skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but what stops an attacker from simply wiring up the TPM directly, generating a new key pair, and storing that instead

Simply?

Did you just equate resetting a bios password with wiring up a TPM and generating a new key pair?
> Our bullshit receptors are good spotting dishonesty

Is this a bad joke? What exactly leads you to that conclusion? People fall for dishonesty and straight up lies all the time. We're awful at recognizing it. Maybe you're the one in a billion who can spot a lie at a million miles, but the vast majority can't.
I am 100% sure that it was in the article that he listed the sites which only failed on the evil bit, and not on other reserved bits. I've read it 4 times again, and it is not there now. Strange.
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There was an announcement banner at the top of reddit about this which has since disappeared, if anyone can find the link please post it.
So basically speculation, financials alone doesn't cut it.

I don't see a difference.

I think it is more blind luck more than anything.
Does Cloud 66 have any resources on migrating a large (~300 GB) Postgres DB off Heroku, with minimal downtime? This has been our biggest sticking point when thinking about leaving Heroku.
Ahh, there you go. Reading the .ru TLD at the main page, first thing that came to my mind is "I wonder how long it takes until someone makes this political. And there you go. No surprises anymore in this day and age.
> signing up to a dozen different forums.Don't want to go back to that, either.

That will cost you 3 minutes if you want to ask a question, if not you don't have to sign up. in exchange we will preserve data and make it easy to search.
and not make single entity to rule every community.
In the late '00-s, Ministry of Education of Russia had set some incentives to universities, including the number of papers published in top-rated international journals. The more liberal, West-oriented folks were much more capable of doing this, hence they concentrated in many top-tier universities. Sometimes this led to political fights with the conservative top management. The latter got huge salaries from the ministry and was informally demanded to keep loyalty and suppress dissent. (Figures that I heard from a big regional uni: rector's salary $12K/mo, teacher's around $700/mo, part-time teacher doing a course twice a week ~$100/mo.) So rectors would bring as many capable people as possible, no matter their political position, and then softly tried to stop them from making political stances/scandals.
I agree it's a realistic scenario. I always thought one of the most important things about being a junior doctor (FY1 / 2 in UK) was to be able to have these conversations with next of kin in a way that is empathic and easy for them to follow. If they are not processing the information then you have to allow for that, but I do think some relatives would react very badly if given a printout from an AI to explain a situation, patients always bring up if a doctor has googled their symptoms / rash in front of them, this is giving much more authority to the AI in a more sensitive and potentially difficult situation.

I think the way AI is used in medicine has to be thought about very deeply, I don't think it should just be a fallback in time-pressured or difficult scenarios.
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I’m having a hard time thinking if a “non-nefarious” reason that the facilities supervisor wouldn’t report the body to police?
Probably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF7ShkZaaqY
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I've been working with the leaked wipEout source code for a while[1] and I can assure the quality of the Quake source is absolutely stellar in comparison. While Quake's source may not be up to modern best practices, the overall architecture certainly has a lot of structure and thought put into it.

Modifying Quake to run on the Occulus Rift was a breeze[2], compared to the mountains of garbage I have to wade through with wipEout.

[1] https://twitter.com/phoboslab/status/1653707447586922498

[2] https://phoboslab.org/log/2016/05/quake-for-oculus-rift
Passing a user context to GPT improves relevance
This gets asked repeatedly here. The best answer this community has come up with, that I've seen, is that if you think your business is about to collapse into bankruptcy, there's no point paying bills.

This just raises more questions though. So random stupidity seems to fit better.
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Is the pencil just to save space versus a normal roll of electrical tape, or for some other reason?
An important distinction is that computers can do arbitrary many iterations of algorithms, while most neural networks have to operate on some fixed size, so the practical limits are very different.
yes. anyone could do it. can anyone do it well? not yet. not for a while. possibly never.

a human is still very necessary in the loop. there is no loop without the human. currently, there should be no loop without one. cost prohibitive if nothing else.

the better the instructions, the better the output. something must be done with the output, and it has to be done safely and consistently.

there will be new challenges. there will be new careers. (lol no prompt engineering is not it.) there will be new and old jobs.

content not so compelling? take a walk. touch a hand tool, or a crochet needle. escape the screen. blame the content before yourself. was it ever that good? or just good enough? have you already read the good stuff? maybe nothing good as of late. maybe chatgpt is simply causing you to question what makes content… good.

spend a little less. save a little more. your compensation is likely “a little high,” and may suffer a little bit. keep solving problems and it isn’t yet an existential crisis.

where are we going? too many variables, someone will successfully guess, plenty will unsuccessfully. somewhere new yet familiar.

if any of this wasn’t useful, didn’t resonate, or didn’t even make sense, throw it out. just like one should do with language model output.
In modern times major powers invade other countries to distract from domestic issues. Putin did it, Bush did it, etc.

