skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If something is E2EE it is deeply inconvenient and fragile. If something is easy to use, it cannot be E2EE.

The only difficult part of E2EE is establishing trust. As in: how do I securely exchange encryption keys with this other entity in a way I know isn’t being spoofed?

The online banking I do all the time is E2EE from my device to my bank and it’s convenient and not fragile at all. I message friends over iMessage and there’s nothing inconvenient or fragile about that.

If a developer can’t put together a solution that’s convenient and robust, it’s likely due to lack of experience, not anything inherent to E2EE.
If true, I disagree with that policy. But I saw plenty of people doing that who didn't get banned...
I believe the Sight & Sound list only emerges from its slumber after a decade. It will enter hibernation once again for 10 more years now.
Excluded middle, explained
Ok, this surprised me, the AI didn't know a word, I told it what it means, and in the same sentence it acknowledged the new meaning and then properly used it.

https://i.snipboard.io/WoDRhA.jpg (in Romanian, pa = bye, la revedere = goodbye)
It absolutely did exist 5 years ago. Trend line is flat.
> There is no real abstraction.

I just tried to test it's ability to abstract directly, for your comment:

https://twitter.com/fergal_reid/status/1599191496372035584

I find it very hard to say this isn't doing abstraction.

I just made all those examples up, that's a new test I just created, so it didn't learn it elsewhere. I didn't cherrypick.

Isn't that doing out-of-sample abstraction?

That last sentence "species with 4 legs tend to be less intelligent and move at different speeds" is Abstraction or I don't know what Abstraction means.

(Not saying it's generally intelligent or anything; and I know it's just trained to predict symbols. But having a hard time with "...therefore it cannot abstract" in light of this sort of response.)
Im going to use it at work next week. It writes better code and documentation then half of my colleagues.

I used once: „write the code in the most complicated way you can imagine. Make it hard to understand“, it suddenly produced code that matches exactly their coding style. Lol.
It’s not very useful to talk about the memory safety of languages as a whole without looking at specific implementations. JavaScript in a browser is memory safe. JavaScript with access to /proc/mem is no longer memory safe. C on most hardware is not memory safe. C running on the abstract machine itself can be.
Yeah. And it isn't even always the case that they are magic gods at it... when I first heard about NSO, it was because I learned (as part of Citizen Lab's public analysis of a payload) that they were using some of my software--which I guess they didn't know how to replicate, and, since it wasn't open source, they were awkwardly having to shell out to binaries that I provided in ways that I guess worked well enough--as part of their persistent iPhone spyware.

https://citizenlab.ca/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-iphon...

Ahmed Mansoor--the particular UAE dissident who was being targeted in that analysis--is often in the crosshairs, and I think it just goes to further the point of your narrative that there are other companies from countries people ignore (as they don't get to go "oh no! it's Israel! they're scary!") providing software that people are trying to use to hack his devices. One of the other attempts I had paid some attention to was an Italian company named Hacking Team.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mg7pjy/ahmed-mansoor-million...

That hack also relied on third-party software, this time written by Collin Mulliner, whom I had known from grad school. He developed software that was somewhat analogous to my work for iOS that ran on Android, and he actually started getting flack as if he had something to do with the hacking, and so ended up publishing a blog post and public statements pointing out his software was both reusable and even sometimes open source, and he had no involvement.

https://www.mulliner.org/blog/blosxom.cgi/security/hackingte...
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978053
Skinners box my dude. A probabilistic reward is a greater dopamine spike than straight up cocaine use.
When High Fashion and QAnon Collide
The MG3 has absolutely nothing to do with the ZS EV and the MG4 though - it's based on an ancient platform that was made long before SAIC started putting money into MG and into their electrification. While I'm not surprised your experience with the MG3 was poor, I don't see how that's relevant to their current EV vehicles.
No, there are well-defined procedures for searches that turn out to uncover privileged materials, too. If you think about it, this issue must come up all the time, in all kinds of searches.

