skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rapid deprecation of the models is definitely unsettling. They're on there barely long enough to establish reliable performance baselines within derived services.

I imagine behind the scenes it's all about resource use and cost. What stood out to me during the talk was how much emphasis ("we worked very hard") Altman put on the new price tiers. "Worked very hard" probably just means "endlessly argued with the board". It'a little sad that technical achievements take back seat to tug of war with moneybags.
It sort of depends on the nature of the contamination. If it ends up being negligence, if they ever hid anything about it, absolutely. Jail for the executives, fines for the major shareholders.

And if it's not negligence then maybe we need to raise the bar for testing such that any contamination indeed counts as negligence.

But lead is a pretty common metal. If it turns out that there's an undiscovered recessive gene for lead hyperaccumulation in the cinnamon tee and that tragedies like this are how it gets discovered, then we need to focus on raising the testing bar and not on punishment. Otherwise we create a situation where people are incentivized to hide data that could ultimately help prevent things like this in the future.
https://archive.ph/7Wgp9
I work using wordpress and I've been working like this practically my entire career. I use programs like winscp to edit code directly in production over ftp or scp. If the site goes down, well, boo hoo.

A way of avoiding problems or hiding new features that are currently in development is wrapping the code in... if server remote addr == my ip... do this... else do nothing. Works fine!
MIM-104C PAC-2 WCC - Patriot Battery's "Weapons Control Computer"
This was a long time ago, but I had a similar experience with Blackbaud (A Salesforce competitor). The suite of APIs required was only installed on a server so you could not run the code locally. You could either perform code edits locally and copy the files before building, or simply do all development while remoted into the dev server.
Someone, I don't remember who, said that friendships are fleeing products of time and place. Meaning that many friendships are mainly the result of where you are (e.g. university) at a certain time (e.g. youth) in your life.

When those things change, friendships may cease to exist. People move away, and grow away from each others - it is a sad fact of life, but it is what it is.

I had friendships in college which I felt were going to last my entire life - you really felt close to those people. Struggling together in the reading halls and labs, going out to pubs in the evening, and just chilling with movies on the weekends.

But then life happened, people move away, and you lose contact. Maybe one part tries to keep in touch, but you with work, family, and what not - it is not always a two-way street.

Then you bump into each others, 5-10-15-20 years later, and the magic is gone. Or maybe not, I've bumped into people I haven't seen in ages and we picked up were we left things.

Same goes for work - or dare I say - especially for work.
Toxoplasmosis maybe?
not sure about raw cinnamon but i've taken a bite of the cooked version and it was distinctly sweet every time.
But that's understandable. You need powerful machines to run simulations and stuff. And we could collaborate with colleagues over phone, with a shared VNC session, etc.
It could work with unmaned aerial blimps or other load bearing uav's.

You would sort the waste and grind it down if necessary.

They could hover high enough to not be affected by the rupture of the lava lakes. Unless there is an open caldera like in Nicaragua.

Then you would just have to deal with the local communities spiritual beliefs, which would benefit from a financial incentive.
Please provide sources for that information. That's categorically false and you would not be able to find this information published by a reputable source.

If it were true, there wouldn't be a picket fence and Tesla wouldn't have felt the need to bring in strike breakers.

You're regurgitating lies and misinformation. Please reconsider your sources.

PS. The strike is, as usual in Sweden, incremental and will be expanded every now and then until the pressure is high enough to bring the employer to the table to negotiate in good faith without causing unnecessary harm to the company (and, consequently, its labour). If you think this current and partial strike is all that's going to happen if Tesla refuse to actually negotiate, then you're in for a big surprise my friend.
Frontpage littered with activism and first-world whining. Looks like it was the worst parts of Kotaku that left.
Am I wrong that this seems like a not-good precedent for artists/content creators and the future (much less present) of training data?
“If you want to boot your OS from scratch…”
With builder-hex0, 512 bytes are more than enough. https://github.com/ironmeld/builder-hex0
Why do people use pills rather than copper IUDs? At least based on information on the web, it seems copper IUDs are strictly better: cheap, easy to insert and remove, nothing to do after initial insertion, no side effects other than "increased menstrual flow".
I'm surprised that this guy had no choices other than paper tape and punched cards. In 1980! Around that time I saw machine rooms filled with line printers and magtape decks; sometimes there might be a card reader or paper-tape reader. But I never saw these devices outside of a machine room; they were for use by the operators.

