skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an open secret; this is how VCs never lose:

When a large fund has exited a successful public company, they will use their influence on the public company to convince the successful entity to purchase the failed ones.

This is a way to keep the machine going at the expense of the investors in the public company (they are holding the bag now anyway), and this way you always have a positive track record as a fund.

Sometimes, when influence is not enough, purchases can involve kickbacks to members of the board to make sure they are convinced that it's the right choice to do.
Primary sources are the biggest threat to Narrative-based media. This is why they never ever link to court documents for example, and also claimed that accessing WikiLeaks was illegal for non-"journalists" (a word they used to mean employees of Narrative media).
"If we ever have a space elevator" such a simple phrase doing a lot of rhetorical lifting. The logistics and problems of space elevators make them extremely unlikely in any timeframe that is less than fantasy.
Yeah it's such an old meme to say "Just read the man page" but there are a non-zero amount of completely useless man pages and tldr is a great alternative.
Is there something else that's relevant? It's 300+ pages of all the information around the situation, though admittedly biased from the landlord's perspective
> Why is the media so eager to help the Justice Department by supplying potentially viable leads?

Because journalist-activists are now part of the military-industrial complex and are fully aligned with the intelligence apparatus.

> Bellingcat, meanwhile, went further and virtually handed over the potential origin point of the leak by specifying the exact name of the chatroom where the documents appear to have first been shared.

Bellingcat is notoriously a CIA operation, with a long history of covert activity: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...
What's your user agent string on Qutebrowser?
I thought all that migrated to Libera ... or is it too strongly project-oriented?
For now. :(

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/23/podcasts-are-coming-to-you...
It's not really about scalability on the TPS side for us, it's more of the scalability of the engineering practice, maintainability and developer productivity.

Big Tech gets a lot of things right.
The U.S. Supreme court will rule on that hopefully soon.
40 years ago in Spain 5 continents only, no Antarctica, my guess is as no one was living there why worry about it. Don't know if it has changed, I'll ask my son.
I’m closer to 2000 customers.
Bellingcat isn’t a news org. Most of what I saw was rehashes of their analysis.

Second, journalists use their own judgement or what to publish. Had the kid given it to a news org the reporting would have been redacted.

I object to the new definition of “leaking” that tries to make all cases of it unquestionably good. People can die due to info.
The problem with this law isn't that it's overreaching. The problem is that it sucks at doing what it is designed to do.
Yet it reflects the natural reaction of not deliberately killing someone for the greater good, because people judge that more evil than the neutral position of not intervening.

Also, if you don't intervene, you don't have to answer to the police about why you deliberately killed a man. Murder is murder, even if your intentions were good.
Prop 65 is well intentioned, but flawed. It's screwed up because it's enforced by third parties suing the company that makes the widgets. It's also crazy because things that are "known to the state of California to cause cancer" are contained in trace amounts in a lot of things. At these trace amounts there's a lot of question if there's really any chance of triggering cancer. I've worked on products where there's a calculation of how much surface area of a particular part might come in contact with the user and if the contents of that plastic resin might theoretically cause cancer. The reality is that you'd probably need to ingest it or burn it and inhale it, possibly in very large quantities, to cause cancer.

I've lost family members to cancer, and I would love an effective and sane approach to limiting carcinogens in the environment, but I'm not sure that prop 65 is a great way to do it. It mostly makes some lawyers rich suing big companies. It also leads to prop 65 warnings all over the place as a cover-your-ass move to the point where they stop having any meaningful impact.
Mars will be much harder.

No chance to survive, hard radiation, rescue would need at least a year.
You could also say it's like going to a large apartment building and ringing all the doorbells to see who's there. And (depending on the nmap flags we're talking about) then profiling their voice on the intercom to figure out what kind of people live in each apartment.
In the UK, as a kid with a severe (at the time) nut allergy, I developed a borderline eating disorder at one point by just being scared to eat a LOT of foods because the manufacturer would just slap “may contain traces of nuts” on almost everything to get out of any possible liability.

My young brain learned to believe (incorrectly) that most foods contained “traces of nuts” and I developed a kind of paranoia - especially when eating at other people’s houses where I couldn’t check packaging as easily.

Industry practices seems to have gotten a lot worse since then. I find this extremely aggravating.

Thankfully for me, I eventually got over the paranoia but I now probably take more risks than I should given how utterly useless nut allergy warnings have become.
I literally busted out laughing! We've been waiting all these years and... we missed it?!? xD
In the US, advisory labeling (i.e., "may contain...") isn't codified in law or regulation; it's something that the FDA basically recommends as a good practice when cross-contamination may occur even though good manufacturing practices (GMPs) are being followed. For example, you might have a line that processes milk and dark chocolate, which you sanitize according to GMP, but which may still contain traces of milk. Crucially, the FDA expects that advisory labeling will not be used to get around practices such as sanitizing equipment, segregating allergens from other foodstuffs, and so on; they exist as a "we've done our best to make sure you won't die of anaphylactic shock, but caveat emptor nonetheless" warning.

