skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wiz article does mention that (specifically for their XSS attack at least) Microsoft can't necessarily determine if anyone was affected.

Not that you're wrong of course, but with an attack like that it wouldn't be accurate to say that every user is affected. At the same time, if you can't figure out if anyone was affected, what do you tell regulators?

They could definitely review historical or backup copies of their CMS databases for Bing, or database transaction logs, or whatever they have, to determine if this type of attack was ever launched. They'd have to correlate that to Bing visitor/usage records and hopefully be able to connect the dots. Even if they have the data to do this, I don't see them doing it.
Neo-Luddism.

Like they are going to stop China or any other country outside US or EU.

The most they can hope to do, is to force some companies to move off-shore.

Wonder where was all this people when Elon Musk started releasing betas on FSD.

Self-appointed 'Center for AI and Digital Policy', nothing more to add.
I think it's the first time I've heard someone say that. Who has more influence than Germany? France is not far behind, but more influent than Germany might be a stretch. Unless you meant that they should be "the" leaders of the EU?
People died
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine
California residents too, under CCPA, if it meets the definition of a data breach.
LED bulbs suck. CFLs suck. The light is poor and though they cost an order of magnitude more than incandescents did, they are built so cheaply that they don't last any longer. And they qualify as hazardous waste when they need to be disposed of. At times I've seriously considered trying oil lamps.

The only LED bulbs I buy now are the "filament" types. Their bulbs are filled with helium so heat transfer is good, and they have a close-to-incandescent warm light color. I have had good luck with their longevity so far, but haven't really used them long enough to judge.
>But I really can't think of more than 1 or 2 failures over more than enough years.

It's bad luck for us. We've had at least 10 bulbs die within the past two years, at least half of which had been installed just months before. I'd guess they were a poor quality batch in the box we bought at Costco.

Meanwhile, the Philips Hue led lights we bought ages ago are still working perfectly.
Have you tried transcripts with swearing? Last time I tried, it censored "shit" with "stuff".

Not ideal, maybe I should've asked to censor with asterisks instead of changing the whole world
This is just an anecdote, but I’ve had multiple “10 year” LED bulbs fail after just a year or two. I suspect much of the claims for these bulbs are theoretical as they just don’t hold up, probably for reasons the grandparent poster is pointing out.
LED lighting is just another victim of the general malaise of consumer goods that is just unbounded race to the bottom, and making it impossible for consumers to make informed choices and instead having market flooded with lemons all around.
The Legacy Trap – Application modernization strategies [pdf]
Molecular syringe ferries proteins into human cells
> It's likely the planet will become hostile to (human) life long before AI will be able to do us any harm.

The race is on then.
Tesla coils aren't that expensive; go live your dreams:)
Perhaps it's the 50 year old house I live in, but lots of Phillips brand, also whatever the Lowes and Home Depot in-house brands are. I bought Kree in bulk for my last house about 10 years ago and that was a huge mistake.

As for the color reproduction issue... you do experience it, I imagine you haven't done color critical work under incandescent and then under LEDs?

I do have some stupidly expensive $29 D-50 compliant LEDs in my office that don't bother me at all. One failed after about 9 months, but the company replaced it for free.

Anyway, I'm highly sensitive to LED flicker, and my wife apparently can hear the buzz from rooms away.

At risk of sounding like a consistent theorist...The market factors that led to the lighting industry forming a "cartel" 100 years ago are certainly alive and well today. I think it's likely that these manufacturers are only selling energy efficient lightbulbs to make more money than they otherwise would -- it's certainly not to save the planet.
sudo -u nobody git pull

That said, "nobody" will have its own challenges, like the lack of a $HOME meaning there is no git config file for the user, meaning you'll need to add a bunch of specific arguments to every git command. You might want to create a locked down user just for running git.
One thing I'll say is that naming this `gut` is not a great idea for a git alternative. `u` is one key away from `i`, so all it takes is a simple typo and your users will accidentally use git instead of your CLI!
It's often hard to know, especially for items you're not going to individually research in great depth, whether you're actually paying for quality or for a name on the package even though it actually came off the same assembly line in China as any number of knock-offs. And, even if it is higher quality by some standard, does that really affect consumer outcomes?
And very informatively the HTTP error code is "418 - I'm a Teapot" at page 2001.

(Though the response body does say "out of bound", so it's not all bad. I guess this amount of fun is allowed.)
A different life though.
As far as I'm seeing here you're describing the same end result. I'm not going to disagree with you because at the end of the day I only care about that end result.