A Google search will rapidly avail here, including DOJ's own handbook for how to handle this situation. It comes up a lot!
ChatGPT understands what it reads. In the sense that it is actually creating a model of what it just read, and it's own output. It happens to understand English, dozens of programming languages and perhaps others. There is no other explanation.

It often makes mistakes, and that's the only reason why it's currently inferior to the human brain.

Surely it be writing full fledged correct programs in under 2 years.
I think most of the lay public have the wrong end of the stick.

Proving causation is the cherry on the top of research.

Most of the time correlation and mechanism is all that can be found in a timely manner. This data is really quite good.

Correlation between smoking and poor health was shown decades before causation was considered proven.

It'd be ridiculous to tell someone don't worry keep smoking, all the data we have this far shows only correlation! Right up until the 50s, when in the 20s it became apparent smokers died young.

What we see here is people moving thresholds depending on their bias. This is the root cause of confirmation bias.
> Seriously, showing off symbols of national socialism saved Germany many embarrassing clips on international media.

There we have it, the true philosophical split between those who support freedom of expression and those who would limit it. The first care for truth more than the problems expressing the truth bring, and the latter care more about orderliness and reputation, the clinging to which brings myriad problems too (far worse in my opinion, but who could compare a few harsh words on Twitter or in a newspaper with a the rise of fascism in several places and the odd genocide?)
If you end up not implementing it you’re going to annoy some subset of your customers.

If nobody clicks it it doesn’t mean it’s not wanted - they may not be looking for it or understand how it would help.
There’s Inflex [0], which has a very interesting (and I think better) approach to spreadsheets. I’ve also been working independently on a very similar idea [1], though it’s early days yet and I’m still busy figuring out the how to build it in a principled way. The Inflex website also has a really nice bibliography [2] with a fairly complete catalogue of what else has been done in this space.

[0] https://chrisdone.com/posts/inflex/

[1] https://github.com/bradrn/nexo

[2] https://chrisdone.com/posts/inflex-bibliography/
I was really surprised to see large electric trucks when I visited China. But they still have little three-wheel one piston trucks on the road at the same time. It's an interesting dynamic.
Method for solving notorious calculus problems speeds particle physics comps
I teach Blender. UV unwrapping is something the students have a lot of trouble with.

For those that don’t know, UV-less painting is usually vertex painting, where each vertex is assigned a color. In this way the resolution of the outcome is dependent on that of the model.

In the case of this app, a UV map is generated, but seems to be quite crude. Two options are presented: per-face and box. I assume box is derived from tri-planar projection. If so, then I assume that it would be impossible to assign a color to anything that is invisible to the projection, such as underhangs. I will play with it and see.
When it starts asking questions on its own maybe
I took it to mean that SEO crap is going to go plaid. And so search engines will mainly return ad-laden bullshit.

(New search engine idea: refuse to return any page that has advertising on it)
What I find weird is that it generates well structured, well commented code.

Where is this massive repository of well structured code with good clear variable names that it’s tapping into?
Perhaps you're not used to accessibility?

There is a very vast chasm between zoom, and a responsive design that can scale to the base font size.

One can break context, and make it more difficult to follow the flow of content.

The other maintains context and flow, and is easier to interact with.
I don't. It was more an inference on my part based on what the instructions are. I've come across some regulatory body advising companies to keep their disclosures to (if I can remember) around a 5th grade reading level, but I can't seem to find that now.
I guess "not your keys, not your coins" also applies for safe-deposit boxes.
Isn’t it already radioactive? They’re already on the Entity List
Swift has the advantage that it can directly “speak” C, without any indirection needed. (C can already do this of course.) In particular operations like scanning an address space for things, easily expressing the layout of something, and so on are much easier to do in these languages. In theory you could do the same in Python but it’s often not worth the effort.
I never heard of Fosshost, but based on the name it was supposed to provide free hosting for open-source projects. What was the plan to sustain it?
> the only thing it's good for is enabling bad user behavior.

