failed against motivated populations almost without exception in all asymmetrical scenarios this century

Internally? Each of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, et cetera seem to be doing fine.

> end state on the current trend lines would be a catastrophic failure of our civilization

Sure. But a revolution just speed runs that. (And we aren't the only civilisation on the planet.)

> I’m not yet prepared to accept that as inevitable

It's not even probable. Going back to the original comment, Americans' standards of living have been rising across almost every class. On an income and wealth scale, a positive-sum game, almost every category of American is better off than before.

What's changed in the last 50 years is on the relative standard. And in the political domain, a zero-sum game, that's led to some issues. But nothing terminal, not even close--ordinary workers still swing elections.
FTC survey: 89% of smart products failed to disclose software updates timeline
You have to be careful with nature. There are the scientific articles which are top of the line and written by deep experts.

Then you have the journalism side which is basically just another main stream news website. (I'm not even against main stream news but it's not the same as scientific articles)
From the link

> Performance and Benchmark Limitations: The model excels in math and coding but has room for improvement in other areas, such as common sense reasoning and nuanced language understanding.
Twitter had third party apps with no ads for over a decade without the sky falling. Few people use anything other than the default.
Don’t spend time with people you’d rather not spend time with. Gather with friends, eat dinner out, whatever makes you happy if your family isn’t tolerable. No one is going to look out for your happiness except you.
Yeah. There is an api call that shows the mapping between a region's az names and the static az id's. I wasn't an early adopter but encountered the random az assignment in 2010.
From the link, they say this is possible problem

> Recursive Reasoning Loops: The model may enter circular reasoning patterns, leading to lengthy responses without a conclusive answer.
There's a billion dollar price tag being punted around and you think the resulting development is going to be aimed at and priced to reduce a housing supply shortage? Are you by chance on the market to buy a bridge?
Separate devices for work and personal might help manage these use cases.

Tools that help with managing digital health and screen use can help you slow down access to any problematic apps a bit more than others.
My running route would take me through the market in the mornings, only a few hours after it had closed up. I loved the smell of meat, which others would find quite offensive.

It's a lovely area, and home to one of my favourite restaurants, St Johns.
Well, it is the best American television show ever produced, the only shows that are on the same level are The Sopranos and Six Feet Under.
"I am an absolute niche bu I'd love to see better x86 (well, x64) support"

I'll second that, maybe not for the same reasons.

I have numerous static binaries built for x86-64 that I would like to be able to use on new OpwenWRT installs. Because the OpenWRT x86-64 support is lacking I only use it on MIPS and cross-compile or, if it is a tiny program, compile natively on the router (slow). And I stick to NetBSD for x86 routers.
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It's still a factual statement to say it has a higher ranking and it's irrelevant to mention the 20 years thing. Someone said the car is the most popular vehicle in the last year and someone pipes up to say the horse and carriage has been around for three thousand years! Wow!
Sounds like a generic tragic driving event by a bunch of teens that wouldn’t have had much coverage if not for being a Tesla.
Many complex chips have GPIO signals rather than hardwired outputs. That way you can select any [5-10] of [20-100] functions for each pin. As a result, things that you think should be hardwired are controlled by firmware.
And perhaps exclusive archival content deals from publishers – but that probably works only in an American context.
“The audience for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey … has always included an unusually large number of people … who felt the need to express their feelings and thoughts about the film in writing.”

This may be the truest statement I have ever read. I’m rolling.

FWIW, I like it.
It's hard to know the right questions to ask to explore these reasoning models. It's common for me to ask a question that's too easy or too hard in non-obvious ways.
I mean, it doesn’t have the pay-for-attention mechanism that Carface added to Twitter. That in itself is a huge difference.
Thanks for posting this interesting tidbit! I find this kind of knowledge absolutely fascinating!
I feel like we all have a “I saw it in middle of the night on PBS and it really screwed with my head” movie.

For me it was being maybe 13 and tuning in to the last half of Lord of the Flies at about 1am. Those kids abandoned on a lonely island, followed by the rescuer showing up, followed by credits, followed by the national anthem and test colour bars will forever be burned into my brain.
The people active on Twitter are a small subset of "the real world", and the move to BlueSky is certainly very noticeable there. About 80-90% of people I was following on Twitter have a Bluesky account now, most of them are actively posting there. And this is not just a left-wing bubble, I mean I don't follow any Trump supporters but there are plenty of people in my feed that would usually be considered conservative.
I would imagine that if the lithium-ion battery caught fire, it would be apparent.
There's nothing in the brief article to indicate any Cybertruck specific issues .. external bystanders were able to pull a survivor from the vehicle (eg: doors sprung open or were able to be opened), speed seems to be the probable cause, etc.

The only unique to Tesla possibility here (unconfirmed) would be "late night drunks relying on self driving" .. but that remains to be reported.
At work, I find type hints useful as basically enforced documentation and as a weak sort of test, but few type systems offer decent basic support for the sort of things you would need to do type driven programming in scientific/numerical work. Things like making sure matrices have compatible dimensions, handling units, and constraining the range of a numerical variable would be a solid minimum.

