skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've been randomly having a conversation with someone, only to be alerted to the sound of the Google Assistant suddenly responding to what we're saying. Something we said was interpreted as a wake word, and then from that point on, every single thing we said was transcribed via STT, sent to Google's servers, various Google search queries were run, etc, and then the assistant responded - because it thought it was responding to a valid query and had no way of knowing otherwise. This has gotten worse with Gemini but has in no way been limited to that.

In this situation, I was alerted to this because the assistant started responding. However, I've also been in situations where I tried deliberately to talk to the assistant and it failed silently. In those situations, the UI spawns the Assistant interaction dialog, listens to what I say and then just silently closes. Sometimes this happens if there's too much background noise, for instance, and it then just re-evaluates that it wasn't a valid query at all and exits. Sometimes some background process may be frozen. Who knows if this happens before or after sending the data to the server. Sometimes the dialog lingers, waiting for the next input, and sometimes it just shuts off, leaving me (annoyingly) to have to reopen the dialog.

Putting that together, I have no idea how many times the Google Assistant has activated in my pocket, gone live, recorded stuff, sent it to Google's servers, realized it wasn't a valid query, and shut off without alerting me. I've certainly seen the Assistant dialog randomly open when looking at my phone plenty of times, which is usually a good indicator that such a thing has happened. If it silently fails in such a way that the UI doesn't respawn, then I would have no idea at all.

The net effect is that Google gets a random sample from billions of random conversations from millions of people every time this thing unintentionally goes off. They have a clear explanation as to why they got it and why ads are being served in response afterward. They can even make the case that the system is functioning as intended - after all, it'd be unreasonable to expect no false positives, or program bugs, or whatever, right? They can even say it's the user's fault and that they need to tune the voice model better.

Regardless, none of this changes the net result, which is they get a random sample of your conversation from time to time and are allowed to do whatever with it that they would have done if you sent it on purpose.
NPM package poses as legit Ethereum smart contract, injects Quasar RAT
I may have to steal some of this for the next time I have to explain on LKML why I don't care to work with the corporate world, you really hit the nail on the head :)
>> Pecorino cheese was ideal due to its extraordinary shelf life, black pepper was used to stimulate heat receptors, and homemade spaghetti provided the carbohydrate intake

Likely people just happened to have pasta, pepper and pecorino chesse (since they raised sheep) and they put them all together because that beats eating each one on its own.

Or of course the article is right and pre-industrial sheep shepherds knew about carbohydrates and heat receptors.
Yes, it's still mumbo jumbo. And yes, I acknowledged your view in advance in the last paragraph.

Therapy school can have simplistic invalid theories of functioning of human beings, and still be useful to some people. Just like religion can be psychlogically useful to people but it's all nonsense. Whether some therapy works says nothing about rationales and theories behind it, in other words.

Whether you got better or not is irrelevant to the question of whether CBT views on how human beings function are valid.
It used to be just for profit companies web dev's ignorantly putting themselves behind default cloudflare deploys and blocking everyone. But now big academic players like science.org/aaas elsevier and other publishers and individual journals are and I can't even read scientific papers anymore. Even sillier is the RSS/Atom feeds science.org ran have the same cloudflare rules so all actual feed readers were blocked (support told me only real feed readers as a service like Feedly corporation were allowed). It took me months of email back and forth to get them to realize their error and get to someone who could fix it. And that is what I consider a good response. Most just ignore the email.
Was looking at adding this to litellm - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/providers

but the website crashed on me while reviewing the docs. Is this stable yet?
You got triggered first, otherwise you wouldn't have made a personal attack and investigated my profile. Those are the refuges of argument-losers.

And your account created 20 days ago indicates you got banned on another account for being an ass, or you are a noob. Neither of which looks good.
well then, if you are single~(responsible to no one) and looking for better employment,it is now your oportunity to benifit from the inadvertent publicity of you image.

ie : get busy and advertise thy self
Or petty theft, shoplifting etc.
Absolutely, and in picking collabs with people who are willing to work with the weirdness and make it funny. Vedal is definitely a fantastic creator to make it work so well and the amount of fine-tuning and tweaking he must do must be unreal. But I think it still shows there is some hunger for this type of content, though you are probably correct that it still needs to be curated, gardened, worked with, and sometimes faked.
I mean so’s a bunch of index cards and some pens.
The reason the "phones are listening to you and targeting ads based on what you say" thing is a classic conspiracy theory is that it would take a genuine secret conspiracy to pull it off.

Think about how many people would need to be in in the secret and actively lying about it: employees of phone hardware companies, and ad tech engineers, and execs at these companies, and their legal teams, and every contractor they used to help build this secret system.

All of whom passionately deny that this is happening.

If that's not a conspiracy I don't know what is.

