skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you. These "cyber security" people's main qualification appears to be scoring 70% on a multiple choice test. I've seen people with no practical experience building things be paid more than 25+ year veterans (who, by the way, might know a thing or two about security).

The CIO and CISO don't understand that certifications only tell you someone is minimally qualified (at best). They are afraid of what they don't know (which is everything) and looking for something to conform to, some external authority on which to base their cargo cult. But they don't want to learn anything more complicated than a buzzword, so their first and last interview question for a security candidate is "what is the CIA triad?"

The old timers don't seem particularly anxious about security (because they understand where and how the rubber meets the road), which is misinterpreted as complacency.

So the security team will insist on not learning anything about the environment at their new job (separation of duties!) but will want to install footguns on every server, and generate reams of automated scanner output that is 98% useless. Budgets get eaten up because we have to buy products from the magic quadrant, because they need to be easy enough for an under qualified person to use (I've heard this). Sometimes it feels like never-ending stream of XY problems and Chesterton's fences, but I guess that's just another day in IT.
This guy is a national treasure and has contributed so much value to the open source AI ecosystem. I hope he’s able to attract enough funding to continue making software like this and releasing it as true “no strings attached” open source.
...wait, so then who is producing the discs for PS5 games? Someone other than Sony?
Just got to know about pinokio, I think they are taking the approach of replacing existing browsers. We are trying to empower existing browsers, both pros and cons and that's the major difference I can see.
It's not so simple. Background panning on modern TVs can look very juttery/flickery with motion-smoothing completely off. OLEDs can turn on and off very quickly, and 24 frames a second really isn't that many, so you end up seeing each frame rather distinctly instead of the more smoothed out and less instant frame updates you got on older TVs.

I've found the lowest motion-smoothing setting makes watching stuff like this far more enjoyable while avoiding the awful soap-opera effect you get from higher settings.

It felt awful to admit to myself since I hated on motion-smoothing for so long, but I simply cannot not see the 24 frames in pretty much all scenes where the camera is panning and background has to move a lot.
I have lived my entire life in a a rural area, not even a town and it seems to me that every time I go to a city it is the same as the last. Everyone has their thing I guess.
GRRM's issue is that he needs to figure out how to get all of the interesting characters in one place from across a huge world. He just needs to write some sort of teleportation into the story, that's how Jordan handled it in the WoT series.
My understanding is that Trump gave himself expedited deportation powers, not really sure how that worked out or if it's accurate. But living in a border state, there is quite a bit of noise about it and how Mexico is rushing to build tent cities for what they expect to be a flood of citizens (or probably more likely, brown people looking like Mexican citizens that Stephen Miller and company has decided is Mexican) being returned to them, quickly and en masses.
I love the idea of mucking up ad data, but not a fan of giving free money to X and Meta.
Only if it increases your compensation by that 1%?

I get making economic/stats based analysis like this, but is your boss going to notice that 1% to give you a raise they otherwise wouldn’t? Probably not…

Your company culture can be performance-minded and this still be true.
> High school quantum theory

> Nothing super fancy

Yeah, that's college level stuff, it's pretty fancy for high school, you go to a nice place :)
You should write "without bugs"
This sounds like a kind of progress. Companies today don't explicitly affirm school desegregation or interracial marriage. That's because they're settled and social progress issues like these inevitably win in the long run. Progress can't be stopped but there is a ceiling on how much progress that can be made in one era, it takes a few more generations of people who can't accept new ideas to die out. Amazon couldn't rush history if they wanted to.
"Gray bases"? What do you have in mind? (I'm assuming you mean as in Gray codes, but I'm having trouble making sense of that.)
Is your mainboard the same as the CM3588 carrier board [1] that has been re-layout to match the form factor you wanted or did you have to make other modifications?

The part I am most interested in is the 'powertrain' and how it manages battery charging.

[1] https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/CM3588_NAS_Kit#...
Door bell cam captures meteorite crashing into Earth (video and audio)
>If the machines are smart enough, shouldn’t they be able to build better interfaces to existing software?

There is no "intelligence" in any of this. Just a whole lot of automation.
That's the reason why I think getting the right position, right team and right work is the only antidote for this.

If you work close to the metal you only have 1-2 levels of abstraction. If you need to call a library which calls a library which calls a VM which calls some syscall you simply don't have the brain to trace down all those -- plus you are not allowed the luxuries of tracing it down because the ticket is wanted ASAP.

