skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They use signal. They added the wrong person to the chat. Oh well. There’s no real disaster here. No real operational details exposed. Just some politicking that surprises no one.
From the wikipedia article:

Abrash spent hours tracking down exact conditions needed to produce the bug, which would result in parts of a game level appearing unexpectedly when viewed from certain camera angles.
> Its like vegans "quitting" meat. Not a cow was ever saved by this gesture. There are sufficient cow eaters to make such a gesture irrelevant

Oh? Do you vote? Because there's sufficient other voters that make your vote irrelevant
Sounds not so much like a Bosch problem as a retailer problem. It was the retailer that lied to you about the machine.
Yeah but when the bug triggered you only got like eight digits worth of floating point.

The article says IBM expected normal users to hit it every few days.
That's Factory Reset Protection. You can turn it off in settings, if you don't want that security feature.

But yes, factory reset on Android phones only wipes the user data partition. Your phone has other things that don't necessarily get reset under a factory reset too, for instance: eSIMs (which is useful that it doesn't, in my experience)
Section 230 is critical for tech businesses and platforms that facilitate free distribution of speech. Without this, we can be confident that "user generated content" would look very different, and moderation efforts would be much more censorious. As the EFF said in the article...

> The law is not a shield for Big Tech. Critically, the law benefits the millions of users who don’t have the resources to build and host their own blogs, email services, or social media sites, and instead rely on services to host that speech.

Even if you support a re-write of 230, you should oppose the proposed law to remove it because the timing of the proposed law. The proposal would expire 230 during an election cycle, and that would be horrific for online discourse about the election. The liability of hosting political discourse, and the potential to be sued for libel would make user content about politics toxic. It's undoubtable that at least one side of the political spectrum would use it to remove opposition and opposing opinions. The current administration has proven they're absolutely willing to take punitive measures against companies and people based on their speech, even when legally protected, and large companies have shown a willingness to comply, even preemptively, to avoid a fight that can disrupt their revenue.
I would believe it completely if it came from just about anyone else. The glove most definitely fits.

A simple question is sufficient to direct intelligent people to his wikipedia. That is enough.
It was initially flagged when first submitted getting it relegated to the pages 3 and 4. Then it seems the flags got removed (or it got enough upvotes?) so it was on the front page for a few hours. Now it's on the second page (probably a combination of flags, if still enabled, and flamewar detection). It's #3 here: https://news.ycombinator.com/active
Israel tried already if you recall and clearly they couldn't though they certainly tried their hand at shock and awing. The transactional aspect is vis-a-vis Egypt.

https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-officials-warn-egypts-m...

https://www.jns.org/israel-challenges-egypt-on-secret-sinai-...

Egypt is bleeding money because of loss of transit fees. However, this Muslim Brotherhood wary nation is not keen on the announced ethnic cleansing in Gaza (to Sinai). So this could be inducement to have them host an open air concentration camp with guarantees that navigation through the Suez Canal will resume.
>While being focused is good, do you see yourself expanding to more levels of academia?

Possibly. At this point I'm a one man band, so I'm sticking to what I know best. I'm finding a strong positive reaction from teachers, so I'm quietly hoping that I've hit on something that resonates.

I think the app can be repurposed for either academia as you mention or possibly other fields, but I'm just taking it one step ata time for now.

>It was just today I was looking into solutions such as reveal.js, curious what worked for you the best?

I'm aware of reveal, but I decided to roll my own solution which has so far worked out well.
That's the part you're concerned with? Criminal liability of the journalist while the alcoholic was sending government secrets over a signal group chat to unverified members?
Looks SDF-ish. My guess is convert the letters to curves, cut them into pieces without holes so each piece is the set of points between certain curves, write down SDFs for each curve (negative on the "inside", positive on the "outside"), combine all SDFs in a piece with intersection (max), then combine all pieces with union (min).
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt etc., sues to save funding from Trump cuts
Monogame is still huge with indies too AFAIK
To expand on that a bit, the Wrights clearly needed to solve multiple basic problems in order to produce a working airplane. To do this, they first identified the problems, then conducted a directed research and development program to solve them, one by one. Having solved them, they combined the results into a working airplane.

Nobody else was doing that at the time.

Without the Wrights, individual inventors might each solve one of the problems independently, and then a later individual puts it together.

The Wright approach was itself fundamentally innovative.
> These topics have been the most discussed topics on HN the last couple of months by a massive margin.

Have any of these topics managed to not be censored via flagging? From my perspective, I have very much wanted to talk about these things on HN and despite checking multiple times a day I have never been able to engage in an ongoing discussion (by which I mean the post wasn't removed from the front page due to flagging, effectively limiting the visibility it would otherwise get from organic upvotes).

