skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What your teachers failed to do is teach logic and basic reasoning. It is not that I think you are wrong or stupid. People a great deal smarter than myself have thought about this issue since ancient Greece.

A "truth" is a quality of something. The statement "The phone is on the kitchen table." Is either True or False. Saying that the Earth is 92 million miles from the Sun is true. The that we all agree on how long a mile is a convention. Similarly the hemisphere of a tilted Earth starts to warm at a certain part of the Earth's orbit each year is True - that we (English speakers) call it Spring is a convention.

A better example for your argument might be that Newton's equations of motion is highly accurate at velocities much slower that the speed of light. Einstein's Relativity is a much better fit at the high velocities. But again if you use Einstein's equation at low velocities they look a lot like Newton - you see that Newton's results still hold so they are still considered true.

If you model the Earth at the center of the solar system you can derive a complicated system that fits that model but it starts to fall apart in a lot of other places which makes it not true and or useful. Stuff like why the we get seasons would be difficult to explain indeed (the Sun changes temperature cyclicly during the year I guess). That is why Newton's Equation are considered such an achievement - they solve use cases that where never considered when they were created. Some things are a lot more right than others.

The fact that you think about such things is great - most people don't bother.
Another way to put it: for every dollar I have more than you, in t years I’ll have 1.07^t more.
Yes, I think this article is positing 99th percentile AI upside in the next five years, to the extent that tech and SaaS valuations will be the least of our concerns. AGI that can replicate *Salesforce* nearly instantly from a video and *migrate all your data* within 20 minutes is probably society-ending as we know it. Forget human-level AI -- that's "100 human-years in 20 minutes" level AI.
At one former gig “security architect” and ciso didnt even flinch when okta got breached the first time. They still happily migrated to it with much fanfare since it helped them tick a compliance box
The description of the living room wall breach reminds me of Cory Doctorow's "Nimby and the D-Hoppers"

full (open) text here:

https://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/nimby.html
surely if an article exists and is shown to be being poorly maintained, then perhaps it's worthy of dormancy or maybe deletion. why do it pre-emptively?
According to Paul Smith, who has an AMA about healthcare.gov at Lobster.rs[0], the database was MarkLogic, which started out as an XML database, according to its Wikipedia page[1] (Paul also mentions this briefly his 10th anniversary post). According to another commenter[2], who says he met a MarkLogic manager on a plane flight, MarkLogic had passed some sort audit/certification that only Oracle had previously passed, which may explain why it was used for healthcare.gov.

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/igt4ez/10_year_anniversary_healthcare_go...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkLogic

[2] https://lobste.rs/s/igt4ez/10_year_anniversary_healthcare_go...
I don’t work in the industry.

LLM isn’t the only type of A.I.

AGI will be nothing and then very suddenly the real deal.

Wolfram can do math.

Valuations are a subjective and not a science anyways and swing with market influences.
Exactly. If not, any variable is just binary data, and has no basis for interpretability. Any program with a single branch instruction at the assembly level, has implicit types!
What an odd thing to claim and publish, and the wikipedia article is already updated with these spurious "findings". That qualifies as suspicious. The actual position taken by these "archeologists" from their paper about a "modern social history of prehistoric handaxes" is quite a reach.

The rock does not look like the flat head of any axe, nor does a "prehistoric stone tool" bear any meaning whatsoever in the context of the image. In fact the rock resembles fragments of meteorite. Perhaps all the supposed "ancient handaxes" are really from a more recent meteoric event. That would be quite a thrust against prehistorical man narratives made up by archeologists.

Oh, people really called these supposed axes "thunderstones" before the advent of modern archeology claimed they are tools of prehistoric man. Yet these "researchers" claim a painting proves that 15th century people already thought the rocks were ancient handaxes despite contrary evidence, in other words that what archeologists made up was already well know; so it must be true after all, how convenient. But that is tautological: provide a theory based on a painting and claim the painting is evidence the theory is correct.
Yeah, I use all of those. But what I can't really use is some low-rent sales copy trying to persuade me to abandon FOSS tooling in favor of yet another rent-seeking cloud solution.

