skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, if the innermost loop is something like 3 assembly instructions, two extra instructions cmp and jg do not make any difference, if jg never executes?
> its true and concerning

> LLMs seem like a dead end

These would seem contradictory. If you really think that both are true and Altman knows it, then you're saying he's a hype man lying for regulatory capture. And to some extent he definitely is overblowing the danger for his own gain.

I really doubt they are a dead end though, we've barely started to explore what they can do. There's a lot more that can be extracted from existing datasets, multimodality, gains in GPU power to wait for, fine tunes for use cases that don't even have datasets yet, etc. Just the absolute mountain of things we've learned since LLama came out are enough to warrant base model retrains.
A related interesting problem would be: how to search by text keywords in the audio stream of the video.

I guess part of one solution approach could be to convert the speech to text. Could then grep it. But how would we correlate that back to the time positions in the video where those keywords occurred?
A 2022 review on synthetic genomics from the same team is to be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.06.046 .
If this is all true, then how does Facebook make so much money?

The first stock market bubble in 2000 partly burst because investors realized that large user numbers by themselves were worthless.

Then other monetization schemes were discovered ...
The connecting flight was AF, but the delayed flight out of ATL was DL.
Threads collects sensitive personal information about you

The data collected by the Threads app could include your sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, biometric data, trade union membership, pregnancy status, politics, and religious beliefs. This data may potentially be sent to “service providers” and “analytics partners,” which is often code for third-party advertising and marketing firms.

Threads collects data about your employment

Information about your company, your role on your team, your job history, and your performance evaluations may be collected and sent to third parties.

Threads collects data about your body

Details about your health, fitness, and exercise may be hoovered up to be sent to third parties.

Threads collects data about your web activity

Threads may scour your browsing history, web page interactions (including with ads), and the referring web page or source through which you accessed Threads links. This information may be sent to third parties as well.

Threads collects data about your location

Photos, videos, or other recordings of a user’s environment, as well as “IP-address-based location information,” may be collected and sent to third parties.

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1. How does it access biometric data?

2. How does it access your performance evaluations?

3. How does it access your browsing history?

4. How does it access "photos, videos, or other recordings of a user’s environment"?

If the answer to this is that it extracts information from the things you post, mining the data of your threads over years and extracting a profile, then that isn't that big of a privacy invasion -- especially if you post publicly.

If the answer is that they activate the camera without you knowing, that they bypass security features to access browser history and biometric data, and that they... I don't even know how they'd access performance evaluations, then that's a different question and less of a privacy issue and more of a computer misuse issue.

Does anyone know the answer to this?

Perhaps it's time for phone cameras & microphones to have hardware lights next to them like Macs do.
I want to be able to read (former UN weapons nspector) Scott Ritter on twitter. A man with a huge amount of experience and someone who is able to give very informed commentary. On pre-Musk twitter I couldn't read him, now I can. And I could give quite a number of similar examples.
In this benchmark the only loop carried dependency is over the res variable (edit: and of course the index). The jump doesn't break these dependencies, so for this specific problem, the additional latency of the cmov doesn't matter as it is always perfectly pipelined and cmov will always come up on top. But if the input of cmov depended on a previous value, then potentially a branch could be better given an high enough prediciton rate.
Waiting for the day when we can observe an actual worm and predict its movements exactly by simulating them ahead of time.
To people downvoting: please do add a comment with an actual example.

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This is really fun! I feels nice to play - quite a satisfying interaction.

I feel like it would be a good way for my kids to get a bit of typing practise, but I think the difficulty is set too hard for them. I can't see a way to change that.
Next: OpenSmoker.py
I'm currently finishing Msc. in computer science at an average European university, and it was knowledge-wise just a complete waste of time. The only thing I'll take from these two years:
- Living, studiyng and working in Western country compared to my home country of Czechia was culturally enriching let's say.
- Eramsus was fun, more travel!
But if I wanted to maximize my knowledge about computers, doing Coursera and working on interesting projects on my own would 100% give better results.
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> Note a person during a strong hatred rush has eyes turn ink black. Entirely ink black with no white.

Totally black sclera? Your fictional anecdote has now "jumped the shark."
I've gone through the process some 4 to 5 times in the past two years or so and never had any issues with it. The delays are annoying, but I get part of my money back no problem.
Oh ok, so loading in different text is the way to influence difficulty. Geddit.
Streaming has no value for me, I need the entire response before I can do anything. I looked at streaming, but it seemed like a significant effort to implement, and with no obvious benefit — if I get 75% of my response through streaming and then something breaks, it doesn't get me anywhere.

