skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You visit a page. It asks for device access. You get a dialog box choosing the device that matches the filter the site wants. You can either choose a device or decline. Site does not see anything other than what you approve.

What is difficult about understanding that?
The problem is (almost) everything the US has a competitive edge on is based on copyright.

I'm in Europe, and during the past few weeks with these tariff upsets, I kinda realized the only thing I use or own that are US-made are computers and software.

If someone could hack into Apple, download the schematics of their chips and the source for their OS, and then post it on the internet, after which a third party could sell commercial products based on said data, there wouldn't be a software/hardware economy around of very long.
I can't read the LinkedIn piece, and from the Bloomberg article I can only see "his plane helps him stay safe and that he’s more than offsetting the carbon footprint of his trips".

It doesn't say why he feel unsafe. If it's because he's rich and so a target of kidnapping or other attacks, then get rid of $990 million dollars so he's only worth $10 million.

It doesn't say how he's offset his carbon footprint. Carbon offsets are so scammy that I deeply doubt its effectiveness without actual details.

Like, if you buy a carbon credit that was used to convince an African farmer to grow trees instead of crops, then that offsets your carbon.

But if the farmer's family is starving because the amount he accepted wasn't enough to pay for food, and he can't break the contract without having to pay back what he was given, then is the suffering worth your carbon offset?
Wrong. The first Tesla, the Roadster, was an existing design by Lotus [1]. All Tesla designs since, including the Cybertruck, have been led by Franz von Holzhausen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(first_generati...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Holzhausen
Tuvalu has a GDP of $70 million. Is that the line?

It is a very small country.
This AI stuff really mindfucks dualists. No, the word "learn" does not imply possession of a soul, a machine can in fact learn.
You're probably only being exposed to the best and most notable anime, which is giving you a very skewed perspective. In fact every season (anime releases follow a seasonal pattern; Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) there's tons of same-y and uninteresting trope-filled anime. Most seasonal anime just takes some basic premise as a starting point and then it fills in the rest of the details with tons of tropes, or it copies the key details from other successful entries in the sub-genre. If you started following every anime season you'd quickly notice how many derivative anime are released each season.

You can check it out for yourself, go to anilist.co, and filter for Year 2024, and then filter again for each Season. There's tons of fad-chasing, aside from the major standouts. It's honestly a shame because some of these slop-tier anime still tend to get beautiful animations, but their stories and writing in general is really bad. Sometimes you get an F-tier story with S-tier animation.
Next time your startup is saying "no politics allowed in our company" remember this kind of announcement.
RCS Encryption: A Leap Towards Secure and Interoperable Messaging
> sooner or later people realize that they need to dynamically adjust parts of the pipeline

The customer is the hard part in all of this, but there is respite if you are patient and careful with the tech.

If you are in a situation where you need to go from one SQL database to another SQL database, the # of additional tools required should be zero. Using a merge statement & recursive CTEs per target table, you can transform any schema into any other. Most or all of the actual business logic can reside in the command text - how we filter & project data into the target system.

If we accept the SQL-to-SQL case has a good general solution, I would then ask if it is possible to refactor all problems such that they wind up with this shape in the middle. All of that nasty systems code could then be focused more on loading and extracting data into and out of this regime where it can be trivially sliced & diced. Once you have something in Postgres or SQL Server, you are at the top of the hill. Everything adapts to you at that point. Talking to another instance of yourself - or something that looks & talks like you - is trivial.

The other advantage with this path is that refactoring SQL scripts is something the customer (B2B) can directly manage in many situations. The entire pipeline can live in a single text file that you throw around an email chain. You don't have to teach them things like python, yaml or source control.
1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished. What happened?
It's not exactly ambiguity, but I know I find it frustrating to read examples for language X and see oh, everybody (often even in presentations, blog pages, documentation) says foo.bar + baz.quux but you can't actually write that, what they meant was

std::thing::foo.bar + (std::baz.::std::other::quux)

And if you're stupid enough to just write foo.bar + baz.quux well that's nonsense and the compiler diagnostics won't have any suggestions for how to fix it, what a buffoon you are.

I really don't enjoy this, like the trend for "narrative" cookery recipe style documentation where we're shown how to Quux a Baz [often with fragments that don't compile] in the library but given no indication whether we can Quux a Doodad or even whether that's a feature of the library's Baz or Quux or really what's going on, but hey, the author got to tell us about their trip to Tuscany so that's nice. Javadoc isn't perfect, but it's so much better than this.
https://archive.ph/PRidD
It’s a form of “justice porn”. You’re right that these scammers are victims themselves. But seeing how they treat vulnerable groups (particularly less tech savvy, trusting, older people - which may well be your mom one day) is absolutely fucking vile.

