skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life is about taking risk. We make daily decisions that involve big and small risk constantly.

Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn't a failure, it's a choice. It comes with risk and tradeoffs.

Everyone thinks there's a magical line that everyone else should take that straddles that line between enjoyment today and tomorrow. That lines doesn't exist, and isn't even the same from day to day.

Looking back and regretting a lifetime of decisions is caused that the consequences from those earlier decisions. Once that weight becomes too heavy, the regret sets in.

IMO, the way to combat that is two-fold.

First, in the moment, be conscious of what the risks are, and if they are worth it. If they aren't, take pride in settling for less at the moment so you can safeguard your future. You're doing something hard and good, and it should feel good in itself to do it.

Second, when you look back, remember the joy you had at the time. It was judged, to the best of your ability, to be worth it at the time, and you should continue to feel warm and fuzzy from that joy today, even if bad things have come about as consequence for it.

For instance, like the author, I gained rather a lot of weight. Then I lost most of the excess. Then I gained half of it back. Every day is now a struggle to try to get my weight back down, and my blood pressure is back up so high I couldn't have dental surgery safely the other day, and I'm back on medication.

According to the author that's a failure, but I had a lot of really, really enjoyable meals. I ate the vast majority of them with friends and family. Many of them were either cooked by family, or were special occasions. Calling those meals "failures" now would be saying that it was a mistake to enjoy that time with my family and friends, and it absolutely wasn't.
Electric cars are still part of the problem, not the solution. They still cause particulate pollution due to brake and tyre dust plus wear on the roads due to excessive weight. And that's not to mention the noise pollution, stress and danger caused by cars.

Bicycles are the solution to that particular problem.
The only mildly significant thing is Instagram.Threads; other than that, I don't know.
These days I just use a third party service to sustain these claims for me. Not worth the time, effort and anxiety in dealing with these companies. I used AirHelp (they're a german company) and received compensation from a bunch of Wizzair flights. Airhelp has an easy online form which always works, you can upload documents, screenshots, etc. And they keep you posted with periodic emails on the outcome.
This is not meant as an ad for them, I'm genuinely satisfied even though they kept some money as part of their commission fee.
I can't help but notice you are using

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instead of

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in the headline.
Did you watch the trailer? There's absolutely no reason for that map to be there (nor situation, nor dialog), it takes the whole frame, and the point in question is perfectly focused.

The best good faith interpretation I could give to it is that someone in the studio is a pro-chinese, or paid by a pro-chinese, and they sneakely included the map + lines without anyone noticing (due to ignorance). All the other bullshit lines, hastags, suns... are there to not make it blatantly obvious and have plausible deniability. But the dashed line is there on purpose.
A paper tracking the evolution of this minimal cell over two thousand generations has just been published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06288-x
I am not entirely sure what to make of this list. Naturally if a binary or script are given sudo rights then that will elevate privileges, and by default anything should be considered as potentially vulnerable, malicious or misuse-able, particularity tools that can write or read files or execute other binaries or scripts, making this list ... obvious?
> I'd say replacing negative habits with positive ones is a better long term strategy.

If the reason for forming the bad habit was that what you're susposed to do is dreadful i.e. not positive, yes, a positive one must be found.

But a positive activity doesn't feel good from the start, that's why you need avoidance. You need to get over the hump. When you're forming a new habit, the natural tendency is to cheat when you're susposed to do the new to-be habit, and do the old thing instead. Instead of working, browsing HN or youtube. Instead of going out for a run, eating cookies. Tell yourself to not do that -- avoid it -- and force yourself to do the new activity until it becomes self-sustaining.
Nvidia Tegra[1].

It allows for machine vision and heavy maths to be executed very fast. There is basically nothing similar in an embedded format in the market. The remainder would be SoCs for Android phones (Samsung Exynos?).

Thsese SoCs have lots of hacky drivers and mostly support Android, which is not a very good fit for real time and high customization required for drones and self driving cars (AOSP build system, a google class piece of crap).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra
Netgate has a history of being a bad actor. Not just with the botched Wireguard release, but generally being dicks to the opnsense crew. e.g.

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ssk8zj/til_in_2017...
> Connectomics used to be a big word when I started my Ph.D.

On a scale of one to ten, how sick are you of people asking you about Neal Stephenson - "The Fall, or Dodge in Hell"?
This:

> OpenAI's ChatGPT has over hundred million users

in no way validates this:

> Customers want chatbots just fine
I'm wondering something here, and I humbly ask for feedback: to anyone hyped about Threads, why?

