skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has this solution been audited? In particular, is it safe to replay attacks by actors listening in to the network traffic?

Also from the diagram it looks like the secret key is stored unencrypted on the server, or do I read it wrong?
Watching a typical multi family house go up down the street in Boston and the wooden framing is definitely still all nailed together. This is very typical in the US Northeast. No need for connectors when you have nails and nail guns. Where I see elements made off site it’s typically manufactured joists which would be far more expensive as single pieces of wood.
You do know we're in January 2025 and no other company has landed an orbital booster yet.

SpaceX has done it with two completely different systems.

Other companies have smart people and money too.
Is that true? I'd like to think my commits are less burdensome to review than a fresh out of boot camp junior dev especially if all that's being done is fixing linter issues. Perhaps there's a small benefit, but doesn't seem like a major productivity boost.
Exactly. But why does he need to buy a USB capture card and HDMI cable? He can just hire someone to come and record the videos for him. They'll also do the post processing.

Why does he even even record the videos himself? He can just hire actors to do what he wants, probably a lot better.

And what's the whole thing with buying a camera? He should just buy a studio and hire a crew to manage all that stuff.
And this is where insurance when allowed to set premiums, can help guide the market to the right solution. I don't believe LA has ever had a fire of this scale. Similar to that large fire in NorCal a few years back.

I am certain either through insurance requirements or simple price comparisons, homes that are getting rebuilt will be done so using modern standards. Its worth mentioning that a lot of this is not so much a concrete vs wood discussion. You can absolutely build a wood framed home that is fire resistant.
I think the only way to play this is to be heavily invested (if possible) on the AI buildout. If we get AI at this rate, then these investments as of today truly will be a meal ticket.

It’s a huge conviction, that means every dollar you earn during this phase has to be leveraged into this build out because at the end there won’t be any jobs left.

When this happens at scale, and everyone is on social security, the government will inevitably cut/tax your social security income, which is going to be insane for the retired crowd who will literally have no recourse in the economy. Foreign nations already want to de-dollarize, so a situation in 20 years can easily arise where America cannot raise debt because no one wants to buy it (aged highly-taxed population, no jobs due to automation, and no creditors. Fall of an empire, we’re crying wolf again but this time it feels real).

The only way the American demographic will be able to maintain its lifestyle is to do the opposite of what we are doing now. We’d need mass immigration, to fill a underclass that we can tax to maintain the QoL of the retired American class (or in simpler terms, saturating the bottom of the pyramid to pay into social security, everyone else is old or out of a job). This might cause civil unrest.

It’s best to prepare. America has UBI via SS, it just hasn’t been stress tested. What if we put everyone on it for life? It’s going to cause so many moral hazard issues. Why should I pay into supporting people who don’t do anything? Well, what are they supposed to do? There’s nothing to do. Should they not eat then?
Indeed. The games industry uses immediate mode GUIs and people get upset if they achieve less than 60fps. Having everything be this slow is just a huge failure of coordination on behalf of the industry.

(next mini question: why is it seemingly impossible to make an Android app smaller than 60mb? I'm sure it is possible, but almost all the ones I have from the app store are that size)
Figuring out what needs to be done is itself work though, and for many people it is the type of work that productivity tools can greatly help with.
> 1) Not all the world will suffer equally from climate change. The parts that are at higher risk should not be insurable so that new housing will not be built there but somewhere else.

So what about the people who already live there...? Like I'm fine telling millionaires their coastal cottages are fucked, but there's a lot more folks out there who've lived in these areas for generations both because they're attached to them emotionally, and also because they can't afford to go anywhere else.
Yes, all homes in America burn down every 5 years.
This is the main reason why CIELAB was developed
Simplicity and scalability: A new economical way to create compact lenses
This is hugely dependent on whether the camera supports clean HDMI output - that is, without overlays. My Canon camera for example insists on showing a focus square over HDMI no matter what, and it is impossible to disable.
I'm not an architect and don't live in an earthquake zone, but I was under the impression that wooden homes flex in earthquakes and if and when they do fall on you, do less damage than concrete homes which are stiff up until a point and then crack and fall.

So the human surviving may come at the cost of more houses collapsing.
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We're focusing on US and Indian markets initially (EU's eIDAS certification is a beast we'll tackle later).

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Anduril sponsored a Nix convention, so guessing they do use it.
Buddhist nuns teach self defense [video]
This is quickly becoming he most popular video. I'm also viewing the follow up video in my head.
There's still an attic with many typical roof truss designs.
There's often a lot of small fixes that not time efficient to do, but a solution is not much code and is quick to verify.