You're entitled to dislike these topics and to flag them. And I'm entitled to think you're actively making HN worse with your gatekeeping. The problem with flagging is it gives more weight to a smaller group. I don't know the weighing exactly, but I'd guess flagging is 10-100x more effective than regular voting. So in theory just 1-10% of people have the ability to censor topics they don't like. Kinda seems like the antithesis of what's "interesting" to me. And yes, I absolutely 100% would prefer contentious "go fuck yourself" arguments on politics than not being allowed to discuss it in good faith at all.
Maybe formal spoken Cantonese/Mandarin, but colloquial spoken Cantonese for example is very different from formal written Cantonese. It would sound odd to speak the way things are formally written, if that makes sense.

Perhaps you could say there's a subset of the languages which can be mostly written in a mutually intelligible way. That sounds more like the similarities between, say, Portuguese and Spanish, though, where you can probably write a subset of the languages that is pretty comprehensible by both language speakers, yet the languages are distinct.
This is similar to saying that posting code anywhere online is useless. Not everyone is trying to start a collaborative project. Sometimes people just use github to showcase code, because it's a convenient platform.
TLDR: https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/
I don't think it is internet trolls. It's been going on for a long time. I don't think a disinformation attack would be used on Hacker News. The accounts I'm arguing with have significant karma. And I don't see other Europeans arguing with the ones who express anti-Americanism, or downvoting those comments. That suggests they silently agree.

I don't think the US should be invading other countries. I agree that justifies anti-Americanism, as I stated elsewhere in this thread.
Yes, except the output is something that has to sound "subjectively good" after all the DSP, vs rf beamforming where you have a very easy metric (dropped packets) that you can optimize the beamforming direction with.
"Democrats" are not a coherent, monolithic entity. But we have data on which cohorts of that coalition did and didn't turn out.
Tbh such a big jump from current capability would be ASI already
I didn’t say that you should aim to replace the existing package. You imagined that as a requirement.

How did log/slog appear if the Go standard library already has a logger and a backwards compatibility promise? Because you can add stuff without breaking backwards compatibility.

Go’s backwards compatibility promise is good in the short term, but if it has no expiration, that promise will be the rope wrapped around Go’s neck as it is pushed off a small platform and is left to dangle as the crowd watches.

Do you think that backward compatibility promise will still be upheld in 500 years? If you think not, then you agree that there is a line somewhere between 0 and 500 years and that on the other side of that line that promise makes no sense.

What about 50 years? Do you think in 50 years we’ll still have the same flag package in the standard library that we have today? I don’t. I certainly hope we don’t.

The more one clings to that backward compatibility promise, the more the backward compatibility promise strangles you.

I hope we incorporate lessons learned from Go 1 into some new version of Go, whatever its name is. I certainly DO NOT hope that we ignore what we’ve learned and fail to act because of a promise to never abandon the mistakes that have been made.
Seems like spending as a percent of revenue would be a lot more informative than spending over GDP.
About 20 minutes; it's a lightly edited transcript of the video.
You imagined that I was saying that the existing flag stuff in the standard library should be replaced, I never suggested that.

You can add better things without breaking compatibility promises. See: many, many features added since 1.0. New IP address types, slog, etc.
On the other hand, directly sharing war plans with the press is about as transparent as you can get.
That would destroy the ability to run any sort of forum that isn’t essentially 4chan. Actually, even 4chan has moderation beyond what’s legally required, to define the topic of each of its subforums.

It isn’t possible for any volunteer-based forum to survive the sort of liability this would add, so they’d have to shut down.

Are you sure that’s what you want?
On recent devices with on-device NPU, could be combined with RF imaging of nearby activity and structure via WiFi 7 Sensing Doppler radar.
You joke but Google is working on this now. What if you could have a maid robot in every household, similar to the I, Robot film and book.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-brings...
I spent half an hour playing with these now at https://arcprize.org/play and it's fun, but I must say that they are not "easy". So far I eventually solved all of the ones I've gone through, but several took me significantly more than the 2 tries allotted.

I wonder if this can be shown to be a valid IQ test, and if so, what IQ would a person need to solve e.g. 90% of them in 1 or 2 tries.
https://archive.ph/u1H02
This was the approach I took when purchasing a TV. Getting a TV without a microphone and Wi-Fi connectivity is borderline impossible... in the consumer segment.

My living room is now furnished with a digital signage monitor and a soundbar.

The price was a touch more than a normal TV of a similar size, and there was not much variety (I had to give up on OLED at the size I wanted for example), but I just have such a hatred for the constant nagging for Wi-Fi and terms of use acceptance nags my parents' new TV had.

If your product is cheaper because you sell my data to the highest bidder, just let me outbid them please.
I'm no nuclear scientist, but doesn't this seem like a very basic way to detect radiation that we should have discovered before?
> It's undoubtable that one side of the political spectrum would use it to remove opposition and opposing opinions.

