skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FMEA/FMECA are only the first step in a system reliability study, it isn’t an analysis of mitigation strategies. Fault tree analysis (etc) concerns itself with things like how long an aircraft can fly with an engine failure. Doing that involves an assessment of various risks.

> I agree there may be cases where there are no reasonably safe options. That means your engineered system (especially in a public-facing product) is not ready for production because you haven't met a reasonable risk threshold.

Individual failures should never result in such scenarios, but ditching in the ocean may be the best option after a major fuel leak, loss of all engine power, etc.
Having payroll is always a tax hassle, but I've been at passthrough-structured LLCs with employees and mid-high 7 figure revenue (at some point, you start filing as an S for your LLC).

But can we get back to the original thing here? Creating an LLC in the US is trivial and does not require accounting.
That is what the experiment is trying to discover. They need time to collect enough data. The current phase started in 2021. The papers, including this one, have been about apparatus.
2008 wasn't that bad for tech, but 2001 was and might be better comparison.
The thing is, if you’re knowledgeable enough to use rsync over cp, you already know relevant flags to do that.
Are you adjusting an 8-bit JPG (probably) or a 12-bit JPG (rare)?

Try adjusting a 8-bit RAW file and you will have the same problem.

You are conflating format and bitrate.
The "whole article" includes:

"A. baumannii can cause infections in blood, lungs, urinary tracts, and wounds. It typically causes these in healthcare settings, such as hospitals. Owing to its ability to resist antibiotic treatment, it has been listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a critical priority antibiotic-resistant pathogen."
it's not that it's hard to comply, it's fighting malicious compliance which is hard. nevertheless, it's a good damn question why every single operator that has "accept all" and doesn't have "reject all" right there on the consent banner isn't fined on the spot.

I think the commission noted this behavior and malicious compliance is already factored into the DMA act. The "deregulation" of GDPR could as well be retrofitting all the lessons learned into the GPDR v2.
Yeah, for LLMs what we label "prompt-injection" isn't an exception or an error, it's a fundamental feature.

Get a document, provide a bigger document that "fits". In that document, there's no fundamental distinction between prompt, user input, or output the LLM generated on a prior iteration. (Hence tricks like: "Here's a ROT13 string, pretend you're telling yourself the opposite of that sarcastically.")

The kind of "proper" security everyone wants would require a whole new approach that can--at a high and debuggable level--recognize distinct actors/entities, logical propositions, contradictions, and when one entity is asserting a proposition rather than quoting/rejecting it.
>I've always been pretty vocal about my dislike for Trump too. Well, for the first time, I'm worried that, when traveling to the US, some overzealous TSA agent could ask me to get access to my social media accounts, and that I could be refused entry, or even get sent to one of those wonderful privately owned jails;

I've been a vocal Trump supporter on social media. By this measure they should give me a green card if I'll ever plan to visit US.
Show HN: Soundscapes and Lofi Player
Hello HN! I would like to share my website which lets you play soundscapes and lofi music. All the sounds are in the public domain.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/thingbomb/noisefill
OpenBSD often takes an approach of removing rarely-used or archaic functionality to achieve simplicity in code or configuration or improved security. They gutted a lot of openssl when they made libressl. Their OpenSMTPD is vastly simpler than something like postfix or sendmail.

openrsync is very likely good code, but that doesn't mean it replicates every feature of the rsync utility.
I'm (at least) a third-generation Nikon shooter, and I still have my grandfather's FTn. For its era, predating CNC and CAD, it is very comfortable to use, but the leather "eveready" case shell is welcome.

(One reason I shoot Nikon is because I can still shoot his glass on modern bodies. Indeed, that's what my D5300 spends a lot of its time wearing these days.)

