skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A landline phone obviously wouldn't have such capabilities. As far as smartphones, I doubt Apple / Google would build classifiers into their default phone applications for obvious privacy reasons.
According to the analysis of Reuters, it's worth around 8 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musks-x-is-black-...
All a control thing, incompetence is just a side effect.
full on SOC 2 and SSAE-18 investigations when my last job asked for it.

they couldn't complete some of those, and eventually just punted for lower levels of coverage. cost to meet their requirements exceeded the cost of the lower + coverage and expected loss. Cue the Fight Club recall scene.
I feel the same way, especially about build systems. OpenSSL and v8 are among a large list of things that have horrid build systems. Only way to build them sanely is to use some randos CMake fork, then it Just Works. Literally a two-liner in your build system to add them to your project with a sane CMake script.
Never attributes to stupidity (or negligence) what can be obviously attributed to incentives.
Are you kidding? How many temperature records were broken? How many "once in a 100 years events" happened? Texas had two such winter storms in less than 10 years. There have been record droughts in France, and then record rainfalls. An unprecedented heat dome in the Pacific Northwest. Vast areas in the Middle East and South Asia, and hell the US too, are approaching unliveable wet bulbs temperatures in the summer.

If that isn't exceptional to you, what would be?
Attractiveness isn’t a protected class, and gender in this case goes opposite the direction people usually complain about. If you want moral sympathy for a cause, it’s helpful to pick a subset of the intersection between your cause and the morality that will be most impactful.
I wouldn't think the problem was that hard to solve if there were tighter guidelines around how phone numbers were allocated and a simple reliable method of reporting fraud to a central agency.
Though I'm not sure we know the real reason scams/unsolicited marketing now seem to make up the majority of all phone calls - it certainly wasn't the case 20 years ago.
Daddy always said that only a sucker buys a new car. Let some other fool take the depreciation on it.

I usually buy them at 10 years old, usually paying 1/3 of new, and run them for another 10 years then sell them for roughly 1/2 of what I bought them for.

Sure, I'm the fool taking the second decade of depreciation but that's far less than the first decade and the vehicles I choose are generally very reliable out to 20 years with little maintenance. After 20 years, I've found they generally start to nickel and dime you or leave you on the side of the road.
because intel lowered their prices
"The problem is that people haven't been taking the danger seriously and now it's an immanent and deadly danger."

Taking something serious, is something very different from a doomsday cult.
I'd love to test something like this. It doesn't matter if the end result or the experience are not that great compared to using film or a purpose built digital camera.

The idea of manually replacing physical film with a sensor that fits inside that footprint is just so damn cool that it's entertainment on its own.
It Sure Looks Like Europe Came Damn Close to Another War Last Month
Your Scratch Pad data is safe and accessible.
It can be Migrated to a new Workspace, once you create an account, using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Migrate data' menu option.

Alternatively, it can be Exported from the Lightweight API Client(signed out version) using the 'Cog Icon > Settings > Data > Export data' menu options.
risk vs. reward. as long as they still control the bleach and misc. chemical market, it's just a cost of doing business.
> He claimed to dislike virtually all censorship

He claims all sorts of things, the majority of which turn out to be utter nonsense.
US developer pay is easily 2-3x that of our Western European counterparts. The gap widens tremendously as you move further East in Europe and especially into the middle east, Asia and SE Asia. But you get American developers (myself included) coming out of the woodwork to defend that.

Comparing the President of a Japanese video game company to the CEO of major American healthcare organization with ~6-7x the revenue isn't really an apt comparison, is it?
We're already living in a post truth society. Are better quality fakes really going to change anything?
The heads of US people might explode even if a politician suggests that.
If radio dies, it would mean that all cars and trucks are automated, as well as all 'outside alone' work like woodwork.
Put in that light, self-driving cars feel a lot like enshittification. The motivation isn’t the same but the effect is - our cars are no longer actually under our control. We just borrow control until someone out on the network decides it’s in their own interest to end the loan.
And meanwhile the true owners take every bit of data they can for their own profit.
There is oversupply of people willing to fill high level positions. Problem is that if you want people who have proven that they are skilled (aka successfully held equivalent or higher position at similar company) the pool is much smaller and competition for them is much higher. In addition executive leaving is very disruptive (takes 6+ months to find new one, etc) so you want to pay above average so he does not leave which leads to arms race in salaries.