Everone else used terminals ("glass teletypes").
That makes sense. I've not had that in at least a decade.
Seems like a good table-setting measure. Judge is saying "what you claimed isn't how it works; if you want to amend your claim to say how it actually works (and why that's infringing), you can do that now."

Judge is also letting the 'unauthorized use' charges move ahead.

To me, this feels like the right way to make sure the questions at the heart of the trial are satisfied by the results of the trial. SOP, for sure, but it definitely could have gone the other way, with the judge just throwing it out altogether, so I'm glad this is moving in this direction, instead.
Euclid's First Images
Water is ubiquitous in the Atlantic Ocean but it's salty and full of fish poop. I drink water from my kitchen faucet because it's filtered and treated freshwater that is pristine and tasty.
Until the leaks started Cruise had zero transparency.

Even when reporting was mandated, they twisted the definitions to make them meaningless.

Cruise cars spend 2-4% of the time under remote assistance, but Cruise reported one disengagement per 95,000 miles in their most recent DMV report.
Ah, the folks from the worst example of journalistic integrity in the last 10 years spinning off to do the same thing?

I think I’ll pass.
I think the rule is: don't use a channel unless at some point you need a select with 2+ branches. The context.Done is a case in point. You're not just waiting around for a context to finish. You do two things: try some network request and wait to see if the context cancels before it finishes. Because it's made to work in a select block like that, there wasn't another, better thing to use than a channel for context.Done. But for just iterating through some stream, you take a context in and return an iterator object that will do all the channel stuff internally.
For a short time, I had access to photomultiplier night vision hardware when I was in the army in ~2016. I remember spending at least a few hours just looking up at the night sky, seeing it in a way I never had before. Super cool experience, would recommend. Too bad the hardware is so expensive!
Flutter - no css needed. With flutter, everything is a hierarchy of widgets in a widget tree. Widgets can have styling properties.
So much is bad about it:

> After two weeks, I come up with some of my own tweaks that make the algorithm work a bit better. I happily add “built a state-of-the-art library for numerical integration, with novel improvements on the best techniques in the academic literature” to my resume.

Ok so he's a liar. He made something "work a bit better" and then claimed to build the whole thing. Two weeks of work. Talk about resume padding.

> After declaring, I finally get assigned an adviser who doesn’t tell me to take easier courses.

Where I went, you barely got any such advice. P R I V I L E G E.

> Math classes haven’t saved me from getting bored of college.

Links to an another article "Why I left Harvard early" oh FFS

> directly trying to improve the world, at Wave.

As opposed to those lesser folks who aren't "directly" trying to improve the world, or just not improving the world at all. Just trying to get by and live a decent life.

> For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life

Well it's better than fucking up the world at least.

> most graduates of elite schools—including me—

Yes mr elite.

> my root goal was to use my skills to get the most possible leverage on improving the world.

I'm reminded of the great "Make the World a better place" skit from Silicon Valley.

> Thanks to Eve Bigaj, Alexey Guzey, Jeff Kaufman, Dan Luu, Lincoln Quirk, and Yuri Vishnevsky for reading a draft of this post.

Someone actually didn't catch the lameness of the post.
The most worrying explanation would be that the seven kids who were diagnosed with acute lead poisoning were outliers in terms of the large amount of fruit pouches that they ate. If that was the case, how many other kids have been ingesting an amount of lead-contaminated fruit pouches too low to present acute symptoms, but high enough to cause them chronic damage by lead poisoning?
Even we who are so impressed with it and use it frequently / build on it -- we don't have a clue of the true potential.