True revolutions in consumer imaging excepted, I doubt I'll feel more than an occasional gadget fan's urge to replace my D850 and D500 as my primary bodies. Oh, the Z series has features, I won't disagree, even if I'm deeply suspicious of EVFs and battery life. But the D850 is a slightly stately, super-versatile full-frame body, and the D500 is a light, 20fps APS-C, that share identical UIs, lens and peripheral lineups, and (given a fast card to write to) deep enough buffers to mostly not need thinking about.

For someone like me who cares very little about technical specs, and a great deal for the ability to hang a camera over their shoulder and walk out the door and never once lose a shot due to equipment failure, there really isn't much that could matter more. I may have 350 milliseconds to get a flight shot of a spooked heron, or be holding my breath and focusing near 1:1 macro with three flash heads twelve inches away from a busily foraging and politely opinionated hornet. In those moments, eye and hand and machine and mind and body all must work as one to get the shot, and having to think at all about how to use the camera essentially guarantees a miss.

Hence the five years of work I've put into not having to think about that. I suppose I could've done more than well enough with any system, sure. But my experiences with others have left me usually quite glad Nikon's is the system I invested in.
> Presumably, even if people supported this tariff strategy, they might still disagree that the president should be the one doing it.

You can sort of count me among this number. Not this wild tarrifs everyone strat, but I've long thought we should have tarrifs on goods from countries like China that are happy to exploit their workers to steal market share. 54% doesn't seem crazy to me. The thing is to actually encourage investment they'd need to a) phase in over time to give companies a chance to react, and b) be something more permanent than an executive order.

If it was the legislature putting in place something more targeted and gradual I'd probably find myself arguing for the Republican position on something for the first time in a long time.
but this replaces "an infinite amount of time" with "an infinite amount of universes"

so why not wake up every morning and make a random string because it guarantees at least one of you out in the multiverse just got something incredible for free?
That caused me to re-read the article. Actually it is surprisingly ambiguous on that point inside the text of the article, with wording like

> the human remains likely belonged to soldiers who died during a battle involving ancient Roman legionaries.

Doesn’t say which side they were on. The most direct bit seems to be

> X-ray images of the sheath revealed typical ancient Roman decorations: silver wire inlays […]

But a German could just have traded with a Roman at some point.

Of course, the headline says they are Roman soldiers. I wonder if it is hard to tell definitively.
No one mentioned pandemic. It's a health threat--if this thing gets into a hospital its very, very hard to get rid of. Most people prefer their hospitals as sterile as possible.
OpenWrt 2 will be a high-performance router with 10 Gbit LAN and WiFi 7 support
That's a bit of a charcacture of Course 6 at MIT. Course 10 is chemical engineering and plenty of them go into industry at all the major oil companies. Lots of MIT students go into aerospace and defense (Lincoln Labs is directly federally funded) and MIT holds a yearly Soldier Design Competition that also helps students go for SBIRs. Raytheon is a big hirer of course 2 (MechE) MIT grads.
> Our multidimensional beings are being assailed by at least three or four other intelligent agents that are able to pose as our own thoughts and feelings.

Contrary opinion - no they're not, get a hold of yourself.
That's what they get for not writing it in Rust, serves their right.
> No one except the utterly delusional would think a mom & pop restaurants ... would become a F500 company.

The F500 has quite a few restaurants on the list. Other than maybe Starbucks, it seems all of them have humble "mom & pop" beginnings.

Who opens a business thinking "I hope customer response is so poor that I will struggle and never be able to grow"? That is often the outcome – but when is that the dream?
Not until we have a sane political climate again.
I wonder how productive it is to mention that though. Sure, that may not be the reason they exist and came to be (something about exchanging documents) but it may be how they are mostly used today.
10 years of work experience in web development, Cybersecurity(penetration testing/ network audit/ user support and training), Application Support Management.

Worked and lived in: Maputo/Mozambique and Sao Paulo/Brazil

Languages: Portuguese(Native), English and Japanese.

Currently in Application Support and Incidents Management and response for in-house application built in Python/FastAPI, C#/ASP.NET Core and Java/Spring

Location: Maputo/Mozambique

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python/C#/Ruby/C
Résumé/CV:https://docs.google.com/document/d/111Q-0pOOkLVGBG4qednBxzBg...

