skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of those pure places to share are all still there. They just don't pay Google to be in the centralised Internet club and somewhat stay in the shadows to avoid being bombarded with litigation bs.

Becoming mainstream is usually a death sentence for any platform.

Anyone from the old school Internet knows that Twitter, Youtube, Reddit etc are just processed food. It's all heavily curated by some model that has been trained on keeping you there and adhering to a strict agenda.

You know what the real Internet is like, these platforms are not it.
I am taking your advice. Thanks to the LastPass website, I have taken ownership of the powerful identity now known as.. (drumroll please)

IDEsTERMANtE

Bow before me, nerds.
Not to defend alcohol, but by that logic, we should also be giving up on BBQ, cured meats, and stir fries, and yet I don't see very many people merrily throwing those away.
Yes.

And (with scary privacy implications) maybe the next frontier is capturing all spoken language uttered by people in real-time and streaming it into a model that is being updated in near-real-time.

And finally brain implants extracting unspoken thoughts and neural activity and combining it all. Extend it to non human life forms as well. (universal consciousness?)
The Banality of ChatGPT
> It is actually insane that we let China do whatever they want here while US companies are effectively prevented from gaining a foothold in China.

I wish people, at least of this site, would stop with this argument. US and European companies in China simply have to follow the same rules Chinese companies have to. It's admirable that they then go ahead and just don't do business there but they're not being prevented from operating there under the same rules as any Chinese company. A German car company cannot sell cars in the US without backup cameras even though that's completely fine in Germany. If someone from Iran wants to do business in the US, it's not legal to discriminate based on religion even though that might be fine in Iran.

Maybe it's time to overhaul the laws altogether. Just make the data collection itself illegal for everyone and be done with it. Then companies from all around the globe can decide whether they want to operate in a market or not and completely banning companies that openly don't follow the law is not really controversial.

If the ban happens because they're collecting data and the collection itself is illegal, I'm all for it. Banning companies on the basis that they're doing the exact same thing as everyone else simply because they're from another nation is problematic.
You forget to mention all backend services (db, redis etc are managed and you need internet connection and cloud credentials for even a development workflow.
alternate source : https://archive.vn/7Igjz
Maybe don't use machine learning for criminal justice situations, you fucking irresponsible assholes?
Many of the bugs I'm talking about can be reproduced on a completely vanilla system.
> you work 8 hours a day

Do you really though?

Any problem solving industry is going to have flow over work which is not visible.

Even if you're not physically at work, how many ppl are actually mentally checked out when they leave?

How much work is done in the office and how much is left over for the subconscious to decode for the following day?

It will vary by the types of work you're doing, but being in tech as a whole can be quite mentally draining.
It is but it's a hell of a lot harder to prove.
Thought : Oh! Linux Kernel is buggy and then read to see it's Samba related and was pretty new module introduced around 2020.

For context Samba and NFS had historically been buggy or exploitable since the 90s.
It is definitely, undisputably memory safer.
This is only tangentially related but I just noticed that lastpass reactivated an account I closed 3 years ago and began billing me two years ago. I just caught the second charge and when I confronted them, they said they can only refund within 30 days!

So check your statements and see. I'm curious to know how many more people this has happened to.
If you have social anxiety, this is essentially a Catch 22.
Binary-to-text encoding optimised for Twitter and UTF-32
Makes me think of embedding an overlay filesystem / OS over twitter lol.

Similar: https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/tweetable-polyglot-png
You provide multiple cloud environments for every dev?
Interesting. How are tags determined?
Given the scenario, why would someone pay even a month's rent to take on a larger monthly expense going forward?

More concretely, let's say it costs $1,000 per month to the landlord and the tenant pays $500 per month. The landlord is losing $500 a month and wants to unload the place, so he offers the property to you, the tenant, for $500. But now you have to assume the $1,000 per month cost. What's in it for you to double your expenses?

That is unless the landlord continues to carry the $500 per month shortfall even after the sale. That would be a good deal for the tenant, but why would the landlord sell under that scenario? If you're paying $500 per month out of pocket either way, you may as well ride it out and hope things improve someday.
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Made me smile. You’re very kind, neighbor (Redmond representing).
> It's a new culture of intolerance...

from what i see, we (the US) have more tolerance than we've ever had. there is of course a very loud tiny number of people crying about that exact tolerance and doing their best to destroy tolerance, but they've always been here.

you're gonna feel the way you feel, but i personally think much of this is similar to the "kids these days don't know good music. its not rock like zeppelin!" type nonsense.

the kids are alright. kids spending their freetime with like minded friends online is not terrifying, its not nefarious, its not spooky. i just listened to a podcast that was discussing the early days of dungeons and dragons. apparently adults used to spaz out that kids were playing dnd. it sent the parents into a weird type of satanic panic--they were convinced that if kids spent so much of their freetime playing dnd with their friends it was going to turn them into murderers or something. some of the recordings of the parents were wild. they were fully convinced this activity would turn little johnny into a satanic flying demon or something. it was just kids spending their freetime time with like minded friends (a dnd bubble if you will).