New != Good
> Every show on Apple TV+ (except Ted Lasso) has dismal viewership.

Source? They don’t publish this info afaik. Your link is about market share, likely via subscriber counts?
I've only been doing C++ since the 2011 standard, but my sense of the language's evolution over time sort of matches yours. If you bother to learn the most complex, least-obvious, newest way to do something, the language has gotten safer, more functional, and more powerful.

You're way more productive using the container-agnostic `std::find()` than rolling your own version of it, as you might in other languages.

BUT I wouldn't say simpler. Do you slather `noexcept` on every method you write and turn every `const` to `constexpr`? :p Some advocate for that, and the have-a-new-keyword-for-something-that-should-actually-be-the-default-(but-of-course-the-defaults-will-never-not-be-backwards-here-because-we-got-them-wrong-way-back-and-too-much-existing-code-will-break-if-we-change-them) game is getting a little crazy for me.
Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with artists and venues.

Artists not signing deals with Ticketmaster lose access to venues, and venues not signing exclusivity deals with Ticketmaster lose access to artists.

There are enough of these on both sides that neither wants to lose the other so they sign.

Side note: I worked at a small ticketing software shop circa the Ticketmaster/LiveNation merger. The CEO got a call from the feds(FTC?) doing background work on the industry's view on how it might affect competition. For the life of me I can't imagine why he said it wouldn't really matter, but I have to assume that Ticketmaster was already so locked in to the industry that perhaps it didn't.
Pearl Jam tried to do something about it 25 years ago but their monopoly is too entrenched. They gave up.
So because one is hosted in Moscow, you find it less likely to be hacked? What a humorous conclusion.
We have customers using Neon as a time machine b/c you can create a branch at a point in time. Is this what you need?
makes me think the whole thing is a joke...? because it's obvious this wasn't scanned.
Needing to convert yaml to hcl seems like a burden. A killer feature of HCL would be if it supported syntax highlighted yaml. Or if the HCL manifest was in json format, it perhaps could be easily then converted to yaml as the "human readable" format, then converted to json and tf apply.
What would you estimate the market share to be?
If you cover up security incidents you are facing some actual jail time not just civic suits. Look at what happened with former uber ciso for example of this [0]

[0] - https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-chief-security-o...
Funny how the creators last name is Currie
As I was reading, my intuition said the human couldn’t take the video and explain it in 20 minutes. Also the data could not be migrated that fast for any kind of real scale. However, GPT-4 is fairly close to filling in the AI side of that equation. Five years is a long time in AI research these days.
Take antihistamine and rub some cream on it.
Archive.ph/archive.today seem to work: https://archive.today/JKi1x
Again, security is important for all of those products, but unlike all of them, Okta has exactly one job.

Perfect security is impossible, but better than 50% odds of never getting critically compromised are reasonable to expect.

If their security is not good enough, their value quickly becomes negative. Not only are they already a gigantic target and a single point of failure, but by being visibly bad at security they are standing in the spotlight with "hack me" on their back.
I kind of doubt these people thought this was ok, they just did it anyway.
Yes, that seems like the same thing. Of course if she posted as a comedian rather than using an alias that was an influential voice in politics that might change the dynamics.
“Stuck with 120Mbps down” made me spit out my drink
They have. Ticketmaster eventually buys them up.
I'd like to add that MTProto is impossible to MITM because there are no trusted third parties. The handshake that happens before the user logs into their account includes a step with RSA. The public keys for that step are hardcoded into clients.