Just because something is labeled a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's not true (this one isn't true though). You're welcome to continue believing in it, but saying "it's not a conspiracy theory" doesn't work for me.
The performance while querying sqlite objects with sqlite_query() is identical to that of using an in-memory sqlite database. once Postgres 18 is released which contains some specific optimizations around expanded datum lifecycles there will be further improvements to sqlite_exec's behavior.

For Postgres < 18 sqlite_exec() will incur a flatten/expand cycle, but this can be worked around in most cases by bundling SQL into a single sqlite_exec call instead of multiple ones. Once Postgres 18 is released this will no longer be an issue.

This work is the result of a fairly long running discussion thread [1] on the pgsql-hackers mailing list around improving expanded datum handling for non-array types in general so that one of my other extensions, OneSparse, can take advantage of them.

We discussed adding a "skeleton" expanded example into the Postgres test modules, but it wouldn't be useful. As I generally prefer to make useful things, I took a page from the ideas in pglite-fusion [2] and made it a true first class expanded datum which requires no server filesystem access.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CACxu%3DvKMWjj%2B...

[2] https://github.com/frectonz/pglite-fusion
I remember fractal zooms in real time on the Amiga 500 and they were using a trick: they'd only recompute a few horizontal and vertical lines at each frame, with most of the screen just being a copy/blit of the previous frame, shifted. After a few frames all the pixels from n frames back were discarded.

This was a nice optimization and the resulting animation was still looking nice. Good memories.
Is There An "Anime Bubble" on the Verge of Bursting?
One thing common to that tech, including stuff on JVM and .NET, is that then you are at a point where UNIX/POSIX becomes irrelevant, basically my distributed systems story, since the early days of Java and .NET.

Naturally considering Erlang, and any other language with rich runtime and ecosystem as well.
US Solar Manufacturing Is Soaring
> Yet no constituency hated Abba more than their own countryfolk, whose cultural elites were repelled by their success – anathema to the Swedish model, which prized fairness and hated commercialism. Abba were the thin end of the wedge: empty-headed stooges for capitalism, imperialist collaborators writing ditties in dumbed-down English. Naturally, they got their big break by winning a competition. I wasn’t born in 1974, the year Abba won Eurovision, but I can instantly call to mind the royal blue sequins, the tightly tucked velvet, an orchestral conductor in a Napoleon hat. Britain’s judges awarded nul points on the night, but the country took Abba to heart at once. ‘Waterloo’, a shrink-wrapped glam-pop symphony made for colour TV, shot to number one.

I'm watching Rock'N'Roll Jeopardy some 20 years ago with my sister.

"When we come back from these commercial breaks, we have Final Jeopardy, with a question about international rock stars."

I say: "Who is ABBA?"

They come back some minutes later, and the announcer starts in with "In 1974, they won Eurovision..."

I'm cheering; my sister rolls her eyes. I have been doing victory laps since.
The US is, by comparison to the rest of the developed world (and much of the rest of the world, besides) a very high police interaction regime, owing in no small part to the institutional and cultural aftereffects of the history of slavery and the use of the criminal justice system as a direct substitute for private chattel slavery when it was abolished.
Would love to have these figures as big posters as art decorations in my house
A flip side to this is that you can go here to see archives of newspapers:

https://news.google.com/newspapers

After reviewing lots of southern papers during the 1960s, shockingly (!) entire months are gone. I was really hoping to read their editorials saying what they thought MLK really was at that time, and then see what they wrote today. I figured this would be more fun than paying attention to Trump on inauguration day, which weirdly falls on the same day as MLK day.

Let's be frank, there probably isn't ad revenue for old crime stories that aren't sensationalized. So, the newspapers owners are not doing this out of the kindness of their hearts, or their thoughts on the criminal justice system.

How about instead, they agree moving forward to not publish crime stories about poor people at all? That I could get excited about.
I have a vague recollection about that kind of a declarative UI framework, but I can't remember a single detail. But it's definitely an interesting idea and I know there are other folk out there also interested in your idea.
"Wouldn’t be surprised if the non-endorsal was a quid-pro-quo with Trump in exchange for Trump not axing or messing with Bezos’ many govt contracts."

You describe highly tyrannical and corrupt behavior and say the previous Trump coverage was absurd and unfair...
And how many world bank loans are given to, well, let’s call them “less than stellar” African governments?

All the Chinese needed for the infra loan projects to work were nations who couldn’t access financing via other means. Now they’ve been doing it a while, even the nations that can access the financing have been dipping into that well. Sometimes it’s just better terms.
The attitude within SRE toward Orkut (the product) was one of disdain if not contempt. A healthy culture does not treat rapidly growing products this way.
Thank you! I was totally caught off guard by the swiftness and harshness of the response to what I thought was a pretty innocent comment about the joy of Italian pasta.

