skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> disagreement between Mikrotik and the researchers about whether the vuln was actually disclosed in Dec

It seems likely that it was not properly disclosed because according to https://mikrotik.com/supportsec "you will be notified within 48 hours with acknowledgement of the issue" , but the reporter's web site states "ZDI reported the vulnerability to the vendor during Pwn2Own Toronto".
According to MT, none of their staff attended that event.

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-710/
CommanderGPT: Voice Assisted Desktop Automation Using ChatGPT
The vast majority of Utah relies on snow melt for water as the Colorado bypass most of the population so it's not as much of an issue.
> How do you test a medication that only needs to be taken once or twice? This is very challenging to study scientifically.

Most vaccines you only take once, you can still test if they work or not. Same with poison antidotes and things like that. Like I said, I'm not a doctor, but the fact that it's only once doesn't seem like the problem.
Counterpoint: how do we govern global issues with a global government? I’m not sure it’s any easier.
I think like 95% of a DBA's value is a willingness to touch the db. It's not that hard to find slow running queries or missing indexes. Just that most devs don't know how and/or never check. I'm guilty of it too. Then some DBA comes along, takes five minutes to run a query, and sends the devs 10 easy performance fixes.
Ah I see, I didn't know Swift was garbage collected. That makes sense.

EDIT: wait, I'm reading that swift does not have a garbage collector. I guess I don't see how it differs from Rust then.

EDIT2: ah I see, everything's a smart pointer basically and memory's released at the end (RAII-style), whereas Rust has the borrow checker (but it's still RAII-style). I guess both implement RAII ideas, but Rust seems to do it at compile time and Swift at run time.
> Portable monitors have been around.

Not reliable/valid cuffless monitors, though. That's relatively new, if I understand correctly.
I have some bad news for you about books.
> but I have a hard time wrapping my mind around how anyone can call financial instruments with more volume than the NSYE and a higher market cap than any company in the world anything but "successful" already

That's a very odd metric.

The success of the NYSE is its ability to raise money to new (or experienced) companies.

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-our-thinking/global-ipos-m...

That is, NYSE doesn't exist to trade stock. NYSE exists to raise money (and as a side effect, trades stock). Companies who need servers, factories, or other equipment go to NYSE (or Nasdaq, or other exchanges around the world) to IPO (for new companies), or Secondary Offerings (for established companies).

We measure the amount of money raised each quarter in the tens-of-billions. This creates new companies, new factories, new equipment and catapults our economy into the future.

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In many ways, the trading activity is a side-show, just there to enable the raising of new money. (The easier it is to trade stock / exit a position, the more likely people are to buy stock in the first place).

There was a time a few years ago when cryptocoins were trying to be a new grounds for raising money. But that effort failed ("Initial Coin Offerings" are so full of scammers and rug-pullers you'd be an idiot to participate in one today). But even at its peak, it never succeeded at raising money like the NYSE does.

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So now I ask: what value does coin volume have for society? I posit, not much value at all. Its a distinction without much importance.

The other measure of success is maybe transaction-volumes. But this too is under decline. I'm pretty sure "peak cryptocoin" was ~5 years ago when Steam and other webpages tried to use BTC to buy video games, fund microtransactions and other such services. Alas, $50 transaction fees put a dampener on that, especially since video games were $20. It turns out that the system cannot support a large number of transactions.
I still don't know what are neural net "parameters".

inputs+outputs? Number of neurons+synapes?
The treaty water rights separate upper basin states and lower basin river states, with the capacity split. In theory, Colorado has almost as much water rights as California does, but the uper basic states have been actively managing and reducing their footprint on the river (unlike California, which has mostly been in violation of it's usage).
What happened to “the scale hypothesis” LOL. Is scale really is all you need? Maybe this model can invent time travel and improve itself in the past..
I’ve said it before in a different thread, but I’ll say it here again:

If you want me to come back to the office, you have to do better than what I have here at home :

My own kitchen with healthy food of my choice

My own shower and bathroom

Somewhere I can take naps

Somewhere I can exercise for 20 minutes to get my blood and ideas flowing

I have the ability to play my music out as loud as I want.

I have entire afternoons of high productivity because I’m not being interrupted

If the workplace can do better than that, then I’ll come in. Until then, I’m staying at home, and if that means switching employers THEN GOODBYE
He shouldn't be going to trial in the first place. Journalists shouldn't be prosecuted for exposing government malfeasance. And as the alleged crime was not committed on US soil, the charge of espionage in nonsensical, as the US has no jurisdiction. The intention is to make an example of Assange, not to give him justice, hence the prolonged detention in Belmarsh.
> One thing I've noticed on HN is the dislike of 'Own nothing and be happy' while celebrating gig-economy companies that are essentially empowering this.

