skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stumbled over this quote in a different context but I feel like it applies everywhere: the optimal amount of fraud is not zero [1].

Now that Pandora's box is open, we will always have some AI-generated content. If we try to stamp it out we will exclude real voices, just like stamping out welfare-fraud makes it harder for 'legitimate' welfare recipients, of which there are way more than fraudsters. We need to be careful not to cut the nose off to spite the face.

[1] https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
All the Agile that I've seen is best suited to something like an outsourced Web/app agency that works for enterprise clients, and bills based on time.

Just iterate, with uninterruptible chunks of billable time, and keep getting customer feedback on each concrete visual thing you can show them.

If it's inefficient, and might miss big-picture needs/opportunities/coherence, but you're making revenue on that inefficiency, promptly and recurring.

And the customer's many stakeholders are probably happier than if you'd tried to do project management. They don't have to think hard upfront, nor coordinate too much, nor commit to risky decisions. They just have a meeting every week or two, to approve/reject/bikeshed.

Unfortunately, sometimes this methodology is applied to projects for which it's not suited as well, such as for a company that needs a solid product and business model. (Not VC-growth-oriented startup that hires a ton of people, for whom sprint tasks are a "proof of work" productivity, which is a relief from the organization's hard coordination problems.)

And I get the impression that a lot of people in tech right now have never been on a team that exposed them to project management other than creating and doing individual sprint tasks.
Caste-based discrimination affects US based tech companies due to the large number of Indians in the sector. See this essay for specifics:
https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/06/title-vii-and-caste-dis...
Subway builds an ‘EV charging oasis’ so you can recharge while you eat fresh
Wow, I actually had forgotten that.
You need extensions to stop this behavior from websites. ;-)
Huh, yeah. I think geos is the only one of these that's actually calling native code not provided by the platform (it calls a GIS library written in C++). The file-locking code calls into the Win32 API to do something that on Unix is provided by the Python standard library. The Oracle driver code is working around a bug in Cygwin. And the test runner isn't doing FFI at all; it's setting up some multi-process shared memory, and the API requires that a ctypes type be used for that, since you don't want to use regular Python types that can allocate at will (and might do so in the wrong part of memory) for that purpose.

The typical Django deployment uses none of these, but on the other hand, it does use a third-party database driver written in C, so I guess the point stands.
“Our research has shown that we can cover 81% of the viewport without causing seizures.”
They can't drive at night or other teens for the first year they have their license. If they start early, they still have a full, unlimited license at 17.

I think the decline in interest is something else, because just between me and my several years younger brother's times the interest amongst teen boys driving dropped off significantly, despite the same restrictions applying.
4) They have enormous fines to payout 5) This was mostly backoffice not consultants
I'm loving the upgraded horse blankets.
There is an interesting question about when a site's curation of its content (including recommendation algorithms) crosses the line into making its own viewpoint that incurs liability not protected by §230. In an extreme hypothetical, were Youtube to show nothing but terrorist propaganda in its recommended videos, it's challenging to argue that it deserves immunity because it's "just" hosting user-generated content. Whether §230 still applies in such a case is notionally the goal of this SCOTUS case. It's an interesting question--even an important question--and why SCOTUS chose to hear it is clear.

Unfortunately, flicking through all the briefs, it seems that no one actually wants to answer that question. Instead, everybody is trying to argue for or against §230 more or less in its entirety. I guess people took Thomas's complaint about §230 in a prior dissent and everyone assumed they could find enough votes on SCOTUS to gut §230 entirely? (Ironically, Thomas seems to be firmly pro-§230 in this specific case).
“Just the same old trash in new shoes”
I think median salary for full time employment in Seattle is surely below 100k and yet people live there somehow. 4x of median should be great, no?
Fully agree.

I suspect that even if FIDO doesn't spec out a portability standard, the smaller players might. There's no guarantee the big platforms will play ball, but even if they don't it'd still be useful to some people.

I'm not sure FIDO even could mandate portability if they wanted to, though. I suppose they could for certified implementations, but while I see Google on the list of companies with certified authenticators I don't see Apple or Microsoft... they're large enough that people will use whatever they implement regardless of whether it's certified. As far as I can tell it's not a requirement for implementation, and Microsoft and Apple have more name recognition than FIDO by far.
IMO the title would probably be best rephrased as "Centralized/Proprietary AI Is Useful for ..."

I think Stable Diffusion, being FOSS & usable on a decent range of consumer hardware, is a pretty clear counterexample to the article's claim - it doesn't matter if you're a capitalist or not, you can get great value from the technology. Funnily, the article totally avoids mentioning SD.
Reminds me of one time I was naughty and let a child in on a secret: the real magic word is "now".
I've been through a couple attempted transitions to agile for hardware. There are some agile elements that I think could work in hardware development but the people pushing the changes have always been too stubborn to recognize when SW agile methods just don't make sense for HW.
This isn't entirely the right comparison, mostly because "AI" covers a wide span of things.

