skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One approach might be to see if the software can be replaced with an open-source alternative that allows an equivalent level of access to the hardware functionality, with official support for performing such a replacement (though not necessarily for the replacement software itself). If so, then the manufacturer need not provide the source code. Whereas if there is no supported way of replacing the software with an open-source alternative, then compel the manufacturer to make the software available.

Under this system, Garmin could keep their software closed-source as long as they provide a way to replace the firmware and software with an open-source alternative that can use all of the hardware features, while not necessarily having the software features.
See also: https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
Not necessarily. A pre-condition for emergence and evolution towards more complex life forms can be removed from the system by the existing complex life forms.

At the end of the day, all life is competing for energy. Spontaneous self replicators would be uncompetitive with existing biology and would never make it to more complex stages.
I've been looking for a replacement for Google Assistant/Nest/Nest Mini that is cloudless and could support things like verbally setting alarms, inquiring about the weather, and random queries.

This looks like a decent fit. Just needs a case, microphone, and speaker. Oh an one of the newer small LLMs that fit in under 8GB.
Also probably includes all the times my company has made me change my password. It always takes a good week before I remember that my old password isn't the one anymore.
Doug McIlroy on 'use case' and 'concatenate'
These obesity drugs are already having a huge effect -- obesity is down in the US for the first time in a long time (2023).

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullartic...
Without a 'personal computer' that contains your passkeys.

Next up, cloud based passkey proxy services. Store your passkeys there they auth for you after you give them some other damn auth method.
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Air-Gapped Computers Can Communicate Through Heat (2015)
I've had lots of very helpful interactions with government employees throughout my life. As a matter of fact, there have clearly been many more unambiguously positive experiences than negative ones. Of course, we are both just playing the anecdote game here, but why should that stop anyone from asserting opinion as fact?
Common brain network links atrophy patterns seen in schizophrenia
The law is not a set of propositions, so this issue does not arise. The law is a linguistic artefact which requires interpretation to derive propositions, ie., pragmatics. The pragmatic context of interpretation, hemmed-in by precedent, dramatically narrows the range of admissible "legal propositions" in any given legal context.

The idea that the law is, or should be, a canonical set of propositions is the real "myth" here, one espoused by people who haven't thought for a moment how such a set of propositions could ever be constructed.
I was replying to your comment where you suggested that OS-level resource reservation wasn't a thing that happened in production systems. The situation here is that a single process was being overloaded by one type of load, preventing it from doing the other things that process was responsible for. Making that work properly would require load-shedding/prioritization within the process itself.
"Passwords are no longer safe, the future is passkeys. Thus you can log in with face, touch or a PIN"

PIN - a personal identification number (aka a password)

This is one of those times where there is usually an ulterior motive behind this decision. Most cases in the form of power and/or control.
I'm unsure why JT and the poster chose that headline.

Remove where the CEO was born from the statement. It is absolutely true that Japan is in the midst of a population crisis regardless of political, ethnic or socio-economic climate. It isn't because of some "obvious evil" or some Runaway problem". It's just the way it is in Japan, This was heralded in the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and it is hitting hard now.

The japanese culture of saving face, civic sense, remaining quiet, will not fix this. That's not some damning problem indicative of japanese people. It's just descibing it the way it is.

Why would any executive, regardless of nationality, not be keenly aware of the major, major market/socio-economic challenges facing their segment?

What about this article is anyone, group etc. "forcing multiculturaism on non-settler societies"?
Grammarly acquires Coda
C doing C things
Bruce Robbins' criticism of VS Naipaul looks as though thinks that the perspective of a white American is needed to correct the failure of someone descended from indentured labourers (e.g. almost slaves) born in an actual (at the time he was born) British colony to understand British imperialism.
I had a hosted forums for almost two decades, 4mm monthly users, etc, and can attest to the death threats and DDOS attempts (I was a very early customer of Cloudflare which basically saved us — thanks Matthew!)

The stories… people get really personally invested in their online arguments and have all sorts of bad behavior that stems from it.
Building an engine from scratch cannot be the hard part. It’s not complicated.

Iterating on all the things that make the game fun is hard, and making all the ”content” in a game like Stardew Valley is very time consuming.
Indeed, I find the original to be less ambiguous. Why does the second version refer to payments and benefits in the first sentence, and then give them a name in the second sentence?