Thanks for offering help, I will contact you directly.
Python. I love working with it (except when it comes to package management and distribution).
> Identity management is the biggest issue with social media.

I have to be honest, I can think of many far bigger issues with social media, namely, bullying, harassment, misinformation, and addiction, among others
That's the thing.

At work, I hated an hr bot for years. But in the last year it became good and useful and I now like it.

If a bot gives me what I need I'll like it. If it only provides value for YOU though and makes MY life more difficult then I will not enjoy it very much.

Big problem with most bots is they don't have authority and they refuse to turn you over to someone who does. If I'm engaging with your customer service, it means I have an issue I need resolved. The worst bits are the equivalent of incessantly yet cheerfully asking me to restart my computer in an endless loop with no path out.
adding @cache meaningfully changes the algorithmic complexity from O(1.8^^N) (iirc - it's obviously exponential) to O(N).
I think "normal people" will very much care about shoplifting when they see that prices go up to cover for that. Or, even worse, when store owners figure they can't be profitable in some area and go away altogether.

I think people keep on thinking that "the rich" feel they have some kind of moral obligation to help them. As we've seen time and again, they do not. And they will even go out of their way to protect their money. See all the fiscal arrangements they set up to "optimize" taxation.
Annoyingly it seems my rss is hard to detect. It's at https://pricey.uk/rss.xml
You'll to edit the shell script without the binary at the end and once you're done you append the blob.
It's not like sailors spend a lot of time in green spaces though. On serious note: exposure to extreme wind and sun day after day can't be good for your skin.
Except understanding how a bird can fly had little bearing on building the Wright brothers flyer.

And most of the details of bird flight were not exactly discovered till well after commercial air travel was commonplace.
Same! Must fix...
I've spent quite some time in France over the past few years and variously dealt with websites of French organisations during this time. I'm not sure what it is, but French websites seem typically to be frustratingly semi-functional. This story is completely unsurprising to me.
I firmly believe this is the case. They will lure in users with things like video hosting and better spam filtering, while making it increasingly harder for the fediverse to exist (for example by participating in the development of the common interfaces and making them increasingly complex), then eventually just closing off altogether when they have large enough user base.

Having corporations participate to fediverse will only be a bad thing, apart from some short term gains.
I understand that viewpoint and I can see the value in it.

The point I was making is that they done no meaningful improvements on Android since five years. If onenote supports rich text the mobile app should do the same.

I enjoy the rich text since I'm not very organised with my notes, I don't have the patience or discipline to neatly write my thoughts down, I mostly copy paste things and write it in one big OneNote document. I have like 90 different random notes in my 2020 forward dumping note.

I those cases highlighting important info is nice, so I don't have to visually remember where the important things are.

I noticed if I don't allow the chaos I just don't write notes so I prefer this way. I started using todo tasks for things I need to do soon, so babysteps to becoming a compete human ;)
Even with the easiest I think my 7 year old would get flustered. Ideally I'd be able to slow it down. (ps. love the joke in the list of example texts to use...)
I disagree with your technical opinion: As an HTML beginner in 1995, I had no problems understanding the tags that contain vs those unable to contain (an image or horizontal rule won't contain a paragraph) and frankly find any extra symbols or markup properties take away legibility. In fact, I recall my biggest confusion was the introduction of div and span, because they both seemed to contain text, and both do something style-related but somehow distinct between the two that I didn't understand at the time.

Furthermore, I'm not a fan of your personal beef with Jake and think it's over the line to accuse self promotion when he's not selling a book or service or anything other than seemingly pushing an opinion.

jaffathecake has posted, on average, once per year for the past two years. Going back to his account beginning: it's five times per year.

He posts topics that are engaging (over 60 points per post for the past 30 posts, only 10 of these posts were ignored) as well as technical and usually interesting. He then has a discussion---there are certainly other blog posters who simply post and leave. I much prefer this largely posting of one's own work to people posting tangentially relevant (at best) articles from Politico or The Atlantic. Other people regularly link his posts, confirming that he has an audience on HN. He's not even reposting his old articles or posting three times in a week when a topic doesn't "catch" on the first two attempts like MANY of the karma-heavy serial posters on HN.

His comment style (aka stubbornness) probably comes from his own development experience and he doesn't see the perspective of people writing simple "gg=G" auto-indent algorithms using Python in a new world of custom HTML elements (web components) or writing regex to quickly add a property like aria-level to every tag that can contain. These might be inefficient and contrived use-cases, and he'd probably have a leg to stand on that the trailing slash isn't necessary in those two cases, and I'd like to see what that response looks like, because I tend to oscillate between using an SSG (which I despise because I find myself picking apart i18n bugs across multiple files---a task I'm doing today) and writing HTML by hand (where I find myself needing to bulk-edit with vim or sed). This---the complexity of most frameworks vs keeping it all in your head while learning why "strong" is now preferred over "b" and trying to hand-write responsive CSS---is the modern reality that is making larger-scale web development more inaccessible for tech-half-savvy folks.

