skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At school, EVERY SINGLE project we did, there wasn't one instance of them doing authentication for objects, just get the id and return the data.

I was even more surprised were at my first job they were doing the exact same. Mind you this was production software already with hundreds of user dealing with sensitive personal data. People just don't know what they are doing. The best part was their s3 bucket with all of user's data was completely public read because "if we make it private we cant display the pdfs on the web site".
For heavily template code, a 10x-100x speed difference between -O0 and -O3 is not surprising in my experience.

The cost of compiling at -O3 is going to affect interactive use of course though.
I used to ask the same question about cameras on phones, who is asking for these? Low resolution, terrible low light performance, and who wants to look at photos on a low quality phone display, if you have to load pictures on your computer anyway, why not just use a dedicated camera and get much better photos? I “knew” that with the space constraints in a phone, the camera would never approach the quality of a “real” camera.

Then, of course, the technology advanced (hardware and software) and my phone has replaced both my point and shoot and DSLR cameras (even if picture quality can’t quite replace good lenses and a big sensor, the convenience outweighs it, no more dragging along a big camera bag on vacation)

I’d love to have a reliable and inexpensive folding phone so I could have a big screen when I want it (like while commuting or on an airplane) but I can fold it up to a much smaller form factor when I don’t want the big screen.
Sadly no citation on hand. Just experience. I’m sure there are plenty of academic papers observing this fact by now?
Your point about taxation which is usually progressive is well taken.

It could be offset by the fact that you could invest the money from the first 25 years thus benefitting from a compound return.

I don't know which has the bigger effect.
I was asking for my IPAQ to have a phone years before, then the palm Treo came in, and I stopped asking... because the Treo was terrible.
I don't want to have to swap out my engine if I decide to carry an extra passenger.
That article seems sensationalized towards phones, but the real losses were in the semiconductors:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/26/tech/south-korea-samsung-q1-p...
The relevance of this claim being that people primarily had children as a byproduct of wanting to have sex, versus a desire to procreate?

Contraception shouldn’t change the number of people who intend to procreate.
Radio has a lot more to it than just keys. For example, frequency hopping is a big thing, and which frequencies it jumps between, when, and why (i.e. as some sort of anti jamming strategy) are all important details which could be established by inspecting the equipment.

That said, the mention of the Motorola programming software does make this sound more like a base security/policing problem than actual operational infrastructure.
Thank you! I opened up an issue to do this: https://github.com/lcompilers/lpython/issues/2220.
This is my favorite part of the article:

> Installer files which were recovered in the search opened with a “CONFIDENTIAL RESTRICTED” pop-up, according to Forbes.

Woah woah woah. Are you saying this software said it's confidential? Well let me tell you something about this comment. This comment is confidential restricted!
I mean, Why?
Even Elon changed twitter to X.
> The paper’s repo does minimal processing on the datasets. It turns out that these problems exist in the source Huggingface datasets. The two worst ones can be checked quickly using only Huggingface’s datasets.load_dataset:

I'm really surprised HuggingFace isn't doing filtering/evaluation of the datasets they're presenting. This ought to be a simple check for them.
When he said the CyberTruck could "briefly be used as a boat", a former Tesla engineer remarked "knowing how Musk operates, this is probably the first time the people working on the CyberTruck hear about this requirement".

And frankly judging by how he runs Twitter, that's startlingly true. It explains why he announced Tesla almost had working FSD 7 years ago before they had even a single prototype (and before they've started even hiring serious people for the project), and it explains why this Twitter rebranding is so inept, because he literally decided to tell the company they're doing it the day they started it.

Means zero prep. Zero logo design prep. Zero brand kit and linguistic prep (terms etc.). Zero logistical prep (app stores, domains, app updates, site updates). Zero legal prep (thousands of existing X trademarks including held by Microsoft and Meta).

In a way I believe he did this so he has problems he can deal with. "Oh how do we call tweets now". That's an easy problem, compared. Bikeshedding. Because the truth is none of his larger vision has any chance of happening, stuck under mountains of legacy code, almost none of the people who understood it, debt, lawsuits and so on. He can't execute anything.
It's a bit of both. The law states that Ofcom has to ask you for your risk assessments, and they can't ask you for those if they don't know you exist.
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Delta airlines used my face as a boarding pass for flight to Canada out of Detroit Wayne Airport earlier this year. I scanned nothing, they made me take a picture, and then said "Enjoy your flight [name]." Delta did not even ask to see my Passport. I'm a little confused if the issue here the facial recognition itself or the layers of bureaucratic nonsense? Because Ryanair is not the only one applying facial rec in a disturbing way.
You...know most people don't buy a brand-new phone every year, right?