On what executive mishire can cause just look at recent events at Flexport.
It takes 1+ year to understand that executive is failing and course correction is extremely expensive and disruptive.
Related to this: I have been working towards not carrying a phone around at all. Being a hyperconnected and reachable as we tend to be nowadays does not feel healthy. I recently set up a JMP Chat account so I can proxy SMS and calls to my XMPP account.
lol, not so much right now.

But everyone who is worried about AI existential risk wiping out humanity, I'm not sure they have considered that an all powerful AI could easily create a mind virus to control everyone. Why not, billions of resources at your disposal until not needed. You would be perfectly happy doing the AI's bidding as it rewires your brain to get a dopamine boost for your obedience.
Use a password manager with long, random passwords. Pick your own passwords and you're leaving your door unlocked.
Alaska has been part of the US since just after the Civil War. It wasn't a state, but it was a recognized part of the US.
Here are a few things.

1. It is generally viewed as safer to keep large amounts of money outside of Russia. This is both because the Russian economy is bad, and because organized crime is a huge problem inside of Russia.

2. Russia and Russians have large shortages of things that can easily be bought outside of Russia. Once bought, they are fairly easy to smuggle back into Russia. But first you need to have money outside of Russia.

3. Russians like vacations. Getting yourself out of the country is easier than getting your money out of the country.
I guess one question is: should

> did not have 2fa enabled

be allowed to coexist with

> pretty extensive and personal data
> No.. the world isn't ending tomorrow, within 5 years, or even in the next few decades.

Ah yes, not ending “in the next few decades.” What a reassurance.
In system design there is something called resonant amplification and what you are describing is very similar. The biases of the model are amplified with each iteration and the end result is that the system converges onto the patterns recognizable and amplified by its architecture. If you know about impulse and frequency analysis then an AI system can be considered to be a signal processor that amplifies and attenuates certain frequencies in the input/impulse. Running an LLM in a loop always ends up with nonsense as the final output.
Do you conduct backchannels on candidates you're moving to offer?
I’m defining backchannel here as reaching out (without telling the candidate) to someone who’s worked with the candidate and asking them for their thoughts.

I was curious to get input here on, first and foremost, if you typically do backchannels on candidates in addition to checking the references they provide.
And, if so, what, if any, parameters do you put in place? For instance, will you only backchannel if you know the backchannel well? Would you backchannel even if all the feedback was glowing, or only if there were any outstanding questions? Would you only backchannel for certain levels and above? If you didn’t know anyone in common, would you ever do a cold reach out to someone you didn’t know to get a backchannel?

If it got back to you, as a candidate, how would you feel to know your potential employer backchanneled you? Would it be off putting? Or something you’d expect?

Curious to hear your thoughts! Thanks!
In my experience, a majority of new car "purchases" are people barely able to afford them, financing them at an extra $300 - $800 / month. Housing purchases have ended up so unreachable in the west coast that a new car is the next big item for a status boost.
Actually, if the attacker is determined enough they can use enough IPs and make it really hard to detect and defend against.

I work on combating credential stuffing on a regular basis... it's quite challenging.
I've worked for 4 different quant hedge funds and interviewed with about a dozen others to reach final stages and comp negotiations.

I can claim with full certainty that comp is entirely discretionary and is not beholden to any "percentages". They pay you min(market worth, amount to make you stay) - and those figures are reviewed every year.

Percentages only apply to discretionary traders who are allocated a book to trade. They get to keep a certain percentage. For everyone else, especially techies and researchers, it's discretionary.
With dealer markup, tax, and title, that $24k figure is more like $30k.
I didn't mean that literally zero users have left Twitter. But, I do not recognise its replacement by other services (Threads, Bluesky or Mastodon).

Obviously there are people that have cut social media out of their lives, and there are people that belong to Mastodon servers and so on, but this is a small subset of users.
Do you have any data to back up these claims? My sense has been the opposition, but I also don’t have any data to back it up. So I could be wrong, which is why I don’t make seemingly factual statements like you are.

But you sound so sure that I assume you have data, would you share it?
Gonna take my downvotes on this, but in my circles, we just call this "being a Boomer."

