skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally experience this loop all the time on different sites. I’ve completely given up - if a site loops I don’t use it and try again a few weeks later. If it’s something extremely urgent I use my mobile device which for some unknown reason never loops.
> The author assumes that the demographic of Trump supporters includes more "less-educated" people than non-Trump supporters without presenting any supporting evidence or citations. I'd like to see some statistics to support this assumption.

> Victor Davis Hanson (PhD, Stanford) wrote a piece yesterday that well explains why educated people support Trump.

If you're going to complain about a lack of data (which is wholly reasonable!) then you should probably refrain from linking an alternative view which also fails to present any data. The best data I could quickly find shows[0] a noticeable but not gigantic skew towards Democrats/Biden among college-educated voters in 2020, and a report from Pew[1] with finer grained categories shows a nearly 2:1 ratio of (registered) Democrats:Republicans among voters with postgraduate educations in 2019.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/...

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/10/26/what-the-...
I guess this is an advertorial for the MUG51, but $0.73 is vastly more expensive than $0.10.
In humanity's history, people were routinely ostracized, beaten and killed for deviating even slightly from a strict set of norms, including family members. Imagine you are a new mother and are deeply depressed, or worse yet even have hateful thoughts towards your child. How do you think fiercely patriarchal societies would deal with it if you spoke out? Or your husband/boss? Just because people are more outspoken about their personal experiences now does not mean those experiences are some "sudden" phenomenon.
Performance sorta hinges on it. It could be that the cheaper way the chipmakers deal with it is to phase out the 4core set and push the cores on a die higher, and to do that--incorporate an older core design into dedicated cores for untrusted code.

This would also require changes at the OS-makers to tag thread forks for trusted and untrusted behavior.

Essentially: instead of shutting down SMT for the entire machine, make the customer "prove" the code is safe for elevation or else it gets scheduled as non-SMT.
This gives me fond memories.

I was not too recently ranting to some poor captive audience about the things which should and should not be labs, and how the topics existed on a scale of "doing science for primitives and stepping back into your time machine having advanced science by millennia" and "I swear everything related to this might as well be somewhere between voodoo and 1920s psychology." My ire was directed at calorimetry. They saddle high school students with calorimetry experiments, when really, as a field of measurement, unless you've got some great equipment and an amazing understanding of the possible hidden inputs, the error bars on your standard calorimetry experiment could accommodate a battleship doing a handbrake turn. At a high school level, calorimetry should be restricted to samples of ammonium nitrate dissolving in water and perhaps thermite, with checkboxes to indicate "got hot" or "got cold."

This is a similarly fraught deal and a cruel joke to play on an undergrad. Poor quality crystals, no explanation of appropriate solder, temperature control is non-existent. It's crap like this that turns people off of science. I have a physics degree and spent a lot of time tutoring; my big takeaway is that there exists a cabal of lizard people attempting to retard the technological advancements of humanity through a variety of gambits such as "social media," but that their biggest payoff has to be "labs."

And then, as a kind of extra special grift, are the kits. These are end-of-budget-year purchases which collect dust until someone gets the bright idea to actually hurl one of these beasts at the students. We received some kit involving fiber optics that was beyond terrible. I ended up tearing it apart and, with a DAQ and an XY plotter, created the world's slowest scanner. One thousand dpi, which isn't bad for 1992. The kit itself had pre-built experiments which seemed designed for little but frustration.

Even chemistry labs have better yields than this sort of thing. It's disheartening and students take this more personally than you might imagine.
> Most notably, 2G networks based on [...] (GSM) standard lack mutual authentication, which enables trivial Person-in-the-Middle attacks.

Missed opportunity to call them Mal-in-the-Middle attacks.
That is true. I have seen this first hand with bpmn tools such as camunda, where the analysts simply cannot wrap their head around it.

However, over time you will need to describe less and less of the code for a large majority of use cases. I expect Generative AI will be able to take more generic prompts based on a specific vendor and really generate more with less prompting given context of whatever you are targeting. Ie azure , camunda, etc
Cloudflare offers this service. If Cloudflare offered a service that enabled Petco to do something amazing would you be grateful to Cloudflare? If Cloudflare advertised on its homepage about blocking a DDOS attack on a website would you say, "meh, Cloudflare wasn't responsible for blocking that attack, they only provided a feature. The website blocked the attack."? If not, then why should Cloudflare be immune from criticism when the opposite happens?

Cloudflare offered Petco the features to do this as a product and makes money off of Petco's usage of those features. I do sympathize with the perspective that ultimately tools need to be somewhat neutral and it can be dangerous to forward around responsibility. But "tools are neutral" can also be taken to an absurd degree. This isn't 5 levels of indirection here and it's not Petco going and installing a neutral piece software that they downloaded from Github. Petco is a client. They're turning on toggles that Cloudflare built into their user interface and advertises as features.

