skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WAF reminded me of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019 due to small regex mistake [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage...
> If determinism is true, then logic and reason has no bearing on anybody’s conclusion.

That is obviously false. In a deterministic model, your beliefs are determined by all of the inputs you ever received. It is in fact stronger than a model of the world that includes strong free will: there, an agent can hear a perfectly valid argument that explains in all ways that the agent understands this that 1+1=2, but the agent can decide not to believe it for no reason whatsoever (since its decision would be independent from anything that they had ever heard or experienced or thought about before).

It is in fact pure free will that would make any kind of logic or reasoning useless, since, again, your decisions would not be in any way determined by your life up to the point of the decision.
Well, how did it evolve in space? What did it feed on? Where did it come from originally, and what is its lifecycle like there?

Regardless of its primordial origin, it's been on earth a long time, enough to have developed symbiotic relationships with other life here, whether or not that life also came from space.

I don't think panspermia really provides any ultimate answers, just shifts the origins in time and space, but the same questions of evolutionary lifecycle and such are still there.
Thanks, that's really helpful. I'll have a look at both MDM software and options on outsourcing it to an MSP.
"Starving?" Hardly.
I guess that, unless you have a small number of users, you could buy a whole authentication company for the price of your OKTA licenses...
Claiming that a fictional account is true is called lying, and lying is wrong.
> Microsoft has something like a hundred domains, including purposefully misspelled ones like "microsft.com", which is real, owned by them, and regularly used to bypass "security filtering" by paranoid admins.

You are off by orders of magnitude there on that number.
Speech Synthesis in 1985 vs 2023
I'm guessing you don't have children?
That is a good point and the answer in short is: No.

Radiance fields have no concept of light emission, reflection, absorption, etc. instead everything is mushed into one value: The light transported. In that sense radiance fields are just 3D photos.

You would have to perform reverse-rendering / photo grammetry and estimate where the light sources and the surfaces are, what materials they have and so on. Then you could use traditional path tracing methods on that again.

Another thing to think about might be videos (not animation): Continuously capture the radiance field over time and then try to compress away the similarities in between frames to gain temporal coherence.
Direct link: https://assets.zyrosite.com/A1a1BJneZ6Ter6PW/hidden-figures-...
a.k.a. tradeoffs. You can have more features for less stability, so you need to decide what you care more about in a given context.
christ alive buddy.

the royal family costs the UK tax payer ~100m a year[0], which is about the cost of the three nuclear bombs in the US or less than one of the ill-advised F-32 purchases Australia is making. it's also maybe a 1/10th of the amount of money stolen by Tory mates for their various PPE crimes during the early pandemic.

every country has very very dumb shit they piss money up the wall over, but it's not a game changing amount of money.

0: dodgy source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/how-much-royal-family-cos...
https://archive.ph/J6Cmb
At a school near me: The staff thought that the Tamagotchi were a good educational toy and liked the idea of kids developing a sense of responsibility in taking care of them. OTOH, they could not tolerate the kids being interrupted during class in having to feed/play/etc. with their toys. The solution: Kids would surrender their Tamagotchi upon entering school to a teacher's aide who would be responsible for feeding/playing/etc. the Tamagotchis until the kids were dismissed for the day and would be returned their Tamagotchi.
Meet me half way here, of course I'm simplifying the actual process of determining which laws are worth having and which aren't because the nitty gritty Nth order effects of laws aren't what we're discussing here. If killing one person to harvest their organs saves two lives, but also makes people cry in anguished despair at the immoral and unjust state of their society, then that's a bad law. But that's got nothing to do with free will or lack thereof.

My assertion, the point I'm making, is that at no point does the existence or nonexistence of free will factor into the process of determining which laws are worth having. The way people feel about laws does factor into determining what laws are good or bad, but that is true whether or not people's feelings are deterministic or derived from free will.
I'll check out that newsletter, thanks!
(Not to take away from your point.) According to https://bsago.me/tech-notes/feed.json the creator was active in September 2022, one year ago. So it’s probably best to assume they’re ok.

Personally, I view it as a big success for open source. Someone can make something cool and vanish, and it still lives on via fork. It’s hard to think of any other type of work where that’s possible.
> Maybe I’m not appreciating your viewpoint because the article nor the comments seem overtly self-promoting to me.

And maybe I'm over protective of HN.

> I would agree with you if it was a garbage press release with low quality fake comments.

You mean like the one where the CEO (then still anonymously) tried to devalue a point made by a commenter here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37416457

> Maybe there’s some niche politics that I’m unaware of in the LoRa space that is triggering.

