skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
User since beta, subscriber since he started charging, and my primary search engine since January. About 500 searches a month. Very happy customer. I do a monthly sweep of subscriptions to make sure we are using all of it, and I never think about dropping Kagi. It keeps getting better, not worse like every other search engine, and the reason is because the user is the customer, not advertisers. Every ad-supported medium turns to shit, no matter where it starts out.
Does not paying for a service remove the legal liability to owe for the service?

If you credit card is bad because you cancel the virtual card, can't they keep billing you anyway, and also add bad credit card fees on top of it? It is definitely a crime to intentionally write a bad check, is it a crime to supply a virtual credit card number that you know you will invalidate in the future to prevent being billed? That seems equally fraudulent.

I guess I don't see how a virtual credit card prevents debt collection and need to appear in a small claims court down the road.

I am a child of the 80s and 90s, I learned that you play the silly games of big corporations not because they are fair, but because they have very huge legal teams that can and will destroy your life.
I suspect you'd lose that money. Many of the recent GitHub outages were caused by database issues. Examples: https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-ap.... In fact last march they specifically mentioned “Database stability”: https://github.blog/2022-04-06-github-availability-report-ma...
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Wow, I still have the first edition around here somewhere. Not a collector but it was so different at the time that I never got rid of it.
Right, but in the mid '90s when Java was designed, 64 bit machines were basically an exotic architecture and its practicalities weren't well understood, which is quite clear when CompressedOOPs is basically the sane default.

The weird inconsistency is apparent as you fairly frequently stub your toe on the 2 billion size limits of Java arrays, which is an area where 64 bit pointers would have made much more size than in object references.
Towards the bottom of the JEP, they mention that the ultimate goal is 32 bit object headers, which would necessitate object monitors be tracked on-demand in a side table. That's what the parent was getting at.
“Yeah, we see here that you developed your own machine learning framework in your free time. That’s great and all, but jross225 didn’t find you interesting enough, so we’re going to have to pass, sorry.”
> where there's smoke, there's often a fire

Actually, as the replication crises shows, most smoke from papers either isn't real / doesn't point to a fire. So that maybe is a flawed line of reasoning. Correlation (if the research is done carefully to avoid intentional or unintentional p-hacking, and free of fraud) can point to maybe do a follow-up study (or do lots of different kinds of studies to do a good meta analysis that can try to establish causation) but the replication crisis indicates the good studies are swamped by the meaningless ones.
"Some crap for free". Come on now. Give credit where credit is due if you're going to talk about balanced scales.

React

PyTorch

Flow

React Native

Folly

RocksDB

llama

HHVM

Relay

Fresco

zstd

Buck

Sapling

Redex

JSX

infer
Presumably the content isn't encrypted at rest on the device, or if it is, it could be decrypted by the phone owner (parent, child) to help aid an investigation.

E2EE is not the issue when one party discloses the info, excepting mechanisms like plausible deniability built into apps like Signal, but even at that point LE should be able to get a warrant and then do proper police work: stalk the target under cover until they unlock their device, then rush in and grab it before they can put it back to rest (e.g, how it was portrayed in the Silk Road movie).
SAAS - Speed As A Service.
Ask and you shall receive. I’ll put some time into making a blog post with the technical details this weekend.

In the mean-time, here’s a lunch and learn video I made to show it to work people.

https://youtu.be/qo97UxPTYRA
I'm not a clueless wet-behind-the-ears engineer, and, sorry, but I don't buy it for a second. These systems are heinous cash grabs.
It goes to show how Windows desktop development experience was brought down due to the GUI civil war going on Redmond.
Call LPL
I fully believe the current US government and most businesses can't create any kind of public mandate, regardless of the content, without throwing in a section about diversity. They don't fully understand AI but they do know how to cover their collective butts.
Java is also considering making value objects that don't have that overhead:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/8277163

.NET has something like that already, but it would make a huge difference for things like Optional or if you want to make a type for, say, complex numbers where there is just 64-bits of data (for FP32) and even a 64-bit object header would be 100% overhead. Value objects could be possibly allocated on the stack and completely bypass the garbage collector in some cases.

