skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt so. Open ended questions like "generating ideas" allows the interviewer to judge what your level of reasoning is. If you propose "add more GPU" or "let's tweak the transformer parameters with some quantization, like in this research article published a year ago" it makes a huge difference.

IOW the expectations are hidden from the interviewed person.
For now, I see (from the EU perspective) that the presidents of the US (Donald Trump and Elon Musk), are absolutely unreliable partners, and that the EU is alone with the problems.

France population is never going to war, Germany also, Italy also, etc, to me it sounds like something that Russia may see as an opportunity.

The best in this situation (like it was with the soviets situation you described) is to prepare a plan to not be stuck in the cross-fires, because it's not the politicians in their plushy beds in Brussels or in Moscow that are suffering.
Land of the thief, home of the slave - Brother Ali (in Uncle Sam Goddamn)
Although I don't use DeaDBeeF as my primary music player anymore, back when I did, I wrote a plugin for using VgmStream with DeaDBeeF around 10 years ago, so I could more easily listen to video game soundtracks directly from the game files. For whatever reason, I have continued to maintain said plugin despite that I only use DeaDBeeF to test updates to it.

It's not on the plugins list because I haven't bothered trying to get it there. I don't think that list existed when I wrote this. I approached the author about upstreaming it instead, thinking it would be a good compliment to the builtin Game_Music_Emu plugin for emulating various old video game and computer audio chips. They seemed a bit upset that people didn't want to maintain external plugins, but actually I didn't really mind doing so. Maybe I should look into getting it on that list some day.

Either way, if streamed video game music formats are up your alley and you like DeaDBeeF, then shameless plug: https://github.com/jchv/deadbeef-vgmstream
When bug bounties are priced low, it also irks those among us who care about security — for the sake of the organizations we work for, for the sake of our end users, and for the sake of the world at large.
Definitions are here:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...

I'd guess the law doesn't require this distinction to be reported, so it isn't :(

In my opinion - even from that definition - it still looks like level 2 autonomy: "the car sorta kinda does what it's expected, but a (remote) operator is always ready to step in and correct," whether this is "keeps the lane when driving straight" or "needs to be prodded through a left turn across traffic" is not a meaningful distinction.
congrats on the launch -- future of ai stack will be decentralized, scalable and interconnected! way to go!
>It's written into the statute as an example of something that would be fair use.

Statutory text controls what the courts can do, even and perhaps especially when it includes an example.

>People go to art school primarily because they want to create art. People study computer science primarily because they want to write code. It's their direct intention and purpose to compete with existing works.

Interesting perspective.

>So if you use Windows and then want to create Linux...

I don't understand your meaning.

>How is that logic any different than for AI training?

That is what Mark Lemley, law professor at Stanford, has argued in his many law review articles and amicus briefs: he believes that training is analogous to learning. The court here didn't agree with the Lemley view.

>It not only doesn't have any explicit requirement for a formal school (it just says "teaching"), it also isn't limited to teaching, teaching is just one of the things specified in the statute as being the kind of thing Congress intended fair use to include.

In practice courts tend to limit these exceptions to formal teaching arrangements.
Sure, but do adtech companies buy vulnerabilities in web services to advance their mission? Wouldn't that risk running foul of e.g. the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
Author here. While the article uses database updates as the example, the same pattern works great for any high-frequency API calls or operations that could benefit from batching. The goal was to make the solution completely transparent - developers just call a normal-looking function, and the batching happens automatically under the hood. I've used several variations of this pattern in production, and it's been particularly effective at reducing costs and latency.
Or spear-phish, with a high degree of accuracy knowing the target.
Using AI to generate educational videos and i need feedback part 1
So I built a system that makes educational videos using ai and I would like some feedback on the voice and explanations I am looking at not exceeding 5 minutes per video and would like to know if its valuable and how much would you pay for generating such videos as you reading. This is part of what I uploaded the videos on to YouTube and would like feedback, next I will build a simple UI where anyone can generate a video on any topic. here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/@YeeFMopenaccesslearning

Collaborations are welcome just reach out
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP
Store configs in the program if you can. Store in INI, TOML, or something similarly simple for humans if you must. Never use anything that requires matching syntax as the default (closing tags and matched brackets being the two main ones).

JSON is already strictly worse than XML though as it doesn’t support comments and multi-line strings in a sane way.
This is unnecessarily combative. Local-first does not mean local-only, it means that the app should also work on the internet, meaning that you need to solve sync, which is why it took some time for the concept to gain traction. CRDTs for example are relatively new.
Give it time. Under President Musk it'll only be a matter of time until they invent a drug like the one used by Dr Cortazar's group in The Vital Abyss, eschewing ethics for scientific progression. I wouldn't be surprised if half the scientists under Musk's companies jump at the chance to use it, considering they still work for him while he dismantles American democracy (so their ethics are already questionable).
You identified the goalposts: what laws, then moved them when someone gave you said laws in the article you dismissed as speculation and vibes.
Will definitely check it out.

