skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could absolutely see the flip style phone (small form factor and unfolds to normal size) being very popular. At the least it is convenient if you wear women's clothing, which roughly 50% of people do.

Even an old-ish model of the z flip has been surprisingly durable IME, and Samsung continues to improve on the hinge and screen crease designs. The latest z flip is also in line with the price of a new iPhone. Of course Samsung now has competition from the new Razr on this front, which I've heard is very good.

As far as the z folds are concerned, it does seem more niche to me. But that's the bet that Pixel made first so I guess we'll see.
I just set the device name in my phone as "cyberdeck" and called it a day.
No, because they’re relatively more insecure than, and far less useful than a smartphone.

An alternative for some is to uninstall undesired apps and set up something like Screen Time restrictions and have your spouse or a trusted friend keep the passcode secret from you.

The real problem is your self-control.

Anyway, HN search will pull up countless Ask HN threads for just 2023 about this same topic.
bahahaha this is such a nichey yet epic comment
Linux Mandrake
Get reading glasses.
I think we are aligned. I certainly am more exposed to this as a parent than I remember seeing it as a kid. I can look back and remember all of my friends had sports/music/church/etc far more than I did, though.

That is, I feel it acutely, but not clear how much of this is the biases you named. Would love to see studies. I also failed finding any. I also agree it is almost certainly studied.
This seems to be a growing corporate strategy

1. Take an action that will annoy a large group of people

2. Since it is a large group of people, there will be some that take criticism too far

3. Hold up those examples as being representative of all your critics

4. No longer debate your unpopular action, claim it's for harassment reasons.
It's interesting this article sounds like the issue is with their Android division, but other articles are painting an entirely different picture about the price of memory chips falling:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hyunsoorim/2023/07/26/samsung-p...
If you dislike the size of your current phone, it sounds like you might enjoy the z flip.
The world's problems are the world's problems. We Indians migrating into other societies see issues that the societies don't see themselves: (asian-hate, white supremacy, sunni-shia violence, anti-semitism).

But I am glad once again the world (ahem, the West) deigned to "fix" India before fixing themselves.
Google is illegal now /s

Or, more realistically, a way to prevent competitors from doing web scraping as well.
I really think that the numbers were inflated because the prolific benchmarkism that goes on in ML. Basically if you don't beat SOTA, you don't get published. Usually you need SOTA on MULTIPLE datasets. Which is is problematic, because plenty of non SOTA methods are useful (forget novel). Given the results Ken/ks2048 calculated, I am pretty confident that the work wouldn't have made it in. BUT I think the results given the other features does make the work quite useful! I agree Ken, that it unfairly boosts their work, but I understand why they're bending over backwards to defend it. I wish people would just admit mistakes but that risks (probably not) losing a paper. This is probably the same reason they didn't think to double check the suspicious results like the Filipino dataset too (btw, not uncommon for datasets to be spoiled people. Always be suspicious!).

I'm not trying to give them a pass, but we do need to discuss the perverse incentives we've set up that make these kinds of things prolific. The work should be good on its own, but good doesn't mean it'll get published in a journal. And frankly, it doesn't matter how many citations your arxiv paper has, people will still say "it isn't peer reviewed" and it won't help you get a job, graduate, or advance in academia. Which I think we should all agree is idiotic, since citations are indicating peer review too.
I wonder how this works with "grindcore" bands like Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
That would help, but there are plenty of walkable cities with not-great tree cover.

I don't think Barcelona or Tokyo are gonna win any awards for having lots of trees.
Cool, I was in PA in 2011, MPK 2012-2017, and FBNY 2017-2018?

Did we cross paths at all?

I was on Ads for ages, Sigma for like a year, and IG ranking Ml for like 2-ish.

What did you work on? You should pop in the Ex-this/that groups from time to time if you havent, very cool crowd.
>> Dang cited examples; you haven't.

> I don't need to.

Actually laughed out loud at this.

"I don't need examples, you just have to believe that I'm right, trust me!"

Plus you seem to be confusing downvoting for moderation. It is not surprising that strong unorthodox views are downvoted. That's pretty much definitionally what "unorthodox" means, that most people won't like the view.
relative to offloading your ML stuff to some third-party API, using a VPS keeps things private and under your control.

explaining how to self-host on bare metal is not really within scope for an article on how to build a chatbot, and trying to pretend a VPS on google cloud is insecure is just silly.
Interesting why I don't see that. Maybe regional.
Aren't the "some people" the exact people you're trying to get not to use it, i.e. direct competitors or SaaS companies who give nothing back?

And nothing stops you from selling them a separate license, in exchange for money.
But do you really need these features, already available in Matlab/Python/R/Julia/Lisp/? Or did the the C++ folks simply refuse to learn other languages?