In the revised version, I'm now very unclear whether Section 3a payments apply to the first sentence or not. The original makes it crystal-clear that they do; the revised version almost suggests they don't, since they were explicitly added to sentence 2 but not sentence 1.
> security theater

Laypersons probably don't see ATOs at scale. I worked at a fintech and it was a relentless uphill battle to protect our users. We saw massive distributed login attempts daily and constantly bought compromised passwords on the gray market to run against our users' accounts. We tried to encourage better password hygiene, 2FA, Fido, etc.

You have to protect users from their own misunderstanding. When it comes to their bank accounts, improper security can be life-changing.

The term "security theater" itself is often thrown around to criticize when it's completely undeserved. Lots of people use it to poke fun at the TSA, but the term totally dismisses the fact that hijackings have plummeted [1,2]. The TSA does its job.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240246/aircraft-hijacki...

[2] https://imgur.com/a/xV9ebD9
Isn't this why postgres exists.

My understanding is that when Stonebraker went back to academia after the commercially successful ingres database project. He had some interesting ideas on how to apply object orientated principals to the relational database.

The result ended up being the postgres database management system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
That's true.

And when the time does come that I need to buy garage door opener, it won't say Chamberlain on it.
I think software and firmware should be free if critical functionality depends on an Internet-based service.

Or, it should at least be free whenever that service gets discontinued.

I've been thinking that perhaps to be able to market a product where critical functionality depends on commercial software connected services, a company should be required by law to provide their source code to a government agency that holds it in escrow.
Then when the company goes out of business or just decides to discontinue the product then that agency will publish the source code under an open source license.

This shouldn't just apply to firmware in connected devices, but to all commercial connected software. There are countless games that can't be played any more only because a company behind it has discontinued its DRM servers.

Of course there are details that need to be worked out with how this will work in practice. The publisher will have to prove to some degree that the provided source code is sufficient. You'd have to prevent the publisher from circumventing the solution in a future software update. And the publisher would have to pay a free for the privilege, to be able to fund the agency.
It will be poorest women from the underclass, of course. Just pump up the birthrate till TFR hits 2.1 by rising monthly allowance per child. Poorest women from underclass will have 6-8 kids. Rest could relax.
I think those scooters top out at 15 mph, so hard brake might have been an option.

There might be a time when it's socially acceptable for self-driving vehicles to have [air bag-like?] cattle pusher fronts to mitigate unavoidable contacts.
Alternate title: "How to become a parasite that makes the web shittier in just six easy steps!"
This isn't a response at all. Nvidia has been making Jetson boards for longer than Apple has been making their own chips.
You don't need containers to use cgroups. For instance, systemd uses cgroups to control resource allocation to various services.
This is why we have direct democracy here in Switzerland. Just skip the middlemen.
The Nintendo 3DS (and DSi too) contain a version of the ARM7TDMI CPU used in the Game Boy Advance [1]. On the 3DS, this chip was used for the Game Boy Advance Ambassador titles [2], which effectively run "natively" on the 3DS - when launching a game, the 3DS reboots into a different firmware and just runs the GBA game.

Later, homebrew was able to sideload GBA titles [3], which essentially has perfect software compatibility. However, emulating GBA titles still has advantages over rebooting the device so software emulators are available for the 3DS. The New 3DS is fast enough to provide pretty high quality GBA software emulation.

I don't think a similar path to directly use the DSi's ARM7 to boot GBA games was ever found by homebrewers (it may just be that the DSi is not able to reboot in a "different mode", which Nintendo did release for the 3DS?). The best available on the DSi seems to be a "compatibility layer" solution that tries to run the ARM7 code on the main ARM9 CPU [4], which seems to work surprisingly well.

[1]: https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/ARM7_Registers

[2]: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Nintendo_3DS_Ambassador_Pro...

[3]: through "Virtual Console injection" tools, or through https://github.com/profi200/open_agb_firm

[4]: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/GBARunner3
sudo is equivalent to root
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Wouls lovw to load this in spl.js for spatialite but WASM seems isolated.
My company uses Azure SSO so I am curious if this is just coincidence... but just this morning I had two (2!) separate desktop support technicians reach out to me today asking if I got my passkey set up for the company portals.
It sounds like you're arguing against passkeys, two-factor authentication, and password managers.