Has Meta ever displayed any particular quality regarding content moderation, freedom of speech, privacy, information control, transparency, or mental health? Not implying Twitter is any better, Musk Tweeted, "It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than to indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram"

What a sad state of affairs when a form of abuse somehow becomes "infinitely preferable" to another; maybe I'm being overly sensitive, or has the social media bubble fallen into pure insanity?
Android TV Browser – Now also with Mozilla's GeckoView
For me, Twitter’s utility is that of a notification hub of people and orgs that interest me. Plus some gossip here or there.

The problem is that there’s so much noise that it fails at that. So I end up not using it when I don’t already know something is going on.
https://slow-thoughts.com/
Building a Web App in Rust: From Zero to Deployment
So we are no longer running arbitrary code against arbitrary buffers of random access data?
My teammate and I work on EdgeNode, which is similar to railway but for edge deployments.
https://edgenode.com/
Avoidance of something deprives us of the experience we might gain from it. I don't believe that avoiding everything we might consider "bad" is generally a good practice. However, I am not suggesting that we should try everything we consider as "bad" either.

When people talk about excellence, productivity, and performance, they often draw conclusions based on the final outcomes. However, these conclusions cannot be reached without encountering mistakes along the way.

As the Greeks said, the golden mean is the desirable point.
"I am actually surprised that the US government is so happy to tolerate large US companies completely undermining their own geopolitical position just to increase profits, like with Blizzard."

They tolerate it because it doesn't affect the politics of the situation, and because the 1st amendment guarantees freedom of speech, so any action to try and stop them would be struck down by the courts.
Yes, manufacturers have always been bullied by large countries to either build in backdoors for inteligence agencies or be put out of business. This just legalizes existing tech I guess, but that doesn't make it any less bizarre that they decided to put it into plain sight.
Instagram isn't blocked in Europe.

Threads isn't blocked either. It's Facebook's own conscious decision because they haven't yet found a way to circumvent privacy laws.
No. If you have a program that does a particular task you may be inclined to let users run it with sudo rights. This list shows how these rights can be used to - for example - read arbitrary files and show them to the unprivileged user.

The "mail" entry is a good example:

https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/mail/

Did you know you can get a shell easily by letting users use "mail"?
Only on Unix
Not half as easily as social media handles though...
They mostly sucked. The waiting time sucked, the service sucked(there was no reputation for each individual driver), in a lot of places it was a cartel artificially limiting the number of drivers.
The existence of Uber/Lyft is a great benefit to the consumer.
What would a "real world" application of this be? Could I for example chuck a bunch of simulated worms onto a map and have it solve a route? "Given enough worms, all Travelling Salesman problems are shallow?"
Pegasus has nothing to do with backdoors, it uses security vulnerabilities.
> As such, the first instance of “Twitter” is surely a mistake; shouldn’t it say “Meta”? This would make sense given the next sentence (“With that knowledge, Meta [...]”).

No! I think they wrote it correctly. The wording is confusing definitely as it’s written in first object. They are trying to tell them (Meta) - they (Twitter) are aware that they are hired our ex employees.
Connectome model of fruit fly brain was just recently published[1].

[1] https://hub.jhu.edu/2023/03/09/scientists-complete-first-map...
Building a Fairlight CMI [video]
I think they already know what their value is: showing ads. 3rd party apps can easily block that, so it makes sense to shut them down from a value perspective.
I mean, if by "exactly like twitter blue" you mean "charging people money for things" then sure. But you're generalizing beyond the point where the comparison is useful or a pejorative
I second this, there is absolutely no easily discoverable entry point to the documentation.
In the end if you want to get a feeling of what this is you search for "tika tutorial" and get a rough idea via (in my case) some medium article I guess.
plenty of material available for them already:

High On Life - Bounty Krubis: Drivers Yell and Cuss at Each Other at Highway Traffic Jam Sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs945iNyk0g
Pf is included in FreeBSD and macOS, and by extension pfsense. But it's worth noting that they've all diverged to varying degrees so you've gotta be careful in terms of syntax and features.

For fun I've been monkeying around with a friendly pf library in everyone's favorite language, and the differences between bit me a few times… although it looks like FreeBSD-current is starting to work towards convergence. It's a really powerful tool, it'll let you write rules conditional on an OS fingerprint, handle a bunch of traffic normalization… but it's also been a reminder about how much I dislike C APIs (obviously most folks are going to be using pfctl which is just fine and dandy).
> su
Sudo
Sudo
If the binary is allowed to run as superuser by sudo, it does not drop the elevated privileges and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain privileged access.

sudo su

So it is su or sudo ?

Anyway, this is in the spirit of "to install a linux virus: ./configure; make; sudo make install".
French Republic v. Math
> Once enough people realize that "the state" can't be everywhere at once

That's a (ideologically driven) myth though: if there's just one thing to learn from the twentieth century, it's that even with limited available technologies, a State that wants to be everywhere, can be everywhere, and it's only getting more true as technology advances[1]. And NSA alone collects enough information today to be able to solve the large chunk of unaddressed crime in most of the developed world, it's just a matter of political will regarding resource allocation (with a little bit of Baumol's cost disease, but it's not the main factor at play).