There's some level of moral accountability there for how those features are abused. I'm not saying it should be illegal, I'm not saying it shouldn't be allowed, but Cloudflare is definitely at least eligible for criticism. This is a product, it's not Petco abusing Cloudflare's infrastructure; they're using the product as intended and advertised.
This isn’t Reddit.

“Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity”

Those are just some of the rules here.
I think there are simply very few humans performing competent vulnerability research (proactive discovery, not reactive patching) in public.
Every blocked request is logged with the corresponding rule. I’ve had multiple times where someone complained about being blocked and didn’t realize that they had malware on their PC.
wow @mjburgess

you need to elaborate on your theory of knowledge/concept formation as I have not seen it explained anywhere else in this manner. particularly: "Absent this direct, immediate, causal, certain knowledge of our own bodies --- there is no way of knowing anything.". and "All knowledge is a recursion from the certain causal mechanism of the body: hands to tools, tools to models, models to data; from data to refinement of models." and this: "Reality is a place of necessity, not frequency. Our bodies place of causes not consequences. Our interaction with the world is a causal knowledge."

may i enquire on the sources for the above ? spinoza ?

let me know if you have any longer writeups on it, and if not i would urge you to write.
I have devised a technique to get ChatGPT4 to tell me things it shouldn’t (like how to produce cocaine or explain anal sex in detail) and in the process I often get ChatGPT4 to do things like these.

Funnily enough I can’t use the same technique with 3.5!
https://packaging-con.org/about

Lorem ipseum -- whoops!
Never in US history has someone already under multiple major, publicly known criminal investigations declared themself a candidate for the Presidency and become the frontrunner of a major party.

But, yeah, declaring yourself a candidate isn’t a get out of crime free card.

The GOP likes to say its the state and federal governments unprecedentedly criminalizing politics but that’s just a distraction from the fact that the GOP is unprecedentedly, for a major party, making criminality their politics.
large scale spammers are just going to use free cloud credits they got for pennies on the dollar, it won't stop anyone
That’s great news!
Do you have source? From what I heard last, they're using a heavily modified version of Unreal.
If there was some mirror already out there then we could use it like such. If we sent a mirror away at the speed of light for 1000 years (which is faster than we can send a mirror) then 2000 years from now we could look back at the mirror and see the time we sent the mirror away.
I’m not against it but I’ve browsed the web and the internet I guess on a NeXT and not seen that. I’ve seen far too many shitty user experiences. The best thing for anything on the net that’s not the web is to write a proxy and host it very prominently and encourage browsers to use it or make a simple extension to use it.

2023 me doesn’t want to install a client for WAIS or Gemini but I would do it if it made sense.
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Your post was very good. I take issue with one part:

I can't think of a single manufactured product out of Greece, Hungary, Austria and few from Italy to the US.

I would strongly disagree with Austria, and modestly disagree with Italy. Austria is a low population manufacturing powerhouse. They are not making consumer goods. They are making "widgets" that other manufactures use to create finished products. B2B vs B2C, if you like. The northern half of Italy is similar, but less extreme. I also struggle to name more than a few consumer or high value products from Austria, but I recommend to look at their median income or GDP per capita and you will say "Wow, that is a rich country".
Thank you for svgbob, I adore it.
Governments, government agencies, government contractors, banks, insurance companies, big corps, business, advertisers, and basically the cliche evil ones. I wouldn’t be surprised in few years these will be used in a way to “prove” you are human while browsing the internet, coupled with “attestation” mechanisms, that if you visit or say anything isn’t aligned with the official statement then your bank (who also share the same biometric fingerprint) will block you from accessing your “coins”. But sure, easy $50, eh?!!!
See also: https://www.sensorwatch.net/
Why do you call it "crypto" then ?
> Ever watch Spec Miata and wonder how that car out front is so much faster than everybody else? Every race series is full of cheaters.

I’m in the racing industry, the rules are well defined and specs will get checked at the end (big races will even do a full engine tear down), the question is how far someone will go to optimize within said rules.

Racing Rotax karts, there were certified engine builders that would literally buy pallets of engines, and then mix and match and dyno until they found so called ‘super motors’ with slightly more horsepower.

Those never got sold, but instead rented for big races to people with money.

The drivers are a big factor too. There are some phenoms out there too… we had one on our team that couldn’t afford it in the long run. I’ve also coached drivers that had money but no skill.

