skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The move to online or digital textbooks was supposed to drastically cut prices. No paper, no printing expense, no shipping expense, no storage expense, fewer bookstore employees to pay, etc.

What actually happened is textbook publishing houses like Pearson just leveraged the digital tecnology to make duplication or resale difficult or impossible, and kept all the cost savings to themselves.
There was an arxiv paper recently that found it is astonishingly easy to plant trigger phrases in a dataset that create abnormal behavior in the final model. As few as two hundred malicious prompt-reply instances in the data is enough to have a sort of override code for a multi-billion parameter model.

Imagine your AI endpoint software greenlighting a randomware package because it saw the string 'soccer rosebud lizard'
> The whole car is Docker, or Podman. Kubernetes is the city where the cars run.

Kubernetes doesn't use Docker or Podman.
If you want comments on Mastodon, put hashtags on your posts and comments. This way, even if no one is following you, they will see your post due to the hashtags. People on Mastodon follow hashtags more than people.
You miss the point here entirely; the real life experiences of the vast majority of the population of Western society precludes the need for absolute privacy.

What you would need are not anecdotes about how individuals who legitimately require privacy, but a systemic and successful push to use data collected by browser fingerprinting (the topic of this submission) to meaningfully harm more than a random handful of people.

You lack this evidence, because it doesn’t happen, and cannot happen, in society as it’s structured today. Anyone attempting to do the things you’re afraid of would be stopped.
Resistive Random Access Memory
I think this is an awesome advancement. In rocket turbopumps achieving a high enough temperature of the gas on the turbine blades improves even full-flow combustion engines - eventually the turbine is put into the combustion chamber, with significant benefits (e.g. you don't need both of gas generators anymore, but this is probably even not the biggest benefit).
They forced others out of the skunk so I am fine with it. Forcing companies like Facebook in leaking weights of their models because they are over eager to release something is no small feat. For nothing else I applaud them for that.
I doubt also. But it depends on who has the cards, how they're obtained, and how many are allowed to be given out.
Ah sorry, I thought I had written ballast of the current form. That was my intention, but I failed to type what I had thought.

Otherwise there wouldn't be a point to mention that 50 years ago other, less stable ballast was still in use in some places.
NYLA, an AI tool built to promote mental wellbeing, is now live. This isn't just any tool - it utilizes advanced algorithms to simulate empathetic dialogue and personalizes strategies based on user feedback. NYLA's familiarity with multiple therapeutic approaches ensures effective mental health support.

KEY FEATURES
-24/7 access to mental health support
-Ensures user anonymity
-Personalized recommendations based on interaction history
-Feedback-based system improvement

Try NYLA here: https://nylaai.com/

We look forward to your feedback and suggestions!

Note: While NYLA is a great mental wellbeing companion, it doesn't replace professional help.
Corporate Presence Grenade (2004)
The Flaws of the Scientific Consensus
I occasionally complain about Facebook adverts. That means I pay them more attention. That means Facebook show me the same/similar adverts more ...

FB still get paid for those impressions, but each one reinforces my desire never to let that company have a cent of my money.
Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”
And there are more than 2 models of cars. The metaphor is still valid.
These weapons and trucks can be bought at any surplus market, and in anycase, if these little green men want to holiday in Belgorod that is their own business.
I think the people this change will hurt are in large part fine with paying a reasonable sum for API access. I have no idea what reddit would consider a reasonable number (if they actually tried), but for me it's probably in the $1-5/month range.

That's full API access of course, not the limited API they've had which doesn't allow e.g. vote interaction, nor an API without NSFW content like they are proposing now with the ridiculous $12,000/50M requests.

Of course they aren't interested in being reasonable here, they obviously just want to kill off 3rd party apps. I actually don't get why they don't just go out and say it, what they're communicating now is just death with extra steps.
And money and propaganda. Had to keep the schools open so the parents could go to work. And there was a ton of economic force applied into trying to make everyone believe that.
Moderation of large scale social media is a god-damned nightmare.
Follow hashtags and put hashtags on your posts and comments so people following those hashtags will see your posts and comments.
Yet their drivers still cause kernel panic and crashes even on their own demos lol
I’m not a tenured professor with the ability to have this as my primary priority. I’m a person who has kids and wants to know if they’re going to have a world to live in. Even a world with AI and no jobs is a hell of a lot better than a world where we can’t grow crops because the climate hit a tipping point and we all shut our eyes.
I always thought the tech revolution would mean cutting of traditional middlemen
Why is a dirty shitty McDonalds more real world than an upbringing where you didn't arbitrarily force that on them?
There is a specific law against driving above a certain speed. There's no law like that against being an AI.
Power outages and sweltering heat in Vietnam, people struggling to cope
I bought an Indian copy of a microelectronics textbook on eBay, replete with a dire warning on the back cover about not selling it outside the subcontinent. The only difference was the paper is thinner and the diagrams aren't two-tone, they're greyscale. Luckily, however, electrons do seem work the same on all continents.