I've read that F# has units, Ada and Pascal have ranges as types (my understanding is these are runtime enforced mostly), Rust will land const generics that might be useful for matrix type stuff some time soon. Does any language support all 3 of these things well together? Do you basically need fully dependent types for this?

Obviously, with discipline you can work to enforce all these things at runtime, but I'd like it if there was a language that made all 3 of these things straightforward.
But you do carry your phone with you right? You can use that as a webcam/mic.
どうぞ https://langston-barrett.github.io/treereduce/
Using this tool requires disabling SIP, so not "easily bypassed" at least from a malware perspective.
Bari Weiss’s substack had an article month ago that talked about some of the known cases of claim #2.

https://www.thefp.com/p/debanking-america-melania-barron-tru...
Trump tower 2.0 London Edition?
This is well known in the security community, when I was at Bromium around 2011 or 2012 this was shown in internal demos. And the X230 is a very old laptop, hopefully the newer ones have fixed this problem.
It'll be interesting to see how the new administration deals with all of the big tech antitrust investigations and lawsuits it inherits.

On one hand Trump and the Republicans hate these corporations, and would love the opportunity to take them down a notch.

On the other their entire governing agenda is about deregulation, dismantling of federal agencies and being pro-business.

Interesting situation to be in.
Is there any Russian money going to UK/London anymore? Or any that wasn't frozen/sanctioned that hasn't already left.

I know of trader who left London to work in Dubai to still take his Russian clients business, and apparently all Russian money is going there instead of London.
My argument is

1) that something that takes in 500m in its useful lifetime should not be subject to a lower tax rate than something that takes in only 100k in its useful lifetime (in fact it should be subject to a higher tax rate, in line with income tax policy);

2) something that takes in 500m should not automatically be entitled to a longer useful lifetime than something that takes in 100k.

Unfortunately both things are true for this proposal. #1 can be ameliorated by offering an income tax credit, but #2 is fundamental.
The cybertruck (thankfully) doesn't have full self driving.

EDIT: I'm wrong, it launched without it, but it's since been rolled out.
They get mass-blocked a lot; this appears to make them furious, but is not the same as being banned. Generally, Bluesky mostly bans people over stuff in their profile, which has much stricter rules than posts.
Stripe Rearchs Its Observability Platform with AWS-Managed Prometheus, Grafana
top tier response
Ce n'est pas un papillon.
This might come as a surprise to some people, but the real world is infinitely more complex than a sim game.
Ask HN: Contracting – dealing with ambiguous requirements and liability
I'm talking with a client who wants me to help integrate three pieces of software that are already in development. They are new to custom software and they contracted out each piece without specifying that each of the three should talk to each other. I don't think it'll be that bad getting these to all work, but I am concerned about specifying the liability. Who will be to blame if I write method doSomethingWithBoxesAndScissors(box, scissors), and the other contractors produce code that sends ill-formed scissors in as an input? I can't rely on a pre-written spec because there is concurrent development happening with very little of it pre-specified by the client. And I am a bit concerned that one of these teams will go rogue at deliverable time, cut some corners, get their piece accepted, and leave me holding the bag.

The client says that I am allowed to direct each of the teams on what they must do to achieve the integration goal, and they must accept my direction. The client is also fine with me billing hourly, so I'm not worried about getting squeezed on a flat fee. But I am a bit lost on how to define liability. The client, understandably, wants me to accept some liability. But they are looking to me for guidance on this.

Had anyone else dealt with this? How did you define the liability?
As far as I'm aware they do need an act of parliment to close it down. The one to create the market on the current site is an Act of Parliament (The Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Market Act of 1860) which should protect the site from becoming anything but a place to provide Meat & Poultry
This surprises you how? It's just software controlling hardware. Heck, they can flash that led to music if they wanted.
The EU has right to the basic bank account. The similar right does not exist in the UK, US or anywhere for companies. The EU plans to have right to corporate bank account in the upcoming PSD3.

However banks still can kick anyone out based on unspecified anti-money laundering suspicions (not need to be proven) and the customer cannot dispute.
The popular cultural myths are really just propaganda, the Lend Lease wasn't as large or as meaningful as is claimed.

Don't know which claims you're referring to, but if you like you can take the matter up with Khrushchev, Zhukov and others directly:

I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. ... He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#Significance_of_Len...
This AP report states:

Someone who also had been at the function, but was driving in a separate car, was able to pull the surviving victim out of the Cybertruck.

indicates they were likely not trapped .. unless an external person was able to open doors that an internal person was unable to because { reasons? }.
Despite this being a 2016 paper, it's worth noting that this is true in general and has been common(ish) knowledge among electrical engineers for decades. Highschoolers and undergrads in electrical engineering classes often discover this independently.

What's notable about this paper is only that they demonstrate it as a practical attack, rather than just a neat fun fact of audio engineering.

