skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good chunk of monitoring of work computers is to detect malware/evil actors.

Your work antivirus probably keeps records of every file opened and saved for example, every URL visited, every password entered, etc. Thats pretty invasive monitoring.

Yet that information is only used to determine if you have accidentally fallen for a phishing attack or accidentally installed malware on your machine. It isn't the employee who is the target of the monitoring, but the possible evildo-er they might be letting into the corporate network acting under the employees credentials.
WxWidgets: Separate STL Build Is No More
A lot of stuff behind the scenes is going on to batch and route queries to GPT-4 models that are in perturbed states already[1]. This isn't gross negligence, this is basic capitalism. If you want sole access to a GPT-4 MoE cluster starting fresh, it's gonna cost you.

1. https://152334h.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/
The fact that you can pay for both doesn't make them equivalent. To have a similar cost for spammers, you would need to request a challenge that takes many minutes to solve, which you just can't do. There is a strict limit on how long a user will wait for your security check and you can't pretend otherwise.

Let's stop pretending that all things are in the same bucket because "you can pay to have it solved". That's such a weird claim. For the right price you can have someone rob a bank for you, that doesn't mean it's as safe as your $2 padlock.
My state switched from 1 plate to 2 plates (admittedly a long time ago) and if you had an old single plate there was no requirement to "upgrade" immediately. I assume the same thing has happened elsewhere. I only upgraded when the car failed state inspection because the plate had become less readable.
it could be just that i am more comfortable with hacking mysql, or just the early design principles of early mysql makes it a more hackable (its easier to lose some characters from acid haha)

nothing against postgres, i just think its a bit overhyped and its also harder to squeeze it in the cloud's ridiculous iops prices
Saffer here who was privileged to see him live in Johannesburg. RIP man.
> typical families

I think this depends on the indented audience in the metric or report.

If we are just talking numbers, include all of them.

If we want to focus on typical families, we need to define what that means.
Or pester your widow(er)
Let me add one other bit.

I had a similar experience about 18 months ago when my friend A. suddenly died. He was fit and healthy, but for some reason had a seizure on a bike ride, crashed, and that was the end of his story.

Unfortunately for his widow, she and he were not on a family account with Apple, and so it took a LOT of rigmarole to even access, say, the photos on his phone.

Apple now has a "Legacy Contact" feature you can enable; this is a VERY VERY GOOD IDEA FOR MOST PEOPLE. I assume Google has something similar if you're on Android.

The tl;dr is really "you just gotta have a plan." When you go, next week or decades from now, it'll be hard for those you leave behind. Do whatever you can to make it easier for them.
Not your point but I'm pretty sure gpt4 is more than capable of solving quadratic equations and playing chess and probably knows pi to quite a few digits... also it knows many great algorithms for computing pi
If anything happened while I was under I'd forever blame the guy who wanted to fool around on social media during a serious event like that.
Show HN: I built a dashboard to track corporate lobbying
Because Skip has shifts and he is expected to deliver to a certain standard during that shift. The “should be an employee” people seem to want their cake (be classified as an employee) and eat it too (not get punished for not doing acceptable workloads as an employee). Smh
I'm glad you mentioned that! Plenty of Wikipedia users much more knowledgable on the topic than you or I had a lengthy discussion on whether it makes sense to try and make such comparisons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mass_killings_under_commu...

The answer, as one would expect, is that it's an entirely pointless exercise, largely used as a coping mechanism for recovering communists.
From what I have seen and read, no and he didn't seem to dwell on it much.

But he did do some touring after the documentary and I imagine he received profits from that...or at least I hope so as it was a good show and I enjoy listening to my copy of 'Cold Fact' [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Fact

RIP indeed. He was a poet and I still get chills sometimes while listening to his music / words.
I've pared down my books to owning only timeless reference books or grander "coffee table" style volumes. I find people who would like to borrow the rest, and tell them "No, but you can have it if you promise to give it to someone else once you're done with it". The idea of a book flowing between lots of people makes you feel good and masks the loss of not owning it.
I was like "fuuuuuuuuuuu its moving too fast gonna take all my good ideas and bring em to market first"
> forced to run an invasive full-system virus/malware scan on start-up and at 5AM every morning (takes 4-4.5 hours) forcing me to leave the thing runnings for days or weeks at a time and preventing any early morning work

Maybe its just me, but hasn't Microsoft antrivirus thingy gotten really _really_ heavy recently?

Back in the days you would barely notice it, but nowadays it will take over 1-2 cores and make sure the damn fan is always spinning.
I remember me and my brother getting excited when torrent speeds used to touch 200 kbps. Good days.
And I've naively expected photos of billionaires ...
Only the rich can afford to have nothing, since they can buy whatever they want to fill it whenever they want.
Consent meaning "sign here or we fire you"...
Like on stack overflow it helps to be specific of what you want,
or to ask for possible ways to solve it first, or to give it a head start.