If I had to guess, the pasta serving in the video was no more than about 150-200 calories. Dry pasta is 370 calories per 100g and pecorino is 390 per 100g. That serving was maybe 30g worth of pasta and maybe 10g worth of cheese.

Needless to say, that’s a snack-sized portion of pasta, not a meal.
Power users will always detest certain aspects of higher levels of digital identity assurance. Regardless, some use cases call for those assurances (that your passkey is you, especially as it relates to privileged actions).

As long as you can always create a new passkey on a new device (through some identity proofing or assurance process), the risk is minimal that you're locked into an ecosystem.
iPhone chips are made in Taiwan. The displays are certainly not made in the US although the glass might be.
But Russia already tried monarchy and it didn't end too well, for similar reasons it ended in France - arrogant rulers not caring for their people.
> Flat Earthers can still come up with a pretty good idea of where (direction relative to the vantage point) and when the Sun will appear to rise tomorrow.

Understanding is having a mechanistic model of reality- but all models are wrong to varying degrees. The Flat Earther model is actually quite a good one for someone human sized on a massive sphere- it is locally accurate enough that it works for most practical purposes. I doubt most humans could come up with something so accurate on their own from direct observation- even the fact that the local area is approximately flat in the abstract is far from obvious with hills, etc.

A more common belief nowadays is that the earth is approximately a sphere, but very few people are aware of the fact that it actually bulges at the equator, and is more flat at the poles. Does that mean all people that think the earth is a sphere are therefore fundamentally lacking the mental capacity to understand concepts or to accurately model reality? Moreover, people are mostly accepting this spherical model on faith, they are not reasoning out their own understanding from data or anything like that.

I think it's very important to distinguish between something that fundamentally can only repeat it's input patterns in a stochastic way, like a Hidden Markov Model, and something that can make even quite oversimplified and incorrect models, that it can still sometimes use to extrapolate correctly to situations not exactly like those it was trained on. Many people seem to think LLMs are the former, but they are provably not- we can fabricate new scenarios, like simple physics experiments not in the training data set that require tracking the location and movement of objects, and they can do this correctly- something that can only be done with simple physical models- however ones still far simpler than what even a flat earther has. I think being able to tell that a new joke is funny, what it means, and why it is funny is also an example of, e.g. having a general model that understands what types of things humans think are funny at an abstract level.
almost everyone big still uses oracle databases somewhere
I dont think it is reasonable to think shareholders would be vigilant safeguard on these types of R&D programs. They simply aren't that involved.
One of the commenters noticed this as well, the author says it is something automatic in the exposure.

https://fediscience.org/@Birk_lab/113770845539931892
I don't think it specifically knows, though it could be possible. Maybe there was an article published about the dev team at some point that named some or all of the members. Maybe they have published research or speeches on the topic that names their role/employer.

Either way, the general demographics of people working at Meta is generally known, so I'd assume that was what the LLM was working off of.
In the USA it is public record which in practice means anyone with money can get the record. This is potentially a large part of the high US recidivism. Once you have been convicted once, most employers will see the record and refuse to hire you forever.
To be fair most time libraries suck and can't handle fairly basic operations. For instance, if you're using python's datetime module and want to get the start/end dates of the current month, you need to "roll your own" like

now = datetime.now()
month_start = date(now.year, now.month, 1)
month_end = date(now.year, now.month + 1, 1) - timedelta(days=1)
Simple because he can't and it's easy to throw smug opinions around the internet.
Weaponizing OAST: Malicious Packages Exploit NPM, PyPI, and RubyGems
Adult criminal records are public in the US (juvenile records vary by state but are usually confidential, and I think in most states also automatically expunged after a certain period or age.)
> Pi doesn't contain a lot of information since it can be computed with a reasonably small program.

It can be described with a small program. But it contains more information than that. You can only compute finite approximations, but the quantity of information in pi is infinite.

The computation is fooling you because the digits of pi are not all equally significant. This is irrelevant to the information theory.
> It was our advantage to lose

That's bullshit. China is more than 5 time larger than the US, so you really expect them to build fewer things than you forever?
> The "sufficient explanation of the goals/problem" is the code—anything less is totally insufficient.

somewhat in that spirit, I like Gerald Sussman's interpretation of software development as "problem solving by debugging-almost right plans", in e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYzvQ1v8Ww
>In a previous post you said that - in case of matching builds - the dev's version is used

Which post are you talking about? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592150 was made by FuturisticGoo, not me.

