skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On thing you can do is fetch the html and extract the main content to display it in your favorite way, it's been stable for years, and you can use the (stable) session_id cookie, it's how many people approach the challenge.
Shouldn't the title of the article be "Research on low power alternatives to LLMs" rather than "Controlling AI's ..."
This is a great application of dynamic tooling. But figure 5 is kind of flawed. It’s not a fair comparison, when the tool call you provide doesn’t work. Obviously the LLM with code execution capabilities will do better.
> I genuinely can't think of one impressive thing Google has done in the last 15 years.

The Transformer.
Agree that WASM cannot yet directly manipulate the DOM. But are build times in JS/TS framework world any slower than Rust compile times? I'm not convinced on this point.

As a disclaimer, I still prefer vanilla JS and progressive enhancement.
That's the problem, the only security culture it produces is thinking of security as annoying box ticking.
There were two things, \0 (escaped null) and \9 (which I think was could be any other escape sequence, but that 9 was customarily used). I don't remember the difference in browsers they'd target, the information will still be out there somewhere, I'm sure, though you'll have to sift through dead links.
I wonder about that as well.

Perhaps they are easily distracted and forget what they were searching for in the first place, because they're presented with a shiny object?
I kinda had this "wayland was actually designed for embedded use cases and [therefore lots of things don't matter]" also in the back of my mind, but I failed to find any evidence at all for this actually being the case. Nevermind that embedded Linux generally didn't use X11 back then and doesn't use Wayland today.
The Superposition of St. Nicholas
Potentially the challenge just doesn’t make as much sense anymore? There apparently are „mental calculations” competitions and I’m sure their participants have fun. Yet I can hardly imagine doing arithmetic in ones head is any fun for an average mathematician. The challenge just shifted elsewhere over time.
Let me fix that typo:

HP never again.

That’s better!
and more advents...

https://pdl.perl.org/advent/index.html
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

The Man Who Laughs

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

The Lodger
Wouldn't have it any other way :)
Well, you can firewall the IP or MAC, but yes, my router supports virtual wifi, so it does multiple SSIDs.
Crabapples make an excellent jelly, that you can have also in different colors depending on the cultivar.

https://www.alamy.com/home-made-crab-apple-jelly-malus-evere...

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/40275/mary-wynnes-crabappl...

https://thequietfoodie.com/my-first-ever-crab-apple-jelly-re...

As raw fruit they are perfectly edible when mature. The flavor is a mild apple flavor, a little bland an can be sour also. As in all apples, the seeds have cyanide, but as long as you don't eat them or filter the seeds after cooking it, it will not be a problem. Just don't eat it whole.

The immature fruits are hard as a steel ball, so there is a risk of suffocation with children, but apart if this, if you discard the seeds they are perfectly edible. I ate them many times, even if I prefer to let most in the tree for the birds.
You also have a problem that a team can benefit from people who are less productive as coders, but more productive at paperwork, organizing, mentoring, meetings, etc.

I’ve seen several teams fire less productive coders and then the team fell apart into individually good coders.

That teams require a blend of capabilities and personalities is anathema to the “everyone a widget” mentality of most corporations — but remains persistently true.
I totally understand your take, and you are right in some aspect. Reviews SHOULD NOT WORK IN THIS WAY. I'm totally agreeing on that, but consider this, the population is increasing, the number of topics are increasing, we are no more in a system where the review system work as it was designed to.

When it was designed, only a few people got the chance to read, and information was not easily available. So, people became experts, and knowing the sota was mandatory. Now, due to the high quantity of (good and bad) researches, you cannot expect the review system to work properly.

But you are still stuck in this system. So consider what is important:

- do you want to write and hope that by chance the right people will read it, and they will be educated enough in your topic and have enough time at their disposal. Or

- Do you think your idea is good and should be more known.

