skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do discovery via the mesh, yes, but instead of broadcasting (like mDNS), we query batman-adv for the current visible neighbors. If a new neighbor is discovered, we will contact them directly (via WiFi) to exchange the addresses in the P2P network and then dial them. From that, we populate the local Kademlia routing table with the content of the neighbor.

Security is still a big issue. In the current state, there is no security other than application-layer encryption (QUIC & TLS v1.3). That is fine for pilot projects, but it should not be used for anything sensitive. Maybe we should point this out more clearly in the docs. However, some Wi-Fi chips (not the ones on Raspberry Pi, sadly) also allow setting a password in adhoc (IBSS) mode and 802.11s has native support for encryption. In general is here a problem with lack of adoption of standards by the WiFi chip manufacturers and with Broadcom (the chip on the RP) a lack of support in the Linux kernel driver.

We are planning to implement authentication and encryption in the upcoming release, but this might be a paid feature.

Typically, enterprise networks are encrypted via 802.11x (since a leak of the key wouldn't compromise the whole network), and we might be able to build a decentralised Radius server, but I'm not very fond of that idea.

Ideally, the damage one can do by joining the network unauthorized should be very limited anyway, and authentication and encryption should happen on Layer 5.

Would love feedback / inspiration / suggestions
Not in the government. Analgous to the Federalist Society.
The Body Keeps the Score is as untrustworthy as Mother Jones.
That your examples are a century old proves the point about the US govt. being benign.
Ehh... I just disagree, even if I agree that my concern is wildly speculative. The isolationist right already has them covered there. If they can take the island, it's over. The US is not going to mount an invasion to save Taiwan, but will sell them weapons and help defend it.

If they can't take the island quickly, then maybe propaganda helps. I just think neutering or nuking everyone's phones for a few days is enough to genuinely split the attention of the American people. I think it's very safe to say our culture cares much more about it's butter than it's guns right now. We are decadent.
> owner of X is in the government

One, he's not. Two, there is a massive difference between the owner of X being in the government and the government being in X. Three, the owner of every media platform is not in the government.
Taking these positions is a foolish risk. Such obvious disingenuous behaviour may be rewarded in the US but judicial systems in other countries may take a dim view of this sort of obvious obfuscation. The judge could appoint a forensic accounting firm to get full access to their financial records system and calculate the profitability.They will surely find some report to management in the system reporting profitability at which point there's a perjury and contempt of court charge risk. They need less arrogant lawyers :-)
Right. Those are fair comparisons /s
It's a different way to capture energy stored in fuel.

Normally to produce electricity from fuel you would spin a turbine, either with a mechanical engine or using vapour. But here the energy is captured through a photo cell, and the author claims that mixing sodium into certain fuels leads to a very significant part of fuel energy going into light at specific wavelength.
Sure, but in this case it's like driving your car 10 feet to your mailbox and then bragging about how it's an accelerant (in other words, the task wasn't remotely difficult to begin with and doesn't really warrant "accelerating"). I assume in this case your note about how it was written with an LLM was more just to spite the anti-LLM sentiment above though, which would make more sense.
It probably doesn't help that the website looks like an American Science & Surplus catalog
The ATC is up on YouTube - I heard it on the vatsim channel. ATC would not let pilots transit the designated danger airspace without declaring an emergency. So they did.
I have no idea about S0 but CS is usually chip select. It should be sufficient to short it to prevent the chip from being selected. However CS is frequently inverted and you would have to pull it up to prevent the chip selection, so maybe S0 is always high and inhibit CS
Not the parent commenter but not always. 9 pool just means you build a spawning pool at your main, for instance. This worker-prefix building build-order naming system also breaks down once people start referencing builds like 2 rax academy, 3 hatch muta, etc.
Not true. In the 2023 earthquake in Turkey 10s of thousands of apartment buildings collapsed. Official death toll is 60k or so but it's widely known that the actual number is at least twice that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_ea...
Try posting a Winnie the Pooh meme on RedNote.
I am a fairly active consumer of TikTok content. It's a huge app with many many different niches that have their own little communities. Mostly, the algorithm has decided that what I need to see is woodworking videos, car videos, and some dad jokes. But there certainly is a very interesting undercurrent of "information". One really interesting wave was when the TikTok ban passed Congress. Suddenly my feed was filled with absolutely random people saying how bad this is and how it just doesn't make sense, etc. Like if you are an influencer on a platform that just got banned, of course you'll have some feelings about it. But interestingly most people who do regularly show up (the woodworkers, car guys, etc.) who do have big followings pretty much didn't talk about it. Even this week when the ban is about to happen, the popular and established accounts that aren't politics-focused are not talking about it. But now there is a new wave of completely random people talking about "how much is the US government freaking out that we are all moving to Red Note?" And at this point I don't trust that all of them are actual humans, let alone humans who haven't been paid, or if they are AI-generated personas meant to really overtly drive people like me to the new app.

