skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small discussion (20 points, 15 hours ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395411

Related White House to overhaul $42.5B internet plan – likely to Elon Musk's advantage (27 points, 13 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268228
This makes no sense.

Assume 1,000 customers each generating $2m in ARR with contracts. That’s $2 billion. Assume generous 6x ARR valuation, that’s $12 billion.

Where is this $20 billion premium coming from? How could the board approve this? How is this fair to shareholders?

Heck, as a minor shareholder in GOOG, I don’t find this financially responsible at all.

I can’t help but think sometimes these tech acquisitions have some hint of nepotism/deeper underlying motivations behind them than meets the eye.
There should be a "+" button you can click and select any app. The Music app is located in the /Applications folder.
Why would this be possible without pwning a CA? If so they can just patch it the day after they discover this article. There's no reason to do this anyway when you can just plug a video out from a PC to the TV.
I own a home router (TP-Link Archer C7) and I have been running OpenWRT for many years on it, having full control over it via SSH. A few years back, I had an idea for an daemon process/service to improve a certain thing in its functionality. I was delighted to find out that the MIPS chip that powers the thing was supported by Rust, and I coded a "script", cross-compiled it to a binary and SCP't that to the router. It ran beautifully. After that (and running Rust on a few other embedded systems, including an ARM Cortex-R chip) I became convinced that Rust is the next C for the embedded.
the thing i hear most frequently is naming group chats with mixed device users
This might be relevant: The Charisma Myth by Cabane [0]. I haven't read the book, but I listened to a talk. IIRC, it was this: https://youtu.be/LMu_md_5PQ4. I am not sure.

She proposes that charisma is something that can be learned to a very high degree, and she teaches those methods.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnet...
Our experience has been that they do fire, but not reliably enough or soon enough to be worth anything other than validating the problem after the fact.
Also, humans will not replace AI code review, because humans get tired and lazy, and can't be scaled up to cover the need.
> I hate to break it to you, but you get to write software because you work for a company that needs to generate revenue in order to pay your salary, pay the bills, and give a dividend to its shareholders. That is why "corpo MBA" people exist.

No one's blaming MBA. In fact, if the corpo MBA people actually focused on - generate revenue in order to pay your salary, pay the bills, and give a dividend to its shareholders - that'd be great. Use some skill to generate these.

But corpo MBAs spend an enormous amount of time in ladder-climbing, promos, hirings, firings, reorgs - all of which are orthogonal to the points you described earlier: generate revenue in order to pay your salary, pay the bills, and give a dividend to its shareholders.

TL;DR corpo MBA are not doing what is required of them. Instead, they are sucking on innovators with corpo policies - leading to the original post.
> i would actually argue that your definition of charismatic tends towards manipulative

All team endeavors require some kind of consensus-forming. In my experience, strong, charismatic leadership is significantly preferable to a bunch of nerds engaging in dialectics.
I once had a job with a lot of 2-4am wakeup outage calls. The timing was perfect such that you can't fall back asleep generally.

An aggravatingly large percent of them could be resolved by voice over the phone by walking the offshore support team through the same 2-3 runbook items.

"Did you look at the log... I see, OK are you looking at it now? Does it say X? Did you do Y? Good now? Great, goodnight."

"Did you try restarting it.. ok then try that now. Is it good now that you restarted it? Great, I'm going back to sleep"

Ironically we'd have less of these outage calls when the offshore person went on holiday because they'd send one of the competent NY support staff over for 2 weeks. Slept like a log every time.
S3 Tables is designed for storing and optimizing tabular data in S3 using Apache Iceberg, offering features like automatic optimization and fast query performance. SimpleDB is a NoSQL database service focused on providing simple indexing and querying capabilities without requiring a schema.
> One reason iMessage is less of a total cesspit than SMS is that the ecosystem is closed, and makes automation difficult

Really? I'm not in the Apple ecosystem to confirm but it looks trivial to me, and you can always fall back to keyboard/mouse input type of automation.

https://airmessage.org/

https://bluebubbles.app/

https://medium.com/@jameskabbes/sending-imessages-with-pytho...
Traffic to U.S. Retail Websites from Gen AI Sources Jumps 1,200 Percent
Tello is actually what I use for my secondary data, Fi is my main (mostly because I travel somewhat and the data costs the same in all the destinations I care about without having to juggle SIM cards).

