skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not publicly disclosed pricing is very annoying I agree, not sure why stackpath doesn’t disclose them but the pricing we got with them was much lower than others. Also last time I was researching waf+cdn services it seemed to me all were doing the same thing, even if basic pricing was disclosed, real enterprise level features pricing were hidden behind contact us links, at least that was the case with fastly and cloudflare. With aws getting the ddos remediation team on a call required a $40k per year commit!
Not in any way affiliated with them other than being a customer, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised.
What's the 'rather specific market theory'? As far as I understand that is the dictionary definition of a market. Here's Meriam-webster:

market, noun, often attributive

mar· ket | \ ˈmär-kət \

Definition of market (Entry 1 of 2)

1.
a(1) : a meeting together of people for the purpose of trade by private purchase and sale and usually not by auction
(2) : the people assembled at such a meeting

b(1) : a public place where a market is held
especially : a place where provisions are sold at wholesale
a farmers' market
(2) : a retail establishment usually of a specified kind
a fish market

2. archaic : the act or an instance of buying and selling

3. : the rate or price offered for a commodity or security

4.
a(1) : a geographic area of demand for commodities or services
(2) : a specified category of potential buyers
the youth market

b : the course of commercial activity by which the exchange of commodities is effected : extent of demand
the market is dull

c(1) : an opportunity for selling

(2) : the available supply of or potential demand for specified goods or services
the labor market

d : the area of economic activity in which buyers and sellers come together and the forces of supply and demand affect prices
For better or worse, we're entering a new era of human development if parents can choose to 'immunize' their kids to addictive drugs. What a bizarre development.

Its even weirder when you imagine these future people would be able to take the drugs without suffering/enjoying the effects. That would make for some odd/dangerous social situations.
Working on Distance-immersion
Example: click here (twice)
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

Ps : I knew today's Standard technology was 360°photos.
But I was convinced this was not an immersive enough technology.

Immersion, for me, should feel more like a video game FPS.

So I gave it a try:
- A No-Coding Editor, just photos as input, plus 20 minutes of clicks and you have your immersion.

Solo project
Any other teachers that decide to follow her lead, don't have anywhere near the same luck and ruin their future career fallback options?
> 12 pages per day for 10 years?

I don't know exactly what I average per day. But certainly way more than a measly 12 pages.
Hackers and Sneakers are maybe the only decent movies about so-called hackers.
Adobe changed/is going to change a lot for the better under Scott Belsky.
Do they do this with laptops too? If not, the laziness of assuming everything is on the phone is amusing.
To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe those 2 compromised accounts were only able to access that tool.

A more weasley sentence would be "Evidence so far has shown that the access was limited to the customer contract search tool.", or another company had something along the lines of "Evidence so far show that no sensitive customer information was compromised."

Which can be PR talk for "We have no intrusion detection tools so we don't know what data they managed to extract".
I don't know anything at all about FB advertising, but is there any way someone could use canary accounts to rollout an ad to prevent this? I.e. start with a small ad buy in a low follower/whatever account, wait 24 hours for it to be flagged, and if it doesn't trigger any reviews, roll it out to the main/real account?

Not that that's practical for a mom and pop shop.
Usually when they "found no evidence that other systems were compromised", they mean that their auditing and logging is so bad that they literally cannot tell ;-)
I think it depends a lot on the company. If their oss project doesn't get much love and someone is trying to force their way in, I don't think it will work out well.

But Posthog for example have oss in their DNA and I was using their product, communicating with their excellent support and fixed a tiny bug in their Ruby SDK. A while later they reached out with a job opportunity.
It didn't work out in the end but it was a fantastic experience!
Another option is I2P which, unlike Tor, supports UDP.
Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive
Language choice doesn’t matter when you have a correct and fast program. The trick is getting there.
> Why artistic productions? Well, because it’s the most liberal business code for expenses.

> As a software company, I can expense travel for some things, the most useful for me being conferences. But that means I need to buy the conference ticket even if I’m not interested and can only expense accommodations for the duration of the conference. That’s good but a bit restrictive.

> Now, as a artistic production company, I’m not limited by that. As long as I can prove I traveled in order to produce, well, just about anything that can be construed as being art, I can expense travel and I can expense accommodations for as long as I need. You can’t rush art, you know how it is.

Clever. But given the IRS just bought more guns and ammo than many small countries I'm sure this makes your dog nervous.
Blog post from when we did the integration: https://blog.archive.org/2018/10/02/dont-click-on-the-llama/
Well and honestly most of War and Peace is pretty easy and pleasant to read as well (I'm setting aside the philosophy-of-history stuff) -- there's just so much of it.
That sounds great when typing it up on the internet in a comfortable chair, but when a few power hungry workers with guns are breathing down your neck in a small room you can't get out of, the rules aren't going to make you feel 'safe'.
Yep. Hence "grow food."

