skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right... but at the same time, does that mean that if I break into the homes of Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Greg Joswiak, Jeff Williams, and Johny Srouji and steal their keys, that I could reassemble the key that would normally be stored on a HSM in Apple Park?

In some ways attacking the homes might be easier than attacking Apple Park. (Just thinking out loud...)
FYI, Engineering Manager isn't listed on the careers page
I hated upvoting this but you’re right. I don’t use the App Store much anymore, nor Apple News that much even with an Apple One subscription and I just keep coming back to the fact that the only adware installed on my phone—and I’ve checked—is basically the system software itself.

This is a premium phone at a premium price paired up with a range of premium-priced accessories. I know I get more than the value out of these devices than I’m putting in but damn does it feel like Apple isn’t just double-dipping, they’re like quadruple-dipping at least.

There’s the money I paid, there’s the money I pay to Apple for services that I do actually want, which, fair, some things have an upkeep cost, there’s the money I pay to 3rd party developers which Apple takes a cut of, and then there’s the money they’re charging developers to put ads in my face when I do open the App Store. There is such a thing as a value-add, and your example of the 5GB iCloud storage? The fact that this is the base level no matter what model phone you purchase just feels downright cheap, and that’s theoretically shared with a Mac or an iPad or both. Actually gutter-dwelling penny-pinching coupon-clipping lentil-dieting cheap.
Next time you eat food realize it’s completely chock full of dna. Unless you eat a lot of non organic stuff, like plastic.
Hah thankyou!

Given the interest in CRDTs, it'd be a great help if someone wants to do a much more interactive exploration of those algorithms. I feel like there's an interactive guide just waiting to be written which could help people understand this stuff.
Some prior commentary:
https://twitter.com/evanwang0/status/1519198415145639937
So the plan is to ... what ... break the physical security precautions of the HSM during a burglary and then leave without the operator noticing? When I say "break the physical security precautions" that typically involves things like grinding open the casing, depotting the innards, avoiding trigger the self-zeroing mechanism etc etc. and doing so while avoiding the anti-tamper sensors.
Existing discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823946
It generalizes as well as GPT-3 does:

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If you took the word "Wikipedia", and threw all the letters up in the air, what are some possible things they'd spell once they fell on the ground again?

If you took the word "Wikipedia" and threw all the letters up in the air, some possible things they could spell once they fell on the ground again might include "kawipieda," "keiapwidi," "kipedwaia," "pwakieida," or "eipawikid." However, without being able to see the exact arrangement of the letters on the ground, it's impossible to say for sure what they would spell.

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(last sentence is a bit confused)
I know we've debated this to death, but Android's market share is bigger than iPhone's.
That’s the point. That’s why it’s called HUMAN chess, it’s a game that doesn’t make sense for a computer to play.
And to defeat the Red Army you need lizards, to defeat the lizards you need Chinese needle snakes, to defeat those you need gorillas, and when winter comes around, those freeze to death!
Who could predict this when playing an Atari game, or a Wolfenstein 3D?

https://youtu.be/FUGqzE6Je5c
I’m curious, did you ever try using less detergent? Like cutting one of those pouches in half? It’d be messy but maybe it’d work.
> If you don't like it set up own server online to freely associate.

How exactly does your server get online without utilizing the private property of some entity?
Child support ifs for the child, it has nothing to do with how much money the other parent has.
> You can, at least for Youtube - the premium offering is ad-free.

ad-free =/= surveillance free.
> In the past, I have had personal projects where I create an alternative way to explore the www, using a Yellow Pages type of process. The reason no one seems to care about this area anymore2 is not that such projects are infeasible or too challenging, it is that there is no financial incentive to pursue them. Big Tech has sold out the web.

Yes. I’m thinking about some ways to do this for specific niches. I suspect it will need to be non-profit. For revenue, I’m leaning towards something like affiliate links. Basically, third parties can pay to offer a generic way to take action on a particular thing. The site may provide several similar options, but by paying you go to the top of the list.

Since the main value of the site is documenting the thing, the monetization is strictly supplemental.
After completing detailed research in to crypto-addressable opportunities within global finance I built a POC for this in parallel to the exchange POC at Kraken in 2011. It was canned for legal reasons, and a decision made to focus on exchange. Coinbase started the following year, with deeper investor pockets and a generally more aggressive "beg for forgiveness" legal strategy. The rest is history.
This not only begs the question, it sets up a situation where expression is entirely controlled and curtailed by those at the levers of power. It is a recipe for an entirely unfree future, one where right and useful ideas will not be allowed to see the light of day because they will cost someone else money and/or power. That is not a future I would want to force on anyone. This is why so many oppose freedom — they're fearful of Bad Things, not realizing that while there will certainly be some negative consequences to freedom in speech or in living, squelching those will also destroy much more that is good and helpful.
One engineer's "stupidity" is another engineer's "plausible deniability". ;)
If you own the OS, you should be able to install updates from anywhere.
Many cities have a regular bin-sized contraption where you throw you stuff in and it gets compacted into a big underground container that is part of the sidewalk. They then either get lifted and emptied of sucked empty by a garbage truck.