It'll be some pimply intern somewhere that'll blow the lid off things with some ultra-clever-yet-painfully-obvious use case.
Giving them life in prison serves as a warning to others looking to cut costs. Also the ones most responsible were executed so they aren’t costing the taxpayer anything now.
Image intensifier tubes don't care what color the incoming photons carry. Anything within reasonable wavelength/voltage/frequency that can pass and focus on input side of IIT triggers secondary electron release events, a la armor piercing shell causing spalling on an armor plate. Then the released electron hits exit side charged at high voltage and excites good old green or white phosphor paint. Frequency of that release events converts to light intensity on the screen and the user observes it through eyepiece optics.

Standard photomultipliers are single pixel vacuum tube, nightvision IIT devices are hex array of pixels. They are built on microchannel plate technology; a bundle of optical fiber, twisted, impregnated in glass into a sushi roll, silced angled, etched, electroplated, stacked, to create a circular glass plate filled with couple layers of microscopic conical voids, each working to same effect as multi-stage PMTs when charged.

I suppose, in theory, all lights from long-wave IR to X-rays can be all handled by a single IIT tube, but in reality they can't, and thermal cameras that resolves heat images works in a completely different principle; instead of using vacuum tube technology that excite on incoming photons, they receive microscopic changes in temperatures caused by incoming light focused by IR-transparent lenses, projected onto an array of individual heat sensor devices(microbolometers) that are MEMS fabricated on top of typically Sony CMOS sensors.

Combining an IIT with a CMOS camera should be possible and I guess will improve contrast/minimum light level necessary, but the tube already sees near IR that it reasonably can, and also, because the light at the exit/user side of IIT is just luminescence from phosphor, adding heat-sensitive detectors there won't yield much.

IMO, if you just want to maybe buy and use an NVG, videos from (rich/financially irresponsible)gun people such as Hop(Hoplopfheil) or InRangeTV are more brief and potentially useful. Anything beyond, I found on Google(pre-covid).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHflvwNJ3cs

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3KftiMHYVU
That's a pretty low bar though, no? Everyone just updates their T&Cs and laughs their way to the bank with free training data - the real meat of the claims was what was dismissed.
As a non lawyer my understanding is that it is no longer necessary to copyright images to be protected as creator of a work, but it seems you need actually to copyright work if you want to sue.
Streaming SQL in Data Mesh by Netflix Technology Blog
Yeah; headline leaves out the pretty salient bit that the plaintiffs can amend their claims to be more accurate, which will only make the case more logistically sound. Headline makes it seem like the case is over, when it's not.
Headline is quite a bit more definitive than the actual ruling:

> The three artists — Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz — immediately ran into problems as two of them — McKernan and Ortiz — did not register their works with the U.S. Copyright Office.

Two of them got bounced, Anderson remains.

> Judge Orrick writes that it is “unclear” as to whether Stable Diffusion holds “compressed copies” of the images and points to the defense’s argument that the training dataset, which contains five billion images, can “not possibly be compressed into an active program.”

Once again, regulation that's needed is complicated by the fact that people in power do not understand how this shit works.

However:

> The judge has offered the plaintiffs an opportunity to amend and clarify their theory as to how Stable Diffusion operates its training data.

And:

> However, the judge allowed Andersen’s complaint that her 16 copyrighted works were used without her authorization to move forward.

So the case is still developing.

However, this is frustrating:

> The problem for the artists is that the training data for these programs is a black box. Outside of LAION, very little is known about what exactly went into training AI image generators but it is widely assumed that the companies did an almighty scrape of images on the internet which included taking copyrighted and copyrightable pictures.