Having a state that is effectively everywhere is of course not something desirable either (again, the lessons from the past century) but the state abandoning its role is a politically constructed situation (it's what you get when laissez-faire becomes a religious theme).

[1] and it fact, it is because the reach of state steadily increased during the early-mid modern period that we've reached the current state of things. It's not that people haven't yet learned that the state cannot be everywhere, it's that states spent several century building the ability to be everywhere, which in turn led to this confidence from the population (and unfortunately to totalitarism sometimes…)
I disagree. Cyber security frameworks do not provide a guarantee of not being hacked even if you do everything in them.

What is true is that if you do very little on them, you are much more likely to be hacked.
The author is assuming a decently high level of technical competence here. I guarantee you there are people calling into customer service with basic queries already handled by an app or website.
But they clearly didn't intend the word "suicide" because it wouldn't even fit in that sentence grammatically. If they are referring to the death of Elaine Herzberg, they may have intended it to mean "murdered" or "killed", but certainly not "suicide[d]". How could an SDC suicide a human being???
I apologize for the grave mistake.
Message forgery does quite often lead to decryption actually - google “chosen ciphertext attack”.
> You name the 10 most important tech products of the year so far.

Do name them, please. And then revisit that list and ask yourself: how many of them exist because of two things:

- unlimited investor money with no expectation of profitability

- blatant disregard of data privacy, user privacy, and/or other laws.

Great example is OpenAI. They said they welcomed regulation. The moment EU proposed level-headed sensible regulation [1] that among other things required documentation on how foundational models are trained and where they get their data, Altman screamed that they would pull out of EU.

[1] https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...
Seems like they stop selling dedicated QAT cards, but their new E2000 DPUs (kind of a smart NIC I think your employer uses for accelerating cloud loads) have QAT instructions. But I'd say that's because those DPUs have a couple Xeons inside :)

I think QAT API used to be a mess in past generations, and IIRC it's one of the factors drivers for older hardware weren't included in TrueNAS Scale. I think it was this ticket [1] where they said that it was complicated to add support for previous hardware, but can't confirm because JIRA's been acting funny since yesterday.

Feels like QAT has stabilized since this Gen4 hardware and interesting things are appearing again. Not only the ZSTD plugin you linked, but I just noticed QATlib added support for lz4/lz4s past July [2]! That's interesting.

They are also publishing guides for accelerating SSL operations in SSL terminators / load balancers like HAProxy [3], so between this and cloud providers using DPUs to accelerate their load, doesn't feel like they're shutting this down soon.

I'd love if they make this a bit more accessible to non-developers.

[1] : https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-107334
[2] : https://github.com/intel/qatlib/tree/main#revision-history
[3] : https://networkbuilders.intel.com/solutionslibrary/intel-quickassist-technology-intel-qat-accelerating-haproxy-performance-on-4th-gen-intel-xeon-scalable-processors-technology-guide
Use a throwaway number with 5sim.net
There are much easier solutions than that. I've not tried the sibling's idea, but just not connecting it to wifi, pressing shift+f10 and running "oobe\BypassNRO" is enough. It's still ridiculous and shameful behaviour from Microsoft, but disabling secureboot isn't necessary.
Use 5sim.net. Easy. Don't make this so hard.
I can say the same about the US though, and at least the EU gives hundreds of millions of people far more rights in relation to their data than anything available in the US; a few US states like California give a limited form of this, but by far not most.

So, while you’re right that the EU and the US both have flaws in this area, this move is still an improvement.
Sure it's already dire, but who cares what customers want (especially the few 'difficult' ones)?

We didn't want phone menu systems, or to wait minutes, tens of minutes listening to muzak on hold, or to have to decrypt heavy foreign accents and painful latency on calls, etc either.

Customers will get what companies give them, which will be phrased as 'lower prices'.
Worked well for Google+ as well lol
we had riots in france. the government let the riot go without doing much then they lied about the number saying it was a few thousands while anyone with a statistic 101 can tell its a blatant lie. last time we had similar people breaking everything at a soccer game and the ministry of interior told us it was english fans...

a while ago we had protest 'yellow vest' and protest against retirement age the government used police to massively destroy the people that were protesting many were left with lifelong disabilities. then we had the covid confinement where we had to have a paper to go out and average citizen where hunted and assaulted for not respecting it. and now we have people rioting and breaking businesses, hurting others in the streets with nothing to stop them.

it just doesnt make sense.
to me it sounds like we are becoming a dictature where lies are pushed as facts, riots are pushed by the state and entertained to scare the average citizen, surveillance state is controlling us and any kind of protest is severely dealt with. france is becoming scary under macron. just like canada with trudeau, those two guys, young leaders that corrupt journalist pushed and love even tho they represent everything wrong in our country, those two 'modern leaders' they used wokism and green washing to move us further away from real democracies like switzerland. now we are a pink dictature.
That's part of the scientific process, and probably the most valuable part (that sets it apart from e.g. religion).