Comments on oxalates in that thread are spot on.
What is an expert elicitation of priors? Sounds like something the FBI would do when interrogating an old timey train robber or something.
"It's morally compromising to treat large scale human-killing machinery as entertainment" is also a good reason.
I only recently started learning Figma and it was for the express reason of wanting to build apps via Bravo Studio because I’m also not a programmer.

Do any of these alternatives have integration with Bravo Studio?
Academic and Scientific publishing. It's the primary source material of human knowledge. It should be completely open and accessible to everyone with no barriers to access the literature or to add to the literature.

The structure it currently takes - academic journals - made perfect sense in the 1600s when that structure was developed, and it continued to work reasonably well for distributing academic results up into the early 1900s. But then it got privatized. Now there are tens of thousands of academic journals, 80% of them charge a fee for access, and most of the remainder charge a fee to publish. Often thousands of dollars.

Given that science works in the aggregate and you can't know if you have the real answer to your question until you've accessed all of the literature on the topic, this structure is now making it impossible for people not in the institution to even figure out what we know on a topic. And hard even for people in the institution.

The ultimate decider of policy in a democracy is the average citizen. The people who decide our government policy don't have access to the primary source material of science. In the US, a lot of really important policy is set at the municipal level (city, county), and in that case the people actually writing and implementing the policy also don't have access.

If we can develop a web platform that does all the journals do (match papers to qualified reviewers, maintain literature integrity by filtering out bad work, and dole out reputation), then I think it's possible we could draw publishing out of the journals and into the open where it belongs.

I've got an idea for a platform that does all that by crowdsourcing it (the journals are already crowdsourcing it - just manually using an editor). It's basically Github+StackExchange for academic publishing. It works by tying the reputation system to academic fields, so papers are tagged with fields and then reputation is gained and lost in those fields.

I'm building it now, I'm month or two out from beginning a closed beta. (Aiming for end of October, beginning of November.)

I wrote up a detailed description here: https://blog.peer-review.io/we-might-have-a-way-to-fix-scien...
Building pathological input for Java HashMaps – hash collisions generator
Protonmail offers free accounts that come with email, calendaring, etc. They offer support where you can contact a human being if you get locked out of your account. It is inexcusable that Google, considering their huge profit margin, chooses to offer basically zero human support and relies on brutish algorithm-based support.
Pretty difficult with 2FA
+1 for burner, but why bother loading it with data? Just throw on a few texts that say "Stop spying on me you useless cunts."
Vulnerability allows access to credentials in Microsoft Teams
US school app accounts hacked to send explicit image
RedHat is part of IBM. Many of my IBM colleagues had moved 100+ miles from the office when IBM allowed remote work (before Covid). IBM rescinded that remote approval, forcing the engineers to sell their houses and relocate back to the office. The ones who didn’t return were more likely older, resulting in age based attrition. Was that the intent all along? Given it’s IBM and they’ve been accused of age base discrimination in the past, I wouldn’t be surprised that someone could find an email written by some exec hinting at that motive. Wait until RedHat’s employee age creeps up, and I expect these policies will magically change.
The elephant in the room in this case is that at a most basic level a State is an entity that maintains a (near) monopoly of violence in a given area. Being a normal law-abiding citizen just means that you are currently functioning in an area where the State's goals somewhat coincide with you living with some degree of freedom and comfort. Or at least they have no current incentive to mess with your life. But the whole system of laws we see as normal is just an abstraction that masks the balance of power which is in itself not that different from gang warfare at a higher scale.

When you are disturbed by having your phone searched, what is happening is that the balance has shifted a bit against your favor, and you subconsciously realize that your position is not as safe as it once was. But it was never truly safe, just stable in a certain point and time. The fact that you are not a criminal is irrelevant, because respecting or not respecting the law is very relative. The mental separation between the criminal and the law-abider is fictional in that both are just on a spectrum of usefulness and loyalty to the State.
45 minutes of unsupervised access to your phone? Even if it's a "travel" phone I wouldn't connect it to any other device after that.
Since you seem to know, what does the 5% profile look like? It's all genetically fixed, or does the style and environment in the pictures play a role?
>> Language choice doesn’t matter when you have a correct and fast program. The trick is getting there.

Language choice can influence how fast or slow you get there, and also the level of certainty you have. Again, Rust guarantees certain bugs and race conditions do not exist, so in a sense we START from there and never have to worry about "getting there".
Miro is a good FigJam alternative, though not as disigner oriented as Figma, more for whiteboarding / diagramming.
Bullshit. There is no such liability provision in the Communications Decency Act. You should read the actual text of the law instead of making things up.
I don't think computers are still "fun".

