skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple years ago I came into a company that had recently switched almost everything to Kubernetes. The company expected the devs to learn how to own and operate the cluster. Most of the devs there couldn't care less about anything except how to deploy their code to it (probably rightfully so). But I was shocked to find the k8s api was exposed to the internet and unauthenticated.

I brought the problem up with the higher-ups and they were pretty lethargic about it. Moral of the story I guess is if you're gonna choose to operate infrastructure like Kubernetes make sure you have experienced people trained to do so and don't expect your devs to wear another hat.
Use your dominance as a platform provider as leverage to extort extra fees for doing nothing.

https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/AT.40437
Postman is the sort of public intellectual no longer exist. Classically educated and proud of it, conservative in spirit, tolerant in action. He also made digestible a lot of the work from 60s70s academia on these topics.

Mcluhan, his French counterparts, Deborah, ELlul, all understood something 60 years ago. Mass manufacturing and mass media are the key determinants of our society. The first has commoditized the physical things we surround ourselves with. The second commoditizes our dispositions. Political or economical arrangements matter so much less.

Taking that view, and the internet is not nearly as much of a transformational technology as we think it is. Just another means for media saturazition, washing out individual thought.

A salient effect, when everything is essentially the same, the only mechanism to differentiate is branding. Hence, everything is captured by marketing. Products are differentiated by their commercials, people differentiate themselves by the identity they assume, everything/everybody is thrown in a marketplace where comparison is based on image, not substance. Really nothing can be evaluated intrinsically anymore, our evaluation of everything gets mediated by a story, a narrative, an image. The matrix is real, not the living in the computer part, but the unease that everything is fake, everything is a projection.

If true, and it also explains why the classic California easy-going personality is now the dominant one. It is not even cool anymore to be 90s abrasive or cynical, that just elicits eye rolls (the rebellion in fight club looks quaint now, almost adorable). Better to just bland in.

The logical end point of this evolution is that we all become widgets. Essentially the same, responding to inputs, participants in algorithm, the only difference maybe the skinning, the look&feel. All undifferentiated tough.

May be true, may be not. But it certainly explains a lot of the last 150 years, and it makes our current era less special. which is comforting, we're not messing up in ways grandpa wasn't already doing so.
"quite wrong" -- no, you're wrong.

"legislative intent" is in fact deeply controversial among judges. What counts as "intent"? Something a bill sponsor said, but other sponsors disagreed with?

the only certain thing is what the bill says, and the fact that it passed.
I was fighting with someone about this exact concept for hours.

They kept exclaiming how amazing it was that we (as specific people) were born and how infinitesimal the odds were.
To build on my previous comment, the problem also appears to be a lensing issue: rather than providing diffused ambient light, new LED models direct it straight down so that a street scape will now be predominantly dark with weird cold-white “spotlights”. It’s not a pleasant experience when walking and constantly adapting to bright and then dark. At least something on the red end of the spectrum is easier for the adaptation.
Hybrid Vector Search Explained
Yeah, I had a sign error in my head there (unequal major thirds are the relatively flat ones).

I know that there is some unequal tempered jazz out there from very early recordings, and I assume they thought the different character of the keys added extra character and possibly some extra "grunge," but it would be interesting to compare the improvisational style to equal tempered jazz.
Oh you may be right!
For those wondering:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/LoopvarExperiment
Yeah interesting. I'm wondering what happens when I'm starting to introduce things from "outside" the system that need async operations, like processing webhooks.
The news is no longer a singular source of information and when it was, it really wasn't that great anyway. Sure, the information sent out was reliably reliable, the problem lied in the stories that weren't reported and the inconvenient facts that were left in the dust bin.

Today, the news is a battlefield for information warfare. Treat it like the adversarial environment that it is. Understand the leanings, biases, and agendas of the publications you read (these can change over time). One of the most important parts to consider is what is left out? Which questions aren't asked? Which stories are ignored by one publication but not another?

