skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyway, I have always understood it as the token being opaque for the verifier too

Which falls flat on its face the second you realize the "verifier" can pull out information based upon that opaque token.

It just means the intent is not for the person receiving it to do anything except reflect it back on subsequent requests. That's it. Typically it's done by handing something that is meaningless without context, said context not being available to the consumer being issued the token. But there is absolutely nothing that says you can't hand them a JWT meant to be used as an opaque token. If you're really worried about it, encrypt that bad boy before giving it to them.
leetcode is a standin for all thing you can memorize and vomit out in in interview.

Designing url-shortner is no different than edit distance.
Making a personal website is surprisingly hard. This article doesn't even go into meta tags, next-gen image formats, GDPR-compliant analytics, or how to add a newsletter.

I want to see more personal websites in the world. So, I've been building Postcard [1] to make it easy to set up a personal website. Caching, opengraph meta tags, page-speed optimization - it's all built in. I'm working right now on making domain connection the smoothest experience possible.

[1] https://postcard.page
> Their model, I think, only works for democracies

I no longer believe that most "democracies" are actually democratic in the sense that people are actually represented. One keystone to a functioning democracy is transparency and an informed populace. That population also needs to be capable of shared coherent goals. Culture is programming for the masses, and was once something established through blood. Now, culture is established by media, and control by control of information.

Dictators are just as beholden to culture as a tool for control as are democratically elected leaders. If culture can be manipulated in short order, consent can be manufactured, then there's really not that much difference the authoritarian by declaration versus the authoritarian by "consent".

As long as people have there very most basic needs met, and they are sufficiently convinced that there is no other possibly better state of existence for them- they will live and they will die to the benefit of the leaders subsisting from their labor.

The real, current example of this would be the USA- we've been in conflicts for the entire duration of my life, it hasn't been cheap, but the expenses have been neatly placed on the shoulders of people that will probably never even realize the origin of the burden they bear.

In the meantime, the expenses of war need to be paid to someone, and with a democracy supplanted by lobbyists, we are saddled with a parasitical class of elected officials that do not answer to votes.

tldr - Even in a global economy, wars will happen, because all wars are just wars against the lower classes. War won't stop until the standard of living of the elites are threatened, regardless of the political system.
For how long can these generators run?
ICU4X 1.0 Released – New Internationalization Library from Unicode
france nuclear was fine until macron five years ago pushed for decommissioning 15 reactors (the 15 he wants to open after 5 years...) and obviously by sending the signal that it was not the industry for the future of france investments into its future stopped just liked the CEO of EDF said "we didnt hire people to build reactor or even maintain those we focused on hiring people to decomission reactors" and guess what they arent many people in this field. its not IT. people who know are either retired or dead.
Yes, you can. Easily!

The point I was making about Spotify is that even if I solely listen to music as full albums, I only get recommendations for playlists. I rarely want to listen to a playlist. There are a number of other things I don't like about Spotify, but it works well enough.
That's not entirely true. Session cookie doesn't have to be opaque and can be signed and encrypted. That's how RoR been using it for long time. Realistically, you only need to make sure that an unexpired and verified session hasn't been revoked.

Opaque sessions are smaller, though.
A friend that joined Meta's AI team:

Blue pill: I am passionate about connecting people

Red pill: Money is nice, good people and low stress job
Although I think Smartgrids and all technology close-by including usage counters would really make a difference. No matter if you're for renewables or even Nuclear. Considering how much energy goes to waste because of inefficient usage. Every 60W laptop has an elaborate power management but multi kW homes aren't even close.

Still that's just one building block obviously...
I think that Apple should insist that webviews used this way identify themselves via JS as monetization containers, with clear definitions for when and why subject to App Store review. Done.
Steve Jobs's Apple liked to deprecate the whole API underpinning their OS from version to version. That and "upgrade" products with increasingly inferior versions (Final Cut, iTunes, XServe).

And then there's any era of Apple and their habit of removing consumer choice and forcing customers more into their closed ecosystem.
Maybe their track record in B2B is better, but as a CTO or something I’d think very long and hard before I would make my business depend on GCP (as opposed to AWS or Azure)…before you know it Google pulls the rug out underneath your feet.
Your read/writes seem to be comparable to the parent, but your power on hours are significantly lower, really hard to draw any conclusions here.

I wonder if this whole issue is simply MacOS dumping the stuff in memory to disk when going to standby, and then reading it all back.

So for a 16GB machine, for simplicity, let's say you always have RAM saturated, and you open/close the lid 5 times in a day, you have 16GB * 5 = 80GB per day read/written. For 365 days, that is 80 * 365 = 29200 GB or 28.51 TB read/written.
People usually switch to ORMs because they want to use in-language primitives for their application of choice. It's jarring and inelegant to switch between SQL and javascript or something like that.