> The "push a button to silence dissent" thing is what is expanding everywhere.

this is no different from someone turning and walking away from the racist nutball screeching on a street corner. its the literal same outcome. there is nothing wrong with being able to walk away from a quack screaming at you on the street, just as there is nothing wrong with pushing a button and blocking the racist nutball screeching at you online.

it doesn't even have to be a screeching nutball on a street corner. there are a million reasons why we may just not like another person. when we don't like someone, we just turn and walk away and go find our friends. this is normal. this is totally normal.

we'll be ok.
Someone else linked this in a different tree but I do truly love this blogpost series -- you can see the section "input patch whitening" for more details. https://myrtle.ai/learn/how-to-train-your-resnet-8-bag-of-tr...

Alternatively, you can read through the direct code here if you're willing to wade through some of the mathy code on it: https://github.com/tysam-code/hlb-CIFAR10/blob/main/main.py#...
To think the Metro Design language didn’t influence tech design would be a mistake. The evolution from Zune, to WP7, and W8 clearly influenced Material and other flat design.
Thanks for making my point more clearly than I did!

As an aside, regarding whether people actually do PhD-level math at these jobs, the answer is indeed often no. However, the jobs can still require PhD-level experience. This is because for the average person, there is a lag between being able to merely learn concepts at a given level versus being able to actually synthesize those concepts to solve novel problems. It is relatively easy to learn a subject and solve exercises in that subject that you know pertain to the concepts you just studied, as you would encounter in a course. It is much harder to be given a problem out of the blue and realize what concepts are required to solve it, as you would encounter in a scientific career.

As a concrete example, I once was explaining neural networks to a bright college freshman. I showed him the forward pass equation, then asked him how he would optimize the network weights given said equation. Even though he learned the chain rule in his courses, he didn’t think to apply it to derive the backpropagation step. By contrast, a talented junior or senior can easily figure this out.

In my experience, for the average person, the learning/synthesis gap is usually a few years. Hence, your average new PhD-level data scientist would be capable of synthesizing advanced undergraduate material towards solving novel problems in their job. And there are a hell of a lot of data science jobs that require that.
One of the biggest workloads on Google's Borg is the one running the flight-scheduling service that run on CL.
Elon Musk blames cost cuts at Twitter on ‘$3B negative cash flow’
https://archive.ph/0ggaC
Also, remove avatar.

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The GDPR just missed a step. They should have mandated an automated way for users to present their preference. Like the old DNT flag for instance. With the legal framework behind it that would have made that flag actually useful and browsers would have brought it back quickly.

I assume this didn't happen due to industry lobbying.
Relevant: https://github.com/duffn/dumb-password-rules
Now I realise that I _somehow_ totally missed your link to Page's work right in the README…

Thanks for the detailed comment, I definitely will dive into your script soon!
One early suggestion, you might want to try torch dynamo [1], anecdotally I had good speedups (~20%) on some image models; though not sure how significant the impact might be at this (relatively) small scale.

[1] https://pytorch.org/docs/master/dynamo/
At least tetanus is not a communicable disease, like measles.
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It was only a failure because it was not mandatory to obey it. GDPR missed a big chance to do that.
That’s Mike Bellotti of University of Oregon: https://archive.vn/ZGDP3
Because Google saves us all.
Those are carcinogenic every consumption?
Honestly I'm surprised we're still using user names and passwords for authentication and identification in 2022. We have come up with many better ways to do this, and just completely failed to adopt any of them as the new normal. The closest we get is when we can use Google or Facebook to log into Joe Blow's Bullshit site instead of a bespoke account.
What's next, apple watch HUD for real poker tables?
Yes, of course the limits are below "dangerous" levels. That, in itself, says nothing about what we should call "safe" levels.

Radiation has two types of dangers, chronic and acute. Our understanding of what levels of radiation cause acute damage is pretty limited and not very precise since we simply don't have that much data. However, I highly doubt that anything close to those levels of radiation were measured anywhere outside the reactor complex.

In terms of chronic danger, the official stance is that there is no safe amount of radiation exposure and the general principle in managing exposure is ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable). Lifetime cancer risk is cumulative so higher levels just add to that cumulative risk faster.