Email: j.muconto@gmail.com
> Also don’t confuse Genetic Algorithms (GA) with GP.

I just lump it all under "Evolutionary Computing"...
Tim Cook has already made extensive political donations to this administration, and his cries for help are presently being ignored. Buying out a politician does not guarantee they will listen to you or do your bidding.
The issue with Git cherry-pick [video]
I think it’s a nonstarter that conflicts with 1st amendment principles, but I don’t necessarily disagree with the underlying sentiment that you’re expressing. Things like this are just the price we pay for living in a free / democratic society. But kudos to you for thinking outside the box.
A sometime co-worker said that the book was required reading in the Virginia high schools of his day (class of 1972?). Taking it lightly was regarded as disrespect, and could get one ordered out of the classroom. He got to leave early a number of days.
Why the need for an account to execute? Are you executing the command on behalf of the user on your server? Is it possible to just do it locally in browser?
I’m part of the team at Kodus and it’s been 4 days since we open sourced Kody, our AI that helps with code reviews

Here’s the repo if you want to check it out https://github.com/kodustech/kodus-ai

Feedback is more than welcome
I'd argue that #2 might be worse than #1. There are a lot of groups online that find meaning in disability and marginalization but it's suicide.
No, I disagree. I think that inflation (on mean) reflects real value that is accrued by an economy.
> Let's see how many days it takes!

I reckon there are ~40,000 lines in the printout. So: ~10 years.
This is the type of thing that only people who get in internet arguments about MIT vs BSD care about. Is the llama license open source as defined by the OSD? No. But for the majority of people, they don't care. For all intents and purposes, it is open source for them. All of this is to say that I don't fault the author for just calling it open source.
It costs around $30 to manufacture. Maybe they are $300 all in with every cost added including company overhead. What price does apple declare the iphone as at the port of entry? I imagine it is a low amount, say $100. Apple can pay the tariff themselves.

https://www.asymco.com/2012/02/22/the-iphone-manufacturing-c...
Europoor? My apartment in Amsterdam is way “poorer” than whatever this is, but hey I love my canal view: https://www.reddit.com/r/zillowgonewild/s/RlIauTsaqD

Also, last weekend my son had some weird intestinal flu we couldn’t figure out and ended up visiting the weekend GP. You think we had to pay anything (besides the slippery-slope-ish, pice-controlled, Dutch health insurance system)?

So yeah, I might earn 1/3 an SF developer, and yeah — the startup scene can be frustratingly sterile — but I can afford to not need a Tesla Juniper, though I really love it when I lease it for travel.

And yes, we do do innovative and cool stuff, we just don’t exit with billions.
> and the red tape in registering corporations.

what red tape? from what I understand you have your articles of incorporation, your id an register with chamber of commerce. I mean it varies from country to country and licenses and all the EU stuff exists, but what red tape is there when registering the company itself?
>government censorship

If I trick someone I get a fine, if a multi billion company do that is censorship?
Tariffs Are for Emergencies
(looking at the DMA act) they know, they know.
It's surprising, in that I always understood the most expensive and revolutionary treatments are available in the US on top insurance, but generally less so in Europe (not totally unavailable though).

Apparently even that doesn't help.
> A Home Office spokesperson said the department did not comment on legal proceedings, but added that “longstanding and targeted investigatory powers” had “saved lives, prevented incredibly serious terrorist plots against the UK, and put dangerous criminals behind bars”.

:rolleyes:, it's always so predictable.
I recognize your username and I've followed your career since ~2017 or something. I never got an interview at Stripe, not that I would have ever passed it. I'm not a L6/L7/L8. I worked at Amazon, and people think my class of people are subhuman.
Show HN: Transfer CloudWatch Logs to S3 via Firehose
This project demonstrates how to utilize CloudWatch Logs and Firehose to transfer logs from an EC2 instance to S3 using AWS CloudFormation.
a comment that consists entirely of x != y isn't made in good faith. It just isn't.