Okay, I'll bite. Care to expand? What behavior, and why is it bad? Why should users not expect a "suspend" state to work (more or less) as advertised?

edit: Or are you arguing that the only "correct" states are running and complete shutdown? Why would that be preferred?
There are companies like NSO in most developed countries.
With the Apple devices, you probably have the 'Power Nap' setting turned on, which tells it to occasionally silently wake briefly to get background updates (emails, notifications, etc).
One of the parts of building these generative models is building a classifier for how "good" their output is, otherwise the algorithm has no way to compare potential outputs in a generation.

That's one of the issues with these models, we say they produce "good" output but really they're producing output that is "good" from one specific point of view that happens to be expressed in code and introduces a large bias into their outputs.
When can we run something like ChatGPT locally i wonder? Ie like StableDiffusion.

I'm kinda dying for that, honestly. I can't even imagine all the neat applications i'd make of ChatGPT if it was purely local.. but it would take all of my free time to play with it. It's so damn impressive.
What is MSN supposed to be these days? Like Google/Apple News?

It used to be their dialup service, what a weird relic to keep floating around.
The confusion most likely stems from the fact that anorectic people have existed throughout history too, yet we still treat them by addressing "the feeling" and not by liposuction.
It‘s not impressive at all. It strings words together that make sense and it is absolutely not aware of semantic versioning. Just try to generate code for a specific major version or a package not super mainstream.
I enjoy these lists because they introduce me to cinema that I never even knew existed. The same for books, games, and music. They strike me as a decent measure between quasi-serendipitous discovery with some baseline of quality as determined by people that are involved in the business - whether as creators, critics, or something else.
I respectfully disagree.

E2EE is often difficult because it involves 2 or more parties at either end. You must exchange keys in some secure way and that should occur over a P2P/alternate channel. That is really hard to do when you're not in physical proximity.

In this case, you own both sides _and_ it's likely that both devices will be on the same network to connect P2P. Many of these wifi devices handle initial setup with a device2device connection that then does the Wifi hand-off.
I simply asked a question.

One need not conflate “combative” with confronting.

As for other animals, I know that they suffer, feel pain, and have a desire to live.

I do not know if they have the capacity to decide what to eat.

We humans, however, do.

And, the vast majority of meat being eaten is from animals that are vegetarian.
USA, Europe, China, India, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and South Korea should just raise $1 trillion towards the sharing of nuclear reactor tech & know-how and renewables tech. Each government should raise another $1 trillion in debt to fund labor that will R&D, build and install more nuclear and more renewables 24/7 so that within 10 years from now we're carbon neutral. We have the technology to deploy and the labor sources available worldwide to create new productive jobs doing this right now, so what exactly is in the way?
I feel like ChatGPT is a search engine for its corpus that has been compressed with a very lossy neural net. It has compressed it via a hierarchical understanding of concepts. It's just retrieving those and stringing them together. It's just a rough copy of generally what other people have said and thought, and it doesn't create new structures.
NSO was almost acquired by a US defense contractor, and would have been if the Biden administration hadn't stopped it. NSO is not an "outsourced entity of the Israeli intelligence apparatus", at least not in way that Oracle or Cisco aren't also.

There are companies like NSO all over the world, many competing in the same legal jurisdiction. Like I said upthread: nobody on HN has a weird theory about how an Auckland CNE/xdev shop is an arm of NZSIS, but everyone thinks they understand the IDF well enough to attribute NSO to it.
Shooting the messenger is a debating strategy as old as time itself.
Day 22 (https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/22) is the one that nearly killed me in 2021. I did get it using a technique of breaking any overlaps into smaller and smaller rectangles, but it took like 30s to run. I looked on the AoC reddit, and honestly I still don't understand what I needed to do to make it better, but visualizing 3d spaces has always been a weakness for me.
Right. It must be weighting repos with more stars more heavily in this case, right?
Don’t even bother explaining that it is a result of an explicit political decision aiming to force the nuclear power industry to subsidize the renewables from its profits. In the end, regardless of your efforts, people will use the losses the nuclear incurs to subsidize renewables as a proof that nuclear is uneconomical, and that renewables beat it handily and are the way to go.
Man, reading systemd issue #25269 is like pulling teeth.