It's very exciting to me when a theory makes predictions, and those predictions turn out to be true - it's beautiful.
it's pretty crap. it's just new for people.
I disagree. It’s obviously wrong in the general case (e.g. look at note-taking or messaging apps), and there are all kinds of discussion forums with overlapping topics. Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Discord, Mastodon and Twitter all have overlapping use cases. Maybe my view is colored by not caring about “the market”. But there’s certainly space for more than one micro-blogging platform.
Every person on the planet should have their own website
Real-time bidding: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/real-time-bidding
GCP – Cloudsql – Stuck serverless export
Hey, commenting here because it's the only way to get visibility from Googlers

It's three months already and we have a stuck serverless export. Rebooting the instance does nothing. This impedes us to create new exports, so we are only relying currently on snapshots.

Is paying Google Support the only way forward? Are we really being forced to pay to get this solved? This should be free.

Additionally, who's going to pay for all the minutes in which the serverless export is stuck doing nothing?
GDPR doesn't cause this work. The industry you're busy defending is causing this work. It's almost trivially easy for most companies to comply with GDPR. Instead they want to sell your data to hundreds of trackers.
My cellular biochemistry does a pretty good job of replicating itself with absolutely no understanding whatsoever of how to resolve the contradictions between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

When it comes to brains, I don't know if anyone knows what might be the simplest sufficient model that would usefully replicate them, even if you specify "usefully" well enough to know if this is about fundamentals of intelligence or about the impact of drugs on cognition, which are two completely different standards.

For example, perceptrons are a toy model, but modern AI can do more in (breadth XOR single-skill performance in various domains) than any single human, even with much smaller parameter counts than we have synapses; but the broad-skilled ones also mess up in inhuman ways, like being equally good at advanced calculus as basic arithmetic, or being a poet at the level of stereotypical teenager but in every language simultaneously.

If anyone's made a neutral network that can get high on simulated caffeine — and I'm not saying it hasn't been done — it's not reached any of the places I follow discussions on this kind of thing. (Google didn't help, results were about software named Caffeine and non-artificial neurones).
There seem to be some malformed URLs here?

> <outline type="rss" title="ntietz" text="ntietz" xmlUrl="https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ntietz.com&amp;#x2F;atom.xml" htmlUrl="https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ntietz.com&amp;#x2F;atom.xml"/>
Electric cars make it more difficult for other people to adopt low-pollution lifestyles by making the streets more dangerous for those walking or biking, and produce a lot of particulates from the tyres, especially since they're quite heavy.

An electric bike, though, is a pretty great choice!
any of us could've written something like that when young
Related: what experiences have people had with middlemen services that handle the EU claims process for you?
> we also have a hard time judging Ladybird’s progress for the reasons stated above

There are plenty of available test for web browser stack, allowing to compare browsers and their implementation of standards, including Ladybird.

* Acid3: http://wpt.live/acid/acid3/test.html
* All browsers score 100/100
* HTML5test: https://html5test.com/index.html
* Chrome: 528
* Firefox: 491
* Safari: 471
* Ladybird: 266 (in december 2022, I couldn't find more recent figures, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were significantly higher today)
* Test262 (JS engines): https://test262.report
* Chrome (V8): 86%
* Firefox: 85%
* Safari: 85%
* Ladybird: 87% (behind on language syntax, significantly ahead on built-ins, internationalization, and AnnexB)
* Web Platform Tests: https://web-platform-tests.org/
* I don't have figures for this, but this is integrated in Ladybird's CI pipeline
* Probably others

The point is: it is quite possible to judge and measure overall progress, and the vertical slice approach they use lead to constant overall improvement.
This is the most well-maintained list of commercially usable open LLMs: https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms

MPT, OpenLLaMA, and Falcon are probably the most generally useful.

For code, Replit Code (specifically replit-code-instruct-glaive) and StarCoder (WizardCoder-15B) are the current top open models and both can be used commercially.
>> everybody uses whatsapp there

That claim does not ring true to me. Maybe a few years ago, but now? I don't use whatsapp and I don't know anyone who uses it, except for a group of expats from South America who probably use it because it's still widespread in South America and their friends use it, maybe?
Yes, in China majority are fine with their gonvermnent. Even most Russian's agree with Putin. No wonder that political obedience is common when most people in society has conformity behavior.