Thus there isn't really a clear "level of acceptable impact" but rather, we set arbitrary levels to to to limit that cumulative addition of cancer risk. Like with many things, that risk is a price you pay for other things that are important to you, like flying, living in denver, or getting xrays.
> Clickbait, the Tesla was at the front of the pileup, all drivers should always maintain sufficient distance should the vehicle in front need to make an emergency brake.

This is just plain wrong by implication. There is no safe distance for someone swerving into your lane and slamming on the breaks. There's nothing for the cars behind to fix, that's entirely the fault of the car in front.
What’s driving the frigid storm messing up holiday plans across the US
The notice uses language that implies that other fields were unencrypted too:

contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data

“Such as website URLs” reads like it’s giving one example among multiple other fields that are unencrypted.

Now I wonder if the notes are not in fact encrypted either since if the user wanted those to be secure too, they would’ve written them in a “secure note.”
An excellent example of the hacker-ethos failing.

A decade ago, you could create a reasonable app in a month and make money. Now, the low-hanging fruit is gone.

This app would get you kicked out of any poker-game I have ever been to, is over-priced ($20 for a glorified piece of paper), was marketed in a way that got the creator banned from Reddit, and made almost no money.

That type of outcome might not be the best that is left in the field of "ideas that an app developer can do in one month" today, but it probably will be soon.
I’ll definitely agree that the constant churn of these platforms is

* pretty annoying

* seemingly inevitable

I think it is just that the basic functionality of “online community” is too easy to implement. It is like, at some point a platform will become popular enough that the cost can’t be ignored, and the quest to monetize will begin. But of course that just means the next free competition can get in line.

I’m curious how this will all shake out with Mastodon, since it seems like it ought to be immune to the whole “too popular, can’t write off hosting costs anymore” problem. Of course that could happen to a node, but that doesn’t take down the whole network…
>This summer, payments of more than $1.3 million were held up by PayPal

Going to celebrate when the day comes when avoiding PayPal becomes mainstream and they have no one in their corner to help them rebuild trust.
I’m not sure, but they are inherently carcinogenic, so I don’t know why they wouldn’t be.
"rich with constraints" is a wonderful turn of phrase.
Videos encode so much information, and it looks pretty cool when such projects extract higher level information to play with. And recent models like whisper and clip are amazing to help make sense of that information even for personal projects.

We are also trying to do something similar[0], but still a lot of work remaining. Idea is to allow real time processing of any video using just a CPU.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7UPj9blnWc
I'm just amused by the irony of forgetting my password, going through the reset process, then realizing I did remember my password.

Except now I can't use it any more.
The problem is it's pretty much all sites :( This one being a very rare but welcome exception.
I'm not a programmer. I think I wrote a bash script once. But this was very easy to follow, and I enjoyed it immensely.
People think that they can build Lyft in a weekend with simple GPS + queue system in reality it's a ton more complicated. There are

1. Dynamic pricing. Both drivers AND riders have different price elasticities depending on surge, etc. I keep hearing stories of "rider paid $100 but driver was only paid $30". It's almost always the case that a ride like that had surge pricing for a rider but not for the driver. In some scenarios drivers will get paid a higher fraction of the amount riders paid to incentivize more drivers.

2. Bonuses, streaks, and other incentives. Lyft/Uber are famously commoditized. So how do you incentivize drivers to driver for Lyft more? Using bonuses and streaks. There are whole teams that handle this.

3. National scale. Each taxi operator is roughly localized. Lyft is a national service. Uber is international. That's going to come with a ton more complexity.

4. Self driving. Ah yes, everyone loves to hate on self driving bc of broken promises. However, if you look at recent news of Waymo/Cruise in SF, you'll see it's having it's 0->1 moment. Uber/Lyft have to handle this in their business because ride share is actually THE path to commercialization for Waymo/Cruise. Taxi cab companies were never going to support self driving, and for the above reasons Waymo/Cruise are not going to build their own ride share infra.
> but you can't just claim "this effect must go away" without articulating a clear reason that it would.

If the effect is that, all else being equal, people with a lot of money can make more money in an absolute sense than people without a lot of money, then of course it doesn't go away. It's not that that isn't real (it's simply how percentages work) it's that it's not actually a problem because the model is so far removed from reality as to be irrelevant.

The real world is not a 1v1 adversarial game where people are betting against each other. More often they are collaboratively betting together and both benefit if they succeed.

Young, poor* entrepreneur brings an idea, maybe specialized domain knowledge, and time and energy

old, rich investor brings capital, maybe business experience and network, and gives it to entrepreneur to execute.

If all goes well old, rich investor and young, poor entrepreneur both make a lot of money. Young, poor entrepreneur becomes old, rich investor for the next generation.

If the venture fails, old, rich investor loses money (which went to pay some number of employees and vendors, who get to benefit from it), but old, rich investor expects this to happen for some or most investments. Young, poor entrepreneur loses time but gains experience and connections.

