skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I wasn’t proposing this is what happened in the Havana case. It’s not clear to me that what happened in Havana wasn’t just a panic of some sort, much like the recent drone panic. If it were some sort of attack, it raises a lot of questions about what the purpose was, why Cuba, why we haven’t seen anything like it since, why all the victims of the attack are still walking around attending meetings in Washington DC, etc.

That all said, I still don’t see why a microwave beam weapon is implausible in principle. It might not be the most practical thing ever - that’s why I compared it to polonium and ricin. But for example, using a parabolic reflector you can focus microwaves over the kind of distance between two buildings perhaps across the street from each other. If the beam only has a diameter of a few feet at the target, and only used for a short period, how is that going to be detected? You’d aim it at someone’s head visible through a window, for example, and the source of the beam could be behind a closed window with a curtain.

Btw this subthread seems to have been removed from the OP page at this point, apparently because the comment I replied to was flagged.
I could see Microsoft saying "we're only allowing apps installed through our 'store', for safety/security reasons, unless you opt out (gated by some scary warning that doing so is unsafe).

Even if they never charged a fee for running the store, I bet this would raise a lot of eyebrows.
Ah, my mistake. I am but an uninformed goy.
We have virtual envs and package isolation, it's usually bloated, and third party and doesn't make for a good robust OS base, it's more an app layer. See flatpak, snapcraft.

"Compares left pad with ml library backing the hottest AI companies of the cycle"
I think what you're asking for are the kinds of philosophical questions that don't have clean logical answers. I agree that the cases of people advocating for groups they are not members of are more challenging, but I think they're also highly situation-dependent; for example what representation does group Z have already? And how do you quantify that?

In my experience a lot of these problems ultimately trace their cause back to some systemic imbalance that's often invisible to those on the 'winning' side of it. Take the idea of 'white privilege'; a lot of white people live in very poor or difficult circumstances, and probably don't feel privileged, but the real meaning of that phrase is that their situation would be even worse if they weren't white, and purely because of their appearance. So I think if you want proposals for dealing with these kinds of problem, then fixing the societal systems is where you want to look, rather than dealing with the proximate causes. Most of us can only work on the level of symptoms with this one though, hence my initial reply.
I happened to prefer the original article: https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/canva-incident-report...
"Site last regenerated October, 07th 1999 11:51:02 PM"
This is a specification for Python packaging, which is tooling separate from Python releases (for better or worse, IMHO worse but the BDFL disagrees). There's a box below the Table of Contents of the PEP that points here:

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline...
We need someone to write pastry.c which takes any C file and reorganizes the code into the shape of delicious bakery products.
What's even better is that the Mira tablet simply RDP'ed into a Windows XP Pro machine. Had to be Pro, because RDP. Locks out the local console, because RDP.

It was slow over 802.11b (I beta tested two of the devices).
I just came across this concept on Reddit. Proprioception is the perception of where your own body is, how it moves, etc.

Extended proprioception is the extension of this concept to the tools you’re handling. (despite the absence of direct sensory receptors) A classic example is how you can develop a sense of where the car you’re driving is in space. You see that also with drones, surgical robots, excavators, cranes, etc.
I guess it's "Brutalism" or something, but I had a physical revulsion to the entire site design and all their fonts. It's so ugly it's almost charming.
I still don't understand why people want separate tooling to "handle the Python executable". All you need to do is have one base installation of each version you want, and then make your venv by running the standard library venv for that Python (e.g. `python3.x -m venv .venv`).
Generally it's the Atkins diet that's considered a carbo cult.
The point is that matter is by far the most concentrated form of energy we’re able to manipulate. The original comment seemed to be saying something along those lines, although it seems to have been flagged and I can’t check it now.
That's not what I claimed?
It does indeed.

It seems to understand the way you want your unit tests written. So if you have a particular style, it's best to write one or two tests in your style, then it will use that same style when it starts writing tests.

You can do prompts like "I need unit tests for the exceptions that are raised in the SuchAndSuch.function()", and it will do it -- particularly if you have a unit test already written similar to what you'd like.
The incident report said, “the growth of off-heap memory” was a cause for the OOM.

Why would have too much traffic caused that to increase specifically? The overhead of a connection in the kernel isn’t that high.

To reduce pressure in the future, they could smear the downloading of new assets over time by background fetching. E.g. when canary release of a new canva release starts they probabilistically could download the asset in the background for the existing version, so when they switch, there’s nothing new to download.