I'm not a good case study because I rarely use more than 2gb in a month, so Mint would come closer to $10 a gig... :)
Case in point. If the topic was that, then I'd welcome the discussion, but when you simply bring that to every discussion about Apple... it gets old. After all your statement only really needs to be said once for people to understand it, which makes the repetition over the years very grating. "Single issue posters" are generally the least engaging on the internet.
We used Qdrant in production - it's a solid vector db offering and highly recommend. However we are moving everything to Postgres with pgvector for simplicity i.e fewer moving parts. It was a PITA keeping data synced between pgsql <> qdrant.
To bad they don't make micro Eye-Fi cards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Fi
And this is exactly the problem. Apple presents many of their users with bad choices: either buy an Apple Watch and suffer from its downsides, or switch to Android, and suffer in other ways. Or stick with the iPhone, buy a third-party smartwatch, and suffer from and unnecessarily-crippled user experience.

There's no technical reason it needs to be this way. Apple just prefers to be anti-competitive and increase their profits, than to give their users the as-close-to-ideal experience they want.
Should be some interesting failure modes. That's an awful lot of juice.
Conflating the state of Israel with all Jewish people & implying all of have (a secret) allegiance to Israel, regardless of their citizenship is actual anti-Semitism. Correctly identifying folk who fought for Israel is not anti-Semitic in any way the allegiance at the time they served in an elite unit is clear to all.
The ability to play the game is part of being a good engineer. That doesn't mean you have to out-do the sales team for outgoingness or anything like that, but you do have to be able to persuade people of the rightness of your ideas. That's will never be a purely technical skill.
I can't find accurate statistics, but I question your use of https://truthout.org/articles/more-israelis-are-refusing-dep... as an unbiased source. If you are going to quote an article with that title, you could at least refrain from editorialising:

> Although military service is often described as a national duty in Israel, conscription is in fact far from universal. As little as 50 percent of Israeli citizens actually enlist, according to left-leaning Mesarvot (Hebrew for “I Refuse”), a network of Israeli refusers to which Behar Tsalik belongs.

EDIT: You did update your comment with the full quote, but only after I posted this. That's disingenuous of you, and I'm out of this discussion.
The other handicap for The Lost Crown is Ubisoft always puts its games on sale at a steep discount in much shorter time window than other publishers so they have taught patient gamers to wait.
Charisma is not about honesty or empathy either. Trump is very charismatic. So is Andrew Tate.
I'm in agreement, but one thought that crossed my mind is how the population in China self-censors and I wonder if this is kind of like that. Rather than tailor the terminology to different environments, the person just chooses the "safe" term all the time.
in times like this I'm reminded of "every accusation is a confession"
They have been doing really impressive work for some years now.

"There's God's side and the other side." --Katt Williams
I'm well aware of what the commenter was trying to suggest, and was not going to dignify it.

Every time a story involves Israel somehow--even if it's about the success of a business based there--it turns into a debate about Israel itself. It's exhausting and stupid.
AI is "tearing apart" companies, survey finds
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it's tiring isn't it?
"We should not discuss how much of a monopoly Apple is. It's impossible to convince some people that it's actually not a monopoly."
Can I ask what the use case is?

Always fascinated to hear why people are using vector DBs, especially outside AI embeddings
I'm not a single-issue poster. I'm an established engineer with a large amount of public writing, much of which has been on the HN front page!
Counterpoint: https://imgur.com/a/FGClCyt

(Can't link to the twitter thread directly, since you can't really view replies without being logged in - and it seems the author has deleted it since I saw it this morning.)
At the top of the article:

> This blog post is expressing personal experiences and opinions and doesn’t reflect any official policies of SourceHut.
And GP is saying that that’s totally okay.
the worst part of bluesky is all the people asking for it to be twitter.