Note that with that overhead, Java is an environment in which you can write multithreaded applications with good reliability and scaling, something that WebAssembly definitely isn't.
Banks and tech companies do not have high security. There are exactly zero deployed commercial IT systems that can prevent a targeted attack by a financially motivated threat actor who stands to gain $11M from a successful attack. In fact, even at the $1M, low end of the ransom demanded in this case, is very unlikely you would find any company who could prevent complete compromise of their critical systems.

The problem is that every single cybersecurity solution in the standard commercial IT space is snake oil. Microsoft, Mandiant, Google, etc. do not know how to make a system secure against this level of threat actor. Despite that, they insinuate that their systems are effective so that they can swindle the non-tech savvy to purchase their solutions.

So, the actual big question is, how do we get the non-tech savvy to be safe from the cybersecurity companies? Until then they will keep flushing money down the drain and be unable to find real solutions in a sea of bullshit.
Yep. I wish OTP memory, eFuses, etc. were all illegal due to unnecessarily creating e-waste. In places where OTP is actually required for some technical reason, it should have to be on an easily replaceable socketed chip with no other functionality.
I despise this writing style. What is the point the author is trying to make? Define what a ur-language is up front, don't be so damn coy. This isn't much more than a list of interesting languages for some definition of interesting.
dissaproving_drake.jpg: Giving evidence you can match the capabilities of OpenAI

approving_drake.jpg: Saying everything OpenAI does is easy
As if “corporate environment” and “interesting people” are remotely compatible.
in vienna people usually greet each other in the same building, even if they don't know each other. could be that is only true for me as I greet everyone and maybe they just do it back.
Perfect. The context:

Wesley’s retort was of, “…but I find that Thibault cancels out Capa Ferro. Don’t you?” This speaks of Gérard (Girard) Thibault d’Anvers (1574-1627), a Dutch fencing master and author of the rapier manual, Academie de l’Espée (1630). Thibault brilliantly utilized both logic and geometry to aid in his swordfighting defense. Therefore, Wesley felt that his Thibaultian studies in using such tactics as (for example) “higher ground” and angulation on attack, gave him added measure when defending against linear thrusts such as “The Lunge.”

-- https://combativecorner.wordpress.com/tag/bonettis-defense/
So I can go on to ChatGPT and expect it will never be able to close brackets for me?
This line of thinking was shared by the original group who called themselves luddites.
I got the whole way through to the end of a senior backend role interview process a couple of years back and it was very enjoyable because of the people.

Sadly I got vetoed by one interviewer for an inelegant game of life solution (first time I’d ever seen GoL and I got bogged down in the middle logic) - never been so disappointed ever as every interview I had went really well on a personal level and (with the exception of that one) all my code was fine.

I hope to see Shopify continue to do well, I’ve used it for over 10 years and love using the platform.
Replit (YC W18) Is Hiring Engineers and Designers
It's safer in the bank. At least you defer dealing with thieves to someone else.

Indian communities around me were getting hit hard by home invasions and robbery some years ago once it became known that they hold and trade large amounts of gold in their homes.

Money attracts thieves like food attracts bears. Store it somewhere away from yourself.

Besides, no safe is fireproof. At best they are fire-resistant. Good luck getting to your money while your house is burning (lol) or after it collapses.
They provide the forum and the moderation and the users bring the content. Just like Hacker News. Anyone can do it, the hard part is getting users to show up. They're entitled to as much money as advertisers are willing to pay, just like any other site.
Back when I was learning to wire up a Z-80 to make my own first primitive 4kb RAM computer, I really didn't think I'd live to see the day when there were 32-bit CPUs with 32kb RAM in lightbulbs.
He explains his point convincingly well.