I'm not sure if the publication stated "widely assumed" here because of legal reasons or because the author doesn't understand this either, but the entire crux of Anderson's case here is that if you include the proper prompts, you get comics out of these generators that strongly resemble hers, in both style and content, which are copywritten. That an generator can do that basically requires that a good amount, and I mean a LOT of her comics were pushed into the training data, and not only that, but were tagged explicitly as her work. Given how much of LAION is scraped from social media, this is not surprising.

In order for the generator to know what Sarah Anderson's style looks like, her comics must be in the data set. Period, paragraph.
Builder-Hex0 – bootstrap compilers without a prebuilt binary
They will be shocked when they realize reverse-racism is still racism. If they allow this, they should allow racism against everyone. (Both should be banned)
Roda, the routing tree web toolkit: A tutorial (2021)
I hadn't heart about this but, to summarize, two people received capital punishment over this, one suspended death sentence, 3 life imprisonments, 2 15 year jail terms, and 13 others with lesser jail terms.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/23/content_742298...
To those who read the head line rather than the article:

> However, the judge allowed Andersen’s complaint that her 16 copyrighted works were used without her authorization to move forward.

So there is that and Stability is already having another lawsuit with Getty with obvious watermarked images as well.
https://cwhccolorado.com/services/birth-control/iud/iud-comp...

Potential complications from use. Have heard some horror stories with regards to IUD failure (and resulting pregnancy) and uterus perforation, so it is not such a small risk as to by hypothetical.
> Isn’t this describing people having “grey market” or worse products confiscated?

No. The products in question were assembled using a combination of standard hardware components and genuine OEM parts salvaged from broken Apple devices.

Since Apple goes to great lengths to prevent third parties from accessing components used in Apple devices, salvaging OEM parts from busted machines is often the only legitimate way to produce replacement parts that are compatible with Apple products.

> If the Apple logo is on a thing then it’s a counterfeit someone is trying to pass off as real or an official part

None of the products in the examples from this article were branded with Apple logos or advertised as being genuine Apple products. Internal components (e.g. cables) within the products were found to have Apple branding because the parts were salvaged from genuine Apple devices.

The Apple brand was never used to identify anything that wasn't a genuine, OEM component - ergo not counterfeit.
You need a license for GMRS as well, but I totally agree. I've got my ham license but it's GMRS that we take on all vacations and outdoor adventures since my GMRS license covers my entire family.
I used MacNosy extensively in the Mac 68k era. Though I haven’t used Ghidra, reading about it reminded me of the fun (and frustration) I had with MacNosy.

I have no doubt Ghidra has a superior overall user interface. But, as memory serves, Nosy had many features specifically for the classic MacOS and ROM that I assume Ghidra lacks.
Really interesting talk at the top of the list, https://media.ccc.de/v/godotcon2023-57866-swift-godot-fixing...

… of all the strange places to find a good summary of nice swift features.
very cool. I tend to use slices everywhere and rarely use arrays. What am I missing out on?
For a long time at Etsy, every developer had their own remotely-running VM in the datacenter, with its own FQDN. All of the dev services and so forth ran on that. You'd either edit files in a local repo and then SCP them up, or you'd just SSH in and work in Vim or whatever in a screen session.

It was actually glorious. It was very easy for devops to roll out upgrades and fixes to the VM fleet, and anyone could SSH into your VM to help diagnose weirdness. Not to mention you could just give people a link to your VM hostname in order for them to test out your development branch in their browser.

I left some years ago, so I'm not sure if that's how it still works there.
When you say use a reference track do you mean trying to e.g. mimic some style, sound or beat?
My understanding is that a year after taking the course that they scrapped all that equipment and reallocated the 3000 sq/ft of space for something else. So I just squeezed in.
Calling this propaganda is a bit much in my opinion. Of course the military has an interest in creating a video like this but I never felt that this video was an ad.