If the cost is small to setting a coding agent (e.g. aider) on a task, seeing if it reaches a quick solution, and just aborting if it spins out, you can solve a subset of these types of issues very quickly, instead of leaving them in issue tracking to grow stale. That lets you up the polish on your work.

That's still quite a different story to having it do the core, most important part of your work. That feels a little further away. One of the challenges is the scout rule, the refactoring alongside change that makes the codebase nicer. I feel like today it's easier to get a correct change that slightly degrades codebase quality, than one that maintains it.
MiniCPM-O 2.6, GPT-4o Level MLLM for Vision, Speech and Multimodal on Your Phone
Podcasts are in the middle of a numbers and people crisis (2023)
And yet the GPU in your phone can run a small program for each pixel taking hundreds or even thousands of clock cycles to complete and still hit a 60Hz frame rate or more. It's not the hardware that's the problem, but the modern software Jenga tower that drives it.
Not 100% sure as they didn't introduce themselves but whoever called was able to get the phone number that the IP address was linked to and I assume both would have to have been involved in order to do that.
Waymo is not self driving. It’s remote operated, much more expensive. People will not give up their vehicle for an expensive taxi service. There are no self driving cars that actually work and there are none on the horizon.
This is what’s needed to get the most out of these tools. You understand deeply how the tool works and so you’re able to optimize its inputs in order to get good results.

This puts you in the top echelon of developers using AI assisted coding. Most developers don’t have this deep of an understanding and so they don’t get results as good as yours.

So there’s a big question here for AI tool vendors. Is AI assisted coding a power tool for experts, or is it a tool for the “Everyman” developer that’s easy to use?

Usage data shows that the most adopted AI coding tool is still ChatGPT, followed by Copilot (even if you’d think it’s Cursor from reading HN :-))
I often wonder what the ROI is on this. How much did Sony have to pay engineers to implement this interesting but seemingly pretty useless functionality vs. what it actually saved them in the aforementioned tariffs? I know the knee jerk reaction is to say it obviously saved them some money or they wouldn't have done it, but I've seen far too much corporate stupidity in my life to take that as a given. I'd love to see the data.
I really wish the old Nokia was still around but without the cruft of their internal politics.

Something that Nokia was slow to get is also the appeal of the App Store / Play Store as a way of downloading apps easily which was always a problem in the older mobile operating systems.
Can you elaborate a bit on your workflow? I also struggle with this.
It is probably a house with a brick veneer, not a thick, load-bearing brick house.
There was no real payload on this, so I'd argue it's closer to a QA environment than production.

It's true that other rocket companies are treating launches as production, but SpaceX has always been doing "hardware-rich" testing.
Optical Fresnel zone plate flat lens: colored photoresist through I-line stepper
> Is any person really expected to read and understand a dozen or more privacy policies every day?

People are expected to make reasonable choices in their day-to-day life or suffer the consequences, yes. If you don't want to read the privacy policy, click "Reject" and you don't have to. Tired of clicking reject every day? Send an email to the company and tell them to get rid of it. They can, they just don't want to, and prefer to annoy users instead, because that makes them more money.

We give people the option to take a loan. If they take a loan without reading the terms and conditions, and sign up for very unfavorable terms even if it was very clear, then usually you have to stand for that choice.

Why would allowing/rejecting data collection work any differently?
> There will be more cloud-based products turned to bricks by manufacturers that go bankrupt or simply stop caring.

This one feels like a gimme. The recent Garmin outage that partially bricked the Connect app was a bit of a surprise; so much of what Garmin Connect does _should be_ local to the phone. Plus it's a free service (after you've paid for the device).

"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" doesn't only apply to media/digital goods, but a lot of hardware at this point. :/
What does cybersecurity pay for a novice ( but experienced programmer)? what about experienced personals?
Fair enough.

On a side note, I would personally avoid sharing the sidewalk with pedestrians, keep my speed and remain on the road. I know it's legal in my country to bike on (not high-speed) road even if there is a bike lane available. I'd rather share space with the plentiful, the cars, and have them slow down a bit, which cost them nothing, than bothering pedestrians.
At this price point I suspect the camera goes from "nice tool of an artist" to "business expense ofa team". With that I think people with this budget prioritize modularity and reliability over the convenience of having a all-in-one device.