If it's the later, it's your work to make your idea as clear as possible so that any (good) researcher can understand it, and therefore use it. We must work in the reality of the current system if we want to spread interesting ideas to the community. The publication system is a social system, and it evolves with the people inside, you want to write to spread knowledge. How can you do that if the probability is that the reader will not fully understand?

The time is very limited and I always have many things to do, I only read what I filter as worthy enough. That filter is based on the quality of writing.
If some paper is important but badly written, it will automatically fall in my 'if I have time to read it' and most of the time it will never reach the 'to read' category, because there are many many paper well written with good ideas inside.

We work in a biased system. It's extremely difficult to find reviewers, we do what we can with what we have.

I also was infuriated when I got a review saying 'you didn't explain structure from motion' in a conference with a topic on structure from motion. But the reality is this. If I want my papers to be read, I must adapt to my audience.

> Read best paper awards of good conferences

With that sentence, I did not mean 'read it for knowledge' but read it with the lenses of the writer, why did they present the topic in this way, what makes this paper clear and another on the same topic not clear at all. Reverse engineer the writing style. It's not about knowledge of the content of the paper, it's about communication. Best paper do not always have the best ideas inside, but they are presented in a way that even if the topic is difficult they provide insights on it. And often those insights are what readers want to read. The maths are not important, the important thing is the insight you give to the readers. That insight can be translated in their field of they internalized it enough.
IMO "parse, don't validate" can apply to data coming out of the database too.
I think a better idea would be to pick up a few issues of Robb Report, or peruse their website articles for a while. That's how you find out what wealthy people want and are willing to pay for.

I've never seen an issue covering photoshop alternatives.

https://robbreport.com
It's called the generalized mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean
This keeps coming up here:

"It isn't React, just those specific implementations"

Perhaps it is React, JS ecosystems and overbloated frameworks generally. These tools provide abundant footguns.
Company pushing constant snooping of all activity of users even on professional/enterprise variants of their OS can't be taken seriously re security, so absolutely no idea where this rumor 'They’re known for being great at serving and selling to the enterprise' comes from.

They may be good when luring in customers, but once thats done, they don't give a fuck about anything but their current cash flow. And the fact that ultra-big players can ask them for customized OS distribution that has this turned off (just like my own mega corporation) doesn't change anything on statements above.
Until I looked up the original and discovered that "recaps" was meant to be taken literally, I was ready to be impressed*, as I'm a fan of those trailers that tell different stories, eg: death star as insurance fraud, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA (an interpretation so strong, it even continues to work for the sequel)

which implication specifically? (for me zero extension is that set about which all predicates, even normally contradictory ones, are true)

in space-time anyway the GP appears to have had quite a bit of geometric extension, even in eigentime.

Lagniappe: Joseph as sabra? https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d601f74ae9201df318403b8c7e25b32...

compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_... ?

* but maybe I'm insufficiently suspending disbelief, as in my world, female grad students in archaeology wind up more often in places like Ürümqi, not in places like "Wilson"?

I guess the question is how to remain content with the ordinary yet still seek out the extraordinary? Look at the stars but keep your feet on the ground? (观星步土?)

> A man's retch should exceed his grasp / Or what's a heaving for? —not RB
Notably, Tlon is the holding company for Urbit - I credit them for having an apt name
Thanks for the recommends!
I wonder how many seconds could be won by the organizers if the challenge included a blant prompt injection breaking the result.
Heard a similar story about why the german emergency number is 110 and not the easier to memorize/type 111: The latter is 3 clicks on the line with generous spacing requirements, the former 12 clicks. So 111 would be much more prone to misdialing than 110.

(I guess the international number 112 is a compromise. Still a low number of clicks, but I suppose the timing would be more difficult to get right?)
While it might be technically open source, it's very, very much against the spirit of open source.