The problem with an ORM is that it's a high level abstraction On top of what is ALREADY a high level abstraction: SQL. ANd it's not even a one to one abstraction... they are very different and this actually adds more complexity when it comes to optimizing SQL.

You optimize SQL with hacks to get it to compile into an efficient query. With an ORM you have to hack the ORM in order to hack the sql in order for it to compile into an efficient query. It's nuts.

The fix for this problem is to not use an ORM. You want to use in language primitives? Make an abstraction that is one to one with SQL. A library that gives primitives that directly represent SQL language primitives. That's what we actually all want. We don't actually want an orm.
Some people were mean to me when I said I wasn’t going to port my game to stadia. I said, “google will probably cancel it within the next few years, so I’m not even considering it,” and they got really offended by my prediction.

Well… it was a little rude to make a prediction like that, but it was based on research and past history. It was just way too big a risk.

I wonder if it’s a bit self fulfilling at this point: timid users lead to poor adoption which leads to cancellations which leads to timid users?
Classic scare tactic. Station your troops on someone else’s border and suicide them. That sends the message that friendly fire can become invasion fire.

Makes perfect sense.
I wonder what freeze means in this context (paywalled so couldn't see if there was additional context) because I just received a third followup email from a recruiter at Meta..
no, it's still the same. i had the impression, but i guess you're right. i did expect a collision attack and was slightly irritated when it turned out to be what it is.

that said, i'm not even correct, it's not a rainbow table but a dictionary attack. my bad!
It is probably just caching images in memory.
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Operating systems typically allocate thread stacks as monolithic blocks of memory at thread creation time that cannot be resized later. This means that threads carry with them megabyte-scale chunks of memory to manage the native and Java call stacks."

This extremely common misconception is not true of Linux or Windows. Both Windows and Linux have demand-paged thread stacks whose real size ("committed memory" in Windows) is minimal initially and grows when needed.
You're getting old and you don't know about the Muppets?
And 1 bitcoin transaction can easily be turned into 1,000-infinite visa transactions. It's called the lightning network.
Indeed. Also, at $X/day, 330M x $X/day is a high overestimate simply because you don't HAVE to eat at these places.

So low quality places, like McDonalds (consistent, but low, quality -- I'll not concede this point) would be impacted. But better quality food providers would not. So you would have crowding out on the low end. Does that make society as a whole worse off? Maybe not completely first-order pareto improving (people would pay taxes), but imagine how much better society is if kids can get fed and then focus on their educations? I think the second order knock-on effects are huge.

Now apply that world-wide. I am getting the Kurzgesagt warm fuzzies.
Got a 404. Possibly better link: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/nasa-s-juno-shares-fir...
good point, other than applications in adtech for google/fb the only big tech company that is actually doing something with their ML expertise is nvidia IMO
iOS privacy has killed facebook advertisements. Meta is dealing with it currently - so are all small businesses who relied on good conversion from their ad targeting that has gone to isht since then.

Apple will probably fill in that void at some point they've got a lock on all that intelligence. I'm curious how long it will take and how they will manage to do it without stepping on privacy toes.
many people in usa laughed at trump, called him a racist for wanting to block china trades and having some of the 20's policy of america 1st. turns out biden pushed those by an extent trump wouldn't dream of and everyone is fine with it now. leadership is corrupt and just want power even if it means bringing our nations to their knees.
This has nothing to do with scapegoating, the US military literally attacked european infrastructure this week
the sands of Egypt are soaked in blood of many nations, peoples and the rest
That's exactly what it's like, like I'm living in an RPG. Attack damage carry. I do get a lot of flak. Unscathed. The word is videoludic, video like video, ludic like ludum meaning game in Latin, my life is videoludic.
Unlike Stadia, I do actually think that killing GCP would destroy the company. So I don't expect the same end outcome.
For comparison:

War and Peace is only 3.2 MB, or 3.9 MB with the overhead of HTML

source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
That's a comment, not a paper. They serve a different purpose than papers and therefor aren't required to have incomprehensible writing.
AI Found a Bug in My Code
> In prior moves to reduce spending, a dual-camera watch the company was building to compete with the Apple Watch was shuttered.

loool

> Meta is not the only advertising company to be hit by broader economic challenges.

interesting they are referenced as advertising company..
With SQLite, I've started using json_each on a JSON parameter for bulk inserts or updates. Other SQL databases should have something similar.