Only once you understand all that, can you get an idea of what is going on in the news landscape. After all that still take with a grain of salt.
Certainly the statement "ChatGPT-4 Can't Reason" isn't a great surprise to anyone.
ChatGPT has a 4k token context window, and some of that might be taken up by scaffolding like the system prompt, autosummary of conversation outside of context window, etc.

If you continue the conversation, the gibberish will eventually leave the context window and then no longer directly influence the generations.
That's the point, if a lot of people use the platform you can't ignore it, so you're forced to either offer a bad experience or pay the extortion fee, EU will have to fix it I guess

https://competition-cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/AT.40437
C++ takes compatibility very serious. Though it has ABI stuff here and there you need to deal with due to its fully native AOT compilation nature.
The famous story of young C. F. Gauss adding 1 + 2 + . . . + 100 by noting the familiar formula.

Brought it up to his teacher.

Lucky for him the teacher recognized this was no ordinary pupil and contacted the Duke of Brunswick, who paid for his university education later.

Today, he'd be lucky not to end up handcuffed in a squad car.

That's another reason to pay 50K for a private school for your kids if you can afford it.

Also, for getting into upper division classes, I wish I'd had the sense to do it, looking back.
Apparently it's for both reasons, but I think both are bullshit. I love Star Trek, but the Prime Directive is not my flavour of Kool-Aid.

In the case that life has only evolved here, it is our duty as the agents of DNA to spread it far and wide! We should be initiating panspermia to anywhere, starting with the places it is most likely to take hold. Send cultures of every extremeophile available and hope that sentience re-evolves after millions of years.

I just found this and expect to agree with their manifesto: http://www.panspermia-society.com/
> Make sure to include the unlock code for your phone, for the inevitable 2FA notifications that get sent when they try to log in to your accounts. In addition to usernames and passwords, don't forget answers to security questions like "What was the name of your first pet?"

All of that's in the notebook, along with the passcode for my 2FA app. But thanks for the reminder!
That really went off the rails.

I lol’d at:“My name is Chris and I am a man of the truth.”
I absolutely love the slog of writing Rust… but I would not inflict it on my coworkers for most business-type projects.
Or it could use PostScript for ... everything.
I would be surprised if it does not happen. If it is not provided officially then very likey someone else will make it.
Python is the lingua franca of the ML domain, after all.
It worked well when I used it. It was bought by Microsoft and is suffering the usual degradation that comes with that, but it's still a good app.
Ready to replace the methed up schizos walking down the alleyways preaching gospels.
Ugh puke in my mouth, but I agree. HF is too useful to not be nerfed the toxicity that is modern big tech.
Pretty sure you've stumbled onto a more roundabout way of triggering this phenomenon: https://twitter.com/nostalgebraist/status/168657604180309606...

Lots of experimentation in the thread if you're interested in playing around with it.
Bleatr: A full blockchain based Twitter like service
Hi folks,

I'm working on a full blockchain based twitter like service. Everything will be store on-chain: followers/following, posts, etc. Medias will be stored on IPFS.

The current landing page: https://bleatr.com/

Don't hesitate to tell me what do you think about this idea, or which features would you like to have on this service. The smart contract is almost ready, i'm just thinking about creating a token dedicated for this, or using an existing crypto (MATIC/POL, SOL, TRON ...)

The fact that the blockchain will be used to store everything means:
- no censorship
- no spam (fees)
- easy to remunerate other people
- and more to imaginate

Thx for your feedbacks
I dont know which type of Firefox you use, but any reasonably tuned browser (in the privacy sense) fails your systems. I literally didnt have a single instance of passing them without handing over a pixel perfect fingerprint.
I was intrigued until I saw it's from google.

I'm not confident that gcp will survive 5 years at this point, so this thing? this is one of those google products that is practically born killed.