Also, the wording on f-droid suggests the version that f-droid hosts is built by them, rather than a version that's uploaded by the dev. If you go on any app and check the download section, it says

> It is built by F-Droid and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
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It's generally the disadvantaged and poor who get hit for low-level, non-violent stuff.
Indeed - it can mean simply a 1GHz data bus thats 32 bits wide. Pipeline all your image processing so it's 1 cycle per pixel and you're done.
Carter was, as many Westerners do, looking at the Middle East through Western eyes. He was projecting what people in his culture would do, instead of what people in the actual culture he was looking at do.

"One day they'll come around and realize that my culture's values are right and theirs are wrong" is actually a very racist stance, in my opinion.
I just use both because it allows me to have separate cursorrules and windsurfrules files, one for backend and the other for frontend.

They have different failures modes but are largely similar. Cursor seems to be better at indexing and including docs but that’s a qualitative impression rather than a rigorous evaluation.

Both are rather useless in my mixed C++/Rust codebase but work pretty well for traditional web stuff. I’d say at this point that Cursor has an edge but there’s so much development going on that this comment will be outdated within a few weeks.
"look into" is a much more likely trigger, then send the 30 seconds before and after to a server for more analysis. "buying" could be another. It's not like it would be that hard. Especially with some of the pretty good vocal compression for audio. It would be a small blip on a modern connection, even wireless.

I'm not saying it is or isn't happening but it wouldn't be hard.
Here is the link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307147

I don't think my paraphrasing was inaccurate.
I take your example on multitasking operating systems as not being limited to only helping make friendly asynchronous I/O, but I do think a deeper consideration of Multics is coincidently appropriate.

The telephone and electrical power networks were vast in scope (and still are), enabling interstate communication and power utilities. Echoes of the transportation utilities enabled through railroads. Multics was architected partially with the commercial goal of scaling up with users, a computing utility. But in a time with especially expensive memory, a large always resident kernel was a lot of overhead. The hardware needed a lot of memory and would be contending with some communication network whose latency could not be specified at the OS design time. Ergo, asynchronous I/O was key.

Put differently, Multics bet that computing hardware would continue to be expensive enough to be centralized, thereby requiring a CPU to contend with time-sharing across various communication channels. The CPU would be used for compute and scheduling.

Unix relaxed the hardware requirements significantly at the cost of programmer complexity. This coincided roughly with lower hardware costs, favoring compute (in broad strokes) over scheduling duties. The OS should get out of the way as much as possible.

After a bunch of failed grand hardware experiments in the 1980s, the ascendant Intel rose with a dominant but relatively straightforward CPU design. Designs like the Connection Machine were distilled into Out of Order Execution, a runtime system that could extract parallelism while contending with variable latency induced by the memory subsystem and variable instruction ordering. Limited asynchronous execution mostly hidden away from the programmer until more recently with HeartBleed.

Modern SoCs encompass many small cores, each running a process or maybe an RTOS, along with multiple CPU cores, many GPU cores, SIMD engines, signal processing engines, NPU cores, storage engines, etc. A special compute engine for all seasons, ready to be configured and scheduled by the CPU OS, but whose asynchronous nature (a scheduling construct!) no longer hidden from the programmer.

I think the article reflects how even on a single computer, the duty of the CPU (and therefore OS) has tilted in some cases towards scheduling over compute for the CPU. And of course, this is without considering yet cloud providers, the spiritual realization of a centralized computing utility.
I'm trying to figure out where that number comes from. The link to The Sentencing Project claims this, but the link to NCSL instead states "Approximately 77 million Americans, or 1 in every 3 adults, have a criminal record."

Like, this feels like it's got to include speeding tickets in the mix to get something that high.
Annnd, this is exactly how humanity figured out astronomy before the telescopes: by taking multi-year observations and keeping detailed records! See Antikythera mechanism, Tycho Brahe, etc. Arguably the entire Greek epistemology was so solid because their astronomy turned out to be an early proving ground for the scientific method.
The prison-industrial complex in the United States encourages this. While less than 10% of prisoners are in “for-profit” prisons, there’s a large industry of private companies beyond this that profit off federal prisons; in addition to providing cheap prison labor or goods made by prison laborers (AKA modern slavery)
The genius of the N64's CACHE instruction
"Your phone is very clearly recording at all times"

It very clearly isn't!

Unless you mean "listening for hey Siri wake words", in which case yeah, it's doing that, but that's not the same thing as "recording".
Before Putin decided to start the war with Ukraine in 2014, the citizens of both countries used to visit the other one very often. There were many Russian tourists in Crimea. The families definitely were not "torn apart" - not even close to what is happening now during the war.
ISIS is a militia, you're not making any sense.
Saw you just support claude for now. If your backend code is in Python, happy to add support for other models (OpenAI/Gemini/etc.) via a consistent API interface like LiteLLM - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/#litellm-python-sdk
Yes, I killed the guy, but I bought a murder offset so I'm really not guilty.