However I also think this plan will prove way more unwieldy and easy to abuse than a more direct and honest ban that makes it clear China has none of our trust and is recognized as a proper hostile state.
Happy to honestly answer any brutal questions you have!
I do not, nor will I ever, excuse penny-pinching by companies by agreeing that they’re forced to do it because people will always buy the cheapest thing they can. It’s trotted out as the lame excuse for bag check fees and other declining flying services, cheap consumer goods, cheap electronics, you name it.

To accept the premise is to believe that anything made of quality will never get bought/used which is manifestly not the case. And it strangely completely ignores the incentives companies have to make things as shitty as possible, namely lower expenses and planned obsolescence.
I guess they didn't want some employees to know what others were getting? If it were part of the standard package, that's good marketing for the company.
It’s on Github Pages so CDNed by fastly already
>"So what do you suggest as a workable alternative?"

Do not ever limit freedoms of your own citizens under false pretense of "saving the children". As George Carlin said on this particular subject - fuck the children. Rights supposed to be increasing if you are healthy society.

If you do not like China you can kick them out. You already have enough laws an discretions to do so. There will of course be consequences but that's the price.
A judge imposing any penalties or restrictions on Google over Google allegedly—and maximally—scraping data from a third-party site for use as part of Bard's training corpus would be outrageous.
Your comment is just regurgitating tech specs. In reality, the bulbs that are at hand vary so much in quality, that tech spec discussions are almost useless. The flickering is a real issue. I'm not aware of any standard way of rating the flickering of LED bulbs; they can vary from really bad (literally dark 50% of the duty cycle because one stupid diode) to decent (bidirectional diodes), to very good (full voltage regulator).
He sounds like Ted Kaczynski, but a respectable version of him. It has been odd seeing how Kaczynski's thought and philosophy has become more and more mainstream among some people. I never thought I'd see the day.
Got a flair as well and it pulls some great shots! The process is also kind of fun.
Actually, it is quite possible to get LLMs to actually do stuff. See ChatGPT Plugins.
I’m in the U.K. and how do you even get this? I’d happily keep it on me but there’s not much info

Edit: oh it’s illegal unless you’re in a very specific position that will likely not save anyone unless it’s very lucky thanks U.K. government. Dickheads.
Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
Viewing tic toc is not an expression of free speech and I don’t get why you’re implying it is.
And you never want even more lighting than you currently have? Not even so much as a lamp to adjust lighting in a room?
His stance isn't anti-conservationist, his stance is that people are stupid.
I'd guess that the arguments 100+ years ago over incandescent bulbs would have compared them to candles, fireplaces, torches, kerosene lamps, and whatever else people use when sunlight was not available since that would be what incandescent bulbs would be competing with.
This is so dumb, and I see a lot of Americans actually repeating the propaganda and truly believing that TikTok is a national security threat (even here on HN). Propaganda is truly an effective weapon.
That sounds like complete bullshit. Why would the German government bully you? And if it was some random German lawyers (which it sounds like) what does that have to do with anything related to this article?
Well yeah that’s kind of intuitive, my point is that if you just optimize for zero-shot you end up with something like GPT4 when an enterprise could probably be using finetuned LLaMA-7B with similar performance.
This seems like the real story right here. It looks like the first grants went to curl, celery and apache arrow. I think it's great to see large companies doing this.
"RHEL" model for nodejs? Why not, but finding enough people willing to actually pay for it will probably be difficult
I have spent countless hours in scratch when I was younger. I learnt to program in basic originally but I loved scratch for its ease of use.

There was a group of us during ICT classes who would try and make the best games with scratch. Ended up learning the basics of momentum and control schemes by messing around with it.
The best source on all things digital privacy in Germany (and possibly the EU dealings) is Netzpolitik.org: https://netzpolitik.org/tag/client-side-scanning/

They're independent journalists, no product other than info and have been at this for over a decade.

CCC is another extremely informed one.
So they specifically told you that they were doing layoffs because interest rates went up?
I'm sure this was a typo, but I don't think you meant "condemned." Maybe "commended"?
+ was invented by Nicole Oresme in 1360. He was tired of writing “et” (latin for and) over and over.

While we have some standardized operators that got into programming languages, we are doing a very poor job of using symbols even for very useful functions. Iverson was, and still is, right about terse notation. However, APL/J/BQN are not flexible enough in this regard. You can’t introduce new symbols. For example, you CAN do “et = +”, but you CAN’T do “• = *”. User-level definition of custom operators would enable APL-family to break out of the diamond world in which they live in.
They're already under state control.

They get an insane amounts of data requests from governments on a daily basis.

It's not clear to me this is worse than not being under state control.

I mean - our government sucks - but it is our government. Law and order is nice. Ideally the laws wouldn't be terrible.