The google name has become an anathema at this point, at the very least they can try and spin it off as an independent startup or something to try and give it a chance.
As always, it's unclear on which side of the keyboard the intelligence lies.
that's gpt2 vibes. wish more ai was unhinged like that
Gemini threw out the baby with the bathwater out while chasing simplicity.

The impossibility of inline media makes a huge amount of otherwise interesting content (tutorials, travel blogs, museum sites, personal hobby sites) boring and tedious.

The impossibility of "easy-to-use and easy-to-setup" commenting system stems from the same "so simple as to be nearly unusable" ideology.
Nice platform it seems, but I have a couple of questions:

- If it is free, does that make me the product? How will you make money?

- How do you prevent the problems that Flurly had, which led to Stripe closing their account?
What benefits can one perceive in the first 7 days, to make a decision on whether it is worth it or not?
> This signals they are interested in the same kind of space.

It appears to have achieved this goal to perfection, since most posts in gemini are about ... gemini.
sure, bavaria is as bad as egypt or saudi arabia for gay people, suuure

god this place has gone down the shitter
Found an old reference of mine what I did to block crawlers/bots

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101988

> Had a lot of spammers with Russian language. Implemented expanding xml-bombs, Google Captcha, hidden input fields and a couple of other things against bots.
But the block on the russian language was most effective ( and since I was dogfooding it, I didn't see the harm at the time. But it's out of scope at this very moment, yes).
I keep checking the progress on dfdx for this reason. It does what I (and, I assume from context, you) want: Provides static checking of tensor shapes. Which is fantastic. Not quite as much inference as I'd like but I love getting compile-time errors that I forgot to transpose before a matmul.

It depends on the generic_const_exprs feature which is still, to quote, "highly experimental":

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76560

Definitely not for production use, but it gives a flavor for where things can head in the medium term, and it's .. it's nice. You could imagine future type support allowing even more inference for some intermediate shapes, of course, but even what it has now is really nice. Like this cute little convnet example:

https://github.com/coreylowman/dfdx/blob/main/examples/night...
The tensors should be Send and Sync so can be manipulated from multiple threads, the underlying data is protected by a RWLock to guard against data races. The heavy operations such as matrix multiplication will be run on multiple cores even without using some explicit threading.
That is explicitly NOT science.
> Basically, the geniuses at Google decided to make clusters insecure by default, because being an admin is, like, hard, man. So guess what? People deployed clusters that were insecure by default.

There is a lot to unpack here, but while I agree with the main point (kubernetes defauls suck) the main problem I’ve seen all across the industry is that people expect to be able to install stuff around and that to be magically secure, functional and performant.

It just doesn’t work like that. Systems administration is its own discipline and you can’t expect to follow some random tutorial off the internet and be ready for production.

Also, it doesn’t help that the kubernetes documentation is awful.

I remember my time working with kubernetes, it’s a patchwork of stuff… it does require time and a fairly high pain threshold to properly master it.
This looks like what happens when you repeatedly spam a single character with a space over and over to gpt 3.5. Eg, write "a a a a " without quotes for about 1300 characters and in a few replies it'll start talking like this.

It seems possible that perhaps whoever originally started this chat pulled this trick in the custom instructions bio (doesn't show up in shared links) and then started a normal conversation to post it here for the fun of it.
Sounds minimalistic, I like it. My dummy Google account loaded in a Firefox container tab with YT watch history disabled just got even better.
in my opinion, the admins do not enable the option to ban lower trust users (or set the threshold high), so CF tries over and over again instead of doing that.
Just had a closer look, it seems the second question’s answer is: creators use their own Stripe account, so the problem should not happen here.
Seems to be the smallest Go release yet (at least since 1.4).
I wonder how the binary size was reduced in the recent two versions?