Derek has always been very ethical about his sponsorships, never going for NordVPN or shitty mobile games but services that promote science (like Nebula or Brilliant).
due to toxoplasmosis?
I like how they are really going to hash this all out in one go.
What part of my statement made it seem like I am pro guns? Or really talking about anything related to guns.

And it's only 7 kids that they tested. Who knows how many there actually is.
If you do automate it you will develop a routine for it.

I sometimes roll calculators with a gui and useless animations for things I don't need a calculator for. If i get to use it 1 time a year later it feels much better than it sensibly should. Now that I think about it they could generate code with very little extra effort and even smaller odds to be useful. The fun is there tho.
No, I asked you for figures and you quoted irrelevant ones. My belief is based on following costs in the energy industry. I’m happy to change my beliefs, but not without good reason.
Honestly? Yes. Permissive licenses are one of several reasons that the net effect of Open Source software has been a net negative in terms of software freedom.
I do enjoy coding quite a bit as well. Where do you recommend getting started merging these two interests?
Potato... hash... I see what you did there ;-)
> The older I get, the more I blame the internet for most of our current societal ills. I am a Millennial, but a digital native no more.

Similar to the conclusion I got to in the past 5 years, I'm in my mid-30s by now and been steadily removing myself from being a "digital native" back into the real world.

It was immensely enlightening to grow up on the internet, see it appear and flourish, being taught by so many anonymous people on IRC chats, forums, blogs, etc. but now I can also see it's been transformed into something that's not helping me, it's not making me more fulfilled or happier. The information available online is still my bread and butter for learning hobbies, new skills, etc., but the "internet scene" as a whole is definitely something I've been slowly waning myself away from.

Being part of the real world, part of the life of locals around me, helping others to set up events and gatherings for real people (even when they're small for about 10-20 others) is much, much more fulfilling than being yet another voice shouting into the void of the internet.

The internet was always a bit of a cold place but there was some character, the communities' interactions were between some hundreds to thousands of people gathering at a place, nowadays most of it is an incessant feed of bullshit pushed to millions at a time, no sense of community, just bland posts and snippets that you don't care about. Curating that has become such a massive job that I stopped caring, I found the places I like and stuck to them.

Maybe I'm just getting old...
You think he would by a palette of coke and send one with the idea that its representative of the rest of the batch? ha did you ever see any anomalies in the coke tests?
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (first ed) You can and must understand computers NOW
Sony to Remove Playstation's Twitter (X) Integration on PS4, PS5
Vitess 18 GA Release
> But one did learn to review code carefully before submitting it for being run.

My first experience of coding was COBOL. I was expected to use a pencil and a coding sheet; my efforts were then reviewed by a human, before I was allowed to submit it to a compiler.
Drew used to be a hugely inspiring developer to me, but recently he's spent more time politicizing than anything else. I find it difficult to understand people who nosily theorize a lot and build little, which is what Drew has become. FOSS works well when you have a large margin to allow other ideas to fly around, even if you personally disagree with those ideas.
That was my first thought, I am sure that there were some incentives from Gawker that contributed to it but Kotaku quickly became one of the gaming sites that I strongly avoided around 2017 when it seemed like they would get a crusade against any game that had some problems and just run it into the ground. (Mass Effect Andromeda was the straw for me)
We use traditional envelope encryption on a highly normalized base. At the end, only a few sensitive columns on a few sensitive tables get encrypted.

It’s kind of like a sparse matrix of encrypted vs. plain data, and works great for our scenario.
The teams I've loved working on make the best use of what people are good at doing.

The people that need to "get together" to share untested ideas so they can make a decision, or share analysis to provide evidence of the validity of a plan will do so without the engineers that do the work. There has to be someone there that has an idea of engineering or architecture, but not the whole team.

In other words, even just a product manager and a CTO or architect can figure out what needs done while not knowing the details of how it will be done, but then they'll pass that information on to the implementation team. Individuals are paid to figure out how and to execute on that.