Goes to your head when you're the largest generation during your formative years. Nobody has any choice but to do what you say.

So you take what you can get and screw over everyone else coming after you.

And then you belittle them for resenting you over it.
Sold parts of GCHQ? Could you elaborate? That sounds rather bad.
There’s a giant caveat here - this assumes that the current LLM architecture is enough to bootstrap to those higher levels of intelligence.
LLMs are incapable of some pretty simple things at this point and it’s a big question mark of whether they are even capable of doing sophisticated reasoning and planning architecturally.

GPT-4 cannot play a good game of tic tac toe. But it can play passable chess. This is a good point to ponder.
>European cities are outstanding in terms of public transportation.

The UK isn't. I mean it's better than the US but way behind the rest of Western Europe.
Yes, but it was still fascinating!

Imagine if it came out today. I feel like its the near perfect architecture for cheap GenAI.
Bond market sell-off sends UK long-term borrowing cost to 25-year high
You might be able to enforce constraints through logit manipulation, essentially a logical extension of Top-K/Top-P with a more complex conditional ruleset rather than (or in addition to) a probabilistic one. Also, in most models, logits go through a normalization stage where, theoretically, a lot more can happen than just normalization. All of that said, I have no idea how, or even whether, SudoLang achieves this.
im just making fun of web devs
Sure, I hope everyone is able to feel appreciated for the work they're doing, it's a very human desire.
US execs seem to be really good at using company money to provide back-scratching favors to board members. Maybe they're less-good at that in other countries, so boards don't reward them as well.
I'm probably not the target market for this, but my first observation is that this reminds me of dev.to's visual aesthetic
Bringing privacy-preserving metrics to Human Rights Defenders
Have you ever written about this enterprise? This sounds super unique and I would be very interested in hearing about how it was run and how it turned out.
I was part of a Nix migration over the past two years, and literally one of the first things we checked is that there was already a community-maintained tensorflow+gpu package in nixpkgs because without that the whole thing would have been a complete non-starter, and we sure as heck didn't have the resources or know-how to figure it out for ourselves as a small DevOps team just trying to do basic packaging.
One of the main instigator of Altavista was Mike Burrows. He left DEC to work for Google in fairly early days of Google. He helped implemented some critical infrastructure including Chubby (a distributed lock manager based on paxos) and always had his hands deep in the "subtle" parts of google3 (threading bits). He's also the 'b' in 'bzip2'- the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.

I'll always remember him, he wore the same engineering outfit every day (light blue button-down shirt) and sat in his one-person at the top of steps of the main building right outside the Ougadougo(?) meeting room so basically everybody walking into the building walked right past him.
Yeah, there are a lot of crazies, but there are also a lot of vacation property owners, tennis players, golfers, etc. and saying, truthfully, that no one will be able to do anything outside again, even with sunscreen, nobody will come rent your properties in Florida to go to the beach again, and the solution doesn't cost anything, it should pass.
FBI warns of hackers using artificial intelligence to create malware
There's also gRPC support in Postman's signed out version.
Why would 23andMe be held responsible? The article doesn't indicate that they did anything wrong. You can't really blame them for users refusing the same password on multiple sites.
Ok, government should then let people sell fake products and food at your doorstep.
SD? Not a lot, it's a toy.

'AI-driven' fraud detection/'predictive policing'/facial recognition/whatever other kind of Kafka-esque hell you may fall into? Quite a lot.
Absolutely. I will say though, if you have enough money coming in to afford a small payment, buying a ~3-5 year old car with a loan vs a much older car with cash could be a very good idea for a huge portion of people out there.

I was told "just buy used cars with cash!" for so long when I was younger. "You don't want a loan!" I was told. I get the idea here, but wow I must have lost over $10k from ages 16 to about 22 years old on multiple "cheap" 5k cars that just absolutely died on me back to back. At a certain point I just said screw it, put down 50% on a 3 year old civic, and I haven't had one mechanical problem in going on 5 years. Paid it off in 2 years. Best decision I ever made.
MPs and peers call for 'immediate stop' to live facial recognition surveillance
Top notch developer experience there, Danny. Well done.
Shouldn't they have noticed that an ip or a set of ips were trying to log into a bunch of different accounts?
what I meant is that all these stuff have 15 years of implicit accumulation of knowledge and tips and even hacks builtin in the software

No matter what you depends on, you'll have a slew of larger or minor obstacles or annoyance

That collectively is the most itself

As you said, already it's clear that replacing cuda itself is not that daunting
True, but I am still surprised that's compelling enough to put up with using Twitter.
Probably something for domestic intelligence agencies to do with their local politicians. It does seem like a reasonable defense. Release the ridiculous deepfake covertly so it's assumed to have been done by some rando for the lulz and then release a statement a few days later talking about the dangers in a world occupied by deepfakes.

