skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MSFT as an employer and work environment has industry standard (very good) ESG / DEI stuff, and work life balance is apparently excellent.

Contrast with Activision's stewardship of grinding their workers in to bloody dust, and sprinkling sexual abuse on top. Kotic has to go. Before this acquisition became a news story the news was full of employee lawsuits and California itself initiating action against the awful management.

If life gets considerably better for Blizzard workers under new leadership, they can make better products.
I think his software was a work of art, distinct from a tool for making art. As Rich Hickey pointed out "Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy."
I have read and heard about "intelligence" from quite a few bureaucrats and military people in podcasts and interviews. One view that is put forward is that a lot of "intelligence" is of the CYA variety. E.g.: there is a ---- celebration/festival tomorrow and large congregations of people are expected. There is a probability of such-and-such happening.

HN readers are surely familiar with "security fatigue" by way of continuous security popups on their operating systems and repeated password expiry shenanigans.[1]

This flow of bullshit intelligence is so constant and numerous that most administrators simply ignore a lot of it.

[1] ‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly, New Study Suggests https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/10/security-fatig...
Use raidz.
I’m not sure I agree with this one. My Google results have gotten pretty awful lately.

I’ll usually go to an LLM for a very specific search term, then Google to find a reference or validate.
> are there any efforts to work specifically on ZVOL performance

There's this[1] work which integrated ZFS better with the kernel so it could merge small IOs on zvols better. It was merged almost a year ago. However due to a recent issue[2] it has been disabled until they can figure out what exactly is going on. If they can get it working it seemed to give a decent boost for certain scenarios.

[1]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13148

[2]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15351
So tired of this. This is like saying "Oh? Apple is still making iphones out of METAL? Not Spindler plastic?!"
I am the opposite, I feel phone calls are mostly waste of time (except when connecting with a loved one), and text are better is most cases.
care to attack his argument instead?
> Employers don't seem to be hiring Harvard grads and going "holy shit this person doesn't know anything they're supposed to know" to half of them.

That's because they (1) know there's rampant grade inflation and (2) use other indicators to assess candidates. And I've definitely heard people grouse about Ivy League grads, and how they'd rather hire from other places.

> That's depressing. "You're an A student, but I'm required to give you a B for organizational reasons" is an absoutely nasty thing to do to a college kid.

"Organizational reasons"? No. It's because they view grades as a tool to let kids know how they are doing compared with their peers. If you don't want to go to a school like that, there are plenty of grade-inflationary schools out there for you to go to.
When I was like 15 I spent maybe $15 total in Gaia Online.
I'm paying now. Like $15/mo or so. And I download $300/mo worth of titles. So what's the concern?
Cheaper in the sense that a knob won't generate MRR.
This is using sodium ascorbate, bit different from vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
I've passed through neighboring regions only a handful of times in my life and rarely failed to see at least a funnel. Spookiest was a funnel at the edge of a dust storm: it dipped up and down like a spring toy and looked almost alive.

I've also witnessed two waterspouts: one large, thankfully at a distance, and another at about a half-mile.
This is a wonderfully articulate write-up confirming what I've suspected about Apple for a long time. I'm glad I finally have a good reference to send people when this comes up, because the amount of "Apple is good for privacy" I've heard in my little circle of tech-adjacent but not tech-literate people is too damn high.
I believe there was another recent study that found some pre-Clovis ancient DNA and concluded that modern Native Americans shared little in common, implying that pre-Clovis people were largely wiped out and thus are not ancestors of modern Native Americans.

Also not sure that the academic consensus has been that Clovis was the earliest settlement for maybe a decade.
> To decrease biases in LLMs, one should clean up the datasets from these biases.

That's oversimplification of what biases are. You can't clean up biases, they're built into reality and context of the source texts. Everyone is biased to use certain words depending on time, location, history, etc. You want more objective stuff? That's bias. You want data without specific biased things? That's bias too. A neutral dataset does not exist.

That's why I like when "alignment" is used. It's just "how much does the output confirm to what I want out of it" rather than some idea of being uncensored, unbiased, unrestricted, etc.
I don't know, asking ChatGPT4 to be creative seems to work okay:

https://chat.openai.com/share/62180301-b7ae-46fe-bd15-bd6973...

> Jack "Shadow" Carter was a prodigy dismissed for his short stature, standing only 5'7". Ignored by scouts and overshadowed by taller players in high school, he developed a unique playing style that exploited his low center of gravity and agility. He became a master of steals and assists, zipping around the court like a shadow, hence his nickname.

(Though I get your point that "hallucinations" will tend towards lowest-common-denominator answers, not creative answers.)
LoRA, not LoRa.