Do you use single, easy-to-remember plain-text passwords for all of your accounts and services? If not, you need to understand what the recovery process is when your passkey/2FA/pw-manager is unavailable or lost.
Is this too little, too late while Snowflake and Databricks are marketing Iceberg full steam? Maybe Hudi will hang on a little longer than Delta if it builds new things like this?
Building an engine is a famously huge time sink, to the point where the standard advice is to make a game or an engine, but not both if you want to ship.
Seems interesting

For Coda this makes sense to kind of kickstart/boost their AI efforts.

But not immediately clear to me why Grammarly is interested in building their own doc builder tool?
I think you’re letting your emotions distract from the larger picture where millions of people are compromised on a regular basis because they use systems designed the way you want.

Knowledge-based access is inherently problematic: if you don’t police passwords, most people will be compromised because they use weak and/or shared passwords. If you use strong passwords, you’re also screwed if you lose your phone so you’re in the same reset game with trivia questions which are increasingly weak because they can be answered from information on Facebook/LinkedIn or from breaches from other companies which used the same question. New logins from previously unused devices in a new part of the world shouldn’t work anyway because that’s indistinguishable from a successful attack.

Passkeys avoid all of that, but you need backups either in the form of a Yubikey or a recovery code in your wallet. Yes, that’s annoying but there is no world where nobody is annoyed, so it should be a question of whether more people are inconvenienced by their accounts being breached versus traveling and losing all of their devices but still being able to remember their strong passwords.
OP mentions this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42440887 ):

> 1. Individual accountable for illegal content safety duties and reporting and complaints duties

> 2. Written statements of responsibilities

> 3. Internal monitoring and assurance

> 4. Tracking evidence of new and increasing illegal harm

> 5. Code of conduct regarding protection of users from illegal harm

> 6. Compliance training

> 7. Having a content moderation function to review and assess suspected illegal content

> 8. Having a content moderation function that allows for the swift take down of illegal content

> 9. Setting internal content policies

> 10. Provision of materials to volunteers

> 11. (Probably this because of file attachments) Using hash matching to detect and remove CSAM

> 12. (Probably this, but could implement Google Safe Browser) Detecting and removing content matching listed CSAM URLs

> ...

> the list goes on.
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We built a way to go from requirements to a fully working admin panel/internal tool -type application within minutes. As a user you provide the various entities and their relationship plus any reports or dashboard widgets and it will generate it for you.

The problem with existing no code tools is that you still need to spend a lot of time building after figuring out what is needed (a problem of its own). Being able to focus on what is needed means you can build faster than designing, dragging, dropping, configuring.

What can you describe? Everything from tables, field types, relationships between tables and columns/fields, role-based access restrictions (RBAC), reports, dashboard metrics, bar/line/pie charts, lists.

This is made possible by fine-tuning Llama 3.1 to convert requirements into specs and code. Applications evolve over time and this means that the model has to be predictable between versions to ensure that the data/schema migrations can be generated cleanly, as well as provide any errors and warnings related to the requirements or data loss.

For non-developers this can be a huge time-saver since you don't have to use any additional developer resources. For developers it can be a great way to get 80+% of the way for complex apps (it's like super-scaffolding). Generated apps can be fully evaluated before purchase. A full git repo containing the back-end, front-end, migrations, etc. is the output of the entire process.

Currently the generated code base is TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js but the capability is there to generate different stacks because of the approach taken to not go directly to code when fine-tuning.

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We look forward to your thoughts. Does building apps this way make sense for the super savvy HN crowd?
This thread is crazy, it reads like 2 people arguing but there are actually zero repeat commenters, like some sort of debate conga line
Half of bits in any weight will be zero, on average, so those bits of the multiply chains can be removed. Lots of optimization could take place.

If you're going to go for the absolute maximum performance, you're going to convert an entire layer from multiply accumulates, etc... to a directed acyclic graph of bitwise logical operations (and, or, xor, nor, nand, etc), then optimize out all of the gates you possibly can before building it into a part of the ASIC. In theory, you could get 100% utilization of the chip area, and one token per clock cycle out. Your limiting factor is going to be power consumption, as 50% of the gates will be toggling every clock (on average).

Nobody will do this, though... because developing an ASIC takes 6 months to a year, and the chip would be completely useless for anything else.

You could get close with a huge grid of LUTs that only talks to neighbors, it could compute the optimized graph from above, or any other, while keeping all the wires short, and thus all the capacitances low, and thus lower power, higher frequency.
Maybe, but there are mammals that can survive deep hibernation and near-total suspension. In pure biological/biochemical terms I don't see any reason to think we're much more than 100 times more complex than a rodent, or 1000 times more complex than the various fish and amphibian species who can survive their bodies reaching near-zero temperatures.