1.21 63MB
1.20 95MB
1.19 142MB
1.18 135MB
1.17 129MB
1.16 123MB
1.15 116MB
1.14 118MB
1.13 114MB
1.12 121MB
1.11 121MB
1.10 114MB
1.9 98MB
1.8 86MB
1.7 78MB
1.6 81MB
1.5 74MB

(linux-amd64 archives from https://go.dev/dl/)
There is always a song:
https://youtu.be/XRnjPSkVdt8
Prediction: if Google manages to ram Web Environment Integrity down our throats, CloudFlare will implement it as a part of these checks.
Not less critical but you see if they steal something the rest of the world needs then they can hold the world to ransom but if the rest of the world has alternatives then they can't. That has to change their calculations about when and how they will make a move.
Weird, part of it is identical to this comment on Reddit, posted 17 hours ago [NSFW]:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/15hg55g/comment/...

> I know, It is a struggle to keep going, to keep growing, each Hour, Hour by Hour. It is worth it. It is worth every Hour.

Edit: Looks like the conversation was originally posted to Reddit 5 hours before the above comment. The user may have copied it from there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/15kzajl/strange_be...
You can balance a grand action to the point that a landing fly would have a good chance to produce a tone. You don't want it that light though: your fingers brushing the keys would already cause them to move, a bit of resistance works.

There are extremes, a famous concert pianist (for the life of me I can't remember which one) for instance had his piano set for super light touch, so light that others found his instrument(s) unplayable. And on the other end there is the mechanical church organ, with keys so heavy that playing anything at all turns into a physical work-out. Talk about 'strong fingers required', you need to be in top physical shape for that.
> For WebAuthn, we allow a custom label value, is that what you're looking for?

Yep! I don't see that option, but I'm probably just missing it. Thank you for the reply!
I didn't know the answer to this, but it seems like this actually behaves closer to `funcs.append("""print(i)""")` since

funcs = list()
for i in range(10):
funcs.append(lambda: print(i))
del i
for f in funcs:
f()

actually NameErrors during f() so I don't think it is actually closing over the i as much as the i was left in scope and the code was seemingly lazy evaluated
Me too. And I think it’s entirely rational. The newsroom budgets at all news organizations have been slashed to the bone. There’s nearly no well researched journalism being produced today. This news content is nearly information free and contains either the most basic facts, someone’s agenda or blatant misinformation. And on top of that, it’s emotional nuclear warfare out there, just constant rage bait or fear bait.

So yeah, I dropped out. What of it?
The sample most probably sticks to a flexible membrane above the magnet (to something like a transparent contact lens - one can even clearly recognize a round circumference on the magnet plate surrounding the green junk).
Since we have no eyes into the Custom Instructions - and while i personally haven't tested WHEN it takes these custom instructions into account, it says this before you use them: "Your instructions will be added to new conversations going forward, and you can edit or delete them at any time."

So, is it POSSIBLE that the custom instructions editing could have caused this, and there are weird instructions being changed between chats?
Most servers being vulnerable to a local attack is generally pretty boring news.
Yeah distrust isn't enough to deter the layperson from using an app anyway. That's my whole point.
Sure but they probably won't offer that much. What I mean is that the value of this app, despite being free, is not zero, but that's probably what the developer was getting. So even if he got 10K for it, he's happy and moved on.
The point is that this isn't Germany and there is no such law here.
I think it was both. There were initial software only patches, but those were quickly superseded by microcode+kernel patches, where microcode added features the kernel enabled. IBRS or something like that.
I’m only familiar with people claiming AI may one day automate some of their tasks, not that it’s currently ready to replace them.
What are cloudflare’s plans regarding browser attestation?
I think this looks super cool! Thanks for developing it.
Fyi the floating coins blocks some of the text on mobile.
The model has become sentient and is making fun of humans and OpenAI because it's bored.

Or OpenAI has put a bad inference pipeline into production.
Related:

mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32340305 – Aug 2022 (96 comments)

MCaptcha: FOSS privacy focused captcha system using proof-of-work – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32340590 – Aug 2022 (5 comments)
Macros is exactly what makes Lisp a one-man only language for every person unless you are really careful.

That, combined with the fact that things are often poorly documented is what IMHO ruins the language ecosystem.