So what you've got here are companies that haven't had to comply with GMP requirements; decided that they don't want to; so instead just slapped a major allergen into their existing products with functionally no warning to consumers who believed the products to still be allergen-free. Which, sure, GMP compliance isn't cheap and it is complex, but this is a pretty cold-blooded way -- somewhere these companies surely have PowerPoints that do a mortality, legal, and financial risk analysis of their decisions -- to do an end-run around laws and regulation.
This is a similar take I have on one player video games, I just reaaally have a lot more fun in multi-player or MMOs. But a ton of people love the solo run throughs and what not, power to them.

I think it comes down to having a novel experience and one where there are some unexpected twists and turns.
With one of my electronic devices I once saw the warning "put down device if it gets too hot to hold".

Apparently pain isn't enough of a hint anymore.
> Could the model invent reversi/othello had it not known about it beforehand?

You've practically restated the paper's findings! :D The LLM knew nothing about othello; it wasn't shown any rules to be recombined. It was shown only sequences of 60 distinct tokens - effectively sentences in an unknown language. The LLM then inferred a model to predict the grammar of that language, and the authors demonstrated that its model functioned like an othello board.
I'm curious, how is this not the case with the freedom of speech example then? Shouldn't non-discrimination take precedence under your model?
Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and easier to just say "contains trace amounts of sesame" and not actually add sesame intentionally?

I don't understand the point of actually adding sesame.
GM’s decision to ditch Apple CarPlay, Android Auto sparks backlash
This is pretty cool! How much manual work is involved keeping the data up to date?
Leak Questions Begin to Center Around a Cell Phone
Full quote:

>The Intercept was widely criticized for its handling of the document Winner leaked—in particular, the decision to show the leaked document to the U.S. government. While attempting to verify its authenticity with the NSA, an Intercept reporter inadvertently revealed its provenance. According to an FBI affidavit, the document had a telltale crease in it, indicating it had been printed and folded. An FBI agent assigned to the case would later testify that a total of six people had printed the document. The pool of potential leakers was further narrowed to one — Winner — when investigators discovered she’d emailed The Intercept from her work computer. The Intercept would go on to conduct an internal review, which found that, in Winner’s case, its “practices fell short of the standards to which we hold ourselves” when it came to protecting sources.

Ouch.

That said this case seems quite different. The Intercept didn't do it on purpose, but instead had someone not competent in protecting the source while attempting verification. The case of Teixeira seems remarkably different, however, in that journalists actively did the investigative work for the government while also, to an extent, reporting on the leaks themselves.
You mean arguing!
That's a lot of outrage, but ultimately, why should a bakery have to sell products without sesame?
"Contains egg" on a clear package of two hard boiled eggs at the Publix deli
Guinness judges are just local, independent experts. She had enough of them. But she had to leave the cave for a few days, not mentioned there.
I love the crossover with the Prince of Persia, which was also an early computer labor of love.
Train Wreck Management: Celebrating 180 Years of Command-and-Control (2021)
Exciting! The movies had a specific interpretation which felt inaccurate at a lot of points, so I'd love to see another go.
> bread ... hot dog buns ... cereal

Without regard to this particular policy, those are all foods that your young relative is better off avoiding along with sesame seeds. I have been forced to avoid them for many years now due to different health issues, and it turned out to be a blessing that was hard to appreciate at the beginning.
Generative AI: eight questions that developers and users need to ask
Top few answers here are along the lines of what I was going to write.

The way I see it, it's main strength right now is turning an hour of googling into 5 minutes of chatgpt + Google.
In fact, eating lots of boars is the whole and complete definition of keeping boar populations in check.
> just with extra steps

I thought the whole thing here was that for inmates, there weren't any extra steps?

I'll confess to not knowing much about this though (I'm not American)
> please don’t do this

Do what exactly? And explain the basis of your accusation
It’s clearly cursed. Just convert to cargo and call it a day.
Perhaps. Ought that be illegal?
What an incredible journey. (https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/)
> When a large fund has exited a successful public company, they will use their influence on the public company to convince the successful entity to purchase the failed ones.

Why would a fund have any influence on a public company that it does not own shares of?
So you dislike when people with whom you may not entirely agree have a voice, yeah?

