skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I breached the database, but then got stopped from exfiltrating data because somebody made it so the USB sticks don't work".

It might be a generational thing, at some point I know people actually had Napster running on their work computer, or were torrenting porn movies. That's how the whole Metallica thing happened. That feels absurd to me in today's corporate env., for better or worse the work/private split has really come a long way.

Malware spread by physical media was also a thing for a while, it's not just about the getting stuff out, a lot of the restriction on USB is not getting things in.

PS: on the "why" of all that...I'd say Windows. Platforms all have their weaknesses, but Windows opened the doors wider than anyone else IMHO.
No worries! I would of never thought about it had I not been on my phone!
"You cannot be blamed for bad decisions if you make no decisions".

Far easier to say no to everything, that way either your manager takes the blame when they overturn your decision or your are blameless when Shadow IT takes over.

That, and it allows you skip the troublesome business of userstanding user needs.
It’s an exciting new word for plastic.
As far as I know their economy actually improved post war.
Western Countries were undervaluing their resources. Getting out of a trade system seems to be an economic benefit to them, the same way getting out of colonialism would be to an African country.
I just don't understand the stick approach. When probably a carrot would have worked better. Shame a deal could not be made.
I wish it wasn't true either.

Seeing a semi-technical acquaintance use in-browser software for daily productive work hurts my programmer's soul. It's alright for some light things, like vacation planning, but remote desktop or an IDE...

Then there's that other scourge of Electron-like apps with gigantic memory budgets and all. I have resigned to throwing more hardware at it when I can't guarantee a lighter replacement (i.e. in a work setting):

All my productive systems have 32GB RAM and 8+ threads now and with browser, Teams, Outlook, IDE and dev containers the air's getting thin again :/
Mixing native Python with PySpark?
Hello all, I found this debate after 4 days of "internet vacation" to fulfill a dream of my grandson (10 years old) to go with me on the Legoland roller coaster in Denmark. What shocks me is the reproach made to RMS to be old! The real reproach would be to be dogmatic, stubborn, incapable of compromise, which perhaps is partly justified. I am over 70 myself and still enjoy advising the European Commission on FLOSS and the EUPL license.
Old age is when dreams give way to regrets,
Kind regards,
Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz - EC Joinup legal support
I’d be really curious to read an HN-level apology of the Aliexpress counterfeiting.
Not implying you’re advocating for it, just wondering if someone would read this comment and feel compelled / know of a good pro-Aliexpress knockoff culture / industry.

Well except for “it feeds people in China / gets consumers cheaper products”. I mean anything that goes past that, in ethics also.
My testing would definitely lean towards deep fried jpgs aye. Every time it seemed to hit a bump somewhere then got caught up in a loop of googling whatever problem it was having and not finding an answer it was looking for, then going on to look into that problem, etc, etc. I guess you could put a step in to allow the human to nudge the AI back on track but then it's not really autonomous.

Also it's really slow at doing anything, even before it goes off into the weeds. I understand it's new and wont be polished but man. Really slow.

At least it's a decent motivator! "Oooh this is a task AutoGPT/BabyAGI could do... ehh it'd be quicker to just do it myself"

I'll keep an open mind, still eager to see a successful attempt at something. That'd at least open up a chance I'm doing it wrong rather than it not doing anything useful.
Highest paid is a different metric though. Highest paid AI person is probably Ilya Sutskever who owns a good chunk of OpenAI and is worth billions
Was watching videos about late 90s early naughties PDAs and things like the Psion or the Palm had ways to code directly on the device for the device. That’s quite unusual in this age, you need permission from the platform now to even hope writing any code to run on your own smartphone.
These kinds of articles really need to answer "compared to what?" at which point they immediately cash out into nothing.

So, 185,000 gallons of water were used to train GPT-3 which is apparently enough water to grow just 100 lbs of beef or 210 gallons of milk.

(420,000,000 lbs of beef are discarded in the US every year just due to discoloration)

That seems like a trivially good deal.
> On a Mac, just keep up with software updates and think really hard before overriding security warnings.

Also, while SIP wouldn't have helped in this particular situation, consider if it's really necessary to disable it. Living with SIP on is occasionally cumbersome, but I don't trust myself enough to run without it on, even as someone who's been a technically-minded computer user for coming up on a quarter of a century and a dev for over half of that.

If disabling SIP is ever truly necessary for me I think I'd do it in a VM. Especially on M-series machines virtualization of macOS has gotten quite good.
5Gbs symmetrical AT&T Fiber residential for $170/month in metro area of southeast US.

And backup than I never have to use except middle of night maybe once a quarter when AT&T doing maintenance or something… first year we had like 5 fiber cuts and autofailover was awesome, but they finally buried deeper and no more cuts.

