skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A colleague asked me what I meant by this - what use would a WIRED article have? etc.

Targets (individuals, interior or gapped networks, etc) can be difficult to identify or locate and are even more difficult to get access to. Consider that it may be easier to run an operation where you intentionally pseudo-identify a security researcher engaging in his own attack to draw attention. Better yet, this researcher is known to be in possession of valuable tools, after all, the article says so.

Maybe P4x exists or is a fiction, but either way there's a difficult yet traversable route of information that leads to "his" network. Somewhere there's an encrypted volume that presumably holds his cherished tools and information. But P4x knows that the encryption he's using suffers from undisclosed 0day. In fact, the 0day was developed by P4x et al and released into the wild to be found and used in just this kind of situation. The tools that appear to be protected by researcher P4x are actually compromised themselves, meant to be taken. He schedules an interview with WIRED, he talks shit and trashes NK operations, and plays the cocky and justice hungry hacker trope. He chums the water.

There are countless ways that misdirection and narrative can be layered to draw your adversary into a worldview that is the creation of your own. It's not _just_ floors of camo-clad cyberoperaters phishing management types and looking for document dumps.
>In this world where conversations are always innocent, facts can't be verified, experts can't be vetted, and science can't be trusted, there's a lot of room to peddle unproven products and harmful misinformation. It's exactly the world Paltrow and Rogan want you to buy into.

>"I want to show all kinds of opinions so that we can all figure out what's going on—and not just about COVID, about everything about health, about fitness, wellness, the state of the world itself," Rogan said.

>In the meantime, you can check out products from a health company he promotes called Onnit, which sells Alpha Brain Black Label vitamins for $124.95 per 80-count bottle. There's also the $147.95 Quad Mace, which Onnit claims has origins in ancient Persia and represents the company's embrace of various "training modalities."

It's important to remember that content, in ad-driven media, is simply just filler for the advertisements. The content is just to lure you in so you can be sold a product or a brand can reify itself.
She didn't interact with him in any way - he made a long youtube video in response to one of her comics:
"the founder of the far-right neo-nazi group the Proud Boys had done a whole episode of his YouTube series about a comic I’d made."

His video got a lot of attention, but she was not in it, nor did she ever interview him as far as I can tell from the article.
I am not sure this study is definitely convincing…

…but I wonder if the extra amount of scrolling one has to do on smartphones compared to printed books could be distracting and lowering comprehension.

Also, when I try to remember something I have red on a printed book, - sometimes - I can remember where on the page it was written, what else was on the page, or even what the page looked like.
I experience none of that when reading on my smartphone.
I think the generalizations of lockdowns as:

"Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI). NPIs are any government mandate that directly restrict peoples’ possibilities, such as policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel."

renders the exercise kind of useless because it conflates unsuccessful half-measures implemented in most countries with countries that followed lockdown and elimination strategies. For China, New Zealand and a few others which largely eliminated the disease the almost complete prevention of deaths proposed by the models discussed in the articles seems accurate.

And while I suppose you can write NZ off as a small island nation, China is the most populous country on earth. Yet it appears in the paper once in the introduction.
Since I learned that OCI images are pretty much archives with metadata, I've been thinking about applying that to other stuff.

Like, it would be cool to have all my python virtualenvs saved in bundles so they could be reused by other others, without all the container bloat.
Most people here are programmers (or otherwise involved in the production of software). We shouldn't look at RPA and other job automation trends dispassionately. SaaS valuations aren't were they are (and accounting doesn't treat engineering salary as cost of goods sold) because investors believe that they will require armies of very well paid developers in perpetuity.
I think this is definitely true - and it's enough that I just don't find it worthwhile to use the service anymore. The overhead of doing detective work to determine whether something might be counterfeit, and the too-commonly-realized risk that I'll need to re-pack something and schlep it to UPS makes it utterly not worthwhile.

One will basically never encounter this problem with, e.g., Target, Best Buy, NewEgg, Ikea, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, or other retailers - what makes Amazon preferable to any of those brands, when the diligence you described is required to shop there and not elsewhere?
https://archive.is/Rk7M4
The road and age adjusted graph shows tesla still being better, by a trivial amount
> So, I read the articles and, importantly, the comments. Rarely do I see criticism beyond simple ad hominem attacks.

