skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With those companies, even with their non-data collection, non-advertising services business units, they continue to move more and more into personal data collection and advertising services.
I would be skeptical that "most" code is written by AI. Some code, certainly - but major enterprises are still terrified of the copyright outcome for existing non-local GPT implementations.
I hope to God any decent journalist (if any are left) is looking for the actual truth and not just "truthiness."

You do understand that Stephen Colbert coined that term, right? And that he coined it as a deliberate satire of politicians and journalists who had what we'll call an open relationship with the truth?
Yes March 2020

This is an interesting read… one of the challenges of the revisionism in articles like the original link is they simply ignore all context and lie about any context they include (deaths per capita being more extreme in 1959 etc). Besides being viral outbreaks almost nothing of the context is similar. That’s why people say in the thread this is an anti science article - a huge amount of the decision making context was the state of science and how amazing it is in 2020 vs any other time in all of humanity.

https://www.cdc.gov/museum/timeline/covid19.html
Remember how after 9/11, everyone took personal responsibility for potentially detaining hijackers in-flight?

You could take personal responsibility for having a medical emergency when stuck on tarmac with no air conditioning.
Malwarebytes is warning me against this page.
You may really enjoy this book[1]. Very short chapters with pithy yet conversational analysis of a wide variety of disasters, including things like "pumps were labeled perfectly clearly, but due to one being installed at a later date and other being removed, they were numbered in a line going 1, 2, 3, 5, 4, 6".

0: Earlier edition of same book with awesome cover to get people to understand it's not a super boring textbook at all (in fact it's really not a textbook): http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=83EEA4069C89A895711DEFAD...

1: Latest edition: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=DC1C71A6B692001AA8FAFACA...
Let me guess - the answer is to spend more $$$...
Current LLMs can go crazy just by seeing a single well-chosen word, see https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm... for an amusing exanple. I think we need some breakthrough in adversarial training before LLMs can survive the very adversarial environment of SEO.
> All of the consonants (b d f g j k l m n p r s t v) are pronounced exactly the same as they are in English. Phew!

"T" as in "Trent" is the same as "T" as in "butter" for this person?

"S" as in "pass" is the same as "S" as in "passion" too?

"G" as in "go" is the same as "G" as in "gel" as well?

There's a reason humans invented the IPA.
I think a bigger problem (especially if you think ordinary people shouldn’t be entitled to their own opinions), is when people advocate for science to have the final say on all matters of public policy. Especially when so many people consider any form of skepticism towards scientific findings to be some sort of heresy.
> A Google spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the company does "not tolerate this misleading activity" and that it had fixed the issue.

Was it their spokesperson or a comedian that said that? Google AdWords is becoming the funnel for stuff like that. My dad had the same thing happen when trying to contact Amazon about fraudulent CC charges.

First you get scammed and then you get scammed again if you trust Google to find support numbers. Thankfully my dad caught on when they started asking too many questions.

When I shut off my ad blocker and tested it on mobile, I got a continuously changing number as the top ad.
> Is there a reason why you favor 500’ below ground level?

Florida aquifer drills are >400' to reach 65° (year round) water. Temps get really static at that level.
There are clones and clones and some other Chinese-designed boards like Wemos that work just fine. Maybe they're not $2 but you can get them for $5 a piece. I have an D1 mini board with ESP8266 that has been running for at least 2 years with Tasmota and a bunch of sensors, sending samples over MQTT.

If the Western companies stop doing open source hardware, some other companies in China will go on with their own designs. Some have already copied your designs and some others will also make their own and some will copy those as well and also conterfeit other succesful Chinese products. That how it works in China.

The problem with most of these Chinese products is no documentation or useless documentation.
I think humans need to move up the levels of abstraction and master specific domain knowledge. Barring AGI, there will still be need for humans to elicit and learn the requirements from customers and other stakeholders, then translate those into more concrete specifications.

Future LFMs (Large Foundation Models, since they will be multimodal) can help automate some or much work from specifications onward. Humans will need to validate and revise the results by working with an LFM-powered system (Ref: the spiral model in software engineering).
Perhaps adrift a bit of the main topic, but curious if anyone with more than cursory experience with any of the mainstream browser front end frameworks and JavaFX could briefly compare and contrast them.