Ideologues at several big tech firms have already used Section 230 as their liability shield for some very biased moderation of content in 2016 and 2020, including removing lots of content from their opposition.
Those inventions were incremental progress by individual inventors. Not a directed research and development project.

If you know of one that existed prior to the Wright, I'd like to hear about it.

The Apollo program is a stellar(!) example of a directed research and development project. They started with a goal, identified the problems, solved each problem in an organized manner, and put the solutions together and accomplished the goal.
That's amazing. That could also be used for training employees.

Just made a test for our use case and the results are pretty good!
I have an ecommerce company selling fine food and one major issue is training our employees with deep fine food knowledge.

Coupled with a RAG / Internal documentation, it could generate training material s for also internal procedures, etc...

One thing I noticed, is there is a lot of repetition of the same concepts in the slides generated. It would be great to be able to tweak the outline before it generates the slides. But all in all, really great stuff! Congratulations!
> A new Chinese tool capable of cutting the most fortified undersea data cable...

> Hong Kong and China-registered ships also ruptured cables last year with their anchors.

> The US has pressured countries not to use a Chinese cable-laying company...

> ...the world's fleet of deep-sea cable repair ships is small - many of them Chinese.

Bluntly put, it sounds like China and Russia have operational, at-scale capabilities. Vs. Western nations only have people talking. About doing something or other. Eventually.

To paraphrase Rumsfeld - your opponent goes to war against you with the forces that he does have. And promptly wins, because you have only wishes.
This is something we could really benefit from, the responses seem to be almost instant.

1. I see it works for individual tweets and linkedin profiles. Do you plan to support x/LI feeds and more? Social media has been a serious trouble for us.
2. Any plans to filter out images/videos that might be relevant for LLMs from the websites?

would love to talk.
The Strategy Tax
Generating synthetic data with differentially private LLM inference
The weight was definitely a factor.
ah - i usually view using https://hckrnews.com/

it seems for whatever reason the above viewer omits it
Thank you. I was about to ask exactly that.
The "smaller group" here is anyone with over 500 karma. You're going to have to find some other place to have "contentious go-fuck-yourself arguments" --- about literally anything --- because they are anathema to curious conversation, which is the overriding goal of this site. That goal isn't changing just because we're all activated about politics right now, just like it wasn't in 2017.
Hardware/Software Co-Design for Training Recurrent Neural Networks at the Edge
That sounds annoying too. I want the default to be the one that does what I want it to do, clean a normal load of dishes, and do a good job at it. My dishwasher defaults to the last mode I set it to.

> I find it absolutely crazy that a German company, when given free rein in the USA, would actually paywall Eco mode. It's just mind-boggling.

... they didn't do that. There is no paywall.
I'm not qualified to offer an accurate eli5, just a hand-wavy explanation...

Category theory can be leveraged to make faster theorem provers (making complex symbolic reasoning practical at larger scales).

Don't ask me how, hopefully someone who studies it will chime in and correct me / expand.
Did you read TFA? Operational details were shared on the chat but the journalist, out of concern for exactly what you describe, redacted those details from his report.
Feels like the flaggers aren't the ones being self-righteous here. We're just flagging and getting on with our day. One of them took the time to explain what they were doing for you, and, well, (looks around).
> checking everything possible and completely locking you out if anything is even slightly off is the security theater

Sadly not the first or last time that technology is wielded imprecisely or carelessly. Improvement options include:

1. Marketing and rewarding non-theatrical attestation
2. Open training content for attestation best practices.
3. Symmetrical 2-way attestation of open components.
4. Automated CI/CD detection of over-broad attestation.
5. IETF or other advocacy to improve attestation protocols.
6. Legal/regulatory mechanisms.

There's an attestation track at OC3 in 2 days, online and in Berlin, https://www.oc3.dev/speakers-and-talks
I was surprised to see no mention of Leo Marx's: The Machine in the Garden, because that's probably the most canonical book on exactly what the article talks about, the idealization of pastoral life in America[1].

As the blog post hints at it's not really limited to programmers or cubicle workers as such, it's deeply ingrained in the US psyche. Practically you can just hop on any social media platform and see examples. A few days ago I saw some pictures of the new BYD factory in China and it's quite funny to see the difference between Chinese reactions "it'll make us independent" or "jobs there pay better" to English media which have a lot of "that's so big and dystopian", "it'll automate away jobs" etc.

There's an observation by Fukuyama that Americans modernized before they urbanized which has left them midway between urban dweller and villager and that's really what's behind "cottagecore" and also behind the inability to build and automate and the constraints that everyone in American politics complaints about all the time.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_in_the_Garden
I suppose this will surprise you, but I'm strictly against religion and government mixing. When Jesus said, "My Kingdom is not of this world," I take that very seriously. It's why I've never associated with the Republican party, which has increasingly high-jacked the evangelical vote.