My theory is that there is an ongoing media campaign being waged to discredit and demonize Joe Rogan. Ever since he publicly claimed his course of Ivermectin treatment he has been treated as some kind of public enemy by most news media. I find it strange because he has essentially promoted smoking DMT on his podcast - a practice which is likely quite bad for your health, but no really gave that any attention aside from a few memes. But he mentions taking an antiviral and everyone starts treating him like a serious threat to society.
The IETF IPv6 allocation scheme was crazy from the start. The standard subnet size for autoconfiguration purposes is /64 = 18 Billion Trillion addresses. Of course reality is that autoconfiguration is only marginally useful and lots of things like servers and infrastructure links are statically assigned or assigned through dhcpv6. Most of the time I assign /112's to server subnets to limit the risk of IPv6 neighbor discovery attacks.

The standard /48 assignment size from ISP's to end-users was targeted mainly at stingy residential ISP's that were only assigning one IP per customer. They wanted any customer to have as many publicly routable subnets as they would ever need or want, but 65k is a lot of subnets. This was later updated to a default of /56 (256 subnets) but you could still get at /48 just for asking.

It got even weirder on RIR to ISP portable allocations. One of the original schemes would have RIR's allocating a "TLA" /16 (!) to only a few mega ISP's. Most ISP's/hosts would have to get their "NLA" address blocks from and be subservient to the 800 pound gorillas in the industry. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2450.txt, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2374

This was loosened somewhat in 2000 with RFC2928 which designated a "Sub-TLA" /29 as the initial ISP size. This would open it up to many more potential registrants, at least in theory. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2928.html

The TLA/Sub-TLA/NLA system was abandoned in 2003 with RFC3587 after panic set in that nobody was deploying IPv6. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3587.txt. ARIN had only made 30 Sub-TLA assignments by the end of 2002.

While RFC3587 wisely punted allocation policy to the RIR communities, the RIR's still had very restrictive policies inherited from RFC2450. Only around 2004 did they loosen to the point that ordinary networks could start requesting addresses. Google for example got their first IPv6 allocation in 2005. The problem is by then few networks were interested or just assumed they wouldn't qualify. When I got my first /32 in late 2004 there were less than 1000 routes in the global IPv6 table! Today there are ~135,000.

These more permissive rules only applied to ISP's/Hosts. End user orgs of any size were not allowed to start requesting portable /48's directly from RIR's until 2006 after much debate in RIR communities and vocal objections from IETF members and certain large ISP's.

Today router silicon and RIR policies have converged to a reasonably functional state. Too bad it took 20 years to get here or IPv6 might actually be on it's way to replacing IPV4. Instead that is still about 20 years away.
I take your point that the linear/exponential terminology is a bit dubious. But the simple way to make sense of it is just going by various benchmarks. E.g. the power-law relationship between the model accuracy and the model size: https://eliaszwang.com/paper-reviews/scaling-laws-neural-lm/
> steel can work perpetually with deformations under a certain threshold[*]

[*] Within a temperature range of about ~-30 °C to ~400 °C. Below that and the toughness goes way down so that it's prone to cracking. Above that and carbon starts to work its way into all those crystal structure discontinuities, preventing some percentage of the strain from being relieved each stress cycle (the "creep range").

That's just for carbon steels. Stainless has a different set of problems.
If you could change a sentence in the documentation and then run a ~1min compilation to see the resulting software, it would be a very different kind of programming. I suppose it'll give a new meaning to Readme-Driven-Development.
However, that something may also not exist.
Right, but it is righteous and still widely profitable. It's more work, but it's lasting, honest value.

This is why it is so depressing.
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Well the google PM said that before this change all their apps history were unified, and they just split off the workspace apps. But maybe you're right and the only reason it's still that way rather than split up is a business decision rather than a developmental/resource allocation decision.
Millionshort is pretty neat- remove the top 1000 or top million most popular sites from the results https://millionshort.com/
From about:WebRTC in Firefox,

> iceServers:

> urls: ["stun:stun.l.test.com:19000"]