Getting the right job is the only thing needed to take you away from this hell.
Or, he wants an easy excuse to fire/layoff people, and then fill the vacancies with loyal sycophants.
The answer is yes, but I misunderstood when reading this and thought it actually could use my computer when it just runs its own browser.
Microsoft/documentdb: DocumentDB – NoSQL document database in Postgres
One of the best snipers ever to have lived was Simo Häyhä. The soviets nicknamed him "The White Death" and he has over 500 kills in the Winter War. (A precursory war just before the start of the WWII between Soviet Union and Finland.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

My goal is to honor him and make a game similar to Command & Conquer and incorporate the character of Simo Häyhä in the game. However I'm going about this the DIY way building my own game engine. Those interested can find more info here:

https://github.com/ensisoft/detonator
I have authored a shell in Go and while it doesn’t aim to replace coreutils, it does have a decent number of builtins as part of its application.

So in theory I could build a feature that allows you to ship a self contained executable like you’ve described.

If this is something you’re genuinely interested in and my shell has the right kind of ergonomics for you, then feel free to leave a feature request:

https://github.com/lmorg/murex
Good work!

Let’s say this network continues to grow; how do you anticipate funding its future operations?
been using this for the past month... it works! had an interview from applying cold on hiringcafe yesterday.
For additional context, I found a list of Blu-ray Disc manufacturers here: https://blu-raydisc.info/licensee-list/discmanuid-licenseeli...
I think they started off disposing of surplus inventory, which is different. The products are new, just never sold, and now the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer wants them off the books (unsold inventory is an expense).
Agree. Most of my imagined use cases involve scraping a nerfed website (e.g. zillow) for data that I can put in a spreadsheet easier use.
Does anyone have a favorite arithmetic encoding reference implementation? It's something I've never implemented myself and it's a gap in my tactile understanding of algorithms that I've always meant to fill in
I like balanced ternary a lot.
Yeah would love to see that too...but Casey venting is good enough.
We have office liquidation companies here as well, but unfortunately when I checked them out they basically just had Aeron chairs which I find incredibly uncomfortable. So it's a great deal but on something I won't enjoy using.
What in there contradicts what I said?

- They are run by the mob

- They export a lot of natural resources but don’t have a strong manufacturing base. They don’t have high tech, they don’t export many manufactured items to developed countries. It’s a mob run country, resources are easy to extract.
>I don't think rothfuss has it in him anymore.

I really don't understand why his editors don't just provide him a team, like a tv show writing room, and he can bounce ideas off them and have them mechanically churn out his ideas. He could knock it out in a few months and be a hero and put it all behind him cleanly then.
High cost of entry doesn't mean a failed market, it just means it's not as competitive as one with a low cost of entry. There are definitely cases where barriers to entry become so high it's viewed as almost impossible to enter, but there are usually still ways to do so (e.g. buying an incumbent).
I love the design. Very minimalistic. I was wondering is there any plan to integrate apple music support?
Amazing outcome, congratulations! Back in 2015 working at Gusto as the first growth engineer I remember reading vwo blog to understand how a/b testing works.
Maybe it depends on the project/dependencies.

Still a lot of open/recent Windows issues:
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3...
If enough people did it, their entire business model would likely collapse.
Is this more or less the same as your VSCode version? (https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.vscode)
Does it read the terms of service or robots.txt before doing stuff?
Maybe the most "scientifically accurate" replication of psychedelics are in these "DeepDream" images.

They were originally made to debug neural networks for image recognition. The idea is run the neural network in reverse while amplifying certain aspects, to get an idea on what it "sees". So if you are trying to recognize dogs, running the network in reverse will increase the "dogginess" of the image, revealing an image full of dog features. Depending on the layer on which you work, you may get some very recognizable dog faces, or something more abstract.

The result is very psychedelic. It may not be the most faithful representation of an acid trip, but it is close. The interesting part is that it wasn't intended to simulate an acid trip. The neural network is loosely modeled after human vision, and messing with the artificial neurons have an effect similar to how some drugs mess with our natural neurons.
I grew up during the golden age of digital piracy. But people under the age of 25 have no idea how any of that stuff works.
Yep - I don't get a ton of value out of autocompletions, but I get decent value from asking an LLM how they would approach more complex functions or features. I rarely get code back that I can copy/paste, but reading their output is something I can react to - whether it is good or bad, just having a starting point speeds up the design of new features vs. me burning time creating my first/worst draft. And that is the goal here, isn't it? To get some productivity gains?

So maybe it is just a difference in perspective? Even incorrect code and bad ideas can still be helpful. It is only useless if you expect them to hand you working code.
I will add a tagging system and hide nsfw posts from non-logged-in non-opted-in users this weekend.
Why Grapefruit Interferes with Medication, and What to Do about It
APIs require devs on both sides.

