skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched the 3b1b series on neural nets years ago, and it still accounts for 95% of my understanding of AI in general.

I’m not an ML person, but still. That guy has a serious gift for explaining stuff.

His video on the uncertainty principle explained stuff to me that my entire undergrad education failed to!
> town won't put a lean on your house because you painted your shed the wrong color

But it can possibly, we’ve just agreed that it can’t legally. There is nothing fundamental to HOAs that makes them impossible political creatures.
Landlords are easy to hate in the way that people complain about Microsoft or their power utility or whatever, but the specific meme you're talking about (that they take no risk and live extravagantly without contributing anything) seems to have gotten very prominent relatively recently.

Some of the specific complaints are wrong (landlords do take risk and some of them don't make much money) but the general sentiment is fair, in the sense that they get more return for less risk than they used to historically. It seems like an unavoidable response to rising inequality caused by capital getting most of the productivity gains over the last 40-odd years.
Sounds like reinventing TickTick. "Recurring" can be a complex subject which it mostly gets right. Still can't do "every Easter"!
He was originally testing the Automatic Emergency Braking feature, but it couldn't stop in time for a single obstacle, so he cut them some slack and used Autopilot instead.
Easier than without support, but not easy. Not everyone born to means goes on to found wildly successful companies.

Environment matters a tremendous amount. In common scientific terms, there is almost nothing that is not environment. DNA, development, parenting, personality can all be framed as environmentally derived.

Sometimes these factors come together to give people huge advantages, both in situation and support, but also talent, knowledge, and personality.

I think the lesson we should take away from this is the importance of good environmental influences in producing good outcomes.
And all my problems would go away if I found a pot of gold. Sadly, neither of these things will happen.
DRM on media almost never makes sense from an anti-piracy perspective. Any reasonably popular book, movie, or TV show is on The Pirate Bay within a single-digit number of hours of its release.

It makes a lot of sense from a lock-in perspective, though I'm not certain why that leads to publishers insisting on it.
Evolve "Founder" Does Damage Control in Vegas as Mercury Abruptly Cuts Ties
M-Disc has such low capacity that you'd probably want a robot to burn it which is not cheap.
I run snapraid once a night and it has a scrub feature to read every file and compare against the stored checksum.

https://www.snapraid.it/manual

All my drives are Linux ext4 and I just run this program on every file in a for loop. It calculates a checksum and stores it along with a timestamp as extended attribute metadata. Run it again and it compares the values and reports if something changed.

https://github.com/rfjakob/cshatag

These days I would suggest people start with zfs or btrfs that has checksums and scrubbing built in.

Over 400TB of data I get a single failed checksum about every 2 years. So I get a file name and that it failed but since I have 3 copies of every file I check the other 2 copies and overwrite the bad copy. This is after verifying that the hard drive SMART data shows no errors.
That's exactly what I'm saying. These protests aren't what the OP makes them out to be, completely orthogonal to Russia.
If indeed, because AGI can't exist right now, because actual AI doesn't exist right now, and as far as I can tell, its not on the near horizon.

Google says '5-10 years', but I will caution, that cold fusion gets the same treatment about every decade or so. Its always '5-10 years away'.

And 'AI'[0] has had this same treatment for a long time as well.

[0]: Please can we go back to calling it what it actually is, which is machine learning? Its a much more accurate description, even though that term isn't really accurate either past certain mental hoops being jumped, at least its trying to be more reasonably narrow
This sort of retaliation against free and protected speech in this day and age and in USA is unbelievable. We all wonder how Chinese, Russians and other countries who are living under opressive regimes - and now those in USA are living under such an oppressive regime. Trump, Musk and Trump ring-kissing Republicans are a disgrace and bringing disgrace and destability to USA and world at large.
Internet law: never disclose that you are a landlord
Me never wanting to live next door to my landlord caring a lot.
Doesn’t Arc and Weak work for doubly linked lists? Rust docs recommend Weak as a way to break pointer cycles: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Arc.html#breaking-...
Don't shoo the messenger.
Looks cool. Please allow high max zoom levels, it’s hard to see individual street details on mobile.
Can I buy pieces somewhere without buying a printer?
This is 2001-2004 all over again. I just don’t believe in the Us policing the world and establishing democracy any more.

