skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security auditing an app by source is not automatically easier than security auditing an app from its actual runtime behavior. Source can be a 1mloc tangled mess or have some vulnerable dependency deep in your dependency tree causing app to behave insecurely which could be quickly detected by monitoring how the app behaves in use, network packets sent, memory etc. How else do you think many 0days to closed products were found?

What you say can be true if source is readable and well written and you have somehow a guarantee that source is not modified before publishing the app. Or if you just are inexperienced with auditing the app other than reading the code (I know I am).
I could not get displaylink to work on my setup, but admittedly my setup is very non-standard and my displaylink display is very old.

What does work perfectly though is displayport through usb-c. I use this for docking stations at work and at home, it works perfectly for me. Hopefully we won't need displaylink much longer. but i do know good docks and good displays are expensive.
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"Live outside of society" has a nice ring to it, but the meaning of those words when choosing to disobey court orders converts via bailiff to residing in jail cell. That's not living "outside society" or its constraints. It's very inside of them.

If you want to actually live outside of society, perhaps the only way to do that is on a simple sailboat like Moxie did for a while:

https://archive.org/details/holdFastADocumentaryByMoxieMarli...

But even that only works temporarily because eventually something breaks or runs out, and you will be re-confronted by reality (some society somewhere) once ashore. For example your hypothetical phone unlock is what happened to Moxie. From Wikipedia:

"While entering the U.S. on a flight from the Dominican Republic in 2010, Marlinspike was detained by federal agents for nearly five hours, all his electronic devices were confiscated, and at first agents claimed he would only get them back if he provided his passwords so they could decrypt the data. Marlinspike refused to do this, and the devices were eventually returned, though he noted that he could no longer trust them, saying, "They could have modified the hardware or installed new keyboard firmware."

source: https://www.wired.com/2010/11/hacker-border-search/
You need to widen your world view. Sure, Amazon does not give a shit about you, but while "big tech" holds most of the worlds money, such large and careless companies are an extremely tiny minority of the sum of companies out there.

The majority of companies are small to medium businesses that do actually care about their customers - when your customers are measured in thousands or less instead of billions, you will go belly up if you don't. They still use ads because how the heck would you otherwise know they even existed, and yes they want you to buy stuff but they hope you actually like the product afterwards so you end up helping them get known.

Think of it a bit like when your favorite tiny, niche YouTube channel uses clickbaity titles and thumbnails, or target the 10-15 minute mark, or use the same intro/outro format and duration as everyone else. If they didn't, no one would ever see their videos as they'd get deselected by the algorithm. No one will watch a video, or buy a product, that they do not know exists.
The only thing that seems to motivate people to care about the future is their children.

A feudal monarch worries about his heirs.

A modern CEO cares about this quarter.

But people have no children (maybe fine -- we're overpopulated anyway), and there is no future. It's just about affording the nicest house you can before your consciousness goes black forever.
Why would he care about that?
I don't understand that either. Discord feels like a hamster wheel connected to a turbocharger.
It is definitely within society's capability to (more or less) unite behind common purpose, based on ideals and values that are not consumption driven.

In fact the modern materialistic lifestyle is probably an exception rather than historical rule. For most of history religious beliefs were uniting people and creating solace despite the more arduous existence.

The uniqueness of our condition is the scale of required change (global, spanning both avid consumer populations and deprived ones), the speed of required change (a few decades), the complex interplay with technological solutions and the rigidity/monoculture of economic systems.

Not clear how all this will play out.
I used to manage laptops (both student Chromebooks and teacher Windows laptops) at a school, and I wouldn't even trust the teachers to be able to do this, much less students and parents.
Well, I can't give you a neurological point of view on it, but if you train an LLM to be great at handling a context size of 512 tokens, when you try to ask it to do a task which requires greater context length (or in this context - attention span), the responses become incoherent, scattered and perplex as hell.

Which I imagine to be what would happen to a human if they trained their brain to process information of a certain context length exclusively.

So yeah, perhaps your brain becomes amazing at processing succinct information that's been engineered to be short, to the point and has none of the subtext or subtlety that you could include in a larger context.

