skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Two years into the pandemic, something shifted. That’s when I was getting inundated with people who were in crisis and on the brink of divorce.

Yet another unintended consequence of lockdowns
“If someone asks you a question they’ve got no business asking, you’re under no obligation to tell them the truth.”
— Leonard Schiffman

(From: “Blend me in: Privacy-Preserving Input Generalization for Personalized Online Services”
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10OmoqMmHFcb7PsQtaU_GW4aCAJe...)
Take a look at OCaml, Kotlin, and F#. They aren't literally what you described, but they're close enough than I think you may find them useful.
> If the developers are not competent enough to write maintainable code or maintain existing code

Or if the old system simply doesn't work with modern environments.

Or if it depends on long abandoned frameworks.

Or if the business grows but the old implementation scales badly or not at all.

Or if it depends on components that incur licensing fees that become prohibitively expensive when it's scaled up.

Or if there are other legacy systems on different technical baselines that it could work with better after being rebuilt on the same base.

Or if its tech simply requires more maintenance than an alternative, thus binding dev resources the company could otherwise use more productively.

There are alot of reasons why maintaining an old system may be an undesireable move in the long run, that have exactly zero to do with the competence of the developers involved.
What about replicate.com and RunPod?
So is it the Pandemic hangover or smart phones?
I was under the impression that most modern (past few years) SoCs like Exynos, Qualcomm, Apple silicon all had IOMMU support. Sometimes it’s misconfigured to be too permissive but that’s getting better.

Qualcomm SMMU: https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...

Apple: https://support.apple.com/lt-lt/guide/security/seca4960c2b5/...

Samsung (vuln indicating it wasn’t configured correctly, but they still do have and use an IOMMU): https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39854
"high-end" arm windows machines never made much sense to me. It seems that the main appeal is longer battery life, but looking at the recent CPU from AMD, and the rumors of the next CPU from intel.It's seem clear to me that x86 is making more progress in reducing power consumption than arm is making in performance. And i wouldn't be surprise that in a couple of year we get very efficient x86 cpu's from both AMD and intel.
It’s just interesting to see the VC money pouring into these tools. My argument is serious integration/scale doesn’t involve a library like these (honestly prototyping doesn’t really need to either).

Id be more bullish on paradigm (platform/cloud level) shifts vs connectors, wrappers, and utility functions

Ymmv and to be fair I haven’t tried to scale these tools. I have worked on scaled platforms around embedding retrieval and rerank (including LLMs) so it’s just my take.
I'm savvy, but I'm also lazy.
Yup, and that is what should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. I can understand it for some backwater country struggling to feed its citizens, but NATO members? The United States? Come on that's ridiculous.
Half hour of blocking and I have no problems at all. No brands or big celebrities. This is not rocket science.
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PhD students are almost always funded including an annual stipend. The university charges tuition but almost none of them ever see that bill (their advisor or external fellowship does).

Undergrads pay for their education mostly
In some cases, yes. But not entirely. Open source exists to give people a way to opt out of would-be exploitation of a related kind.

Things can still get a lot worse: The fight isn't over until all roads are toll roads and you have to pay for the oxygen you consume.
It doesn't matter what you do. The vast majority of code I'm using from other people doesn't. Even my personal python methodology differs from yours.

Plus, you now have to teach and evangelize your method versus the dozens of others out there. It's crazy town.

The negative thoughts and feelings I once had for PHP are now directed mostly at Python. PHP fixed a lot of its problems over the last decade. Python has picked up considerable baggage in that time. It needs to take the time to do the same cleanup and standardization.
https://primaryobjects.com

My blog about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and software development topics.

I also post frequently on Medium as well.

https://medium.com/@KoryBecker
Article seemed to end abruptly. It was a great start to what should be an article 3 to 4 times as long.
Well, you don't really need to feed fake GPS data to have Google Maps make you drive into the ocean or things like that.
There are legitimate methods for penile enlargement. Among them: PRP shots combined with stretching and pumping. It takes a while and the gains are minor, but much safer than silicone injections or surgery.
It's also important to highlight that the Tour de France is one of the most sexist sporting events still around. Cycling in general.