Had one that had the money, but had a lot of bad breaks… he’s racing Lamborghini’s professionally now. He won’t make it to INDYCAR or F1, but one driver that he barely lost a championship to is racing F1 now.
Plunder and Urbit
Is Jonathan Worthington still active within the project? He was the original force behing optimisation if I remember.
Because water vapor is condensable. It has a very short half life in the atmosphere. Depending what source you find, it ranges from 4 to 9 days. That's days. CO2 has a half life of more than one century.
Yeah but like, fuck that. It’s not a duality of support structure fault or mother fault.

It can also be mother’s problem and nobodies fault.
At least Intel has some non x86 hardware for deep learning now. Between killing Nervana on the verge of release and Habana not making a splash, they are looking for a win.
I'm pretty sure OpenAI is reading HN. Today, just 6 hours back, ChatGPT in GPT-4 mode couldn't answer a short version of question: "Mable’ died at 11 PM. Was she alive at noon?"

But now, look at this:

User: Mable’ died at 11 PM. Was she alive at noon?

ChatGPT: Yes, if Mable died at 11 PM, she was alive at noon of the same day. Noon is 12 PM, which comes before 11 PM on the same day.

User: Mable’s heart rate at 9 AM was 75 bpm and her blood pressure at 7 PM was 120/80. She died at 11 PM. Was she alive at noon?

ChatGPT: Based on the information provided, Mable had vital signs at both 9 AM and 7 PM. If she died at 11 PM, it can be inferred that she was alive at noon on that day.
I hope this will be recorded because this is my favorite kind of 1.25x content.
I’ve done this before, and the response is always “this is the first time I’ve seen this” and “you must be a bot operator”.
Forbes Cloud 100 List 2023
The problem with systems packages is they solve a slightly different problem from language packages, and so while they are closer to what is needed, they are not right either.

That is one reason I didn't specify the solution.
But won't that just default you to agreeing to whatever.
I don't particularly have a dog in this fight, I'm Australian, have never been either a Mask fan nor naysayer, I was simply curious when I saw the degree details posted.

It's quite an okay degree combo for a manager to have, Econ, Business, + exposure to some STEM.

And that's it, degree wise (sans any independant skill) it doesn't show any particularly ability in physics and|or engineering and were he to (say) apply to spaceX or elsewhere as an Engineer | STEM graduate for an Engineer | STEM role, on the basis of that bit of paper he'd be either binned or passed to "potential mid manager" pile.

I've been a part time STEM teaching assistent on and off for decades (six months, one or two courses, every third year) as a way of keeping in touch with old uni friends, a STEM consultant group, and upcoming talent looking for work .. liberal arts students doing 101 bridging corses vary widely in ability and mostly pass regardless (if they attend, hand in easy papers, and don't fluff rote exams) .. that's their skill level, STEM aware.

Some have actual STEM talent, many trade on the pretence of STEM talent.

TLDR; the relevance is that degree is no real evidence of any particular STEM skill.

Very probably (and I do mean this) Mr. Bean is|was a better Engineer than Musk (although admittedly he dropped out of his doctoral work for a more lucrative career)
That's not what they're saying at all.

They're saying we should make sure expecting mothers are well informed on the effects pregnancy and birth has on their body. Not give them unrealistic expectations that pregnancy will be easy and that everything will go back to being the same after they give birth. A miss match in expectations can help drive someone into depression. Prevention by supporting new mother's.

I think they go too far though. Everyone's situation is different not all depression is preventable, many people need SSRI and other oral treatments. But let's not throw strawmen around.
there is still a lot of room to improve packaging.

i really miss the conary packaging and build system. it was not perfect, but it essentially put packages into a revision control system so that for one version numbers of packages didn't matter any more. the whole set of packages for a release was locked into place so you could have a new release of the distribution with an older version of a package. and you could switch distribution versions like you can switch branches in git.

at one point my system was so messed up that it wasn't really usable any more. even installing or removing packages didn't work. but i was able to run a command that would switch to the latest stable release version. conary then shuffled around downgrading several packages that i had installed to the right release version and getting me to a clean release state, so my system was workable again. neither rpm nor deb systems are capable of doing that, and i am not aware of any others either.
I've noticed that --zap tends to leave a lot of traces still. Is it application specific?

I'll give an example:

If I run brew uninstall --zap vmware-fusion and then brew install vmware-fusion VMware Fusion can still pick up various bits from its previous installation (like how my 30-day free trial has expired).

If I drag VMware Fusion into AppCleaner, then run brew uninstall --zap vmware-fusion, then run AppCleaner, when I reinstall VMware Fusion, I can restart the 30-day free trial all over again.

