skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spot on. The productivity gradient is extremely steep, and calling this out has become impolite.
Medical Hallucinations in Foundation Models and Their Impact on Healthcare
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Their very next line also used "Most 10x engineers". Neither of those are talking about "most" in the profession, it's "most" in the subgroup. Average in the profession will be somewhere in between.
Please tell me you are at least aware that tremor exists and that you rebuilt it on purpose?

https://www.tremor.rs/
...and informing and teaching others. We are learning through someone elses mistakes, it costs us very little albeit its one users anecdotal experience, and we should keep that in mind - we don't have their ears or their problem. It should also be noted it cost said author/teacher 2 years and a lot of $.
Paris during the greatest tech boom in history [video]
Maoist Apartment blocks and hideous concrete monstrosities win you Architecture Prizes? Wtf is wrong with out society. Complete disdain for actual beauty that can add to human flourishing...
While I think the market is small, and they don't release a lot of these, AMD has sold desktop / socketed APUs in the past.

They tend to come out much slower than the laptop chips, or the "CPU-only" desktop chips.

This is one of the more recent examples: https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/80...
You say the comment you replied to cited no sources while making an assertion you disagree with. Then, you go on to do the very same thing.
I bought this book yesterday as a result of their suppression efforts. In all likelihood, I wouldn't have really even been aware of it otherwise.
> But they didn't eat them.

Our standards are getting a bit too low.
>In a 15-page set of policy suggestions released on Thursday, the ChatGPT maker argued that the hundreds of AI-related bills currently pending across the US risk undercutting America’s technological progress at a time when it faces renewed competition from China. OpenAI said the administration should consider providing some relief for AI companies big and small from state rules – if and when enacted – in exchange for voluntary access to models.

The article seems to indicate they want all AI companies to get relief from these laws though.
> Unixes give us that. You have to fork the computation to have it contained in its own process

Is forking a new process on each call to a recursive function practical?
I take it the legislative branch is completely irrelevant in the US at this point… how quickly you gave adapted to living under a dictatorship!
What it means is in any given year, you have a 1 in 10,000 chance that a data loss event occurs. It doesn’t stack like that.

If you had light bulbs that lasted 1,000 hrs on average, and you had 10k light bulbs, and turned them all on at once, then they would all last 1,000 hours on average. Some would die earlier and some later, but the top line number does not tell you anything about the distribution, only the average (mean). That’s what MTTF is; the mean time for a given part to where it has a greater likelihood to have failed by then vs not. It doesn’t tell you if the distribution of light bulbs burning out is 10 hrs or 500 hrs wide. it’s the latter, you’ll start seeing bulbs out within 750 hrs, but if the former it’d be 995 hrs before anything burned out.
I always wondered if it's still alive only because Larry or Sergey use it every day.
Don't let manufactured controversy give you analysis paralysis. These endorsements you speak of were a branding identity cock-up, nothing more. The leadership of most businesdes are covertly supportive of oligarchal stooges of any color. It just doesn't usually escape the filter.
Apple Decryption Orders and the Perilous Future of U.K. Data Adequacy
Handling HTTP requests can be done entirely via stdin + stdout. But it won't be too useful if you could not even talk to a database.

The VM may (and should) be limited to a small subset of what's available on the host though.
I thought "sentence" is used for criminal offenses

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentenced

might be a difference in meaning among jurisdictions.

EDIT: yeah it's odd that blasphemy against Mary is not illegal, but well, technical not a deity
“the devil finds work for idle hands”
i don't quite understand what caused the no more paychecks, if you were on the other side of this...
I worry this is going to come off as overly combative; but you haven't gotten to the meat of my complaint here. What is the harm you are objecting to vis a vis the uranium?

The only actual evidence you're proffering is that there is heavy metals pollution "all around" the processing plant. That isn't much to go on. What sort of distances are we talking about? What does "very high" mean?
Thank you for the link, sadly I don't have enough experience with graphdb, so it's outside of my skillset.
Couldn't this be said about the Linux kernel?
You are right. LLMs are totally random and useless.