It's also explicitly prohibited under the GPLv3 unless there's no way that the manufacturer can update that firmware.
You assume there is a way to scale certain kinds of knowledge, or that the current metrics-supremacy is it. I get it, humans are inconsistent and squishy, but at least we can be reasoned with. Stripping complex realities down to “metrics”, often without error bars even, gives fake authority to dangerous approximations. You can’t argue with numbers! They’re so precise and correct.
Gamer's Nexus – NZXT predatory PC rental scam explained [video]
> I've worked at FAANG and enterprise companies and we managed to do it.

You have a very different experience to the rest of us, in that cases.

The big AWS services all had deployments measured in days - or even weeks (depending on how many regions they are deployed across). Facebook's monorepo took upwards of an hour just to get a PR through the merge queue. Both were notorious for "hand-jamming" critical fixes directly to production.
Then why have a leaderboard?
Exactly.

Also, it is only a matter of time until one of those employees (thanks to free will and agency) will whistleblow, it doesn’t scale, etc.

Frankly, the fact that such a big segment of HN crowd unthinkingly buys big tech’s double standard (LLMs are human when copyright is concerned, but not human in every other sense) makes me ashamed of the industry.
Very much worth saying that many of the people what write code at Apple are women. Some of them are my friends.
> If you're a large enterprise, then it's trivial to add yourself your own custom CA

The big CA have their own "Boy club". See Ahmed used cars and certificates.
Perhaps because they were lucky? What they needed was available for millions of years. Note the survivorship bias there. I am sure you already know it, so please excuse me pointing out this obvious thing.
I never buy routers w wifi. Running PC Engines APU4 with Ubiquiti AP is more rock solid/stable than anything else I ever ran which had wifi+wired in a single router.
My conversion went fine, but there were so many misaligned sectors and constant strange checksum errors (on files written after the conversion). With the cherry on top being that if there’s more than X% of checksum errors, btrfs refuses to mount and you have to do multiple arcane incantations to get it to clear all its errors. Real fun if you need your laptop for a high priority problem to solve.

Lesson learned: despite whatever “hard” promises a conversion tool (and its creators) make, just backup, check the backup, then format and create your new filesystem.
The author argues against absolutism in SWE, but makes absolute claims about experience requirements to understand what he’s talking about.
The Tribe (Plemya), 2014. Though I can't remember if it is 100% a silent movie as I watched long time ago.
Things like this make me wonder why certificates are not also signed by the certificate owner.

Right now, a CA can issue a certificate for any public key and domain they like. A rogue trusted CA can intercept all traffic.

If a certificate also included a signature by the owner of the public key signed by the CA (using their private key, signed over the CA signature), then a CA would no longer have this ability.

What am I missing?
I participate almost every year but I don't care about the leaderboard. The timezone play a crucial role in being able to be ready at the right time, so actually who cares?
I prefer to build private leaderboards with my friends and colleagues.
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> Yes, but normally this is done by making your own CA and installing it into your client devices, not by getting it into every device globally by working with Microsoft.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Cloudfare, Godaddy, Lets encrypt. They all "work with Microsoft".
Generating code to do stuff was the idea of OpenAI Codex in 2021.

This paper basically just adds a cache? Not really novel as we already have Codex, Code Interpreter, etc.
"If others lack discernment, we too should also dispose of discernment"

It is rationalizing a race to the bottom. Invoking pejoratives is a step further down the slope.
> As opposed to Linux which would have issues when running apps side-by-side?

The meteoric rise of containers is a massive testament to just how bad Linux is at running apps side-by-side. Or for a more principled approach, take a look at Nix. Either way, the problem is solved by adding quite a lot of complexity.

Android and iOS also solve this with a large amount of sandboxing, which means more complexity. Developing and maintaining mobile apps is anything but simple.

To be clear, I'm not saying these things are bad. They are necessary. But they are not simple.
Yes, a functional democracy means neonazis advocating for genociding are protected from the vicious sign holders by the police. Yes, that is definitely a functional democracy. The state defending neonazis from people holding signs is absolutely the free marketplace of ideas in action. Genocide is acceptable if enough people vote for it. Wow, what a great idea!

