skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a couple weeks ago I wanted to inspect some of the HTTPS traffic that Chrome was sending to Google. All I had to do was set the SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable, and Chrome wrote the TLS session keys to this file. I told Wireshark the location of this file, and then sniffing the traffic was just as easy as sniffing unencrypted traffic.

It's also possible to add your own CA to Chrome's trust store and MitM the HTTPS traffic from Chrome. I don't know what these "TLS roadblocks and warnings to prevent any and all computer users from acting as their own certificate authorities" are.

It's simply not true that Chrome is erecting roadblocks to monitoring your own traffic. Rather, they're trying to make sure that your traffic cannot be monitored without your consent. If you're in favor of user choice, you should be in favor of this.
You can just change timezone on watch and it keeps offset. But yeah, mine has like... one that isn't multiple of 30 minutes
> a drug or even alcohol

Those are not two separate things.
I like HTML & your idea, thanks. I had used HTML lists and tables a bunch in the past, but I'll probably need to take another look at the tooling this time, just to scratch those itches that made it not so nice before.
No, the question is based on an unevaluated premise.
It's not announced yet.
Right, and Congress can address this concern at any time. (I actually expect this will happen sooner rather than later.)
Biggest example of late for me was Audible.

Want to buy some audiobooks for a long drive? You'll need to sign up for their subscription service!

Want to buy individual books? Well, for that, you'll OBVIOUSLY need to open Amazon.com _in desktop mode_ and click through a submenu to purchase them individually!
Aha! Yes, yes, yes! Good question. A senior scientist handed me a book form of this paper (plus the introduction by Weaver, which made things much easier for little, younger me!) From there, it's just been the process of getting to know the field better and making the connections over time. It's been about 7-8 years for me, so I've been deep into neural networks for a little while.

Not everyone uses information theory to inform research into neural networks, which is a darn shame, but many of the recent advances I feel can be trivially explained with info theory, or at least derived from it.

I can give a few basic examples about where it interacts with deep learning. One obvious one is the cross-entropy function. This of course is trying perform ERM use the MLE over the dataset where the neural network is the mapping function f(x) -> y. For a loss function, the cross-entropy is ideal in this case, as we want to choose a coding scheme that minimizes our regret on new data based on the statistics of some data we have (thus the 'E' in Empirical Risk Minimization, and the 'R', and the, oh gosh darn it, you get what I mean here). This is analogous to a communications process where the neural network f is emitting a target token with a likelihood determined by f(x). In this case, the softmax serves as that emission probability, and instead of optimizing a discrete system, we are optimizing a continuous relaxation of the probabilities of that discrete system in the limit.

You can go a lot deeper into the rabbit hole and rephrase basically everything in ML in that light. Doing so has rather significantly helped me push the bounds of performance in my area of research, at least. There is a lot to learn, however.

So I'm sure there are decent articles out there, but second-hand stuff will likely only be useful for getting a general gist of a problem, at the cost of also inheriting the common public model for a way of thinking about things. If you go off of the beaten path and try to translate the whole training process (don't forget the temporal aspect!) into this framework, I think you'll find it very challenging and interesting. Very fun! <3 :) Hope that answers the question, if not, then feel free to let me know! I think there are some learning materials that talk about the basics of info theory w.r.t. ML, but the rabbit hole goes....very deep indeedy.
After I go outside and read "long-form books" (lol), I'm supposed to then understand that hate is the truth? You've fumed impotently like this at a thousand people before? This is the most ridiculous thread.
> think of a class name

> forget what name I had decided on

I think that's not the problem with CSS, but with how you approach design. If you treat your design process as editing a document, and just want to "Ctrl+B" to bold necessary parts, yes, I'm sure Tailwind's better. But, I can see how it could be a problem with maintenance and collaboration as there isn't an agreed upon design language or a document structure.