Person A reports that he wants to hibernate after being suspended for 30 minutes, and that it used to work and is now broken. Person B doesn’t understand why, so asks why 30 minutes and not 4 hours? Person A thinks Person B is judging them for their personal preferences, and says that they chose 30 minutes because they like it. Person B then deduces that Person A is an idiot who thinks that the systemd default behavior should be determined Person A’s personal preferences.

What Person A really wants is to pull their laptop out in the morning and have it still be at 90% charge instead of 5% (or 0%!) charge. Given no other configuration options, they chose to have it hibernate after 30 minutes. They would not choose to configure the delay to 4 hours because then the battery would be a lower the next morning.

Then Person C comes along and tries to correct the misunderstandings by suggesting that there’s no reason why it cannot do both at the same time. Person B is still focused on improving safety, and still sees the configurable time as unsafe (because someone might configure it for longer than their battery can last), and misunderstands Person C. Person C has to return and reexplain, with amplification from Person D, that the default behavior should be to hibernate when the battery is low for safety, but also to hibernate at the expiration of the timer, if the timer fires first. This would satisfy everyone, even the weirdos who want their battery to stay charged when they’re not using their laptop.

Person B finally understands and says that would be fine. Elapsed time? 6.5 excruciating days, plus two more days for Person E to push a patch.

Then Persons F, G, H, I and J chime in to add their own amplifying explanations, congratulations, thanks, etc. Even I wanted to re–explain it to Person B.
I love that it doesn’t make me feel punished if I ignore it for a few days.
Go back and reread the original post here. Examine carefully the output it produces for these curl commands.

Explain where on the web it would have found those during its training.
Wire fraud requires you to prove that a fraud actually took place which won’t as simple as you might think in this case.

The wire part of wire fraud is easy since it involved the internet and there is plenty of evidence of communications. However the fraud part would be hard enough to present to a Grand Jury for an indictment and probably even harder to convict on especially within the given time frame.
I was able to use chatgpt for debugging code. I just gave it the line of code, the error, and it explained the error and how to fix it to me. Insane. Imagine once this is integrated into IDEs - it’s like a super sophisticated integrated teaching tool.
So curious about the mysterious backstory here. Considering "The Radix Project" appears to be doing the exact same thing that Fosshost is/was.
ChatGPT got a 1020 on SAT Practice Test #10 (https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/sat-practice-tes...), a sample exam whose questions have been extensively discussed online since at least 2019 (eg https://youtube.com/watch?v=18oahUy6cGA). The exact text of the questions, with the corresponding correct answers, almost certainly appeared in ChatGPT's training set.
There's a serious lack of useful information here.

"Due to circumstances outside of the control of the Fosshost volunteers, we are now in a situation where we cannot guarantee our servers will stay online, and in fact expect them to go offline shortly."

and in the link: "I'm expecting the BOS datacenter to go offline in the very near future."

And in their Twitter profile, they seem to be a non-profit. I presume then that they're a formal organization of some sort, and should hopefully have some sort of budget and ability to handle contingencies.

So... what's going on? What is the "BOS datacenter"? How is a datacenter suddenly going offline?

Why does a non-profit dedicated to hosting critically depend on a particular datacenter and can't just move to hosting stuff somewhere else?

Why are links from September that might be of help explaining already a 404?