Hyphenated words, page numbers and chapter titles seem to be my main issue. I can easily do search and replace on chapter titles though.
It's not directly related to the article, but the music video for "Moving On" by James is singularly the most moving video I've seen about coming to terms with death and birth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdcN4BRpmGI
I honestly think a key ceo skill in this day and age is managing to side step every single culture war issue, and unhelpfully for Tesla, Elon seems to disagree with me (though clearly working out for him personally)
something of note though, if it's with a specific funeral home, plan to follow up with them yearly to make sure they are still around. Dad found that out the hard way when his mom passed. He called up the funeral home and the number was disconnected.

He had to scramble NYE to find somebody to take the body and then scramble and replan everything because the funeral home had been investigated by the state after a fire and was no longer operational
So what exactly do you mean by "Tyranny"? I mean that customers do not have a choice and can't affect the market, due to high entry barriers and the presence of monopoly elements.
TLDR; I got ChatGPT to summarise.
Thank you for sharing your story. As someone who's trying to get over my mom's passing (and not getting far) it helps so much to hear others. It wasn't until I entered the 'dead parents club' that others told me 'you never go over losing them'. Why is that some secret to bare after the fact? All my friends say 'just do some counseling'.
DocumentDB Is Gaining Momentum in the Open-Source Database World
Interestingly, it’s also possible to encode _emoji_ inside emoji!
Open ended questions like generating ideas was the "Culture Fit" session (and if it wasnt or the company doesnt realise it is then it is an even bigger problem)
There is a plethora of animal testing-free bathroom products.

As for medicines, I’m not sure what to do about that. Where I draw the line in veganism is essentially where I’d die if I don’t eat the animal. If there’s a necessity, I think it makes some sense. Some medicines are a necessity for people. Yet I don’t like the idea of supporting companies which would likely be testing non-essential medicines on animals as well.

The world isn’t really configured for veganism
I'm mostly resorting to self-hosting tools on my tiny server these days, but I would love it if I could run local web apps on a synced folder (a la Dropbox), and access them on my computer and mobile phone alike. With the CORS bypasses, it would be so convenient to have your own personal kanban or finance apps running and synced across multiple platforms, and remove the barrier of entry for many.
> Bounty programs are a pretty recent development and the idea that they should be scalable and stable well paying employment for a lot of people is a bit strange to me.

So, the value to the researcher of having a found bug has a floor of the black market value.

The value to Google is whatever the costs of exploitation are: reputational, cleanup, etc.

A sane value is somewhere between these two, depending on bargaining power, of course. Now, Google has all the bargaining power. On the other hand, at some point there's the point where you feel like you're being cheated and you'd rather just deal with the bad guys instead.
You're still in the valley. It does seem Sisyphean and it will for ahwile. I went through this in 2021 and it took a few years to get to the point where it doesn't feel hopeless.

You won't be the same person after, but in some ways that's good. Highly recommend grief counseling. Feel free to reach out if you need help from someone who has been through it.
Easier said than done these days. We had a coop managing out drinking water with local government support. Being a coop excluded them from grants and eventually the board burnt out and gave up. Local government now operates the thing - you'd think they'd be accountable to voters but they can only get grant money with strings attached. They can repair a few pipes only if they install chlorination that no one wants and will add more maintenance costs because of pressure from health and safety - the provider must guarantee water is safe at the end point so boiling water, which everyone does here, is no longer acceptable apparently. There isn't a big enough population that increasing the cost of water would make a difference.

All that to say, voters here do care about utilities, and the coop solution worked for about 25 years iirc but it can't work in today's "one solution fits all" regulatory context anymore, at least where i live. Things are far from that simple in practice.
Ok that makes sense. Maybe easier said than done. Sorry if I came off as rude
Maybe they host it on Gaia-X, the failed attempt to compete with AWS and other US cloud providers. Money burns quickly when you give it to EU megacorps that are experienced getting EU subsidies.

In the end, even if there is some moderate success, the EU won't be able to keep the AI researchers because the high tax rates hit hard when you earn top salaries.
Polars Cloud
For a very similar scenario I'm currently looking to use PGlite: https://pglite.dev/ which is a 3MB WASM build of Postgres which also includes pgvector.
I mean, he spent a month calling the UK a den of rape before he got bored.
It's amazing how bad software developers are at naming their projects. At least this one is unique enough to be searchable, and could probably be SEO'ed above the computer lore (indeed, at least for me it's already #1 for "deadbeef" on the Google SERP).