Thanks for playing.
The narrative of "regulatory capture" breaks down pretty fast when you see they are arguing all AI companies should be get relief from these laws.

In fact most of the proposal sounds like it could have been written by the US government. Exporting democratic AI, neutralize PRC benefit of American AI, etc.
128GB is actually a step down. The previous generation (of sorts) Strix Point had maximum memory capacity of 256GB.

The mini-PC market (which basically all uses laptop chips) seems pretty robust (especially in Asia/China). They've basically torn out the bottom of the traditional small form factor market.
> while stack clashing was considered and is a theoretical possibility — denial of service was considered to be the realistic impact.

In many contexts, regular process failure is still a vulnerability.

And the stack is (usually) tiny compared to other resources. It doesn't take that many nested calls to get to the bottom of the stack. At least compared to trying to exhaust the heap or keep the CPU busy long enough to cause DoS.
If we start with the propostion that all people are created equal, and have equal value, then adding some marginal value in SV seems to have lower ROI than transforming lives in a place where people have little access to the resources and people of the IT industry. And in many societies, women face discrimination that tries to exculde them from tech.

Intel isn't hosting a hardware conference in 99% of the world. It's a great opportunity for Mozilla's mission, for those people, and for the world.
Guarding against unbounded recursion requires both compiler support and runtime environment support: you have to use enough resources to handle legitimate queries, but small enough memory constraints that a "query of death" doesn't kill nodes that are expensive to reactivate. Even then, by their very nature queries-of-death are usually hard to detect and a much simpler solution is something you can do in the static space, such as put an arbitrary hard-bound on recursion depth far below your resource constraints so you can fail the query without losing the whole processing node.

Google protobuffers have buried deep within at least their C++ parser an arbitrary hard limit for nesting depth (I think it may be 32). It's annoying when you hit it, but it's there for a reason.
You are misrepresenting your own link. Not to mention this is a biased list.

Chromium does not include any of the many built in privacy features, add-block features, etc..., that Brave does by default.

Don't get me wrong, Brave's crypto junk is garbage, but atleast you could understand the rational for it. They seem to actually want to make a privacy focused, general purpose, browser fork, and they need funding from it from somewhere.

The only bullet here that might have to do with "safety" is:

> In 2021, Brave's TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out. (h/t schklom for pointing this out!)

Its pretty well known that the official TOR browser is what you should probably use if you need TOR.
How many businesses or applications really need 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability?
Is your whole stack organized to deliver the forementioned durability and availability?
> Why do people in these discussions pretend that it is only WebUSB that needs a permission and consent?

It's not only WebUSB that requires user permission, but it is only USB/serial access where Mozilla has decided that a permission prompt is inadequate.
Definitely not, I was always in strong technical roles - any pointers where to start with marketing? :)
Ask HN: Threaded vs. Flat Discussion
I thought about implementing a simple HN-like forum with the assumption of a single instance being like a subreddit (like r/emacs is just about emacs, no categories), but I am having a headache deciding between threaded vs flat.

Do you think one is inherently superior, depends on type of forum (discussion/support/development/etc) or there should be a UI toggle?
Like I said, it is a bit intimidating at the start. But you soon realize it’s quite intuitive.

Finding logs for a specific service is a one-liner:

journalctl -u rclone-photos-sync.service

Add -r (reverse) to return newest logs first. Add -b to limit logs to the current boot.

Here is a nice overview: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
This was featured in an episode of The Crown [0]. I had never heard of it and didn't know what the episode was going to be about. I think they did a good job conveying the magnitude of the tragedy.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/17/televis...
These aren't worst-case scenarios. That would imply there was an actual possibility of it happening.
I think that people should look at what happened recently and realize that absolute nothing noteworthy happened.