This kind of thing could just require the devs on one side to maybe clean up a bit of markup (which I even doubt), and the entire universe of potential consumers on the other side.
>Patrick Rothfuss procrastinates by doing cheesy charity work

He's scammed his fans so many times by lying about the charity work rewards, I'm surprised any of them still donate.
on the way!
In a sense it is almost an anti-community tool, I've heard it being partly to blame for the decline in business at some bars.
How we power the operation of our services-based free trial with Slack Connect
We just launched our free trial for Portcullis's on-demand clickhouse support offering, and it's been a game changer. We've been able to get a lot of value out of it, and we're excited to share how we've been using it to power our free trial and the pure-fetch API handler we used to power it.
Making sense of vectors: Why they're the key to smarter AI searches
Web sockets would probably be easy.

Some web socket libraries support automatic fallback to polling if the infrastructure doesn’t support web sockets.
> 2) If your monitor's backlight flickers at a low enough frequency[0] that it's a problem -- get a new monitor[1]. If you spend enough time using your monitor that the eyestrain is real, upgrading your monitor is a no-brainer.

My work laptop flickers and the only solution was to throttle the CPU. Seems like it draws too much power and the AC cable that came with it can't handle it at medium loads.
Google has demoed Project Mariner (https://deepmind.google/technologies/project-mariner/), but it is not open to the public yet.
Special feature: building agentic apps with CopilotKit
This is putting it in better words than I came up with myself.
That perspective would be more reassuring if this didn't coincide with a new president promising to roll back LGBT rights, and Bezos being a guest of honor at his inauguration.
Interpreting Animats' question as concern for the user population, I think it's a valid one.

The new administration in the US is openly hostile, and a lot of damage could be done to peoples' lives if, say, the community was hacked and private email addresses (or other PII) was leaked.

And I also agree with you -- now's the time for those of us who can afford it, to fly our ally flags as loudly and proudly as possible.

OP: Please make sure your secure coding and operational security practices are excellent and meet the challenge here.
Another state machine in the browser what can go wrong
What the what?! This is so cool. I love everything about the demo.
No (spoken) words, just a cool functioning product, in its intended uses cases, in different situations -- on fire, soaked in water, soaked in mud.

Even if the product actually did nothing useful (which is not the case here), the video itself a great marketing copy. <3

As a product person, this excites me.

However... I'm curious. This was launched ~2 years ago (per the YT video [1]). What happened? Is this still working? How is the company doing? Any ideas?? I don't see any other videos on their channel. I see some action on their Twitter [2] but sporadic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFsnS0Yb1Bs
[2] https://x.com/dhruvvidyut
Joe was the problem. He didn't fit.
A decent percent of people are voluntarily paying for it right now, enough that it is already profitable at about a 10:1 ratio of profit vs cost of operation. The platform can grow quite a lot without expenses going up since my main expense is just server power, and I am not using much of that at all right now.

I think I have engineered it all to scale well, and I don't anticipate costs increasing. The plan right now is to not run ads, and to make almost all features free for all users in perpetuity.
The prequel is good, but it's hard to be excited about it with knowing how shitty the last season of the main series ended.
We have heard this before - in Soviet Union. The progress and overcoming capitalism was inevitable. It ended up well
... Fahrenheit
Some people make it a living out of complex interactions of all tools and make life hell for everyone. Don't listen to them.

Batteries included is the way to go. I hope the battery gets larger and larger and you also keep up the quality.

- extremely happy bun user
This is mainly to reclaim mindshare from DeepSeek that has done incredible launches recently. R1 was particularly a strong demonstration of what cracked team of former quants can do. The demo of Operator was nice but I still feel like R1 is the big moment in the AI space so far. https://open.substack.com/pub/transitions/p/openai-launches-...
I am taking security very seriously. All sensitive rows are protected by RLS, and I have gone even further by adding random noise to all location data. Locations are locked down, but in the unfortunate event of a hack what would be leaked is location within a 5 or so mile range, not exact location.

If it is possible on Supabase I would like to eventually obscure emails and oauth info.
>Here's a one sentence hook: WWII, except with English wizards fighting Nazi X-Men.

That sounds horrible.
Brief, but to the point. Thanks for posting.

I have tons of therapy experience (as a client) and value it. My budgeting could be way better, and I do see the parallel there, actually.
Royal Navy attack submarine warned off Russian spy ship from UK waters
As much as people joke about breaking up over building ikea furniture, it's almost always easier to assemble than other furniture at a similar price point
AppleScript support has sadly become more rare over time though, as more and more companies dig motes around their castles in effort to control and/or charge for interoperability. Phoned-in cross platform ports suffer this problem too.
Wow, that's so fun. Just upload and generate assets super easily... queue the next one while it's working.
Please be very, very careful with security. That includes logging as little as you can get away with. Your site is a tempting target for a certain class of people.
>I’m not sure about the entitlement and anger around someone not producing the entertainment you want in this thread