Also, some anti-scammer YouTubers are legitimately very skilled and entertaining to watch. Kitboga is the first that comes to mind. He has all these voices, characters, sound effects - and takes scammers on quite some adventures. Pretty funny.
>take your brain out trashy sci fi, and I mean that in the most positive way possible

that's the guy. he's got a new book coming out this month, and is a fun follow on social media too (now on bluesky). i feel like he would be flattered by your description.
My reaction is due to influx of empty shower thoughts about generalizing large swaths of people and putting them into “normal”, “10x” or whatever bullshit author wants to identify themselves with. For some reason those articles attract a lot of discussion online, but thankfully they don’t leak into real life.

I find them very counterproductive, because instead of discussing actual issues and problems, people spend time justifying by all means that they’re in the “right camp”. Go outside, touch grass and actually talk to people you work in your org. Though I suspect most of those are written by ”influencers”(barf) that easier never worked with real people or don’t work anymore and want to sell their snake oil as ultimate truth.
Apple to Support Encrypted RCS Messaging in Future Software Update
Is the trim required for it to be 'bulletproof' though?
One warning, this scam, with it's fast timeline and request for funds to be sent to the girlfriend is a classic, but modern scams can be quite different than this.

"pig butchering" scams can run for months of contact with no requests for money, and then instead of asking for money, the user "invests" into what appear initialy to be profitable investments alongside the scammer.
But also, buying USA military equipment is worthwhile signal that your relationship remains cuddly.
Won't you just get shitty clients if you write shitty posts if you excuse my french
I have a working theory is that the current Trump government is like 12 people, a quarter of which do not hold any official position, and they decide everyting with absolutely no oversight.

Trump did this during his previous term as well, with Ivanka and Jared Kushner, but to a much less significant degree.
Think About SQL Merge in Terms of a Right Join
> more than a month or something

6 weeks.

> But your employer can still check that you're actually sick.

Within limits, yes. Tesla in Germany went way beyond that though. Private detectives and managers showing up at employees houses to check they're actually sick.

They're also holding back the salaries of sick employees and are pressuring sick employees to give up their medical privilege and share personal health information with them.

Highly unethical and very likely illegal in some instances.
If you have a job at Facebook today, you can get an impressive job somewhere else tomorrow. Nobody should be that connected.
I think having a (small desktop) system with Strix Halo plus a GPU to accelerate prompt processing could be a good combo, avoiding the weakness of the Mac Ultra. The Strix Halo has 16 PCIe lanes.
This triggers my cautionary nerve a bit. I think it is important to recognize that she wants to sell a book.

I am not saying she isn't doing this because she has a cause. I am also not saying she is lying or anything.

But if you sell a book you can't deny that there might be a conflict of interest. Potentially she paints things more extreme than they really were.
... sprinkle in a lot of "strategy" too, to make the reader seem like they are smart. Lay "America/Americans" even thicker, to combine with the sense of higher purpose, i.e. patriotism.
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Hello HN folks, and in particular Sales Engineer (SE) folks.

I find myself starting a Sales Engineering role on Monday, and in a continuous development mindset (or whatever the LinkedIn term of the day is), I’m looking for either books and/or resources tailored for SE roles.

Please let me know below what I should be looking into and most important, why.

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I can think of three things: serving as a guide, serving to raise awareness, and entertainment.

On the "serving as a guide" part, some people are activists and subscribe to the idea that if they are wasting a scammer's time, this means the scammer has one victim fewer.

On the raising awareness side, there are absolutely plenty of YouTube videos, but it's always good to educate people before they become targets. The psychological and financial impact of getting scammed can be devastating. Raised awareness could also prompt the authorities to crack down on scam centers.

On the entertainment side - some people just get a kick out of it.

Additionally, this particular article breaks down the various tactics used and teaches the reader to identify them.
>If you're stick more than a month or something (I forget the exact amount of time) then insurance takes over to help pay your wage so your employer isn't completely hosed

Doesn't employers being forced to paying wages to sick employees for 6 weeks take a toll on small businesses with little cashflow?

>There's no concept of "sick days" here in Germany like there is back in the US.

No, but sick days are still not working days. You still have to report "Krankenstand" to your employer. It's not like whether you work or not because you're sick it's the same thing to your employer and to the law. Sick days are a thing, just not like in the US, but they're still sick days, and not working days.

>I'm sure many people are taking time off of Tesla work due to stress, which is a valid reason to get a doctor's note here.