The cycling establishment refuses to allow equality for women. The women's Tour didn't even exist before 2022. The current women's tour is a pale shadow of the men's. The women are not allowed to ride the same tour, they can only do 8 stages and almost none of the 8 correspond to the men's race (they're 50-100km shorter). The 2023 women's edition got one time trial and one mountain stage. It's pathetic.

The entire UCI behaves like it's the year 1800. There's a written rule that women are not allowed to race the same distances and times as men. It doesn't matter that they can. It doesn't matter that they want to. It doesn't matter if they raise the money to. The rule is, women must be inferior to men in cycling. It's just like with marathon running, you literally have older men in power holding women back for no reason at all.

Women just want to cycle. They aren't demanding the same rewards or the same prize money. They just want to ride the same race! Why wouldn't we allow that? There's pretty good evidence that women are actually better endurance athletes than men. I wonder if one day we'll see the Women's Tour actually beat out the men's.

PS: Someone in a reply said that clearly women can't do this. We know women can. And they can even beat men at it!

Take the RAAM (Race Across America, a gruelling almost 3000 mile race, nearly 5000km). Women are allowed to join in. This is even longer than the Tour. Not only have many women finished RAAM, in Leah Goldstein actually won. Not the women's category. The race outright. Period.

Or the Transcontinental Race (TRC, similar to RAAM but across Europe and without a support team, between 3000-4000km depending on the year). Not only have many women participated and completed it, in 2019 a Fiona Kolbinger won. And again, not the women's category. She won the 10 day race beating out the best man by 10 hours!
Maybe, but (thank goodness) the mattress ads bombarding does not last 3 months, only a week or so, after 2 and 3/4 months have passed that % of population will either look where they bought the previous one (if they are satified with it) or make a new google search, in both cases the week long targeted campaign won't have much effect.
Even if I always take the latest for direct dependencies, semver is still helpful preventing breakage from incompatible upgrades to indirect dependencies. If I depend on library A, and library A depends on library B, I can't fix any breakage from an incompatible update to library B. I need to wait for library A to update.
Yeah, this was clearly a farmer trying to back out of a contract after prices had skyrocketed and he could do better than deliver on his existing deal. There was clearly a meeting of the minds here, and that is all that is required for a contractual obligation to be enforceable.
At one point my laptop had some thermochromic indicators to indicate when the laptop became warm. I salvaged it from dead duracell batteries (ones which have a battery level indicator).
I noticed that it's too slow to react though.
> This seems like a learning opportunity. Or a Darwinian opportunity.

Not for the passengers.
That was a very macro version of the TDF finances. And the title didn't really describe how it got to 100M more the make up of their revenue streams. Also if it's 100M rev its 1B company right?
It just feels nicer to use. Not more functional to use, but it does feel different to your fingertip.

Like the author mentions, it's not a dealbreaker, but is a calling-card of this particular machine's build/materials/specs not living up to its pricetag.
Still, they could have used a more general term other than "llama". They had it coming imo.

Sometimes developers come up with creative and interesting names for their products, but other times they fail miserably.
I wonder if we'll ever get an honest postmortem on this policy intervention, the largest and most intrusive domestic policy the gov't initiated in my lifetime, done without a law even being passed or any actual debate.
Filtering by IP is not enough for security.

Imagine, Rostelecom, largest Russian ISP, few times misconfigured their network equipment, so ~90% of European traffic went throw Russian channels.

So they seen all unencrypted files, logins/passwords, emails, phones, bank accounts, etc.

They always said, "this is just mistake", but we cannot be sure, if all these information was not sold on black market.

You have not suffer from scammers? This is just question of how strong your encryption and how much time passed.

