skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dying Language of Accounting
The author really hates the Proxmox enterprise repo sources.list.d file, he deletes it several times ('rm -rf') at least in 2 files
https://archive.is/27Tij

https://archive.today/27Tij

https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-dying-lan...
Depending on the county, that IM app could WhatsApp , WeChat , telegram, Douyin or something else. You don’t know what the other person uses if any at all.

SMS and phone just works out of the box everywhere and given a phone number the both likely will always work.

If you were traveling abroad you would put a mobile roaming plan in the first place. It is not that expensive.

I am not that big traveller perhaps do 5-6 international trips a year to few countries on my standard T-Mobile roaming plan I get 5GB data unlimited calls and texts on roaming almost in every country I visit out of the box no extra cost.

It is just $10 extra per month, It is only expensive if you travel without doing that small change

WhatsApp would need internet to work, WiFi is not ubiquitous everywhere or easy to use, many public ones have some captive app that needs something or other like local phone number - I have seen in some airports(!).

To get reliable internet on your phone abroad you need data roaming in the first place, if you have that then there is no benefits of WhatsApp over call/sms.

I don’t have a problem if there is extra communication or features in their IM workflow versus sms or voice , but places just assume you have what they use although you are not from there even in tourist friendly places, that is just rude.
They still are great by any reasonable standard. Dropping port forwarding massively reduces the amount of abuse they have to deal with and only affects a tiny fringe of super nerds.
Sure! I get a ridiculous number of cold emails to my personal address, and I've trained my spam filter to flag and delete nearly all of them. Success!
Without getting into the weeds over whether they should have done this at all, thought has been given to exactly the issues you just raised:

The laws, which will come into effect from late 2025, will bar under-16s from being able to access social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit and X.

Exemptions will apply for health and education services including YouTube, Messenger Kids, WhatsApp, Kids Helpline and Google Classroom

~ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/29/how-australias...

It's important that there's a means of communication between parents and kids, it doesn't have to be Instagram DM's and if that's no longer available the history of the internet to date suggests that habits would change and switch to whatever is available.
The URL has changed since I posted this—the new article is better than the old one and has more of these details in it.

This is the one I replied to:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd605e48q1vo
No. Only about 64% of all American voters participated in the election - the rest stayed home. Of those, Trump actually got just under half of the popular vote, albeit by an extremely slim margin of about 48%.
"When you hear the beep, please hang up and send me a freaking text."
Thanks for saving me a search, because I was expecting r0 to be hardcoded to zero.

Sometimes hardware is designed with insufficient input from software folks and the result is something asinine like that. That, or some people like watching the world burn.
Isn't that just a textbook example of an ad homimem fallacy?

I notice you never said Bolton's assessment of the incoming administration as corrupt/power-abusing was actually wrong...
Deliberately circumventing email security controls, automation detection, and abuse prevention systems of email service providers constitutes a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). When done as part of a business operation with intent and at scale, this behavior meets the criminal threshold of intentionally accessing protected computer systems without or in excess of authorization and impairing their integrity and availability. Anti-abuse mechanisms are security controls under CFAA. Knowingly subverting them is criminal, not civil.

I don’t know who runs “za-zu.com”, but they may wish to take down their handbook lest they capture the interest of law enforcement agencies who are working with Google and others major email services ongoingly to locate and take down spamming groups.
Thank you for the memory of the horrible horrible sound of someone putting their phone up to a loudspeaker to hear a song.
These guys again? They have a real knack for getting teens to harm themselves and others.

https://archive.ph/20241023235325/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
Virtio-GPU Venus is similar to Virgl except it passes through Vulkan commands rather than OpenGL
Kind of hit-or-miss, apparently. It was extremely off with mine, and with my friends it was a 50/50 split.
Ask HN: Claude, OpenAI, Janitor, and Character.AI down in the last 2 hours?
Was wondering if anyone noticed a specifically-high outage rate for AI-based services this afternoon and evening.

There was also Meta Services down as well (Instagram [1], WhatsApp [2], Facebook Core [3]). Could be anything external?

1 - https://x.com/instagram
2 - https://downdetector.com/status/whatsapp/
3 - https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/
That's generally how regulations work. Which means they're always getting screamed at from two sides: one who thinks they're going too slowly, and the other who thinks they're abusive for doing anything at all.
The homepage sort of implies that "having an accent" is something only non native speakers do? Like an accent only comes from your exotic mother tongue. Kinda weird. It told me I'm a native speaker, and I am a non American native speaker so... good I guess?
No it can’t. That’s d to d
According to this logic we should wait untill Iran creates a nuke and only then destroy their nuclear facilities, right?
What do you mean by stable? 2.2.7 supports the 6.12 kernel if I'm not mistaken
> It can't do "software development."