I understand that managing multiple files and going back and forth can be considered an overhead, but that's a componentization problem, not a problem with CSS per se, and you expect to recuperate your losses with the time you gained when finding and fixing bugs. Otherwise, there's no point in componentization. You'd have the same tradeoff when writing JavaScript code, for example.

You'd encounter the same set of problems the moment you start refactoring your styles into Tailwind components.
Xi Jinping took control of the CCP as chairman in 2012, Putin won an election in 2012 as well as Obama. 2013 were snowden leaks.

A lot of election year and sore-loser nastiness was happening around then including the birther movement that shot trump into the arena.

I suspect Russia and China were sowing strife and discontent in favor of romney even back then.

Occupy wallstreet died a miserable death late 2011. The people of the world that got screwed over in 2008's crash realized that they have no power over the ruling class, the changing world require adapting which is painful.

In the future, I suspect 2020's COVID crisis will snowball into an eventful election year in 2024-25. Hottest summer, future possible pres is on multiple criminal trials, putin is desperate to stop US support for ukraine and Xi knows the timing couldn't be more perfect to attack taiwan on a US election year right at the peak of Ukraine spending. Taiwan involvement would be at it's costliest for the US.

I am mentioning geopolitics because all these social issues in the US, my theory is in some way or another, US's enemies fuel and amplify them covertly, not only because it is the cheapest and most effectice means but it is also the most reliable and proven way to defeat the US.

Vietnam was a cold war conflict, and the US lost because of domestic popular support was lost for the war and for escalting it into a conflict with China. You'll note this was right around 68-71. And the hippie movement and anti-war protests had plenty of communist connections as well as CIA infiltration (everyone was trying to exploit the masses with propaganda and disinformation).
> Copyright generally doesn't cover broad plot structure or tropes

Copyright doesn't cover specific plot structure either. Compare The Sword of Shannara to The Fellowship of the Ring.

You can make a page-for-page copy of a book with the names changed and you're fine as far as copyright goes.
Object Oriented Programming in C (2006)
I would argue it's more about eliminating bad faith actors from an otherwise healthy discussion. If you aren't arguing to make a point, just to get a reaction, you have no right to a platform.
A slightly more elegant method would be to throw an arithmetic coder on the output vector (normalized and represented as an interval) and record the interval represented by the real token to be compressed. This would allow for better compression ratios than your approach, I think (due to arbitrary probability support).

My potential issue with NNs for compression is that sometimes they predict near zero for some probabilities that actually occur in real data - in which case the number of bytes needed to encode would blow up. But that can be somewhat guarded against (perhaps by limiting the lower bound of output probabilities).
Fair use only covers very limited circumstances which probably does not include selling a subscription (ChatGPT+). If you’re selling a repackaged reproduction of someone else’s copyrighted works, that’s never protected by fair use.
Does anyone discuss the hypothesis that it’s a statistical bug in the implementation and that there’s some small but non-negligible probability that the servers see a pattern of random timestamps that convinces them of a false time? Because the would be my naive guess as to the cause.
Author here. I had a gut feeling that heading was problematic, and I posted it anyway. I should rephrase that...
This goes well beyond just censorship.
There’s nothing here that requires it to be done at DEF CON or to people who in theory are smart enough to understand how to not be hacked.
Thanks for this detailed overview of the crash dump landscape!
> When the large majority of developers converges and compromises to reach an agreed-upon standard, it is arrogance to continue to stake it out by oneself, however old said existing project might be.

Didn't the large majority of developers converge and compromise to stuff dotfiles into my home directory directly? I've got 41 dotfiles in ~, one of which is from the software project known as config, which apparently has settings for glib-2.0?

Of course, I'm not running a desktop environment.
I fully agree that finding an existence proof of RTSC could also fail to achieve anything, and even not affect rent at all- absolutely zero change in the two world lines.