Like: in this func() can you make it so that ...
I’ve had a similar experience with someone who is close and was a hoarder. Hoarding can cause distress for loved ones both from the impact of simply having too much stuff but also the impacts of living with someone who has a mental illness. In my case the person passed away a few years ago and so it is less directly pressing.

I finally understood that hoarding is a breakdown in the error monitoring circuits of the brain. Error monitoring is the feeling that you would get if you almost throw your passport or wedding ring in the trash. Hoarders have been found to be more creative in being able to see alternate uses for everyday objects and also to see more emotional connection to objects than people without the illness.

For me it was important to realize that hoarders motivations aren’t different than mine, just stronger and in other scenarios the difference would likely have been helpful.

In an age of abundance the amount of packaging produced is enough to manifest clinically significant hoarding cases which wouldn’t have been recognized in the past. Think of people whose houses are piled up with old newspapers, magazines and empty cereal boxes. In most cases however clinically significant hoarding cases also require a concurrent issue with acquisition of material goods. Often this tends to fall more towards the traditional OCD behaviors where a premonition or feeling of dread can only be mitigated through a purchase.

Addressing hoarding in these cases requires both addressing the OCD behaviors and the problems with the error monitoring circuit. OCD is difficult to treat and there are no treatments that I’m aware of for misfires in the error monitoring circuits of the brain. That assumes there are no other concurrent issues such as financial pressures, physical disability or depression.

Society collectively displays some hoarding like behaviors with collective misfires in our error monitoring behaviors. We tend to attach more significance to objects we spend a lot of time with which creates an interesting scenario for companies like Apple. While companies like Kellogg’s can produce thousands of pounds of packaging which gets tossed without a thought we require (demand) to Apple that they carefully recycle our tiny but hopelessly outdated device lest they pile up in our houses due to our faulty error monitoring circuits.
The only reasons I can imagine are fund transfer times, and some isolation security for big amounts. As a fellow dutchie, I just use one bank for personal, and one for my business.
Free ad-supported TV streaming services are booming, 1 in 3 U.S. viewers tune in
The speed is something that one gets used to.
Coincidentally, I saw this headline after waking from a dream where a unicorn bashed through the window of my childhood kitchen, and I had to fight it off with a water gun.

Melatonin, not even once.
A little research into the legality - but yeah, me thinks I’d start a side hustle.
As someone who is growing a business and who looks to make the jump from "here is a laptop, GSD*" to "here is a laptop with security, GSD", how does one go about setting up this sort of system of cloud desktop?

* GSD: get shit done (because I literally can't be arsed if you watch Netflix, play TOTK, or whatever so long as clients are happy and you are satisfied with your work)
He lived in Detroit, working construction for many years. I know someone who worked with him for a bit.
"cohort analysis"
Maybe people exercise because they are healthy and can. We need randomized trails to see if it's real.
I mean, how many humans can draw art by writing out svg? If that's not in the training set, I don't even see how GPT-4 gets much better at this over time.
The main reason for wireless using MACs and ARPs and the like is it makes it more directly interoperable with wired networks. You can just bridge a LAN directly to a WLAN and expect the clients to not realize they are a different type.
My Road to Homelab in 2023
At a certain point there is always going to be a power imbalance between two parties.

So if the existence of an imbalance implies non-consent/coercion, can there ever be consent?
>In the summer of 2016 we moved to England. We wanted our kids to see what it was like living in another country, and since I was a British citizen by birth, that seemed the obvious choice. We only meant to stay for a year, but we liked it so much that we still live there.

http://paulgraham.com/worked.html
Googling says there's CityFibre and Giganet in the MK area. Did they skip your house? A fibre company skipped my street in London.
An article about reduced quality was pretty popular on HN a few years ago, that Google results looks like ads. But I believe we have hit a new low recently. Perhaps that is true for the overall quality of publications on the net. The amount or either approved news sites without significant content or outright click farms is immense. Even for topics that should net results. A news site filter would already help a lot, but even then the search seems to only react on buzzwords. Sometimes even terms you didn't search at all that were often associated with said buzzwords.
Koreans hitting it out of the park lately with new theories/materials, although unproven
n.b. LSP support was the reason cscope support was dropped
Disagree with that, but please provide a counterpoint. I've using Java 17 for a large project and I was really excited to use records. I have not found any practical use case for them outside of one or two instances in a project with 2 years of development.