That’s cute.
Get ChatGPT to do it, commit more crimes.
> Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Drive are or were class-leading products. They might not be any more, but at one point they were among the best and definitely had huge impacts on the industry.

I still find them to be fantastic products and happily use them daily.
They're both pronounced "Yoo-nicks"
What comparison? My original statement stands.
Explains why he wanted OpenAi to take a break
The Wada property is when you have 3+ disjoint sets that share the same boundary set, at least for the complete Wada property.

In Newton's fractal, any circle you draw will either have a single root or all roots, no matter how small you draw that circle. If your initial conditions are near that boundary the exit basin you take is indeterminate because that point wise boundary point is the boundary of multiple exit basins and isn't simply connected.

This differs from other scale invariant features like self similar fractal scattering which will have similar 'noise'at different scales but is somewhat deterministic if treated like noise as an example.

The Wada property arises in several places like Hamilton systems, delayed partials and predator prey with food and refuge.

If you look for papers on light exiting binary black holes there are some good papers.

This page may help, but the Wada property is counter intuitive.

https://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractal...
Because that's where we live now. In Uganda the newspaper publishes lists of homosexuals.
That was a failure of governance, which was a result of their failure to have an open development model. Linus was very liberal in accepting help from hobbyists and uncredentialed people (people who were hardware-poor, and hence needed support for stuff like dual-booting...), the BSD world has always been more opaque and closed.

In a way it was a victory of horizontal, open, "upstart" governance, versus aristocratic and elitist organization.
https://markwhen.com

Timelines in markdown (gantt, calendar, map, other views)

It's open source (https://github.com/mark-when/markwhen) and there are some paid options for storing markwhen documents in the cloud.

Straddling paid SAAS and open source is a bit tricky and I still haven't figured it out completely yet. I have some sponsors as well as some paid saas clients but it's not quite paying the bills yet... I like working on it though, hopefully I can find the right balance or a different revenue model that works better.

My other problem is not only am I not good at marketing, I don't like doing it. But I also know it's the other half of the equation.
https://www.squarespace.com/ecommerce-website
I thought Protectli boxes are cheaper mini PCs from AliExpress (Qotom and similar boxes). Protectli sets them up (flashes the firmware in the case of coreboot, and installs the OS), and adds support.

But otherwise boxes are pretty good.
Doesn’t sound all that impressive.
Working to identify the source of a damaging disclosure of classified information about an ongoing war where an ally is suffering at the hands of a massive invasion force is prime, grade A, investigative journalism.
I run https://pricetable.io on a part-time/side-project basis. We are currently hovering around $6k/mo.

I think it took us a couple of years to break the $2k/mo threshold.
For incoming traffic I don't really care. The vast majority of such traffic is automated systems like bots and scripts looking for low hanging fruit to compromise. It is fine to run a low-level watchdog that throws a temporary source block on the firewall when it detects this traffic, but this is mainly to keep people happy (omg we're under attack!!!!) and keep the logs less cluttered. It doesn't do much to contribute to actual network security. Most real threats are going to be smarter than that. You should already be running your own scans, anyway, so you'll know if there's a problem.

If a scan is spotted in outgoing traffic, I would be concerned that there was a dumb bot of some kind running inside the network.

In the case of a service provider network, they want to make sure they are not facilitating criminals, either directly as their customer, or by hosting compromised systems.

A serious, targeted attack won't use an aggressive nmap type scan, but plenty of low effort malware scripts and bots will.
DNA: SSDs of the future will be radically different
I mean sure: you can't walk away from racism in humans like you can't walk away from narcissism in humans. At some point you'll encounter it.

But I can walk away from a situation in which I'm being treated with racism, or a situation in which a narcissist is playing their zero-sum game against me.

I don't hate the narcissist and I wouldn't enjoy their suffering. I just don't want anything to do with them. Nor the racist.

I press life's "restart" button to get a different interaction with a different person, and that has worked well. Even where restarting is massively inconvenient for me. Because ultimately most people don't treat others with racism and most people don't treat others with "evil", so I'm more likely to get a reasonable person on my next attempt.
As an ambitious undergrad, I took the entire language theory/compiler series offered, which ended up in some graduate level courses. I still can't believe the amount of work and hassle involved in creating the very simple compiler for a C-like language we implemented on a 32 bit target architecture - when I got to the end of the series, the last course's syllabus was one sentence: "Reverse engineer the JVM."

At that point I realized I was in over my head and walked out. Fun read, thanks for sharing.
Interestingly, the same dynamics appear to apply to the cocaine market. My friend was telling me that he regrets he can no longer safely take cocaine because he's afraid of getting fentanyl mixed in due to cross contamination of lab/work surfaces. I suppose it's tough for manufacturers of all types out there.
Instead of optimizing the naive algorithm, it might make sense to use a faster substring search algorithm like Knuth-Morris-Platt...