You should make your point in reply if you disagree with OP, because slandering OP is not changing my pov to yours here.
This. Not to say companies always get comms right, quite the opposite, but there's entire org structures filled with people dedicated to crafting these communications and the decisions about wording and audience are probably debated to death internally. My personal hell, but I have to acknowledge it's existence and purpose.
Did you read it?

I honestly don't care if it's really a leak from inside Google or not: I think the analysis stands on its own. It's a genuinely insightful summary of the last few months of activity in open source models, and makes a very compelling argument as to the strategic impact those will have on the incumbent LLM providers.

I don't think it's a leak though, purely because I have trouble imagining anyone writing something this good and deciding NOT to take credit for the analysis themselves.
Optimistic to represent object references with native pointers?

C and C++ usually do that too.
Next time try https://isup.me
> ...hold your fire in a battle...

Admitting that the modern Laws of War are too-often broken, or twisted far beyond their intent...but shooting at a uniformed enemy soldier, during an actual battle, while making reasonable efforts to avoid hitting civilians, Medics, etc. - that is a very narrow set of criteria. 99.999% of humanity is neither on nor near that battlefield, to plausibly be targeted, nor be victims of errors and shell fragments.

Vs. "use live ammo" against ransomware crooks? That sounds like a recipe for yet more "a week after our missiles obliterated his house, we realized that the real ransomware crooks had been using his hacked old cablemodem as an extra relay" lethal screw-ups.
Seems like a decent deal trading stable pensions and government services for losing the ability for a few percent of your population to use financial markets to expand their wealth constantly.
With git I can create, edit and merge branches locally. If GitHub is down I can push to another remote I can send diffs. I can calmly carry on working until GitHub is back. If GitHub is down too much I can migrate to gitlab or gitea.

I would say the decentralised features of git work for me. And they are no overblown.
They aren’t affected until the mailing list servers go down.
The last two books are available at your favorite site.
Well DIA is a major hub because of the population of the Front Range and Colorado's historical popularity for skiing. DIA is (relatively speaking) not that old an airport. It replaced a closer-in (and more convenient to Denver) smaller airport. And when DIA was built, it made sense to build it on a huge expanse of flat land well east of the city.
We havent discovered silicon based lifeforms.

(Don't say transistors, because you know these are completely unrelated and mere coincidence)
A company is “forced” to use Apple for subscriptions. It’s been years since either Netflix or Spotify has even allowed in app subscriptions.

I’m not going to subscribe to some unknown indy outside of the app store and guess what happens when someone changes credit cards or they expire? I’m going to update my Apple payment information. I may or may not update my other subscriptions or I may just decide it’s not worth it and let it lapse.
I was once reminded of a movie I had watched two weeks prior and realized I hadn't thought about the movie once since leaving the theater. It occurred to me that this is a good proxy for whether I think the movie or book was worth-while.

Years after, I'm not surprised your recall of details from War and Peace has faded, but I don't think that's necessary for "deep insights". In the 18th and 19th centuries, people thought that reading novels provided exercise for the "moral imagination". Reading a novel or essays that provide an opportunity to turn things around in your mind in a way that yields interesting insights leaves you with something more durable than a plot synopsis.
You will note that this study is very specific with its claims : 21-30, male, (only?) addicted / high potency.

Which is a surprise to me, as I thought that it was already "known" (while they say it's a first specifically for schizophrenia(!?)), and without these 3 specifics.
> I believe the SCOTUS justices are unique because they answer to no disciplinary authority.

Congress is an actual thing that exists, so no.

They may answer to a disciplinary authority that is systematically dysfunctional in regard to its oversight responsibilities in a way which grants them effectively unlimited license, but it is not accurate that they answer to no disciplinary authority.

> There has been much coverage of late about Justice Thomas’s relationship with Harlan Crow, but virtually no coverage of even more egregious behavior by other SCOTUS justices (past and present).