AI that benefits from the kind of adversarial training that you mention are mostly _planning_ type AIs (think AlphaGo). The problem these AI systems try to solve is that you have some constraints, and as a human "can't be bothered to" work out an optimal solution, so you have the computer do it for you and it does so by starting off with a bad estimate of a solution and "improving" it by trying stuff.

LLMs, on the other hand, are more of a modelling/compression type AI --- (well, more traditionally it wouldn't even be considered AI per-se due to the lack of planning capability). The problem here is to try to represent a huge swath of data in the as efficient a way as possible, thereby forcing it to find and collapse "patterns" by adjusting the representation. Here it's generally not the case that you want to train with adversarial distributions.

An easy thought experiment is: say you take a single case (e.g. a game of Go or a paragraph of text) and massively over-represent it to both models, so much so that that single case eventually covers 99% of all your training instances at the end.
For a "planning" AI this over-representation isn't a huge deal --- once it's learnt all it can from that case, seeing it again is but a waste of time*. It merely makes that particular plan more "clear" but not more "desirable".
However, a modelling/compression type AI will continuously adjust to adapt to the increasing occurrence of that case. It truly "believes" that the more often it sees some pattern, the more important it is, right until it has "forgotten" everything else.

*: This is kind of an over-simplification.
No way, AI will also be useful in medical fields, or anyone who has to pour over more data that can be parsed in human lifetimes in order to make discoveries, such as a search for extra terrestrial life, or even in the fields of law. Think outside the box.
Nx is a pita (imo). I have had amazing success with rush and pnpm.
Indonesia got hit pretty hard. Someone event made a tracker for it [1]. Currently at least 42 companies have been affected.

[1] https://ecommurz.com/layoff/
Exactly. Imagine every macbook pro/iphone coming up with the open source models preinstalled out of the gate. You don't even need to query google or even see ads. You would have a nightly update that transfers the diffs of the latest news etc.
What's fun is that even though this is highly useful for that type of relationship, the firm I used to work for would tout these practices and claim that's how they believed clients would best be served; and then as soon as we set foot on the ground, they'd just capitulate to whatever worst practices were on the ground, out of 'pragmatics'.
Think I have unselected those as well but I will check.
I think this is a valid concern for pro, semi-pro, collegiate and competitive recreational players. Not so sure for the millions of other players who play with crappy, uneven, knotted, too rough/smooth “ordinary” balls everyday. Of course that doesn’t mean there is a market for it.
You beat me too it - such a great article!

Even libertarians find that one funny haha.
>There are only a handful of companies with enough data to be able to train artificial intelligence algorithms.

https://commoncrawl.org/
UK. I was looking for a job last month. It was harder than it typically would be. A lot of recruiters were talking to me, but then not getting back to me. I doubt it was an experience thing either.

I think it really depends on what you're looking for. There's stuff around still, but it seems salaries are generally lower and interesting jobs are harder to come by. Then when you do find something there seems to be more competition and it's harder to secure an interview.
Chrome extensions that contain malware aren't written and submitted to the chrome store hoping to sneak past review. Malware authors _purchase_ the intellectual property of fulling functioning, useful extensions, and update them to contain their extra malware payload. I'm not sure where you got the idea that a review would be involved here at all.
They could be. But there is this pretty awful trend of AAA publishers "porting" their games to Switch via cloud streaming. Maybe they won't do that for a competitive shooter like CoD though?
Japanese startup offers balloon trips to the edge of space
Large amounts of Google's internal RPC traffic goes over a custom internal framework called Pony Express, which is optimized to work on the internal cluster fabric.
I think most folks, especially the ones I’ve spoken to on the issue—specifically object to the idea that more than 40 hours nets any real gain for KNOWLEDGE work. Results may vary. I don’t think anyone is arguing for example that our paramedics aren’t doing anything useful after 40 hours.

That’s the key distinction and as someone who has worked a distinctly bullshit job his entire career; I’m not rushing to spend any more time than I need to sitting at that desk.
Turns out it's easy to be fast if you don't have any features.
I think perhaps we need to agree on the real problems that exist.

It's not like users are getting their data stolen left and right out there and man these extension trojans are winning the battle against good extensions and we just can't shake 'em. All your base... are belong to us.