I get no satisfaction knowing an African is listening to American radio or Chinese radio.

If we want to win some kind of ideological battle let’s start by actually having a better place to live that others want to emulate.

We have no moral authority to influence others and preach a better way of living if we can’t solve our own problems at home.
based on what amw-zero stated, they're using it in the formal QC sense like ISO9001. In that context the two words have distinct meanings.

I do agree that colloquially they can be used in different ways, but as we're talking about formal verification as a concept, in this case verification aligns with that definition.
Looks nice - are there written versions?
How would the narratives get him what he wants?
No information about who owns this company. Given that it is very likely run by, in effect, landlords, I would be extremely suspicious of any advice it would give me as a tenant.
I think that what most people want isn't a market without landlords, but a market without abusive landlords.
No. Just like function bodies can contain unsafe blocks.
The thing is, even if you are making good money, most of us are one sick family member, one divorce, one strange set of circumstances, one recession away from being on the streets. You can do everything right and still end up screwed.
They can all see the damage done to the UK by Brexit. It won't happen.
Ah, yeah, it was confusing to me when I was trying to get started as well! fortunately, the folks in the hardware channel of their Discord are super helpful.

Here's what I learnt: Green is the new plug and play server. Easiest to setup and will cover the vast majority of what you'll want to do. Yellow is basically green with a couple extra things built in (namely zigbee and thread), plus expansion bays, if you anticipate building on to it, but it requires you to flash it so less user friendly setup but easy if you're a dev.

But most people start out by using an old laptop or PC sitting around. That's what I did, the got a yellow.
In a sense; linear regression can be computed exactly so refers to a specific technique for producing a linear model.

Most artificial neurons are trained stochastically rather than holistically, i.e. rather than looking at the entire training set and computing the gradient to minimize the squared loss or something similar, they look at each training example and compute the local gradient and make small changes in that direction.

In addition, the "activation function" almost universally used now is the rectified linear unit, which is linear for positive input and zero for negative input. This is non-decreasing at least as a function, but the fact that it is not monotonic means that there is no additional loss accrued for overcorrecting in the negative direction.

Given this, using the term "linear regression" to describe the model of an artificial neuron is not really a useful heuristic.
I've seen bugs but never seen a hard locked black screen.
only if you take it entirely out of the context in which it's in, which is the comment section on an article about securities
I think AI tools like Stable Diffusion have a big potential.

Something along the lines of what Nexxus 604 is doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6m3OvB819s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s_Dtl1U9wU
Any time an AI product is advertised with something like "Legal Research Agents", a shiver goes up my spine.

I see the testimonials (though, I don't put much faith in "Jane Doe" and "Mike Smith" testimonials), however I'm pretty sure in my area anyone who attempts to negotiate (especially based on an AI-built argument) will be told to pound sand.

It's not a great market for renters here. Even blatantly illegal clauses are openly advertised all the time.

I could maybe see a use case for checking a current lease (for illegal clauses and such), rather than when trying to start a lease.
I hadn't heard of TickTick, going to check it out. Super neat that Easter trips it up!
In my experience, LXC uses much fewer resources than VMs so I typically prefer LXC over VM. But in all honesty, I just use whichever is available at https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
The key is b3a07c4d42880e69398e05392405050efeea0664c0b638b7c986556fa9b58d77b31a40eb6a4fdba1e4537229d9f779daad1cc41ee968153cb71f27dc9696d40f
> Now, all of this might have been fine had Beyond Trust not written a feature which allowed users to directly, programmatically interact with psql (the postgres command line interface).