The worst are when they pick a generic English word for a project that has nothing to do with that word. I'm not going to name and shame, but there are so many examples of new project that get posted to HN monthly that have irrelevant and unsearchable names. We see things like "Show HN: Banana - A lightweight URL parsing library in Rust". WTF does URL parsing have to do with bananas? How do you expect that word to be uniquely searchable back to your project??
The Economics of Being a Founding Engineer
No in They Live the messages were already there but they were conditioned not to notice them consciously without the glasses.
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You could have said this exact same thing without it sounding like a personal attack, but you chose to be unkind instead. I wonder why?
I don’t agree with you at all. I’m not sure if you’re serious. In any case, a hypocrite can tell the truth. Someone eating a drumstick from KFC will still be correct if they claim that the system which got their chicken to them is an engine of murder and suffering, and it should stop.
How are the fancy people in Washington going to get around if they can't take a helicopter Uber?
Should your concern lie with individuals transcribing their own conversations, or with mass surveillance and wiretapping actively being executed by a broad range of official and corporate entities without your consent?
Terraform Config Root Setups
I spend a lot of time speaking with clients and have found myself partially understanding organizational structure so I dove in to collect my thoughts and put myself closer to the customer on what they are navigating.

This gave myself a refresher on how they are organizing their cloud infrastructure within their source control systems. I took a lense from the world of terraform since that’s mostly the world i live in today and the last few years.

I explored 10 different ways to structure your Terraform config roots, each promising scalability but delivering varying degrees of chaos. From single-environment simplicity to multi-cloud madness, customers are stuck navigating spaghetti directories and state file hell.

I probably missed things. Might have gotten things wrong. Take a look and let me know what you think.

What patterns are you using that I missed?
You don't need to remove it, people mispost/mistitle things all the time, it's not that big of a deal.
Why not use something fast and doesn’t spy, like np++ or geany as a simple editor?
I just use Romanian and English. Sometimes in the same phrase. Eventually it gave up and seemed to adapt enough to what i tend to type to not annoy me every time I send a message.

But then, that was the behaviour even before iOS 18 when I had two keyboards installed. It just took it longer to give up and accept both languages on both keyboards :)
Thanks!

The app currently renders aircraft and maps on a flat plane using latitude, longitude, and altitude, via the sphericalmercator library:

https://github.com/mapbox/sphericalmercator

My understanding is that the ADS-B latitude and longitude are based on the WGS 84 coordinate system, which accounts for the Earth's curvature, but the app itself doesn't project these coordinates onto a curved surface.

I'd appreciate suggestions from HN users with map projection expertise on how to accomplish this. I'm also interested in learning more.

One of my next projects is to get a better understanding of GIS coordinate reference systems in order to be able to create 3d globle renderings of the data. I purchased the following two books to better understand map projection implementation:

3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring

Flattening the Earth by John P. Snyder
The CEO Mindset That Brought Xerox Back to Life
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/style/ursula-burns-xerox-ceo-interview-b...
I don't agree with Jon on a personal level, but who was technically in the right aside, he also made some choices that'd accelerate your exit from any organization or community during the events.

Let's just say his approach wasn't one of reconciliation and de-escalation.
We Can't Understand AI Using Our Existing Vocabulary [pdf]
> but the external wakeup has no real advantage in power draw.

This particular external RTC has very low power draw, and it allows me to put the esp32 into a deeper sleep state and turn off the entire RTC and RTC memory mini-MCU in the entire esp32. It does make a difference.

> I assume you added it because the e-ink hat has no proper shutdown. From the looks of it you can just bypass the BUCK converter on it so just run it off 3.3-3.6v. There is a smaller BOOST converter in there that might still waste power so the mosfet might still be n

Aye, the controller board isn't designed for a battery-based application and has an idiotically high idle power draw, even not taking the always-on power LED into account I could have taken out, so I'm only powering it up to do the update.

And yeah, I'm sure a MOSFET would do this fine.

> Anyway 9-10 months is remarkable for the LEGO approach.

The LEGO approach is partly because I kept shifting the goal posts - originally I wanted to forego controller board entirely, and directly drive the e-ink waveforms from the MCU with the help of an op-amp (there's some prior art and reverse engineering available for this). This is partially why I picked a dev board with a big external PSRAM for a trial run. The controller board has its own SPI memory to hold the large framebuffer, but I was originally going to park this with the esp32 and have the lob of memory hooked up there :-)

My other plan was actually ordering a custom PCB that has it all in one place (this is the main reason why I didn't bother to solder anything to a perf board).

But then I had a little daughter and plans changed, so I shipped the mockup to production. Since it's holding up pretty well I'm quite happy with how it turned out anyway, but I absolutely agree a cleaned-up "v1.0" of this thing would be really nice to do at some point.