They've put pigs into suspended animation for an hour or two, I'm not sure what the upper bound is on that or how much further it's possible to go with it. Ditto organ deep-cooling. So while it's not feasible now, it feels like we need "only" 100x or so improvement to make it viable.
It’s the future for sure.
Yeah, no. If you're going to be doing `rm /` you might as well do `sudo rm /` just as easily. It's the same security model, and honestly the distinction is quite funny.
That sounds good :) tbh i didn't have the time to check your source. So lets hope google understands it and does not herras you :)!
(a) Dev kits are often much more expensive than the production hardware.

(b) Why would you even care about this if a desktop gaming gpu would work for you? It’s an embedded inference module.
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Good code and bad code are not objective values.

I have worked with many people that spend days replacing good code with bad code because they are ”paying down technical debt”.
Modern technology and a sedentary job are what make it possible for me to do hard strength training 4x/week and eat a high protein diet. As an amateur strength athlete, I am almost certainly much physically stronger than any of my ancestors that didn’t have the luxury of eating like I do, or exercising specifically for strength. We have good ways to quantify this even because we have ancient stone lifting traditions- we know how strong the strongest ancient people were, and modern people that train for strength are much much stronger- we now have small women like Chloe Brennan that are as strong as word famous strongmen were a century ago.

Sometimes I hear people say strength is useless nowadays but I couldn’t disagree more. In emergency situations I have been able to push stranded cars uphill to a safer spot, carry injured people and animals to safety, move large furniture and car parts myself, etc. Being more attractive to romantic partners is no downside either, nor is being able to eat a lot and not get fat. Strength makes modern life easier and more fun.
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I am all for unlimited immigration (for law-abiding people who can earn their living, of course), Net Zero 2050 (burning oil and coal for heating and energy generation is blasphemy), and getting rid of agricultural subsidies. That’s good for the economy and the environment.
>> I don't know about you, but a PIN is pretty much a password in my book.

> Then your book is filled with misunderstandings of what the PIN function in Windows is actually doing.

The "PIN function in Windows" doesn't define what a PIN is. If Microsoft really meant the "PIN function in Windows" specifically, they should have said so in their blog post. Otherwise, in this context, PIN means this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number.
> The vast majority of the risk can be realised by a single disgruntled user on a VPN from who knows where posting a lot of abuse material when I happen to not be paying attention (travelling for work and focusing on IRL things)... and then the consequences and liability comes. This isn't risk I'm in control of, that can be easily mitigated, the effort required is high, and everyone here knows you cannot solve social issues with technical solutions.

I bet you weren't the sole moderator of LFGSS. In any web forum I know, there is at least one moderator being online every day and much more senior members able to use a report function. I used to be a moderator for a much smaller forum and we had 4 to 5 moderators any time with some of them being among those that were online every day or almost every day.

I think a number of features/settings would be interesting for a forum software in 2025:

- desactivation of private messages: people can use instant messaging for that

- automatically blur post when report button is hit by a member (and by blur I mean replacing server side the full post by an image, not doing client side javascript).

- automatically blur posts when not seen by a member of the moderation or a "senior level or membership" past a certain period (6 or 12 hours for example)

- disallow new members to report and blur stuff, only people that are known good members

All this do not remove the bureaucracy of making the assessments/audits of the process mandated by the law but it should at least make forums moderable and have a modicum amount of security towards illegal/CSAM content.
Then what was dot com bubble?
Unfortunately, it only takes one thing to make it not work.
I hope not re: pedestrians.

An adult running onto the highway is very different than a young kid doing the same.

All else equal, I would not preserve the adult's life over that of drivers. I would preserve the kid's life over that of drivers.

Why? The adult is presumed to be responsible for the repercussions of its actions. The drivers did not create the problem. The family of the drivers could hold others accountable for any unreasonable systemic danger leading to the death of the drivers.
> YC
> OSS

Nice try
> Nobody sees the extensive graveyard of massive time sink projects that got no traction and went nowhere

Of course everybody sees that, and many can't stop thinking about those things when working on their own project, trying to fight the demons that say "This is a huge waste of time" and so on.

But what is the point of bringing that up when someone explicitly asks for examples of small teams with big success?
If you’re going to speculate about ulterior motives, fill in the supporting details so people can tell you’re not just promulgating conspiracy theories.