As a fun fact, an LED can also be used as a photometer. (You can verify this with just a multimeter, an LED, and a light source.) But I doubt there's any practical attack using a monitor as a photosensor.
For me it was the first letterboxed thing I had ever seen on TV and I asked my dad what was wrong with the TV. Feels like it was on A&E? At least 30 years ago.
China has found out there is a limit to how many people you can screw.
If there’s anything uniquely attributable to Tesla/Cybertruck I’m sure it will be breathlessly reported on soon.
Yeah that 2nd part is kinda interesting. I mean, yes absolutely if the FD had no issues putting the fire out then clearly the battery pack hadn't caught fire but given the obvious lack of flammable liquids involved one is left wondering how the vehicle managed to catch fire in the first place.
That was normal in the 60s. Scifi was encouraged. They wanted kids to be inspired by space and technology. Star Wars changed things, driving a wedge separating what would eventually be "kids" movies from hard scifi, but that wasnt always so. Movies like 1953's War of the Worlds were very much all-family affairs.
They are in the process of absolving their legal obligation to continue operating the market.
I wonder if this means they migrated away from Honeycomb, which often lists Stripe as a prominent customer (e.g. "HelloFresh, Stripe, Slack, Fender, Vanguard, LaunchDarkly, and many more rely on Honeycomb" in most blog entries).
You can print one with a 3d printer, they're on thingiverse. Sure to be a hit at parties!
https://archive.ph/qq4El
I sort of think that if someone is sleeping outside, in a wealthy society that has chosen not to ensure basic human necessities for its citizens, then who am I to begrudge them something like beer with which to self-medicate and/or moderate the harshness of their situation? Or the potential enrichment of music and art? Or the simple companionship of a dog?
I have a cybertruck. FSD rolled out weeks ago.
> Your options are to either suck it up and brush up on basic data structures and algorithms or interview at places that don't test for it.

The article is about the fact that if you did just this, you're at a disadvantage because people use Chat GPT to cheat on these and get ahead.
A lot of things can break (hardware, networking, ...). Spanning the workload over multiple clusters in different regions is already satisfying the "backup cluster" recommendation.

Many workloads don't need to be multi-region as a requirement. So they might run just on one cluster with the option to fail over to another region in case of an emergency. Running a workload on one cluster at a time (even with some downtime for a manual failover) makes a lot of things much easier. Many workloads don't need 99,99% availability, and nothing awful happens if they are down for a few hours.
Seems like they buried the lede pretty hard here:

"Other recalls covered rearview camera images that don’t activate immediately after shifting into reverse, trim pieces that can fall off, windshield wipers that can fail, and an incorrect font size on instrument panel warning lights. In April, the futuristic trucks were recalled to fix gas pedals that can get stuck in the interior trim."

I'm just imagining what SNL would look like if Ford fucked in that badly in that short a period of time, especially when you take into consideration other reported issues around trapped passengers in other vehicle models from the same manufacturer.
LEDs are diodes. So you can run power _through_ them. Power Supply -> LED -> Camera.
Statement from the City of London Corporation which is closing them down:

> Chris Hayward, policy chairman of the City of London Corporation, said the
> decision represented a "positive new chapter" for the markets as it "empowers
> traders to build a sustainable future in premises that align with their
> long-term business goals".

This is a great statement. Like firing people to free them up to find jobs that better align with their desire for employment.
But still entirely impossible. So does it matter?
This was still somewhat the case in the late 90s and early 00s before Youtube and IMDB were really big. We'd go watch Star Trek Nemesis because it had Star Trek in the name or watch whatever looked good in the trailers last time we went. What was your alternative? Watch it on your CRT tv a year later, probably with ads? Rental existed, but at least where I lived it was very uncommon. I honestly miss it. Driving to the cinema with a bunch of friends, sometimes not even certain what we'd watch and how it would turn out. Really great! Recently I visited an old friend at his new (to me) apartment and it came up that he had kept all his cinema tickets from back in the day. We went through all of them swimming in nostalgia, a little blurry-eyed, while our wives laughed at us.
https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector

List of ports
The whole area is full of so many personal memories; having lived, worked, and partied in & around Smithfield Market.

I live in Portugal now, but those times are so vivid. Whenever I was at the office very early, or out parting late enough, the sight of the market workers there was sobering and down to earth.

To think of it not being there, then being replaced with something nondescript, is shameful.

In and around is Farringdon Station, one of the original Tube stations, the bars & pubs (Ye Olde Mitre, The Hope, Fox & Anchor, Smiths of Smithfield, etc.) and clubs (including Fabric).

I was working in the offices above the markets, for a nascent IT company, and believe me they weren't luxurious offices but it was exciting.

Good times, and soon only memories.
Godspeed to all the OSS Adversarial Interoperability reverse engineers! APIs should be a digital human right.
there's been several attacks recently where a bad actor takes over a repo where the original maintainer wants to take a step back, then launch a supply chain attack. in recent cases, the attack came from obfuscated binary files in the repo rather than code. given we are dealing with documents here (books) that would be easy to hide malicious code in a file. pdfs have all sorts of execution vulnerabilities for example