To anyone who wants to complain about Telegram not encrypting chats by default and using "homebrew crypto" I'd like to say that it's XMPP we're discussing here. Telegram offers marginally better security than XMPP over TLS. The "homebrew crypto" is still not broken in 10 years and not for the lack of trying.
That is certainly not the case in Austin. There's no reason SF can't replicate that if they even try a little bit.
I know several companies working on the latter and several companies working on the former. Jam ‘em together and suddenly humankind has reached 100 years of progress? No way; this is just the start. Imagine what we can accomplish once all the codewriting and data mungling has been taken off of our hands — what wonders we can dream.
It exhibits two distinct constructions both of which demonstrate that n^2 + 2 unit equilateral triangles are sufficient to cover an equilateral triangle of side n + ε. The obvious area argument shows that at least n^2 + 1 are required.

A small modification of the second figure can show that for any non-equilateral triangle, n^2 + 1 such triangles will cover a similar triangle of length ration 1 : n + ε; it remains (as of 2010, at least; see [1]) an open problem whether a construction of n^2 + 1 triangles exists in the equilateral case.

1. http://www.wfnmc.org/mc20101.pdf
Ones I've played and loved:

Deus Ex, Thief 1+2, Dishonored 1/2/Death of the Outsider, Prey 2017, Bioshock

Ones I've heard great things about:

System Shock 2, Arx Fatalis, Stalker
Actually (and I sure wish this was a topic upon which one could not start a sentence with "Actually"...) according to most sources I could find thats around the middle of the range of estimates for what percent of children are sexually abused.

In the US for example CDC says 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys [1]. The National Center for Victims of Crime says 1 in 5 and 1 in 20 for girls and boys, respectively [2]. The Rape, Abuse, & Incest Network says 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 20 boys [3].

Globally, Wikipedia cites a paper that says it is 19.7% for girls and 7.9% for males [4].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast...

[2] https://victimsofcrime.org/child-sexual-abuse-statistics/

[3] https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics
(Author here.)

I agree the only correct way C1 controls can work is encoded within UTF-8 data, else nothing works.

The context is escaping C0 control characters is simple, you look for a single byte and filter it as you need. C1 controls when not encoded as UTF-8 are also single byte characters and therefore easy to filter out. For multi-byte encodings, you need to correctly decode the encoding, then filter, this has synchronisation problems and is tricky[1] (particularly as a Unix byte stream doesn't tell you it's encoding, although you can assume if someone is trying to display it as text it is probably UTF-8 these days).

I should probably expand on that recommendation more, there's a lot in the paper, but the crux of the issue is C1 controls are a legacy thing and serve no useful purpose anymore and as I've shown there are enough issues just dealing with C0 controls.

If C1 controls are encoded as UTF-8 as is the only way they can work on a modern system, then they take up as many bytes as C0 controls (e.g. CSI is "\e[" or U+009B, which encoded as UTF-8 is 0xC2 0x9B) so they don't even save bytes on the wire.

[1]: see https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/09/20/1 and some replies to that.
Can Happiness Be Taught?
It works up until someone has a tool that works well locally or a service which doesn't require verification, the existence of which would also answer this question.
https://archive.ph/hV3lA
God I hate C++
Who could have predicted that the obvious suspect did the thing that they had done before? Next you’ll tell me that the US bombed Nordstream or that China is covering up the lab leak.
The point is that computer literacy is entirely irrelevant as it is safe to assume that the average smartphone-owning person is entirely capable of copying text and numbers without meaning to them much longer and more arduous than what is demanded for a local IP.

> You mentioned electronic bills (idk what that is), bank account/SWIFT/IBAN. You maybe suprised, but these people don't type these numbers at all.

The average individual must pay bills, and that involves copying payment details. Here, that means copying numeric payment details - either a special bill number or bank details.

Likewise if you work in an office you may be confronted with invoices paid by bank transfer.

There can be local variations in means of payment of course, but unless you live in a cash-only world it would not be avoidable.

> People have more patience to type CC number because it's more important to them than receiving a file

There is nothing that would support this claim. It is quite conceivable that a file would be important to someone but a random online purchase not.