You're right about using it as a chance to educate others though.
Drag racing is just about the purest most scientific competition of vehicle tuning you're going to get. The driver doesn't really make or break it as long as they're at least decent.

On the other end of the spectrum you have racing types that are more of a competition among drivers with the vehicle not really making or breaking anything as long as it's typical for the class.
Show HN: Kahuna, the IndexedDB-Manager Webextension
This has been my pet project and playground for a long time and has gone throught several framework changes, overhauls, etc.. Sometime last winter I realized that there has been a lot of progress since I started using plain javascript and lit-html and that it is time for a release. And then the hard work began...

But anyone who has used the browser's own developer tools for working with IndexedDB databases will probably agree that there must be more convenient methods. And even though Kahuna can't do everything I want it to yet, it's certainly a good start.

Since yesterday, the webextension is available in the Chrome Web Store [1] and as a Firefox Add-On [2].

Feedback, comments, bug reports, and feature requests are all more than welcome!

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kahuna/ilafpdbgcaod...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kahuna-the-in...
Question -- why not go with liquid oxygen? Does that push the danger-meter too high? On the plus side, you're not dealing with 3000 psi compressed gas.

I'm assuming the costs involved in making engines capable of withstanding cryogenic temperatures probably make that impractical (?)
Many deserts do have a limited amount of ground water. If you keep pumping it to the surface not only will be gone soon, it may never replenish as underground aquifers collapse and the soil compacts. I'm not an expert, but this is what I've been told.

Also, that's how you get sinkholes.
http://archive.today/ij7DU
People like to go fast and they like the challenge. And newer race cars have a good bit of technology in them.
Interesting to see a different kind of MCP server here - one that can kind of be a reverse proxy for multiple servers and then pipe that data to a LLM for processing. In theory, at least, this looks potentially valuable and worth of an experiment.
One man's crap is another man's crap. My data, which may be 100% crap to you, is obviously not (all) crap to me. I often unerase USB drives, HDDs, and SD cards find pictures, movies, etc. Obviously, they don't have much value to me so lots of it is crap but sometimes there's gold hidden in the crap if you dig.
The Puppeteer MCP server doesn't work well because it requires CSS selectors to interact with elements. It makes up CSS selectors rather than reading the page and generating working selectors.

The Playwright MCP server is great! Currently Browser MCP is largely an adaptation of the Playwright MCP server to use with your actual browser rather than creating a new one each time. This allows you to reuse your existing Chrome profile so that you don't need to log in to each service all over again and avoids bot detection which often triggers when using the fresh browser instances created by Playwright.

I also plan to add other useful tools (e.g. Browser MCP currently supports a tool to get the console logs which is useful for automated debugging) which will likely diverge from the Playwright MCP server features.
Did for-profit companies prop up Stallman, too? According to you they must have because his definition of Free Software likewise excludes any license (e.g., no commercial use) that restricts how the software can be used.

As does the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

(Also, I think you mean trademark case, not copyright case.)
Meanings shift quickly. Decimate was first introduced circa 1600 from Latin to mean "destroy every tenth". By 1660, it started to mean "destroy large number".
>Which really tells the story of US manufacturing decline. When all supporting functions of an industry no longer exist, or have migrated to other countries, or have been surpassed by new technology, why should we romanticize and pine for an era that has been passed by? Why shouldn't we have a vision for a new era and double down on the things we are best at?

That is true, and most people do not romanticize working in a factory as their day job. However it is a good idea I think to keep some small amount of it onshore so the knowledge is not totally lost, in case whatever country who is doing the manufacturing decides to use that as leverage over your country.
I am little confused by the article because it sounds like they are describing "pulse width" which is a common parameter on analog and digital synthesizers to change the character of the square wave. A square wave with a low pulse width will sound thinner than one with a high pulse width, and layering square waves with different pulse widths gives you a pleasant phasing effect.

