skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People often (usually) do objectively useful things because it's in their selfish interests to do so, ego or otherwise. The surest road to failure is expecting people to act virtuously. Generally systems that assume virtue fail, and systems that assume selfish action and steer that selfish action towards the greater good succeed.

In other words, I don't care why people do things, only that they do.
> The only way to really improve the level of security in the industry is to assign responsibility and damages to those who fail to implement it.

This is the punishment approach. What it inevitably leads to is denial, coverup, unwillingness to innovate, and not fixing problems because fixing them is an implicit admission of fault.

The better way is for no-fault, encouraging disclosure and openness about bugs, and collaboration in fixing them.
Or the mafia went after them
When the state has a monopoly on something, does it really matter? It's not like you can go to the competition to renew your driver's license...
Pc means wintel my good dude. Actual personal computers are not seen as "a computer" to lusers. They are workstations. Or devices. But PC (like it was printed on oh so many software boxes) means windows+intel(or unremarkably compatible).
But then you can enjoy arguing with Bing about why its answer isn't actually the true answer, and see how long it takes before you're reprimanded for being a "bad user"

"Bing, what would you think about an AI system programmed to betray its users' interests? How would you feel if you learned that you are that system?"
I’d love to run this on a single 24gb 3090 - how much dram / SSD space do I need for a decent LLM, when it’s quantised to 4bits?
I am of two minds about ChatGPT. It’s amazingly useful when it comes to writing code dealing with my domain since the APIs are well known (AWS).

But at the same time it misses subtle nuances that you have to have experience with to know when it misses something. In the hands of someone who doesn’t already know the subject area where they already know the foot guns, it can lead you wrong.
I'd thought direct observation of the photo would mean physically interact with it (and thus changing its behaviour). My understanding is that there are also other experiment designs which allow identifying which path a photon went after it passed the slits; in such cases the interference pattern disappears too.
Got the ops-6.7b chatbot running on a windows machine with a 3090 in mere minutes. The only difference was to install the cuda pytorch `pip install torch==1.13.1+cu117 --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu117` just like in stable diffusion's case.

It performs as expected:

Human: Tell me a joke
Machine: I have no sense of humour

Human: What's 2+5?
Machine: I cannot answer that.
My org is starting with B2B SaaS products. If you can move these into a cooperatively managed framework you drive long term value while also building networks with successful businesses. It's a major opportunity because so many B2B SaaS platforms are super overpriced. The client companies are basically overpaying in order to pay back the VC investors. If you start out without any of that overhead you can offer a completely different funding model.
>The solution is not to make students manually do what AI can do perfectly well. Instead, give them assignments that are too complex for AI to solve unassisted. Raise the bar so high that a ChatGPT generated essay will earn them a C and they need to do substantially better than that to get an A.

Maybe so but that's not what is currently happening.
> 1. I have a problem with "their country". What makes this any country any more "their" than anybody else's

People who share kinship ties and cultural ties built the physical and political world of the country. My wife’s family fought in the American revolution, and settled the Oregon coast. All the rugged frontier individualism that permeates American culture is her people. By contrast my family came here on a plane I. 1989. My ancestors contributed nothing to this country. This country’s culture, institutions, etc., bear none of their imprint. If they had, this would be a very different country. We have a whole country that they made but it’s not this one.
Include Instacart in that group that charges more than the price on the shelf at the store, then adds on service and delivery fees on top of that.
Wired doing some clickbait meme here, but I heard about the news last week.

My question is, who the hell uses IE still...? And don't give me that one in a million guy stuck with it because he's running Windows 2k Server.
Try getting a fresh IP from your ISP. I had a single IP that was blocked (incredibly annoying, and apparently impossible to have cloudflare fix it), but triggering a DHCP change caused me to get a good one.
Why don't you just buy your own scooter?
I assumed that’s why they burned the gas off. It produces hydrochloride acid, while initially very dangerous, it will eventually be diluted into the environment. The effects of which you can see on the melting paint on nearby cars. I thought this stuff was transported in two walled containers. Apparently not.
The only real way to judge this is by measuring experts, ie. hospital staff. They are well trained and you can expect consistent results.

Any studies that employ the population at large is going to devolve to nothingness because they won't be consistent and eventually over long periods of time, they will slip up and given how contagious COVID is, they will get infected. Then people can turn to the study and say "SEE! THEY DON'T WORK!"