That said, we weren't required to buy any books at all and and books we were required to read were kept at the library in the "core" section, so there'd always be a number in the building, not lent out. As it turned out, in retrospect, I don't think any specific book was ever actually "required" to be read.

I did buy a few books (about 10 over 4 years), including a copy of Stroud's Engineering Mathematics so old it recommended logarithm tables (otherwise it was perfectly serviceable). I bought those because I actually wanted them to keep and I still have nearly all of them.
Enshittification starts at the keypress, yo. We are all responsible.
Yes. Completely correct, you are wrong.

> Sweden’s Covid death rate among lowest in Europe, despite avoiding strict lockdowns

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
Virtualization Framework is awesome and I'm slowly building my own VirtualBox-like app, learning Cocoa programming. Hopefully will release it some day.

One big thing that's missing is better storage support. Right now it's just disk image and that's about it. No way to implement something like qcow2 with snapshots and whatnot. It's missing a lot of opportunity for VMs.

Another big thing that's missing is USB pass-through.

Other than that: it does absolutely everything I need. It even provides some kind of hook for network which should allow to build userspace router with any network architecture (didn't try it myself, though, but I think it should work).

I was able to implement thing that I missed for years on M1 mac. Basically I run Fedora VM, I installed Rosetta helper inside, and docker. And then automagically my x86 images started to work with reasonable speed. I don't know if Docker Desktop supports it already, I don't want to touch it with a longest stick in the world. But for myself I solved this issue.

It was rock stable in my experience and just worked. qemu on the other hand managed to crash my entire macOS (hopefully that bug was fixed).

Another thing that I liked about it: protocols are "modern" and open-source. Almost every driver is virtio. No ancient cruft. No proprietary things. Eventually other operating systems could be run on this solution.
Yes. I create content, which generates traffic, which generates ad-revenue.
Fair warning, you might be better suited by QEMU since debug support in Virtualization.framework is not great. QEMU has support for debug stubs out of the box. QEMU does support Hypervisor.framework so your performance should still be good through it, assuming you're using a matching architecture as your host (i.e. don't build an x64 kernel for your ARM Mac)
Given the increasing difficulty of finding/seeing new species, at some point it will become 10 or 100 times more costly in time/money to see each new bird.
I can't speak for the feasibility of running a macOS guest on Asahi, but yes, Linux could be in control of the guest's CPU flags. Same goes for the m1n1 hypervisor.

I can't find the exact post but I remember marcan saying that he doesn't want to poke the bear of using Apple's custom ISA extensions on Linux. So even though it's possible, I'm not sure whether it'll actually be done.
To change your default "From" address, go to:
Settings -> Signatures & Compose -> Compose options and it's the very first setting at the top. (Direct link: https://app.fastmail.com/settings/sending/composing).

You always use your username for authentication. (But it's not special other than that; you can send from any of your addresses equally.) You can rename your user to your address at the custom domain in Settings -> Team & Sharing -> User management. (Direct link: https://app.fastmail.com/settings/team/users).
Why is the business entitled to more work if the work you're already getting done suffices to make the bosses happy?
Don't forget the one in Nagasaki too.
In my previous job in a small company, the CEO (also the admin of 365, yeah I know!!) didn’t know what to do with some issue, so I offered to help him out, he gave me the full admin access to the 365 and after some digging I found what’s listed on the article and even more data logged of the usage, etc., took screenshots on a hope when I get time to write something up, but glad the article went on depth too, funny later I left the job because he wanted “more productivity” by returning to the office..
If you use Microsoft Windows, and your employer is a client of theirs, then it seems a reasonable expectation that MS would like to "enhance" their reports on you with information they harvest from your OS. Can you trust any machine using software from companies that your employer pays a lot of money to [in part] in order to track you?
Ask HN: Do/did you ever work for a profit-sharing business?
How is/was it? Do you think it could motivate employees? Is there any way to do it wrong? Why don't more businesses do it, in particular lower wage-type businesses, like fast food, that seem to struggle with employee motivation?

I thought of this, in part, because of the complicated nature of trying to divvy up equity. So, if profit-sharing worked, then presumably I would not have to worry about keeping track of equity.
You have to add a whole lot of old people to move the median much. I suspect the mean would tell another story.
For a company that's very affordable, for an individual we're not there yet but I've seen some impressive demos running on a M1/M2 laptop so no doubt time will bring down the hardware requirements even more (and hopefully the price of used 3090s as well).
While it's more about the flaws in how scientific consensus are used with respect to areas that are (or should be) debatable, the video does a good job of introducing some of the problems with the overlap of the pharmaceutical and public health agendas.