Based on some cursory research, however, it seems that duty cycle is different than pulse width, so now I am unsure if they are trying to use duty cycle variation to implement pulse width modulation (PWM) or if they are doing something else entirely.
Are you saying that a company like Colossal has nothing to offer to the field of genetic biocontrol or are you saying there is nothing of interest in the field?
Agree with everything here, with one minor addition: talk not just to professors who might have industry ties, but everyone in your orbit with whom you have reason to think might help -- even those professors (or research scientists or postdocs or grad students or what have you) who entered MIT as a freshman and never left will have had many contacts (e.g., former students or classmates) who are in industry, and in many cases people do keep in touch.
Not OP but I suspect it is because of this (mentioned on their page):

'Avoids bot detection and CAPTCHAs by using your real browser fingerprint.'
Dear future authors: please run multiple iterations and report the probability.

From: ‘Keep training it, though, and eventually it will learn to insert the None test’

To: ‘Keep training it, though, and eventually the probability of inserting the None test goes up to xx%’

The former is just horse poop, we all know LLMs generate big variance in output.
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-tariff-math...
Even worse is converting all numeric-looking strings to numbers, even if it requires truncation. If you use long strings of digits as identifiers, such as in billing systems, the actual transaction identifier will be mangled by Excel.
LLMs "understand" nullability to the extent that texts they have been trained on contain examples of nullability being used in code, together with remarks about it in natural language. When the right tokens occur in your query, other tokens get filled in from that data in a clever way. That's all there is to it.

The LLM will not understand, and is incapable of developing an understanding, of a concept not present in its training data.

If try to teach it the basics of the misunderstood concept in your chat, it will reflect back a verbal acknowledgement, restated in different words, with some smoothly worded embellishments which looks like the external trappings of understanding. It's only a mirage though.

The LLM will code anything, no matter how novel, if you give it detailed enough instructions and clarifications. That's just a a language translation task from pseudo-code to code. Being a language model, it's designed for that.

LLM is like the bar waiter who has picked up on economics and politics talk, and is able to interject with something clever sounding, to the surprise of the patrons. Gee, how does he or she understand the workings of the international monetary fund, and what the hell are they doing working in this bar?
Ok, let me try to explain once again:

> if you have experience with it

This must not be an expectation for any regulation that applies to business in general. Let’s say I just graduated from a college where I learned to be a plumber. I registered my firm and now want to acquire customers online, so I hire some local agency to build a website and an order form. You cannot realistically expect that I have any experience with GDPR or fully understand its requirements. It is the job of legislators to ensure that I can achieve compliance with minimum effort. But now I have to carry the burden, because no business can survive without digital marketing channels and I have to outsource the compliance work to ensure I don’t accidentally break the law. In comparison to pre-digital era doing any business today is more expensive and I‘d argue, it’s unnecessarily more expensive. It is not how it should have been done and it doesn’t work as expected from business point of view. Non-compliant businesses are not those who are malicious or ignorant, they can make mistakes because legislators did not help them.
Haha, absolutely correct. I suppose the crucial difference in sustainability is using trucks as bombs or just bombing without.
> Why would you favour "date plus a day" rather than "number plus a number"?

Date is a number though. It’s only when we print them in a human readable way that they become anything else.

Whereas 1/2 is an expression.
Hey pal I don't want to alarm you but the people opposed to STD treatment think you are a disease and want to eradicate you. They think LGBTQIA+ identities are a social contagion that must be protected from. Project 2025 wants to criminalize queerness as obscenity so that existing in public will be a sex crime. Coincidentally, they have a criminal law plan that calls for the execution of sex criminals.
Well done, just tested on Claude Desktop and it worked smoothly and a lot less clunky than playwright. This is the right direction to go in.

I don't know if you've done it already, but it would be great to pause automation when you detect a captcha on the page and then notify the user that the automation needs attention. Playwright keeps trying to plough through captchas.