It seems the status quo is that extension fraud, while entirely possible as this article demonstrates, is not actually a problem. If you don't trust a piece of software to access your webpage content then don't grant it the permission to do so. I think the onus is on alarmist pieces like this to bring the data supporting the existence of a problem to be alarmed about in the first place.

I mean, raise your hand if you've been pwned by a malicious Chrome extension recently...
Lord knows what people are calling coaching these days. But if they're actually coaching, then yes, getting the team to run the meeting was exactly my goal when I did that kind of work.

But that can be tricky. The biggest issue is to train managers to not make it about the manager. For that, an external coach is especially helpful, because it's the rare engineer who can sit their boss down and say, "Look, you're destroying this meeting. How about you not show up for the next two weeks, and then optionally show up but never speak for a month after that?"

But even once you've created a space where power doesn't distort everything, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. People who talk too much or too little. People are unkind, rude, cutting, or outright mean. People who talk about the wrong things. People who don't even know what to do if there isn't a manager around to try to please.

The truth is that for most people in the industry, their median meeting is bad. People with shorter careers may never have experienced a good meeting. So expecting them to just figure out how to have an excellent meeting every day is asking a lot. Especially a stand-up, which has pretty sharp constraints. If a team already knows or quickly figures it out, great. But a coach can really help.
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”
Timing is everything…
Fair point. There are multiple social-media ecosystems and you can have different winners in each. Facebook owns friends-and-family, LinkedIn owns professional relationships, NextDoor owns geographically local relationships, etc. But I can't think of any social media ecosystem with real competition.
This. Traditional Chinese and Japanese are two seemingly similar but distinctly different things (the latter is forked from the former).

Simplified Chinese is a whole different beast of corruption that is a fork of Traditional Chinese but otherwise not similar to either.
It’s to placate regulators and shutdown a very vocal critic of the Activision merger.
NVIDIA was one of the loudest voices against and not anymore.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/02/21/microsoft-will-bring-xbo...

NVIDIA sees Microsoft as a major competitor but Microsoft on the other hand doesn’t see NVIDIA in the same light they much more worried about SOE.

NVIDIA knows that Microsoft cloud gaming and consoles are a direct threat to their PC gaming market. And with Microsoft having a cloud gaming service already NVIDIA fears that the money train might stop.

The next console generation (not the mid Gen refresh) might actually be a cloud only box, it would not surprise me if NVIDIA sees GeForce Now as it’s life raft if 5-10 years from now there would be very few who would buy a gaming PC with a GPU.
You could probably say this about anything that improves productivity. FWIW it would be nice if there was a safety net in place to help people recover from having their jobs automated out of existence.
I bought a garmin fenix 3 HR at costco a few years back and it's just that plus the optional "cloud/phone connect" or whatever but it's free. Maybe have a look at their Garmin product lines?
This seems like its written to meet the authors agenda.
Note that there are other possibilities, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wake...

The latter in particular can look and feel very much "night owl" when forced in a regular 24-hour schedule on a mostly permanent basis.
Most of India is not Upper Caste. It is telling that the vast majority of India finally had functional sewage systems reach their village (99.9% coverage), electricity reach their village (99.9% coverage), cooking gas reach their village (100% coverage), and is now having clean water and fiber optic cable reach their village (currently ~75% coverage for each), only after the first non-Upper Caste person became Prime Minister (Modi).
Picking an australian city as a counter example for urban sprawl is a pretty weird take. I know, your example is specifically about parks but that's not a very good example of good and comfy parks in a dense city.
"Hey farmers, you aren't feeding your sheep enough. This isn't good for their health, and we are very concerned about them." – wolves
Yes.. we are the making the point very clear here that we are the open source alternative to Flatfile and it resonates with your thoughts also.Curious to know why the GitHub repo has put you in ambiguity.Happy to receive a candid feedback from you.
Ford partners with LG Energy Solution to build European EV battery plant
I suspect it depends a lot on the standup. My favorite place I worked had a great one. 10-15 minutes every morning, a brisk and helpful way to get focused, line up the help you needed, and kick off the day. I miss it deeply.
> but a technological monopoly is often just a standard.

Sure. To use, participate in, and build upon this "open standard", you (or your team) just have to keep up with some of the most well-paid (presumably for a reason) programmers in the world, and then hope they see Chromium as an open standard worthy of pull requests as well.
People still use either of these tool? /s maybe
You won't be needing radiologists, family doctors etc. You describe your symptoms and upload the scans, blood tests etc and Dr. ChatGPT will tell you exactly what is wrong with you and the steps you need to take to heal. It would also generate the prescription and have the medication sent to you without you needing to lift a finger.
There should be a list for them.
The crux is that the plaintiffs want to go after Google in any way they can, and they're grasping at straws to try to eviscerate §230 immunity. (No really, they're arguing that the URLs in search recommendations are original content that therefore doesn't get §230 immunity).