With such a STUN server URL, no wonder nobody ever gets a match…

And it's kind of a nasty bug: it doesn't appear anywhere in the JS console, or in the network tab of the browser, and it's likely to work when testing locally (I haven't tested, but you should not need stun to generate local ICE candidate) so the dev could have tested in local, seen it was working and posted it on HN. Just to discover it was not working after reaching the front page… Sad day for the poor dev.
Are you using LaTeX as the rendering engine? I think that's the default in pandoc. It always produces great looking docs for me.
There is no free tier and the free trial is only 14 days?
Sorry, I didn’t mean in a popularity way. But security wise, I don’t know how it would be possible to make Wordpress secure when the average user installs a bunch of plugins / themes and then leaves never to update it again. I just can’t see how this can work without becoming a fully managed platform.
They are typically just written out of the conflict. In this case I assume that you are talking about Captain Marvel whom I believe is always needed on other planets in other galaxies except for the rare occassion when the writers needs a deus ex machina.
It's not zero sum if you're on the winning team. That's the collective action. Beat up the nerd, steal his lunch money.
We know it goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks, don't know its prior origins or if it developed in parallel in other places.
Did she have members of hate groups on her podcast? The article discusses the proud boy leader making a long youtube video in response to one of her comics, but as far as I can tell she has never interacted with the proud boys.
Wikipedia has the first tethered test flight in late '54. It didn't fly untethered until 55, in 56 the US Army took over testing but this vehicle has no Army markings and is untethered. 1955 seems fairly likely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle#Test...
Herbert was a prophet. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Plasteel
Bonuses Rain on Wall Street Bankers in Biggest Payout in Decade
what did you do to get doxxed by 4chan?
> In our preprint, we detail AlphaCode, which uses transformer-based language models to generate code at an unprecedented scale, and then smartly filters to a small set of promising programs

if you're using a large corpus of code chunks from working programs as symbols in your alphabet, i wonder how much entropy there actually is in the space of syntactically correct solution candidates.
Assuming you're being serious here: tweeting about the time she put a cocky man in his place is deliberately (and, maybe, justifiably) antagonistic. Kicking hornet's nests and finding hornets isn't a "being a woman" thing, it's a kicking a hornet's nest thing.
> writing detailed documentation/specs

That's what code is.
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Debug Packages and Debuginfod
It's marginally better
> If you have a podcast with high profile members of hate groups

Could you please point to that podcast of hers you claim is the reason?
No.

I'm not going to boast about how good of a driver I am (I am!!), but lets say I am a median driver. I would want a FSD to be better than a median driver. Not the average crash/mile stats that include all kinds of long tail idiots doing the most damage.

* ... alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for 28% of all traffic-related deaths in the United States.

* Drugs other than alcohol (legal and illegal) are involved in about 16% of motor vehicle crashes.

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/impaired_driving/im...

So 44% intoxicated to some degree (unless the stats overlap). That number is not even including reckless drivers not driving under influence, teenagers that just got the license, bad health elderly etc.
Awesome, thanks for your work Stella & team!
The solution time can vary quite a bit depending on the difficulty of the puzzle. 1 ms for a single puzzle for a program written in C could actually be fairly slow for an easy puzzle, but would be quite fast for a hard puzzle. (It would also depend, of course, on how fast a CPU and how much memory was being used to run the program.)
It will be a very good thing if phones start being treated as dumbing-down addictive habits as bad as smoking used to be.
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You can censor it by blocking TXT records with magnet links in them.
> you can't base a judgment on complaints alone

Nor can you assume that the users who are are NOT complaining are happy. They may just be enduring the crappiness until they can jump to something that's better.

"Discoverability" is perhaps not exactly the right word here.

Just because something is "there" (SOMEWHERE) doesn't mean it's discoverable. The users might have completely different vocabulary to describe features that are are present but which have an unexpected name. Or they might have a workflow in mind that doesn't give a name to what they need, but which is nonetheless there.

I think this is hard problem.

With any "complex-enough" tools, one just needs guidance or straight-up training. Fusion-360 comes to mind. It's a very popular and rather nice CAD tool that has enormous, wide-ranging capabilities. Autodesk has a never-ending stream of training videos and courses dedicating to showing users how to do things with it. Without these, its just too difficult for people to "discover" how to use the thing.
Humans don’t disengage and let the machines handle the situation but machines do it all the time. Do the machines disengage at tricky situations or straight lines?
So you are saying the SEC report is wrong about the short interest?
Wars can end without peace treaty. Just see the history: there were many more wars than peace treaties...
Yes. For a company to program illegality into a product opens them up to untold liability. Normal car companies program their speedometers to read slightly high (5% ish). This keeps them from being into lawsuits by people who claim that an inaccurate speedometer contributed to the severity of a crash. Any car company who programs a car to drive faster than the limit will be either liable or have to pay lawyers in every crash involving such cars. Even if their car doesn't cause the crash, the fact that it was speeding will contribute to the severity of the accident. It would be like programing a robotic bartender to serve kids who are underage but look old enough to pass for 21. Corporate lunacy.
The US government has absolutely zero qualms with dealing with the Saudi government.