Like for the Olympics there's mention of using a gizmo (PDT-FP1) whose sole role is to connect to the camera and transmit the picture wirelessly (even though the A9 have some wifi connectivity). And of course this wireless transmitter is quite expensive.

In cinema they have the same approach, as you don't buy "a camera", but you rent a sensor, a lens, a monitor, a focus pull, a storage disk, etc.
> TIL about Class A wood. It is as fire resistant as concrete, apparently.

Being in the same category of a rating system does not mean it truly is as fire resistant as concrete. In Europe it would most likely not be classified as A1:

> An A1-Rated material is defined as a material that does not contribute to fire at any stage, including a fully developed fire.

The rating from the US is a bit more vague on the class A wood:

> Class A is the most desirable category for fire-rated plywood as it indicates a flame spread index of 25 or less.

"or less" isn't zero.
If you have any more, don't show them the bike until you've taken the pedals off.
The landing was completely developed at SpaceX without NASA tech, assistance or money. By Lars. After figuring out parachutes were infeasible.

In fact it was one of the reasons red dragon was cancelled.

The group studying hypersonic retro propulsion of boosters at NASA was let go because that's what SpaceX did to land
I’m not sure how heat pumps and batteries “ensure power”. Building far more nuclear would create green jobs, high paying jobs, and ensure widespread power, but the current trend is to close nuclear power plants and burn natural gas instead.
How would it decide if it needs a reality check? Would the thing checking have the same limitations?
You can’t get to these areas without driving. Where will the residents park?
No, they successfully sent two to the Moon on Weds. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/science/nasa-launch-firefly-i...
Well, having read too much sci-fi, I am more afraid of an AI engineer that really does know everything.
Can Aider sit inside VS Code, understand what files I have open, and use them as context? Their docs lead me to say no, that they are an inline chat/completion experience
To this point, I use AI programming assistants pretty heavily and find very frequently that they will write extremely inefficient or oddly baroque implementations of what I’m asking for in their first pass, that appear as if they don’t have the “knowledge” or ability to do it better, but then they can be prodded to re-do it very easily. Frequently I look at some generated code and write back the most cursory feedback like “looks o(n^2) can you make more efficient” or “use pointers instead of nested loops” or “how about using X approach” and it will often produce something dramatically better than the initial effort. For now at least I think these tools are still most powerful in the hands of experts. (I am a self-taught programmer but have a fair bit of experience)
> Also, the camera control software these companies put out, for a computer or a phone, is almost always awful.

That’s definitely true of Sony too. Just - thankfully - you don’t need to install any of it to do most stuff. (With the one exception of sony’s gyro based image stablisation).

There’s also several apps in the App Store which let you remotely control Sony cameras. I assume people have reverse engineered the protocol Sony’s offical app uses.
Most the problems you mentioned will likely be solved with the next iterations of Devin or similar product.

I can say that because I work daily with Claude as an agent over mcp, and the problems you mentioned feel very familiar.

Based on the type of the issues you mentioned, Devin isn't likely using o1 yet. A workflow like o1 for planning, Claude for Coding, o1 for review, etc., would work better.

The problems you mentioned: ssh-key issue unrelated to script, code not following existing patterns or themes, instructions not being followed, extra abstractions, etc., fall into that category.

Some of the issues are likely due to context length problem. For example, LLM doesn't work well with jupyter notebook because of extra junk in ipynb, which will likely remain a problem.
Depending on the precise launch time (4:36/4:37 PM CST) "Ship exploded at ≈T+00:08:26": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_flight_test_7
At the risk of Godwinning the thread, I’ll just say that I think Werner von Braun circa 1943 is a telling and relevant counterexample here.
Politics is much harder than technological innovation.
This is a modern distinction.

Until recently the term "alphabet" was used for any writing system where the symbols correspond approximately with phonemes, regardless whether both consonants and vowels are written as in all alphabets derived from or inspired by the Greek alphabet, or only the consonants are written, like in other writing systems derived from the old Semitic alphabet, without passing through the Greek alphabet.

Then the term "abjad" has been created, and also the term "abugida" (for alphabets where the base symbols are for consonants and the vowels are added as diacritic marks around the consonants), and the sense of "alphabet" has been restricted, in order to distinguish these 3 kinds of alphabets, but "alphabet" in the older wider sense can still be encountered frequently, either in the older literature or in informal speech, so one should be able to recognize both the stricter and the wider meanings.