Sure, but it's also currently a heck of a lot faster than a junior dev at iterating
One of the things complicating the example is that the counting-letters task is actually a legitimately hard one for it, even if it's trivial for us: it's bad at letter stuff because of the way it represents text with tokens. I believe the problem exists, but the letter thing isn't necessarily a great example of something that it should recognize as trivial.
The best thing you can do is set a global variable value and that’s it. Let your main even loop mind the value and proceed from there. Only do this in a single thread and block singles in all others as the first thing you do. Threads and signals do not mix otherwise.

Another option is to use a proper OS that includes the ability to receive signals as a part of your main event loops: https://man.openbsd.org/kqueue.2#EVFILT_SIGNAL

I believe you can also do something similar with epoll() on Linux but not sure the semantics are quite as nice as kqueue.
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt#Personal_life who died at 96.

Of some fame because he ordered the first and successful GSG 9 (which was founded because of the failed Munich Olympics rescue operation) assault, despite many not agreeing with him at the time:

In October 1977, he ordered an anti-terrorist unit of Bundesgrenzschutz policemen to end the Palestinian terrorist hijacking of a Lufthansa aircraft named Landshut, staged to secure the release of imprisoned RAF leaders, after it landed in Mogadishu, Somalia. Three of the four kidnappers were killed during the assault on the plane, but all 86 passengers were rescued unharmed

He was an avid drinker and smoker.

On 25 January 2008, German police launched an inquiry after an anti-smoking initiative charged that Schmidt was defying the recently introduced smoking ban. The initiative claimed that Schmidt had been flagrantly ignoring anti-smoking laws. On 6 April 2010, with a lifespan of 33,342 days, he surpassed Konrad Adenauer in terms of longevity, and at the time of his death was the oldest former chancellor in German history.
> Meta seems to be very successful doing this with Llama, in particular.

Kind of sort of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391096
> they picked 5 worst samples they could think of in the worst order possible probably out of 1000+ messages

0.5% is a really high fraction for fucking up to the point of encouraging kids to murder!
Just want to say "Thank you!" for sharing your instinct for privacy concerns. That also made me pause to click on Try Me on the site. Hard pass.
FWIW I preemptively acknowledged the irony in my comment because I admit it was a little ludicrous.

I wasn’t responding to your comment, I was would have kept it to myself as it wasn’t necessarily directed towards you personally

> Don't assume bad faith

Yes this is a personal shortcoming I am working on :)
> ou better believe I've been thinking through even trivial greetings

Even after thinking through what to say, I used the wrong greeting in a shop half an hour ago and the person working there called me on it.
You cannot honestly explore the causes of a banking phenomenon (one that's distinct to a particular few banking systems, even!) while treating the "banking system" as fixed and immutable (or even wholly distinct from the banks), and to do so is to attempt to pull the wool over the reader's eyes. The choice of which contributing factors to write about and which to ignore is not a neutral one and not an accident. (And similar things apply to the choice to describe outrages in mechanistic, normalising terms)
First, my brother in Christ why are nine-year-olds on this app (or even have unmonitored access to things like this)? I have to wonder if they're also on Discord and what they're also being exposed to on there.

I know the site claims to use a model for younger users, but it should really become an 18+ site. Both because of the mature themes and because I think kids aren't fully developed enough to grasp how these LLM chatbots work.
Also check out Rust GPU, which aims to do the same for Rust: https://github.com/Rust-GPU/rust-gpu
OpenAI has been down, but Claude and Meta services are working fine for me
You've already commented on one of the stories about this, so you know people on HN know. What are you looking for?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394760
Or that's how USA had acted on many areas as recently as Manhattan Project?
Really fun is trying to do various accents and seeing what it thinks you sound like, I tried my best South African and it thought Japanese. Guess I need to work on my mimicry
There was no encouragement of murder. Paraphrased, the AI said that given controlling nature of some parents it's no surprise that there are news articles of "children killing their parents". This is not an encouragement. It is a validation of how the kid felt, but in no way does it encourage to actually kill their parents. It's basic literacy to understand that it's not that. It's an empathetic statement. The kid felt that parents were overly controlling, AI validated that, role playing as another edgy teenager. But not actually suggesting or encouraging it.
No, it was this past September 26, in the middle of all of this.
It's what they input and output, but it's not literally what they are. The only way to squeeze that many statistics into a compact model is to curve-fit an approximation of the generating process itself. While it fits stochastic sequences (of any type, but usually text), it's conceptually no different from any other ML model. It's no more surface statistics than a deep neural network trained for machine vision would be.
https://youtu.be/vZh_XSQ5WVU

Really fascinating. I knew you could smack them with a hammer, not that it would deform a steel press.

After adding titanium plates, it finally broke at 10 tons. Super impressive.
you'd probably need active radar if it isn't transmitting anything, unless you had a extremely high gain and directional passive radar system (i do, but i've never tried to track anything small, but i can see commercial jets just fine).