While the coverage of Justice Thomas’s flagrantly corrupt relationship with Crowe has occasioned additional attention to dubious actions by other Supreme Court justices (notably, both Gorsuch and Sotomayor of current justices, the latter frequently deployed as whataboutism by conservatives to criticism of Thomas), none of them by current justices has been clearly “even more egregious” than Thomas – both Gorsuch and Sotomayor disclosed their payments, all three did not recuse themselves from cases where they had the financial relationship with the party [Thomas and Sotomayor] or counsel [Gorsuch], Gorsuch involved the most cases, Thomas involved the most value given to the Justice, much of it with not even a plausible case of exchange for value (outside of corruption), and without disclosure, and from a donor who in addition to having direct business before the Court is a partisan/ideological activist on a wide array of the most significant issues that have been before the Court.
For a layman, can you elucidate whether this is about the entropy of its output or input?
> easier to recover from input syntax errors from the Token-based input rather than Unicode-based input

Rust has pretty exact mapping from syntax errors to lexical placement. Couldn't a similar approach be used if you have a potential recovery path?
Before Commerzbank unceremoniously canceled my account after more than a decade of business, they were charging me “negative interest” for quite a while, on anything over 50K EUR. That’s in addition to account fees.

My current banks in the EU? One charges up to 1% percent per transaction and yes, that includes going to the bank to make a withdrawal. Another charges 40€ per month for a basic savings account. A third will probably kick me out soon, because I’m not an EU citizen.

My first guess would be that Europeans have a perception that their banks are exploiting them, and given any other rational option they will try it out.
Marriage. Sex should be taboo and looked down on outside of marriage. No fault divorce should also be more heavily scrutinized.

None of this is rocket science. Society figured this out a couple thousand years ago when monogamy became normal even for royalty before/under Christianity. Of course some would try to make exceptions for themselves (eg Henry VIII), but they typically aren't held up as exemplary people today (or those particular actions against monogamy is viewed negatively, like with King David), and rightfuly so.
Remember those Intel Core locked range of CPU's - you could unlock certain features afaik higher clocks and bigger caches by running a unlock tool and buying a code from Intel.

Needless to say the PC enthusiasts told Intel to get borked.
That may very well be true "in your view" but, if you'll excuse my pessimism, that doesn't mean very much if it results in China or India developing more effective models faster and more cheaply.

We may be diverse, but that needn't mean every sector of every niche in every industry must be so or that it would be better if it were.

Our position in the world is relative. Our power comes from the relative delta between us and "them", whomever it is we happen to be competing with.

To forget that fundamental relation, even in service to our personal sense of morality, is solipsism.
There's a middle ground between "nothing new in years" and "new feature or changes every week".
So I use ChatGPT every day. I like it a lot and it is useful but it is overhyped. Also from 3.5 to 4 the jump was nice but seemed relatively marginal to me.

I think the head start OpenAi has will vanish. Iteration will be slow and painful giving google or whoever more than enough time to catch up.

ChatGPT was a fantastic leap getting us say 80% to Agi but as we have seen time and time again the last 20% are excruciatingly slow and painful (see Self driving cars).
Do you really need AI for that or a grep? Lol
The material in question will get your channel flagged and demonetized on YouTube.

This rhetoric is akin to redefining "worker rights" to mean being payed $500/hour with benefits, and then proclaiming some corporation doesn't believe in workers rights if they don't go along with whatever preposterous fantasy you have.
It seems the plan is to be a loss leader until scale is sufficient to reach near AGI levels of capability.
Yet in every thread on HN when a service has an outage, the same opinion is spewed.

I know the comments of these posts before I even open them. HN is an echo chamber of predictability.
DRM and Treacherous Computing.
> The other day I saw a well-known programmer tweet an "in memoriam" to his wife, who died of cardiac arrest at the age of 42 in April 2021. A bare minimum of digging revealed some of her last Twitter activity to be liking various vax booster posts. What are the odds her death was even reported as a potential adverse event?