From what I have seen in R and Python, the main reason for speed issues are incompetent programmers. Certainly, bad C++ code is much faster than bad Python code, but there is also the effort to build/maintain/document/teach Root to noobs.

Hot take: It's really about preferences, not features.
I do not like the crease and the larger foldables do not entice me bit I got work to let me get a zflip4 as a replacement and I have liked it way more than I expected.

It is a good form factor. Fits in my work shirt pocket.

I do industrial IT and a metal working factory and it has survived that environment with any complaints for a year now.
“Configure applications to deny access by default and ensure the application performs authentication and authorization checks for every request to modify data, delete data, and access sensitive data."

So why aren’t devs coding basic auth checks into every request? Is it something about the tooling? Maybe the way they structure auth and tokens? Are they worried about performance? Is it ignorance? Why would a company like Microsoft not know to wall off API requests to non-authenticated and logged-in accounts?
Definitely seems like they are seriously considering taking Taiwan in the near term.
A lot of improvement could be make by just enforcing the laws. Many cities across the US allow sidewalk parking for example. My neighbor has a Tesla Y and his charging station is literally on the sidewalk, he can afford the car but not a house with a garage.
>> Most people in the US live in an urban area, where urban solutions work

The word "urban" in the US means different things to different people and in different contexts.

For the US census bureau, you can find their up-to-date list of US urban areas at https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g..., and it includes areas such as the New York City metro area, at a population of 19,426,449, and Munds Park, Arizona, at a population of 773, and 2,643 other urban areas in between.

By that definition of urban, most people in the US live in an urban area, but that does not mean that the same solutions work for all people in the US living in urban areas. Population densities of 600 people per square mile across a small area require different solutions than population densities of 6,000 people per square mile across a large area.

The wall map version of the list of census bureau urban areas is at https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/UA20/UA_2020_WallMap....
The CPC has nearly 100 million members. A hundred or so people who followed in the footsteps of their parents who were prominent party members in the past, does not make an "aristocracy." To compare this to a dynasty like the Rockefellers or the Rothschilds or the Astors is just beyond ridiculous.
Samsung's like Apple's profits are cyclic in nature, when the new phone hits the market they have a massive/profit revenue increase, and that's how it goes. Saying that a quarter earnings are lower in profits, is because the base of appliances that Samsung sells have low margin (everything from washing machines, to tanks), while the phones they sell have a high margin. So The phone quarter you see larger margins, their December 2022 profit was around the 33%, while right now it's around 2-3%.
I have a few thoughts on this.

How can you check a user's permissions without "user input"? That part is poorly written.

Also, they present a query parameter containing an identifier in the URL as an example of an IDOR, but really everything on the web ultimately does this. This is not the vulnerability. It's that there aren't additional HTTP auth headers or auth parameters in the URL.

I also question whether this web service was meant to be internet facing or an internal one. If so that's misuse of the software by people who aren't the web devs. It's common for auth to be handled by another service where the gateway in front of this is the security layer. If that gateway was misconfigured or just completely missing, that's the middleware team's fault.

Also,

> To help prevent data breaches due to IDOR bugs, the agencies suggest that vendors and web app developers implement secure-by-design principles at each stage of the software development process. Automated code analysis tools can also check for this kind of buggy code so that weaknesses can be fixed before stuff reaches production.

This is such a piss poor answer to the actual problem here. Not everything boils down to code. This sounds like a lack of coordination due to mismanagement of a project. Blaming devs for this is a really bad look.
Until shellbleed comes along.
Tldr version: It won’t work, high false positive.

Also, the article keeps repeating the same bluff with zero useful info, so pretty much BS.
What technological advances are occuring on millisecond timescales?
> > You had to explain everything and make sure to refence the Big boys you were close to

> That sounds problematic

Bingo, it is problematic. It's part of how "the Big boys" get their academic and compensation (investment in their firms) rewards. You have to play the publish-or-perish, paper rank game to get ahead and stay ahead in academia, and this leads to all sorts of problems. Authors don't want to question "the Big boys" because that leads to their papers not getting published because the "the Big boys" and their bootlicker wannabes are the reviewers and they will exact their tribute. Make it to "the Big boys" club and now you're a gatekeeper and now you're also responsible for perpetuating this system.

It's why Nature-style peer review needs to become a thing of the past.

I'm not saying that "popular" (for a value of "popular" that involves peers at large, not the public at large) peer review is / will be without problems. But it seems to me that it will -at least for a while- be less corruptible.
> I was pleased by how many hard shoulders had been turned into bike lanes, and drivers seemed courteous.

But how many are protected bike lanes, instead of just paint? Painted bike lanes are only helpful for relatively confident cyclists, and obviously do virtually nothing to actually protect people on bikes. Imagine if we started replacing sidewalks with painted walk lanes!