It's much cleaner than generating SQL, and doesn't run into issues with exceeding the maximum number of parameters.
Is there a list of all the products Google has shut down this way?
It’ll also inflate away that pesky 2 trillion student loan debt that wasn’t ever going to be repaid, funny that!
Ah. i.e. something akin to Meraki except not run by imbeciles which neither comprehend neither VLANs, nor Mesh Routing, nor Machine Learning, trying to sell second-rate hardware at a premium, with actual SDN instead of a fancy GUI pretending to be SDN, and vendor independent instead of with Vendor lock-in?
money...
Stable Diffusion does not generate nice UIs because it has not been trained to do so. It has mostly been trained on the "laion-improved-aesthetics" dataset, which includes "aesthetic" images. There are only very few UI mockups in there. You can explore the dataset here: https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...

You could finetune the Stable Diffusion model to generate UI mockups and would receive much better results.
My experience was similar. There where some nifty tools like Expect, but for more complicated tasks I preferred Perl, which had a package system and one of the packages was Perl::Tk so I could build graphical interfaces too, if Curses wasn't sufficient.
Meta paying $175M would produce much needed schadenfreude.

However it's worth mentioning that this case appeared before the notoriously patent-troll-friendly Judge Alan D. Albright. The man actually openly encouraged patent owners to appear before him, and senators have asked the Supreme Court to reprimand him (the Chief Justice has since criticized him). The Albright situation is so bad that the Western District recently had to introduce a forced case randomization in order to keep plaintiffs from shopping for him. I'd say the chance this was overturned on appeal would be high.

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/texas/t...
They straight up incompetently dodged the question whenever it came up and tried to turn it into some patronizing and belittling "we understand that you're scared of the future" statement every single time.

They deserved to fail on that point alone. Either promise refunds or promise none; either way you're signaling a form of confidence in your product and making the expectations clear to your users.

Refusing to answer on that point made it clear where their confidence was and how weasely they felt they needed to be to sell their product.
EU courts fined google just this week. Way to prove exactly how uninformed you are. There has been no reason to ban meta or google in EU so far, but you can ask RT how good their operations are at the moment.
So does this mean I can use DreamBooth to create plausible NERFs of myself in any scenario? The future is looking weird.
If they play their cards right they could turn WhatsApp into the premier business to consumer contact platform. Not just messaging but also phone calls etc... That could massively reduce the spam calls.

Maybe you could opt in for political calls if they pay you..
Precisely, this is a dream for the likes of Netflix. They can perfect their vision of machine-generated assembly-line horseshit to feed to 190 countries. No staff, crew, no originality needed.

Note the "AI by Meta" watermark in the example. So Zuck gets a cut as well.
This is because glass has become the trendy building material for commercial buildings, so building with glass is cheaper than alternatives.
Where did you get that idea from? Without looking it up, I suspect Germany, as a NATO country, helped Ukraine as other NATO allies did. And supported the orange revolution, as the other EU nations did before 2014.
No, the e-mail i got from them say it is the Yubico 5 NFC or the Yubico 5C NFC

that does have PIV and PGP modules.

https://www.yubico.com/br/product/yubikey-5-nfc/
https://www.yubico.com/br/product/yubikey-5c-nfc/
Thanks for this.

Wonder if it used to mean that borrowing for more than 7 years wasn’t a thing?
If you claim that Putin isn’t rational then you can claim that he is liable to do anything and everything since his actions don’t make sense. Hence the obvious question: why would one theory be more likely than any other?

You yourself haven’t given any rational reasons for your original theory.
I legitimately cannot see this question in the current context as anything but being made in bad faith.

Do you seriously struggle to think of possible reasons for why someone would want to work for Meta? Something like "high pay, interesting/difficult challenges and problems to work on, large scale rarely found elsewhere, and lots of learning opportunities (including loads of great engineers to learn from)" never crossed your mind?

Not saying that those were the reasons OP used to make their choice, could have been plenty others. But given there are so many obvious possible reasons, the question in the context of the original comment feels just off.

P.S. I am neither current nor a former Meta employee. It is just jarring to see reddit-tier flamebait discourse in HN threads.
Academic CS has its share of whimsical titles; these are Conor McBride’s specialty[1], although he’s not at all the only practitioner[2,3]. In other areas it’s not as common, but I could name some famous physics[4] or maths papers. Titles that are not whimsical but straight to the point also do occur[5,6], and so do subtler jokes[7,8].

[1] “I am not a number—I am a free variable”, McBride, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1017472.1017477

[2] “Observational equality, now!”, Altenkirch et al., https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1292597.1292608

[3] “Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire”, Meijer et al., https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3540543961_7

[4] “The eightfold way”, Gell-Mann, https://www.osti.gov/biblio/4008239

[5] “What are principal typings and what are they good for?”, Jim, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237721.237728

[6] “On the role of the Heisenberg group in harmonic analysis”, Howe, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-...