Features like collapse forwarding and stale-while-revalidate are powerful features for CDN’s, but there are these non-intuitive failure modes that you have to be aware of. Anything that synchronizes huge numbers of requests is dangerous to stability.
Thank you for sharing this feedback, I'm sure they will do it better next time. :)
> All you need to do is have one base installation of each version you want

Because of this ^
So because we can't eliminate every possibility, we should just give up on all protections?
Did you try not eating late in the evening (= after 6 pm)? In my youth I often felt tired and stapled to the bed in the morning, barely being able to move. The sleep wasn't restful and I always had weird dreams. Turns out that it was due to a combination of eating late and having (then unknown) food intolerances.

I realize your symptoms are different and probably not eating late won't change anything for you, but for the slim chance that it does I wanted to share my experience anyways.
"Slack (eight years old)"... really?

I mean I could be wrong but I was under the impression Slack was just IRC with a fancy web interface. And IRC goes back to 1988 is wikipedia is to be believed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC

If I'm right that means Slack is much older, except for the fancy UI parts, which are no great improvement over say the nice colors of BitchX with some bots that record the channel history.

And you can't take over Slack channels by riding a server split. That would be super-cool though.
Because Bluesky isn't being run by a piece of shit, and if that changes in the future then I'll just leave.

I got good years out of Twitter before it sucked, I have no regrets about getting in early on it.
Yes, it works perfectly. It’s a Thinkpad X260, not exactly new hardware, and even Debian works just fine.
Microsoft has been going in the opposite direction. Nowadays you can post any win32 app to the store, they are loosening not tightening
Excel's a nice example for a few reasons:

(1) it wants to be a bicycle for the mind, a simulation playground where you edit something things and the environment changes -- something a game engine could "excel" at

(2) it sucks in a whole bunch of ways, but it's hard to displace. People use it to do things with CSV files that somebody would use pandas for if they wanted to get the right answer. People use it to do things they'd be better off using Access or SQLlite. And then people use it to calculate things

(3) At this moment I'm making some simple models of businesses w/ Excel, one sheet is calculating the value of a comment on this site, roughly $600B evaluation, 7% equity stake, HN responsible for 5% of that value (brings in founders and employees) with a total of 50M comments, I get a eye-popping value of $50 per comment!

It's actually ugly in Excel, for instance I don't really want things on a grid, I want to make the calculation immediately clear as a graph, I just wish that this product

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TK_Solver

had a bunch of sequels. If anybody can make the next thing I'd love to see it. It's tough because Excel comes with Powerpoint, Word and other tools in Office 365 so it seems free to people. Then there's that inferior Google Sheets.
> At some point the argument morphs from 'I should be able to do whatever I want with my device' to 'I should be able to access your service/device with whatever I want'.

I'm not demanding to be able to log in to your service/device and replace IIS with Apache on it. I'm just demanding to be able to access it as a normal user with Firefox instead of Chrome.
> it's also about adversaries that may have physical access to your device and can provide that consent. No matter how convoluted you make the rube goldberg machine to bypass the cryptography, if there's a way to bypass it it will be bypassed

You claimed that an adversary with physical access to your device can compromise your unlockable phone, but presumably this won't happen with a phone that can't be unlocked. Is that not what you claim? If so, please detail how.
DataFusion and Polars are like two sides of the same Rust coin: DataFusion is built for distributed, SQL-based analytics at scale, serving as the backbone for data systems and enabling complex query execution across clusters. Polars, on the other hand, is laser-focused on blazing-fast, single-node data manipulation, offering a Python-like DataFrame API that feels intuitive for exploratory analysis and in-memory processing.
You didn’t know? Baffles me, but here is a link to E. Mignot. He alone is instrumental to the understanding of N. I expect him to receive the Noble Prize soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Mignot

He shares extremely deep insights and latest state of the art information on N in layman terms on YouTube.

Simply enter his name and enjoy his latest talks from 2023 and 2024 from the Wake up conference.

He discovered the mechanism behind N. And there is hope for a causal treatment for N1.
> Imagine the experience of excel being implemented inside a virtual world.

There's nothing quite like the optimism of a VR fanboy. Is there any other thing in tech that drives such ungrounded dreams?
:-) I'll never quite appreciate why people say things like this. Having some kind of embedded scripting is useful for all sorts of things, often form validation. A sufficiently complex validation system becomes Turing complete, so you might as well skip the hassle of a custom language and go right to JavaScript. Once you have JavaScript, input, and some way of updating a graphical pixel grid, you're at Doom-completeness. I think it's a wonderful, not terrible, thing that computation and programmability are so cheap they've become ubiquitous even in the most mundane applications
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-accused-restricting...
Property is theft from the state
Nice... hit 300km/h too.
Most of the houses are already stucco which is very fire resistant. The problem is more the attic, roofs, and windows that might break.
Me too! It's okay, you can't do everything and people "should" appreciate others who don't do social.
you don't have to listen to anything these agencies say. they don't provide proof of anything so you can ignore them.
I think the ability to own property should be a fundamental right. More so than you're ability to convince a zoning board to not build high density housing.
They say its different than neural networks in the text but honestly, it just sounds a lot like monte carlo dropouts.
Why does it not feel right if it's long lost it's negative connotation? It's completely arbitrary at this point.
I imagine that trolls would eventually band together to try to steamroll the voting system like it happens on r/Place. Maybe.
Awesome project! I love the idea of not sending my data to a big company and trust their TOS.