Let me rewrite my original sentence that bothered people, so it's a bit clearer. Here's the original:

"""Room temp Superconductors, along with fusion, would affect the economy profoundly. What the exact effect on rent would be is hard to predict but under the "post-scarcity society" mental construct, having infinite energy at zero cost (amortized) would presumably make the price of housing change."""

Change "would" to "could" in the first sentence to make it conditional. Add an additional sentence at the end pointing out that house prices are complex and many factors influence them, and another pointing out that while sometimes we can achieve a property in a material, but fail to realize its industrial potential".

It does seem reasonable to posit that RTSCs, even if they failed to realize their industrial potential- could have an affect on rent. Rent is (to a zeroth order approximation) determined by a wide range of macroeconomic activities, and if we reordered our entire society around improving RTSCs, that could have indirect effect on the cost of housing.

All of that was implicit in my original text- and I had hoped to make that clear- rather than making a strong statement like "rent will go down if RTSCs exist".
The README could benefit from a description of what MLIR is.
Congrats! I'm from Washington. It's been legal here for a while, and society has not collapsed yet, so I have every hope Germany will also survive this cataclysm.
A 2" diameter copper wire will have lower losses than a 1" diameter copper wire.

Copper is expensive so over hundreds of miles you may not want that.
Because the price for the insurance company is already heavily discounted. Keeping the prices high for out-of-insurance customer ensures that you're doubly penalized for not having insurance.
it might not be the right REST, the key point though, is that it's json data instead of html, which asks you do client side rendering instead of server side rendering.

htmx might be great for server side rendering, but for client-side-rendering(SPA) which consumes json data from the backend, I doubt htmx is a good fit, and there are lots of json-api-service(instead of html) these days for client to consume.
Why is it anyone's job to coddle and cajole people who have no logical basis for their beliefs, no interest in changing them and will in fact double-down on them any time they feel the slightest bit challenged, such as when merely presented with an alternate view?

They've pushed everyone else away as part of falling down the rabbit hole of denialism, they're the ones who have to want to change their beliefs.
But. I am allowed to at least read the copywritten material, from which it goes into my brain to become mixed up with everything else, and spit out to produce something 'new' or 'newish'.

Some of these lawsuits are trying to prevent the AI from even 'reading' the material. It can't even be used as an influence.

Wouldn't it be better to treat the products of the AI with the same laws as humans. If the new 'product' is 'too close' to something existing, then they get sued. Just like a musician that has a song with a few notes that sound a little too close to someone's song from 30 years ago gets sued. The songwriter was allowed to listen to the music, it went into their brain and became an influence. If that influence becomes too great, then it can be sued.
The interface looks sexy. The binding to paid services instead of binding to APIs of open source systems makes me just sigh and go on with my life without System Initiative.
It has supported generic List and Set interfaces for one-to-many and many-to-many mappings since Hibernate 3 I believe (~2005).

What did you have in mind?
Imagine filling up your car to 100% but only extracting ~40% of it as usable energy...
If I can find it again there's a really great video explaining how, to have free speech, you must restrict some speech. Because bad actors use speech and claims om they are "defending free speech!" in bad faith as a weapon to further their ends, and once they're in a position of power will shameless drop the pretenses and restrict any speech that doesn't entrench their position.
NYC Will Spend $38,000 per Pupil. What Does That Buy?
This was explicitly one of the things people were worried about when he bought Twitter. If you didn't notice this your personal filter bubble is giving you ideological blind spots.
It makes me feel better, at least I’m not alone in getting garbage support from them.

Our TAM is like a funeral director. Always expressing his deep sorrow.
Important to remember that, before you could burst your infrastructure in the cloud, sites simply went offline in events like this. You took actively lost revenue in those cases.
I may be out of my depth here, but I thought MC was Master of Ceremonies.

Even in a rap context MC Hammer got the MC part of his name from being master of ceremonies at various clubs. Aka the guy who controls the mic.
If I read it and memorize it, my brain has made a copy.
What is going on with the DNS name resolution here? Can somebody please share the resolved IP address?
I always question/imagine the integrity of the engineers there and how the conversion goes:

“Big boss: Hey engineer/employee, can you block this person from accessing his account?”