That's the buried lede.

Yes, there was a vulnerability in psql... but that's so much less a problem than the huge gaping hole of allowing users to directly interact with psql.

No DB can be safe if you are turning untrusted user commands into psql executions. It'd be like giving untrusted users ssh access and then complaining when they find a privilege elevation exploit.
I think perhaps you may not have seen that the person you were responding to also broke the site guidelines and dang warned him to stop as well.

dang responded to one of his other comments in the thread.
honestly there should be a hall of fame award for wittiest hn comment and this would be up there
You'll get a lot of haters from the petite bourgeoisie tech landlord crowd here but this is a good idea. The more tools to help renters negotiate against the countless predatory landlords the better. Even better would be ways to report or put their malfeasance on public record. $9 is too expensive though.
Isn't this like the third lawsuit Rippling has put up against Deel. There was one for some church thing end of last year, and they made a big stink in 2023 when regulations on prop trading shops changed.

If the allegations are true, it's insane. But also feels a bit boy cried wolf.
I'm a bit surprised BluRay is not mentioned. It's relatively cheap cold archival storage. Of course the recovery latency is a bit bad because of manual steps, but hey, why not repurpose that old jukebox you have in the garage ;)
Hehe. If you're trying to live with just a laptop and an LTO drive, I can certainly see it! I'd expect most people who get into LTO drives have a massive set of hard drives, some convoluted desktop-and-up case(s) to run them, a couple laptops and random peripherals such as cameras, scanners and whatnot. USB all over the place. - So that for them both the drive and the command line interface are deeper in a technology map.

But that goes back to the minimal market for LTO among amateurs. They will scratch their itch and write software for it but it's not exactly critical mass.
...the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Duh! ;)
Technically, you've got a point: https://xkcd.com/2173/ ("We trained a neural network to enjoy the latest Hollywood movies...")
Do not take drugs! its bad for you
On Android the free ProjectM app hasn't been updated since 2022. Does anyone know how to install Milkdrop 3 on Kodi for Raspberry Pi or in F-Droid? Kodi is also on Android.
So I should decide to be beholden to the whims of search engines and not have any other way to direct people to my content (besides QR codes maybe?)

I'll admit it works sometimes. "news.ycombinator.com" is not as memorable as "hackernews.com" would be. But I like being able to have my website be chadnauseam.com (the name was unavailable on reddit), I like that no one is going to decide I'm not using it enough and take it away from me, and $1/month is so trivial that I think it's worth the benefits.

Besides, if you don't care about having a short and memorable name people can type exactly, why not just host your site on the free subdomain vercel or heroku gives you?
Minecraft Bench – Which AI generated this Minecraft build better?
How many users know when their data is compromised?
New Gemini is pretty good in removing watermarks
Your questions are programming language agnostic-- where did your PHP angst come in? And are there specific things in PHP that are problematic and avoidable by using a different Turing complete language?
> If my renter pulled this stunt on me, I'd show him the door

What’s the stunt? If they send you an AI markup, sure, that’s obnoxious if they didn’t do research to substantiate the suggested edits. But if they point out a clause that is illegal in your jurisdiction, that strikes me as a win-win.
For what it's worth, I was worried about that as well, but I found it to be _fun_, and I actually look forward to playing with it, even before bed. Weird, I know, but I'm enjoying it and didn't think I would.
A Language for Data
Yes it’s usually called economies of scale. Classic example is building a big factory with investor money. The big factory can then outcompete competitors due to having bigger scale. Carnegie did this a century ago. Nowadays we see this a lot with Venture Capital. Companies just write some software and give the product away for free so that the competition has no chance. Microsoft also is great at this for example with giving away GitHub for free.

If you want to read more about “powers” like this I can recommend 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer.
> Any time an AI product is advertised with something like "Legal Research Agents"

In most cases a more-accurate label would be "Emotional-support Bullshitter", because:

1. Since nobody on the user's side really knows if a provided fact is true or a rationale is legally coherent, that makes it a kind of "bullshit".