I suspect that is two different groups expressing their opinions, although there probably is some overlap in the Venn diagram.
>If the researchers can discover an important observational difference between topological solitons and traditional black holes, this might pave the way to finding a way to test string theory itself.

This is a big if. For now they've just shown that once again something in the string theory landscape could look like something in real life.
What Emacs extension would you personally use for the compatibility validation?
At this point, the primary moat is cost.

Running huge training sets costs money. The models and training data is are no longer particularly challenging.
Some of the other states are "upriver" from the Colorado and so they would be exceptionally unhappy about restrictions.
Isn't there more and more research coming out that at a certain point (200B~), parameters have significantly decreasing returns and it's better to just then do some supervised learning ontop of the base model?
Why train on scientific texts when half the papers are BS?
> I'm not convinced that simply increasing the number of parameters improves the models

At every size people say this... And then someone comes out with a model 10x larger which outperforms the previous state of the art.

Sure, you need to still take a little care with architecture choice and hyperparameter selection, but size really does seem to be king.
https://jitsi.org/about/

> Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.

Is it like self-hosted Zoom alternative? I feel like if an org is on Teams, they'll just use Teams video conference. Same for Slack. I used to work at an org that had Teams + Slack + Google Hangouts/Google Meet + Zoom.
This is obligatory reading, and I would say at 3 years you're probably exactly at that stage of your career when developers tend to be most susceptible to this mistake: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

The message in this is as true now as it was 23 years ago. Granted, the code in your case might not be the company's flagship product for all I know, and maybe you should start from scratch, but definitely not until you've tried everything else.
> The pricing section very clearly mentions pages, not ink cartridges.

When you buy a cartridge it's also measured in pages but you are neither guaranteed that many pages nor limited to that many pages.
The upper basin states have already hit their targets (and then some) in terms of water usage. The problem is that California has been consuming the surplus, and there is no longer enough water flow to sustain the surplus.
"low-energy Supersymmetry" oh, you mean 8 TeV wasn't enough? This kind of reasoning is just like the ether, people keep harping on a god of the gaps explanation for the failure of the search.
Custom OIDC is generally available on Tailscale
So... is it possible to make iPhones outside of China or not?
> a colossal game of telephone over the centuries,

Sounds like it is a Great Wave in more than one sense. The medium is the message. :)
It smells like somebody forgot to flush PR from it.

For starters future tense is embarrassing in this area. By the time they finish it, it may very likely be outdated.

Also number of parameters is not all you need. It's enabler, yes, but you need tons of other things to fit together.
Passwordstore (pass) databases are just a git repo which makes great audit trails, but also gives it syncing for free rather than reinventing the wheel.

It uses PGP rather than rolling its own encryption, which also makes it compatible with hardware tokens, for free.

It's not some complicated project... it's just a thousand or so line shell script.
Synapse weights.
Can't tell, sorry, the cache service provider doesn't supply that info.
I host jitsi and other things at home, no VPN.
You probably don't have any issues because your daughter is well behaved, but fingerprint auth is probably one of the easiest things for a child to defeat - just wait for the parent to fall asleep!
String theory is seductive as it is almost a natural progression to go from point-like particles to strings with different patterns of vibration. Also, it seems to have a natural handling of gravity and so promises the holy grail of unification. It's almost like a mathematical formula that's too beautiful to not be true (though there's plenty of examples of beautiful maths that fails).
Oh yikes, staff with a larger severance. I'm not surprised, I can't imagine it's easy to find a new CEO job after losing your last one.
Edit: I should have written EMA(European Medicines Agency) not ESA (the European Space Agency).
Thanks! I wanted to read comments in a breadth-first manner, and I knew from the start that using Apple navigation solutions wouldn't work for me, the visual change on the screen between two states would be too big and distracting.

I made a few prototypes, experimented with omni-directional scrolling (comments don't change their relative position to each other, but you kind of move the viewfinder and it sticks to the edges of subtrees), color coding in different patterns and nothing felt good. I gave up and a few months later when I was thinking about a different problem, I just had a light-bulb moment about this one, mind works in mysterious ways I guess. It was unnecessary complicated at first (like dragging the designated "borders" with the comment staying fixed in one place), but I simplified it in the process quite a bit.

It looks pretty straightforward now, but I think a lot of people would be surprised to see how many tricks are there for it to actually look and feel that way.
I see. So me and my parent are both wrong. The problem isn’t about a lack of bridge, or inconsistencies/incompleteness, it is about a lack of well defined scopes for each theory.