My point isn't that there is some grand conspiracy here, just that if you wanted to have outsized influence on people who are there just for entertainment, you could do it and make it look organic. Inception has to be the target's idea and all that.

In a similar vein I see talking heads of people in their kitchens contemplate world issues. Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Palestine, life in China: you can get in-depth opinions on all those issues from a hairdresser in Nebraska or a mechanic in Michigan, and they all will present them well enough. So I think there is something there.

But the clear damn solution is to pass laws that prohibit a bunch of this stuff across the board. The fact that Instagram Reels can do exactly what TikTok is doing but with ties to a different world power makes this ban seem shameless. Ban them all. Or none. Or regulate them like they should be regulated. But don't pretend like this security theater is somehow going to fix anything meaningful.
The EFF disagrees.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-us-supre...
It used to work on my old phone. Stopped with nee one. May depend on Android version or when you installed.
Wdym? Last I checked Telegram is not banned in any way.
Yep, the point of saying “km miles” was the hypothetical uncertainty around units even for European airlines who use metric internationally. However, even within metric might be some question around units.
Waiting for the day when they can load more than a banana. But I fear, the planet will be uninhabitable before that's a thing.
> What does that even mean in this context?

TikTok's CSAM problem is well documented [1].

Disposable idiots are a necessary asset for any intelligence operation. Kim Jong-nam's assasins, for example, "were told to play harmless tricks on people in the vicinity for a prank TV show" [2].

[1] https://endsexualexploitation.org/articles/tiktok-under-fede...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
Why Samsung Hid Its Brand Name in Japan (Until Now)
I want a study on what percent of legislation actually addresses the problems they target, because im sure it would be similar to a 5th grader designing a moon lander and hoping for the best.
I don’t mind if it is slightly slower, if that is even true anymore.

Turns out while hg clone, pull, or whatever is running, I can do other things!
Yep, it's a completely generic feature, and I'd argue the keyword 'SECURITY' is a noise word and 'LABEL' by itself would be even better, but that's what we're stuck with. As the documentation states: " PostgreSQL places no restrictions on whether or how a label provider must interpret security labels; it merely provides a mechanism for storing them."
I never used tiktok. You don't follow accounts? You just open and scroll and hope eventually you get something? There's a nothing being done intentionally by the user to find content?
That's every popular app.
>A good thought experiment is whether you think the people of Crimea or Donetsk would prefer having the Ukrainian government spy on them instead of the Russian government and whether this preference changed in 2014 or 2022.

we're not in that situation, but i would expect the people of crimea and donetsk would prefer that nobody surveilled them.

but in a practical sense, surveilliance of people in donetsk and crimea by china would be less immediately threatening to their life, because china is not conducting military action in those places.

>1) the US government is generally benign in that it historically has not abused its power over citizens

i don't understand how anyone can seriously make this claim, and i really don't understand why potential danger isn't a consideration.

potential danger is simply danger. privacy rights are established in recognition that a threat is itself harmful.

and abuse is not unreal. america has had a larger incarcerated population than any other country for my entire lifetime. both absolute size and per capita.

in america, political movements are consistently dismantled by counterintelligence. political action is met with violence and arrest.

perhaps few people are outright murdered, but it's not necessary to murder the powerless. outside of america proper, american power is much more lethal.

every concern and contradiction that threatens the present situation - environment, infrastructure, housing, healthcare, labor, war - is maintained by suppression of political organizing, enabled by surveillance.

the administration incoming next week has promised a massive project of deportation. it has promised retaliation against journalists. it is apparently motivated to criminalize the existence of transgender people. none of these threats are reduced by american surveillance of american people.

>2) the Chinese government has [abused its power]

sure. but this is a problem primarily for chinese people, and americans are not subjects of chinese power.

american surveillance of american people does not reduce any threat of chinese power.

why isn't the american legislature addressing the problems of american people subject to american power?