The distinct atmosphere of geeky fun that computing had in the 80s and 90s through the early 00s just doesn't exist anymore. Erased in favour of cleanliness because big monies and liabilities (and fragile fee fees) started to get involved. We will never see the likes of MS Office Assistants or whipping some llama asses ever again.

I still "like" computing as a hobby because I grew up on the stuff, but if I were a kid again today I wouldn't bat an eye at computing because there's no "fun" in it anymore. Nothing about computing today blows the mind, child or adult.
Reminiscent of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson; any chance you have read that book recently? If so, there is additional comedy in the fact that, perhaps, Stephenson's meme reappeared in your dream.
There are some employee owned cooperatives, including a few in tech I've seen, but I think they're a lot harder to raise capital for (and thus a lot harder to grow) than either public companies or member owned cooperatives.

How do you fundraise outside of the small pool of employee-owners?
Completely acceptable as a clever hack, or for real production designs?
The classic HN crowd is the one that dreams of building and IPO’ing or selling.

The balance seems to be the “government should own/regulate all businesses I need or hate” crowd. Which feels like younger folks that haven’t thought through that endgame.
Thank you for bringing the "payments orchestration solution" term here! Have something to learn about.
I'm on a (currently very experimental) project where we're trying to answer natural-language queries using data from an arbitrary database (given hypotheses on the schema).

The natural-language plaintext is fed into a language model that annotates it. That output is converted into an intermediate representation based on relational algebra, which we manipulate and finally compile to SQL.

It's probably not scientifically groundbreaking, but there are a lot of interesting technical bits along the way, at least for me.
You provide an encryption key and tell it which folders you want to encrypt from your local machine. Then the app provides a GUI which shows the folder structure that'd been mirrored to AWS and you can selectively restore what you need.
I think the big thing is not that they were faster with Rust, but that they were also much safer.

From the blog post:

> Since Pingora's inception we’ve served a few hundred trillion requests and have yet to crash due to our service code.

That would be hard to achieve in C or C++.
thanks much for the tips!
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs
500MB? On what platform?
Web GLSL Shader Editor
Yeah. We don't provide an on-premise solution. It's all cloud-based. If you want us to do inspection we have to terminate TLS. We can do DDoS protection without termination but WAF requires inspection of the payload.

If your concern is where descryption happens then Regional Services might be a solution: https://www.cloudflare.com/data-localization/
>Any malicious person savvy enough to pull off a crime of interest...and they have to know this.

You'd be amazed at how many dumb things smart criminals/people can do. Maintaining proper OpSec is hard. It only takes one mistake to give the LEOs a string to pull to unravel the whole sweater.

Everything else, I tend to feel the same way as you. Just wanted to mention the OpSec part
Russia Doing ‘The Dirty Dozen’ Recruiting Inmates to Fight in Ukraine
Very interesting. I'd never heard of this before. Where do you find research on chemicals/compounds like this?
Uh, ok, sure, don't cross borders with devices with unencrypted sensitive data on them, got it.
>Neither of the things you mention are of this nature, or working towards it. "Finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown function" (Feynman) and "solv[ing] differential equations, calculus problems, etc" are not descriptions of what a research mathematician does.

Never said they were but you said:

>It hasn't been done because nobody knows how to make a machine be a mathematician, and I've seen little evidence of any progress towards it."

Which I showed is not accurate. Certainly people have ideas on how to do it and are actively making progress towards that goal.

>Finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown function" (Feynman) and "solving differential equations, calculus problems, etc" are not descriptions of what a research mathematician does.

All research mathematicians started out solving calculus problems and differential equations.

Why do you expect an AI to sprint before it's learned to crawl?
Don't have a degree? Well, let me tell you, while it may not help with your income it will teach you how to conduct basic research. Consider it.
I don't think the hardware need be very exotic - most network hardware already has firmware capable of various types of acceleration, and all you would have to do is partner with the network card vendor and have a joint team write firmware that has all the features you need.

With shared source, the network card vendor can even repackage some of the types of acceleration you write for their other clients - and I bet they're already looking into acceleration of HTTP/3.

It's a win-win - because cloudflare gets massive compute savings, and the network card vendor knows they've built quite a high moat to buying someone else's hardware.
For example, let’s say you sell a car, the buyer sends you 150 ETH, you wait for 3 confirms and he drives away with the car. Then at some point the tx is removed from the blockchain. Now the buyer has your car and the 150 ETH as well. Why did it happen? Because you didn’t wait for tx network finality before giving away the car to the buyer. The amount of time that you should wait is around 15 minutes. Therefore Ethereum is a bad choice to buy coffee with :)
For scale: EV maker Lucid is worth 24 billion, and Apple recently had twice that in cash reserve. (Looked it up because of an unfounded rumor linking both.)
As far as I understood the work, this is about taking a vaccine, then taking a drug and no feel of drug effect. And by the way the amount of injected vaccine must be greater than amount of the drug.
"A lightbulb surrounding some plants" is not English. If a wolf pack is surrounding a camp, we understand what it means. If a wolf is surrounding my camp; does that mean I'm in his stomach? Absurd.