I do not consider myself a front end person, but I’m slowly getting more adept with FX, more so as a hobbyist than professional, but have no experience with the browser systems.
No Swift support.
What is your argument for why this practice should be allowed? It’s a public school, why should your family has an advantage because you went there? Is the goal of public school to maintain a club or provide access to education? If the latter, I don’t see how any kind of exclusivity other than merit makes sense.
The New York Times has also posted their obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/kevin-mitnick-...
You've been downvoted by others for commenting with hyperbole about this "problem" that isn't really a problem, and for being wrong about viewing it that way. I didn't downvote you, but here's a link explaining why nuclear waste doesn't have to trouble any future generations at all. There are also many others that go into deeper detail online in case you're willing to set aside a specific viewpoint long enough to learn more details.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
Fennel Language
It seems in this case the pressure would have to be measured in very small section increments. I imagine it's like a clog forming in one particular section that could expand locally, while the rest of the pipe leg might not show an increase in pressure.

Maybe just have flow meters to detect dead legs. If a particular pipe section doesn't indicate any flow over some time period, assume it's a hazard condition and raise and alarm.

Another idea might be to find an ingredient which doesn't affect the product but will react when polymer forms, such that it can serve as an indicator that somewhere in the system there is a significant amount of polymer formed.
Yes you are probably right, but still, IMHO compared to the alternatives, I think 'never' is reasonable for the currently envisaged, highly complex technologies and the still-unaddressed issues of fuel processing (eg tritium generation) etc, for mainstream power generation.

I mean I can envisage solar being as cheap as dirt, roof shingles that are basically as cheap as slates. I can envisage geothermal getting cheap, it's just a hole in the ground. I can envisage fission getting cheap, eg the traveling-wave reactor is basically an enclosed lump of uranium.

But rings of superconducting magnets and their controllers, along with radioactive lithium blankets that have to be renewed and reprocessed regularly, or gigajoule banks of lasers and little ultra-precision gold-wrapped fuel pellets? None of this stuff is ever going to be cheap, compared to the alternatives.

It might find niche military, and of course, research use etc. And we might have a breakthrough in low-energy fusion or whatever, but the current crop are either scams or are simply never going to be viable.
I really liked their talk about network prediction and server side simulation. Also talked about their entity modeling system

https://youtu.be/zrIY0eIyqmI
It's in my Amazon list and now I know why. I'm 34 and learned about phreaking well after it was a thing but it inspired me.

Now I'm a cybersecurity consultant (glorified sysadmin) making a nice salary but without any of the joy that was present in my 20s rebelling against my F100 company's IT policy. Installing Dokuwiki on a shadow server just to get shit done. Helping write a custom request system to get shit done. Consequences came after.

I'm not comparing myself to Mitnick, rest in peace, only reflecting on the passing of a titan before my prime that represents a moment in communication hacking that may never exist again.
I have had heat stroke before. A big Zero out of 10 experience. 4 days in hospital. Probably shed a few IQ points along the way.

They didn't do this for me, Instead I just got tossed in a pluge pool, then icepacks under the arms and 12 bags of IV fluids whilst my kidneys shut down from the injury (very painful).

All good now but we're going to need to socialize this sort of knowledge more and more.
1. SSI/SSP qualification is because there was a Federal law passed which disqualified immigrants who had previously qualified for benefits, and the California law didn't like that and grandfathered in the people who got disqualified

2. In order to qualify under that law as an immigrant you have to pass the test which I screenshotted and linked to above ("snippet")

3. Your #3 above is just saying 'we aren't going to give you benefits if you aren't old or disabled so unless you are rejected solely because you got disqualified under the 1996 change we won't give you the benefits you wouldn't have gotten previous to 1996 and don't deserve because you aren't old or disabled

4. Your sources don't mention this law; they are non-sequiturs and they make me think you are just pasting the top google results that come up
Bloomberg reports that Apple has an LLM AI chatbot in the works
The New York Times has their obituary up: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/kevin-mitnick-...

RIP
What do you mean “it won’t be a good life for your kids?”

Intelligence can be an extremely rewarding career. I know several former intelligence officers who loved the work.
This is a big deal to me in a man, probably the primary thing I look for. I don't want to have a boring life.
Analyzing Vectorized Hash Maps Across CPU Architectures
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/kevin-mitnick-...
I have no idea if she touched it. Her husband makes a lot of money and she makes a good amount as well.

Also, that's the lower bound by what people estimated she had when she entered congress and close to the upper bound of what she would be worth today.

But it's entirely possible that someone in the SF area with a SV husband beat the S&P without resorting to insider trading on public markets. Heck, the house she bought has probably beaten the S&P.