1.2Gbs Down/35Mbs Up Comcast Cable for $120, can’t remember Internet part of the bill, $90 or $100 I think; no TV channels, but do have Telephone service for alarm system (AT&T compresses VoIP and it doesn’t work).
It's any material resembling leather that is made without any animal byproduct.
http://www.tribblix.org/
Sounds plausible to me.

If your research grant comes through from the ADA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dairy_Association ) and you need another subject for the "firm" or "spoon soft" group, feel free to drop me a line.
Counterpoint: The only thing children learn from seeing faces is how to fake a smile. By wearing masks they can observe the whole body which is much harder to control. What I said is not based on science as far as I know.
Industrial policy and the new knowledge problem
The US also built at least one nuclear reactor and never used it.
WebGPU does not play in the same league as tfjs, it is a successor to WebGL, the technology tfjs is implemented with. There is already a WebGPU backend for tfjs: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tensorflow/tfjs-backend-webgp...

There are also several ONNX runtimes using WebGPU in case you want to run models written with PyTorch.
I wish pass wouldn't store website names on cleartext by default.
Check out Dubai Lamps: https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...

> Dubai Lamps are special LED lamps designed by Philips for high efficiency and very long operational life. A simple design change reduces stress and excess heat that otherwise significantly lowers the mean time before failure of regular LED lamps
The actual conclusion is simply that there's no evidence to support that mandates work (or don't work). Which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement given that it's hard to prove a negative.

"It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not able to address the question of whether mask-wearing itself reduces people's risk of contracting or spreading respiratory viruses."
I started working at that age too, but certainly didn't need an ID to get a job (and never have at any point in my life, afaicr - and I've never even heard of 'working papers'). Are you talking about in the states? Cause for jobs (at least those that aren't under the table) I've only ever needed a social security number.
In regards to research I'm struggling to imagine useful applications of being able to create such raw files. Also, as it's a general term for a file containing raw sensor data, it would be different across sensors.

In any case, perhaps some kind of hardware-signed cryptography scheme on the files from the camera could be used in lieu of this development in the future.
What has helped me is nattokinase, occasional aspirin, and plenty of nitric oxide foods / supplements. Very low risk and are generally found in natural foods. But I take these because I suspect I’ve had long Covid post my two infections.

There is also a triple anticoagulant therapy of clopidogrel, aspiring, and apixaban. Those studies are popular in South Africa.
An open ecosystem can be used by more than one closed ecosystem.
It was meant as a non-specific quantity appropriate for adding to tea, of the same material in powdered form.
And the way you sync the databases as well, if you do that.
Can you post a link for this or is it a simple search?
Ah it seems it is down.
Ooo… Nice use of the "Still Alive" Portal song lyrics. That game had some pretty "deep" lore.
I read recently that DNA transcription for protein expression is able to identify and skip an inserted element, but that the protein will be slightly different at the boundaries.

It appears to have gone badly wrong for the "Tasmanian Devil."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802805/

https://www.science.org/content/article/origin-tasmanian-dev...
You could apply the same logic to anyone ringing the alarm bells about climate change (or alarm bells in general). Just because snake oil is usually unfalsifiable doesn't mean everything _currently_ unfalsified is snake oil.
Well, corporate organizations developing LLMs and open source LLMs are not mutually exclusive. LLMs more lightweight so as to run on more mainstream hardware, but not as capable as corporate ones, may still be very useful. Running the software on site has many advantages as you outlined above, by highlighting the disadvantages.

The OpenAssistant was/is trained on well structured data from humans for exactly that purpose, for deep learning. In the past most LLMs were trained on unstructured internet data, and they performed well enough. But it was only when OpenAI used reinforcement learning that really the model started to shine.

In my opinion well structured data as input to the machine, have a long way to go. More lightweight models, a lot more precise, a lot faster execution and a lot less memory usage are certainly possible. Most probably we are at the end of the road for the usefulness of structured data. I remember reading an article "Why Large Language models are over", meaning that smaller models but better trained, with better data and algorithms are the way to go.
Trained eye for what? I'd assume that everyone judging that photo contest was a professional with a trained eye for photography; but that apparently doesn't imply having a trained eye for ML-generated images, and doesn't necessarily even involve having looked at ML-generated images, much less knowing which are the common "tells" for detecting them.
“Contact” on the Random Access Memories album does this well. [1]

That entire song makes me picture a white knuckling unscheduled re-entry followed by nail biting waiting, concluded by a successful splash down.

[1] https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc
> The foundation is slowly consuming itself into a Linux Foundation like corporate organization that is in the interests of Big Tech companies and not the community.

I'm amazed at how soured the Linux Foundation has become in the eyes of the Linux and open source community. Seven years ago the Linux Foundation removed the non-paid community members from the board, and we all knew the writing was on the wall.
AI-generated image won the Sony World Photography Award
Very insightful.