That being said, perhaps that's exactly the kind of mental capacity you need for high context switching professions, I'm not sure which those are yet, but I'm sure there has to be someone in the world that has a use for that.
Survival of the fittest, in relation to atomic structures. https://medium.com/@clay.c.edgar/the-basic-building-blocks-o...
Wow! saving $1m switching to self built logging solution. Zomato.com crushing it.
To me, The Expanse was the equivalent of a reboot of B5. Interstellar politics, realistic physics, and multi-season plot arches made it a really dramatic, yet geeky show in the same vein as B5.

If there is to be a reboot of B5 I feel it would take off from where The Expanse finished rather than where B5 ended over 25 years ago.
I don’t think this process is instant. I also don’t think there’s almost any adoption to the new feature associated with X. I for one don’t even know how to access these presumed hour long videos, much less watch them. Similarly, I almost never click the “read more” in longer posts on my feed because it takes me out of my feed.
Those narrow use cases definitely seem to overlap with Twitter though. Obviously Twitter is not exclusively about video and computer games, but a subset of Twitter users certainly use Twitter "for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games"
> Unless they have been shown to be relevant in any way, I don't see why the paper need cite them.

Fair. Your argument then falls precisely into category (C) of the four mutually exclusive options I outlined above.

But you'd then need to argue why the 6 models you compared against is the comprehensive model sample to test against, that contains -- and not just some arbitrary set of recent models that happen to be dominated by the newly proposed model.
(And maybe that is indeed the case; then it should be easy enough to update the arxiv draft by incorporating a section where you argue along those lines.)
I don't think so. While you can artificially stimulate the vestibular system, getting that to work precisely across all the users of the headset would be rather tricky.

But the even bigger issue is that even if you overcome that, you still have the fundamental problem that a correct vestibular response is extremely important to keep users from falling over. If you artificially give people the impression that they are accelerating or decelerating, they'll automatically compensate and lean into it and just fall over. This happens already often enough just from the visual stimulus alone, if you mess with the vestibular system those accidents would get a lot worse.

That said, maybe there is some middle ground that could work where you don't create a real virtual vestibular input, but just a little jolt to notify the brain that something is going in, even if that something isn't matching the visuals. Many people report having less issue with motion sickness when they walk in place or bob their head. PlaystationVR2 has a small rumble motor build into the headsets with is supposed to help a little bit here as well.
Yeah, the game was electromechanical. If that's the qualification for a video game, then pinball machines were video games too
How are they similar?
There’s also no other western country with anything nearly as strong as the first amendment.

Not sure what your point is.

(Also, the production of new automatic weapons for the civilian market has been illegal since 1986, and civilian ownership of automatic weapons is heavily regulated).
It's only whataboutism if it's irrelevant / changing the subject / etc. OP's criticisms are very relevant, in that, I believe OP is just wanting to see consistency out of Mozilla's positions. This is all still about Mozilla and standards proposals.

I'm sure OP is glad that Mozilla takes a negative position on WEI, but when they take other positions simultaneously that seem to counter their WEI positioning, that is a legitimate criticism. I share in that view.

I'm glad to see Mozilla push back in a case like this, but they need to do more, and more consistently so.
Because it came with a "don't shit-talk the company in public" requirement, yes.
Why would you be incredulous? Musk himself has been accused of sexual assault. He’s literally being subpoenaed in the case against Epstein. He’s been to parties with Epstein and Maxwell and he went to his mansion after he was convicted of raping a minor (a fact mentioned in the very link you posted):

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2023/05/16/elon-musk-je...
I wish the postal system were replaced with a request-only series of pneumatic tubes. Then I would simply never request mail, and life would be slightly more convenient!
ruby is closer to what i meant because you can't add methods to rust's iterator, can you? but people add stuff to enumerable all the time
Facebook is the worst of the lot. The UX of groups for niche interests is terrible: hard to find/follow conversations, some messages get randomly hidden or highlighted, you can never go back to where you were in a conversation.

Yet, for some reason, years ago most niche communities I belonged to ditched perfectly serviceable phpbb forums and moved to Facebook. Now there's a second exodus to Discord, as braindead as the one before.