In TFA, "alphabet" is used in the old wider sense. Moreover, it is not even used correctly in that sense, because they did not find a written "alphabet" like those used in teaching, but they have found a few written texts that are believed to have been written using an alphabetic script.

The oldest actual alphabets that have been found (which show the alphabetic order of the letters) are for the Ugaritic alphabet, which is older than the Phoenician alphabet, but much more recent than the oldest inscriptions that are believed to have been written with an alphabetic script.
Insurance profit margins are razor thin. Many insurers pay out more in claims than they collect in premiums, and the difference is made up with interest and other returns on investments from the insurer’s massive reserves.

Insurers are strictly regulated at the state level. They have to keep enough reserves to pay a surge in claims. And they have to collect enough premiums to pay out an average claim volume, or else the state requires them to shut down.
Right. I find that quite puzzling. Zuck hasn't produced anything apart from a platform with very questionable business practices and which serves as a surveillance tool but somehow he gets far less pushback than Musk.
And Canon's marketshare has been declining for years

https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/content/latest-from-mpb/2024-chall...

Sony encourages their use for vlogging/youtube because that's a huge market and let's you plug in HDMI to your computer without using special software
I'd go with "Dieter Rams is the inspiration behind Apple's design philosophy".
You can check the NASA Spaceflight forums. There was a gloating thread were bets were settled and people called out.

Also the head of ULA said they'd need to do 10 rides of a booster before it makes financial sense to reuse. SpaceX claims it's one
They should have done the math just how often you buy a vacuum or a fridge though, because I observed the inverse effect. Buy vacuum -> 6 months of suggestions for vacuums and then nothing, not the other way round.
Hum... The bike lane seems to be designed to fill space and make the street run better, instead of being designed for being useful for riding bikes.

I can see why people get angry about it. But still, the article is asking for the wrong solution. And yeah, the people crashing on that fence at 30 km/h would just die hit by a car a few meters down if the article's fix was implemented.
> just unrolling several unnecessary nested subqueries, and adding a more selective predicate

And state of the art query optimizers can even do all this automatically!
Technology Windows
Frankly, everyone has been warning about the risk for years. The fire started as a forest fire (whether it was arson or not), and was anticipated by insurance companies who dropped policies on thousands of people in the months leading up to this. The winds are a big problem of course, but if there were not so many acres of kindling around the city along with insufficient water reservoirs, then a fire like this could not spread as easily as it did. I will give you that the fire could have still happened and been bad either way, but insurance people who literally study this stuff for a living and have skin in the game knew it was likely to get out of control well in advance.
Section 7.24.3.7 The realloc function

https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3096.pdf

> If ptr is a null pointer, the realloc function behaves like the malloc function for the specified size. Otherwise, if ptr does not match a pointer earlier returned by a memory management function, or if the space has been deallocated by a call to the free or realloc function, or if the size is zero, the behavior is undefined. If memory for the new object is not allocated, the old object is not deallocated
and its value is unchanged.
...welcome to industrial sales :-(
I believe the post you're replying to is referring to roof trusses (and perhaps floor trusses) which are generally built off-site at a truss plant, but then attached onsite (usually with nails, but sometimes lag bolts or screws are needed).
How is Google using AI for internal code migrations?
There was no car design pre Musk.
It seems like that region had a particularly high literacy rate. Texts from all classes and genders were found. The kid could have been a peasant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novgorod_Republic#Literature_a...
Concrete + rebar and then a steel roof secured with hurricane-proof metal straps, or just tile roofing if the area isn’t hurricane prone. Concrete can also be used for things like insulated concrete forms (ICF) that save energy and improve insulation for both hot and cold.
Yes, as a European I'm always confused about what Americans think is the moral of that story..
More EVs Migrate to Tesla's Chargers, with Some Bumps
Sucker's bet. They almost certainly do. The question is more would the homeowners have actually been better off if the homes were more damaged requiring being rebuilt? Based on anecdotes from the Hawaii fires... the answer is: Maybe. Combustion products are notoriously hard to remediate. Just living in those houses post fire could be the equivalent of giving yourself smoke inhalation issues.
Marketing material changes over time and varies between models and regions. Canon customers bought their cameras because Canon advertised a set of features. I bought mine because Canon advertised that I could use it as a webcam. I don't think you're making a persuasive argument.
LA and California as a whole have some of the highest taxes in the nation, along with the most mild climate. The amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in California is stunning. The problem is mismanagement above all, not a lack of funds (at least in this case).