skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Chomsky has said human languages themselves are just random sounds we’ve been polishing the meaning of." I've read a lot of Chomsky, and I don't recall him ever saying anything like this. Can you provide a citation?

And I don't think "sorting" has anything to do with language.
In other news, landfills in Romania have legal issues and waste disposal companies can't afford to do their work with the revenue from government contracts because the EU decided to mandate 50% waste recycling and high standards for landfills. So waste gets dumped on the streets and landfills operate illegally.

Sometimes high standards for environmental protection obviously have the opposite effect of their intent.
They have $1.7b in the insurance fund and take in $300-500m / yr (easy calculation if you know their fees and volume, which is known to be "real"; Bitmex is absolutely legit and it is disturbing that charges against their founders continue)
The problem are the countless websites breaking the law or complying in the most annoying, manipulative way possible.
All the EU is asking for is that users aren't spied on and tracked across the web without their consent.

This is as if they made stalking illegal without consent, so now you are followed all day by annoying clowns constantly interrupting you asking whether you consent to them stalking you.
My experience was worse; It turned out that the taxi dispatchers all talked with eachother, and after I had so many failed bookings and no shows -- and I was calling multiple cabs to come get me they black-listed me and told me specifically I was blacklisted for calling more than one cab -- to which I replied "BECAUSE YOU FUCKING DONT SHOW UP"

yeah - I have zero sympathy for cab drivers/cab companies.
Sure, you can have a for-pay open source app, but if it's a consumer product (as opposed to, say, some B2B thing with special licensing), then it isn't going anywhere as a business. Many people will just download the code and compile it instead of paying you (or find someone else who packaged it up). That's why open source has been more successful with software-as-service.
I'd love to live in a car-free neighbourhood. My town centre had blocked off all the on-street parking to make extra-wide walkways during the pandemic. Just last week they've removed the bollards and resumed the parking. It's awful. Ugly cars lined up taking up all the space. I can't believe I'm the only one who notices how much worse it is. I've lost hope in anything changing, though. People are just too dependent on their cars to let them go.
> Bachelor’s degree or technical bootcamp preferred

to be fair they're not shooting for Principal FAANG engineers either
The wish theme is present in the first Stalker game too. Along with a fascinating story about the human consciousness.
But that means they can do whatever they want with your data during that session?

Furthermore, some store it externally (e.g Trustarc) and maybe they can recover your consent later somehow?
I think the elephant in the room is that tracking is the major business model that currently powers the web - and regulators (and citizens) have made clear they do not want this business model to continue.

It's really a power struggle between businesses and regulators in regards to tracking as a business - and overly complex cookie banners are the most visible sign of it.
Top 10 by what metric? By market cap the top 10 companies are [1]:

1. Apple

2. Microsoft

3. Amazon

4. Alphabet

5. Facebook

6. Tencent

7. Tesla

8. Berkshire Hathaway

9. TSMC

10. Alibaba

With the exception of Berkshire Hathaway, these are all tech companies. And a fair chunk of Berkshire Hathaway's market cap is Apple stock [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...

[2] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffe...
I wonder if there suddenly would exist a bunch of google analytic competitor if google could no longer offer analytics as "free" by monetizing user data.

Google analytic is a prime example of why we need data protection. The web developer who uses it are not the one paying for it, and they might not even know that google are tracking users for monetizing purposes. It create a market with broken incentives and information asymmetry, with the buyer having relative no power.

Requiring every webmaster to ask every visitor if they don't mind Google Analytics is annoying, but fixing that market is a difficult job. Maybe the solution is more targeted regulation specific to website analytic software.
i think my first exposure to shodan was from viss

https://youtu.be/-T-3buBwMEQ

this video is 9 years old now, but id wager the prevalence of pulbic scada and webcams et al is still pretty high.
Wasn't there some news about a $100M BTC transaction yesterday? Coincidence?
Actually, I would be amazed if "humans" exist at that point. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't exist in even a thousand years.

Assuming we don't do ourselves in there will be sentients, but species are defined by the ability to interbreed and I expect genetic modification will reach the point that interbreeding with a stock human is no longer possible. At that point we will be a new species, not "human".
Stuck in the Cold War Between America and China
> but if it's a consumer product...then it isn't going anywhere as a business

why?
True claim: When I click on "next page" I get "Page 2 of about 7,520 results" BUT when I click on "next page" again I do get "Page 3 of about 21 results".
I'm in a group for educators that use unity in the classroom and the most requested feature I've seen is having a way to utilize the tool from low power/cost devices like chromebooks. This seems right in line with that.
Yeah, no.

TikTok's algorithm has introduced me to my (now) favorite neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ content makers. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of followers, some a few hundred.