I was VERY confused for a minute.
I live in New York City and for probably half of the A/C season, running this expensive 6 KW load to dehumidify versus cool. Very interested in any technology to reduce this expense.
I'm still waiting to buy a mac but I just can't justify paying so much extra for 24-32gb of ram and 1 terabyte ssd. The M series is truly awesome, but 8gb ram with 256gb ssd is just too little
This isn't wrong but it's also not just Apple. Virtually all mainstream OSes scream into the cloud constantly and a disturbing amount of that traffic is either not encrypted at all or has unencrypted SNI fields and other easily fingerprint-able content.

Apps do it too. I was amazed when I looked into it how many apps contain metrics and other telemetry features and how often this isn't encrypted or has unencrypted SNI data that can identify the app at least.

Then there's DNS, of course, which is still usually plaintext and can leak all kinds of information about what you are doing and running.

All this stuff taken together can pretty easily be used to fingerprint you.

The only way to fix this would be to adopt protocols like QUIC or later versions of TLS with encrypted SNI for everything all the time and block outgoing plain text http.

What I really think is that allowing apps carte blanche access to the Internet is just not tenable in 2023. It's a bit analogous to the old MS-DOS days when apps had open unprotected access to all RAM. Outgoing connectivity should be whitelisted.
IRSA in pods and containers is translated to env vars. That was the point.

That if you dont want to pull in k8s dependencies to the code, at the end every approach ends up as a mounted file or env vars.
That first picture is absolutely fascinating. I knew that helicopters are complex, but wow.
for stock price prediction, without taking anything else into account?

Purely on rational basis, this, as in predicting time series data, doesn’t seem plausible. But maybe it is.
Except that a huge chunk of the Rust language sits in crates on the Internet that nobody is willing to sign and vouch.

Proc macros pull in a bunch of dependencies that pretty much exist in every single Rust program. Serde might as well be in the Rust language as the Orphan Rule prevents anything else from being anywhere near as effective now that it has momentum. Those entire trees of dependencies should be signed and vouched by Rust itself as they are effectively part of the language. And, yet, they aren't.

Rust has enough adoption at this point that they should probably switch to something like Maven's repository where you have to have domain control and a PGP key to release things. It would also solve the problem of namespace squatters.
A lot gets made of the inflation of CVSS scores but this is an interesting low ball of a score. It's a bit of a bold move to mark this one as a 9.8. If root access available to remote, unauthenticated users via the simplest means possible, unrevokable creds, isn't a perfect 10 then I don't know what is. I tried to find the mitigating factor that pushes it down that 0.2 but couldn't.
Something doesn’t sound right.

I’ve had the same phone number of mine connected to different Apple IDs over the years. Based on different places that I’ve worked I’ve been able to tie my phone number to different Apple IDs with different email addresses.

The other thing that the author should’ve done is physically, walked into an Apple Store and asked them to remove the lock. I’ve had this removed a couple of times for clients of mine with no issue. You just have to show a receipt and someone at the store will go in the back and come out in 2030 minutes later at the machine unlocked.

This makes no sense this article
Those are implementation differences, not functional differences.
Hallucination... that's an anthropomorphism. LLMs are functions. They don't make things up, they just sometimes return non-factual data. Which makes complete sense; the model does not have the notion of a fact, otherwise we would be talking about something more like expert systems, or knowledge graphs, not LLMs.
> why aren't there sane way (i.e some command sequence) to re-attach it.

But there is. It's `zpool clear <poolname>`.

That said, you probably need to have created or imported the pool using stable device names (e.g. `zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id` or `by-part-uuid`, for example). Otherwise, when reattaching the USB device it might get assigned a different device name (e.g. `/dev/sdb` instead of `/dev/sda`) and ZFS might think the device is still unavailable.
I work with University spin-outs mainly in Life Sciences. They take years and cost millions of dollars betfore they can start generating revenue.

I also own a metal recycling business. It is on track for USD 10 million revenue with about $1 million EBIT. This business has a low risk, it is cash-based and generates cash every month.

Basically, working with the startup are almost a charity. Yes, I like going to various universities, yes, I dicussing Deep Technology but my main source of incone and wealth comes from used beer cans.

Why do I need more that $500K pa? I will be dead soon enough.
Best Buy to End DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales
This is a bad idea.

If you want repair, you need to either set more than one copy in ZFS (still pretty dumb) or use multiple drives in a raidz (or mirror, though raidz is more efficient).

When you try to partition a drive like this (or configure ZFS to write multiple copies) you loose everything in the event that the whole drive fails. Honestly, it's a far better plan to just use multiple drives in a raidz so that whole-drive failures can be reconstructed in addition to data corruption.
What a weird point and conclusions. Yes, we shouldn't treat LLMs as search engines. But who's to say what's creativity and what's not? Glitch art is "wrong" if we apply the author's judgement, but it's still creative.
this is my thought as well. reading the paper now.. who would have thought that the quote, "those who don't learn from history is doomed to repeat it" might be useful in predictions.
heh, that's a much more exhaustive list than mine
You are comparing a 70%-30% market share split in consoles, to a virtually 100% for Microsoft in OEM PC sales, and a >85% for Nvidia in AI and research oriented GPUs [0]

Microsoft also controls ~95% of the PC gaming market, which makes up ~40% of the total video game market [1].