"A lightbulb containing some plants," makes sense, not "surrounding". It's too small to surround anything, which humans (and apparently, current AI) understand. Paradoxically, only primitive language models would actually understand the inverted sentences; proper AIs should, like humans, be confused by them; since zero human talks like that.

The only reason the Huggingface people (in their Winoground paper) got 90% of humans "getting the answer right" with these absurd prompts because of humans' ability to guess what is expected of them by an experimenter. Do it in daily life instead of a structured test, and see if these same people get it right.

It's exactly as if I gave you the sequence, in an IQ-test context: "1 1 2 3" and asked you to give me the next number. You'd give the Fibonacci sequence, because you know I expect it; no matter that it's a stupid assumption to make because the full sequence might as well be "1 1 2 3 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 3", and you don't have enough information to know the real answer. Do we really want AIs that similarly "guess" an answer they know to be wrong, just because we expect it? Or (in number sequence example) AIs that don't understand basic induction/Goodman's Problem?

I'd like to add that the author, who keeps referring to himself as a scientist, is in fact a psychology professor. In his Twitter bio, he states that he wrote one of the "Forbes 7 Must-Read Books in AI", which discredits him as a fraud since Forbes can be paid to publish absolutely whatever you ask them to (it's not disclosed as sponsored content, and they're quite cheap, trust me).
This is more or less my logic, when I am in the office and the weather is not debilitating, by bike I can get to my desk ten minutes faster despite living only 6 or so miles away. Ive done this for a long time and its probably kept a few thousand miles off of my car.
> Either way, providing a hint of what you want to talk about, e.g. "hey, can we talk about that spline reticulation issue?" is of course much better.

This is the big thing. "Don't be spooky" doesn't mean "interrupt me freely", it means "tell me cagey, coy, or avoidant and tell me what you want asynchronously before we start a conversation".
Eh, right are only rights if they are enforced and/or asserted. If neither is done, at best, they are forgotten and wither and at worst become a quaint memory of things that were.

The rules exist for a reason. They also exist for people with guns; especially for people that do it on behalf of government. If you are afraid of guns from people in uniform, you are already doing it wrong. I will tell you this as an interesting little factoid.

In Israel guns are everywhere, but you are responsible for every single bullet.
So you make enough and just don't really want to pay taxes, so it's a fun side hobby? Heh, that's such a foreign mentality to me, but to each their own.

Do you think the tax money serves any societal good at all? Is it worth paying any tax or would you rather avoid all of it if you could?
Tech support scammers abuse ad provider Taboola to serve malvertising (2017)
I can't make this any clearer to you - if you have an invalid value like "ABC" you don't want to treat it like a zero, you want to treat it like an invalid value and not perform the calculation until the user corrects the number.

On the other hand if the input is blank you want to treat the value as a zero and perform the calculation.

The problem of getting a blank string for an invalid value means you cannot make the distinction between the 2. I cannot make it any clearer than this.

Not everyone wants to treat a blank number input as a zero, and the ideal situation would have been to default the number input to zero. However like I said in the article multiple times it's not always my call or decision. That why the native validation and visual inconsistency across browsers as well as non compliance with mockups is a problem I've encountered multiple times. When you you cannot see an invalid value or make the distinction between blank and invalid number you lose control over work flow.

Also you rubbed me the wrong way with the snide "indeed" comment. Talking down to people is not a good way to generate a thoughtful debate. I try to approach these things with a certain level of humility. I don't know everything, I even learned a couple of things from other people when I published this article. Have you considered that maybe you don't know every possible requirement or request that I have?
Sure, he can sound strident but I still think Gary Marcus's riffing on the limitations of deep learning is important.

The book "Rebooting AI" that he wrote with Ernest Davis is well worth reading if you are an AI practitioner (a term I use to describe myself). I think Marcus is also well worth following on Twitter to get a contrarian view (he re-tweeted me two weeks ago, so there is some overlap in our points of view).

Way back when, I liked Roger Penrose's 1989 book "The Emperor's New Mind" even though some of the people I worked with thought he was a devil for writing that. I am much more optimistic than Marcus, but find his work useful and thoughtful.
I'm writing an ed clone in scheme. I hope to have autoindentation since that's about the only thing I miss with ed.
this is absolutely bonkers, but one of the more unique things i've read on here. i'm sure there are a ton of tax loopholes that exist, but how do you find these? just reading the IRS website?