I've learned more about these subjects (and myself!) than from most other sources.

The value of TikTok for me was that it linked up a bunch of neurodivergent/lgbtq+ people into a vibrant, supportive community.

Honestly, if they decide to keep it a clique... I don't mind at all. All the people I interact with there get me. I've never felt this anywhere else.

If my content is seen only by a small subset of people who are on the same page with me — awesome! That's who I'm making content in the first place.

I don't care about the ominous fear mongering. TikTok has made my life better already. It brings a lot of people together now in ways that other places don't.

More importantly, it inspires people not just to make content, but simply being themselves. And it takes away so many barriers for creating, it's insane.

Anyway, we are talking about specific things we like about TikTok as a platform that make it unique (so far), and you are talking in abstract. Anything can be potentially bad in the future. But currently, TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet.

I can give my long list of reasons why if anyone is interested.
Same. Hopefully some alternatives come along.

On the client side at least a lot of what Parsec was leveraging seemed to be built on webrtc, so there's a lot of potential for similar things to come along I think.
Did twitter killed Vine because it didn't make money despite being popular?
Amazing app, glad to see the pivot. It is a great fit.
> The solution to bad regulation obviously can't be having a company just circumvent it.

And yet it turns out that was the solution for many cities. Because otherwise I didn't see those bad medallion systems changing.
what should we do instead?
>Now does it bring __value__ to my life? No

You find it fascinating and interesting, you're discovering niche communities and engaging with them. You (presumably) enjoy creating content. That's value. Fun, entertainment and communication all have value.
I don't think the bitter lesson is applies to ASTs.

From the Bitter Lesson:

"Early methods conceived of vision as searching for edges, or generalized cylinders, or in terms of SIFT features. But today all this is discarded. Modern deep-learning neural networks use only the notions of convolution and certain kinds of invariances, and perform much better."

Those models are taking advantage of inductive biases. Every model has them, including the massive language models. They are not the same as engineered features (such as SIFTs) or heuristics.

Using the AST is just another way of looking at the code already in your dataset. For the model to understand what it is writing, it needs to map the text sequences map to ASTs anyways. It can attempt to learn this, but the 12B model still makes illegal Python code so it clearly hasn't.
That’s quite a funny application of noise thresholds. I wonder how much fMRI machines have improved since?
FTE?
I'm a big fan of rate limiting (and even rate limit my static pages) but if your password is secure enough, the lack of a rate limit isn't going to help attackers.

I kind of agree with the comment that started this thread -- people that have explicitly decided to expose their consumer-grade routers directly to the Internet probably know about password managers. Even if you do guess the password and compromise the router, all you'll have is some remote office that is getting TLS errors because of your MITM, and best case control of some unpatched Windows 3.1 machine and maybe some developer's local MySQL install happily listening on port 3306 somewhere. That's not great, but it's a risk that some people are willing to take.
If this actually worked, wouldn’t that be amazing? If you could break down a software idea into a blue print of concepts that need to be accomplished, and then dictate what should be done…

I doubt it works, but I wonder how many decades from now we will be able to walk through a finite number of simple requests and wrap them together as working software. Then people will be able to convert their blueprint into action!
> The Seychelles-based company wrote it agrees to pay as much as $100 million to resolve the charges with the US organizations, but did not clarify how much was going to each agency.

https://blockworks.co/bitmex-agrees-to-settlement-up-to-100m...
You've extended the analogy beyond its intent or demonstration to show what, exactly? "70% of calorie intake" is not some magic figure. There is nothing inherently important or mythical about that number.
Robert Graham evaluates Mike Lindell's data
This *is* a mitigation technique for being swallowed by the sun--if we stay far enough away not to get too warm we also stay far enough away not to burn.
Yeah, unfortunately I haven't been able to find any current providers that allow sending raw PDU packets. I'd love to get away from using dedicated hardware + local SIM card.
It is in a market without liquidity... However, in a market with enough trading volume from enough unique people there isn't that much of a difference. especially not in a market where hundreds of million get dropped in literal minutes.
In the real world that doesn't work. Instead, miners will just move their equipment to locales where the cost of the externalities is unregulated and therefore omitted. Sadly, one of the core flaws of capitalism, not that we have anything much better as an option.
Unfortunately this project lacks two things which are essential to a long-lasting, sustainable, and human-friendly town.

1) Architecture that inspires, elevates the soul, and will last the test of time. All I see is soulless pre-fabs. It looks like you're living in a shopping mall.

2) The freedom to create buildings and institutions that are meaningful to the residents who reside there. Churches, schools, sporting clubs. Trusting the company behind this to provide for your every need is naive. Maybe it will work for some people. But will people want to move and raise children here?