So remind me again, which studios were bullied by Sony to give up access to the majority of the market, in exchange for nothing?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/amd-likely-offer-details-...

[1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/report-pc-and-console-global-g....
Nordic countries are generally pretty happy to tax fuel, and that acts as a distance-dependent tax on cars.
Amazing that instead of fixing the problem, the government actually requires I pay some third party to handle this for me.
The Accidental Monopoly
As someone who is familiar with LoRa, but not LoRA, I was confused as to what they could have possibly been using LoRa for to finetune an LLM. The internet has a lot of acronyms, and a lot of jargon, and a lot of people doing seeming absurd things, okay?
Sure, but that doesn't mean consensus is wrong by default. If there's evidence that mainstream academia is ignoring without good reason, that's another matter, but to my knowledge that's not the case.
Or, roads are a community utility and a community playground? I don't understand why one usecase is automatically more valid than another. We're discussing the old mountain roads. People trying to get between Yilan and Taipei quickly do it through the new tunnel which takes less than half the time. Basically the only people on the roads I'm describing right now are enthusiast motorcyclists, scooters, and sports cars.
Introduction to Key Usage in Integrated Firmware Images
I think there's a lot of this sort of thing that goes on.

Remember when Edward Snowden said you need to remove your phone's battery to be sure you weren't being overheard? The fix to that apparently is to make it so that phones no longer allow batteries to be removed - ie there is a general corporate collusion to give the customer what they do not want.
You can say the same about MariaDB, Elasticsearch, CocroachDB etc.

Why is „AWS attacks OSS” bad and „Spacelift attacks OSS” good ?

Its exactly the same case just size of companies is different.
I imagine a componentized approach to fiction generation. The list of characters is one component. The narrative arc (in the abstract) is another. The world is another. Each dialog chunk, each action chunk, another.

Each component AI generated. And each referring to the other components for its construction. For consistency.

It could be horribly formulaic but cunning and tasty too.
What were you going to do on that thing anyway? Run a Mandelbrot set? The thing has like no ram! Its just an embedded device to run games.
If they wanted to add a backdoor for feds there are better ways to do it. This is just stupid, lazy engineering. Not everything has to be some grand conspiracy.
MathML is as human readable and writable as SVG, and that is by design. Now that all browsers support MathML natively we no longer need MathJaX to read it (the browser does a much better job) however we still need to be able to write it. MathJaX can certainly help there, though I would argue there are better libraries then MathJaX for that purpose.

MathJaX had a good run, they did a good job, I would say their job is done however.
I wonder if that would limit you to the very simplest of math.

LaTeX notation lets you type math without the ambiguity of parsing text. And you can render a lot of it in Unicode
(See Unicodeit.net).

I would not want to type math in markdown notation due to loss of fidelity. Also LaTeX is like SQL: it’s there, everybody knows it, and it works. Any effort to displace it will end up reinventing it badly imho.
But the SW sliders are much more convenient; say, at work the desirable blue light level varies quite a lot (e.g., a sunny afternoon with blinds half-closed vs. a rainy morning), and a smooth adjustment is very nice to have.
In my experience it's: battery goes bad after 2-3 years and then you replace the laptop after 5 years because you are tired of using your laptop as a desktop computer because it shuts down as soon as you unplug it.

Sure after 2-3 years you still have some charge, but it's more like 1 hour when browsing the Internet and not the 6-7 hours that it had originally.

I might just be buying shitty laptops though. Do your phone batteries also last 5 years?
In many states, there’s already nothing stopping your neighbor pointing a camera at your doorstep. Why does a car on the street make it any different?
Arguably the teams aren't combined since they have such disparate priorities/preferences. Obsidian wants to go deep and Bethesda wants to go wide and shallow, those are the kinds of games they both prefer to build. (Or at least that's how they seem from outside perspectives.) It certainly would be incredible to see some games try for more interesting compromises of "both", but it's also incredibly hard to project manage and budget and build if you are trying to go both deep and wide at the same time. Maybe Microsoft will find a way to do it at some point.