Storing data is also where I thought records would be a good use case. But in the real world data is not Point(x,y). If you have more than 3 or 4 fields in your record, that's simply not going to work. I thought the rest of the industry decided over a decade ago that using positional properties (e.g. new MyRecord(a,b,c,d,e,f,g)) to initialize an object was a bad idea. I think Rich Hickey gave a whole talk on that subject. If there's a future plan to be able to create records using named props, e.g. new MyRecord([firstName: "Bob"]), then I would reconsider my opinion.
Which is precisely why I've created my new invention! By simply ignoring the user's input and throwing out a random answer, my new device is infinitely more capable of generating the right answer from wrong figures than existing machines!
Sure the odds are only 1 in 50 billion, but it's certainly better than these so called "super computers" that can't handle a misplaced semicolon!
To resell
Here's a list of most of the dashboard's features:

- Track lobbying spending over time by publicly traded companies

- See what issues companies are lobbying on

- See the companies with the most lobbying spending over the past quarter

- Look up who's lobbying on a particular issue

- See the performance of a portfolio comprised of the top lobbying spenders.
Do you have instructions for this ???.
Got a Sapphire 580+ keen to use for more than doing the Windows UI.
I was hoping this was an open-source physical model of a piano.

Pianoteq has been around for 17 years -- as long as patents last! -- and yet open source still seems to have nothing that comes close.
!pwd works for me in nvim, I use it every day
You can download an entire album in minutes, that's crazy fast!
I'm not sure, but it puts pressure on your liver if you combine it with alcohol since alcohol is also broken down into acetyl-aldehyde.
Very broadly and simply speaking you can write-off UK taxes against the US tax bill and vice versa. There's much more nuance than that though.
I'd be curious how it handles something like:

[A] Not so good. I lost my mom last week.

There are any numbers of ways robo-Klaus might respond to that in a completely inappropriate way.
Engineering Gen AI Assistant
Huh, that's strange, I usually see the opposite when I'm out and about (particularly in Europe/South America). Popular services like Netflix are throttled but downloading huge blobs from my own servers is much faster.
The only consistency in AI predictions is to be wrong, whether it's 'AI will never be able to do....' or GAI by year 20xx.
I am really happy to hear that, because that was exactly my goal! Thank you.
(2021) in the title is not needed since the author has been keeping it up to date ;)
Please don't respond by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> it would be better to have a stack that’s not controlled by any government but is based on technical standards

That era of globalization is slowly passing away.

> I would also note that in your country the US agencies have no authority.

No it plenty does. Not well-known on the west side of the internet, but the US can and did easily order to our governments the individuals (which she saw to be influential in the directions she didn't want) to be imprisoned, tortured and executed. And this is just cost-effective side of the coin. Three letter agencies can make anyone disappear. I just searched for almost 25 mins for an article documenting such a case. I was able to find it several times in the past with increasing difficulty. It's not even on the webarchive now. I think the article is finally nuked by some agency.

> there are lots of governments who oppress their citizens for being themselves and for who they associate with.

Not everyone agrees with the idea that individual freedom extremism is good, or that everyone should be allowed to do or say anything as long as it doesn't adversely affect others. In fact in this side of the world we think that's a silly and naive standpoint.
> Because if you are not 100% compatible with bourne shell you shouldn't automatically execute script made for bourne shell.

The same can be said about bash.

> It is fine with bash because it is bourne shell compatible.

I was running an HPC cluster when we upgraded Debian during the bash->dash change, and there were all sorts of problems: IIRC most folks simply changed their scripts from /bin/sh to /bin/bash.
Cool, any plans on making it web based aswell?
how to change server? default one is too close, I need to test oversea connection
Not sure if this might help? https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/somiq5/little_p...

Tunnels WireGuard over a websocket
This is only an issue if you have millions of pages

Also, it will slow down the crawl frequency if you noindex it

So it's a non problem
I heard Stephen Segerman on NPR yesterday say that he eventually took his crooked manager to court and got the money from the record sales.
I'm someone who has had a great variety in my financial security and that will likely continue into the future. This has included great scarcity (my state's computer system errors have just lost me healthcare and food help for the foreseeable future and I will be living on free food for the next month+ which is going to suck).

My tendencies towards keeping things definitely revolve around 'I can't get this again if I need it'. Especially since if I need something and reach out for it, I am likely to be shamed by society for 'not planning ahead'/'not making better decisions'/etc. The margin of error is so small at the lowest ends of society that making any permanent decision is costly. It is rational to avoid doing so.
Chinese companies buying $5B of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in sectors
fwiw quality/longlevity and up-front investment often go hand in hand, so most consumers of pricy stuff enjoy a lower tco than poor ppl that often reach for the cheapest thing that'll fill their need.
Bear with me on this one. Look at Cuba, and North Korea. Those two suffer famines, crippling blackouts, and the harrowing and pervading stench of failed civilization. Yet, the citizens of none those countries are trying to topple their government. How do they manage? Massive brainwashing, which is in turn made possible by controlling access to information.

Cuba, the case I'm most familiar with, it's very interesting because (so far) it doesn't limit much the access to outside information using the Internet[^2], but only official newspapers, books, radio and TV programs are allowed.