Also, do note that I'm mainly a software engineer and have no formal training or background in EE, so partly I do these as little hobbyist learning projects and to do something with my hands. If your day consists of Alt-Tabbing between your EDA and your Mouser/Digikey order tracking I'm sure you'd approach this very differently and iterate it much more on the screen first :)
The Beauty of Distraction
I agree. I was going to write a similar comment. The guy is slightly in the "FAA is always right" camp, so I got surprised that he disagree now. He must be really worried.
Show HN: Codedd – automating software auditing for investment rounds
Hi HN,

This is the first ever post of CodeDD – a tool for automated code auditing, aimed at the technical due diligence processes within financing rounds or M&A deals (but it can also work just to check how good code is).

Don´t know about your experience, but as a founder doing investment rounds was always a bitter-sweet experience. It´s nice as you hope for money and you are eager to work with the new investors and team members. But it´s also extremely nerve-racking, time consuming and sometimes quite risky (in terms of your time focus but also who gets to see your code) act of self-exposure.

If you have never been in a technical due diligence, its basically:
1. Undress yourself to show everything you got
2. Show your best moves and respond to a myriad of questions (every potential investor or buyer has differing questions)
3. If you get lucky, you have your investment (what, 5%?). But normally, you get nothing, maybe an email saying thanks but no.

I had a lot of these moments, and it was more frustrating than fun. With CodeDD I want to alleviate things a bit – for both ends.

It´s a simple to use tool, it uses state-of-the-art LLM´s to review the code stack but it never reveals or permanently stores any single line of code. The investor has the insights he needs for a secure investment and the startup also gets’ the share of transparency to improve things, without any personal bias.

You can take a look at some public audits here: https://codedd.ai/discover

Or jump directly into some public audits to see it in action:

Pyxel (by European Space Agency): https://codedd.ai/2b2d61ad-12c0-4e85-887a-a3cd546e9a54/audit...
Llama3 (by Meta): https://codedd.ai/505a5759-2e81-466e-af8b-7f17bb5229ee/audit...
DeepSeek V3 (by DeepSeek): https://codedd.ai/f593d487-a3b5-4e96-bbf4-79a8f950a341/audit...

Feel free to sign up – it´s still not fully released, so expect some hick-ups.
Happy to get your feedback and drop some comments about your experience with tech DD!
Camillo

Will continue coding... see ya!
Just curious to know if you see the following trend:

As a codebase matures, the amount of time spent of code maintenance increases and with bug fixes, it gets harder to spot them and the amount of code that is required to solve them is little.
That's because they all try to be more than they should be. I don't need or want a visualization option. I don't need or want an equalizer. I don't need or want a library. Those functions properly belong in other places or in the waste bin. My music library is on my filesystem and is sorted and arranged as I prefer. When I want to play an album I drag it over to MPC-HC. When I want to create a custom playlist, I open the playlist and drag songs over in the order I want. I don't need a psychedelic visualization, my use case for playing music on my pc is as background audio. The function of an equalizer is to make up for shortcomings in my speakers and belongs there. The media player should convert an encoded file into PCM data to be shoved out the DAC. Leave the file managing to my file manager. The sound shaping to my speakers. And the crap frequency domain visualizations in the trash.
> The dollar value of a responsible report going up means more responsibility overall and less problem leaks, exploits, etc.

Does it? I just had a bug bounty program denied for budget approval at my work because of the cost of the bounties and the sufficiency of our existing security program. On the margins, it's not clear to me that the dollar value of a report going up is incentivizing better reports vs pricing smaller companies out of the market.
Am op, sorry haven't had my coffee yet. Yeah, agree with noem. These curves would be smooth for a 3000-subject phase 3 trial. For 16 people? The error bars are even weirdly tight. One general truism: all the normals are the same, but abnormals are increasingly different in different ways. That gets more true as people get older, they just accumulate more varied life experience. Just looking at the participants section,

> "eight men and eight women; mean age ± SD: 29 ± 6.4 years; range: 25–52 years"

> "The participants were asked to consume no more than 10 standard alcoholic drinks/week and have no more than one drink on the day before the test sessions."

> "Drug administration timing did not consider the menstrual cycle in females for practical reasons. Four women used a hormonal contraceptive and one was menopausal."

> "Six participants had previously used LSD (1–3 times), eight participants had used methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) (1–5 times), ten participants had previously used a stimulant, including methylphenidate (four participants, 1–2 times), amphetamine (six participants, 1–3 times), and cocaine (two participants, 1–2 times), and one participant had smoked opium (once)."

These are not your standard young, male athletes you'd typically desire for a tightly controlled result.