Nobody tricked anybody or stole anything from anyone or "lost a bet" like they are playing a rigged game in Vegas.

If you tell old, rich investor they aren't allowed to make any money by investing in young, poor entrepreneur any more, they don't just keep on doing it and allow you to redistribute their profits. They buy T-Bills instead. Young, poor entrepreneur goes to work for some other company (that old, rich investor probably funded in the past and owns) and gets a mediocre salary instead of getting rich and the world is deprived of whatever innovation they might have had.

This is pretty much fine for the old, rich investors, they're already rich. But it screws over the possibility of getting rich for anyone who isn't already. Which, if you were trying to reduce inequality, is the opposite of what you'd want.

* - or more realistically, middle or upper-middle class

Another unrealistic part about the model is that people keep betting a fixed percentage of their net worth. If you have a million dollars, maybe you can invest $100,000 into the seed round of a startup. If you have a billion dollars, it's unlikely you can invest $100 million into one investment. You spread it across multiple investments, maybe hundreds, and the average return is less than what you would get from succeeding on one big investment, because there simply isn't an opportunity that can make use of that much capital at once.
There's also just the fact that soldiers are often a bit crap at opsec it just doesn't always get them killed. I have doubts anyways that China would be feeding Russia strike targets based on tiktok usage anyways so they'd be stuck to using the videos to guide strikes based on the nation-state equivalent of GeoGuesser. That can be fantastically accurate but it's much slower generally.
This is where I'm at. The job is to think. You can't frame a house at home in the shower, but you can think about an LDAP solution to get at switches on the other end of a VPN tunnel etc.
> But the pay is so much more too. This means you can retire sooner and then use the free time to find meaning.

This spiel about waiting for retirement to "find meaning" is a load of BS. Telling people to sit around and wait for decades on end until their life is 4/5 of the way complete is inhumane. Why wait for decades when someone can just do what they're interested in now?

The fact that some people unironically think this crazy stuff (and don't see how crazy it really is) is just sickening to me
Even really user-friendly and reliable stuff like iPhones still craps out or needs replacement for anyone to be comfortable implanting it surgically I think.

I do wonder if they’ll be more amenable to the 2035 version of Google Glass though.
Twitter account which tweets interacting finite-state machines
In the short term(2-3 years), I think, the hybrid(programmers give high level designs and instructions + AI models implements them) way of programming will become increaseingly popular. Nowaday's LLMs have shown some suprisingly abilities of reasoning, remembering, and imitating, but, for now, they are still not good enough to write competent code alone, especially when it comes to complex fields like system design. Things like system design need a lot more sophisicated thinking process than implementing some specific functions.
You running RFC 2324 on that?
Ceph isn't a filesystem, it's a service layer (self-described "storage platform") that runs on top of some other unspecified filesystem. Think git-annex or hadoop, not ext4.

Anyway the way Ceph does that is replication, just like those other solutions. There may be 4 nodes with filesystems that contain that data, and Ceph is the veneer that lets you not have to worry about the implementation-detail of where it lives.
>If China is allowed to gain upper hands on the United States, it will result in broad scale societal problems which I couldn't even begin to estimate. Imagine a world where Russia is allowed to take Europe. Imagine a world where the United States is convinced to stand by as Taiwan is invaded and our chip supply is shut down.

When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression. The world doesn't need to imagine, because we had to stand by while the US launched illegal wars in Iraq, continues the unjust economic sanctions on Cuba just just for election politics, or all the shenigans the CIA pulled in South America in the previous decades. Heck just this month the US has said it will ignore a WTO ruling[1] just because it says so and everyone will have to stand by.

The multipolar world threatens Americans so much because they'll finally have to live like there's another version of themselves in the world.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-12/supply...
Let me summarize the article. Google is apparently frightened by the quick advances of OpenAI and are worried they could be supplanted by a search engine based on the ChatGPT like technology.
Temp tables?
Maybe at the entire country level that’s true but why is it important what people that don’t share your values care about? The people I’m surrounded with care much much more about creativity and the ability to have unique and interesting ideas. Salary is totally irrelevant.
I am genuinely curious - what part of BBQ? We know red meat can lead to an increased risk of colon cancer, but you can still have it safely.
what is someone gonna deface the site? how are you gonna tell?
I am curious about the country mentioned that has instant payments between banks, and thus Wave pulled out. What's the country's name and why aren't more countries like that? What's their secret?
Sam probably has access to a ton of FTT. He can open a trading desk in his parent's basement and recover at least a few hundred USD. He's very bad at gambling, but if he can find a new shitcoin to arbitrage, he can leverage his FTT to new heights and be back at the top! It will be from prison, however.