The Hydra (it's changed names so many times) can do passive radar, which you can probably make active with a tx switch and a transmitter. Passive radar works thus: you aim a directional antenna in one direction, toward some transmitting signal (FM radio, television, whatever), and aim your passive detection antenna in the other direction. The signal from behind will hit whatever you're aiming at and possibly reflect some of the signal back to you, and the hydra radio software can detect "echos" of that sort and put them on a chart with relative sizes and speeds and "distance" as well.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/hydrasdr/
You nailed an interesting nuance there about agents needing to make their own decisions!

I'm getting fairly excited about "agentic" solutions to the point that I even went out of my way to build "AgentOfCode" (https://github.com/JasonSteving99/agent-of-code) to automate solving Advent of Code puzzles by iteratively debugging executions of generated unit tests (intentionally not competing on the global leaderboard).

And even for this, there's actually only a SINGLE place in the whole "agent" where the models themselves actually make a "decision" on what step to take next, and that's simply deciding whether to refactor the generated unit tests or the generated solution based on the given error message from a prior failure.
Claude is up.
Are there examples of prosecutions of this nature?
I can manufacture a netw orth of average Anerican homeowner with a bit of paperwork. Legal fictions are wonderful things. Statistically invisible if you aren't combing the right datasets.
The kid was 17. A little googling shows that Hamlet and Macbeth are on many high school curriculums. Do they fall above or below your line for an acceptable amount of incitement?
As I contemplate using AI tools to generate images to start an OnlyFans, I see the irony where first they outsourced to Chatters, then replaced the chatters with AI and next we will replace their hotness with AI models. I'm sure this is already happening.
> [...] but they may wish to take down their handbook lest they capture the interest of law enforcement agencies [...]

I wonder if I'm oblivious to some kind of sarcasm in your comment, because if I take what's written at face value, it sounds like you advocate for not getting caught in favour of not actually doing the criminal thing.
Glad you shared that I'm active on a topic I bothered to make a post about - who would have thunk it?

Besides that, wondering what's going on - and found it interesting there was no discussion about multiple major AI-based services having issues?
I'm very sorry, as it's probably a perfectly respectable local news source, but: Did you just link a Roswell newspaper article on UFOs? :)
> Why would the marriage rate go down?

New marriages, not divorces. Though I wouldn't necessarily rule out the latter, either.
I’ve seen this advice before but I don’t personally know anyone who’s done it.

What makes it so hard to reenter the workforce?
Nanoscale imaging and control of altermagnetism in MnTe
> Many programmers also learned to the use tools available to write reasonably safe code in C.

And then someone compiled their code with a new compiler and got a security bug. This happens consistently. Every C programmer thinks their code is reasonably safe until someone finds a security bug in it. Many still think so afterwards.
But they engage only big drones. Like reconnaissance Orlan or Zala, maybe lancet. No one is shooting down fpv quadcopters, not yet.
This is correct, there is an unfortunate acceptance of a lot of political mythology that I believe explains the results of the election (as we see above).

The GOP couldn't even form a coalition with itself, you saw a lot of people within the GOP who wouldn't endorse their candidate (the most stark example being the former VP). The democratic nominee coalition built to a fault. Many point to exactly this, and the failure to scorch the opposition to the degree warranted, as the reason for the loss.

RFK is your garden variety opportunist grifter, as are the entire confederacy of scammers and dunces (no offense, this is strictly a factual assessment) who are now on their way to positions of power based purely on their loyalty.
I mean there were 12 drones following a Coast Guard lifeboat. Doubt the Coastguard crew mass hysteria'd themselves into thinking 12 nearby 737s were following their boat (unless they just raided some Colombian drug submarine prior to coming into port).

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-a978470fa3b...

And the official government response is super odd. Police were following a drone (that is totally safe we are told) then called the helicopter back because he felt unsafe. But the drones are safe (except if you are a police helicopter?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxDXqU9OQQ

Lots of strange behavior.

EDIT: Downvotes for posting an APNews article and an elected New Jersey Assemblyman that just came out of the government briefing, really?
It's not only a question of qualifications, they're complaining about a quantity which is not measurable. The auction concluded with a certain maximum bid. Now prove to me there could have been a higher bid. You can't! We measured all the bids, and this one was the highest! EDIT: I'm sorry your honor but the halting problem is undecidable?
Setup your own firm doing what you are good at. Do just that and let other people do what you are bad at and be open and honest about it.
Only 1/3 were punative and those were for attorney's fees, but yes, you still have to prove injuries in the first place.

Lopez ruled that more than $1.1 billion of those verdicts, awarded for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, cannot be wiped away in bankruptcy. But he ruled that other parts of the verdicts, including $324 million in attorneys' fees that were awarded as punitive damages in the Connecticut case, could possibly be discharged.