The sidewalks are plenty wide for that, nyc doesn't even come close to how narrow some european cities without such problems are.
> Do not sideload those apps from third-party sites/outside of Google Play or trusted OEM store.

Is that you Messrs. Pichai and Cook?

So you're saying this "security" isn't just a smokescreen to lock us into Google and Apple App Stores?
This has a dependency on the public's skills in distinguishing between True, False, and (rarely an option available to most) Unknown.

There is also reason to believe that governments and corporations may prefer that people aren't very capable in this area.
> Couples counseling isn't free, maybe with ads they could be.

Ads can only pay a couple of dollars at most. That's one of the problem with ads: they don't scale. You can only sell cheapish stuff using them; you can never increase your price above a certain point. It's very much a broken form of monetization in many ways.
Part of the problem is that our supply chain is so global now. Maybe stuff shouldn't be shipped around so much and sourced/distributed locally.
I suspect that a real artificial intelligence will require a handful of specialized subsystems linked together in the right way. I feel like the current method of research is to find problems similar to solved ones with a few challenges, then look to solve those specific challenges. Doing this for ever complex problems requires all sorts of unique solutions, and over time we find ways to combine and simplify those to get generalized systems. I don’t think the systems of today will generalize as you desire, but I think this method of research seems like a good one? What do you think?
If they ever lock up MacOS the way they do iOS, I'll be on Ubuntu or Windows by the end of the week. I'm sure I'll miss the UX. Oh well.
StableDiffusion can generate an image on Apple Silicon Macs in under 18 seconds
> I think iTunes was the catalyst that pushed OSX down the priority list.

...iTunes was originally released with MacOS 9. It predates the public release of Mac OS X.
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They’re both targeted for dumb consumers. There’s no reason to pretend that either OS is somehow incomprehensibly difficult for the end user
Why aren’t we using SSH for everything?

https://medium.com/@shazow/ssh-how-does-it-even-9e43586e4ffc
The problem is that there may not always be 3 possible moves in a given position.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted for this, perhaps it's an uncomfortable truth.
NYC has tons of accessibility cabs that you can flag on the street or order with an app.
Are you implying Balenciaga is .. trafficking children or making child porn or something? Not sure what you mean by "the person we should be worried about."

My understanding is they made an offensive photoshoot using children but I wasn't aware of any sexual abuse allegations. I'm aware of the court opinion on the blanket and the sexually suggestive stuffed animals. It's inflammatory, sure, but there's definitely a case that it's artistic as well.
I got through the first slog in this book, but the most unbearable one for me was Moby Dick. At some point I took a multiyear long break from it after getting 75% of the way in, and finally finished it off for completions sake. I was pretty young when I dug into it so maybe that was it, but I couldn't stand the random chapters that just talked about whales and didn't have much to do with the plot
Location: South America

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: google bigquery sql, firebase data, postgresql, google data studio, python, pandas, google cloud function, google cloud run, etc.

email: nothingcomeseasy@protonmail.com

2+ years working as a Data Analyst (foodtech/marketing/ecommerce)

I can perform some machine learning as well - not a specialist - (had professional experience with sklearn, numpy, prophet, gaussian mixture models) for recommendation systems, clustering, forecasting, NLP, speech recognition, GPT-3, etc.
I've lived in a big apartment complex before. The invention that solves this problem is called a chute and a dumpster.
Apple has more money, power and influence than Coinbase by orders of magnitude. If Coinbase doesn't have a really strong case (like it would be in this case) going to court would be a disaster.
What this article doesn't point out is that CDC, DOJ, and FBI estimates, as well as a range of private studies and surveys, put defensive firearms usage about a conservative minimum of 300,000 instances per year, though it can range to around 1-3 million depending on the source. I would normally discard that kind of range, but the numbers have been fairly consistent in the 300,000 to 1,000,000 range. That means that for every person killed with a gun, either through homicide or suicide, there are at least 7 people who defend themselves with one.
Hope isn’t a strategy.
Monorail is a fork of Google Code, which was Google's public source control offering for a while.

Repos from Google Code were mostly transitioned onto more popular platforms (like GitHub). Chromium wanted to keep using the issue tracker, so they took it over to create Monorail:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/infra/infra/+/refs/heads/m...