> Yeah, keep living in your bubble. One rarely needs to type an IP address to use a modern fiber optics internet connection. It's generally pre-cofigured.

Sure as hell never was for me across 2 countries and 4 providers. Always required activation, and ISP instructions often had you go to the router portal.

Granted I didn't use their router after activation, but 192.168.1.1 (or 0.1) is something users are guided to.

I cannot claim that every ISP will require this, but in my experience it is "many", which in turn exposes at least one individual in a household.

> Yes, and I am always going to choose the QR code

Go ahead - no need to go on a pointless vendetta when your preferred option is right there.
Setting Up HTTPS for Local Development: A Comprehensive Guide
That's actually probably easier than getting a browser to work with a forbidden cert, how dare you.
The clockwork mansion is the swan song of Arkane if you ask me.

They continued, and I liked Death of the Outsider, but Arkane is long gone now. :(
LLMs seem like a neat trick to me. I see it as perhaps a language generating component of an AGI, and think our brains probably do a similar trick, but it's not any kind of general intelligence when an LLM does or when our brain does it. I really don't see it as a bridge or any significant stepping stone to AGI, aside from maybe a nice linguistic interface.
The whole post is borderline aggressive and nothing short of PR.

If you want to communicate with okta you send them an email, you don't shame them publicly.
Geany is a snappy, simple FLOSS editor with just the right amount of flashier optional features. I use it for almost everything, with micro being a great compliment in terminal situations.

One often forgotten feature is snippets, where you can make custom macros for whatever language you're using.

Glad to see 2.0, it has a fix to something that was bugging me, having my conf files in git was problematic because session info was stored in the same file as general config.
LLMs are great, but they still require someone to understand what the hell they output and edit the garage they produce.

I've been using ChatGPT endlessly every day, and it has improved my ability to self learn, and grow by leaps and bounds, but it is utterly terrible once you cross certain thresholds of unsolved problems or deep abstractions.

The next huge jump on value will be leveraging trained models that know your entire knowledge base or code base, but transformers don't do well adapting to large volumes of live updated context, so it's too expensive for now to really take that last jump.

We are stuck either improving the feedback loop of integrating existing LLM output, or need to wait for the next type of AI that is better at keeping and updating large contexts.
GPT-4 is amazing in short context windows, and you can patch together more complex stuff out of that, but an app with the complexity of Salesforce, with the associated backend, is orders of magnitude more complex (the difference between a React component and hundreds of years of human effort.) If it's allowed to cut corners and not actually build a working, scalable backend, then maybe -- but that sort of belies the premise of being able to migrate all your data.

Teams/companies of humans are society's current way of producing superhuman structures. If AI can just perform at that level within 5 years, it's moved way, way past the current bar, is all I'm saying.
It's just a funny thing LaTeX users sometimes add to their papers.
> I think the problem is calculating pi must be done in series, so you can't really get much further than anyone else. contrast that to a hypothetical situation where you could effortlessly start calculating at the nth position of pi.

There is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80... , so you can calculate later digits of pi without the earlier ones.
if you turn off watch history, it gives you an empty landing page.
> The popular messaging app Telegram can leak your IP address if you simply add a hacker to your contacts and accept a phone call from them.

Peer-to-peer communication reveals people's IP addresses to each other, what a sensational revelation! By the way, water is wet.
It would be nice to see the comparison between 2160p/144hz and 1440p/240hz since they're priced similarly, so that's the choice consumers will be making. The article makes the point that the perks of 144hz for general computer usage are for scrolling text, but in my experience the difference between 144hz and 240hz in that area isn't a huge game changer.

Meanwhile the benefits of 4k seem more impactful with better text clarity and native resolution for 4k video/image content. Even with games, the argument for 240hz where "games display many small, fine details in character models, effects, and the interface" would be just as applicable for 4k.