Creating one-off experiences is not the way to create the sustainable towns and cities of the future. This is like Airbnb taken to an obscene level. We should be designing car-free towns where people can buy property, design beautiful homes, participate in a small local economy, work locally and start small businesses, create the local institutions that their children and their children's children will participate in. I don't want to rent my space in a town I'm only partially attached to. I want to put roots down, and build things that will last.
This is a list of the routers with the best SEO
Am calling it, this will all over the world real soon. The concept and idea is fascinating
for a while, I thought the founders/VCs truly believed they were creating a loss-leader for an eventual network of self-driving cars, and would slowly transition the fleet from human to robot drivers, but keep prices the same to finally get to black

fingers crossed
What you say is sensible, except for:

> The estimated 7,000+ results becomes 21. Many of which are HN aggregators reporting on this thread here.

Nope, Google is just collapsing them because they are all identical copies of the same "page", being the same login screen. Most of them look like routers, you can ask Google to "include" them all and see for yourself. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Please+log+in+with+router...
For a government project I would at least double the numbers.
Exactly. Someone else commented that 100m in USD is way different than 100 worth of crypto... But that's just not true anymore. 100 million in a highly liquid market where you can see 100 million dropped on a single exchange in a single minute candlestick on bitcoin alone, then it really isn't that much of a difference.
Google dorking at its finest.
The apartment complex that I lived at in 2009 had a fully furnished 1br apartment available to rent nightly by tenants for their guests. I used it a few times and it was very convenient to have guests stay there onsite instead of at a hotel. Definitely agree it is a great amenity for them to advertise.
I've been using PenPot[1] in lieu of Figma all this year, which is an free/libre Figma-clone. For my particular usage it's been great, I prefer it to the others I've tried recently. However, it's still in heavy development, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are missing features compared to more mature offerings.

[1] https://penpot.app/
Unity is not profitable. And they underpay employees relative to market rate.

Weird to see Unity spend money externally rather than fix itself internally.

I worked there. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. (It’s Management heavy, a big reason I left— too many managers)
'a true teammate and is put off by your attitude, and thinks you are greedy'

True teammates are cool, but is he prepared to feed my family and adopt my children in case I get killed by a bus?

What is the extent of mutual sacrafice 'true teammates' are gonna do for each other? Or is it a manipulative boss getting you to sacrafice family for the sake of the business? Or is is a naive idiot getting both of you to sacrafice for the business?

Yoy responsibility is to family and yourself first. Jobs come and go.
Why, do you think matters are very different if each country does it on its own turf?

The real issue is that the EU is coming up with extremely naive regulations that put the burden of cost and effort on citizens and inefficient local governments to enforce them. If they really want these substances to be disposed of safely, they have to make it free for corporations and individuals to hand them over to a government agency and fund this with taxes.
It's a slightly recursive submission.
Neuroscience and brain imaging still don't tell us how language works--they're at a much to course level of granularity. Even if we could see every single neuron as it fired (which we can't), the volume of data would be overwhelming, far more than if you followed every transistor in a modern computer.
Don’t forget to become a bubble boy to avoid catching all of the new diseases that you have 0 immune system protection against.
https://europa.eu/

If the European Union's own main website cannot do without a pop-up then what are we even talking about? They have effectively limitless resources to make it work. Their website doesn't even have to earn money and yet even they use a consent pop-up.
Most of us are here at our jobs because we need to earn a living, and not because we just love scrum so much that we'd do it even if we had to do it for free.

Of course you'd want to maximize your pay. Any coworker who drinks the Koolaid and doesn't understand that isn't a coworker I'd want to be with.
I think that's a great example, the question is: can ML be as good as we are at compiling?

And then, if ML is as good as we are, and clearly we're not good enough that we had to write a systematic proof system to compile things correctly, could ML have invented this same technique and implemented that compiler correctly?

In the end, we're just back at the same place, can ML be as intelligent as we are. Is it the holy grail of AI? What are its limits?
I recommend the audio because the narrator does a very good job IMHO. I tried to read the books after listening to them first but felt it was lacking compared to the audio.

I will say that this series is pretty technical (in that I talks about the speeds of things and how fast things are moving) which I greatly enjoy but I know isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
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IDK at least with dominoes I hit 1 button.

It remembers the last few orders I made (so I can repeat one), and I don’t need to spell out my delivery address, area code, leave instructions of how to use the apartment buzzer, etc (because it remembers the previously written instructions).