And Firefox is still the only browser engine with support for uBlock Origin, on Android too.
Google is down 13% YTD due to Apple Intelligence!
Open source or proprietary?

Do you have a prototype?
India's Foreign Minister: The virtues of the old world order are exaggerated
> People don't die from flooding because of dams, people die from flooding despite dams. Deaths from flooding would not vanish (or even decrease) if we stopped using hydroelectricity/building dams.

wat

--- start quote ---

In August 1975, the Banqiao Dam and 61 others throughout Henan, China, collapsed following the landfall of Typhoon Nina.

The dam collapse created the third-deadliest flood in history which affected 12,000 km2 (3 million acres) with a total population of 10.15 million, including around 30 cities and counties, with estimates of the death toll ranging from 26,000 to 240,000.

The flood also caused the collapse of 5 million to 6.8 million houses

--- end quote ---

This was literally caused by dam failures. And yet somehow we still build hydroelectric plants.

By your flawed logic we should've stopped building them years ago. Because multiple human deaths, destruction and ecological disaster are literally built into every single dam.

Just in 2018 the Oroville Dam failure caused the evacuation of 180 000 people. That's more people than were evacuated due to Fukushima.
> but it is only USB/serial access where Mozilla has decided that a permission prompt is inadequate.

No, it's not.
That's the public interface. The underlying architecture is where the power is.
Since the announcement has basically no real content: Apart from net neutrality, what things are company execs drooling over after reading this? Bandwidth assignments? Wireless testing requirements? Spam restrictions?
that only works if we know each other very well. every time someone tried to talk me up i felt more awkward than if i had done it myself, because that person didn't know me well enough to actually judge that. the only talking up by someone else that i can tolerate is: "i have worked with this guy and i would hire him (again)"
Of all then agencies being compelled to abandon their reason for existence, the FCC joining the herd is troubling yet all I can do is shrug. The “efficiency by contrition” approach is completely contrary to the mandates given by the public at large for decades - and claiming this Administration’s actions reflect a genuine authorization is a blatant lie. A vast percentage of the US population are effectively told simple majority rule is the justification to dismantle functioning, worthwhile elements of the Federal Government, and that’s in many respects - the FCC will be a fascinating case study.

Let’s deregulate broadcast television so that supporters of this administration have even less recourse for policing morality on the airwaves. Let’s take away criminal punishments for high jacking AM or FM terrestrial radio broadcasts. Let’s see how they like it when their beloved Conservative Talk show radio programs are forcibly interrupted by Muslim calls to prayer six times per day. Some people just are so emotionally and intellectually deprived that facing the consequences of their actions, en masse, might be divine justice so to speak.
Profile-Guided Replacement of Data Structures to Reduce Memory Allocation
As per the other commenter. How do you rationalize this?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.CD?location...
> but as I learned more I realized that it had some wild features that they all managed to hide properly so when you start it looks like a simple system but you can gradually get deeper and deeper until your S3 bucket is doing some pretty sophisticated stuff.

Over the years working on countless projects I’ve come to realize that the more “easy” something looks to an end user, the more work it took to make it that way. It takes a lot of work to create and polish something to the state where you’d call it graceful, elegant and beautiful.

There are exceptions for sure, but often times hidden under every delightful interface is an iceberg of complexity. When something “just works” you know there was a hell of a lot of effort that went into making it so.
In the OP:

But for the magpies, there was an additional layer of intrigue; not only were the birds using the spikes to build nests, but it’s possible they were also employing the devices for their intended purpose—to ward off other birds. “It’s a very natural behavior,” Hiemstra says. “We think these spikes are for nest defense."
I am in principle in favor of inventive gameplay and twisting existing form factors, but this actually grossed me out as if it were gore and I had to close the tab before even knowing what was going on.

Pretty surprising to be honest. I feel like I've discovered a new phobia.
No, it's not the same.