Also, who are these people, and whose projects are hosted there?
I had the same initial feeling about OpenAI Codex, but now I'm using it for real work. It feels like using a powerful search engine that always finds a stackoverflow answer to exactly your question.
> M1 macs also do something when sleeping, whatever that is, although they don't lose enough power for it to be a problem.

That would be the 'Power Nap' setting that allows it to occasionally wake briefly for background service updates.
im into 3d models

im into pixel art

im into combination 3d models pixel art
I don't know if someone should try an xml entity combinatorial explosion .. it would be nice scientifically but would it cause problems ?
Sadly, no, that doesn't seem to be the case. They haven't pulled the plug, just made it harder to break it seems (probably through fine tuning), but you can still do it. And whem you do, it's clear all it does is "hallucinate" that it is actually browsing:

https://twitter.com/curdled_up/status/1598802701214588928?s=...
> Type systems are to programmers what dimensional analysis is to physicists.

Dimensional analysis is to data in other domains what dimensional analysis is to data in the domain of physics.

Type systems are a tool in which dimensional analysis can be done, or, alternatively, which with which you can restrict data to be being dimensionally aware, allowing dimensional analysis to be done outside of the type system.
You can click on the playable tag to filter all the ones that are playable.
You are a valuable person and worthy of love.
Why do people keep citing this tired already easily refuted line? It was not just about nude pictures. Read a little more about the contents of the laptop and his connection to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma as well as Chinese energy execs. If people had a little more curiosity about the stories and not just the headlines, we might not be on the verge of WWWIII right now in Ukraine.

Forgive me if you don't like Tucker Carlson, but very few are even dare to cover it. Or genuinely refute it without personal insults.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCApIZBdu-0
Reminds me of -OS being faster than -O3 in some cases, as by optimizing for size you minimize (slow) memory accesses on certain devices.
Everything we know about ChatGPT
I don't think the sceptics have tried it. It's true it gets things wrong sometimes but that's a different problem to synthesising novel solutions.
I had always assumed I was doing something wrong, glad to hear it’s not just me. Ubuntu works extremely well except for sleeping just emptying the battery. Got way to used to MacBooks not killing the battery in like 24 hours of sleep…
It is privacy friendly and It's not tracking users. I think you like to complain about things you don't understand.
Very far? What would be an example of not very far?
I just spent the last month learning to build EarthShip homes from the human waste stream. Not perfect but heading in the right direction as they generate all their own power.

You make great points about exploitation that we all benefit from.

As for plants, I think it’s possible, however raising animals requires even more plants to be killed.

And I’m not sure plants experience pain the way animals do. And if I had to choose, it seems animals are more capable of experiencing pain and suffering.
Either use your network or become an expert with some proof-of-skill. Or rely on luck.
That's why I like quant trading: you get to see real $ numbers go up (hopefully).
It may as well have the oposite effect, people withdrawing from a bullshit reachable space and form direct channels of communication with other people and real life. The amount of bulshit generated I assume would be quite noisy and tiring at some point. It would defenitely have some dent on culture but it doesn’t have to change us forever.
dont get too confortable, apple is going the way of microsoft
What’s that mean relative to other scores?
For #5, AMEX asks you if you want to override this, at least for business cards. It’s all or nothing though. But if you want all subs or recurring billing to terminate on a lost or stolen card it is an option.
I believe that to be a mischaracterization of my statement, I made no comment on the morality/fairness. Just that IMO atleast humans will always inheritly operate with bias. This bias can be unintentionally exploited to enable a form of social coersion. Hunter biden is gonna be seen by people as joe bidens son, because that is a literal fact. Unless the twitter employees were approached anonymously you have to assume that bias to be in play.
There’s various types of demand - some seem to climb indefinitely (does anyone even bother turning lights off anymore?) and others have practical limits, like fridges and freezers.

Often those limits are the results of other aspects - but there’s not real downside to lighting everything with the fury of ten thousand suns. Besides the dark sky loss.