I think the trademark policy is further complicated by the fact Rust™ (is that how we're supposed to do it?) only has one functionally complete implementation. This is another disaster in the making, and the community is collectively putting their head in the sand. [1][2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31779218

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31435473
Great work. Online comic strips are going to be next level!
Sure, but in this case he's explicitly discussing other people's use:

> On the other hand, people who believe AIs and specifically LLMs possess "intelligence" are often accused of "magical thinking."
SQLite-history: tracking changes to SQLite tables using triggers
Similar to ChatGPT it also fails the "What is heavier, one pound of feathers or two pounds of lead?" test. So far only GPT-4 passes that one.
The person who generated the image seems to have decades of award winning experience in actual photography, so I wonder if that trained eye passes your test?
What did you find?

I believe most use a synthetic version. I’ve only had the natural one a few times and it was quite different, but the drink wasn’t as sweetened so that might have been the difference.
if there aren't water shortages where the data centers are it's not really a problem is it
Add some midjourney-generated manga drawings.
A robot from a Metal+ Gel material that conducts electricity and heals itself
Searching for Lost Time in the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar
> Floats are a computer representation of scientific notation

No, they aren't. They are IEEE 754 binary floating point data. Something extremely weird, without precedent outside of computers science.

> Coincidentally, hardware support is extremely important for scientific computation.

Maybe it was once, but today it isn't.

If you need to do any serious number crunching you use nowadays dedicated hardware for that (which isn't part of the main CPU usually). (You could use CPU integrated GPUs or FPGAs for that, sure, but the point is that the FP unit on the CPU is usually way to slow for anything more serious.)

> Hardware support is also extremely important for games

That's more or less the only valid usage in mainstream left by now. But even there:

> but floats are not a good representation for most of it.

Exactly!

As said, you could and should use ints for most things. For the rest you want actually rationals. Only in some very special circumstances floats are a good enough approximation. But the cases where this is true are mostly related to rendering, as it doesn't matter if some pixels shown for the fraction of a second have a marginally wrong color or are marginally off. But rendering is done on the GPU anyway. So again no reason to use FP features on the CPU.

Even games using vector and quaternion math extensively this is just lib code in the engine. So there is no real reason this couldn't be moved to the GPU also, given an adequate architecture of the game engine. Such an approach brings even amazing possibilities for games; just have a look at for example https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468720/Ultimate_Epic_Bat... Want to animate 10 million of individual NPCs? No problem, if you do it on the GPU!

So imho the case for FP on the CPU is very shallow. But the need for rationals and decimals is a real thing. That's what the average cooperate developer needs day to day.

It's a shame HW is stuck in the past since decades and there is still no promise of progress on the horizon. (Maybe FPGA accelerators build into CPUs will change that at some point. But we still don't have that, even it's overdue.)
A lot of Italian olive oil isnt from olives. There was a huge scandal a few years ago of local producers adulterating olive oil (right around the time the dioxin laced mozzarella happened)

Thats why I buy Californian or Greek olive oil. Not that I trust Greeks more than any other European, but their very good stuff is so good its obviously olive oil.
Back in the day, one of the newspapers in Denver would put out a "Best Of..." issue every year. One year, they said the question they get asked most often is why they published curated content for the list instead of taking votes. Their answer was simple -- because when they tried taking votes, every year the best Mexican restaurant was the same: Taco Bell.

I think about this when I see ideas like this. You aren't going to get the best responses. You are going to get the least common denominators. Not what people like the most, but what people dislike the least. The answers that are the least divisive, not most insightful.

And even that assumes that you don't just get infected by botfarms, vocal minorities, or straight-up trolls.
Yep, also some legacy incoming ftp
> There really should be a rule that important decisions can’t pass with a tiny majority

There are at least two major problems with such a rule:

(1) On an important question, “yes” and “no” are both important decisions.

(2) Who decides what is “important”?

You can make a rule that is closer to “you can’t make specific kinds of deviations from the status quo without a supermajority vote”, but that’s…very different from “important decisions”.
> user was root

In a well designed zero trust network this makes little difference. The traditional posix security model is bogus from the start anyway. A lot more useful stuff you can exfiltrate as a regular user usually.
It depends on the details.

A package whose README says:

"This is an automailer to send the CEO of Google a friendly Hello, and politely request changes to the Bug Bounty program."

Which does exactly that, and nothing nefarious beyond that, would probably be okay. It's doing exactly what's advertised.