That and people posting screenshots of their own tweets...
They are so completely different that it would be simpler if you explained what similarities you see between the two.
I was going comment how much I enjoy using Blender's UI and not GIMP, though both are OSS.
Yep, 90's security is *in* again.
This theory of yours is a conspiracy. Google would never start training off of confidential corporate information without authorization. The legal team would never allow it. And if they ever got caught, it would be a complete disaster for them.
Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
This make's Twitter's acquisition look like an absolute steal by comparison.
Not if you run it locally and power it with solar?
Rust in 2025: Language interop and the extensible compiler
I've added the source per your request. You're welcome to share a more accurate and less biased statistic, though you have none
Thats the kind of a company everyone wants to build in enterprise security.

Incognito unicorns.

There are many companies like these in security space. Another company I can think of is Rubrik. All these large security companies under the radar success.
In the meantime, the products that people used to use are decaying. Just today I found out that clicking on the departure date, and viewing the round-trip prices, then changing the departure date is broken in Google Flights. When Pichai leaves, it will be too late.
Drowning in Documents: Consequences of Scaling Reranker Inference
He warned him while they were on TikTok? That was an unfortunate choice of words in the title. It would be better with ''about'' in place of ''on''.
Isopropanol is relatively safe to drink in small amounts (single digit mL). It's only about 2x stronger than ethanol, and your liver metabolizes it to acetone, which is safe.

Denatured alcohol contains methanol, which is way more dangerous since you metabolise it to formaldehyde.

Source: I unknowingly got drunk on IPA fumes before work one time and wrote some really bad code
Deel will hold the payment 1-3 days after the company runs payroll: https://help.letsdeel.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4413976907025-Wh...
400 Hollywood Creatives Reject Calls to Train AI on Copyrighted Material
This really resonates with me.

Your insight is helpful almost as much as knowing that other people like me are out there too.

I think (!?) I've finally let go of a project that I've been working on for a couple of years.

A key tenet of the project (which I frequently forgot) was that it was a way for me to learn|refine technical skills and to keep me entertained|occupied.

The project certainly achieved those objectives for me and I'm a better person for doing it.

Good luck to you and I hope you continue to succeed!
A PC isn’t an Apple TV
These seem to be beta features. But in any case it seems like its just doing some number of asserts to validate some preconditions.

However, even at runtime it can't do anything to say if (excuse the C pseudocode) *(uint32_t*)0x1C00 = 0xFE is a valid memory operations. On some systems, in some cases it might be.
That was first tried in 1998, at the Linux Kongress, in the KImp presentation. All links to that seem to have died in the 27 years since then.
Might need to go through the NVMe consortium rather than SFF/SNIA. Consumer drives aren't really following any SFF standards these days, but they are still implementing non-optional NVMe features so they can claim compliance with the latest NVMe spec.
The fucking article is about this, so it's very relevant.
One size or tool doesn’t fit all. React has its pros and cons.
As a side note: Phone Link on Windows does allow replying to texts/iMessages on a connected iPhone. However, group messages are not handled properly, and message history from before the connection started isn't available. I believe it's available on an API that is only available on an older version of Bluetooth that is not low-energy. It can also sync contacts and do phone calls.

Over BLE, it is possible to receive and delete notifications, as well as view and control media playback/volume/metadata.
Yes, I almost certainly would write that wrapper to make it impossible for me to pair the wrong length with a string. And yes, it technically is still code, but at least the bytes are not being "looked at" in a way where they might get executed in some way. Again, a "Prepared Statement" is what I was hoping would exist (also for perf reasons) so I'm happy to know it does.