The effectiveness of coding assistant is directly proportional to context length and the open models you can run on your computer are usually much smaller. Would love to see something more quantified around the usefulness on more complex codebases.
Today, yes, I can lock down the iPhone I give to my son, but if it can be unlocked to run arbitrary software then he can in theory unlock it. Yes, it is on me to continue to monitor the device to make sure he hasn't done it, but the point stands

And the assumption you refer to, there are varying definitions for "safe". Is a device with a locked bootloader 100% safe in all use cases and all circumstances? Of course not. But me being able to reasonably trust that someone hasn't put a compromised version of the OS on the device, or, won't be able to put a different firmware on the device to brute force my encrypted contents is a bit of safety in a certain set of circumstances that I want in my device

If Apple, or anyone else, were precluded from locking the boot loader yes, I would be forced to buy a device that the FBI or anyone else could in theory poke around on enough to try to get at my data
Yeah. 1930s Poland and Ukraine would like to Thank Joesph for the humanitarian-driven altruism. Molotov–Ribbentrop really set Adolph straight. /s
Yes - however, the FIM model requires careful configuration to properly set the prompt template.
It's hilarious that people don't see this. The UX of an "llm product" is the quality of the text in text out. An "aligned model" is one with good UX. Instruct tuning is UX. RLHF is UX.
There are several key things that make HN different:

- no followers / following (no incentive to increase engagement)

- no notifications of responses to comments (maybe there's a way to do this with RSS but at least it's not obvious)

- no ads

- no endless feed

HN is much more like an RSS feed of interesting articles, where people can leave comments -- there is some back and forth (as in this case) but not a lot; it's centered around the linked content and thoughts on that content, not on engaging with other users. It's not monetized and therefore doesn't employ all the tricks that SM uses to "drive engagement", which is often driven by outrage (which is therefore a highly desirable component of a SM).
If importing routers was banned, I’m sure Cisco and juniper would go back to making SMB routers. Juniper routers used to be made in Walnut Creek CA!
So basically a before:2023 filter?
Is the US at war with Brussels? Figures, I don't think their sprouts are very popular either.
Roofs are the main problem. Usually they get in through an attic vent, or they catch the eaves on fire. They burn from the top down.
For at least a few seconds it was an odd game of phallus or frame.
> Absolutely nothing has really changed just the number of people involved

Which absolutely changed everthing. The amount of people on the internet makes massive-spam/SEO/misinformation campaigns economically viable. In HN terms, now bad players scale.
A Chrome extension built with WXT and shadcn/UI
Yeah, that quote is very far off I think.

If the act never succeeded, nobody would join the cult. It sometimes succeeds, and you get the valuables: funding, whether via grants or employment or social score (which is the next sentence after what you copied). For the cults: those ships did bring cargo! That's how they knew ships carried people and cargo.

And because it's a cult, rather than science/programming, they have no explanation of why it fails when it fails. They're stuck repeating the cult practices (copy/paste more things, maybe reverse some if statements) until it succeeds again, which is just further evidence to the members that it does actually work.

---

I can be game to drop the term (shockumentaries are worth leaning away from), but the thing it's identifying is extremely real, and a very large problem. It deserves to be labeled and called out. Sure, it's sometimes used inaccurately... but show me a term that can't be used inaccurately. That's just humanity doing its normal thing. Is it used too inaccurately? ...ehhh, I'm not convinced, but it might be borderline.

TBH I think that the modern-re-defining is just not all that far off (outside the fabricated stuff obviously). There's no "the world is ending and the dead are coming back with stuff" or "what's ours has been stolen" in the current use (... except maybe job losses due to automation), but there is a large chunk like you point out: rituals and technology that mimic things they have seen, and which don't work because of the lack of understanding.

If there's a better label to apply to ^ that kind of act/cult/ritual, I have yet to see it. Probably there is, but it's currently drowned out by "cargo cult" so it's kinda hard to find unless you're deeply in that area already.
One or Many
> Cars are traceable. Poison would be the alternative for those that dont want to be apprehended.