I don't recall exactly what I spent for my iPhone, but it was 4 years ago, so if we assume it was about $1000, then based on that median income, that makes it 0.5%. Does that seem more palatable to you...?
True, but "during downtime, only apps that you choose to allow will be available". You can configure a phone to only allow calls (and no other function), and only to a limited set of people, during downtime by adding the phone app to the "always allowed" app list and enabling communication limits as above.
How does this alternative history benefit PRC? All the elite Indian diasphora couldn't stop US from siding with Pakistan for most of recent history, or prevent global supply chains from shifting to PRC for decades, or secure critical tech transfers to help India develop. Reality is diasphora tend to have very little control over foreign policy unless it already aligns with state interests (Jewish/Cuban lobby).

Ultimately PRC would take increased Chinese (as in the country) global influence, by simply being 5x the size of India because "CCP baggage" allowed her to transfer, retain and coordinate more domestic talent, over increased Chinese diasphora influence in the US anyday. Functionally, CCP baggage didn't prevent plurality of foreign students being from PRC (again because 5x richer), which translates to knowledge flow back to PRC. Recent NBER study on Indian brain drain to US had some crazy figures like 90% of top 10, 60% of top 1000, 36% of top 100 Indian IIT rankers gets brain drained to US. That may be good for Indian influence in the US, but not for India. Meanwhile ethnically Chinese talent is flowing back to PRC because >4% of US being Chinese = not enough political power to prevent another red scare regardless.

What's more benefitial for PRC, diasphora that also makes PRC stronger or diasphora that exclusively makes US stronger. It's the former. PRC extracts more benefits from diasphora with a few decades of successfully lobbying the much more influential US business interests.
My country produces around 20% of its energy from wind nowadays, 2010 it was less than 3%. Seems to work just fine and is growing rapidly.
Oh, yah. Ours are aggressively tracked, logged, re-logged in a totally separate system for fun, and we're not allowed to exceed 40 per week.
Well, as long as municipalities offer a fraction of what you can make on the free market those systems will never be adequate.
Isn't that the internet already? So LLMs are trained on a large dataset taken from the public internet, but we (some people) don't like a lot of things on the internet, so we (some people deciding for everyone else) have to make sure it doesn't do anything controversial, unlike the internet.
The model itself was fine tuned for JSON function responses, they admitted that openly. They also acknowledge they make changes to ChatGPT all the time, which has nothing to do with the model underneath it.
Given that the English constitution and the Scottish constitution are incompatible (insofar as where sovereignty lies), it is no real surprise that the UK has never got a single codified one.

As it is the Scottish constitution is generally ignored, and folks more or less assume that the English one applies to the whole UK. If there was an attempt to properly codify the UK constitution, that incompatibility would have to be addressed, and that would open a can of worms.
There will always be a number one bird killer, unless no birds die ever.
Just throwing it out there but it would be nice if there were a lot more pesestrian and bike only roads built separate from car roads. Big cities already have recreational walking trails that typically follow some sort of a drainage or sewage "river".

Another thing I wondered is how under most city streets there is already wiring and tunnels and some infra. Is the cost that unreasonable to convert roads one by one so that cars go underground and intersections overlap to avoid stops, then all you need is exits to parking spaces and low-speed residential streets. Cars get to go a lot faster with little stopping in cities (which will reduce freeway jams), less pedestrians die, self-driving cars would do well there too. Flooding is the main issue I can think of but given climate change, they need to make cities much more flood tolerant and making more floos tunnels/digging might be needed anyways.

In my ideal city, these roads will also have systems for small package delivery/transport and garbage disposal where people will select the type of garbage and put it in a box, upon validation they get credits for it if it gets recycle but also less package waste because the package delivery system won't need to have boxes with your address on it, it would just be the stuff, as-is. And this will work with grocery delivery and even high volume destinations like warehouses to walmarts which also require a lot of packaging and waste. Now imagine this delivery system as a subway for packages and imagine adding humans to the mix, delivering them to destinations as if they were packages and then you need a lot less cars and parking space waste. That type of transportation removes the downsides of public transportation like sharing space with a lot of people and being picked up/dropped off ar specicific points and then having to walk to the destination.

Just random ideas to put out there for anyone who reads and knows the subject better.
I am unsure what you want. To make the source available for group X, but denied to group Y?

- X presumably being someone without any potential profitability path

- Y someone who can make money from it?