I fail to see that he's selling anything. I don't see ads anywhere on his blog. He even rejects recruiters and advertising offers on his front page. If this whole blog of his is just a ploy to get people onto his other (potentially monetized) social media, he is not pushy about it AT ALL.
I too would probably avoid working with an organization trying to finesse with regulating authorities in order to do what every other firm regulated by these authorities is prohibited from doing.

Even if you successfully finesse your way around regulatory constraints, the reason for these constraints emerges eventually [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal#Mark-to-market_a...
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The only part that irks me is the disingenuous headline. Why corporate-speak when the actual article is straight up and honest?

The title should be along the lines of "We're removing our free plan" - anything else is deceitful.
Well, let's be fair to the task at hand:

- Yes Instagram and Facebook are legal and available in EU (as I noted), but there's one data center in Ireland and one in Denmark as far as I see, and given the massive influx of users to Threads, they probably have no extra capacity on these two datacenters to cover all of EU with a new app, not right now at least. Compare with SEVENTEEN datacenters in the US.

- "Full datacenter" doesn't mean much. When we say "a datacenter" it doesn't mean a building of specific size and capacity. They likely collocate some servers in other people's data centers (in fact many of those are like that).

- IRC and ICQ still require a network of servers. IRC is a protocol that barely changes so you don't need as much centralization as with a product of rapid iteration and innovation as modern social networks. But you still must be quite familiar with IRC splits and lag, which comes with such architecture. If a social network broke as often as IRC did, people would simply not use it, modern audience have higher expectations. Resilience requires redundancy and more resource-intensive architectures.

- Modern social networks have way more people on, than IRC ever did. At the peak of IRC use, around 2004-2005 all networks, all servers, total, had about 10 million users. Today they're just about 350k. Compare with Threads, which gained 30 million+ users in ONE DAY. More users mean you need more servers and beefier servers, and more serious architecture (as things don't scale linearly by magic beyond a threshold).

- IRC has no content to host at all. How'd you publish a photo to the world on IRC? You can't. Or even text? I guess everyone has to be in the channel, or know where to find some logs? ICQ is also mostly peer to peer. If you lose your copy of the chat logs, that's it. At least how it was in the 90s when it was popular and I used it (I hear it's still popular in Russia or something? Dunno). So you can't compare social media with a peer-to-peer ephemeral messaging protocol. The peer-to-peer messaging protocol is a tiny part of what Twitter and Threads do.

- I haven't even mentioned algorithmic timelines and the like, which make the task even more complicated, nothing like IRC.

And then to pay for all these costs of hosting and algorithmic distribution, backup and so on, you need to collect said user data, profile ads, run the ad network UI and so on. That also adds to the cost and resource use of running this service.

We can probably discuss "is all this needed, can't we go back to something like IRC"? And I think about this a lot. The modern social media design is not the best way to do it, it's not the final way. But Meta wanted to clone Twitter, not IRC, and this comes with the cost & system requirements of running something like Twitter.
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So if I understand correctly, one of the most common flags is "sudo" and it means that the tool doesn't bother detecting whether it's operating with elevated privilege, and doesn't bother dropping those privileges when it doesn't need them, so you might coax it into doing other stuff while it's running.

I suppose that's a fundamental design flaw in POSIX setuid operations. Setting real/effective UID/GID in a process is persistent, and tools don't normally keep checking to see whether they have/need elevated privileges, and so this happens.

Now I expected this tag to mean something else. I expected there to be a list of tools that are commonly granted to ordinary users in the sudoers configuration, like the operator being able to kick off a backup. For example, "less" has a shell escape, and when running under sudo, it was possible to simply shell out and have an unrestricted root shell. I think that's fixed, but the moral of the story is not to grant sudo access to any tool that has shell escapes or arbitrary command execution.
Wow you mean a free service can do a better job of GDPR compliance than the endless and nagging popups the other sites put out there?

Almost sounds like the annoying popups are in spite and not out of need
Sailors get 2x the amount of sun (from the reflection in the water) than someone in an open field.

People spending time in the forest are protected by the shade.
Money and hardware. It's not like every other website doesn't have growing pains.
I was a user since August 2008 and became a paying user shortly afterwards, it had fantastic OCR which never failed to amaze when I showed it to people. I used to be one of it's biggest fans, always demoing it to friends and colleagues and got a company I worked for to use Evernote for Business back in around 2014 and it was around this time when things started to go wrong.