[7] “(Para)bosons, (para)fermions, quons and other beasts in the menagerie of particle statistics”, Greenberg, Greenberger, Greenbergest, https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9306225

[8] “The origin of chemical elements”, Alpher, Bethe, Gamov, https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.73.803, although that one led to some resentment from the first (and main) author
A reply to the 7th comment says "I'd say one promotion cycle for the top executives on the product, 2-3 more for the next tier of engineers/product folks to ship some cool stuff, then a year or two for the product to coast before no one wants to take on the technical debt. So I'll predict its shutdown will be announced by July 2022."

That prediction was so damn close.
> Steve Jobs's Apple liked to deprecate the whole API underpinning their OS from version to version.

Can you provide some examples? The years of supports for things like Carbon are hard to reconcile with that claim.
My MacBook Air (M1, 2020):

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 32 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 1%
Data Units Read: 8,843,213 [4.52 TB]
Data Units Written: 12,256,532 [6.27 TB]
Host Read Commands: 229,897,011
Host Write Commands: 452,963,852
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 208
Power On Hours: 258
Unsafe Shutdowns: 3
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

Seems fine to me!
Porn companies, Facebook, Uber, ... these are just the latest companies, in a long line, for whom huge lawsuits and fortune-sized settlements are simply a line item on the expense sheet.
I think it came from misunderstanding a lot of things by people making SPAs...

Session cookie is invisible to JavaScript, so handling unauthenticated state is a bit weird.

Bearer token is visible to JavaScript, so SPA can make some assumption about authentication status. However, it still must handle 401s because token could have been revoked or expired (JWT solves the expired problem). You also could encode some metadata like username and email and instead of having a single round-trip to fetch it once, now you will be sending kilobytes of cookies with every request.

CORS is a black magic to them. How to properly set cookie is also back magic - who would know that you can set cookie in way that would include subdomains, so it will be sent to www.acme.org AND to api.acme.org.

It was also weird to set a session cookie on outgoing requests when service a talks to service b.
If Apple doesn't, it seems a bit insane to miss the opportunity.

Note that I strongly dislike adtech as a business model, but my hat is off to their cunning marketing if Apple pulls it off.
Leaves are still mostly green here in the upper Midwest. Just starting to see the traces of orange.
I spoke to a Meta recruiter a few months ago who offered to send me helpful algo resources for the interview.
I get that idealists will be up in arms about user-agent based self-censorship and still feel this way. It’s reversible immediately if it was proven to be harmful.
EU can pretty much unilaterally cut access to the financial system of said companies, demonstrated this year to a number of russian entities.
Meanwhile, given what Xi has done in the last couple of years, I would not be surprised if China moves against the model makers first.
Yes it flows downhill, but as long as ice is accumulated in the accumulation zone, which is in the upper region of the glacier, the downflowing part is filled up by new ice from above.

By the way the article doesn't say that the veins were uncovered by the advancing glacier, it says the opposite, the advancing glacier covered them.
Anyone know how they create the underlying model for visualization, and how often it is updated? If we have a snap cold spell one evening and the leaves fall, does that get reflected in the visualization?
http://web.archive.org/web/20220929023632/https://www.stavec...
M1 Pro 16" 1TB/32GB:

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 33 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 35,019,801 [17.9 TB]
Data Units Written: 16,172,066 [8.28 TB]
Host Read Commands: 792,786,606
Host Write Commands: 270,657,694
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 292
Power On Hours: 320
Unsafe Shutdowns: 13
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
That is an atrocity on so many levels.

For one, you're creating a hard coupling to a specific flavor of SQL. And that's not too mention the fact that you're taking an otherwise purely data object and embedding persistence logic into it - a horrifying abuse of OO.
I interviewed with them 12 years ago, it was a long time ago but I remember all the interviewers felt like they had come from a funeral, everyone was absolutely miserable. I knew right then and there I could never work at a company with such negativity, also they wanted me to skip my honeymoon to start with them which I was not about to do so overall a terrible company and experience. And after I started learning about their shady business dealings I put them on a permanent blacklist to this day.
Lack of invalidation ("out of the box") is indeed a weakness of JWT.

However, I think in some scenarios it doesn't matter. For example if all the user data is encrypted, an attacker can retrieve it from the server using the JWT but not decrypt it - how useless!

Besides, when it comes to criticisms like this, I would gladly like to be pointed to real-life incidents where JWT as the security-bottleneck was fatally exploited.
Considering that consoles like Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch are available for less than $300 and provide a much better gaming experience, it was quite inevitable.

This does even more damage to the Google's reputation. I would never recommend or use GCP for example, now.

Lastly google already has a gaming platform i.e. Android, and I would have loved to see some more innovation in that space instead.
I'm interested in any evidence about this. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing its just a extremely general statement about 5 companies with no facts behind it and would be interested to see whats different between all 5 companies in 2022 in the talent acquisition department.