I one day hope to be so privileged to actually think like that. Give me half a billion dollars and a lobotomy and that's as close as I'll get; I'm not sure it'll be enough.
They said it on a podcast.

I have even read documents on blogs by law firms close to VCs & tech firms that describe pitch decks as a "hook" — as in like the bait used to catch a fish.
It would be nice if there was a psql option that would warn you if you're about to do any kind of update, delete or insert without doing a BEGIN;

(You could always set autocommit=false, which forces you to explicitly commit or rollback every action, but that has its own baggage)
But access to healthcare is what makes most of developed world much better and more civilized? It's one of the most important things you have to have in a society.

I have read about people in the USA forgoing basic procedures like endoscopes because they cannot afford it. Can you believe that?

I was recently in Spain, what's different is "good" food is cheaper and it's part of the culture, crap food is less acceptable. I had one of the best sandwiches and coffees of my life and at airport, an airport...at 6am. It was also cheaper than what I'd get at most US airports.
Probably because my audience is probably 90% software engineers, and many of them have more experience and technical skill than me. I only really dare to advise people in the first 1-3 years of their tech journey on actual tech topics.
I had to fiddle with the colours in the web inspector to even read the page. So yeah...

Of all the cynical comments I see on HN, this ranks very very low.
I would recommend you build a flatpak or guix package for this :)
It's not a priority, it's part of the culture, go to most cities in Spain, Italy any night of the week, it feels like new years eve. People out all over the place at bars, eating and drinking good food.

I think in America food and it's price are the priority personally. Every meal that I actually enjoy and isn't fast food is painfully expensive. The only exception is Mexican food IMO.
More navel-gazing philosophy about software. Just write code, solve problems, and skip the martyrdom.
At this point, it just shows that Advent of Code is completely worthless given the ease and accessibility of AI-assisted tools to solve these problems.

RIP Advent of Code.
Sure, could be their environment simply didn't change. In which case, a simpler, less adaptable organism may be fitter than a more adaptable one (if the cost of adaptability was higher).
I watched Murnau's Faust movie some years ago, accompanied by a live music performance, which was great. I liked the staging and the set design.
It's available on YouTube with subtitles.
This vertical is already catered for: Vertu sells expensive phones:

E.g. SIGNATURE COBRA LIMITED EDITION KEYPAD PHONE
US$504,308.00

They have a concierge service:
https://vertu.com/concierge/

Something like ask Siri, but staffed with actual humans that can arrange real services.

Have a look at what's on offer.
Fellow indie Qt developer here, curious to learn more about your apps.
I am waiting for "I made my email server" free from DNS racketeering.

mailbox@[x.x.x.x] for IPv4, mailbox@[ipv6:...] for IPv6...

And see how he will deal with the Big Tech email services blockade... They should get huge fines as they are forcing all email services to go into useless complexity, and sometimes a complexity you have to implement AND pay for access.

It is not anymore "You've got mail", it is "you are blocked" (even though, there is a strong SPF like spam scoring indicator with with the email address being contained directly in the actual IP of the sender/receiver...).

gmail is not email anymore, it is Big Tech messaging, compuserve and AOL all over again. They are injecting their poison in people slowly but surely, but they hav e the means to be very patient with their billions of $... ohoho, you'll get to use their messaging platform or existing will become a pain.
Highly recommend a short movie “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943). Watched it in a local cinema right after Mulholland Drive, that was quite an experience :)
Is it that expectation of major updates coming in at a fixed cycle? Not only expected by upper management but also by end users? That's a difficult trap to get out of.

I wonder if that will be the key benefit of Google's switch to two "major" Android releases each year: it will get people used to nothing newsworthy happening within a version increment. And I also wonder if that's intentional, and my guess is not the tiniest bit.
Given the fact that practically no one can say with certainty that their software is bug-free, they are right of course. Except for toy problems.
I do it better, I free myself from as much as I can of toxic SDK (c++ and java SDKs are filthy toxic).