It's actually exasperating to see almost the same people go "oh yes, permission dialogs in Android are overly broad, and people just click yes without reading, yes cookie consent popups are annoying, people just click yes" and then turn around and say "how dare Firefox assume people are stupid to read and understand the consent popup for WebUSB (and WebHID, and WebSerial, and WebMIDI, and NFC, and Network Information, and Bluetooth, and Location, and FileSystem Access, and Camera, and generic sensors in general, and...)"
Strategy in Galaxy Trucker (2008)
Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)
Sure but as soon as you cross the boundaries of your provider both cost and latency start to ramp up ;)
Detailed Feedback on Google's TS GenAI SDK
I don't exactly understand the privacy and security implications here.

A website can prompt for precise location at any point. A website can prompt me to provide a certificate with my cryptographically proven identity at any point. A website can PROMPT for XYZ at any point.

Why should WebUSB be treated any different. If I give access to a device, I give access to a device. If I don't, they can't touch or identify it.
Amazon claims 99.999999999% durability.

If you have ten million objects, you should lose one every 10k years or so.
Tell HN: LinkedIn says I-dont-have-linkedin.com is infringement
Some time ago I registered https://i-dont-have-linkedin.com just for fun. If you go on it, there's a text that says "Hi there! I don't have LinkedIn because it's super annoying. Have a grand day ".

Now I got this email from LinkedIn:

To Whom It May Concern:

Tracer is authorized by LinkedIn Corporation (LinkedIn) to act on its behalf to submit notices of intellectual property infringement with respect to LinkedIn's trademarks, copyrights, and domain names. A letter of authority is attached.

LinkedIn owns numerous trademark registrations for its mark LINKEDIN, including but not limited to US:3971643, US:4016685, and US:4190987. LinkedIn has made extensive use of its LINKEDIN mark for the purposes of advertising, promotion, and the sale of goods and services.

LinkedIn owns the domain name linkedin.com and uses it to disseminate information via computer networks. As a result, consumers associate LINKEDIN, when included in a domain name, with LinkedIn's products and services.

Please note that according to LinkedIn Brand Guidelines, the use of the LinkedIn trademark or logo is infringing and for that reason needs to be removed, please check here all the details: https://brand.linkedin.com/business-books-and-media-usage#business-and-branding.

It has come to our attention that a registrant using your company’s registrar services has registered the domain name i-dont-have-linkedin.com. This unauthorized use of the registered LINKEDIN mark dilutes its distinctive qualities and may potentially confuse consumers. We have reached out to the registrant but received no response.

Accordingly, we request that you pass this notice along to the current registrant. The domain registration should be allowed to expire, and the registrant should not sell, offer to sell, or transfer the domain name to a third party.

The above statements are made with a good faith belief that the use of the material identified herein in the manner complained of is not authorized by the intellectual property owner, LinkedIn, its agent, or the law; that the above statements and the information contained in this notification are accurate; and that, under penalty of perjury, Tracer is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive rights that are alleged to be infringed.

I don't have the time or energy to challenge this with a lawyer (since it's just a joke website), but would this really infringe on their trademark? But now I kind of don't want to let them win on principle, haha.
"Insects exhibit extensive variation in the shape and size of their eyes, which contributes to adaptive differences in their vision. Our study comparing Drosophila species that differ in eye size reveals one of the genetic mechanisms that can make the facets of their eyes bigger and potentially allow greater contrast sensitivity."

> Insects exhibit extensive variation in the shape and size of their eyes

Trivial, and obvious.

> contributes to adaptive differences in their vision

Who knows? Not covered. They measured big eyes.

> reveals one of the genetic mechanisms that can make the facets of their eyes bigger

One of them! Brilliant! "all of the genetic mechanisms", now that would be a claim.

> potentially allow greater contrast sensitivity

"potentially" covers a lot of ground. Who knows? Not covered.
> devs have a fetish with all or nothing privacy

It’s a position, not a fetish.
> Perhaps it is to save on mass and power so that more payload reaches the surface.