I'm always curious about this. How often can you get day off for stress? How do employers or health insurers differentiate between stress as a health condition and being lazy and not wanting to work?

Because I remember one time, our offshore team in Germany seemed to all be always mysteriously "getting sick" right before we had a SW release scheduled, leaving us holding the bags. Huh, what a weird coincidence. /s

If you look at recent statistics, German workers are at the top of sick days used, twice as much sick days than the EU average, which is an insane difference. So what's going on? Is there a health crisis in Germany causing Germans to be twice as sick as their neighbors? Or are they twice as likely to cheat the system? Or a bit of both?
Later than it was supposed to be. More expensive than it was supposed to be. Not as much range as it was supposed to have. Not the exoskeleton design it was said to be. Not bulletproof like it was claimed to be.

The whole thing is a pile of engineering WTF. The enormous wiper that leaves a huge amount of the windshield untouched, when it manages to work at all. The wheel support structures from other Tesla models being reused in a much heavier vehicle, leading to all those photos we've seen of Cybertrucks with snapped off wheels. The headlight "shelf" that collects snow and blocks the headlights. The air suspension system that takes forever to adjust when it's not failing altogether. The glue, oh the glue, so much glue.

It's just so uniquely bad!
Yeah I’m an Apple user and this is one reason I’d consider switching. I don’t mind consoles like the switch or PS2 being sold at a loss, and making it up via expensive games. But Apple double dips here. They make a profit on my phone. Then they charge a crazy marketplace fee for the App Store. Then they have the gall to charge 3rd party companies for access to the NFC chips in our devices. It’s outrageous.

Is it my device or not, Apple?
All that's left is to make it road-proof!
My experience with WebSerial/WebUSB/whatever I used (I don't know) is:

- go to espresense.com

- hook up an esp32 via usb

- click connect, click flash

- done

- repeat 10 times for all the base stations I needed

It reduces the friction of flashing a dev board to ~0. I absolutely loved it. I'm only annoyed that I had to open Chrome to do it (my daily driver is Firefox).
Oh wow, this is cool. Yep this would make USB Serial work on Firefox with a simple extension.
Related I lived through a large coal slurry spill in 2000 in Eastern KY.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_County_coal_slurry_sp...
> while she should have been aware that she makes her own decisions, she might also have been aware of what happens, if she does.

I don't understand. In my world view, owning your decisions includes understanding the paths those decisions might lead to and finding your ~piece~peace with that.

EDIT: s/piece/peace/
Yes

> TinyKVM can fork itself into copies that use copy-on-write to allow for huge workloads like LLMs to share most memory. As an example, 6GB weights required only 260MB working memory per instance, making it highly scalable.
A few years back I wrote a WebSerial/WebUSB app for fun - https://web-serial-app.netlify.app/

It still throws a 'Blue screen of Death' for Firefox
> I understand that WebKit lacks support since it’s developed by Apple

> But Firefox? Firefox has severely lacked support for hardware "connections" and has been unfriendly for developers for a long time

A lot of accusations to simply say "I want Chrome-developed Chrome-only APIs to be called standard and implemented by everyone without any objections".
They’re not wrong… but they could do more as well
This deserves some nuance. Much of the scam-baiting content - in fact, all of the ones I'd seen until this post - revolves around tech support scams, advance fee scams and the likes, which unlike these romance scams are generally not done by slaves.
Most AAA games get thrown away. Only a minority are maintained and milked for years.
What are the fingerprinting risks? Can websites gather any data without user consent?

I used WebUSB to flash GrapheneOS onto my Pixel, and to flash WLED on an ESP32 and it felt like magic. I'm erring on the side of this being a net positive.
Simpsons already did it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHGczDHTDpo
A future, where we have limitless clean energy thanks to nuclear fusion, self driving cars that exceed humans in every safety metric, EVs with inexpensive batteries that go 500 miles on a single 5 minute charge, cheap and secure financial transactions thanks to crypto. etc.

is a future that they've been selling us for more than a decade, but somehow doesn't really want to come about.
Exactly what I had in mind, I've seen this first hand a couple times. It's a few days of reading which literally can change your life.
I can say otherwise.

First of all, even if C++ is not 100% safe, that is the go to language when I want to delve into OpenJDK, CLR, V8, GCC and LLVM internals, followed by the language everyone speaks when talking about graphics programing and compute.

Adding something else to the mix, doesn't help, only hinders the reception from other folks, being the strange dude wanting to spoil their party.

Secondly, if I want use a ML type system, I have plenty of options in managed languages.

Naturally as computer nerd, I play with all programming languages, including Rust.

Which doesn't mean I have any business case to push for it.
> And now, they still did not lose market share so EU is asking google to do more.