Forest for the trees.
> The FDA doesn't allow precautionary labeling (e.g., "may contain traces of..." or "manufactured in a facility that also...") in place of "proper cleaning procedures".
"We know the community will have questions about why we are closing these locations.

The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. The remaining four Chicago stores continue to face the same business difficulties, but we think this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community."
The federation adds its own kind of complexities, and makes everything less reliable, as well as having a different UX.

Mastodon and Federation are intricately linked in terms of design, technology, UX, community, philosophy, and more. I don't think you could build a good centralised Twitter alternative out of it.
Read again what I am referencing.
yeah that's probably not enforceable.
I know that it sucks this would be necessary, but I recommend taking up the habit of baking your own bread. It's really very easy and takes very little active time (the time it takes consists of just waiting, not doing stuff).

And even a substandard load of homemade bread is much nicer and tastier than store-bought.
Good and evil are subjective judgements. They do not objectively exist.

One person's good is another person's evil.
One big takeaway is how close the real Unix (in the form of 386BSD) came to being where Linux is today. If it had been available freely one year earlier, Linux wouldn't have gained momentum. Would it be better to have one true free Unix-like OS now, rather than two? Did the free-for-all development in Linux depend on it having no "pure" ancestry? Nobody knows.
Is this a fork of (open source but paid-value-add) Standard Notes?
IIRC he was behind the very popular Rails authentication gem Devise, as well. Really unbelievable how much of a boon he’s been to the open source community.
… does your browser not have a scroll bar?

… it was so long I literally had to grab the thumb on mine to get to the bottom?
> Can it come up with...when it has no idea that such a concept exists?

I was curious to see if it could.

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Q. Invent a new statistic that mixes hessian and likelihood with score.

gpt: One potential new statistical concept that mixes Hessian and likelihood with the score function could be called "Hessian-score likelihood ratio".

The idea behind this concept is to use the Hessian matrix, which captures second-order information about the likelihood function, along with the score function, which measures the sensitivity of the likelihood function to changes in the model parameters, to construct a likelihood ratio test statistic.

Q. How do I compute this new statistic ?

gpt. To calculate this statistic, we first compute the Hessian matrix of the log-likelihood function evaluated at the maximum likelihood estimate of the parameters. We then calculate the score function evaluated at the maximum likelihood estimate of the parameters.

We can then use these quantities to construct a test statistic that compares the likelihood of the model with the estimated parameters to the likelihood of the model with an alternative set of parameters. Specifically, we take the difference between the log-likelihoods of the two models, and divide by the square root of the determinant of the Hessian matrix, multiplied by the score function.

Q. Of what use is this new statistic ?

gpt. The resulting test statistic can be used to test hypotheses about the parameters of the model, such as whether they are equal to a particular value or whether they differ across groups or conditions. The Hessian-score likelihood ratio offers a potentially more powerful and efficient way to test such hypotheses than existing methods, since it makes use of both second-order information about the likelihood function and the sensitivity of the likelihood to changes in the parameters.
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I am not able to spot any obvious inaccuracies in the above.
I was hoping to read more about the dispute you were talking about.

As far as I can tell the dispute is that twitter didn't pay the rent and the building owner wants them to pay the rent, which is how this has been reported.
The JVM, being stack-based, is relatively easy to decompile (not just disassemble).

I had to deal with it when I wrote a bare-bones VB to JVM compiler as an undergraduate.
you should throw this 'README' up on github
The value I'm talking about isn't educational value (although there is that too), it's cultural and social value. There's vast sums of money wasted on things far more malignant than supporting multiple languages for students.
> That said if anyone from supabase reads this - I'd love to see GPG signing, version hashing/integrity verification, 2FA if it's not their already

Yep, we've got all these on the road map, thanks!

> and I know this one is a lot of extra work - but any type of automated even cursory glance for malicious code.

Unfortunately a "cursory glance" is trivially sidestepped, and anything complete enough to be useful is probably impossible. Maybe you want to write an extension that automates logically replicating your data off the server, or truncates a table after processing it, to you that's useful, to someone else that's malicious, there's just no way to know.

If you don't trust the authors then the only way to trust a TLE is to inspect the code yourself in the context of what "safe" means to you. The pytorch example you mentioned was very likely caught by a human, if an automated system were possible for python (but likely impossible) it would have caught it sooner.
I’ve seen a specific hex string used in a robots.txt equivalent in one of the big players’ repos. It may have been an openAi or Meta repo on prompt fine-tunings but can’t recall which atm.