To reiterate, I always assumed she was insider trading. These numbers are making me question that.
Good. latency has always been a problem at LinkedIn. for me, as a recruiter, I want to send friend requests and job vacancy to a bunch of random users in the blink of an eye. This helps. Thank you LinkedIn.
Tutorial on how to build a mobile barcode and QR code reader using HTML5, ASP.NET, and Dynamsoft Barcode Reader SDK. The solution includes client-side image capture, HTTP image upload, and server-side barcode and QR code recognition.
You seem to be missing Coda ( https://coda.io ) which (in my experience) comes remarkably close to “Excel with data powers”. Think of Notion’s document editing and tables, but with _much_ more power, a proper formula language, UI widgets, etc. The Coda team have churned out a ton of amazing features in remarkably short time.
The main drawback I’ve encountered: no obvious way to separate code and data. I can’t find a way to version/clone one without the other while keeping the data in Coda. However there are plenty of integrations with external data sources, so keeping a chunk of the data external may be the best way.

EDIT: Oops, forgot to thank you for creating this amazingly comprehensive sheet. I’m looking for a similar thing myself: a self-hostable CRM for a small team that wants some flexibility around custom fields and automation but doesn’t need most of the other common CRM features. My current plan is to try AppSmith, but there are a bunch of entries in your sheet that I haven’t seen before. Thanks again!
I think that might be too much finally for anyone handling anti-trust.

And price might be something entirely stupid like 50-100 a month.
This is pretty wild, but if anyone had asked me previously "should the SSH agent be allowed to dlopen anything?" I would have said "no". It really seems like for something this sensitive, running it in an empty namespace with no abilities of any kind, unless or until those abilities prove necessary, would be a good approach for those who have high security requirements. If I know I am going to use a smartcard, then I can make the PKCS library visible inside the agent's sandbox. But I can see no reason why I would have given it access to libsane, or whatever libenca is, or any other library for that matter.
How is their handling of a bad apple in any way related to the quality of their research? Should we dismiss all of the good work of scientists because their organisations likely employed a few undesirable people at any given moment? Seems silly to me.
I completely agree that humans are not always right, but neither is the next token in a text sequence always "right",i.e. the thing that a raw LM is best at.

I just object to the blanket statement that fine tuning will make a model dumber. It will mostly mean the model is not as good at the original training task, but that really doesn't mean it is "dumber" by any definition.

The question then is what fine tuning does to tasks that are neither the original training task or the fine tuning task. This will depend on the fine tuning task. It seems that instruction fine tuning improves performance on tasks that involve human interaction, so I have a hard time seeing it as the model becoming dumber. Other fine tuning tasks, such as removing toxicity, may have a higher cost on unrelated tasks, so there one could say they caused the model to become dumber.
Yes, they should always see themselves in the same graph. Generally, bootstrap nodes will offer up addresses of further nodes that all belong to the same global network. This doesn't have to be the case, but it is the intention.

The nodes they know belong to the same network. Bootstrap nodes don't have to know about each other.

Yes. A network can split, all it takes is a node that knows nodes in both networks to join them.
If most of your code is being written by AI, you need a more interesting/higher value job.

I wish AI could write more of my code but it really is much much faster if I just write it myself. The context and curiosity necessary to even know what questions to ask so you know what code to write is far beyond the scope of any AI I’ve seen.
Yep, just recently rewatched this. James is an extremely clear presenter. I recommend this to everyone trying to get to that next level with Python.
I've long wondered if a deep well geothermal utilitie would work for small to mid-sized neighborhoods. I've seen dedicated water and sewer utils for mid sized neighborhoods so that part of the equation seems okay. It should hinge on what energy calcs show.
Who knows where I would be today if not for Kevin's influence... Kevin was (and will continue to be!) a role model in many ways. RIP
Go for the pro version. IMO, it's much better for the kind of work you note. I see that you used the last one for 8 years. Considering that, even if pro is costlier, that difference in amount will not be visible or relevant for such long usage. If you were going to replace it every year or two or every time a new version is released, then the cost difference becomes a factor.
"G" as in ".gif", of course!
And why not "T" as in "potion". :)
But that can by bypassed super easily.
Sure, you might not get adds of type "vote X" anymore. But then I will just sponsor a "documentary" about all the ways that Y screwed the country over.
Or even more directly, why X KS a great politician.

As for single account, again: will your forbid other "individuals" to make any political contributions that might or might not influence standings of a given candidate? Verry quickly you start playing cat and mouse game, and at the same time, heavily infringing on freedom of expression
Beautiful! Or at least beautifully prescient. I'm starting to think storytellers are smarter than they let on.
It's because they're fundamentally different things.