> The sheer width of US roads must have a deterrent effect.

Yup. In Munich, not only are roads generally not as wide, but if they're even sorta of wide, they get a pedestrian island or two.
What are the merits of the prometheus approach versus one where events/metrics and their original timestamps can be preserved, stored (during temporary outages), then forwarded to backends when connectivity is reestablished?
Good spotting, IFLScience hasn’t been “real” science for a while since they got some traction and vitality. Their role has shifted more towards what makes headlines, which is what sells ads, which is what pays them.
For LLMs for personal/solo use, I agree. But in a professional setting there’s a level of professionalism that’s expected and in some cases required by law or management. The LLM isn’t a person, but it’s getting closer and closer to being perceived as one.
I use my seashells in the bathroom. 3 of them.
It’s not that simple; llms can generate garbage out even without similar garbage in the training data. And robustly so.

I agree that the “social hazard” aspect of llm objectionable content generation is way overplayed, especially in personal assistant use cases, but I get why it’s an important engineering constraint in some application domains. Eg customer service. When was the last time a customer service agent quoted nazi propaganda to you or provided you with a tawdry account of their ongoing affair?

So largely agreed on the “social welfare” front but disagree on the “product engineering” specifics.

With respect to this attack in particular, it’s more interesting as a sort of injection attack vector on a larger system with an llm component than as a toxic content generation attack… could be a useful vector in contexts where developers don’t realize that inputs generated by an llm are still untrusted and should be treated like any other untrusted user input.

Consider eg using llms in trading scenarios. Get a Bloomberg reporter or other signal generator to insert your magic string and boom.

If they just had one prompt suffix then I would say who cares. But the method is generalizable.
Why is this a bigger problem that just "deploy new encryption keys and revoke the old ones" If that is a big problem, then focus on that because keys can leak in any number of ways and it's something you need to be able to handle. I'd be surprised if they are not routinely rotated fairly frequently regardless.
Most satellites are deorbited in a planned fashion and thus generate very little if any space debris. If the orbit is low enough, the orbit will decay by themselves by aerodynamic braking after a few years.

Compared to that, anti-satellite missile bust a satellite into pieces and carry indeed the danger of creating a Kessler syndrome. In case these would be used on a large scale, WW III would be imminent anyways. Apart from that, missiles are too expensive to knock out Starlink satellites, and the latter are comparatively easy to replace.
The phrase I’m familiar with is Monopoly on Violence.
Ah, express and local service are terms of art used by at least Caltrain that I may or may not be wrongly assuming is more widespread (although another commenter below mentioned it’s used by the Shinkansen services in Japan as well which I think I knew but forgot). They have their “baby bullet” service which amounts to: these set of trains in particular skip a bunch of stations along the way, and the local service just serves all of them.

You can run them on the same tracks with the same stock. You have e.g. the 9:00 express train depart from Portland serving a subset of the stations between it and Seattle and maybe the 9:15 departs and serves all of them followed by another express at 9:45. Each stop shouldn’t add more than 2 or 3 minutes between terminuses, if the service stops for a generous amount of time at each one.

And then yeah, you have your regional transportation agencies to serving the metro areas along the way more comprehensively.
> he equipment allegedly taken by the engineer cost nearly $90,000.

Do you know the Department of Defence has never passed a audit?
the chatbot is better than the old IVR trees. i'd rather as a chatbot to cancel my subscription or re-send a receipt than "push 7 to continue"
How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?
This is good advice if you want to work at a place with this sort of culture
> I don't know why it's so important to have puritan output

"Puritan" is quite a charged word, can you give examples of what kind of content do you think the article refers to? They talk about "harmful" content, on the other side.
I would 100% use iOS if I preferred to keep a stock OS and needed those apps.

I just don't need that in a phone and am totally fine with the limitations of a degoogled device.

I don't recommend that for most people. I was simply responding to a question of what device to consider with regards to privacy/security. I even tried to include caveats that it isn't right for everyone and had real tradeoffs.
> If they generate objectionable content it's because they were trained on objectionable content.

An aristocrat who went to the most refined boarding schools still knows how to swear, even if they weren't taught to do it habitually.
Safari has absolute market share.
Implication is that ASR is a full programming language in its own right (though with no quality-of-life features: everything is explicit, and it's also currently restricted to the operations featured by LFortran and LPython: heavily array-oriented for now, ASR grows as LFortran and LPython grow). I've prototyped, in Clojure, an independent type-checker for ASR (https://github.com/rebcabin/masr), and an interpreter (for "abstract execution") should not be difficult.
The relevant part for the economy is revenue, not profit. Revenue is down just 6% year over year.

The 95% drop in profit makes for more sensational headlines, though.
You're confusing primary energy with useful energy.