If I were writing it, I would exclusively use the "Prepared Statements" technique, and for people typing in SQL queries by hand, the sole string construct would be as I described.

I'm a Ziguana, so in my design, the number would be "bytes". You would have to "calculate" the number of bytes in languages like Swift or JavaScript. But still, overall it's a better idea to me than turning ' into \' and many other convoluted transformations that are often incorrect and are also just throwing away CPU cycles for no reason whatsoever.

In any case, I would still be semi-offended if I learned that "Prepared Statements" transformed the data in any way whatsoever. In the compromise solution where SQL has a string construct, I want the SQL tokenizer to do this:

if (cur_token.kind == .data) {
// copy data out
@memcpy(
some_buffer,
cur[0..cur_token.value]
);
// skip over the whole thing
// before generating next token
cur = cur[cur_token.value..];
}

Even better if the data is not sent alongside code at all.
Yes, but many companies change this via GPO. And even then, they remain hidden. They are special, compared to normal extensions.

Thus users are unlikely to detect that they're LNK files (in Windows), even with enabled extension.
Real Life Mathematics [pdf]
> They turned out in droves to cut food stamps to fund large tax cuts.

They can't get SNAP so, again, burning down SNAP doesn't feel like a catastrophe.

When calls to aid the poor and vulnerable
consistently omit most counties,
we ought to be not stupid;
we ought to expect those counties to become estranged.

Estranged, vulnerable people are more likely to be susceptible to manipulation because that's how people work.

If this -> We Need To Help The Rural Poor In A Consistent And Meaningful Way <- will never be on the table, that's a decision. Own it.
This is one super weird acquisition
Apple is fine with any customer retention benefits from security and I don’t agree (with the article author) that they are merely pretending their strategy is primarily focused on security
I don't disagree with the premise in your README - the first four bullet points, at least - but how is this an "invisible" AI? Doesn't this still have the exact same problem of the interviewee quiet obviously reading off of what the AI tells them, with the tell-tale eye motion, pause to get the answer from an LLM, etc?
It's amazing how you can still register to this place without Javascript, *even though* it uses Recaptcha. Because Recaptcha still has a fallback mode to a (ostensibly) less secure captcha that just requires ticking 3 boxes and is much more usable than the version I get if I enabled Javascript. It would sure be a shame if someone Abused (TM) that. Github too was one of the last websites to support human beings until Microsoft got all nazi (read: schizo) mode with their "it's all for your security" shit locking you out of your account because your mom didn't walk her dog that day which triggered a Microsoft (R) Entra (TM) Advanced Risk Model Analysis (read: regex) [patent pending] alert from reading her GPS data from an advertising provider (Microsoft records your mouse movements like Cloudflare so I wouldn't put it past them).

tl;dr Congratulations for being one of the last real websites alive!!!
Exactly.

But who should drive such regulation then, elected representatives which represent constituents who can't be bothered to push for it..?

THAT'S the conundrum.

The market urgently requires regulation, but it also became so convenient so fast and affects end-users only indirectly, so there is no sufficient momentum to drive this change...
Mark Rober's Tesla video irregularities
Quicktime Player.app gets an entitlement called `com.apple.private.tcc.allow`, giving it unprompted access to the Camera, Microphone, and Screen Capture.

An MDM administrator, managing a computer or device owned by an organization, cannot grant those permissions to anything without user consent. For good reason!

So why the *fuck* does Apple think they're entitled to?
I guess to me that seems worse because that’d effectively double the number of off-hours accountability per teammate. Not only do you need to be first on call for your primary hours, therefore severely restricting the quality of your “free time” but now you ALSO have to be secondary on call for that irresponsible coworker that goes afk without properly communicating for 2 hours, dipping twice into your actual free time.
> Is your position that if most Israelis affirmatively support atrocities like this, the rest of the world should just pretend like we never saw that?