SSH tunneling, if properly configured, is strong enough, so nobody could decrypt your data in nearest years.

To be strict, considering current state of cryptography science/tech, one need hundreds years of CPU time to decrypt data, but we cannot be sure, nearest years will not uncover mistakes or will not appear some new equipment, like quantum computers, so hundreds years could shrink to few weeks of medium size DC.
Full disclosure - I do work at Microsoft on Windows. One of the work devices I have is a Surface Pro X - and it has been generally a good experience. I don’t really write code on the device (I work on Hyper-V), but for browsing, Office, Remote Desktop, WPA etc it’s good.

My biggest annoyance is that Motu don’t have ARM64 drivers for their audio interfaces, so I can’t use the one I have for microphone input. I’ve tried asking - but it doesn’t seem like it’s even on their roadmap, which is unfortunate. I’m pretty sure they license the Thesycon driver which does now support ARM64 [0] - but I guess they need to either update or just build the ARM64 version… The inbox class driver doesn’t work because Motu use implicit feedback.

[0] - https://www.thesycon.de/eng/usb_audiodriver.shtml
Based on my GDPR request results (zip bundle of CSV files delivered by signed S3 blob from reddit-export bucket), they maintain IP logs of your user for ~90 days.
> > Tough luck, bucko, we’re the SECURE email company, you’ll upload your private key to our servers and you’ll like it!

> FWIW, private keys are stored encrypted on the server, we don't have access to them.

This is frankly fucking ridiculous. Users (including me) have been requesting a change to this for years. It's thanks to this bullshit that ProtonMail's key feature for me is just 'isn't Google'.
Mastodon seems like nice people, but it's not well designed. So far, it seems people are posting stuff in the void and creating little conversation because everything rolls past you unless you are looking continuously. Even notifications are poorly designed as it keeps posting your content repeatedly for favorites, etc., so you have little overview of your interactions. I think it could be designed better but apparently, few changes are made to make it more usable.
That's good because either way it costs them money.

Also fake data being more chaotic would be good because it would ultimately cause them to over filter and throw out real chaotic data, effectively over fitting their marketing efforts to slightly more average people.

Additionally, a good arms race would be fun here. Keep making the data more and more realistic each generation. Add an option to use plugin datasets so wallstreetbets can crowdsource fucking with investment banks (ie why is everyone suddenly spending all their time at targets?)
That's funny, I was just asking for that a few days ago on a similar thread [1]

> There needs to be a feature on android to give fake gps data on a real device. This would be useful for any app that requires gps for no good reason.

> If your flashlight app needs gps to turn on, no problem. You are currently on mount Kilimanjaro.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486587
> The US is not actively in a war

There are US soldiers and contractors fighting and dying right now:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Rapier has bevy plugin, is there a reason you don't see it as a real option, at least as much as this bevy-xpbd?

https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/bevy_plugin/getting_start...
NGL, had me in the first half.
In SemVer, having the first number be zero means that the project is still in unstable development.
There’s all kinds of funky geo restrictions for the tdf and a bunch of other races. The rights are a mess. In the US you need to use a vpn to watch the tdf on GCN+.
This walrus must be stopped immediately!
> You can construct experiments to demonstrate damn near anything is true, and without (or even with) a rigorous background in statistics and scientific methodology, it's very hard to examine the supposed evidence.

One time I was at this silly daylong corporate team building event where they assigned us to groups and had us do "experiments." As it happened one of my group members has a PhD in Particle Physics and the look on his face was something else. Needless to say he didn't bother telling the take charge type that her experiment design was entirely nonsensical, because why bother, but I was amused.
Not the point at all.

You seem to feel fairly certain that humanity is "on a path", and that there's going with that flow and there's going against it. You're welcome to believe that, but it's far from a settled POV.