Notes I synced from a Windows Client disappeared, the Android app regularly had problems syncing and often had to reinstall the app and sync everything again. They rewrote the Web App with less functionality and it was a lot slower. Evernote Business was just confusing for a regular user.

There was a period where they just appeared side tracked with too many shiny projects, Evernote Food, Skitch, rewrites to apps that previously just worked. It eventually got to the point that I just could no longer trust Evernote, notes were just not on my devices and features I used weren't there anymore.

I have been searching for a replacement for years. I am now using Notion, but there are some big missing features for me:

Offline sync in phone apps,
OCR,
Location,
integration with a scanner.

I stopped paying for Evernote around 4 years ago, after being a paid subscriber for over a decade. I gave it a try again about 18 months ago but it was still slow, so gave up and started extracting the data I needed.

It's sad to see a product that I used constantly and recommended so much, disintegrate into an unusable product due to poor company decisions.
The problem with auto updates for daemons and services is that the maintainer cannot possibly account for all the different ways their software is used to be able to guarantee that the new version doesn’t break some critical service. It’s akin to a team outsourcing their CI/CD pipeline to some 3rd party who have no idea they exist!
The issue with relying on the state for protection is that it works only as long as most of the society goes about its business in a civilized way.

Once enough people realize that "the state" can't be everywhere at once and start committing crimes, things start to break down.
That's pricey. Perhaps using a normal 4k monitor is a better option? It could even display video. You could couple it with a motion sensor to turn it off and save power when noone is around.
The platforms will never stop hungering
This is correct. So many websites don’t actually need to collect any user data. It’s just a distraction, slows down and bloats their site and worsens UX.

I recommend to simply get rid of any tracking. If you want user feedback, ask them or do tests. It’s cheaper and more effective.
Law enforcement that can't or won't police shoplifting can't or won't deal with anything more significant either.

Even putting that aside, are you seriously in favor of people stealing just because it's from Big Corp(tm)? Because the victims are the 1%?

Please re-contemplate exactly what you are arguing for, because small frustrations add up and are ultimately what topple societies and countries. Those shoplifters aren't Robin Hood.
Works in Chrome, but in Firefox, I just gets a bunch of CORS errors...
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is it "india" as in the country or indian government's space corporation (antrix corporation) that has made ties with nasa.

it would be like saying USA is forging closer ties with antrix corp if things were the other way around.
https://abhaynayar.github.io

Not really personal, mostly stuff I would be ok with my employer seeing. I used to write extremely personal stuff online, but then realized it's much better to just have a life and talk to people IRL.
> 90% of my timeline is on Threads is all stuff I don't even follow

Most people want this though. They don't just want to see people they follow, they want to be served an endless stream of takes and fight videos
"Is this regulation about no lead in our water helping us? Btw I have a triple filtration and reverse osmosis system at home"
it pretty intense how much they are tightening things. I just signed up for crypto.com and it's mfa, id upload, mfa on every transaction, and a 3d face scan now (so much for anonymous bitcoin, haha). A bunch of exchanges avoid US like the plague now, can't register. I knew the USG would never ever ever tolerate any "distributed finance" except with draconian KYC and bolted to the traditional system.

I can even see them shutting down any transfers to "unauthorized" addresses eventually, you will only be allowed to play with party-approved "tokens" after you pass a full cavity search.
Unfortunately Trilium, the closest option to Evernote (as opposed to Notion), doesn't have an Android client (there is one to send notes but not search/read).

Looks like Joplin is the one checking all the right boxes (added plus of being able to sync via OneDrive, which is free, and with E2E I don't care which cloud it sits on)
Mere mortals cannot comprehend what kind of secret, arcane knowledge is necessary to display 140-character messages on a website.
...or, say, in Japan.
https://www.zufallsheld.de/

Mainly technical and DevOps, Ansible posts. Many smaller posts about my TIL's.
Is there any fintech in B2B space for expense management?
By Fintech in B2B i do not mean fintechs that are used to collect payments or any other thing which is consumer focused but i mean a fintech company that can provide a platform for business where they can manage their expenses , can pay salaries , can pay vendors/suppliers , a record of every expense can be checked by just a click.
Total expense made till date.
Total spend per unit , for example if you provide any monthly based service like providing a freight on monthly basis so unit cost till date of the month can be easily calculated .
This is great, especially the more graphic tests, and timely as I'm enjoying learning Janet.

This works for regression tests, and documentation, but not so much for something like TDD, where the test is more like (or should be) a specification for the program you are about to write.