And I truly don't understand Reddit to Discord. It has little or nothing to do with moderation or disagreement with Reddit policies, mind you. At least the ones I've seen, the reason is as vague as "wouldn't it be cool to have a Discord?". Why is never answered clearly.
Good read - historically the railroads depended on a system of demurage to make money (deliberate oversimplification alert): this included three pots of money paid by the shipper, one to the originating railroad, one to the terminating railroad, and a per-mile fee to earch railroad that moved the car in between. Railroads could even specialize in different types of traffic, the NKP in the midwest was a mover of fast freights between various eastern and western systems. Many major cities would have a terminal railroad jointly owned by the larger systems who's major job was to interchange traffic between the major roads.
Demuragr was a regulated system under the ICC.Come the end of the ICC and deregulation this system changed unit traffic, whole blocks of cars or even whole trains just for a shipper, became more important then single car load demurage system. Infrastructure (tracks, yards, the physical stuff of railroading) changed to support this mainly via abandonment or spin off (the spin offs are usually called shortlines or class 3s). New stuff is rarely built but refurbishment or reconstruction of old infra is fairly common. And all that leads into the situation the article talks about.
I don't think he's really using it now either. He has a reply to that post where he says that "some folks say that [there's piracy] alive in Usenet" but says he doesn't know if that's true.

It's very true and the reason why he can't find anything textual on Usenet... Usenet is now filesharing primarily.
Then the question you should be asking is why choose to post on LW when the value of publishing a paper is substantially higher.

Perhaps because what they post doesn’t hold up to scrutiny from their peers, so they prefer to play in the mud with the folks who won’t notice the issues with their ideas.
I would imagine it's a bit like doing science on human beings, who are also non-deterministic, expensive to train, and subjective. Perhaps there's scope for a scientific discipline corresponding to psychology but concerned with AI systems. We could call it robopsychology.
Gotta give it to Elon for going into uncharted territory once again.
I use it to figure out AI image techniques. Basically the theory is in papers, the nearly accepted stuff is in blogs, but the people on cutting edge are in youtube and tiktok trying 100 things before they can post 1
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That's precisely why I'm targeting Go. I think it has a very well thought out toolchain that works really well and I'd pick it any day instead of going for an LLVM backend, which is what most new languages seem to prefer.
No one quantizes blindly without accounting for data. If 95% of your values are in 0-100 you’ll probably do something like have 20 values for 0-100 and the remaining 12 for 101-5000. You don’t have to apply a uniform distribution and shouldn’t when your data is that concentrated.
Plan B is to reschedule for Plan C in 2040.

Humanity's not going to meet any goals, unless by accident a war happens that wipes out large swathes of population, thus removing demand for carbon-based goods and fuels. I used to be more optimistic 10-15 years ago, but now my optimism has been worn down to naked comedic cynicism.

I think the personal plan is to just mitigate climate change for your family and friends the best you can.

> I get called a right wing bigot all the time in threads like this because I disagree with the methods that are being used. They are clearly ineffective.

What do you think are the methods being used?
I hope you don’t think invoking Reddit raises the stakes…
Our world is becoming more complex every day. It's important to keep in mind some essential points in building new products or improving existing ones. Some valuable principles that will help you increase your chances of success in today's competitive landscape.
I think the only necessary ingredient for life is sloppy self-replication. I'd have to look at von Neumann's proof but the theoretical assumptions may not all be valid.

On that note, I'm curious about quasi crystals or crystals prone to substitutions in the lattice. I envision a crystallization process that occurs right on the edge between crystallizing/dissolving. Then any small unit block with some particular contaminant that is slightly more stable becomes favored by evolutionary processes and entropic ones.

If such a thing is possible, and has a sufficiently high upperbound on possible variations, I think you can get a lot of interesting behavior. Over a long period of time, perhaps a crystal unit block could develop that encourages more of its own creation.

It's a fine line though, because usually crystallization doesn't have sufficient complexity to keep evolving, and it's usually driven more by external conditions than by local conditions in the lattice, but nevertheless, it's the most plausible bridge to life I've ever come up with.
Posts on Twitter & Mastodon:

[0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1683829229568262145

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@app4soft/110774893500227286
I remember someone getting a bit wild with their netsend and accidentally spamming the entire school district, including the administration. We also found out that you could DoS your instructor with enough messages.
Opinions like calling a selfless diver risking his life to perform a Hail Mary rescue a pedophile yeah
> But from what I understand it's just ISIS but swap the Quran for the Bible? Not a huge fan of that idea.

Christian nationalism grew and pervaded America in the decades during and after reconstruction. The Klan was probably the most visible facet of that and but it was everywhere, organized and not.