§230 is explicitly pretty broad on immunity: it states that providers are neither liable for failing to moderate nor for the consequences of their moderation. "Good faith" is a requirement, but only for actions taken to restrict access to the material (i.e., it doesn't apply to a failure to moderate.)
What does "disparage" mean in this case? Just like saying it was a bad situation, or bad culture or bad management?
They get quite a bit more than this: look at what's sent with an ad request some time!
Yeah, i worked at AWS and 100% heard leadership make this statement, even heard them make statements that they would issue more RSUs to make employees whole if the TCT dropped too much. Lots of us joked that that would never happen annd TCT was a one-way street- I guess we were proven right.
https://www.asyncagile.org/method-stack
I am not even planning to push any sort of limits here. There are architectural elements which coalesce requests towards the edges into fewer, larger pipes. At most, any one of my socket servers will be responsible for 1k connections.
The short answer is, malware authors will pay you to distribute their malware.

If you phish someone and gain access to something, you can sell that access to someone else.

The "end" of the chain is things like ransomware, identity theft, cc fraud, etc.
We sandbox apps to prevent them from reading each others data. It's impossible to sandbox web extensions and have them retain basically any of the functionality needed.

As well as almost all regular software is backed by some large company with legal presence to hold responsible. The same can not be said for most extensions.
The Ohio state budget is 24 Billion dollars. I think they could come up with a million dollars or two to cover housing and transportation for those that want it. We are talking about a small number of people here. If every family wanted to stay away, they could give $10,000 to each for with 0.1% of the state budget.
Original title: A Trader Says Code Allowed Him to Withdraw Millions From a Crypto Exchange. Prosecutors Say He Crossed a Line.

Free share link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trader-says-code-allowed-him-...

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> Federal authorities arrested Avraham Eisenberg in Puerto Rico in December, accusing the 27-year-old trader of manipulating prices on a crypto exchange called Mango Markets and draining more than $100 million from the platform.

> Mango Markets all but collapsed after Mr. Eisenberg withdrew the money on a single day in October, authorities said. Mr. Eisenberg had defended his actions, saying he did only what Mango’s software code made possible.
+1. I really find that I hit my stride around 1am. Lovely for personal projects. Unfortunate for professional work.
Care to provide an example of an ios app which can read the data from other apps when they shouldn't?
I don’t understand. Are you saying that Amazon should have foreseen you cancelling AWS spend because of changes to prime in your area?
> they don't care about anticompetitive behavior unless it's a company they don't like

If you think that Google generally gets treated positively around here, you haven't spent much time on HN: there's very rarely a Google story that doesn't go negative in the comments. And I'm also quite curious why you think you're the only one around here who "worked with normal users for years".

I also worked with normal users for years (and still do), and actively taught people what a browser was and recommended Chrome on the basis that it was better than everything else.
This is not an Apple-specific feature, though. Windows 11 has a similar mode on Thinkpads, although I don't recall if it's something Lenovo-specific or it works everywhere.
Sure, but you don’t need to install them.
Isn’t the concept of intellectual property theft a capitalist construct?
Yeah. The Wikipedia page isn't all that great on this topic; I'm going off of my recollections from the book American Railroads, although it's been a few decades since I last read it.
I've heard these often receive notes of appreciation addressed to the tree.
The author doesn't get into whether even capitalists will be able to reliably get their AIs to do what they want. Good news: AI may end up being terrible for everyone!
"Hafu" originated as a Japanese term for half-Japanese persons, though usage has spread to other cases. I chose it because most terms used for mixed-heritage people have derogatory connotations but "hafu" leans somewhat positive.

When I listen to these students, the core complaint I hear is that they feel there is no social group where they can feel completely accepted. I'm afraid my advice may sound either trite or unrealistic, but it's really the only thing I can think of that could have been done to better their social experience.

I have a story to illustrate how social difficulties can come from a direction you don't expect. I have a Korean colleague who went to France for her sabbatical year, taking her grade-school son. When they returned to Korea her son apparently displayed "French" behaviors which led to his classmates ostracizing and bullying him. My colleague resolved the problem by transferring her son to a school in a more affluent neighborhood where the kids did not perceive him as odd.
What not to like about T480, the 'Last Mohicans' of the ThinkPad laptop generation with replaceable components i.e. battery, RAM, etc. The most glaring weakness probably the screen come by the default 1080p but that can be upgraded as well.

I recently bought a used one around USD$250 and with further USD$200 it will be 64GB portable workstation beast. When working at the office simply connect it to to the docking station and you have access to all the wonderful display of 2K and 4K monitors.