I can get the rationale of not wanting Amazon and Microsoft to profit from you work, but I am unsure how you thread this licensing needle without a GPL-similar license from the start. Either you put it out in the open without restrictions (and eat the potential consequences), encumber it in such a way that no corporation wants to touch it, or you never share it.
Marking systems and documents is a critical part of security.

It makes sure that you can prove that everyone is put on notice that misuse is subject to extreme punishment. This helps prevent accidental disclosure (Oh, I didn't think confidentiality applied to this), and it helps prove the case should anyone violate the rules.
Is This a Branch? (2021)
> C++ folks simply refuse to learn other languages

root is many many decades old. And I understand that the scripts developed under it are often directly incorporated into C++ applications. CERN is a big C++ user (I have a little experience with their GEANT4 framework), and being able to do everything in one language is a big productivity boost (see for example the rise of node.js for web-related work).
Those amounts are pitiful, S Korea is giving a total of $10k to have a kid? Even a $100k would barely scratch the surface in a high COL area where a partner is dropping a six figure salary or paying $40k/yr for daycare.

If they’re serious then make the incentives serious, and scale.
You don't even need genetic testing to see holes in that hypothesis (though there is no proof of a parasitic relationship genetically) - it is pretty easy to see phylogenetically the evolution of metamorphosis. Ie, hemimetabolous insects vs homometabolous insects.
I think you’re right that I’m proposing that the standard of living can be scaled back.

You see this as a societal collapse, and that’s a fine take. I’m not sure it’s a collapse. I think it’s a choice.

We’ve made that choice, and hey, I like my house and my car and my pool. There are benefits. But I also work my ass off. Is it really necessary?

Anyway, there are many countries where folks live far less extravagantly than Japan…
> As a reviewer on open code papers I would usually try to run the provided code

You're only one of two people I've ever heard make this claim. Which I'm sure you're aware, but many people probably aren't. Fwiw, I'm often called diligent because I read the code (looking at main method and anything critical or suspicious. Might run if suspicious). Even reading supplementary materials will earn you that title (which is inane). According to this informal survey, ~45% of neurips read the supplementary material <13% of the time and less than a third always read it[0] (I'm in that third, and presumably xmcqdpt2).

> Usually peer review is more about making sure the work is novel and interesting

This is why I find p̶e̶e̶r̶ ̶r̶e̶v̶i̶e̶w̶[1] journal/conference reviewing highly problematic and why this system is at the root of our current existential crisis: the reproduction crisis. Reproduction is the cornerstone of science. And many MANY good works are not novel in the slightest. See the work of Ross Wightman (timm) or Phil Wang (lucidrains). These people are doing critical work in the area of ML but they aren't really going to get "published" for these efforts. Many others do similar work, but just not at the same scale and so you'll likely not hear of them, but they are still critical to the ecosystem.

But with your next point: if it builds, merge it; I'm all for. The system should be about checking technical soundness and accuracy, NOT about novelty and how interesting it is. Of course we shouldn't allow plagiarism (claiming works/ideas that aren't your own), but we should allow: replications, revisiting (e.g. old methods, current frameworks (see ResNet strikes back)), surveys, technical studies, and all that. Novelty is a sham. Almost all work is incremental and thus we get highly subjective criteria for passing the bar.

Which is probably why high impact journals are not considered the most accurate. Because they don't encourage science so much as they encourage paper milling, rushing, and good writing.

[0] https://twitter.com/sarahookr/status/1660250223745314819

[1] We need to stop calling journal/conference reviewing "peer reviewing." Peer review is when your peers review. Full stop. This can come in many forms. Similarly publishing is when you publish a paper. Many important works come through open publishing.
Yeah, I am starting up a small business and needed a work phone number so got a flip phone. It’s a monthly plan from Verizon and the phone was cheap.

It’s exactly what I need and works as expected.
Reddit is user generated content, so isn't exempt.

“provider content” means content published on a service by the provider of the service or by a person acting on behalf of the provider.

It's unclear if there's a difference between hosting your own blog, or using a blogging service, because the bill is terrible.
> there's no way to easily know

Usually, I go to a source that I trust such as a particular news organization or an actual .gov site in order to verify. Then, I check another source that I trust.

Definitely annoying, but it only takes a minute or two. Honestly.

It’s interesting that you say that it should be behind a .gov or a particular TLD. Have you ever tried to reclaim “lost” money/property from your state’s treasury department? Those sites usually don’t have .gov or a specific TLD either.

For example, for Massachusetts the site is https://findmassmoney.com. It does seem questionable initially lol. But it only took a minute for me to verify that this is the site that the state government site “mass.gov” links to.