Chrome is the biggest one, but many of Google's public-facing issue trackers are on Monorail (which is hosted at bugs.chromium.org).
UEFI Secure Boot signing keys can be updated at runtime, and old keys can be explicitly marked as untrusted. Validation of key updates is performed by the firmware, not the OS, so this can't be trivially subverted.
If a 'heist' to steal such a key would be pulled off, adding credentials (or stealing them) to the update-server (even for a one-time update push) doesn't seem out of the realm of possibilities.
Doesn’t randomly (physically) break in the first 5 years of ownership. Good tradeoffs between battery and performance. Best monitors.

I didn’t believe the hype until I got one at work and it just had… zero jankiness. And it is as good as the day I got it
Norway. I don't believe we have that problem.
This book has been out for several months and has been submitted many times on HN. Perhaps some of these reviews are also interesting?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
This kind of AI is really useful, at least for creating video games. Game devs spend countless hours making AI which is still not as effective or realistic as real humans, a straightforward way to create good game AI from ML it would be huge.

As others mentioned, AI is making headspace in enterprise and accounting, and achieving the “last mile” of human work. Better image recognition for handwritten forms and mail, better content and sentiment analysis for reducing spam, robot arm tasks which are more and more complex (yet still tame compared to humans)

“AI” hype is indeed overrated. If you think we’re close to reaching the singularity or anything resembling skilled human work you will almost certainly be disappointed. We probably have decades of slow improvement, more and more of these “breakthroughs” which aren’t really amazing compared to a human 5-year old, and aren’t really going to revolutionize industry, but will nonetheless have practical benefits
GIS can be hungry, but QGIS is incredible for what it is. Is there a remote sensing component to your project? Satellite tiffs are... big
Did I say that? Reducing recidivism benefits everyone in society and helps both would-be victims AND the would-be perpetrators.
I'm baffled by continued hate on Electron. The option isn't between Electron and a lean OS-native application, but between Electron and nothing.

I can build an Electron app in under a day with a pretty UI. It would take me several months to get anything sensible that is OS native. And I'm not going to sit down and learn the alternative.

So please just say "thank you" to the developers that are sharing free things with you.
> The White House is free to make the argument that Twitter should police “misinformation” and “hate speech” on its platform. But it has no legal basis to say that Twitter must do so.

False. Or, rather, it's false if you want Twitter to maintain its liability shield in Section 230 of the Cojmunications Decency Act [1], specifically 230(c)(2). Without this, Twitter becomes liable for any content. This is of course US-centric. Different countries have other requirements.

> Musk may not be the best — or most consistent — messenger for free speech. And you may not agree with his interpretation of free speech.

We all know what Musk means when he says "free speech". It's the same as when any conservative says "free speech". It means "hate speech". It means not wanting to get banned for spouting transphobia (in particular), homophobia, racist screeds, misogyny, etc.

> If we care about an America whose support for free expression goes beyond the law, we must support a culture of free expression.

No, we shouldn't. Every time some variant of free speech absolutism has been tried, the results are always the same: it fills up with Nazis. Everyone else leaves. Even 4chan has a ToS (basically "no CP"). That's the place for unhinged hate speech and conspiracy theories.

Platforms don't want to be known as being a Nazi hotbed. Advertisers flee. Beyond that however platforms should consider what's best for the total user base. Allowing a few extremists to spew hate speech in the name of some ideal of free speech culture at the expense of everyone else is narcissism personified.

I'll close with noting the paradox of tolerance [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
People in a fight starting to trow their empty pistols at the opponent is a symptom of desperation. This is not much different.

Without nuclear heads the capability of this expensive missiles to do real harm compared with the rest is low. It suggests that they are in the phase of trowing pans and pots ad anything at sight to the opponent. Without chips and means to build more weapons, Russia could be approaching fast a point of technological breakage and exhausted reserves. They had launched yet a big percentage of their missiles it seems.

The mail bombs in Spain also feel like a red flag that they are losing their grip really fast and are trying anything except nuclear that would be instant game over for Putin.

But Ukranians will still suffer to pass this winter. At least they have plenty of wood in the demolished buildings to burn and a lot of them are safe in another countries. This is probably the biggest humanitary emergencies of complex type happened in Europe in decades. And the second half of it is still coming.
Sam Bankman-Fried speaks on FTX collapse: “I didn’t ever try to commit fraud”
Softened water feels slimy to me - similar to seawater.

I actually do have a whole-house softener which came with my house. I installed a bypass valve so it does not feed the pipes in my home.
Its more pernicious imho. "Let us pay for this service by serving you ads which undermine your comprehension of what you actually need and cause you to constantly have an investigative part of your mind on, or mindlessly consume."

Its truly more than walletshare and tremendously mentally taxing or can destroy your financial wellbeing if unchecked.
Andrew Mellon's fault was he could be impeached. But with SBF as an honored guest I suppose he can pass anything.