2. It's main benefit is to make the human feels more confident and safe in negotiations, being able to foist responsibility onto their digital accomplice, it supports them emotionally.

3. It sounds like "emotional-support animal", and this is amusing to me while alluding to another kind of misbehavior.
Contrary to this popular saying, real world friendship/enmity is not an anti-transitive relation.

I would expect most AI companies to be more than happy to throw consumers under the bus if it affords them a carve-out serving their own narrow interests.
I swear qntm has written something about this.
in the Netherlands the state managed housing is the best. While private renters skirt their responsibilities, and enforcing a contractual is hard.
5 years ago, after struggling to land offers at FAANG companies, I started interviewing engineers who had successfully navigated the big tech interview process. My goal was to understand what it really takes to stand out and secure offers at the best companies.

I shared these insights online as a side project, and over time, it grew into a business—Onsites.fyi.

For the last 5 years, I’ve been collecting data from candidates about their interview experiences: companies they interviewed with, difficulty ratings, types of questions asked, time to offer, and more.

I’ve now built this into a searchable, sortable, filterable database so job seekers can get real insights into the onsite interview process at FAANG companies.

I wanted to get HN’s opinion on the tool, and if you find the data / information useful? Also, would love to hear what other data points you think we should be collecting, or features we should add!

The tool is built with Next, Postgres database and it’s hosted on Vercel.
Show HN: Global Ground Station Database – 650 Satellite Ground Stations Mapped
Hi HN,

I've been working on a project to address a challenge I faced in the space industry: finding reliable and comprehensive information about satellite ground stations. It often involved piecing together data from scattered sources, which was time-consuming and inefficient.

So, I built the Global Ground Station Database (www.find-gs.com). It's a free, searchable directory of over 650 ground stations worldwide, with locations mapped and key details included.

The database is built with [Python + React]. We're focused on data accuracy and completeness, and we're constantly adding new stations and updating existing information.

We're looking for feedback from the HN community! What features would you find most useful? Are there any data points we should consider adding? Any suggestions for improving the interface or functionality?

Thanks for checking it out!
Neat idea, I wish there was some sort of demo or cases study to read through though - I really get turned off by these product billboard sites that are basically just funnel users into a CRM, or into marketing emails / video chats.

I just want to see what your product can do, not hear you tell me about it.

(I say this even though the company I’m working for relies on exactly these means to acquire new customers.)
They mentioned PAM module so maybe the sql injection just allowed bypassing the authorization of a system that was using the PAM module. Like it’s in the realm of possibility that a PAM module that wanted to validate a user against credentials stored in a pg database might shell out to the psql command to do this. Though, the whole thing is very questionable.
Standard ML and Objective Caml, Side by Side (2011)
Hmmmmmm....Some interesting camera shots in the video
Amazing! Of possible interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29429385
Yes, but you probably only need something like a 1000 men to get something like Mariupol. That of course does require all of them to be ridiculously resilient, but I think you can learn that.x
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> and we've added support for Miri to make its runs many times faster

Whoa. This might be the kick in the ass I needed to give cargo-nextest a whirl in my projects. Miri being slow is the single biggest annoyance I have with it!
How AI Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
Blackhole all their ASN's and be done with it. It sounds like the crawlers are not adding anything back to SourceHut. This exercise takes a while the first time around but take one IP from each CIDR block and look up all the IP's [1][2] they own, aggregate it [3] using a script to summarize into larger CIDR blocks and have a cron "@reboot" or systemd unit file script that performs:

ip route add blackhole "${ClownNet}" # in a loop through a text file

This is how I ended up blocking archive.is along with using a couple MSS rules. waves to their admin here on HN

Obviously don't block anything you have to reach out to or consumer ISP networks in countries you wish to do business with unless you are a bastard operator from hell like me. It's far less CPU than using firewall rules and takes minuscule amounts of kernel memory. Be sure to also have a URL your visitors can go to in order to grab their IP address should they claim they are blocked. Link to this comment in a Jira and test it in a staging environment. Be sure to test all the regular outbound connections that you make in production in your staging environment.