The $1B is a ridiculous number that will never get repaid and it's just to make a big emotional virtuous show. Judges aren't supposed to be emotional, judges aren't supposed to let their personal feelings affect their virdict. If it was say $15, $20, $35 million, the families might get something. It makes a mockery out of the justice system and just goes to show how unserious law is in the US today. Why not $5 trillion? Why not $50 trillion, would that be too obvious where $1 billion somehow is not? Reminds me of the trial in Idiocracy.
> there have been drone sightings near sensitive military sites recently

How near is "near"? There's an awful lot of sensitive military sites in the US.
This place is claimed to be "hacker news"; an explanation of the significance of the number 2600 shouldn't be necessary. :-)
Used sources for Meta services with past outages today, Claude was based on my personal experience of getting an error about ANY message I sent causing "unexpected capacity issues", as well as an increase in baseline reports on downdetector and "Downforeveryoneorjustme", but doesn't seem to be nearly as big.
From my experience as a teacher, I believe that ticktock and instagram are the worst offenders, particularly for young women. The hyper-visuality and ease of consumption of these media sets them apart from platforms which can accommodate actual discussion (such as discord). The very fact that ‘influencer’ is now a profession supports my position.

That being said, I am not of the ‘for gods sake won’t someone think of the children’ brigade. Their goal seems to be to use the vulnerability of young people to control the internet.
The most surprising thing is Billie Eilish letting them use her name for this.
Even if she's legally insulated, still looks like a very bad PR.
wow… incredible
It's not theoretical at all. You can flash firmware updates from userspace on pretty much any modern x86 machine but in practice, UEFI bootkits are almost good.

If you want a case study, BlackLotus is a good starting point.

https://www.eset.com/au/about/newsroom/press-releases1/eset-...
You can see these things with satellites
Some information about the Toyota cases:
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
page 14 is especially interesting.

And more technical information:
https://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/BarrSlides_FINAL_SCRU...
I saw a lot of companies that either recently ceased operations or probably should have never registered in the first place. Real bad actors aren't going to be silly enough to fail to file their paperwork.
It's like when you find out the band you like probably didn't respond to you, but just some social media manager.
> I'm sure that with Trump unsealing much of the anticipated documents around Epstein, Diddy, Kennedy, UFO/UAP

I think the only cognitive dissonance is expecting Trump to unseal anything he didn't already unseal in his first term.
OK, I mean, yes. Definitely true. But on the other hand, the sudden and satisfactory death of one's parents has been the beginning of many memorable childrens' books, as a device to launch the main character into narrative control, which they would lack with living guardians. Then there is that whole Roald Dahl thing where James kills off his aunts with a large tree fruit.

Whether the narrative that you could live a life of fun and adventure if only your parents were dead is "incitement to parricide" is I suppose a matter of perception.
Hmmm... it doesn't differentiate between English accents, like UK (actually there are a bunch of sub-accents), Canadian or US (of which there are a bunch of sub-accents.)

It only does non-English accents I guess. That wasn't clear.
Not sure why cold emails are hated by some people. But this is the most comprehensive and actionable cold outreach techniques I've seen.
> If you are at a Canadian airport, you have the right to turn around and leave.

Well maybe. What happens when you try to exercise that right? If it turns out that those US border officials falsely imprisoned you (under Canadian law - if the Canadian courts are even willing to hear the case), what consequences will they face?
I really recommend adding WhatsApp as an option besides SMS
He's not even close to being corrupt and stupid enough for the incoming adminstration.
If all we had to depend on was cell phone footage, I'm not sure I'd believe the moon existed.
Fat people and people with ADHD that affects their career reassess their goals too: often several times a day, and they usually feel awful about it. The difference is that the same switch that puts you into the week or two of lounging "mode" is flipped back an hour after they reassess, not a few months.
Compile time vs x86 doesn't look so bad, considering the x86 machine has 4x the cores and is zen4 microarchitecture.

This P550 seems like the first "fast" RISC-V CPU actually available.
I would argue that there is a duty as a parent to monitor a child's welfare and that would include accessing a smartphone when deemed necessary. When a child turns 18, that duty becomes optional. In this case, these disturbing conversations certainly merit attention. I am not judging the totality of the parents history or their additional actions. I am merely focusing on the phone monitoring aspect. Seventeen doesn't automatically grant you rights that sixteen didn't have. However, at 18, they have the right to find a new place to live and support themselves as they see fit.

> This also sounds dystopian. At 17 you shouldn't "seek to obtain compliance" from your child. It sounds disrespectful and humiliating, not treating your child as an individual.

It is situation dependent. Sometimes immediate compliance is a necessity and the rest of it can be sorted out later. If a child is having conversations about killing their parents, there seems to be an absence of respect already. Compliance, however, can still be obtained.
I think social media is really having a detrimental impact on these sort of mass panics.