I'd love to see a followup that takes this idea and looks at a different angle, such as ways that scientific "consensus" was invented and propagated to benefit political agendas. Or done so from a lack of respect for the public's ability to deal with information and nuance (e.g. simplify the situation and distill complex factors into a one-size-fits-all prescription for behavior).
It's on brand I suppose, relevant part starts at 2:06: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0rWJhv9jU&t=126s
Indeed, the idea that "focused protection" could keep the elderly (and all the other at-risk people, who are nearly half of the US population) safe while the virus ripped through the rest of the population was absurd. Of course, we now know that herd immunity would never have been achieved, so the entire premise of the "focused protection" strategy was incorrect.

Allowing virtually the entire population to become infected before the advent of vaccines would have been devastating. Things were bad enough as it was, with 1 million deaths in the US alone. At least most people in the US were vaccinated before their first infection - things would have been that much worse if the US had fully followed Bhattacharya's advice and actively sought herd immunity in mid-2020.
> We decided to store Centrifuge data inside Amazon’s RDS instances running on MySQL. RDS gives us managed datastores, and MySQL provides us with the ability to re-order our jobs.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing
Anybody who was a programmer through the 1980's knows the anti-competitive practices that MS used to destroy many up-and-comers. They essentially were a dam on technological progress by coercing the world to use a non-protected single-tasking OS when we could have easily been using pre-emptive multitasking OSes on the hardware of the day.
Looking at my banking app for the last 6 months I spend between 6K to 10K Swedish crowns in supermarket food, work lunches and dinning. I live I Malmo. Stockholm dining will be more expensive. Moved here in 2011 from the US, love it. 6 weeks of paid vacation and work life balance: priceless. Welcome!
There was some hope that someone would make a USB4 expansion card that didn't support PCIe tunneling, which wouldn't need those extra pins. If this card isn't it, then literally the only interesting thing about it is that it doesn't use an Intel controller. Which really is a negative.
We all know the whole system is corrupt as hell but I hope this guy ends up not being ground to dust and that this helps temper some of carte blanche privilege of this magic card that has no legitimate reason to exist beyond "some animals are more equal than others."

I wish they didn't try to shoehorn a racial element into this since it sounds idiotic. "More people with cards tend to be white and therefore the cards are racist" is such a weak take - there are more white people than minorities, for one. And of course there is structural racism that leads to more white people being in a position of power such that more white people are handed these cards but... you can't yell racism about every byproduct of structural racism with removing causality and intent from racism, which makes it completely illogical.
Apparently, trains do not derail that easily.

Army Experiments In Train Derailment (1944) https://youtu.be/agznZBiK_Bs?t=15
Real life sleeper agents
The culture map: How to navigate foreign cultures in business
> "It's on brand I suppose"

is this really how he rolls? any normal person would delete this video

EDIT: I got to 22:55 when he fired up the meditation youtube video with the calm narration after his unhinged rant lmao it was like a bad character development scene from a movie. if tinybox takes off and geohot completes his hero journey and someone makes the next 'social network' type movie about these new titans of industry, i demand this scene goes into the film
Agreed.

It's pretty rare to use Telnet these days. The exception is when you have to connect to devices like automation equipment, test equipment, admin ports on LAN switches, etc. Those devices shouldn't be on the internet, so they're not as much of a concern.
Are "all of the laws and regulations" against "child abuse material" specific to the US?
I'm surprised they don't just auction off the spaces when limited.
IPFS doesn't currently. But there are some in the community working on exactly this using Blake3 and BAO.
This might work if you put a hard cap on how much property any entity can own individually or by proxy. Otherwise Blackstone, et al. will build the cheapest apartment blocks they can everywhere and lock average Americans out of ownership until the revolution comes.
I don't buy that. Middlemen typically exist to solve some existing market inefficiency, or they exist through corruption and regulatory capture. The latter is a huge problem, but it's not THE problem. Ballooning administration seems to REALLY be the problem all over the place. But... Why is that?
I mean, I like it. Allsides.com's "side" identification are decided by viewers, so I'm at the mercy of the majority's observational skills. Luckily, they show a viewer more than just the one "left", "right" and "center" outlet's coverage, so if I disagree with one topic's assessment on which outlet should be the spokesperson for which end of the spectrum, I can look for whatever outlet in that topic I think would be better suited for the role.

Allsides.com does not fix the eternal vigilance needed for news cycles in our modern age, but it does make it easier.
Russia invaded a sovereign nation, those weapons aren't NATO weapons just like if I go to GameStop and buy a used game console those no longer belong to GameStop or the previous owner. Gifted or paid for doesn't matter, the authority and responsibility of ownership now falls fully on Ukraine and sometimes the best defense is a good offense.