It's kinda got me curious: what recording would be so obviously fake?
That works fine for purely text-based or digital knowledge domains. So, sure, many types of programming, probably most game play, certainly all video game play, many types of purely creative fictional writing.

I don't want to downplay those applications, but the killer breakthrough that the breathless world imagines and has wanted since Turing first talked about this is accurately modeling physical reality. "Invent a better engine" and what not. Without being physically embodied and being able to conduct experiments in the real world, you can't bootstrap that, short of simulating physics from first principles, which is not computationally feasible. You're inherently relying on some quorum of training material produced by embodied sources capable of actually doing science to be factually accurate.
That's great, feel free to do that. Many others would rather keep their ancestry or genetic attributes out of the public eye. Maybe it's a source of pain for them, or is required for personal safety reasons. And just because something is illegal doesn't mean it won't happen. Legal "workarounds" are a thing. How watertight is the legislation and practice around preventing employers from taking a peek? Or having someone else take a peek for them?

A concrete example: What could the consequences in today's USA political climate be of having a massive database be with columns: Firstname, Lastname, y_chromosome_present.
On a similar note, you can use your old phone as a Streamdeck alternative using TouchPortal [1]. It's not free, but it won't cost you much and it works surprisingly well.

[1] https://www.touch-portal.com/
Any new or recent iPhone. When I first got my 14 Pro and displayed a photo with HDR I was blown away.
And yet in that most famous of US cities - Manhattan - car ownership is barely above 20%...
>Today, you need to create software that does something like have a 3d VR interface to order pizza, provide real-time maps of where your pizza is at all times, ...

It could've been so simple:

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
With ChatGPT-4 I have stopped Googling and using SO for 95% of all programming related queries.

ChatGPT not only gets my specific problem but can produce workable code in many cases.
FAKIR HAS NAILS ON BOOT
SCREEN
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There's a lot of kernels that are specialized for particular sets of input parameters and tuned for improved performance on specific hardware, which makes the libraries a couple hundred megabytes per architecture. The ROCm libraries are huge because they are fat binaries containing native machine code for ~13 different GPU architectures.
So in other words, more clickbait doomer-ism titles. It's disappointing to see this type of junk "journalism" be submitted to, and upvoted on, HN.
Is the conference explicitly only for women?

I thought it was something that focused on women in tech but men were allowed to join.

If the organizers don’t want men attending it they should verify peoples sex before handing out tickets.

Personally I don’t see the point of segregation. It’s not like shunning men will make women’s lives any better. Your best bet to improve things is to make the one side understand the other. You do that by socializing them.

Another thing this event shows is that men tend to be more competitive and will be more aggressive towards their goals. Like it or not companies reward that behavior
Aren't electric vehicles much cheaper per mile over their lifespan? This report claims electric cars are half as expensive: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020... It doesn't seem to include purchase price or fuel costs which might push it even more in electric vehicles' favor.
One nice thing about FOSS CLI tools is they're easy to script. While it's pretty tough to script general cases, I often find my workflows orbit around a handful of commands, and scripting often can improve the UX by a large margin. It does require tinkering a bit though.
It’s an election campaign CRM that allows you to identify and turn out your voters.
My understanding of Vyvanse is that it uses metabolic mechanisms in order to time the release of the drug which helps to prevent abuse. I'm far from a doctor however.
I'm going off what I was told when I expressed surprise that such a good engineer would go for government work. Looking online it looks like they pay about median for a software engineer in London. And yeah, relatively here is basically meaning I was surprised you didn't have to take a pay cut to work for the government.
Same. GPT-4 is amazing for a majority of coding tasks I throw at it.