>3) the US and China are going to war one day.

i don't expect this. there's too much to lose on both sides. it would be a disaster and a tragedy.

true or not, it's certain that american citizens would benefit, and america itself would improve, if arbitrary surveillance on the present scale was impossible.
Yes, what is the point if the cites you have are all based on speculation and vague allegations by US officials? Do you actually have credible evidence that a group affiliated with the Chinese government hacked American ISPs? If not, don't bother.
Could Pain Help Test AI for Sentience?
I suppose for aviation at least this is no less efficient than a gas turbine or a piston, and it's certainly a good deal quieter, has fewer moving parts, and requires less precision engineering than a jet engine. This feels tailor-made for attritable low->medium performance aviation, aka loitering munitions and drones. Strip away the "green" talk, and you're left with something that can burn just about anything (including hydrocarbons like avgas) without the complexity of a turbine.
We'll probably pull a Rome and go from republic to dictatorship, kick off a civil war or two, and eventually it'll settle down into empire. I'd say we have 25 years left.
I would like to see which Arabic countries volunteer the funds.
I wonder how often this happens and we _don't_ recognize it.
AI can’t attend meetings and converse with humans on other teams to understand what the priorities are, what features need to be built, what issues are happening, etc.
And we live in the modern world, so we should use the modern definitions?

For reference, "abjad" was introduced in 1990, so it's 35 years old. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to start using 35 year old terms to accurately describe academic subjects.
Thanks for the added context on the builds! As "foreign" BW player and fellow speech processing researcher, I agree shallow contextual biasing should help. While not difficult to implement, most generally available ASR solutions don't make it easy to use. There's a PR in ctranslate2 implementing the same feature so that it could be exposed in faster-whisper: https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2/pull/1789
Yes, whether you understand it or not is a different question.

Search for Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon.
For a short time maybe, but that kind of activity might look like something interesting enough for someone to target you and remove all privacy from your entire existence.
Right, "9 pool" means build a spawning pool when you have 9 workers. So "12 courtyard" means build an expansion when you have 12 workers.
the fact that a person is closeted gay, or that location data revealed exactly when they were with a mistress
Interesting any idea why the FSB/GRU make their agents operate using their real identities as opposed to using a cover?

Or did Tom Clancy lie and they are so incompetent they can't even use OSINT tools lol
I think their goals are to replace both because they clearly don't like atomic CSS either. I have no comment on the React part as I don't use it, but atomic CSS is very useful.
It will always be f-stab in my head, can’t undo.
Given the choice, they'd much rather you use the version that has much better access to location data and notifications, but barring access to that, they'll likely turn off the nagging and let you use the web interface in peace.
Those two share a border, how does that show global reach? I would be surprised if a country didn’t influence its neighbors in some ways.
If you're part of one of the subgroups that the American government has historically mistreated then it absolutely makes sense to be more afraid of your own government.
> You cannot fight for this, unless design both the communication hardware and its firmware

This is exactly what my phone is. There are no blobs. It runs FSF-endorsed PureOS. Using it is fighting.
wow 100k for 2 cars. that's expensive.
Top Farm Robots
Definitely need a newer benchmark.

I couldn't find where browser-use published their run results (expected to see it here https://github.com/browser-use/eval)

We went ahead and published our full run at https://eval.skyvern.com so our run could be independently audited
Thank you! I'll take a look at the video—haven't seen it yet but I'll take a look in minute. Some more background on the project in this tweet: https://x.com/Westoncb/status/1879689465360445834
At least from Wikipedia's description - of the ship as a disastrously ill-designed firetrap, with lackluster officers and crew - there were an extremely large number of "worst times & places" for a fire to start.

(BTW, you forgot to implicate the story's villain in the ship's poor design, weak cadre of officers, and the departed captain's slipshod safety training:)
Yes for systems, not always for structure. A failed wing spar means everybody dies. For real-world examples, there were two 747 crashes caused by improper repairs to a rear pressure bulkhead or aircraft skin. When the repairs eventually failed, the explosive decompression caused catastrophic damage to the tail in one instance, and total structural failure resulting in a mid-air breakup in the other.

The response to this was to make sure repairs are carried out correctly so the structure doesn’t fail, not to somehow make two redundant bulkheads or two skins.
Agreed! You think HN is different?
I remember talking to Jake a couple of years ago when they were looking for someone with a storage background. Cool dude, and cool set of people. Really chuffed to see them doing what they believe in.
Absolutely- even as a lifelong leftie, I find the rhetoric on CNBC just as sickening as that on Fox.

I've (somewhat sardonically) wondered if they're both false flag operations. Imagine CNBC started with the idea "we'll parody the left to make them seem radical and unreasonable" but accidentally developed a huge following who didn't get the joke.
If it's a standards-first framework, why does it use YAML for Config and not JSON?
I was watching a video ranting about bad benchmarks yesterday and in an aside they pointed out the (gcc) generated code used Conditional Move (cmov) in several places to handle and if/else if in the code with no branches.

I think the days of trying to branches by trying to remove conditional assignments are either gone or close to it. You may still have a subsequent data race, but the conditional assignment isn't your biggest problem with throughput.
CISA does. Much of it has been made public.