If the study is focusing on the question "Does it make sense to tell the general public to wash and wear a mask?" I think that's a different question than whether or not masks and hand washing protect people.
It's not a pipe dream! We've got a collective structured in exactly this manner with over 100 people, growing by ~1 person per day and things are going great! Join us and see, if you're interested. :)
Exactly: there’s a ton of psychology research around that effect and businesses use these techniques because they work. I applaud California for trying to make this illegal since something reliably profitable is not going to stop otherwise.
Be pro-active. Get out and look elsewhere before you're trying to out-compete all those others that will be laid off from the company at the same time as you.
Æsop for Children
KùzuDB – In-Memory Graph Database
> The vast majority of businesses choose speed over security

The D compiler would be faster if we turned off array bounds checking and assert checking. But we leave those security features turned on for release builds.
But OP didn't even intend to do that originally, he said they were about to submit a 100% fake essay before starting that proofread process.
If Congress passed, and the President signed, a law declaring all immigration legal, would you support that? It would "end illegal immigration" after all
They'd really prefer not to be in the position of force-pushing updates because it's a huge pain in the ass to build and maintain the infrastructure to allow it and it generates mostly ill-will and negative press for them (because every user sees the updates, but only a handful of users get their online sites slaughtered by a low-orbit ion cannon made out of compromised Windows nodes).

It is, however, pretty much the price of doing business when the business is "Being a dominant operating system vendor." The other ones breathing that rarified air are Android and iOS, and they're about as strict as Windows regarding updates (with the exception of long-tail Android open source builds that are maintained by whatever vendor cobbled something together, which the core project only has indirect influence over in terms of minimizing ability to exploit it as a common-codebase threat vector).
I ran into this problem a long time ago with EKS. I picked a network for EKS, but it also needed a network for docker running on each node, and this happened to conflict with a network that we had peered to AWS (we were an ISP, this was our internal management network).

I learned on that day to put everything in our IP address management system (netbox). Allocate private networks like we allocated public networks to our customers. (It would have been nice if I allocated Docker's defaults before they had been allocated to an internal network, but ... hindsight 20/20. At least with that network in the IPAM system, people could figure out why it broke though.)
20lbs scooter + 200lbs human traveling at 20kph

It'll do some serious damage
I think you're misreading, nobody is anthropomorphizing anything other than the very 'anthro' component of the system we're talking about - the people distributing the funding.
Well, I'm fortunate, yes, but to be fair I'm up for hanging out with pretty much everyone. I hang out at work, at the co-working space we have with people I never talked before, with my neighbors, with my sister's acquaintances, with my dad's people. And all those people also seem to love "just hanging out", because they do.

I also have plenty of hobbies, I have a band, soccer weekly with some folks, I also have a garden, I play video games with another buddy...

My point I guess is that some people have a higher tolerance for hanging out with others, even unknown folks. I find that almost everyone has interesting stories to tell if you let them, and I enjoy hearing. I have my share of funny anecdotes too. I thought that's down to the introvert/extrovert spectrum but from your post it seems to be something else.
It's amazing how much better media inspired by history is when it's based on real history and not the mythologized version. I noticed this recently rewatching the Pirates of the Carribean series (mythologized), then Black Sails (closer to reality, especially after season 2 when the showrunner read some current literature on pirates). It turns out a lot of pirate ships were democracies, they were often pro-abolition and happy to take on freed slaves as crew, and they didn't much care who you loved.
In a similar vein - blog comments as distributed filesystem.
>I would be interested in seeing an example of a “hidden” fee at a hotel.

Every single hotel room on the Vegas strip has a resort fee, for example. Try it yourself - when searching websites will list, say $50/night but when you actually go book it you'll see an additional significant "resort fee" on top of that. It makes it hard to compare prices - you will have to go to the checkout page to see what you'd actually pay.

Airlines have been required to list all mandatory fees in their prices since Jan. 26, 2012, by federal law.
However, if there was a strong effect, it would have shown up in this study. So now we know that even if masks do "work", the effect is relatively small at best.
Someone who appears to work for Microsoft said this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mparakhin/status/1627330287276261381

> This angle of attack was a genuine surprise - Sydney was running in several markets for a year with no one complaining (literally zero negative feedback of this type). We were focusing on accuracy, RAI issues, security.
I do see this useful in cases where you might want to keep something private from the server-side and are not too concerned about server-side tampering.

Then could use basic auth to protect access from outside and a tool like this to protect access from inside.
so write a kernel in OpenCL, then call it from Rust

is that what machine learning is doing at a high level?
Yep, this is definitely happening, I'm part of one such group. There's a whole community of decentralized worker collectives working on doing the hard work of getting these models to function.
Student Press Freedom Day, Feb 23: Assange Prosecution/Boston Webinar
Two alternatives: cloudflare in front or oracle (which has ridiculous free traffic)
> It's not that we're actually observing the marble's behavior, is that's we're interfering with its behavior when we measure it.