Assembly, worst case scenario plain and simple C99+.
You can add sea-orm on top of sqlx for a query builder. It can also introspect your SQL database and generate entity types.

I built my own back in the days when I worked for Prisma. None of these crates existed. It's not that complex if you limit the builder to queries you need in your application.

But, to be honest, jOOQ or LINQ would be awesome to get for Rust.
(author here - suggestions very welcome!)
This definitely depends on the use-case. But not having to rely on a foreign service and owning your data is huge for many people.
Additionally slack is super expensive for a paid tenant that does not delete your chat history. And some day in the future Discord will surely enshittify their free options too.
CVE-2017-11882 and the NTLM relay attack come to mind, for example. Down the line they weren't actually fixed, and are continuously being used by a lot of ransomware / malware campaigns.

I remember some Windows Fax Service related CVEs and some Wi-Fi drivers that couldn't be fixed directly, too, but don't remember the CVE or whether that was related to the Broadcom driver/module sideloading fuckup.

> The link you gave just gives me a long list of patches.

The link I gave you is the only disclosure/advisory page that Microsoft offers, don't blame me for them not offering a better UI. Ask them to do better.

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11882

- https://blog.0patch.com/2017/11/did-microsoft-just-manually-...

- https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2022...
Wut? The point wasn't that honey and agave are adhesives, it was that they don't need stabilizers when mixed with yogurt _because they already contain stabilizers_. Emphasis on the "already contain" and "stabilizer" parts.

People do use honey and agave as stabilizers in salad dressings, so obviously people consider them to be stabilizers </dumb semantic argument>
Admin panels may do that. Say for example deleting a bucket with a million rows.

In that case I'd fire off a job and tell the user, yeah sure the delete is successful. But check the logs to be sure.
With semantic and fine-grained control of your allocations, and with a memory paging system on top of that, getting fragmentation is tough...
>[A]re there still many industries (or just individual tasks even) that are necessarily locked into proprietary products because of complexity/cost of development, lack of interest outside of a niche of industry, or whatever other reason.

I would say almost all paid software development occurs within these niches, actually.

NOTE: I need to slightly redefine your question as "Are there any good open-source options", because in some some sense all software has a Minimum Viable FOSS Competitor: Build it yourself from scratch.

But one very concrete example might be MATLAB. You may assume that GNU Octave, Julia, etc. are all good competitors to MATLAB, but the real value add of MATLAB is that the company behind it has funded high-quality, proprietary libraries for all kinds of niche scientific and engineering toolkits. It is much more difficult to whip up the equivalent FOSS enthusiasm to put the same TLC into a sub-sub-category of optimizing a control theory equation, and that's if you can find a FOSS dev who even has the math background to understand what's going on there.

Two other areas which come to mind are ERPs and capital-R Requirements Management software. Both are relatively niche themselves, with hundreds of individual rabbit holes to go down. If there's a unifying thread, I would say it's this: Truly valuable software combines good-enough software engineering with good-enough domain expertise. If all you ever do with your time is hack, you only know the hacking part of the equation, and that's usually not enough to be sold well by itself.
> What am I missing?

Infrastructure and processes for key distribution and revocation. Reusing the existing PKI infrastructure used for CA trust roots won't handle it. Perhaps public keys/certs could be distributed over DNS, like for DANE (or maybe even using DANE)?

Not saying it can't be done, just to point out how it's not trivial and requires buy-in from incumbents across the ecosystem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...

I like your general idea of improving the status quo by adding decentralized/self-managed trust on top of/alongside the existing centralized PKI. Could be a stepping stone towards something more systematically resilient.
ZoneMinder?
IMO its a similar situation to the discussion here:

https://capnproto.org/faq.html#how-do-i-make-a-field-require...