Sure, but if you are willing to give your life 'to the cause', cars work.
Yes, I understand what you're saying. And, it is the "fellow forum user who routinely points out past related links" that I am wondering about. I did look at that users past comments, and see that user is doing that kind of thing -a lot -. What I wanted to know was, is this something being done in an official capacity, or just someone being a posting-police bully.
See for example
The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...
There is no note on the first one.
I'm talking about just using an unmodified car to run over people. No need to learn anything about bomb making.
Simply select any text on a webpage to translate, explain, or copy it with a sleek floating menu.
Seems light on details. How is it executing the payload? Is it doing something like badusb where it emulates a keyboard to run the payload? Wouldn't that be super obvious? Or is it something as simple as telling the user to install a "driver"?
Yes, it would be a hostile act. But it wouldn't be terrorism.

Not everything bad is terrorism.
The fire is still burning, is only partially contained, has gotten close to the Center, and the winds are forecast to pick up again tomorrow. So there's still a chance it will be at risk.

Now, they've had days to prepare for this, and apparently have plenty of contingencies in place, but this is still relevant the fire could get there.
I know it's technically unrelated, but…

> We strive to create a culture of belonging

and

> Tim Cook personally donates $1million to the Trump inaugural fund (not quoted from the article)

just don't sit together properly in my mind. The fish rots from the head.
would be cool without all the trolling
I guess the Rendition Vérité accelerator cards are also contenders.
Management consulting != consulting in general.
Keep in mind that this is the stupidest the LLM will ever be and we can expect major improvements every few months. On the other hand junior devs will always be junior devs. At some point python and C++ will be like assembly now, something that’s always out there but not something the vast majority of developers will ever need to read or write.
Twitter is terrible and I can't remember the nitter instance that still works.
99.9% of asteroid discoveries are done by ground based telescopes. The world is still a long way away from having many (and large) space based telescopes for this purpose due to the economics and sheer complexity involved.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to access from unlocked devices. I'm just saying it's a different argument.
Depends on the contract.

But I agree in general.
It will drain the battery a lot faster on a laptop or phone. And use more power and CPU on a desktop machine.

Game engines and their rendering models are usually doing work every frame by nature of their design. A retained mode, event based GUI doesn't need to.

That and you can basically say goodbye to hooks for accessibility, common/standard shortcuts, etc.
My understanding is that UTF-8 is the world's charset and that reasonable Hungarians would use that (e.g. I sure don't use us-ascii or iso-latin-1 if I can at all help it. I mean my "better half" reads 中文 so I don't have to and having it all in UTF-8 makes it easy) The other mystery is how the data sci's found it.
Fun story, while at FAANG I was once tasked with making a parameter configurable via flag. This wasn't super easy for various reasons, but I pointed out that it was configurable already: all you had to do was submit a PR to change the hardcoded value in the code and it would update everywhere and that wasn't much different from how we already configured runtime parameters by submitting a PR that updated the config file.

I got a good chuckle out of my coworkers but as I've gotten more experienced there's a grain of truth in that. Actually the main non-joking objection was that deployments are slow so if we needed to, reconfiguring runtime flags was a good amount faster. But that made me think: if deployments and builds are super fast, would we still need configuration in the conventional yaml and friends sense? It could save a lot of foot guns from misconfiguration and practically speaking, we essentially never restarted the server to reconfigure it. From the article,

> Unless you have really good reason to, you probably should not do this for normal options - it makes your library much more rigid by requiring that the user of your library know the options at comptime.

I dunno, actually that sounds really great to me.
> Today, yes, I can lock down the iPhone I give to my son, but if it can be unlocked to run arbitrary software then he can in theory unlock it. Yes, it is on me to continue to monitor the device to make sure he hasn't done it, but the point stands

You're scared of the wrong thing. The greater danger isn't arbitrary software but rather your son running up massive App Store charges on IAP of exploitative games and other scams. And if you think Apple will refund you, think again. Locking the device to the crApp Store isn't the solution. To the contrary, the solution is to enable parental controls to prevent access to the crApp Store.

> But me being able to reasonably trust that someone hasn't put a compromised version of the OS on the device, or, won't be able to put a different firmware on the device to brute force my encrypted contents is a bit of safety in a certain set of circumstances that I want in my device

These are possible without vendor lockdown. Devices can be and are designed so that the consumer can lock the device down and prevent modification, etc. Of course you can't constrain yourself, if you have the credentials to unlock the device, but you can constrain everyone else, whether they're children on the one hand or thieves/attackers on the other.
https://xcancel.com/evapro30/status/1878593145534923124
The current, intricate, post training / fine tuning going on in models like 0-1 is feature engineering.
Shhh stop giving my tricks away! (more fun: 3d only interfaces)