(As something of an aside/tangent, as a failed game developer I've always wished for the ability to "scout" locations in other people's games. Hollywood keeps a number of backlots of standing sets that just about anyone can rent to use. Plus real world cities can be shot by anyone looking to fill out the right permits. But games still rarely to never "share backlots" and game players and reviewers/critics still generally "punish" games that do [compare reviews of Saints Row 3 and Saints Row 4, for instance]. Imagine if movies got bad reviews every time they were set in New York. "Can you believe yet another movie set in New York? How uncreative," said no one ever. It could be incredible if as a game story writer I could "shoot" a deep story somewhere in Starfield. Sure mods exist and sort of fill that role some of the time, but mods still have that too strongly bound association with the parent game [can't sell it standalone] and monetization for mods is still complicated and players/reviewers/critics still look down on their noses for mods. "Imagine if this modder had built their own game for this story how much better it could have been?" That story might not exist to be told without "sets and costumes" to easily borrow as a foundation. I don't have any easy solutions to this conflict between wide and deep games, but I do think more access and better reviews for people trying to write deep stories in someone else's wide sandbox could be a start.)
Seeing as Slack was born as a tool inside Glitch which existed only because of a side project called Flickr…

I don’t really think it’s the size or layers of a company that prevent; it’s the culture. This culture of creation permeates everything I’ve seen Stewart Butterfield do. At least from the outside. Admirable and extremely profitable.
Does this mean World of Warcraft will eventually be playable on Ubisoft's competitor to Nvidia's GeforceNow?
I can summarize that thirty minute long video in a few sentences:

1)Indoor air is pumped into the bottom of a vertical pipe serving as a poor man's cooling tower, with calcium chloride solution sprayed down against the room air flowing upward and back into the space. The solution is very hygroscopic.

2)The diluted solution is pumped through a solar water heater, and then into the top of a second, similar cooling tower; the hot solution gives up moisture to outside air and increases in concentration.

3)The still-warm solution is then pumped through a radiator to chill it, and then further chilled by another radiator placed at the top of a third vertical water chiller which acts as a swamp cooler, spraying water down into a pipe circulating outside air.

I imagine there might be room for further optimization, like leveraging some of the heat from some other steps to pre-warm solution, etc - similar to how steam boilers use 'economizers' and such.
It's not the same, "decline slows" means that the sales are still shrinking, but at a slower pace.
XGBoost 2.0
Interesting. I looked through the laion Datasets a bit and it was astonishing how bad the captions really are. Very very short captions if not completely wrong. Amazing to me that this even works at all. I wonder how much better clip etc would perform and be more efficient if they had probably tagged images, not just with the alt text. Maybe that's why dalle 3 is so good at following the prompts?
I wonder if you could just pump the liquid desiccant outside, do the drying outdoors, and then pump it back inside. Then you wouldn't need to worry about air handling for the moist air.

When retrofitting a house to replace traditional AC with this, it may not be easy to get air from where the AC is located (usually the middle of the house) to the outside. If you pump desiccant outside, maybe you can squeeze desiccant hoses in right next to your refrigerant lines.

Also, there's all that waste heat outside at the condenser anyway. It seems like you could use that heat to help dry the desiccant. I guess that creates a different tricky optimization problem: if you wait too long to start drying your desiccant at night, when you finally do, you risk making the house too cold because you are stealing its heat. Maybe you just pause desiccant drying until whenever AC is needed again.
I've been using ZFS for over a decade and love it, but it was created as an "enterprise server filesystem" and in certain areas like this it really shows.

That said, I have you tried something like this[1]? Also what device name did you use when creating the pool? Using one of the /dev/disk/by-'s that doesn't change when you reconnect would make it a lot smoother I imagine.

[1]: https://github.com/openzfsonosx/zfs/issues/104#issuecomment-...
> First, iCloud E2EE is opt-in. The setting is buried, and there are no prompts to enable it, so approximately 0% of iCloud users have turned it on. It might as well not exist.

This is a feature, not a bug. If my mom or Aunt Millie forgets her password then I still want her to be able to recover data.

The main issue for most regular people in the CIA triad most of the time is not confidentiality but rather availability: avoidance of losing photos and videos of (grand) children is the highest priority.

Human rights activists and journalists can enable more stringent controls separately from the general public because their threat model is different. Apple has added a suite of extra features for these individuals in recent releases:

* https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/12/apple-lockdown-mode-ios-16...

* https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...

* https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-s...

For all of Apple/iOS's imperfections, are there other vendors with out-of-box experiences that are at a higher level in this (security/privacy) regard?
I immediately tried to find a comparison with ARIMA as well and was disappointed. It's difficult to take this paper seriously when they dismiss a forecasting technique from the 70's because of "extensive training times".
I used to love their games, the past decade has been nothing but a slog for them. I'm hoping M$ might be able to turn some of that around.
It would go against a fundamental principle of ZFS' design for changing a setting like that mid-flight to not be safe.
The VTTES plugin for Firefox/Chrome allows for importing/exporting between OrcPub/DungeonMastersVault, Foundry, and roll20 formats.

Worth checking out if you could support one of those as an import target.
You can't walk more than a couple miles before getting facially scanned in Michigan. Oof!