In a sibling post I talk about how this is not a problem in psychology, and ask what the difference is. This answers that question kind of well, the difference is that in psychology/sociology the scopes are well defined. We know what a population is and apply sociology to it, and we know what an individual human being is, and apply psychology to it.

With quantum mechanics and general relativity the scope is supposed to be the cosmos, but both theories fail on some places in the cosmos. So either the theories are wrong, or the scopes are wrong. I’m leaning towards the latter.
But if saw stops are mandatory, how the heck am I supposed to cut hotdogs?
Try Cities Skylines. The newer SimCity games really botched it and Cities Skylines came along and ate their lunch. It's a fantastic game with a vibrant modding scene
During the incident, he was demonstrating the technique necessary to Graves, not performing an actual experiment. He was a bit of a show-off and was doing the demonstration without shims that would have prevented criticality.

And yes, all they had were the counters.

Other than that, the video is really inaccurate.
It's important thet we know when to stop pretending we will try and prevent 1.5C and move on to pretending we will try and stop 2.0C...
> China has been the world's largest and fastest-growing producer of renewable energy for more than a decade, but has widened its lead over international rivals through a steep acceleration in the roll out of wind capacity since 2021.

> China added more wind generation capacity in the past two years than over the previous seven, and in 2022 generated 46% more wind power than all of Europe, the second largest wind generation market, according to data from think tank Ember.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-widens-ren...
SMS works with dumb phones.
This is incorrect. The water usage is split 50/50 between the upper basin and lower basin, where rights are senior to each pool. The upper basin states are also well below their allocation right now, as opposed to the southern states.

I've been following this very closely for a while - the primary issue here is still agricultural businesses in California consuming more then their water rights permit.
I honestly don't care if Wikimedia has several billion stashed away like all the Ivy Leagues do. They are doing God's work, mostly thankless work, and they have managed to do it well in an Internet mostly comprised of dross. How they have managed to keep the quality up and keep it as neutral as they have is beyond me. I've run user-generated content sites and keeping on top of the moderation will make you Google self-harm FAQs on an hourly basis.

I'm throwing my money at the screen right now.
Is there any downside whatsoever for OpenAI/Sam to be the one proposing/leading the calls for regulation?
Cynics will say they are trying to pull the ladder up from underneath them, so this is massively beneficial for them. What's the downside (if any)? Getting a small subset of the community mad doesn't seem like a lot of downside.
As for your last comment first - that's something the US government has done in the past and I'm talking about what the population might do. Completely unrelated.

I mentioned revolution as an example. Forming a third party will cause one of the main parties, probably the one whose voters are least fundamentalist, to lose. That's what happened in the past.
> we don't want another AI Winter

Speak for yourself...
Generative AI Is a Threat to SaaS Companies. Here's Why
Parameter count is strictly better IF the number of tokens (and ideally better quality tokens) trained on increases, and if the training is done for longer (most LLMs are way undertrained)

Most of the huuuuuge models failed on most or all of these fronts and that's why they suck compared to Llama or Alpaca or Vicuna
Security is impossible. Therefore, "AI alignment" is impossible.

I'm not sure that even AGI is possible, per Bostrom's Self-Sampling Assumption.
> The "and upgrade" part is a pure fantasy, though

Dystopian fantasy, in my view. The trends of the software industry over the last several years have brought me to a place where "upgrading" is now a concept that fills me with dread.
I think our misunderstanding is really about use cases.

Sometimes Protocol Buffers are used to write log files, and the log files are stored and never migrated. To read the oldest logs, you need backward compatibility all the way back to the first production code that was released. This means transitive safety is needed and the changes you can make to the schema, which is used as a file format, are pretty limited.

This isn't just a limitation of the Protocol Buffer format. Safety rules are different when you do long-term persistence. If Typical were used that way, you could only trust safety rules that are transitive. Asymmetric fields could be added, but the fallbacks never go away.

(Also, a rollback doesn't get rid of any logs that were generated, so it's not a full undo. As you say, both forward and backward compatibility are needed.)

Serialization isn't just used for network calls, and even when it is, sometimes you don't control when clients upgrade, such as when the clients get deployed by different companies, or as part of a mobile app. So it seems worth clarifying the use cases you have in mind when making safety claims.
"I have no beef with people getting treated well"

Nor I. But there's being treated well and then there's being showered with cash, which is how I'd read getting a severance package in excess of 1.5 your base comp for a full year when walking away to take another job.