You want to avoid anything which uses words like "hack" or "compromise." Indeed, you can go out-of-the-way to point out it is explicitly not a "hack" or "compromise" under current Google policies.
Please excuse the unrelated question...I have seen this theme multiple times in the last couple of months, and believe it is open source. Does anyone if this is the case, and where to find it? Couldn't find a mention on the site itself
not universally true, gigabyte motherboards definitely allow you to disable this
I think the measurements don't say anything about the size or how the electron is distributed in the probability distribution other than that it's spherically symmetric to a very small tolerance. It's interesting that there is another model of the electron orbit in atoms that is a spinning fluid shell of charge with an exact radius. See https://brilliantlightpower.com/theory-overview/
>It does confirm that Ukraine is losing the war badly, I think it was like 7 Ukrainians dying for 1 Russian.

Are you referring to the picture with 17k russians vs 71k ukrainians? I thought that was the one that had been edited/falsified…
The discount that China and India get compared to spot price for being the only customers must be substantial, though undisclosed, as far as I know.

China and India are winning here, while Russia is forced to accept low prices.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914
Stop adding comments starting with "Stop bla bla bla".
Visualizing the Link Between Unemployment and Recessions
This (well EHAM) is one of my standard daily listens whilst WFH. That and the Flying Fortress over at MyNoise (a service I pay for) https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/propellerNoiseGenerator.ph...
It’s much easier to put in a backdoor, or actually implement a small monitoring system, in a closed source operating system.

That’s much harder with open source software, not due to technical reasons, but because there is a good chance that eventually it will be discovered by some developer or security researcher. That will cause distrust of the government, and people going to defensive mode, making it much harder for governments to routinely hack into devices.

So, for example, the discovery of the flaw in the Debian random number generator had a huge impact. People who design security systems really pay attention to PRNGs nowadays (to the point that it seems weak PRNGs are no longer a significant concern in the mainstream desktop operating systems, though the issue obviously remains in IoT, virtual machines, HSMs etc).

Hiding the code for malware is common sense. That’s also why governments severely punish leaks these days.
There technically never was a “Tesla Inc.” with separate branches. There was a bunch of essentially unrelated companies named “Tesla something” that used the same brand and (obviously) traded with each other. There was similar pattern with “ČKD” and “Škoda”.

Some of these companies still exist under the original name (eg. Tesla Stropkov), some ceased to exist, one of them did slight rebranding (Teco = TEsla KOlin), some of them did more extensive rebranding and restructuralization and some of them were integrated into multinational electronics manufacturers (Philips, Motorola, Infineon, TDK, Sony, Foxconn…). Somewhat interestingly the part of Tesla that originally was Czechoslovak branch of Philips is today owned by NXP, but it didn't happen directly but through Motorola and Freescale.
When this was previously posted, some of the commenters mentioned that this might be breaking the LiveATC TOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35126914
I agree that the test becomes the target in many things, but how do you suggest applying that to food safety?

If easy tests are out, you go to a very complex test immediately?
What sort of editing did you have in mind? If you are using SD to add things to the photo for example, you would see the difference between the raw file and the .jpg you submitted?
And Germans and Americans are waiting for war fatigue to catch on to start pumping billions into Russian economy and joint companies with Putin. Traitors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uae9_pgZzE
Foundation has the Decimal type (not technically part of the Swift standard lib, but in practice available for most uses of Swift).
> would immediately be the highest possible level of breach

Obviously not true, in fact none of the companies I worked in that was the case. Now, if we're talking about somebody like network admin that may be more juicy, but in a large company rarely a single person has the "highest possible level".

> If you never worked at a company that took it seriously it is hard to imagine that there are people who do take it seriously

This sounds quite unsufferably smug, and unwarrantedly so. Yes, we get it, in Google they have access levels. Newsflash: this concept wasn't invented by Google. A lot of companies use it. Running code on engineers workstation does not give you keys to the whole castle. But it does get you into a first perimeter, after which you can do some recon, not available outside the big firewall, launch other things against corporate sites not available to mere mortals, look for "experimental" servers which are poorly secured because they're not production yet and are behind corporate firewall (that happened in pretty much ever company I've worked with), get their hands on some juicy browser cookies containing authorizations to some internal services, steal some code finally... There are a lot of interesting things a person can do with engineer's access and some of them may land a stepping stone to a next step access maybe. If you don't understand why such a thing may be important even without giving somebody the keys to the castle - maybe you don't know enough about how secure systems are built to smugly dismiss other people.
>Throwing blanket accusations of incompetence at the jury

Clearly you haven't spent much time in the art world. The idea of competence is fundamentally opposed with the reigning ideology in fine art (as opposed to commercial art).
Looks really fun and neat, but it's probably impractical as all hell.

I was gonna say that if you wanted to get reactions from an in crowd, a more practical way to get them would've been the OS X T-shirt from Cool Shirtz (https://twitter.com/coolshirtz/status/641923217460858881) but looks like that's not on sale anymore. Apple Inc. lawyers on the case?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/01/plant-o...