I haven't seen any of that in this thread.
I would have reached out in less than 4 minutes but your blog was so long it took me a while to digest it!
I really like the dials some cars come with like BMWs. Subaru doesn’t have any dials at all unfortunately - just a touchscreen with really bad quality. The interface also often has buttons with very small size that make it hard to operate.
I got the same e-mail sent to an address unique to HN.
It is a custom domain with a catch-all enabled, the e-mail only came to the HN specific address.

edit:
While the above statement is true, the e-mail was posted publicly on a 'whos hiring' thread so there is no mystery as to why it is receiving spam.
seems to be working fine, people seem to care what Sam Altman says and Elon Musk is making himself deputy emperor of a nuclear weapons state. pretty fucking dire indictment of the rest of us and what we let the world come to.
I completely understand your concern. A few points to consider:

- Regarding hearing what the community wants, there is a public calendar with Q&A and roadmap discussions for the community. https://lu.ma/opengrep I encourage you to voice your views there.

- Regarding commitment to contribute to opengrep, the supporting companies are pooling resources to actively fund the project for the benefit of everyone.
I think in the US a company could be subject to legal action for not providing ergonomic equipment

https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/osha-national-news-re...
Isn't mercaptan also much bigger than methane? Do we not have similar issues with natural gas, with gas escaping though holes that mercaptan can't?
+1 for any app with simple or properly optimized DB queries, time in Ruby rendering output is the bottleneck.

For anyone who doubts, either set up New Relic or emit timestamps before your controller hands of to the view and in Rack before passing the output back up the middleware stack.

If your time isn't being eaten up in output rendering and if you're using an RDBMS, I suggest getting the generated SQL from your log and running `explain` to find where the query plan is suffering. Sometimes, changes in the shape of the data can lead to the query planner to make choices that you didn't optimize for that can negatively impact DB performance.
All cars in Europe must be connected to the internet at all times by law, to determine their location, in case of an accident the law states.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...

In the US a bill was passed requiring driver impairment equipment on all vehicles and automatic deactivation of the vehicle if the driver is determined to be impaired. Current impairment technology monitors head and eye movement and/or blood or breath.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-402773429497
Don't they have already achieved mass adoption? And I'm talking about LLMs in particular, because AIs in general like the ones used by Instagram filters and the TikTok recommendation algorithm are already use by billions.
The things that are missing are what stops us from having useful agents so far: Agency, judgement, sense of time, long horizon planning, not being gullible.
I kinda feel like some amount of ego is necessary to get a model to behave like that.
No, but the folks talking about it will be given labels like 'racist'...and that makes it a lot harder for them to gain traction.
AI will end capitalism in its current form this century. Though what comes after is still an open question.
The address is in the format "grand.headphone1234@host.com" (real word dot real word random four digits). The host is a well known paid email provider (not gmail or outlook or yahoo or any of the very common ones).
I find this restriction weird as well. I would like to not have my privacy violated by voice assistants. I just want the phone interface to be accessible through the car display and to be able to control it through a dial ideally.
Congrats!

What have been your highest highs and lowest lows during this journey?

When Google discontinued their A/B Testing tool - was it surprising for you?

How has the CRO landscape changed out of your perspective in the last 15 years? 1st party tracking, serverside testing, etc.
Congratulations Paras!

Been following you for a while on Twitter, love the book recos!
Obviously the United States could simply have refused to sell weapons or crucial technology to the Israelis. The impact this could have is often overblown but it's not nothing.

We also could not have taken part in the atrocity propaganda around October 7 which has advanced numerous falsehoods like "mass rape," "40 beheaded babies," or even "1000 civilians killed."
Noteworthy LLM Research Papers of 2024 Megapost
Absolutely not. I wish I was that interesting.
Discussed earlier (2022, 151 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32839542
I had a similar issue when I connected my electricity provider to my Kia EV6. Presumably it would turn on charging when the price was optimal, but they were pinging it for status so often that the car never went to sleep, and it drained the 12V. Funny enough, the dealership couldn't figure it out; I "fixed" it by changing my Kia credentials.
I have a wildcard email address in my own domain and I receive a lot of spam on addresses that I have never used such as info@ or news@.

Not trying to defend HN here, but if it's a custom domain and whatever comes before the @ is easy to construct, it may be automated spam. Nothing to lose for the spammer if it bounces back, but a partial success if it the server accepts the message.
Wondering why is this a rumor. Isn’t this easily verifiable if both are publicly accessible?
> These days, it's common to ask "Do you want to buy the game disc or get the digital version?". But that's a misnomer because the data on the disc is digital!

I don't think that's really a misnomer.

You're ordering some food, do you want the combo or the sandwich? The combo has the sandwich of course, nobody is implying otherwise. But if you say "the sandwich" then you get just the sandwich wrapped up in a delivery medium.
Apple sued for using dangerous "forever chemicals" in Watch bands