What people need to realize is that if we go to renewable, electric energy, in most cases this will also involve efficiency improvements. Many fossil fuel based processes are horribly inefficient, with electricity you can often avoid doing things like "80% of our energy goes into heating up the air around whatever we're doing".

That said: Yes, we'll need a lot of wind turbines.
I don't agree with this comment, but I upvoted it because it brings a different perspective to HN, and therefore, improves the quality of discussion.
Are work hours a thing anymore, anywhere? My jobs have all just been working as needed 24/7 with no ability to set boundaries
What a weird thing for her to say given that Asian Americans use public transit in great numbers.

Then again, I've noticed that the ones with money are utterly alien to those of us that don't have it or grew up without it.
Doesn't that just mean someone else is doing the driving?
Seems like we never really get a response from these guys.
I agree with you, and I thought that making the similarities and differences explicit would show that the differences are starker and more significant overall.
Yes sorry, FAA. I’m a Brit so not as familiar with the US institutions.

My point is there is extensive and persistent oversight, debate and opportunities for input and objection. Journalists play a role in the public interest in any democratic society.

One person didn’t ask whether we should? Space technology has been controversial since its inception. Citizens, journalists and politicians have been questioning it throughout its history. You really honestly think you’re the first person, or this is the first time anyone has stopped to wonder about it?

Incidentally, there’s one particularly famous example of this from 1970 that’s a bit of a classic: https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-...

Of course nobody should get a free pass to wreck the Earth. That’s a cartoonishly absurd caricature of what’s going on.
From the US perspective, SE Asia's population demographics make economic access a key determinant of the future.

If China can credibly restrict shipping in the south of the South China sea, then that accrues substantial economic power in the coming decades.

Which is another way of saying that if Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines don't believe in the US's regional power projection, they'll allow China to do as it wants.

In any escalation scenario, Guam gets plastered. Taiwan is blockaded. Okinawa is... well, that's a wildcard.

But Australia has land. A LOT of land. So establishing closer military ties (also with the Philippines) affords freedom of dispersement.

Which in turn increases US retaliatory options in the case of escalation.

Which makes sudden escalation less likely, as China has less to gain from it.

Or, in other words, the Pacific is now Europe ~1960, with the US trying to establish a credible capability to surge into the region in the event of hostilities.
The article presented no evidence of other countries getting access to that data. Just a 48yo American engineer who allegedly shouldn't have had access. Of course, someone could've snooped on his home network, I guess.
In software, anything is possible.
I am chiding people, not for complaining, but for misunderstanding the surrounding context. Legislation is only as powerful as those enforcing it.

> And it seems Apple and others don't believe it either.

Yes, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Signal, Meta, and all the other big players else who has turned up to the committee hearings will have their activities curtailed. Individuals running Minecraft and Mastodon servers for their friends needn't worry.
It works by self-generating responses to red-team prompts and self-generating safe corrections to those then using RLHF with the corrections. It isn’t a major departure from traditional RLHF so it is interesting that it performs so much better in this case.
> We like the idea of walking more but won’t actually do it.

Wrong.

The reason people don't walk is simply because walking mostly really sucks in like 95% of urban or suburban contexts in the states. Even crossing the street once can be a huge pain in the ass sometimes (e.g. strip mall to strip mall across two giant parking lots and an enormous stroad).

It is astoundingly rare to find an actual nice, not-tiny area to walk in, in terms of urban design and points of interest. To a lot of Americans, "has sidewalks" means an area is walkable, which is just...so, so very wrong.

I lived in Germany for five years, and during our annual summer trip back to the states, it was always so sad to see the pathetic state of walking and biking infrastructure everywhere we went. It's like we're not even trying...because, well, we're not. Walking here sucks because we choose to make it suck.
I didn't say anything about external sources of stress. I said sources of stress. External events cause stress in the body which can be measured physiologically and neurologically. The mind can be a contributing factor but it is absolutely not necessary. Injuries that you're entirely unconscious of can cause significant levels of stress which are measurable.
Anybody else notice the small arrow on the base of each blade showing which way it should rotate? (Is it likely that someone would install these blades backwards?)
If wind turbines were the number one bird killer, wouldn't figuring out the best color to paint the blades or other mitigation strategies be worth it?
I do question those numbers, Samsung is absolutely massive. There's is no way in hell that a decline in smartphone sales have any dramatic effect on their bottom line, let alone a 95% decline in profit. This has to be their smartphone division only, not Samsung the conglomerate.

That being said a drop of around $10.5B is still insane and it would destroy just about any other smartphone manufacturer except perhaps Apple. Still it would be a much bigger issue for Apple because they phone are are more central to their overall business. Samsung can transfer funds from other business ventures.