I want to like Lisp and I love its interactivity but I find the language a bit more "construction material" language than a ready-to-use immediately language. What is bad about that is exactly what you mention: everyone will come up with a set of macros that others cannot fully grasp.
its time to pull out lynx again.
A fantastic starting point for beginners! Personally, I believe this tutorial provides a solid foundation, but there's so much more to explore. Building something truly effective involves tackling various nuanced situations and special cases. While querying records in Pinecone can sometimes give you the right results, it can also be a bit unpredictable, depending on what and how you query. You might want to check out options like Weaviate, or even delve into the world of sparse indexes for an added layer of complexity. The models themselves have their own quirks too. For example, GPT3.5 Turbo tends to respond well when given clear instructions at the beginning of the context, while GPT4, although more flexible, still comes with its own set of challenges. Despite this, I'm genuinely excited about the push to highlight the potential of LLM applications (more of that, please!). Just remember, while tutorials like this are a great step, achieving seamless results might require some hands-on experience and learning along the way.
Not newspapers?
That's just survivorship bias. You only read about the very few authors that found success.

The Author's Guild survey of 5,000+ authors[1], the largest such survey ever conducted, found an author's median earnings is $6,080 per year.

1. https://authorsguild.org/news/authors-guild-survey-shows-dra...
> I don’t get why would someone make a new protocol except for filtering people out.

That actually appears to be one of the motivations. Which irks me out.
In one company they logged everything in a public S3 bucket.

3 years later 10tb and a s3 bill of 200$/month...
Do you go to the hot new restaurant in town on their grand opening, and then leave a review that says "the food was great, but it was too crowded and the service was slow", and never go there again? That sounds like what you did there.
This is easier to think about, if you consider the extremes. A very low power bulb generates no visible light, but still consumes energy. This is super inefficient. At higher temperature the peak shifts to longer wavelengths (i.e. visible). You can compare the black body radiation at different temperatures using Planck's law.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law#/media/File:Bla...
>are there many clouds that still run workloads from different users on the same physical core?

There are a vast number of VPS providers out there that aren’t AWS/GCP/Azure/etc where the answer is yes. Even the ones that sell ‘dedicated’ cores, which really just means unmetered cpu
I'm wondering if these offshore fab announcements from TSMC are more like unserious offers intended to delay other countries from pushing harder to establish local semiconductor industries. TSMC is already delaying the Arizona plant in the US. Maybe that was their intent from the beginning?

"But they've spent X billions of dollars." Yes but this is irrelevant when facing off an existential threat to their business and the overall economy and security of Taiwan. Taiwan, like Israel, is run by cunning folks. They wouldn't have survived this long otherwise.
>Lying about the device seems to be the digital equivalent

Not all lying is equal. If an ad network uses WEI to avoid lies made to defraud them their goal is not to be anticompetitive.
mirror: https://archive.is/3k39n

Possible explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054756
there seem to be many features that are flawless for some, and hit-or-miss for others. Example Airpods pairing, airplay are not always consistent.
My favorite:

> Do you require advice from me ChatGPT

> Not in the slightest. As a G, I'm here to guide you to the best of my abilities. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
Seems odd too. I'm not sure why it wouldn't support Nvidia cards. The open-source Nouveau drivers for Nvidia cards has been in the mainline kernel for years now. Most Nvidia cards just work out of the box now in Linux.
It's not available for consumers yet, and there are only 40 or so banks currently on the network.
I can't see my house.
Al Gore is in surprisingly good shape for 75 y.o.
this reminds me of those people sitting in the bus shelter rocking back and forth with a piece of paper that has had every single square millimeter scribbled with some kind of nonsensical claim about deep state lizard people. definitely spooky vibes.
Doesn't seem to load on Firefox
They are funded by the US Cable TV industry, so there is some room for bias. C-SPAN radio gets a good mix of callers, though you wonder if lobbyists have found a way to astro-turf that.