The official reasons given differ but generally are just an excuse to drive the nationalism which is the goal of the war in the first place. China's government seems to be doing well enough right now to not need that trump card.
Critizing "western decadence" is not a rightwing only phenomenon. I wonder why you frame it as such.
As https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36283935 explained you need to contact the moderators. There's a 'Contact' link at the bottom of every page.

I'm again unblocking.

For example https://tech.seposts.com/2023/06/observing-industry-leaders-...

"Reddit's valuation was reduced by 41% due to Fidelity's adjustment, as reported by Manish. Canva's stake was marked down by 67.6% by Rowe Price, as highlighted by Connie. NestAway, once valued at over $225 million, sold for $11 million, as reported by Manish."

Connie and Manish are reporters at Techcrunch.

https://tech.seposts.com/2023/06/the-vision-pros-biggest-adv... follows the structure of https://www.techgoing.com/apple-vision-pro-headsets-greatest... paragraph by paragraph, just reworded.
TPM is nonsense, i can trivially replace the processor/TPM module w/ whatever I wish.
Here’s a great article explaining some of the benefits of using SQLite in production: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

I use it in my production SaaS serving around 4 million requests per month on one of the lowest DigitalOcean tiers. The big ones for me were cost, operating simplicity and performance. I don’t need a separate process or server running which has saved me some money and time, and the app’s workload doesn’t need a ton of inserts so the speed is blazing fast.
The short answer is yes, it is.

Aside for Django projects.

I would also point to SQLModel[1] by the same dev who made FastAPI

But it is just wrapper on top of SQLAlchemy.

1: https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/
> That's also what has driven safety changes in passenger cars.

No, it's not - at least not in Europe. As long as a vehicle complies to the standards in force when it was built and the type license issued to the manufacturer then, you're not required to retrofit anything to old(er) vehicles. You're still allowed to drive a 70s era car with no seatbelts and only a driver side mirror if you want to do so.

Change got always enforced by lawmakers - for example, people didn't flock to ABS equipped cars for decades, until the car industry agreed to only sell cars with ABS back in 2004. Hell it took until 2006 for an EU mandate for seat belts for rear passengers.
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I am guessing, Vision Transformer?
pip-tools can create lockfiles, similar to other language package managers.
SQL doesn’t necessarily have to mean full database access.

I known it’s pretty common to have apps connect to a database with a db user with full access to do anything, but that’s definitely not the only way.

If you’re interested in being safer, it’s worth learning the security features built in to your database.
I love finding explanations for weird bugs and inconsistencies like this in games by looking at their code. Here's one I personally found myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljl1jBEY3_A
Interesting side note.

A discussion elsewhere had me looking at how much front-page HN activity is attributable to what number of profiles. Using my crawl data mentioned above:

- 2 submitters with > 1,000 stories
- 170 w/ >= 100
- 2,812 w/ >= 10
- 19,165 w/ >=2

That very nearly perfectly follows the rule I'd given above: reducing the items by a factor of ten (here: number of front-page posts) increases the submitters by about a factor of 10 (roughly: 2, 200, 2,000, 20,000).

Half of all HN front-page stories since 2007 were submitted by just 2,092 profiles, of 43,598 represented in all front-page stories. As of 2021, Whaly.io found 767,496 active profiles since 2005: <https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective>. (Post or comment activity.)
Idk. I think that view of adulthood is pretty biased.

I think it is more that the “games” that we play become less overt, and overt games tend to be replaced by covert ones, such as social stature, and personal growth, IRL social “games”, like relationships and solo or shared challenges, “levelling up” in accomplishments such as books written or papers published, business or notable accomplishments, etc.

Overt games give way to applying learned behaviours that use game theory to create personal value, wealth, or legacy… but it’s still very much “playing a game” just with greater risks and rewards.

IRL games make practice games seems quite boring by comparison, their challenges mundane and their prizes irrelevant.
I also infrequently need to jump to certain parts of a page compared to how often I use mouse scrolling or other options. But when I do want to jump to certain parts of a page, I want that scrollbar. Just because "the data" shows it's clicked infrequently doesn't mean it's not important.

I hate the modern data-driven world. I'm convinced 99,99999% of people who use data for stuff like this don't actually understand what the data means and how large of a negative impact removing the long tail is.
> someone's parents both expect grandchildren to appear eventually

Fulfilling other people‘s expectations is a really bad reason for having children.
You do a literature search which I did years before the pandemic and there is almost nothing.
I feel that "Eat the rich" reaction is simply an outcome of when people realize that they are in fact being exploited. Many were feeling similar in USSR. "Who does not rob the state, robs his own family" was a pretty popular slogan back in those days.