Not that I'm aware of, but their WP talk page is pretty clear about them abusing WP for marketing purposes and that doesn't give them the benefit of the doubt with me when interacting with HN in this way, besides that the initial votes were so fast that I doubt that it was organic. But when dang wakes up I'm sure he'll be able to rule that out or confirm it. For all I know it is all legit but it certainly looked weird. Also note how the CTO nicely disclosed who he was but the CEO did not well after joining the thread until prompted to do so. Which makes me suspect this is a bit more organized than it may seem at first glance, but then again, that's not my call to make.
Hi. Cool work. For this particular record, could you confirm that this was on 868MHz?
How do you ask another question?

why login? doesn't look like you can save your searches?
OK. Then we interpreted that comment differently. To me the point was that with ls, you don't need to worry about what happens when it's abandoned. You know it's going to be there in ten years. And probably fifty too.
Starting with a piano keyboard where A-L were on the black notes and M-Z on the white below them in reverse order

Then the vowels were moved to the top row
These letters still fit that pattern
eyuio
adfghjkl
mnvxz

I and O were near 9 and 8 because they were also used as 1 and 0 to save keys, and people wanted to type 1870 etc easily.

A was swapped back to the middle row for ease of use, everything else was pretty much to avoid patents of other layouts

QWERTY stuck because typing classes were invented and they first used QWERTY
I imagine it would be hard, since these are usually captured with a single camera moving around and taking lots of photos.

Here's an edge case I can imagine for dynamic lighting - Say you capture a scene indoors, and a table casts a dark shadow on the floor. But the NeRFs don't try to understand light sources and shadows yet, so it wouldn't know whether the floor is painted black, or a white surface shadowed by the table, or if there's actually a blue Stanford bunny hiding in the shadows.

The 3D scanning rigs that capture small objects like people's faces handle this by manipulating lighting and sampling the BDRF directly. If you can't manipulate the lighting, you can probably guess a BDRF, but there will be limits.

Re-animating might be easy. But capturing an animation, I think you'd need multiple cameras or you'd have to settle for guesswork, like a neural network that can hallucinate the hidden side of a person based on the fact that they're a person. If you point the camera at someone who is walking, you'll get a good view of them from one side, but when you wind the video back, the network won't know what their far side looks like at all.

A few years ago Intel had a project to capture an animated scene with multiple cameras. The pitch was something like, "Just film everything, and you can position the camera in post-processing." I think they wanted it for football games, but I never heard of it shipping. And again, multiple cameras. Matrix-style.
Just another "command not found" on that remote machine you forgot you were on.
Generally? No. Not because they are not smart, but because in a large company, each individual have different goals and priorities - that's why we have e.g. SREs as dedicated roles - and it takes a bit of effort to find the intersection between all these.

Let's say I work in DevOps and want to optimize cloud costs. In that case, I would challenge the size of everything, the use of higher-costs services, the number of regions, all that - but the team might want more regions and bigger resources to improve latency and performance, and use more high-cost services for developer experience, and ship features without having to think about utilization.

It's a tug of war, and only works when you have forces on both sides to balance out. Being too conservative might stall innovation or make things too slow to save a buck, not being conservative enough might drain funds or make things impossible to scale.
I actually lost my Instagram account because, I believe, it filled in my email field with a dummy one, user@example.com and then when I had to do verification, I could never recover the account. I believe it was in the very early days of Instagram although it's possible there was user error on my part in this case.

It is too bad because for symmetry I used the same use name in a number of places (not the one I have here).
There is internal diversity between Sunni Muslims. The most common/accepted legal rulings are by the four legal schools: Maliki, Hanbali, Shafee and Hanafi. Some Sunnis broke away from those schools and are Salafi, which that particular website is. Salafi thought is promoted these days by the government of Saudi Arabia, but most Sunni Muslims today still adhere to the four legal schools I believe.
I see this going in several directions.

1. The most obvious direction is that everything slows down in development. Innovation is killed in established businesses, startups need more initial investment.

2. If startups are not affected like in the EU, then there will be an explosion of them as large companies outsource their innovation or spin off their own startups. Innovation within large companies will still suffer. Maybe that's a good thing.

3. Greater focus is put into fewer projects to develop a stronger ecosystem and engineering culture so that we can increase productivity and still have time for strong standards. Might end up like 1 anyways.
You could, but it doesn't seem relevant to this post.
Samsung Notes does not run on non-Galaxy Book Laptops anymore
This is the core plot description of one of my favourite fictional vampires, Suzy McKee Charnas' "Dr Edward Weyland".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Tapestry
Have you noticed the interesting way most everyone in this thread who has taken an adversarial stance uses language? If not it's a shame, because it is really something to see.
Correct. It’s a low bandwidth/ long distance RF protocol over specifics bands.
It’s also kinda proprietary.
Tech changes decently quickly so sometimes it is easy to just stick with what you know. Today I was standing in my driveway trying to open the garage door with my phone. After about a min of going thru random menus and whatever I said 'whatever' and just went thru the house and pushed the button. I will figure it out when I am not in a rush. Also you hand me a QR code I am going to be a little annoyed but also grateful at the same time. The annoying part is getting out the app to do it. The grateful part is not having to type something like that into the tiny interfaces we like to use for phones.