Can you elaborate on that?
To the ancients, as already clearly expressed by Aristotle, natural numbers and real numbers were both quantities. Quantities were classified in discrete quantities, of which natural numbers are an example and continuous quantities, of which real numbers are an example. This classification remains completely valid today.

The ancient mathematicians and philosophers were using the word "quantity" in most contexts where modern people use the word "number", i.e. when the word is applied to different kinds of "numbers", not just to natural numbers.

There is no difference in thinking between ancients and moderns, it is just a difference in the words that happen to be used.

Both the similarities and the differences between natural numbers and real numbers are well entrenched in most natural human languages since many millennia ago, before any scientific theory of quantities, numbers and magnitudes, as exemplified by the similarities and differences between questions like "How many ... do you have?" and "How much ... do you have?".

Actually I consider the ancient usage of the words as more sound than the modern usage. There appears little justification for the modern usage of the word "number" instead of the previous usage of "quantity", except that "number" is a shorter word than "quantity", so the change in terminology is just due to laziness, not to any theoretical reason. However what has been gained by saying "number" instead of "quantity" when the wider sense is intended, has been lost due to the requirement for qualifying "number" as "natural", "real", "integer" etc., when the narrower meaning is intended.

Etymologically, "number" is the result of counting, which real numbers and many other kinds of "numbers" that correspond to continuous quantities are not.
Only 33% of the region.
Pardon me, I wanted to make an analogy between EDA and CAD by drawing a parallel to the CAD world.
Tesla is on paper 20x overvalued even against other American car manufacturers like Ford (Tesla P/E ~120, Ford ~6), and I don't see many American cars being highly competitive against Chinese brands whose premium range starts around where American brands put their budget range.

Apple, not so clear. Always expensive, but in the sense of only having a premium range and not catering to budget markets, they're priced like premium Android phones. While I see legal and political risks to Apple, I don't see market risks.
> But there are models trained on legal content (like Wikipedia or StackOverflow)

Literally all of them are trained on wikipedia and SO. But /none/ of them are /only/ trained on wikipedia and SO. They need much more than that.

> Also, no human needs to read millions of pirated books to become intelligent.

Obviously, LLM architectures that were inspired by GPT 2/3 are not learning like humans.

There has never been anything remotely good in the world of LLM that could have been said to have been trained on a moderate, more human scoped amount of data. They're all trained on trillions of tokens.

Models trained on less than 1T are experimental jokes that have no real use to provide.

You'll notice even so called "open data" LLMs like Olmo are, in fact, also trained on copyrighted data, datasets like Common Crawl claim fair use over anything that can be accessed from a web browser.

And then there's the whole notion of laundered data by training on synthetic data generated by another LLM. All the so-called "open" LLMs include a very significant amount of LLM-generated data. If you agree to the notion that LLMs trained on copyrighted work are a form of IP infringement and not fair use, then training on their output is just data laundering and doesn't fix the issue.
Oh, it's equally bulletproof whether the trim is present or not.
If your time is so precious that you complain about wasting it here, I don't know what to tell you, but glad you aren't going back empty handed!
If your data structures are recursive, it makes sense your algorithms are too. It makes the code tidy and simpler to reason about. Plenty of times your code becomes "obviously correct".
Things are more than 30% more expensive. For a developer to get the same profit on the apple app store with Apple taking 30% of revenue they have to charge 43% more.
Deal with it as in them accepting there is nothing they can do to stop it. Other countries arent going to follow whatever laws they manage to get in place in the US.
Here's the relevant pull request:
https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/973
I'm a business owner. I love generative AI.
Have humans passed peak brain power?
They said all the same nonsense about Tiktok.
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Is is really handy if you have a programmable keyboard that use a web configurator/firmware builder. E.g. ZSA's Oryx. Downloading the firmware and then flashing with another program gets old pretty quickly.

That said, I don't really like the browser having USB access, etc. I agree that the potential privacy/security issues are not worth the comfort it provides.

(Yes, I know you can script your way around it by monitoring a download directory, etc.)
Max RAM for Strix Halo is 128GB. It's not a competitor to the Mac Ultra which goes up to 512GB.

You shouldn't need another GPU to do prompt processing for Strix Halo since the biggest model it can realistically run is a 70B model. Prompt processing isn't going to help much because it has a good enough GPU but its memory bandwidth is only 256GB/s (~210 GB/s effective).
A ruling that only open source models can freely use copyrighted data for training would be a funny outcome and a big F you to OpenAI. I don’t expect it to happen but an interesting thought nonetheless.
You heard him doc, amputate the brain