It shouldn't be up to companies to make their own rules - even if our government sucks.
Maybe HN can take a page out of that Slashdot history and add some categories to the front page which can be disabled or demoted based on user preferences. Keep the default 2-dimensional list for those not logged in and those who did not edit their preferences so the default experience remains the same - just a flat list. Each item gets a category - start simple with 'Tech', 'Business´, 'Politics', 'Current events' or something along those lines - which users can demote or promote in their settings. Don't want to see this Bloomberg post? Demote 'Politics' and it is off the front page unless it gets massively upvoted. Want to see more of these things? Promote 'Politics' and you'll get to see what has been voted off the front page. Only want 'Tech'? Demote the rest.

Add a 'Category' list to the submission page with the existing categories. If the post is miscategorised the moderator(s) can correct this. This would solve the problems some have with the increase in political chitchat while others who deem tech to be inseparable from politics can get their fill.

This would be an easy change which does not add significant extra load to the server. As it stands I already ignore the front page since I access HN through the RSS feed, others use tailor-made (web) apps to customise their entry points to the site so the argument that a change like this would lead to a fragmented experience by taking away the universal entry point is moot - there is no universal entry point.
I don't think they care about that, I think they care about banning a Chinese app because China is not playing fair with American apps.
My first intuition why someone would use gut was that it's german for good so a "good" git client.

Most of the clients I listed I knew from HN itself they were posted in the past and I first thought this was a repost :)

From a quick search in the pacman and ubuntu repository none of those packages (or for that matter any other package) has a binary called gut. So if your client will be a smash hit you could be the first ;) good luck with that
You can also get magnet paint, so you can put up magnet thingies. I don't think blackboard paint is as durable as real blackboards, but then, different use cases.
Interpolation and forming internal abstraction from training data to solve problems are large parts of most knowledge work. Recent language models can do them sufficiently well it can help automate many kinds of tasks.

Check out cases of people using GPT-4 to help automate their coding (on Twitter and elsewhere). It's not ready for harder problems but we're probably just 1-3 key ideas away from solving those as well.

To solve harder coding problems, one needs to be able to extrapolate properly. When an AI can do that, it's basically AGI and can probably solve any cognitive problems a human is capable of. Combined with its other qualities like massive communication bandwidth, self-replication with ease, travel at the light speed, it will be ready to take over the world from humanity if it wants to.

Wikipedia cannot do the followings which even current AI can:

* Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantitati...

* What can AI do in 30 minutes?
https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/superhuman-what-can-ai...

For that matter, most signatories of the petition (and myself) were never persuaded by most other "revolutionary" ideas you mentioned above.

See the names and accomplishments of the signatories at the bottom part of the page: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
I 100% agree with you on that point
>the example of Axel Springer losing to AdBlock plus...

Because AdBlock is a company who luckily had the means to defend themselves in court. Small time individuals don't have that luxury, so the likes of Axel-Springer will use their massive war-chest for lobbying and to abuse the copyright system again and again until they get their way. Even if they're in the wrong and they end up loosing a court battle, it's still a very powerful intimidation tactic.

Look up newer articles. Axel-Springer was still pushing for the AdBlock ban in 2022 and lobbying for it despite loosing a court battle. They're playing the long game.
I love stories about America violating sovreign airspace, especially when they use such a cool plane. The entire world is truly their own backyard!
It’s not just “other people” though; it’s all of us. I think the crux is there is abundant research that shows humans are not particularly rational, but your take seems to assume they are. How do you reconcile those two diverging viewpoints?
I doubt they were absolutely convinced it was real, but still pretty hilarious. https://www.businessinsider.com/bruckheimer-china-moved-sate...
What a huge missed opportunity for Usage Based Pricing [1]

[1] https://openviewpartners.com/blog/state-of-usage-based-prici...
Refreshed before I commented to say this and saw your comment labelled "0 minutes ago". :)
That's the crux of this. There are no surprises in AAD behavior here, it's just that Microsoft put developers or security people on these products that missed the mark.

Everyone makes mistakes in their careers, but these are some awfully big mistakes with awfully big stakes.
-> /s
>To accept the premise is to believe that anything made of quality will never get bought/used which is manifestly not the case.

I disagree. It is a ratio of quality to price. People have different opinions about what the acceptable minimum ratio is, and it varies by product, and by time. For example, many people find Costco to hit the right ratio most of the time.

For example, I have been using LEDs and dimmable LEDs from soft white (~2700K) to cool white (~4000K) with no problem, all purchased at Home Depot/Lowes/Costco. Some have failed earlier than anticipated, but nowhere near enough to cancel out the cost savings.
You keep claiming that. And it is plain wrong.
I haven't had an LED bulb that didn't go out within less than a year of use, not even 300 hours.
In my opinion, it's less about the amount and more about setting an example that this is something that moral companies should be doing.