Also time to share one of my favorite shortcuts I use all the time. ctrl enter while in the title bar will add https://www. and the .com bit on the end of any string. Works in firefox and chrome.
>Is lying on LI akin to lying on your résumé

If you've never interacted with the company on linked in, not even remotely.
That's right. Microsoft must have used Bing to see if the name was taken, and got no results, when they named their thing LoRA.
Then it sounds like a pretty dumb theory.
There is. You need to go to settings and then privacy. It is a whole bunch of toggles over half a dozen pages but it is all there.
"emergence" is a copout though. The answer was more along the lines of describing the electron as the primary interface between the instantaneous "now" and the future, and the breast being the interface between generations.
This is the one I always recommend when someone mentions the NFB. Geoff Stirling is an interesting dude as well. Worth looking in to.
And now you've turned a JSON traversal problem into a parsing problem.. congratulations?
Imagine a music app with first class support for tracking and listing remixes and covers of a given song, except here it’s classical music.
That's GNU coreutils.
Man Tried to Travel the Atlantic in a Hamster Wheel, U.S. Says. Again
Can't bear another shitty OSINT Chrome extension? [video]
If it offends, I am sorry. At least it's not expensive, yet middle-of-the-road marketing crud.
Same thing happened to my girlfriend when she registered at a marathon. A volunteer took note of her name and phone number when she picked her bib and kit.

Then he proceeded to message her on multiple social networks. We reported it to the organizers but we received no follow-up.
I'm fairly certain I've seen pictures of at least one corner office though, on Google's campus in Mountain View.
I have a hard time believing anyone with a brain would honestly suggest using Unreal.

Bethesda has written amazing games in their custom engine that have stood the test of time, why would throw in with Unreal? What benefit would that provide?

Unreal is for when you don’t have your own engine or aren’t capable of writing one (no disrespect to devs using it, I think of it like Electron, would custom be better? Probably but I’d rather have an Unreal game than no game at all).

The article doesn’t make a single point as to why it should use Unreal, not one. It would be as if I just walked into a company and said “you should really rewrite your stack in XYZ language”, major “junior dev vibes”.
Thanks, definitely going to checkout MDM software. If you don't mind me asking, what is your job title/role? IT Manager?
This blog post was recently mentioned in this talk, which is excellent: https://youtu.be/pQ0CvjAJXz4
It's interesting how differently the internet has developed in different parts of the world. Here in Russia we never had anything similar to AOL. If you wanted to go online, you had to buy a prepaid card with login/password and some hours of internet access on it and figure everything out yourself. Yes, you had to literally "go buy some internet".
At some point I was bullish on LoRA + Gemini or scruttlebutts.

A different, low resolution internet basically. But LoRA is too slow for a lot of things. Too.

Still nice.
That it works without you understanding it is a failure of your understanding not of the approach.
Anecdotes also lead to me knowing multiple people who've smoked cigarettes for decades without even a scratch (or burn), but that doesn't take away from the fact that we know statistically it's likely to cause serious health problems.

I don't know much about the subject you're talking about, and am definitely not trying to argue that it has the same risk as smoking 20 a day - just making the point that research rather than anecdotes is the best way to judge these things.
Yep. If you ever take a course on theory of programming languages that's based on the lambda calculus, you'll find it's one of the ways to model recursion in a programming language that would otherwise be Turing-incomplete. You get recursion at the cost of being subject to the Halting Problem.
Yeah, that's interesting and it seems the report contradicts itself. They are indeed last on the list referenced, but when diving into their details for Tesla it says "So, how is Tesla at privacy? Well, they aren't the worst car company we reviewed"
There are some huge landmines of bad advice in here and I don't really understand why. Why do you want teams in an organization to use a chat app whose primary use (apparently) is to hide identity and allow easy transmission of CSAM with no accountability?

In a business environment something like Session is a huge liability, not an asset. While you may want to keep internal communications private, it is still important for those communications to be attributable and loggable.

Otherwise a lot of this is generally good, 802.1x, disabling cloud features, not BYOD, etc.
The Comedy of Errors That Let China-Backed Hackers Steal Microsoft’s Signing Key
Thank you for releasing it! I adopted wirefilter for a firewall rule testing project, firewalker [1]. But indeed, I wish Cloudflare kept maintaining its OSS version.