Google it yourself, if you're actually interested. It's fascinating.
"> "There's absolutely no way to earn wealth now" is ludicrous: was it possible a month ago? a year ago? a decade ago? Did anyone become wealthy through methods other than gambling or inheritance a month ago? a year ago? a decade ago?

No."

You should seek professional help.
I just find this line of argument incredibly ironic because it is fundamentally an anti-free speech argument in defense of both the US and Musk while making the defense of the Chinese app with strong censorship a pro-free speech position. That doesn’t necessarily make the argument invalid, but it certainly makes it feel a little disingenuous to the general public.
Miss that guy.
Yet again, let down by a centralised platform. I think most of the ones I haven't been disappointed by are forums, as many have lasted 10+ years.
But it seems like this move incentivizes you to not improve the open source server, at least such that the open source server is always inferior to the pro version.

If someone makes a new, more performant, open-source server, and it touches your bottom line then you're strongly motivated to "embrace, extend, extinguish".

The thing is, we've all heard this before, and it always ends up the same. I hope you prove me wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Apple directly reported sales of "services" in the last reported quarter to be 24972M and cost of those sales to be 6485M.
https://investor.apple.com/investor-relations/default.aspx

I am no expert, but that seems like a 74% margin on services, which would seem to include their "app store".

It is difficult for me to imagine that apple is somehow incapable of breaking those numbers down into smaller component categories.
Nope. You paid very selective attention to that article:

> the context provided by Maddow’s commentary before and after she made the statement disclosed all relevant facts and contained colorful language.

If you listen to the clip in question, you'll observe that Maddow explains the facts, makes an exclamation, and then explains the facts. The complaint here only works if you clip chimp the exclamation. Contrast this with the complaint against Carlson, where he engages in what was by his own admission sustained deception.
The law has a date attached to it. I already mentioned that.
Aren't CDNs also going to be liable if they serve TikTok content?
I've had a few worn mouses register double clicks upon a single click. It happens inhumanly fast and users won't realize it until using an app that reacts to double clicks.
That seems like a high rate of fires given that plant opened at the end of 2020. I wonder what to total cost.
Because deep inside, most people are still children, desperate to declare their autonomy.
App stores being a useful tool of state control (vis a vis the open web) does make one wonder if it factors into the government pursuing them as an abuse of market competition.
Vat-Spy: simple app that allows you to view current ATC staffing and traffic
I worked for a colo provider for a long time. Many tenants arranged for their own ISPs, especially the ones large enough to use a cage.
It's one of those things. If you asked most Hacker News readers how they feel about the authoritarian government of a single party state literally controlling the algorithm that determines everything you see, most would swear up and down that they would never stand for it.

But yet what happens in practice is people line up to defend it. I can only guess most of the people defending it are active users and aren't aware of how distorted their perception of the world is by the content they see there.
Having made an 4 year excursion from IT into the world of making gears, I can attest that what seems like something fairly simple from the outside really isn't.

Just like a bearing, gears (ideally) have a rolling contact. The smoother and harder the faces the better, until you get to the point where fractures and spalling occur. The best gears are cut, sent out to be hardened via heat treat, then ground (with "superfinishing") to exact size. As with bearings, you have to get the size just right for long life.
I'm not sure what you mean but I was a security researcher for a large company for a bit and required none of that. I was required to work airgapped at home, however.
SO (MISO) should generally be high impedance if not selected...

I suspect this causes SO to always output the same value and the Ethernet controller must expect some magic
I have to say that this thread is very frustrating to read. I see @lazide is engaging with you in good faith and providing high effort, thoughtful answers. There's a lot of statistics and factors involved in a discussion like this. So I won't say @lazide's analysis is correct or flawed. But this is a good topic where a good discussion can be had and @lazide is holding up their end of the bargain.

But every response of yours is dismissive. And this makes this thread frustrating to read. You answer every reply with more questions and a tone of dismissal. If you know so much about this area, why don't you begin sharing some facts and enlighten us? Dismissing your co-commenter and answering their replies with more questions is not educating anyone of anything!

It would help if instead of answering a comment with questions, you share what you know. So how much is the cost of wiring, installation, programming and making greenhouses in the span of a year? How much copper is needed per capita? What do you know? Tell us!
> The truth is Broadcom is not a semiconductor company. Nor is it a software company. It is a private equity fund, maximizing cash flow from an endless series of acquisitions. This is disheartening to many in the semis industry and probably confusing to those in software.

I hate when finance people talk like this.

No, it's not confusing to people in software. We're well aware of your (finance) industry's reputation of sucking capital out of necessary, competitive companies for your own personal gain. If we thought we could get away with it, we'd do something about it.