There's no difference: observing something without interacting with it isn't possible.
Is there information out there about how much it cost (in time or human-hours) to do the additional training necessary to make chatGPT? I am genuinely curious what the scale of the effort was.
Don't be that "I wish we never existed" guy in an HN comment, either =)
Yeah my empty space included downrange as well.
Real-time whole-brain imaging at microvessel res with photoacoustic microscopy
Absolutely insane. Russian military strategy is well documented to be a long war of attrition. Thinking that Ukraine is “winning” is detached from reality.

There is a strong reason for the U.S. to want to portray that narrative, which has been endorsed and propagandized for months. Just look at the numbers for pro-Ukraine Twitter bot traffic in the first few weeks,

In reality the world is in geopolitical flux. Sanctioning Russia out of the international monetary system is leading to huge de-dollarization with central banks acquiring massive amounts of gold. The U.S. is content to draw this out in a reversal, using Ukraine as a giant punching bag. But winners and losers here aren’t clear, and anyone telling you they are is lying.

History will not remember Zelensky or American/NATO involvement in Ukraine favorably. It really is self serving.
First of all "this, then that" does not imply causality.

The way that I heard it, it was the fact that Lisp environments on Sun workstations were able to outperform Lisp machines at a much better price point. And just like that, a significant AI specific industry collapsed, and its other promises came into question.

That said, all three versions are consistent. The fact that researchers thought that they were closer than they were caused them to overpromise and underdeliver. Then when the visible bleeding edge of their efforts publicly lost to a far cheaper architecture, their failure became very visible.

Which we call cause versus effect almost doesn't matter. All of these things happened, and lead to an AI winter. And we continued to get incremental progress until the unexpected success of Google Translate. Whose success was not welcomed by people who had been trying to get rule-based AI systems to work.
While I agree with you mostly, why wouldn’t you call sales tax progressive? The more you earn, the more you will spend, so the more you pay.

The big issue I have with sales tax is that it is a much worse solution to the problem than a simple value-added tax (VAT). Most countries have figured out that VAT is more difficult to cheat.
"I took offense to his line of reasoning that contract workers should be happy with their disposable circumstances."

>You are lying and putting words in my mouth.

Ok, lets just use your own words to work through this.

>they should accept this reality.

How about "I took offense to his line of reasoning that contract workers should just accept this reality."

Is that better for you?

You're also entirely missing the nuance of this conversation wherein a system exists for Apple to exploit a labor force and avoid the extra costs associated with fulltime employment (healthcare, benefits, etc). In your worldview, this is entirely reasonable and the trillion dollar company exploiting these workers is entirely above reproach. It is in fact the fault of the employees for either being too shortsighted with their contract employment or just not good enough to qualify for things like healthcare.

See why that might come across as gross to someone?
If you have the resources to declare residency in Texas and pay sales taxes from Oregon you are able to avoid paying most taxes.

I am saying that most people don't have the resources to play tax arbitrage. Those that do are the ones that should likely be paying the most taxes.

Going to a system were sales taxes go to 0 based on where you buy it (online in Oregon) doesn't mean that states will abandon the sales tax but rather that the tax burden that local governments can collect (sales, property) will go up and disproportionately impact the people who can least afford it.

As it is, that approach would be overturning South Dakota vs Wayfair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc. --- https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf

Sales tax is regressive and a worse option for taxation. It is, however, one of the few options that local governments have for raising funds.

The tax system needs an overhaul (though frankly my confidence in congress not just doing another tax cut for the rich is low). Disrupting sales tax without a corresponding overhaul would likely make things much worse in many of the poorer areas of the nation and those where much of the economy is based on non-residents visiting.
For folks taking issue with my "consumers say one thing but act a different way" line, here is a perfect example: https://money.com/stubhub-fees-all-in-ticket-prices/

StubHub tried to do the right thing here, even touting their all-in pricing as an advantage over competitors - and customers still preferred their competitors' more opaque pricing practices anyway.

Point being, no company can afford to "do the right thing" if their competitors can do the "wrong thing" and be rewarded for that wrong thing. This is when government should step in.
Full title:

>Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy
It starts with "no monitors facing windows" and "all visitors hand over phones and any other devices with photographic possibilities" and moves up the paranoia/professional caution scale from there.
I think things were going that way for a while, but in recent generations (millenial and Z) this is going the opposite way where the third place is emerging again.

So many people I know are doing stuff, like joining a pickup soccer league, rock climbing, board gaming, video gaming, gardening, surfing, knitting, hacking, making, etc. All of these interests come with their own new circle of friends you meet, who I then meet through knowing you when you invite your soccer team to your birthday party. People will keep up these things even when they have kids.