[1]: https://github.com/SerCeMan/firewalker/
Could you explain what you mean by this? Very few things are recorded as stereo. Things are recorded on individual tracks and then mixed in stereo. Access to the original recordings allows remixing in Atmos.
well this changes things. Thanks for the tip!
Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was trapped in ice for 4k years
This is the best option for me, as I want to keep full compatibility with ls instead.
Or you could just use apps like session that never require a phone number in the first place.
I know this is a bit offtopic but maybe someone can help me...

since *always* when i try to access https://merveilles.town/ the server gives me an error (the console shows an error 500 and site crashes there); it happens to me both from pc and mobile, both under wifi and cable and 4g... since that mastodon instance is the home of the 100 rabbits dudes, i'm so sorry i can't view their posts :(
It’s not his fault, but it’s annoying how people now use “performative” all the time to mean “just for show” instead of the correct meaning “something that is done by the speech act.” When the judge says “guilty!” it is performative in the second sense, but not the first!
> it's the unintuitive query syntax and the need to search for every minute step

I love jq as a power tool and have the same challenges. I think the best path would have been for JavaScript to adopt something akin to JsonPath, although I more often reach to jq out of familiarity than use it in kubectl.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/jsonpath/
> Its very hard to make a living off bad or average art.

If your implication is it's easy to finance good art, I disagree. Where I live, most good theater productions are state funded. Production costs a lot. People aren't lining up around the block. Those who are lining up aren't willing to pay that much. A new wave of art marketing is improving things, but not enough. End of the day, art isn't very popular. The options are to subsidize, or let the industry die. If the art industry is as good as the money it brings in, then let it die. If its value to society is more than that, subsidize it.

The commercial or non-state-funded theater productions (where I live) generally have little artistic value. They're populist and safe. Their priority is to be easy to market and to be a safe investment (think marvel movies).
The thing is, if you only have a small number of users, it's just not worth the effort to set up Keycloak or its alternatives. If you're large enough, then the effort of setting it up is smaller, but if it (inevitably) gets hacked, it's your head that's gonna roll and your company that has to pay out GDPR or whatever fines - with Okta, Auth0 or whatever it's them.
There's a recent Tom Scott video about an office inside an elevator. It has a desk and chairs, the whole thing. It's on the corner of the building too. It seems, from his video, that nobody is really sure why it was built and what it was used for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yfX84RMQ3M
I'm not saying that the website itself is extremist (don't know never used it), I'm saying that the interpretation is so in this specific case. Also when talking about 'sharia law', sunni doesn't tell you much it's the jurisprudence part that's relevant and in the first link to the scholar you mentioned it say he follow the hanbali school of jurisprudence which is the least popular among sunni and the most extermist, for a long time it was not even deemed a legitimate one, the reason it still exist today is because of wahabism that sponsored by Saudi Arabia's money make it possible.
To go from this to saying that 90% Muslims support this view is very dishonest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanbali_school
There’s an argument for sure, but personally I would be more interested in evidence.
No human being whatsoever should be surprised when Reuters offers better reporting than The Register.
You try telling a VP that their business unit can't function because you decided to purchase the cheaper drive.

All disks fail eventually. Outliers may run longer than the MTBF for that drive model, but they all fail eventually.

And backups are fine for restoring data, but they don't help provide access to that data in a timely fashion. That's why people use SANs, AWS etc.

The cost of a SAN storage array is a nit for a business making cars (like Toyota) or selling insurance (like my company).
If you are nostalgic for AOL, AIM, progs, screen names, and visual basic, look up the AOL Underground podcast. Interviews with prog authors, hackers, and former AOL staffers.
Empirically it's worked out this way.

It's true that it's less satisfying and less attractive, but these subjective adjectives are based on relevant objective truths, namely that LLMs are difficult or impossible to analyze from the outside, and at a coarse level they're the knowledge equivalent of pathological functions. Calling them "intelligent" is to privilege a very limited definition of the word, while ignoring all of the other things that we normally associate with it.

I don't want us to make an AGI or anything like it for both humanist and economic reasons, but if we make one, I think it's very likely that it has to have more internal structure than do LLMs, even if we do not explicitly force a given structure to be there.

(I am not an expert.)
> how do they know it's not 100M things?

> how do they know it's even bounded? Why isn't there a combinatorial explosion?

I don't know - I'm in middle of watching the interview too, but he's moved on from that topic already. I'd guess the 10M vs 1M (or 100M) estimate comes from the curve of total "assertions" vs time leveling off towards some asymptotic limit.

I suppose the reason there's no combinatorial explosion is because they're entering these assertions in most general form possible, so considering new objects doesn't necessarily mean new assertions since it may all be covered by the superclasses the objects are part of (e.g. few assertions that are specific to apples since most will apply to all fruit).