Why would we expect private companies to be more strict than them?
>“Alignment Engineer” role monitoring AI systems for unwanted behavior.

ha, I know people already doing this..
>> There’ll be several new career paths made possible by this technology as greater worker productivity makes possible greater specialization.

Can you list a few?
I saved this. This is sooooo insightful
That's straight out of Apple's playbook. I recall how Tim Apple ridiculed the OLED displays, until it became impossible to ignore. So I guess it can be done.
If you are speaking about the safety features in a new car, then I won't disagree. However, if you are implying that those with a nice new car are somehow better drivers, more attentive drivers, or care more about their car then I would highly disagree. As someone who purchased a new car last year, and does greatly care about it, I'm routinely shocked by people and their clear disregard for their own vehicle. Reckless driving, texting while not even attempting to look, and the way people park their cars so close to you that they can't even get out* have all shocked me now that I'm paying more attention.

* I have even stared at this guy struggling to get out of his fancy Jeep who opened his door into my car. I know this anecdotal, but all it takes is a few counter examples to show that car price etc does not have a super high correlation to how careful & considerate you are.
Regulation hasn't caught up with the technology, and even when regulation exists regulators are very slow to enforce it. Uber and Lyft were various degrees of blatantly illegal in many places they operated, but it took regulators years to actually do anything about it and at that point they were so well-established that it rarely made sense to actually punish them. It's a reliable bet to make if you've got investor millions to spend on lawyers and lobbyists.
The article talks about how the proud boy leader made a vitriolic youtube video in response to one of her comics, not that she interacted with him.
I concur. I take a Battlestar Galactica inspired approach to appliances in my house. It's fine if they have computers in them, I just don't want them to be able to communicate.
These pretty much cover it for me, too. Thank you.
Are you thinking of "NUMA per socket" setting in the BIOS?

Dell has a short overview of this focused on Epyc 7000 series: https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/dell-emc-dfd-numa-...
1. For non paid users, it isn't turned back on. But it is turned on if you're a paying user. In these cases it's never the user who switched it off, it was the admin, so since the control is being shifted from admin to user (admin can no longer turn it off for users of workspace apps) its kind of like a brand new setting for them.

2. True but it's somewhat useful to be able to use your account on different devices and retain your history.
I believe OP owns the ycombinator1.com domain and made this functionality themself.
It's b/c of lockdowns, masks and vaccines. In China you have authoritarian enforcement. Australia is less so but still you had businesses actually locked down.

In that set you have 3 different "cultures" already. Plenty of controls.
What if the admins and law enforcement are working for an authoritarian regime?
I find almost every new advance in deep learning is accompanied by contrasting comments: it's either "AI will soon automate programming/<insert task here>", or "let me know when AI can actually do <some-difficult-task>". There are many views on this spectrum, but these two are sure to be present in every comment section.

IIUC, AlphaCode was trained on Github code to solve competitive programming challenges on Codeforces, some of which are "difficult for a human to do". Suppose AlphaCode was trained on Github code that contains the entire set of solutions on Codeforces, is it actually doing anything "difficult"? I don't believe it would be difficult for a human to solve problems on Codeforces when given access to the entirety of Github (indexed and efficiently searchable).

The general question I have been trying to understand is this: is the ML model doing something that we can quantify as "difficult to do (given this particular training set)"? I would like to compute a number that measures how difficult it is for a model to do task X given a large training set Y. If the X is part of the training set, the difficulty should be zero. If X is obtained only by combining elements in the training, maybe it is harder to do. My efforts to answer this question: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12075

In recent literature, the RETRO Transformer (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.04426.pdf) talks about "quantifying dataset leakage", which is related to what I mentioned in the above paragraph. If many training samples are also in the test set, what is the model actually learning?

Until deep learning methods provide a measurement of "difficulty", it will be difficult to gauge the prowess of any new model that appears on the scene.
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Kind of biased but I'd like to think it's a good deal too, cheers. I priced it as such as to hopefully entice more people to engage with IPv6 and try to bring down the barriers to learning. If you've any specific queries feel free to fire those over.
Ethical CEO is an oxímoron.
fwiw i think you’re both saying something very similar. true time has to be correct about max skew in order for it to not break the assumption spanner is built upon. you could also use a looser time bound and still have correctness, but end up with a database that is useless to most/all customers