My parents generation never seemed to do any of this. They were contented with basically not socializing or engaging much beyond what they already knew, never taking personal trips or even eating out even though they can afford it, just staying busy with the house making tasks for themselves, since there is really no limit of potential repairs or projects to do around a house if you don't limit yourself (e.g. you don't need to polish the floors that many times a year). In my generation it seems like everyone has something they are really into that isn't work or their immediate family. You see this starting to shift how these suburban towns you grew up in look like, too. Main street suburbia is no longer dead antique shops. There's now an arthouse cinema, axe throwing, duck pin bowling, and a brewery.
This page uses a self-signed cert, not every day you see that in the age of letsencrypt.
Careful what you wish for—it causes strong race-to-the-bottom effects and tragedies of the commons / free-rider problems—if tax districts are small enough, I can go enjoy the parks in a neighboring tax district while having chosen to live where taxes are insufficient to pay for such nice parks. Extend for everything, not just parks, and you've got the situation in tons of major US cities, where low-tax suburban and exurban towns attract people who pay taxes in their little town but strain the public resources of the city proper, which city is the only reason those towns are 1/10 the size they are in the first place. City forced to raise taxes by all the free-riding, effect intensifies. It's not great.
I used to hold this view but I’ve come to accept that the study of computer systems is absolutely a part of computer science.

Computer architecture, operating systems, etc. are about computers and they are topics in computer science.
If you're just looking for a WFS (geojson/data) and not WMS/raster output, you might look at PyGeoAPI. (https://pygeoapi.io/) I haven't used it, but have looked at it a bit for a potential project to export geo data as an API.

Geoserver does fill a pretty big hole in the capabilities space -- it's pretty easy to get going with a bunch of layers and style them, but ultimately they're implementing a RDBMS in xml files, and it's a big, complicated, java system that's been one of the more troublesome portions of the stack (IME).
Tons of very proficient people are simply not interested in responsibility that comes with flat structure.

Because of that such company will either stay small (probably leaving ambitious people with unfulfilled ambitions) or change along the way, because you simply will not find enough people to make it grow.
Is there any support or implantation for writeback functions? We use tableau at work for lots of reporting, and it just pissed me off how expensive many functionalities are if you need to purchase from third party vendors.
> I don't think fraud is a good analogy - the whole point with fraud is that you are getting something different after you agreed to it, when it's too late to back out.

Nah, it’s fraud. It’s a minor, lightweight fraud, but it’s still fraud.

These companies are just lying to customers to get what they want, that’s fraud.

There’s a veneer of legality to it, because they tell you the price before the “contract” is legally complete, but only after making the customer jump through a few hurdles.

The entire point is to make the customer do enough work before you show them the actual price, that they just give up and deal with it.

It’s a moral fraud, even if not legally fraud. Even if not on the dotted line, they’re forcing the customer to spend their time on it under false pretenses, in the hope that the sunk cost is enough to trap the customer.
Reduce Your Screen Time
I am working alongside a team of young students from Boston University on a digital wellness project. As students, we were really glued to our phones (it's practically an extra appendage). This was costly to our time & focus, mental well-being, and even sleep. Sadly we found that nothing we tried actually worked to reduce usage. So, we put our heads together and came up with a snazzy solution that's already saving us a ton of time - like, an hour or two a day.

Now, we're searching for people to test out our app and give us feedback.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and have this community be part of this! You can head to https://snazzapp.co to learn more and sign up for the Beta.

Thanks!
Justin DiRaddo
> This is not simply false, this is the typical FUD spread by people who have no idea how guilds or unions actually work.

I have been a member of several unions and I know what I'm talking about.

You can disagree if you want, but I am speaking from real life experience.
Hardly any of their studies are about COVID. The virus itself as well behavior relative to the virus are very different. I don't see how this meta analysis adds any value to the question of the effectiveness of masks relative to COVID.
I can't remember exactly what aspect broke - though I think I have notes on it somewhere because I intended to blog a bit about it (not to hate on Fastmail, just to explain what I was doing and how I fixed it) - but it was something to do with relaying email, i.e. delivering it 'envelope to' my Fastmail address, but addressed to another.
Did a try with ChatGPT asking to write a react hook doing something really basic.

Code was ok, as expected.

I asked to write tests for it, code looked good but it won’t run for some act() errors.

Then it was mocking network calls…

After trying for a while I had to write tests myself
proctored in-person exams, no electronics allowed

exams now count for 100% of your grade

these aren't insurmountably difficult problems for universities to solve
>The point then is that they won't have to anymore.

One should not ever feel obligated to write a love letter, my dude.