As for lying executives, they are immoral and only rational when viewed through the lens of their own selfishness.
Yeah, I botched the specifics on that. My fault for not rereading what I wrote prior to posting.
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The bigger problem is that nobody has any answer for why a mind upload would actually contain your consciousness and not just be a clone with either no qualia or it's own separate conscious experience.

The even bigger issue is when mind uploading people fully admit this issue and try to claim some philosophical reason why it doesn't matter, and we should all be excited about tech to make what amounts to an interactive epitaph.
Nobody said that FOSS was perfect, only better.
At some point we tried using a major network…. That predicted our target market to be 50% female, and heavily present in middle east. Had a laugh and moved on.
It's silly stuff like "Bill said he's free Wednesday or Thursday: which slot works for you?"

Yes.
I think this is a technical solution for a social problem.

Compare it with the "unsubscribe" button in spam newsletters that does nothing. Sure, fuck you, I will just block the unique email address you are using and you won't be able to contact me at all.

If everyone was playing nicely, we would not need it.
Might be an interesting article but it's hard to get past the large amount of distracting AI art...
Author needs to get out to the American West sometime. 1km is chump change out here. I've always been around others when I've traveled but I could have easily traveled alone if I wanted to. Our party has been has often been so far away from others that no other person could be seen for miles around.
https://archive.is/SPRZ3
I believe we're expected to be grateful that it's over, and in our gratitude, forget.
Oh c'mon. I worked at RMS in Tucson. We had tons of this. Hell, in one lab we found test procedures for the Phoenix missile for our HWIL, which hasn't had a Phoenix in there for decades.
You were the one that brought up removing features.
> Apps should be required to gracefully handle the cases where users deny permission to access real data

Or else? You're suggesting an organizational solution to a technical problem. This can't possibly work. Fake data is the only practical solution to this, such that the app would see the permission as granted when it is not actually granted.
> they would save time and effort forking the language and improving it as closed source.

Actually, experience has shown the opposite to be true. Time and time again even large organisations find their fork falling behind the community version and the pain of merging new versions from upstream grows and grows
Recommended watching https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Pharmacy
Well, what would be considered a high-value target?

Even if warrants are initially mandated for a specific search, couldn’t this erode into, ‘it’s just a quick scan’?

What if it’s ‘useful’ to ‘quick scan’ their own President? ‘Confirming their security’.

Could this evolve into a subtle shift in the balance of power? In other words, a political crisis?

Where the intelligence agencies have informational advantages over any elected office.

From information into knowledge, you could easily have behind the scenes figures who have unmatchable insight and ability to coordinate.

Suddenly every target has value…
It's not as if the other option will get you a slap on the wrist.
Ask HN: Security bug in Threads-Instagram-Meta signup?
I'm trying Threads, and seem to hit a security issue. Is anyone here seeing similar? And/or how to diagnose this issue?

1. I install Threads on a typical Google Pixel. Threads successfully connects to my Instagram account.

2. The next time I use Instagram is on my Mac. There's a warning that says Meta suspects unauthorized access to my Instagram account, and directs me to change my password.

3. When I follow the directions, I see Meta account account settings. However, everything is in Swedish, which I don't speak, and don't use. There's no obvious way to change to English.

Questions: Is anyone else here getting these kinds of warnings? And does anyone here have backchannels at Threads/Instagram/Meta to let the security team know, and the i18n-l10n team know too?
driving multiple GPUs on the same node is better handled by threads. Python is forced to use multiprocessing
I think there's a good bit of truth to that. Even the platforms where self promotion is a rule violation such as Wikipedia and Reddit tend to be dominated by cliques of unpaid mods with an agenda either ideological or related to the interests of a government's national security apparatus.