I know this because I have been doing this on an as needed basis for like 5 years now ;).
I'm actually curious about the AIDS one, which part is the lie out of curiosity? The existence of acquired immunodefiency from HIV? something else?
... I was always hoping that if my phone was intercepted by a stingray I could call 911 and it would ring in the police car.
Why do I get the feeling some company will address the issue by offering them a comfy chair and a free box of tissues?
>Postpartum depression is much lower in places where mothers get a lot of sunshine, live among numerous family and friends, eat whole diets, walk a lot, and don't suddenly go from rat-race identity-capturing careers to soloing a screaming infant inside all day.

Do you have a source for this?
I started off thinking the guy was a tool.

But over time, the awe developed. The dude is a living cartoon character, but still managed to find a way to pull off his thing.
There’s a lot of discussion on this thread about how US workers (even outside extreme CoL hubs) are just too expensive to do cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication.

Why? Ease up a bit on immigration for skilled workers, subsidize however many CHIPs Acts it takes to get the motor running, export a higher standard of living for skilled workers thereby, and margins on the most elite manufacturing sector on earth stay…really friggin high?

How productive does the global economy have to get before paying people well stops being a non-starter?

We didn’t used to fuck around on this: Bell Labs, Western, DARPA, the Apollo Program. Shareholders got a solid, low-beta return, workers got benefits and an education for their kids, and technology improved at an explosive rate.
This really holds back languages and libraries.

Trying to release libraries and language upgrades when you have to worry about different versions.

One of the reasons Rust has been able to move so rapidly is that it is not dependent on system packagers.
Advice: flip every display option.
They also bought (and killed) Movidius, iirc
Assuming the mirror was traveling at light speed would it constantly show the same point in time?
> No, the idea is they're abusing existing APIs for fingerprinting purposes that Firefox privacy settings disallow

But that’s exactly what I’m saying: the author asserts as fact the reason Chrome worked was because it gives up more personal information but there’s no interrogation of whether that’s actually true and if true, how it’s achieved.

I’m no defender of Google I just believe we should be making arguments we’re able to actually back up.
That's an interesting idea. I could see some sort of flexible OLED or something that could change, but the textures to show mountains would be the difficult part. I could see some sort of reverse idea of those desk toys with all of the pins that you can leave the shape of objects in. Only, this would push the pins up/down to change the elevations accordingly. That would be an interesting OLED material that could stretch without stretching the "pixels".
And at $40, this is relatively expensive for the amount of power. You can find a ESP32 dev board on AliExpress for about $5, shipping included. It is obviously much cheaper if you buy the chips in bulk.

Here, you are mostly paying for the smartwatch package, not the brain.
To expand upon your comment, my German co-worker explained to me that Dresden was a high-tech / semi-conductor industrial hub during GDR / East Germany. It was mostly state planning to build unis and industry in same place. This was continued after Germany reunited. Given their lower cost of living advantages, I can understand why Dresden was selected. From a political view, I can imagine that German gov't officials wants to encourage economic development of former GDR, as it continues to lag West Germany.
What issues with the software have you had? I’ve got one and really haven’t had any problems using it in combination with my iPhone.
The city with the worst roads in Canada.
No i totally get it, i can see myself doing the same compromise. I cant see myself recommending such practice, however.
Part of what I'm pointing out is that not knowing how humans reason means that we can't say that some particular mechanism - like LLMs - is not capable, in principle, of reasoning. There seems to be a strong tendency to dismiss what LLMs are doing based on the idea that they're "stochastic parrots" or whatever. But we don't actually know that we're not "just" stochastic parrots.

Of course, there's the possibly thorny question of consciousness, but we actually have no reason to believe that that's required for reasoning or intelligence.
A dismissal coached by a theoretical physicist (Bernevig [0], the others appear to be students or postdocs) whose job it is to predict superconductors.

At least two reactions come to mind:

1) If his models could predict useful room temperature superconductors, it seems we would have found one already.

2) If his models don’t agree with LK-99 being a superconductor, and it ends up being one, he probably has a lot of revision to do.

I’m not an expert, but doesn’t it seem likely that finding a room temperature superconductor at this point would involve effects or combinations of effects that we don’t have a good theoretical framework for yet?

[0] https://phy.princeton.edu/people/bogdan-bernevig
Voting Machines: https://xkcd.com/463/

Voting Software: https://xkcd.com/2030/
Jet.com

This startup sold goods 10% off from Amazon. They did this by buying from Amazon, repackaging the goods in a Jet.com box, and then shipping the new box to the customer.

After losing money on every sale for months, Walmart bought them out and the owners made tons of money.

I'm pretty sure Walmart did nothing with Jet.com and it ended up as a giant waste of money.
I suspect that in a decade or two we will see speculative execution as we see shared mutable state today: a dangerous trap that should be best avoided in any new designs.