I can’t word this properly now but I wonder if the purpose of the url (similar to marketing strategies) is to get as many people to go to the site as possible.
Translation: It's hard to censor the bots to obey the agenda :-D
Presumably so they can mail you a check?
Yeah that's fair.

Sorry for my angry post.
There's an ad in rotation right now on a popular local radio station where the whole bit is that character A's car isn't working, and character B talks about the great deals at a specific car dealership. "Don't walk," he exclaims and he shares the gospel of car ownership.

Literally, the whole framing is that walking sucks and is embarrassing :(
There's liberalism as a political theory (with all its variations, from classical to Rawlsian), which is admirable and distinct from Maoism. But there's also the "liberalism" that's more accurately described as "the set of cultural, social, and political beliefs broadly held by the college educated, urban, professional class." And professing adherence to Maoism is entirely acceptable in that milieu, in a way that professing adherence to e.g. the Religious Right or Trumpism is not. (The fact that this judge's commitment to Maoism is purely symbolic verbal signaling and not linked to any actual activism is besides the point.)

Imagine a judge said he was a committed fascist who would judge students on that basis, regardless of the quality of their arguments. Would that be considered acceptable in the same way the Maoist judge is? Just last night I had dinner with a friend who was telling me about a family member's encounter with Maoist justice: he was murdered by being thrown down a well during the Cultural Revolution.

Or, take the other angle. Suppose you had a staffer on Fox News who spent his off hours writing racist screeds on white supremacist forums (this has actually happened IIRC). Would you take it as a single extreme example that's not worth thinking about, or would you take it as indicative of some deeply troubling aspects of the modern Right?
We are talking about two separate things. You are thinking of urban cycling where elderly and children commonly move about. I am talking about US rural roads, where a guaranteed paved shoulder and some lane marking now offers a respite from what bicycle tourers have historically considered a downside of cycling in the USA: sharing a lane with rural drivers. As I said, even in most of the EU one can't expect completely separated bike infrastructure for dozens of km of rural cycling.
Our radar/radio/TV emissions and nuclear blasts have already provided MUCH bigger “we are here” signs… ;-)
You bring up a great point. Periodically streaming CSV files to Postgres from storage through a single SQL command (CREATE MIRROR) is indeed very helpful for customers. We will add this to our product prioritization. With the infra we have, this shouldn't be too hard to support!
TPM is not designed to prevent intrusion from hackers, it's designed to turn your general purpose computer into an appliance by preventing you, the owner, from modifying the OS in your computer as you see fit (and interact with third party services at the same time, thanks to remote attestation).

It means that instead of _just patching_ the software in your computer to customize it now you have to resort to using 0days to do it like a criminal which makes it considerably harder.

It does help against hackers, of course, and the same restrictions do secure you against some attacks (evil maid attacks) but that's not the intent.

The threat model TPM protects against is:

- You log in into Netflix (or whatever)

- Netflix sends your PC the movie so you can watch it.

- Your PC now has the movie in memory.

- You extract the movie from your PC's memory and you can now watch it forever without Netflix's permission.

What the "trusted" in Trusted Platform Module means is that with TPM they can trust your PC to not let you do that.
ML is a sub field of CS, in practice.

You don’t need a professional license to do math. Lots of computer scientists to harder and more interesting mathematics than their peers in the math dept. In that respect at least, the main substantive difference between the fields is about $40k/yr.
I was very sad to discover that my 10GB 3080 can't run any compelling LLMs on initial overview, and that the A100s are well above 5grand in price. I wish something like mythic ai's analog chips would come out in the consumer arena.
The black and white line drawing of the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 [0] is basically an exact copy of the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A [1]

0: https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/Cyberdecks/Untitled_12_thum...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A#/media/File:TI99-IMG_...
Setting the stage for the next class action lawsuit? Joining a class shouldn't have such privacy impacts.
I want to know how they’re going to keep the homeless off the tracks.

I ride Amtrak to Portland 3d/wk and the amount of weird stuff happening along the tracks is staggering.
> officials found that the department couldn’t account for about 61 percent of its assets.

> McCord said the department has made progress toward a “clean” audit in the past year, but later added “we failed to get an ‘A.’...I would not say that we flunked.

Good to know that by US government standards, a 61% is an acceptable passing grade...
Possibly, but it's not my job to research the evidence for your claims.

Can you elaborate on what sort of experience you're talking about? You'd have to be training a new model from scratch in order to know what was in the model's training data, so I'm actually quite curious what you were working in.
Wish he was starting a Substack -- I'd subscribe right away. Great science writer, and one of the few journalists today whose name I recognize and whose byline is pretty much an instant recommendation to me.