I do a fair amount of genealogy and in my perception, there are many parallels between now and the early 20th century.
Sidenote I think it is refreshing that there seems to be so much collaboration between Lund in Sweden and Danish institutions like this. This is the third time a Danish paper on HN mentions Lund. I have no insight in why it is like that.
The conspiracy theory does not exist in a vacuum. People simply don’t want to admit to themselves that they were wrong for idolizing him, or they have a distaste for the kinds of people who attack him, so they choose to believe in the 5D chess game as a way of saving face or refusing to give ground.
I would also think

Apple owns X with OS X and the iPhone X.

Microsoft own Xbox's logo, with the console, store, game pass
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A closer analogy would have been generating machine code directly.
> this domain he owns for decades now

Musk did not own x.com between 2001 and 2017.
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Thanks for your explanation! Making things explicit and not shadowing `map` seems like a good thing to me.
Oh man so cool.

Loved that magazine. Always looked forward to a new copy of Mad mag every couple of weeks during my high school years.

I remember I would get to school early just so I could get my hands on it and read it.
Pretty sure the UK already ran into this problem when the North Sea had low wind for a prolonged period. This year wildfire smoke would have cut into the valuable days for many solar installations in the northern US/Canada, many hazy periods were close to a week. The intermittency problem is only going to get worse as the amount the grid relies on grows, it's easy to cover the occasional 5% loss grid wide, but a 25% loss is a big problem.
It doesn't matter if it's a trademark nightmare... it's a branding nightmare.

Musk is showing the world that he got lucky with his previous ventures. His management of Twitter has been a display of poor management at every level.

If you were less than a year into your position as CEO of a company with revenue divided by half, ex-employees suing you, banned journalists from your platform in the middle of some half-thought-out free speech debate... would you not be fired?

Everything about this makes me think he's just too rich to be fired... anyone else would have been. He just owns too much to not be given any more chances.
Now imagine that at every time step you also flip bits randomly on your own code.

That's what needs to be done to achieve what was achieved.
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Yeah the subtropics are hotter then the tropics are during their summers. And I do expect these areas to suffer the worst.
It has long been a mantra in SEO land that user generated content sites in general and forums in particular are to be aggressively down ranked. The reason for this is that industrial strength spam farms otherwise spin up tens of thousands of forum domains to pass link juice to what they are targeting. This naturally penalizes real forums, which often contain the best content for a query.

This is why Google has basically surrendered and why so many search result categories are now dominated by whatever sites Google has arbitrarily declared the winner through editorial decision making. In many search categories, we are effectively back where we started with Yahoo directories and hand-picked search rankings. What you see on the first page SERP is the best that they can do under the circumstances based on the fundamentals of how search works.

The web was a fun idea while it lasted, but if you are using it as a primary information resource, you are wasting your time.
VSCode actually started as a Web IDE for Azure development, they then pivoted into an Electron shell as when they noticed Atom adoption.

Its main architect is one of the guys behind IBM Visual Age products and Eclipse, Erich Gamma.
> OTOH, 12 divides evenly by both 4 and 3, which are common divisions.

Interestingly, I don't hear pro-US-unit people apply this to money. The UK used to use money not based on 10, but changed during the 1900s. So it's not without precedence.

If 12-based is so great, I'm looking forward to the US listing prices as "10 dodecadollars, three dollars, and 3 dodecacents".
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I was just looking for something like that! The serendipity on HN is real very often. Ty
But how would you judge the quality of 15 second videos? It's crucial to be able to push through that in order to make a good judgement if the content is any good. The inability to think and judge critically is a huge problem nowadays in my opinion.
Pepsi is also gross...

Mountain Dew is acceptable response when you order a Coke and they respond with "We have Pepsi"..

inversely if you order Mountain Dew and they say "We have Mello Yellow" you respond with "Coke please" because Mello Yellow is gross

:)
Yes! I vividly recall the moment when I realized that the emergence of life of earth wasn’t just the lucky occurrence of a cell coming into being, but a cell that could also replicate itself in a non-destructive, information-passing manner. Truly mind boggling stuff. I feel like “time” is often used to obfuscate just how incredible such a development would be, “well if given enough time, then of course we saw a cell that reproduced itself in a sustaining way that actually passed on non-corrupt information while not destroying itself.”