About the "immaturity", I don't have a good grasp of what it's supposed to mean. Maybe we should stop using it altogether (outside of biology) and concentrate on specific skills.
"Save the trees" used to mean "use more plastic"
After one week, the headlines will be about Trump again.
John Carmack, Ken Silverman and Tim Sweeney.

The three legends / rivals of their time (but with mutual respect)
> many Millions of Dollars Twitter is paying to GCS/AWS

But they aren't paying anymore!
Pretty sure it was 2048 A100s not 8000
isn’t this like saying reading a book improves your ability to recall the contents?

> The retrieved credit card knowledge, aligned with the user's query, is dynamically populated into the chatbot's context. This means that the relevant credit card information becomes part of the context considered by the chatbot when generating responses.

is this not a terrible idea given how poorly most interactive models are secured?
URL is likely https://github.com/mandarons/icloud-drive-docker
I loved the video, I love this type of analysis of bugs and glitches. This comment, however, just makes me nervous. It's like my innermost worry.

I spend so much time trying to do a good job which I can be proud of and yet I always know there are bugs and I just hope not too many players notice and get annoyed by them.

And here we are, pointing out poorly written code in practically ancient software and attributing it to one particular programmer. Of course, Carmack has more than shown his worth throughout his career. But I dread the thought of a forum post pointing out mistakes I've made at work like this.

It's part of why it took me so long to dare publish articles about fun stuff I've done at work.
Yep, I think fundamentally it feels wrong. I think many families would see it as a sign of incompetence if the doctor cannot explain a diagnosis or treatment plan - time pressure is part of the job unfortunately, and people may not process difficult information in stressful situations with as much clarity, you have to allow for those things. Reading a script from ChatGPT is insulting.

Patients hate when doctors just google their symptoms / rash in front of them, this is quite a step further. Printing out supporting information for families / patients is ok, but it needs to be validated – I think this is quite a dangerous use of generative AI for both the doctor and the patient.
A driver is responsible for the condition of the vehicle they drive. You would refuse to drive a vehicle with faulty breaks. In the same vein, I think they should collectively refuse to trucks without proper security measures.
Interesting you say the "boring" stuff. I'm a believer that a lot of the recent China vs West animosity is due to China moving up the value chain. Yes, China received the lower value, boring work. Now they want to move up in the the value chain and the west is saying no no. You have to continue to be our cheap labor and cheap supplier. Leave the designs, services, high tech to us. A good example of this is the Huawei 5G debacle.
We really should not be boggled down by memory of computers. What exactly is its memory? If I have an old machine with a few kb of memory that can connect to the clouds petabytes of storage, how long is my “tape”? What if it is wired to operate a drone and can move real world objects? It’s state space is essentially the universe (which is finite, so yeah, theoretically not even that is infinite).
Check out Googles Topics API [1] (available in chrome). It spits out a list of advertising topics based on your browsing history.
[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/
Well...they really are following precedent, e.g. World Series baseball. :-)
If it was used to encrypt a disk, then what does replacing TPM accomplish exactly?
For those wondering how they could fill the entire frame with the LED when the webcam was 16 meters away: the webcam had 25x optical zoom.
Ubisoft literally has dozens of games branded "Tom Clancy's", so I think we're not too far from that
Calling the police could result in an unsafe working condition. /s
great writeup and congrats on 11 years!
which is greater, 𝛅(fac,programming course program) or 𝛅(programming course program, industrial program)? (imperative code becomes functional after SSA, so [pace oo] scalability is likely more of an impediment to usability)
I honestly think you over-estimate how deep media like "Better Call Saul" is (or how shallow fantasy/anime/games are).
> we (at least women) are only fertile for around 1/4 of our total life

What? Women become infertile around 45-50. Going with the lower bound, your 1/4 figure implies a lifespan of 180 years.
It seems like server performance has improved a lot over the last decade. The move from HDD -> SSD -> NVMe alone makes a huge difference for anything that touches disk. And my memory is that it was pricier to buy machines with more cores or RAM vs today.

It wouldn't surprise me if today's budget VPS does the work of several machines from 10/11 years ago, and costs less too!
Peter Pan has a carbon footprint, and leaves the world a worse place than when he arrived. The Peter pans of the world need to get out and plant some trees, at least, to justify their existence. Or stop playing childish games and join one of the many clans of “escape extinction” 3.0.
I think it's important to recognize how we got to the point where we are now. Infantilism is a big component in far anything communities, but the internet has made it way worse in some cases

If you go to (excuse my outdated concepts of extremist communities) Parler to talk about LGBT in a positive manner you will get about the same amount of vitriol as if you went to r/FemaleDatingStrategy to call out misandry or if you went to a specific /pol/ thread to fight antisemitism.

I think the bottom line here is, vitriol is pretty much omnipresent among us. The difference between communities is how they run the ductwork to siphon it out of our daily conversations. That's where the discourse is formulated and fine-tuned to the specific needs of its members.