If you do want to block entire countries without having to look something up on every web hit then use this [4] to add to the blackhole script with a little data massaging. Everything in the blackhole text file must be versioned and committed into your internal repository so one can tell when a network added is breaking things and one can quickly roll back. Have a function in the script that deletes all the blackholes.

I blackhole about 27,000 CIDR blocks on a tiny VM web server and the script takes 20 seconds to complete.

[1] - https://bgp.tools/

[2] - https://bgp.he.net/

[3] - https://adrianpopagh.blogspot.com/2008/03/route-summarizatio...

[4] - https://github.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets/tree/master/ipip...
> Given that it is very likely run by, in effect, landlords

You’re correct in being sceptical of services that ask you to upload sensitive documents. But the specific allegation seems unsubstantiated in this case.

You pay for the product. The privacy policy and terms of use are readable and reasonable. And they both have someone’s contact information at the bottom. No obvious red flags.
When asked why tear gas is banned, the answer I gave was "the weapon is indiscriminate and chemical" not "all banned weapons are indiscriminate and chemical".

For example lasers used to blind soldiers are generally banned as well and as you point out, lasers are basically arbitrarily discriminate.
I think the subset of landlords that will negotiate, and the ones that you need AI to help you with, are pretty small in overlap.

There are typically two experiences in negotiation with landlords, at least in the US:

* You rent from a small time landlord, where you're talking to the guy who owns the property. They'll negotiate if you talk to them like a human being. (and if the rental market is not very hot in that area)

* You rent from MegaCorp. The leasing agent was hired off of indeed.com last week and has zero power to negotiate and will likely tell you "sorry the lease and prices are set by corporate"
Did you read the complaint?

If the honeypot description is accurate, the wolf is real. The below is from section 5 of their complaint [1]:

> Rippling’s General
Counsel sent a legal letter to Deel’s senior leadership identifying a recently established Slack
channel called “d-defectors,”

> In reality, the “d-defectors” channel
was not used by Rippling employees and contained no discussions at all. It had never been searched
for or accessed by the spy, would not have come up in any of the spy’s previous searches, and the
spy had no legitimate reason to access the channel. Crucially, this legal letter was only sent to three
recipients, all associated with Deel: Deel’s Chairman, Chief Financial Officer, and General Counsel
(Philippe Bouaziz), Deel’s Head of U.S. Legal (Spiros Komis), and Deel’s outside counsel. Neither
the letter nor the #d-defectors channel was known to anyone outside of Rippling’s investigative team
and the Deel recipients. Yet, just hours after Rippling sent the letter to Deel’s executives and
counsel, Deel’s spy searched for and accessed the #d-defectors channel

[1] https://rippling2.imgix.net/Complaint.pdf
No, it isn't. That's the key for LCP Profile 1.0 - which was deprecated some time ago - https://readium.org/lcp-specs/notes/lcp-profile-upgrade.html
A bash.org (RIP) equivalent for HN could be pretty fun to peruse! I'd be curious what ends up making it to the leaderboard.
Eh a lot of that ‘deep dreamy’ stuff ends up looking so same-same - I don’t need to look at endless various of ‘dog faces and insect body parts and glittering gemstones’ you know? I want to see actual weird stuff, bizarre genometry, a sense of space that’s mind-bending. Maximalism is not the be all end all of trippy visuals.
I think whenever someone takes the time to walk their audience through the nuances of this question its a big win.

No different than how I asked of the Go community how it could produce binaries on any platform for all major platforms it supports (IE, you don't have to compile your Go code on Linux for it to work on Linux, only have to set a flag, with the exception If I recall correctly of CGO dependencies but thats a wild horse anyway)