I'm not sure why you're accusing me of trivializing anything. I'm simply commenting on the religious discussions on HN and how I usually find them sorely lacking. But I wouldn't expect any different, considering most "hackers" tend to be secular in my experience, which is fine.
Ironic that your comment is currently, as you say, being downvoted to hell.
Every source, free or paid, has narrative, bias, incentives.
I'm not convinced any humans have worked there for most of my lifetime.
Author of Chinatalk post here!

If you want to read the full write-up of the story of Rickover and the USS Nautilus, you can find my original substack here: https://charlesyang.substack.com/p/how-hyman-rickover-built-...

I'm also planning on doing some archival research through the Rickover Files at US Naval Academy Archives, so if there are particular topics that are of interest about Rickover's legacy, let me know! Currently planning on prioritizing congressional testimony and unpublished memos or speeches that he gave.
This is an odd take when one considers we (the US) have a large trade deficit with the EU. I personally prefer that we have open and free trade with the EU with no protectionism at all. It's only our adversaries like China and Russia that I worry about trading with, and hence tariffs and restrictions be much more appropriate, the clown in charge in Washington seems to want the opposite.
We just fundamentally disagree. From my perspective you are the antithesis of curious conversation by censoring topics you don't want to discuss. I don't want to read the latest update on some dumb framework but I don't flag the post.

Also getting 500 karma on HN isn't hard.
Local newspaper died at the hands of national newspapers because what's happening in your town is just not as interesting as what's happening across the whole country. Similarly, national newspapers died at the hands of the internet because they're just not as interesting as the whole globe. Because of this limit, they're not as profitable at selling and targeting ads.

230 also doesn't provide an endless liability protection over "traditional" media, but it is generally more forgiving. Personally, I don't know why we'd expect tweets to have the same relationship to twitter that a news story has to a newspaper. One is written by a user vs an employee.
Thank you.

>That could also be used for training employees.

Yes! You're absolutely right. I have ideas about how the existing framwork can be repurposed and what you suggest is exactly right.

>Coupled with a RAG / Internal documentation, it could generate training material s for also internal procedures, etc...

Yeah spot on.

>One thing I noticed, is there is a lot of repetition of the same concepts in the slides generated.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll continue to tweak the prompts.
RCE Vulnerabilities in K8s Ingress Nginx (9.8 CVE for ingress-Nginx)
More like IL as the, well ... intermediate language.
You're arguing against an imaginary position, no one is really arguing that people don't and didn't have to work for the things they managed to do just that there are structural and historical forces that made what they do possible and in many cases others were right on their heels (or actually succeeded first but didn't commercialize or document their successes).
I just search online for the MSDS for the product.

https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/mup/wd-40-multi-use-product-a...
Solar Energy Claims Big U.S. Gain in 2024
Discussion (49 points, 4 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465424
Perhaps I misspoke, but needing a network connection, needing a smartphone, giving over your details, very likely getting marketing materials you didn't want via app notifications, or email, requiring to comply with terms of service, and at any time the company is free to rescind or change the offer, to me is "paywalling". You are paying out, giving them things of real value, over and above buying the device, and if you don't then they're blocking functionality.

All the functionality should be in the device itself, and require no sign-up or ongoing relationship with the company to use it.
If your willing to dedicate some time, dig into Frida [0], pinned certs are not a problem.

[0] https://frida.re/docs/home/
https://archive.today/bNIyu
I mean I lived through it too. So did many others on this site. And my most memorable image is of Colin Powell giving his speech about "yellow cake" to the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWlPo3qxak.

I don't even remember Goldberg or anything he wrote about it, fwiw.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

The British East India company’s and by extension the shareholders.

It was the ability of the company to sell tea directly to the colonies which was a major issue driving the discontent.
> Without API level idempotency, a single email on the client’s end could turn into many redundant emails at the service provider’s side, each of which could then be subject to those same subsequent duplications at the SMTP layer.

Ok so now there’s a 1/100 million chance that the client gets 3 duplicate emails.

I’m not arguing that idempotency is never important. The most popular blog post I’ve ever written is about the 2 generals problem and how idempotency can help.

I’m arguing in this specific instance it doesn’t matter.

As far as I was aware duplicate message-id headers aren’t deduped by every client, but if they are being used for deduplication just expose that in your api and let the caller set it.
What do you think their blind spot is here? Do you have a preferred approach to intermediary liability?

(former EFFer)
Newspapers didn’t rely on 230 much at all with centuries of precedent protecting them. What killed then was losing the ad revenue they used to get from local businesses, property sales, dating, etc. Even modest sized towns could afford good local coverage before that money was siphoned off to San Francisco.