I made this choice recently and decided on 2160p/144hz, already owning a 1080p/240hz monitor that I thought I would still use for competitive games like Counter-Strike and Rocket League. But I haven't noticed a significant difference between 240hz and 144hz so I'm happy using my 2160p for all types of content.

IMO you reach diminishing returns sooner with refresh rate than you do with resolution.
Eliminating accidental and deliberate loopholes and using whatever mechanisms that already are usual (including criminal prosecution and potentially imprisonment) might be a start.
But will we ever really know who shot down Pregozhin? Makes u think.
Related, have any major games using Binomial’s texture compression come out yet?
Meta Product Head Chris Cox: How Meta Plans to Incorporate AI into Its Products
I thought ex was the line oriented vi. maybe ex came around before vi?
I also remember teco.
I like that his premise is basically pretending computers are magic.
This app also uses a QR code when you want to send files to someone without the app.

The IP and port is just also shown, which is very useful when the target device doesn't have an easy QR code scanner - say, a desktop.
That's a whole lotta text to say AGI would screw SaaS and still, IMO, misses the point completely in terms of the actual impact. What's defensible is BS in this model as the reality is it would push the overeall "system" in ways that are hard to predict (e.g. limit behaviors and bifurcations) and will likely make defensibility arguments random.
US firms buying politicians can only be called "lobbying" when it happens domestically in the US. Outside of the US, you have to call it "sparkling foreign interference".

It is always a shame when governments get corrupted, but the European view is usually not "welp, the experiment failed, let's get rid of the government completely", but rather "we need to make the government stronger, to have it resist interference harder".

US constitution has "We the people", but Americans don't really see their government as "We", but rather as some incompetent entity they're forced to live under.

Europeans more strongly see governments as their representation. The government is seen as people banding together, through their representatives. Governments exist to resist undesirable forces, like exploitation of people by commercial entities.

This is also the reason why Europeans like regulations, a thing unfathomable in the US. It's not "oh no, those dumb politicians stifle our precious job-creating businesses", but rather "we're the labor force, we're the consumers, and the businesses depend on us, so we won't let them fuck with us". So US firms fucking with us is a terrible thing, but the reaction will probably be to make more regulations to resist US tech even harder.
"Complex languages on the other hand simplify the user's tasks."

You have an example? Cause I don't see how this is true.
Is your tech repair shop spying on you? [video]
Your characterization of Tears of the Kingdom strongly reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine
Missing is any discussion suggesting the demand side for homes can support still greater prices. At some point the people who actually must sell (death, disease, divorce) will sell enough properties to undercut valuations down to market value.

What I wonder at: what will all the corporations, investors, and households do when current values undercut them so much that their under water mortgage is a problem.

Shiller (of the Case Shiller index) has said prices will peak when the fed is done with rate hikes.
Wow. What a brilliantly evil racket. The invisible hand of the market at work I guess. I’m glad I hate going to concerts.
> Data Center segment revenue was $1.3 billion, down 11% year-over-year primarily due to lower 3rd Gen EPYC processor sales as Enterprise demand was soft and Cloud inventory levels were elevated at some customers.

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1146/am...
A federation of 27 different countries (many of which used to war with each other) with nearly as many languages is sometimes complex and unwieldy? Who could have seen that coming. Maybe people should incorporate that reality into their political thesis instead of always assuming the worst case scenario.
Yes, but if you can serve multiple certificates on one endpoint (think SNI) then you can add your own self-signed or private PKI certificate to be able to check if all your requests are being intercepted by a lazy adversary.
On the Ending of a Literary Journal
> non-technical person faithfully replicate an app as complex as Airtable or Salesforce via 1) taking a video of the app, 2) stating the requirements, 3) and having the AI produce and customize the app, while 4) migrating all existing data. All within say 20 minutes.

We already have this. RoR can do this. This is not the hard part of scaling a business.