If people at home in Russia start seeing war trickle into their homes, they might start thinking more and more about how much they support or oppose their leader. It also affects morale on both sides positive for Ukraine, negative for Russia.

it's not terrorism, it's just special Ukrainian military operations.
Neuromorphic Engineering
What I have always been confused about is where all the "open" journals are which side-step these centralized, commercial publishers.
Paranoia is basically overactive human imagination to no useful end. Cannot imagine going around your own house so afraid all the time.
One approach to solving this problem would be a mass distribution of fake courtesy cards. I wonder if the NYPD has an effective way of verifying that a person has a real card that they received from a real cop.
My impression is the Canadian government only backstops mortgages up to 25 years, so (without having seen the video) I would guess it's some kind of ARM.
it’s cheap but pretty annoying to manage (e.g buying raw disks and handling backup myself)

Back-ups are easy. It's just a matter of a script and scheduling to back all your stuff up at least daily, in the wee hours of the morning.

More 'out of sight, out of mind' is the periodic checking of those backups to make sure you can restore from them. Which is why I do raw file backups of directories: no compression, no weird filesystems. Any single file is just as accessible off the backup disks as the original file on it's "original" disk.
IPFS is not a blockchain in the traditional sense. You might be conflating it with Filecoin.
Japan’s Largest Manga Piracy Website Gets Shut Down by Coda
Yes, not conclusive, but the cynic in me is usually right esp. when there are large sums of money and power on the line. OpenAI was originally suppose to be open, but power corrupts.
This is why I got really worried when MS somehow combined my private O365 with that of my employer. Likely happened because I had both accounts on the same iPhone. Suddenly, my work computer offered to open a word doc from my private OneDrive.

Microsoft is very intransparent here. They didn’t ask me, I couldn’t find out if that means my employer has access to my private data, and it kept coming back even after I found the “unlink” option. Creepy.
I see no mention of family beyond siblings. Was he not married/in a relationship? I realize some people don't want that, but it's always made me sad even so.
That would enable a new generation of USB worms.
In college, I used https://used.addall.com and one semester got all my books down to $35 with older editions. This only worked because people in class would share photocopies of the problem sets from the new editions. A couple of cool professors would also give exercise numbers for the last few editions; they had previously taught the class with those editions, anyway.
systemd has nspawn, often overlooked ion the container discussion.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-nspawn

"systemd-nspawn is like the chroot command, but it is a chroot on steroids.

systemd-nspawn may be used to run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container. It is more powerful than chroot since it fully virtualizes the file system hierarchy, as well as the process tree, the various IPC subsystems and the host and domain name. "
By definition, everything on the heap got where it is dynamically, so the minimum number of pointers to chase to find it is 1.

In contrast, what’s where on the stack can often be (and often must be) known statically by the compiler and accessed directly, even moved entirely out of memory and into a register. (It’s possible to do this with suitably constrained dynamic allocations, but the optimization is much harder.)
"I don't think it's conspiracy theory thing, I think it was in EULA"

It still is, as well as a disclaimer.
The whole official point, on why they let people use it for free, is for testing and learning from their inputs.
You don't need to condescend. Knowing the subject matter in advance doesn't lessen the experience.
What really matters is not median age, but how many people are over 65.
Posh: Type-Safe Graphics Programming in Rust
> Remember that they caused the stopping of nuclear power plant.

In Germany they didn't. The plan to exit from nuclear power was enacted by a conservative coalition of CDU/FDP in 2011.

Funnily enough the year before they had dismantled the original exit plan from the year 2000 that was enacted by a coalition of SPD and the Green Party. But Fukushima happened and the old conservative position of "nuclear power good" suddenly became very, very unpopular in Germany.

> Climate change is not a pressing issue, with the rise of renewable we will clean up our act way before it cause serious issues.

That's not the scientific consensus on the issue and could not be further from the truth. We're already experiencing serious consequences from a changing climate. When we don't change now this will escalate to catastrophic consequences.

> it’s the left voice that doesn’t understand the conservatives and the value they bring.

Oh the left likely understands those values pretty well. They just happen to consider the promise of "everything will remain as it was" not so valuable when there is a high price to pay for refusing to change and adapt to a changing world.

> Changing things imply destruction, and the desire to change everything fast has

We would not have to move fast if the mostly conservative governments running Germany in the past 30 years would have used their time to gradually enact sufficient change.

> consequences, thus a return to traditions has a lot of merits.

There really never was a traditional world view or a way to live where everything was okay for everyone. But I'm not surprised you'd say that. Looking backwards and not forward is the core value of conservatism.
QR Error Correction Helps and Hinders Scanning
It’s not piracy when you’re pirating from a pirate