When you build bubble-like communities, you will get echo chambers that breed infantile subjects. If you allow people to call each other certain slurs, but not other ones, you will naturally optimize for resistate to the former. If you build a forum with usernames and perhaps even an upvote system, people will recognize and build up reputation bound to their names. If you make an Anonymous board, people won't care about reputation. These are just two options on a huge spectrum of possible alignments. Engagement-oriented platforms (by that I mostly mean social media and Reddit), are however a special case.

Maybe an anecdote makes more sense: A few years ago, in high school, I used to find joy in trolling. I felt especially at home on the imageboard that starts with four, but when the thread would scroll over the limit and plunge into oblivion I realized how little those three people that I made seethe actually mattered. To contrast that, on platforms that value engagement, it was and probably still is a lot easier to reply with something inane and watch the replies roll in. A single statement that would go into the archives mostly unnoticed instead made an impact on dozens if not hundreds of people. After getting out of my turbo edgy phase I realised that I hurt a pretty good amount of people in both cases, and it feels somewhat dishonest to believe that every single downvote, reply and slur hurled my way was born in infantilism.

What I'm trying to say is that when we increase the number of interactions, we as a byproduct also increase the number of "bad" interactions. When I talk to "bad" people with "bad" opinions, I try to recognize that even if they are 90% infantile garbage, the rest can come from honest pain and discontentment. But sometimes that's just being too charitable. People are hard.
Thank you! I hired a photographer specialized in jewelry to take a few studio shots of the object, and he made the electronics look precious!
did an uber exec stop at a gas pump, breathe in some fumes, watch the ads play while pumping, down a couple of buzz balls from inside the convenience store, and shout eureka while driving off into the sunset?

how many c-levels plan on getting a telly?
> The only draw back is that f does not have any repeat shortcut like n for next or . for reapply, those do nothing for f.

As I just learned browsing through the book linked in this thread, there is!

Use ; to go to the next match or , to go to the previous one.

Great find.
And, yet, I'm now surprised Musk isn't in the student loans game.
Meanwhile air quality is killing millions per year.
The British baroness writing Californian online safety laws
Interesting. I almost never use ctrl-o except if I navigate to another file and want to go back, happens intentionally and by accident but in any case rarely.
Like everything else, it should be configurable. SublimeText provides a version that shows a minified view of the document I have open. That's incredibly useful. If you don't need/want that, you can change it to a standard scrollbar. I'm not sure why or when we collectively decided the best solution for everybody is some mediocre middleground that can't be adjusted to your needs.
> Sundays in Belgium were awful. Nothing to do.

I never got this? The only thing to do in your mind is shopping?

Restaurants, cinemas, other leisure activities are all available right?
Even scarier for Americans and their Chinese debt-holders, what would a world be like with Russia and Europe united sufficiently well, economically and otherwise, that Schengen could extend from Brussels to Anadyr ..

This would create an economic super-bloc that even China could not confront.

I think that is the real threat to American hegemony: Europe and Russia, getting along. It'd be awesome, but not so much in Washington DC ..
It's just kind of incredible that so many parts of the world have problems with something as basic as water. We've truly lost the mandate of heaven.
Firefox's reader view gets rid of all that on top of reducing other distractions
It seems odd to me (this is also with reference to some of your child comments) that you rely on knowledge gained from previous efforts to suggest future efforts are pointless.

But beyond that I don't really see how these concerns are supposed to be competing for resources. Yes, resources are finite, but I don't see why you suppose they aren't sufficient to saturate both these concerns and then some.

There also seems to be value in the project in that it is a stepping stone towards being extra terrestrial ourselves. Establishing a powered listening post on the far side of the moon is likely to be very educational.
> In a comment sent to Insider, Quazi said he believes LinkedIn's age policies "lack imagination" and are "rooted in adultism"

hmmmmmm
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Yep, good point. They are useful when you want to change the whole text inside the delimiters (and IME, it's most of the times), but they do different things than cf( because they also change/delete text behind the cursor.

The % approach works only on one direction.
Reminds me of Yahoo's botched e-mail filter in the early 2000s, when in an attempt to prevent Javascript exploits they automatically replaced all occurrences of a few script-related keywords with alternative terms – even in the text body of a mail and without regards to word boundaries. "eval" got replaced by "review", leading to such words as "medireview" (medieval), "reviewuation" (evaluation), "rereviewuation" (reevaluation), "prreviewent" (prevalent) and suchlike.

If you search for some of those terms, you can still find traces of them across the internet and even in some published scientific papers.
So what's next? Go live in the mountains?
We are using chat/completion APIs and we have a set of prompts that users can apply on selected text.

I would like to see how changing the system prompt or any of the logic in the pre-defined prompts affects the output.