My startup sponsors 25 projects/developers on Github [0], curl including, and none of them with a significant amount of money. However, if majority of companies that use OSS were to do so, the amount of funding would suddenly be a game-changer for almost all of these projects.

[0]: https://github.com/orgs/ProteinQure/sponsoring
> UK is the same with CCTVs on every street.

This claim appears continuously on HN, but it really isn't backed by reality. The UK is no more covered by CCTV than most major countries and in fact, per capita, has fewer cameras than the US.

https://www.precisesecurity.com/articles/top-10-countries-by...
Amazing what engineers were able to do (build aircraft like the SR-71) before computers came along and made them less productive.
Ask HN: Does your company do All Hands meetings?
And if so, is it formal or informal? Are presentations vetted? Does it feel like a conversation or a webinar?
You just answered it :p

Microsoft trained AI on the internet and it became a racist asshole. OpenAI released ChatGPT and people had fun jailbreaking it to get it to do evil things.

Someone could just put AI on a weaponless drone and it could start slashing kids at a playground, deliberately or not. I think what Sam Altman wanted to do was to make sure that if someone created an AI library that was as popular as MySQL, it wouldn't easily develop slasher drone behavior.
Looks plausible, apart from the stray "perl" on the front, but I would put money on it being plagiarized from the input dataset because it's too neat. Especially with the comments. And the mildly surprising choice of SSE2.
I think just like CFLs and incandescents before, quality is going vary and people will need to stick to a brand that works. I've had a lot of success with Cree light bulbs. They seem to have much better light quality than some of the hardware store brands.

They definitely cost a bit more, but I had one fail 5 years out and I was able to call Cree up for a replacement. The rep collected a few questions - model, when it was bought and what type of room and fixture it was installed - and then sent me a new one. Despite being a different model, it matched the temp and tone of the old set of bulbs.

I empathize with the author, but at the end of the day, a lot of people seem completely unaware of lighting to begin with. Walk down a US street at night and look inside, you'll see clashing warm and cold color temperatures in the same room, sterile cold bulbs in entryways and living rooms, dreaded boob light everywhere.
I would call it "better than nothing"-documentation as you probably have to be a bit desperate to look here for docs. Probably took effort to reverse engineer the behavior too or from someone that knows the in and outs of the mac window manager.

Although thinking about it, it probably is common for window managers to have some kind of drag map because they also need to to allow to drag stuff with apps that completely crashed.

But yes, really nice that the commit explained the change. By experience more extensive messages are available where others also invested an unexpected amount of time.
> [...] great achievement and something to be condemned

I assume you mean "not condemned" or "commended" possibly?
I can't imagine paying $150 for a six pack, when Home Depot's private label LEDs are $12 for a six pack. I could replace it 10 times before I hit that mark - not sure it's worth that.
Ok, I see your point, but this creates another risk that you could end up on the GitHub page of an imposter repository that directs you to npm install from a typo-squatted malicious version of the package you're looking for.
The Go compiler has a really interesting, black box testing tool called "testscript"

You can find an extracted, installable version here: https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal/tree/master/cmd/test...

For test cases, I would look to libraries in any language that has them in an easy to copy format
I think you can still buy them. DataPower is still operating at IBM, but they put less emphasis on XML as a selling point and more on it as a general WAF.

I actually came across this wiki page when searching for the backstory behind JSONx, IBM's standard for representing JSON as XML.[^1]

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/datapower-gateway/7.6?topic=json...
I on the other hand hate when people yell at you to turn off the light!
APL designers also work to keep symbols to a minimum, and any given APL program introduces zero new symbols. They're not context-dependent (why did you think this?), and very few are domain-specific. Various languages differ a bit on this: J has more primitives, and several for number theory or other specific branches of math, while K has very few, and all are general.

From Alan Perlis in APL's early days: "The large number of primitive functions, at first mind-numbing in their capabilities, quickly turn out to be easily mastered, soon almost all are used naturally in every program — the primitive functions form a harmonious and useful set."

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm
Why we are paying for OSS Contributions and why you should too
One way or other, the cat is out of the bag and there is no going back. Remember Napster. Even if Open AI/ChatGPT is taken down, however unlikely, there is no slowing down the innovation that is about to transform our lives. This moment in time feels like early 2000s when Web 1.0 became real to masses and suddenly everyone had a use for web. We are at precipice of the next big technology cycle, and this is showing all the classical symptoms of incumbents fighting the inevitable disruption
A cup, a Flair, a hand grinder, and some kind of pot to boil water is definitely all you need to make amazing coffee when you’re out camping. Another one along these lines is a Cafelat Robot. I’m not sure which one is easier to pack or more durable though!