No one expects the clown attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuPiHwUFGo
Assuming that you also can get those people to disclose the eight-digit PINs that were required by the crypto officer at the time the custodians enrolled their smart cards?
GPT chat confidently claimed that Bill Gates never flew with Lolita Express (Jeffrey Epstein’s plane), even when I cited a New York Times article.

So, your mileage may vary
Since Foxconn’s Wisconsin saga, I’m willing to wait for an actual factory being at least half built to start discussing the implications.

Here we’re debating over an announcement of a promise to build something.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_in_Wisconsin
A major leap in accuracy is possible by allowing it to consult a search engine. Right now it works in "closed-book" mode, there's only so much information you can put in the weights of the net.
The dirty road to clean energy
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Remote: Yes

2+ years working as a Data Analyst (foodtech/marketing/ecommerce)

Technologies: google bigquery sql, firebase data, postgresql, google data studio, python, pandas, google cloud function, google cloud run, etc.

I can perform some machine learning as well - not a specialist - (had professional experience with sklearn, numpy, prophet, gaussian mixture models) for recommendation systems, clustering, forecasting, NLP, speech recognition, GPT-3, etc.

email: nothingcomeseasy@protonmail.com
The default algorithmic twitter feed is filled with tweets from people you don't follow. Plus there's all the "trending" and other engagement features that boost tweets.
First, I'm not on team platform; apologies if my message implied this.

Most of the controversial decisions by platforms have been about people with millions of followers. I also exaggerate when saying "billions"; it can be thousands.

I think email is different because it is a much more passive technology. It doesn't have a news feed, just things like spam filters, etc
How do you think the conspiracy theory community would rank in terms of who produces the most misinformation?

There are many different metrics that could be considered, so maybe that would be the best place to start if we were interested in having an actually serious discussion on the topic.
Perhaps this can be modeled mathematically (non-rigorously)? For some problem space C with dimensionality d, a mechanical or biological system can be described by the tuple s = (x0, x1, ..., xd) which describes a starting, stable configuration of the system, with some room for variance s + y = (x0 + y0, x1 + y1, ... xd + yd). The stable conditions for the system might be described as extrema on a hypersurface or hypervolume of C. Then for some chaotic function f, f(s) -> s', where s' is another point on on hypersurface describing the system, if f is chosen properly, it will result in the system evolving to another saddle point on the hypersurface describing that biological or mechanical system.

The question then is it possible to model the hypersurface with some anayltical equation, and what's the iterative, Chaotic function that will optimize f(s) finding another local saddle point on the hypersurface.
Sure but once parent A is a billionaire then receiving money from parent B who is also a billionaire is kinda like pushing on a string.
It depends on the use case. In our experience, it's been rare that queries on PII need to do anything more complex than substring matching (which we're working on support for). We're definitely not trying to be able to encrypt every column, just to make some common workflows around PII and PHI a lot easier.

Custom views can help, but it does mean you're dealing with access controls directly in the database which can be hard to manage. And the database is fully exposed through backups or engineers with server access.
Given what we know so far, there's no indication that Google is associated with this at all.
I wrote a variable in a library to store a string that sends output to null.. Because I hate remembering things.
Except for the various ethnic groups who are very proud of not using their dishwasher at all.
Show HN: Command line utility for working with HuggingFace diffuser pipelines
i created this to scratch an itch. used to generate images with any diffusion pipeline which is compatible with the huggingface diffuser library. dead simple command line interface, offline-first workflow, and features a simple TOML config for reusing common prompts or flags.
Love this. Read the whole incerto. Great examples, too.
Spotted some typo (Nihnogo), so you might want to double check your spelling.

I'm not sure if it is a personal thing, but I would like to have an idea of your pricing before trying your app, and it was not clear from the web page.

This one might be subjective, but I've lived in Japan a couple of years and it is quite rare to hear somebody saying 見ましょう in the context of your example. I get the point is to teach the grammar, but if you claim your app lead people to fluency, there might be better examples to show up in your screenshots. Maybe I'm not the target customer, but I get the feeling I'll be learning more for passing the jlpt tests and less for the real world.
China wants Taiwan orthgonally to any economic value it would provide. Reunification is pretty core to their mythos at this point.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if making Taiwan globally less economically relevant is core to their strategy for reunification. While the US is dependent on Taiwan for chips, Taiwan has a very important defense partner that China can't really compete with. But China has a way better chance of securing Taiwan if the rest of the global community only cares for ideological reasons.
Yeah, lawyer here.

I suppose (and this is absolutely not advice) another thing to consider is "likelihood that someone is going to take time out of their day to sue you."

Do with that what you will.
Wildcat Strike
P2P still works great. Unfortunately the well has been poisoned for alot of people, as it's widely assumed that "torrenting" of any sort must be illegal, even if it's for perfectly legitimate purposes.
They’re looking for Charlie