Generally speaking, if I leave my current job for another job I don't expect any severance at all. If I was laid off I'd feel pretty good about getting six months of severance. There's no reality where I expect 18 months severance walking away to take another gig.
And when we hit 1.5C, will we already be on an irreversible course to 2C?
Driving through the Central Valley on a regular basis, it's interesting the entirely different beliefs/expectations about water that seems to drive politics there. There are signs everywhere railing against the state government for "dumping our dam water into the ocean" which is apparently a political memeification based on a Trump quip. It makes it sound like from the perspective of the Central Valley farming interests, California's cities should just shut off water to homes and businesses, plus allow rivers to be completely run dry by farming to the point saltwater flows inland in the delta, to make it possible for farms to always get unlimited cheap water to grow their choice of crops. The signs also say "Is growing food wasting water????" as though the choice is to either allow unlimited irrigation, or end all farming, ignoring the option that they 'spend' water on crops within a realistic budget even when that doesn't allow full maximization of crops every year.

It seems like this lack of realism due to people's desire for very simple good-guy/bad-guy partisan narratives will continue affecting internal CA water politics, which are based on the Sierra Nevada-sourced water that flows in the California Water Project to Los Angeles.
Hm, that seems like the opposite of Jordan Peterson (who is obviously an idiot, but has a good voice for TV)
They do what now? I've never heard of an ISP charging for their own equipment.
Realistically looking abstract art is IMHO most useful.

Subject can be real or not (2 options) and painting can be realistic or not (2 options). That gives us 4 possible combinations:

Real subject painted realistically - just use photographs, they are better.

Real subject painted unrealistically, most modern art, as useful as blurry photos of UFOs or yeti.

Unreal subject painted unrealistically. This is most useless, painter have novel vision or idea but is not good enough to convey it, in gamedev they call them "idea guy".

And finally, unreal things painted realistically. Painter have novel vision or idea, and is skilled enough that you can see his vision, this is the only valuable art. And that's what Salvador Dali was.
Yes, iPhones are also manufactured in Brazil and India. This is largely due to trade barriers in those countries.
> Competing app stores are a thing

This is only a factor if the underlying AI/LLM model becomes as good as OpenAI AND serves millions of people. While open source LLMs are soon going to gain parity with GPT-4/Bard, it is unlikely that they will hit the kind of usage numbers that an OpenAI/Google/Meta can deliver.

Even there, I'm not sure Google/Bing will cannibalize their own product to allow third parties to inject data into a search interaction.

ChatGPT is a fundamentally different product - it's a humanlike intelligence which is always ready to talk to you and assist you. We haven't ever had anything of comparable quality and reach. The nearest was Alexa but even she was limited to Amazon's catalog and shopping. It's like ChatGPT can be everyone's personal gofer and THAT is huge, imo.
Jordan Peterson has had many iterations. The year -5 edition had good psychology lectures and I disagree with the above poster who says he doesn't know what he is talking about. Within his academic realm, I think he did, although there would be points other academics would contest (this is what academics do). He has then gone through at least two transformations.
> open conversations about in public forums, rather than having an unaccountable organization unilaterally decide for us what is right and wrong.

You will not find me to be an apologist for social-media business. That said, a for-profit company has "rights" too, or at least a team of lawyers to defend the operation on behalf of the ownership and/or shareholders.

A social-media company has operational goals other than ensuring that you and I can say what we want, however we want, at our convenience and on their dime. And those rules will likely conform to many (if not all) the values of society.

Even HN itself restricts debate. Do you object to this too?
Think about it for half a second dude, seriously.
GPT has not been trained on this message for example, or yours.
While I like the regulations on who can collect and share your data and preventing all these backdoors to the US Gov I also think these regulations make it impossible for small companies to compete with Meta, Google, etc. You can't hire enough legal and compliance experts to get it 100% right not to mention all the extra code you need to write. Maybe that's OK but my cynical side says Google and Meta lawyers write and practically hand these regs to the legislators with that in mind.
Jitsi users: how many different conversation partners / fraction of your partners, use Jitsi with you?
What a weird take. You might not like his art but he's a master at painting.

https://www.thedaliuniverse.com/sites/default/files/images/s...
> Very nice app

Thank you!

> do you plan on adding voice?

You can select the text in each message and, from the pop-up menu, tap on "Speak".
If you mean for text input, that can also be accomplished via native iOS functionality.

I also tested Whisper, but imo it's not really usable on an iPhone (at least, not yet). Initial reports of the official ChatGPT app mention excessive battery usage and the device getting hot when using Whisper.
Per the constitution treaties are binding with the same force as federal law.
The Topological solitons would appear exactly like predicted black holes from a distance, with shadows, light rings, and gravitational wave signatures. It is not about the event horizon. It just telling you we would see them as black holes if we look to them from some distance. Remember that cannot observe the event horizon directly, the famous gravitational waves discovery in 2015 is an example of indirect black holes observation

The other important difference is that they could form without mass which is not the case with black holes. So I am not sure that I would agree with you.