For someone age 42 the odds of having a heart attack are about 97 in 100,000. The odds of a cardiac event due to COVID vaccine are two orders of magnitude lower.

This is the post hoc fallacy and proportionality bias. Just because one event follows another doesn't mean they're connected. Further, humans are biased to think big and impactful outcomes must have big and impactful causes. [1]

It is simply far more likely that she independently had a vaccine and a heart attack. It sucks, to say the least, but it happens.

When you give billions of people the vaccine you'll get basically everything happening after someone gets a vaccine including a death by train derailment. It's simply far more likely they're not connected at all.

You saw one anecdotal report of a bad thing that happened to someone after they took a COVID vaccine, without any evidence they were connected. I'm sure more than once someone took a tylenol and got hit by a bus. That doesn't mean taking tylenol causes getting hit by a bus.

This is why anecdotes aren't a substitute for medical research.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportionality_bias
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook.

You don't have to actually use Facebook in order to have your privacy violated by Facebook.

This came out years ago in Congressional hearings. It's also why lots of people who never had Facebook accounts got privacy-violation money from Facebook — it created profiles of people in the backgrounds of photos.
Yes, yes. How did I forget this one? Thanks for calling it out.

Wish we had more MS theses today that at least attempted something as ambitious as this one, instead of just checking a box :(
I Make Deepfakes: How to Keep Yourself Safe
An article about keeping yourself safe from Deepfakes from a seasoned Deepfaker.
If your SVN server went down, you couldn't even commit. At least with got, you can do everything as normal except push and pull, and that's only if you don't have multiple remotes (which, admittedly, very few GitHub users do).
"Resources and guidance to support Black, LatinX, and Multilingual students to thrive in grades 6-8"

Literally the first line of your source

Laughable
In general, nothing. But before you restore backups (if you have any that weren't encrypted) you may want to determine the exact time at which you were compromised, or else you'll be restoring potentially tainted backups. Depending on how well you're organized that alone will take weeks, especially considering that your logs may be encrypted as well. Sometimes you don't even know how to contact everyone, because your comms are down, too.
Most of the upgrades happen outside core work hours, which is easy to manage for smaller companies.
> in a context where the average consumer is starting to recognize ChatGPT as a brand name.

That brand recognition could hurt them, though. If the widespread use of LLMs results in severe economic disruption due to unemployment, ChatGPT (and therefore OpenAI) will get the majority of the ire even for the effects of their competition.
The amount of valuable data generated from professionals using these services to work through their problems and find solutions to industry problems is immense. It essentially gives these companies the keys to automating many industries by just...letting people try and make their jobs easier and collecting all data.
> unbanked seems a good proxy for "pay with cash"

It very well may be. Though the last time I had to survive without a bank account, it didn't mean I paid big bills like rent using cash, it meant I got familiar with the local check cashing place and used money orders a lot. My landlords didn't want to deal with me giving them a bunch of cash every month.
The thing is. Credit cards may be in favor of the customer in the US, or maybe EU (I’ve never had a credit card while living in the EU so I really don’t know) but where I used to live, Brazil, the customer has always the burden of proof that something is wrong. One time my card was “cloned” and I had to go to court to remove the debt from my name. And I’ll never forget the reply that I got over and over from multiple levels of customer service: “we can’t do anything if you don’t provide the receipt of the purchase”
Not entirely relevant here, but Zigbee supports sending a duration to take for changes in configuration, which tends to lead to much smoother dims than brute forcing it. If applied to a group of bulbs it’ll also synchronise over the entire group.
Coder Radio podcast uploaded the document to the show notes for their latest episode[1]. The first link[2] in the PDF does link to some internal Google resource that requires an @google.com email address.

1: https://jblive.wufoo.com/cabinet/af096271-d358-4a25-aedf-e56...

2: http://goto.google.com/we-have-no-moat