Making and patenting a new, novel, molecule (which is what the entire pharma, materials and chemicals industries basically do at the most basic level) is very different than making a hardware product, which is yet different than making a semiconductor product, which is yet different than a software product, yet different than a genetic product.

The context of this conversation is specifically a hardware product.

Like so many things, it's not about what "should be" but what pragmatically falls out of the chaos of the world. These things aren't master planned by some single person in control. In reality for a hardware product, and any product in general, they say your patent portfolio is only as good as your ability to protect it. That is why these big classic chemical and pharma companies like Dow, 3M, J&J, etc. all have insanely robust patent infringement protection infrastructures in addition to their patent portfolio. In many cases those companies didn't even develop the molecule originally, they bought it. They're basically manufacturing companies with patent enforcement teams.

People like me (I have many hardware patents) don't want to run manufacturing and patent lawyer companies. We want to develop new products and then sell them to the former.

You say why shouldn't someone invent the clapper and then run a company that manufactures only the clapper for their whole career. I say what great inventions did society miss out on because a creative inventor was playing lawyer and manufacturing manager instead.

Ultimately the answer is because different people are good at different things, at different parts of the process. Not recognizing this is to fall victim to "founders syndrome"
Best firefox upgrade I've done lately is disabling all their "Enhanced Tracking Protection" features. Those are better done by adblock/ublock extensions and disabling them significantly improved the responsiveness and speed of the browser.
How exactly might one take personal responsibility in this scenario? Just stop having a medical emergency I guess?
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If a 'fair' coin came up 70% you lose, you'd be ready to fight the person trying to scam you. At the very least ready to call the cops on them.
The world median will be chinese or indian, but the american median will be white!
The top banner say "Spy Kids."

They definitely have a relationship, it's whether this is part of it I'm unclear of.
> It's the Antarctic, so the ice will grow during the summer months in the Northern hemisphere because it is winter there.

You mean Southern, right?
One of my friend thought he was talking to airline company, and after paying extra $300 for agent he realized he was talking with some agents.

Google ads sucks. Thankfully, I don't face such issues due to ublock origin.
Whose code? I simply don't understand this. Are you writing code with GPT? I have simply been unable to get it to solve a technical problem in a production level application AT ALL. The only solutions that work for me are the type of solutions that might already have a stack overflow answer. Being generous, it MIGHT improve my productivity by a percentage point in a good day.
I would argue that a $0 web-sdr bookmark will teach you exactly the same things without you forever wondering if it's your antennae that's the problem.
Markoff and Shimomura received $750,000 for their book rights and $650,000 for the film rights. The most sensational parts in the book or the movie had absolutely nothing to do with the truth.

Sharknado is closer to reality than Track Down. The cringest part is Tsutomu's fictional gf.
It's not parallels to fracking, it is fracking.

Except twice as many wells, and less isolated geology.

Also, benefits of fracking is the generation of heat and positive pressure from the chemical reactions.

If they aren't netting the geothermal gains against the embedded energy in the injection chemicals, all we're seeing is energy accounting tricks, not a technical breakthrough.
The Rediscovery of Susan Taubes
Totally. The challenge was Kicad wasn't very usable early on, it's amazing now, but it wasn't really usable for a long while and the only name in town that wasn't thousands of Dollars was eagle. It was also the defacto standard for library and Footprint files, it defined its own little ecosystem. Now we have similar in kicad, but it will take years to amas the level of example boards out there in eagle.
For those that care about how it got corrupted:

https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2023/01/rebuilding-a-cassan...

> The investigation around the exception revealed that at-least one of the SSTable (Sorted String Table) rows was unordered, which caused the compaction operation to fail. SSTables are immutable files that are always sorted by the primary key

This was just... a bug in Cassandra? Is there anyone that can shed light on this? There seem to be plenty of people using Cassandra at scale -- is constantly repairing it normal practice?
Congratulations and good luck :)
I tried LLM Studio today and I must say the hallucination score was quite helpful:
https://www.rungalileo.io/llm-studio/
Being a devil's advocate means that you just oppose something for the sake of argument. You will find many such people here on HN. Keep reading comments on HN and you will get all the first hand information you need.
I've seen this being very prevelant in technical support, searching for an answer about "Windows blue screen error code 0xwhatever" will yield an infinite list of results telling you to reboot, run sfc /scannow, and reinstall Windows
Why don't scientists live stream their experiments and have more rigorous verification of methodology?