I have this view that the information that the citizens of a country consume is like the regulatory signals of an organism. For a healthy organism, those signals must be coherent, otherwise some terrible disease will consume the organism.

Of course, as a creature of the enlightenment, I hate that notion. I want my information to be free.

But in the big scheme of things, the way I feel about it just doesn't matter. It's enough that states that police the information their citizens consume live longer than states that not. How to get from now to then is an open problem in some cases, but everybody is trying. CP and terrorism, and the vague term of "national security," are the vanguard which is being used to rive down the door on privacy in the Western countries, though the battle is already lost in much of the rest of the world.

[^2]: Except on those occasions when the citizens actually dare to riot, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Cuban_protests#cite_ref-1...
> A list of ingredients is hard work. openai.gpt4.prompt(f”gimme a recipe using {ingredients}”) is much less work.

Sure, but it's amazing to me that:

- Web devs would allow free-form text input, rather than selecting from known options

- Web devs would splice raw user input into their backend queries

- Even if a free-form UX was mandated, the devs of an AI/ML app didn't notice that their input sanitising problem is a straightforward edible/inedible classification task (AKA the main thing AI/ML was for, before LLMs)
2. Blonde girl image click bait
I'm still on rocm 5.4, been working great on my 6750XT for the past few months (Arch).
k3s, and nothing fancy except using a splash of helm to set some things up. The cluster has an auto-updater for unattended upgrades.
It doesn't seem like clickbait to me. "Breaking down" is a common way of expressing that a scientific theory isn't explaining experimental data in a certain set of circumstances, which is exactly what the person they're reporting on is claiming.
Never heard of the two frankly. Thanks for sharing.
Catapulting corpses? Case of medieval biological warfare probably never happened
Way to completely miss the point

At this point you are just arguing for the sake of it. What is it you are even trying to debate at this point?
I don't think thats largely the case here. Otherwise you would be able to reason with such people, which is definitely not the case here. I'd go with that extreme emotional attachment and some form of autism / other disorder.

Lets not forget non-trivial part of population is on spectrum of one/multiple psychiatric disorders, but say 2 out of 10 doesn't get you to mental asylum, rather on lifelong medicines if you get diagnosed properly, but most people do not get that luxury. So they often end up a massive pain in the A for basically everybody around them.
Meta Is Rehiring Some of the Thousands of Workers It's Laid Off
As far as I have explored the subject, the support for playing with the computer keyboard will probably be restricted to "simple plucking" (no support for "press and hold", and no velocity).

For keyboard expression, it will be simpler to just use MIDI input.
And what is in the headline? What are most people going to read and immediately draw a conclusion? A conclusion that once is in place gets more and more difficult to move (read: correct)?

Journalism, real journalism, doesn't trade in such tactics.
Ask HN: GPT non-deterministic, feature or bug?
Seems like GPT non-determinism is mostly from sparse MoE.

Imagine if you use a DeepMind approach of tree traversal for the most promising paths, it can generate deterministic LLM responses.
I used to work in the same building/floor as the Tetris company. My girlfriend was on the QA team. She was an absolute menace at this game. I remember back when Facebook games were a thing she would get on my account and play all of my friends and sweep the floor with them. It was so fun to watch.

The Tetris effect is absolutely a real thing. Gonna need to dust off the Switch and play a little today!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1667141734055264256.html
Yes, the bandwidth test is so short that I'm not surprised it gets inconsistent results. I'd wager the speedtest.net being longer was not decided for fun, but to get more consistent results.

edit: Now I realize that the later tiny-small-medium filesize downloads also add to your above-the-fold download performance, so the results of the initial warm-up test are discarded later.
Wishing for something won't make it come true. C++ has had decades to get this to where it needs to be, there's no reason to hope that if we just give them another chance they'll get it right this time when you can instead use a language which got it right.
any direct download of the app for those that can't or don't want to sign up with google?
> I think most people who have thought about it understand the impact AI models seem destined to have on writing

Go back to the beginning of social media, and tell me that "most people who had thought about it had understood the impact social media would have on society". It is really not a given. And that is my criticism: we see from history that it is not straightforward to understand the impact of new technology, but we engineers keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

> Copyright is not the correct tool to address it

Maybe not, that's right. I don't think anyone disagrees. The issue - at least from the point of view of artists - is more that some people (including authors and artists) want the problem addressed, and others (including engineers) just want to make money with their new toy and don't care much about addressing the problem.

> doesn't that imply that AI is better at generating useful entertainment than humans are?

I don't think so, no. It is maybe economically more successful, but I think it is clear that what is good for the economy is not necessarily good for society.

> however, it applies to fiction content first

Well... that is ignoring all the black hat use-cases, going from phishing to political mass manipulation, I would say :-)