The main reason why I'm pessimistic about the prospects for Threads to be a success is because it seems to be leaning very strongly towards LinkedIn on the scale of authenticity vs inauthenticity and that is death for a social media platform unless people literally use it to find jobs. I don't think most actual human beings want to use a platform dominated by corporations and people trying to turn themselves into a "brand". They're basically attracting all of the spam accounts from Twitter and amplifying them which might be a good way to attract advertisers but it isn't a good way to attract users.
Why not do it the other way? Have an opt-in at runtime for no-gil?
> it's really difficult to watch in a lot of countries

please name some?
Why do the people need to fund the garbage habit of less than 1/8 of their citizens? You choose to do drugs, you’re on your own.
I don't understand how they graduated high school and they don't understand how I don't own a business that makes 7 figures, since it's so easy for them to do.

Life is confusing to me, pretty much every day.
And what if we are a developer who wants to build for the device hands-on, yet don't have an Apple Store in their city? (Actually, only have a few in the whole country)

Why can't we just order it online? I don't wear glasses, have perfect eyesight, and my iPhone can scan my face (already using Face ID for years) to automatically determine the best fit.

Why should we wait until 2025 while someone who has a physical store near them have a competitive advantage of starting to get familiar of using it and the ecosystem?
K8s is complicated , but Docker (docker compose) solves a lot of problems especially when you are working with a team.
Just 5-10 lines of YAML code in your docker-compose.yaml file and it gives you an local infrastructure of db , redis , node , python , nginx and many other things. Then you can share with anyone in your team , and it works on their machine too.
Don't afraid of time saving tech.

We had use nodejs/ts , but nothing meets DX of python , or Python + MyPy yet, and ecosystem is unmatched.
Same is true for slack, since suc apparently does it in 5 lines.
This argument is reminiscent of ORMs and “you can switch your database and only change the config!”

Switching your database, just like switching your cloud provider, rarely happens in practice.
don't get it - what/who is spez?
I hate Apple, its products, and its ecosystem. The developer tools suck and macOS provides no advantage over windows other than an annoying user interface (if you're into that sort of thing)
I bookmarked the article after the first few paragraphs to potentially share with some friends. Definitely a bit disappointed at the end.

Was hoping the author would share their intuition for how to make relationships work in the smartphone world.

I don't think you need an expert opinion to say that smartphones at the very least have radically changed relationship dynamics
note: it was available before, the only change is that now it's in a github repository instead of a zip file that you download from the website
for the simple reason that many sites' robots.txt file is wrong.

Which is of course not the real reason.

The reason Google doesn't follow the robots.txt protocol is (1) they don't want to (2) they can get away with it.
> So anyways, PEP 703 is a a nice effort, but I doubt we (everyday mortals) can enjoy it.

I'd suggest we can be more optimistic. There is a lot of python, regular users write daily, where we delegate orchestration to established libraries - asyncio/web-frameworks/pytorch. The GIL limits how much they can parallelize your code, and its removal will help with that.
Sport doesn’t really get 10x multiplier I think. Top tier football club is ~4-5 billions valuation on ~700millions revenue.
Tour de France instead is full of EPO pumped cyclists. (see Armstrong, see Ullrich etc)
It's insane to imagine a hard shelled device implanted into a penis, the most volatile organ of the body that can change volume in seconds according to ambient and body temperature and state of arousal. The idea makes me physically sick.
It’s 2023, and people are still grasping for Internet Points?
>I don’t know of any streaming app that doesn’t also have a website that I can take screenshots (as well as full screen captures) on

Your browser does not have DRM support which typically means you are not sent the full quality videos. And not all media apps have a website. Not every app that I am talking about are from massive companies that can support making apps and a website.
Well, some Windows menu apis draw by using exact coordinates on the screen, Wayland doesn't allow this (for security + embedded reasons), applications are not able to get their exact coordinates on the screen without additional xdg apis, everything is relative.

This is no problem for games, because games are designed to be portable and thus use very little of the platforms API for UI, hence why the Wayland port focusses on full screen applications for now. However for applications I believe some conversion would be needed, but from the sounds of it, whilst its extra work its nothing that isn't doable.