If the world should generalize over entire populations groups according to some poll then it should at least be consistent and not do it only to Israelis. If I find a poll that shows most Palestinians support October 7th would you immediately denounce every Gazan you talk to? It's also quite obvious many Gazans agreed not only with October 7th but also with the subsequent treatment of the Israeli hostages (which is a type of long lasting torture). Most of these hostages were/are simply kidnapped civilians, the ones you talk about in Sdei Teiman were most likely Hamas fighters connected to extreme cases of violence and terrorism. So there's more nuance here than you make it out to be. I personally think if anyone sexually abused them they should be thrown in jail but I can see why many Israelis have their hearts filled with hatred toward Hamas fighters. It's the job of the state to maintain rule of law.
The AI Showdown: Baidu's Bold Leap into the Reasoning Realm
I'm sure that there was an extensive, open, and fair contracting process that led to this service being installed, and that the American taxpayer is getting the best bang-for-their-buck with regards to this urgently-needed upgrade to the White House telecoms systems.
Apple is obviously the vendor for people who like to have their hands held. If you don't like that, make your decision earlier, just don't buy Apple. Worked for me the last decade.
I don't really agree with that (the salute bit), but I would say it's deeply personal.

A Ukrainian could have reasons to choose Tesla over Polestar. A liberal minded Korean could have reasons to buy Tesla over Hyundai. A human rights activist or journalist could have reasons to buy Tesla over Lucid. A Jewish person could have reasons to buy Tesla over BMW. That doesn't even touch on all the other decisions that go into purchasing a car.

If you want to boycott a brand, for whatever reasons, and promote others to do the same, I think it's totally acceptable. People just might have a different calculation than you and that is also acceptable.

There's no righteousness in inciting crime against people because one thinks their moral judgments are some how superior. It's irresponsible, dangerous, and illiberal.
Is this a side project or your main endeavor?

It will take time to get traction. I have a bigger picture in mind and shipping small updates and features constantly helps a lot. I’m building a tool for myself and I use it on a daily basis and keep improving it with the things I like, that keeps me motivated.
I would be excited if Apple would add great GPT answering capabilities on my first-gen homepods, even if it meant having to send all queries to the cloud. I can unplug them if I need privacy.
Devs need to be on call at three AM so that they suffer when their software fails. This is how you align developer motivation with operational motivation.

The organization needs to incur financial penalties when the on-call staff have to respond at three AM. This aligns the organizations motivations with the operational motivations.

When managers see an on-call-incident line-item going up then they're more willing to tell product to take a hike.
No, they won’t. They’ll hold the pay stub for 1-3 days. Your payment happens on pay day.
Did you not see the TV show? It had a bit of production hell (Jon Chu from Wicked was going to direct, and had 2 different people come in after him) and was very uneven, cancelled after 1 season. They buried it so deep it's not even on Disney+ anymore and it only came out in late 2022.

https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/willow (notice you can only see clips/trailer)
JDK Distributions
> Hopefully we can just get away from "MBA types" vs. "software types" altogether.

Sounds great. Except.. if you're advocating for "charisma" in the first place, then that's probably not really the goal and definitely not the effect that you'll see. Hence the various cranky/skeptical/cynical comments in this thread. There's plenty of charisma in tech already, and it's usually associated with fraudsters like SBF.
"Charisma is the ability to influence without logic." - Quentin Crisp
Is there some way to read X threads without an account?
I totally understand that perspective, but I think in terms of opportunity cost I just don't think it would ever be worth the effort.
Nio does this (only for their cars tho) - apparently takes 3m to do a battery swap. And apparently it's getting to the point where it's close to profitability.

https://www.nio.com/nio-power
Yes. Probably in approximately the same way I find that there's nothing you can say to Apple fans that find a way to justify anything the Apple does.
Blobfish to win NZ 'fish of the year'
so they store the data in a tree with special types for text or images... and output only a csv or markdown for you outside? honest question, how does this make the data model relevant? internally it's the same as Microsoft word even, and you can't benefit from it as it export without the structure.