But ordering delivery didn’t need a shakeup like taxis did. If your average taxi driver (at least in my Montreal), wasn’t a scumbag trying to hit every red light or closed road on the way to run up the meter, and feigning that their card scanner (debit/credit/Interac ) was broken at the end to save 50 cents of transaction fee and avoid paying their taxes on the income then they wouldn’t have taken the city by storm.

Even when they were actively banned by the province they were most of the rides I’d see people taking. Of course the government came around to Uber once they realized that drivers wouldn’t be pushing cash to be paid under the table anymore.

Today I would rather take an Uber, even at a 50% premium because the experience is better.
Software Developer with ADHD
Working as full stack intern was super difficult for me. Because when some task was assigned to me I wasn't sure if I can do that or not, if I can finish it in time or not. There was constant panic attack. I often set the bar so high that I can't achieve. And it ruined my sleep, my diet. Now i am joining new company. I just don't want to go through that horrible process again. Anybody experienced something like this? Thankful for any advice.
One thing I learned when climbing up that ladder. Not only do you not get to start making strategic decisions, the person above you is also not doing that, nor is the person above them.

Everyone, no matter how many "executives" or "vices" in their title, is simply reacting to what the person above them is on about that day. Everyone is reacting. No one is planning, unless they've just been asked for a plan to present "next week". Then they will have a portion of the plan to assign you, but it will already be narrowly defined per what the boss's boss has already indicated they're expecting to see. And you'll need to complete it in two days, so there are a few days to make changes. I was never privy to any long range planning, and I came to realize that's because if there was any of that happening (I'm very skeptical) it had to be happening at the board of directors level.
A lot of East Coast US cities are a lot more walkable -- the image of the sprawling US city is mostly true of West Coast cities that underwent their primary growth after WWII and the ubiquity of cars. For example, I live in Washington DC (well technically a suburb, but near a Metro station) and don't drive. I have grocery stores and restaurants within walking distance and can take the Metro for other things.
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I mostly read this site.

I also listen to what my company is telling us, because at the end of the day I have to listen to whatever they decide is the trend that they want to follow.
When People call out the AI
Given how cheap land is in the far north part of California, I've always wondered why there isn't a city built specifically for walking and bicycling up north of Sacramento.

Seems like with everyone telecommuting, if you build a community with a good school and with walkability and bikeablity, you could probably attract some families from the Bay, where prices are so high that people are looking for alternatives that are within 2 - 3 hours drive of the Bay Area.
Minio isn't durable. Any S3 operation might not be on disk after it is completed successfully.
They had an environment variable MINIO_DRIVE_SYNC for a while that fixed some cases. Looking at the current code this setting is called MINIO_FS_OSYNC now (for some reason) https://github.com/minio/minio/pull/9581/commits/ce63c75575a... (but I wouldn't trust that... are they fsyncing directories correctly? Making sure object metadata gets deleted with the data in one transaction etc.). Totally undocumented, too.

I guess this makes minio "fast". But it might eat your data. Please use something like Ceph+RadosGW instead. It might be okay for running tests where durability isn't a requirement.
Ah yes the Fundamental Right to Reach.

If you go by what Trump or Obama say its the most important thing. Not because they used it to generate Outcomes for everyone but because They are Good at using it to generate outcomes for themselves.

Nature discovering "Reach" is how we end up stuck with an "Endocrine system". Flood the whole body/system with a signal and hope for the best. Thats great in producing a pheremone driven anthill. Its not how we end up with a Nervous system and the Human Brain.

Understanding the difference between the 2 models is key to understanding where social media has actual value and where it does not.
mainly, precise tolerance engineering.

ofc we don't already know the exact composition and hardness of said cliff walls, so your question stands.
Price elasticity of demand. Uber’s market wouldn’t just shrink with higher (fair) prices; it would evaporate. Consumers are getting something for nothing and the Saudis are getting nothing for something. But the VCs and Kalenick probably did ok in this pyramid scheme.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand
https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1259088247/c17...
It depends on how the attack was crafted:

Step 1: Get copies of pictures of targets kid in bath from phone/SNS

Step 2: Manipulate pictures so that hash collides with CSAM

Step 3: Get pictures back on targets phone so they get scanned.

If it were me, I would try and get a series of photos from the target, and manipulate several that look most borderline. That way it looks like more than a one off.

Now if there is an Apple review, the person who views them will see some suspect pictures and would confirm.

Now the target would have to get someone to review the original pictures vs the modified pictures. Good luck with the defense.
If all you have is a Hummer everything looks like an enemy vehicle.
AP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112991

Daily Dot (first thread on HN, I think): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063637

Mozilla Statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068359

Just felt like there's a lot of discourse and context that could be helpful.
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Post like this are why I read this board.

Going to think about this while I walk. That is a tough argument to counter.