It doesn't matter how much mass was saved and how much more payload that allowed to reach the surface if the landing isn't successful. Successful landing is mandatory for anything else to matter. The obviousness of this baffles me that it is taken so haphazardly.
I suppose it's good news that AI will displace these humans ?
I found out last year that you can actually run a full SPA using S3 and a CDN. It’s kind of a nuts platform
> Everyone loves the fact the browser is a secure sandbox, letting users run untrusted code. I don't get why people want to poke so many holes in the sandbox.

My thoughts precisely. I want browsers to be welding holes shut, not opening new ones.

I’d think differently if user consent were required to load any scripts past a certain complexity threshold (e.g. if they’re heavier than that of an early-mid 00s website, hold off on execution until the user approves), but with how easily users can be taken to sites they never asked to go to every added bit of deep system integration a browser gains is a massive liability. The web is too built up around the idea of implied consent to be doing anything too fancy.
Ask the EFF if they'll send a response letter for you.

https://www.eff.org/about/contact
Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
Apple M3 Ultra is competitive with Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, falls short of RTX 5080
This reads like a “comment” version of Destin’s speech to a NASA group a few years ago [0]. The loss of institutional knowledge and fundamentals philosophical differences seem like they’ll need to be overcome.

[0] https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?si=EUxpp6C9vRAYD3kA
> Well, the American credit scrore is made of ketamine

Source?
A four-year-old repo with no code? Not sure what you mean by "showed me".
That really depends. Segmented stack makes it equivalent to heap. Heap might or might not fail gracefully. If the OS permits overcommit and you've mapped a large region, then an arbitrary process on the machine could trigger the OOM when writing to a supposedly allocated (but not previously written) piece of memory.

Presumably you configure resource limits in production but that just means the "correct" process gets unexpectedly killed instead of an arbitrary one.

Code handling arbitrary input needs to carefully limit resource usage. There's no avoiding it.
It's a risky idiom in general because it's often used to prevent debate. "Every existing product has feature X, so feature X is table stakes." "Why are we testing whether we really need this feature, it's table stakes!" My observation has been that "table stakes" features are often the best ones to reject. (Not so in the case of this title, though)
Becoming old is one solution. Less expectation from older folks to move up if they are happy where they are. But as you know, it's a journey to get there :)

A more practical solution as people mentioned here, is staying away from big tech / corporate America.
I don’t know dude, this one time I wrote a LOLCODE compiler into a Babel macro.

https://swizec.com/blog/lolcodetojavascript-compiler-babel-m...

It was pretty fun.

Also this other time I wrote a nodejs script to keep my computer at a specific temperature because our office fridge kept freezing my carrots.

https://swizec.com/blog/i-built-a-node-app-to-thaw-my-favori...
I think that this is, to Andy's point, basically about simplicity. It's not that your business necessarily needs 11 9s of durability for continuity purposes, but it sure is nice that you never have to think about the durability of the storage layer (vs. even something like EBS where 5 9s of durability isn't quite enough to go from "improbable" to "impossible").
I have been thinking similarly to support threads on Bluesky/AT protocol (to replace Reddit subs). I think threads have value on some discussion topics, but not all, and it is hard to know in advance which will be most useful before the discussion happens. Mods here are somewhat privileged in that HN supports threads, and they can move comments and subthreads around at will to shape the discourse.

TLDR Support threads, but enable flexibility when doing so (imho, ymmv, etc)
They have their beauty as objects of art, but certainly not as a place that I would enjoy occupying or being around. Brutalist architecture with a Chinese flair.
I believe the perception has changed and is why the share price is now slowly, and soon rapidly, going down.
Every few weeks I'll get a DM on Discord where they try to sell me some art. Of course they never have any public portfolio and don't identify themselves further. Usually I ask them directly "what's the scam this time" or similar and they always reply along the lines of "I'm not scammer. I'm real!". Haven't had the patience to find out how the scam eventually works.