“Employee: Why?”

“Big boss: I’m butthurt”

“Employee: Sure”

At least in twisted ways, you will try to find a policy that got violated as an excuse.. if you can’t say no or refuse that no policy was violated, it’s time to leave that work environment, at least for your own personal integrity.
The fact that they built a Minecraft clone for the web is probably not the main point. It's just one of many systems they have built.

(There have actually been multiple Minecraft-like web codebases around for years. Nothing as complete as Biomes that I know of though. I built a basic one 11 years ago. https://vimeo.com/50111926/comments)

They obviously already have lots of machine learning expertise and wanted top-level application engineering. This is a way to acquire a whole integrated team.
Show HN: Technical Writing for Software Engineers – A Handbook
About a month ago, I published a short essay on why engineers should focus on writing [0].

I've got very good feedback on that essay, and decided to compile all my knowledge and mistakes, about technical writing, into a short handbook.

The purpose of this handbook, is to introduce engineers into technical writing through examples of 3 different technical documents: Design Review, Runbook, and General Technical Documents.

For me, technical writing was one of the biggest boosts to my career. After being a good senior software engineer, the next boost I needed to become Tech Lead (and get on a path to become an architect)—was technical writing.

I hope that my experience will help fellow engineers to improve their technical writing skills, and take their career to the next level.

You can find more about the book on my blog[1], and purchase it on Gumroad[2] (there are some early bird copies left).

Thank you!

[0] https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/why-engineers-should-write/

[1] https://www.yieldcode.blog/book/technical-writing-for-softwa...

[2] https://kudmitry.gumroad.com/l/technical-writing-for-softwar...
The thing that kills linux is being out of RAM (but, to my recollection, not at all Windows - worst-case there'd be a pop-up asking for which process to close (still a GUI! and giving a choice!!)). I lived for a long time with a linux mint system where full RAM meant that even a ctrl+alt+f2 login might take minutes to process, or even just time out. Maybe things are somewhat better now (I also have earlyoom installed) but out-of-memory still is an extremely significant annoyance at its absolute best.

edit: disabled earlyoom & started a process that continuously allocates memory, still happens; ctrl+alt+f2 doesn't respond ever (DE ofc is frozen), and a htop over ssh gives a repaint every couple minutes if I'm lucky, but is useless; just rebooted via the physical reboot button after 30 minutes. Utterly unreasonable behavior.
"If a human reads something, it goes into their brain"

Humans aren't property. LLM models are. So the comparison is irrelevant and I'll stop you right there.
Article fails to establish title's claim. Yeah the pure crystal isn't a superconductor - but guess what? the Koreans never claimed that substituting in copper atoms in a random fashion would work.
Law protects "order". That mostly means "protects the interests of the rich". Sure, avoiding rampant crime to the point that it's an obstruction to commerce is the cops job. Stopping the mugger/killer/rapist that's attacking you personally isn't.

If the cops have a choice of stopping 2 crimes or the crime happening to you, they're going to choose the 2 crimes. Presumably you and definitely I would choose to prevent the crimes happening to ourselves. Thus, self defense.
Have you...used them ?

My Protrek basically doesn't sync if I'm at home, and as it tries to start sync after midnight the auto sync near-never works. I installed DCF77-emulator app on phone to get around it.

My radio-synced clock works fine but comes with big (BIC lighter size but double the thickness) external antenna.

Probably much worse in microwave that's somewhere inside the house and not near window

> All you have to do is allow people to store an offset for the time zone, and RTC issues are a thing of the past.

Just to clarify, we're talking about people who couldn't bother to put $0.2 capacitor to hold the RTC battery for the few hours the power is usually down, and you're expecting them to put whole antenna and radio in ?

Yeah, it isn't feature anybody will choose white goods for so it isn't in.
Welcome to LAC guys! Today's regular Wednesday LAC event is just winding down. Here's a brief, 8-minute video clip showing what it was like about an hour ago, as the "BlueTeam" was finally able to win the "desert mission" you ("FlightSimGuy") must have been exercising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pDUdTOYhw

As you can see in that video, the LAC crowd makes good use of voice comms through the free, well-known, open-source "Mumble" VOIP application, which is deeply interfaced into LAC's cockpit for seamless use as the official voice radio. I highly encourage you to configure mumble and to get comfortable with its use, since it is also the "social hub" of LAC, where we meet up and arrange network flights.

We hope to see you with us for tomorrow's "Thursday Evening" gathering. We are a small group, but the best time to catch us in an organized activity is Thursday evenings Central USA timezone. Things tend to start up around 6PM CST and people will hang around, on and off, for at least 2 or 3 hours. Sometimes nobody shows up, but you can usually find at least 1 or 2 others. If you don't have mumble yet, just start flying in Network Mission 2 or in Network Mission 3 and somebody will probably find you there. Better yet, if you do have mumble, tune to the "root" channel at "LinuxAirCombat.com" and just start talking. We'll hear you and negotiate more fun than you ever thought was possible in a LINUX flight sim!
McKinsey also pioneered using a "knowledge management system"[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=McKinsey_%26_Comp...
Part 2 defines that "a node is logarithmically weight-balanced if the binary log of the weights of its subtrees differ by no more than 1" and references Roura directly there. Roura uses the acronym LBST, which corresponds to the file trees/lbst.go in the repository. I hoped that this would be intuitive enough to follow.

They are definitely part of the class of weight-balanced trees, using the exact same algorithms as BB[a] trees, which are the classic weight-balanced trees.

When I started this project, it was unclear that the conclusion would advocate for them. In fact, I did not even know about them when I started. My intention was to focus on the exploration more than the conclusion. I'm in the process of writing another conclusion around relaxed balance as a concept, which could just as well be the title.

I appreciate this feedback very much. Perhaps the paper could mention specifically that Roura and Frias call the logarithmic binary search trees, abbreviated as LBST. The repository's README could also provide an index to each tree in the source.

For reference: the weight-balanced algorithms can be found in [1], [2] and [3]. The logarithmic weight-balance rules are defined in [4].

[1] https://github.com/rtheunissen/bst/blob/main/trees/wbst_bott...

[2] https://github.com/rtheunissen/bst/blob/main/trees/wbst_topd...

[3] https://github.com/rtheunissen/bst/blob/main/trees/wbst_rela...

[4] https://github.com/rtheunissen/bst/blob/main/trees/lbst.go
Not as far as copyright law is concerned. If you then use your brain to write it back down—or sing it as a song in Central Park—now you have created a copy under the law.
First off, HR exists to protect the company, not the employee. This should be rule #1 taught to young people entering the workforce: if you have a workplace concern, you cannot expect HR to bend over backwards to make you happy.

Your statements are emotional, and based on incomplete information. We have heard one side of the story and not the other.

It is also important to consider personal motives and incentives. Madison has much to gain by starting all this drama--in particular, a lot of visibility and a nice payout if she chooses to file suit against the company. I'm not saying her statements are false, but her statements are likely colored by this personal motive, and it's impossible to decipher the truth without hearing the other perspective.
Technically, yes, but socially, not really, a lot will find it ok to drink alcohol on weekly basis but frown upon the fact someone did a drug, soft or hard.
Great, can I offer you as a service to billions of people?
Yes, a VPN does drawn more attention to your self, especially with the automated targeting. Best practice is to use an uninteresting VPN of your own, say to a very well known cloud provider as many businesses do this, or to a well known VPN, as your first layer. Terminate this connection and add chains of stronger VPN's after that.

Also, yes TLA's run many of the major VPN's behind the scenes.