skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it didn’t happen that way.

There are emails where the guy’s mom appears to be instigating brazen violations of various laws, among other things.

There doesn’t really appear to be much question they were active participants in a massive criminal fraud conspiracy.

That’s what the article is about. The only vagueness is if the DOJ feels like it makes sense to prosecute it.
37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
The trouble is that power outlets are mostly installed indoors. Many parking lots aren't wired at all, even for lighting.
These patterns are everywhere. I play COD mobile - in order to get the legendary skins for weapons you use a roulette wheel type interface.

The cost of the rolls is decoupled from the actual cost through using coins, and the chances of getting the legendary skin vs other less valuable things is weighted so that you effectively always need the full 10 spins. The spin cost increases each time.

The end result is that the skin you want costs upwards of £100.
Evolution of the Microchip
David Fegan, MRIA, takes us through the history of the microchip.
There is a valid philosophy behind this, but the arguments are a bit flawed. For ezample CSS is not only styling (as in theming) it is important for GPU animations and is hard to sync with app state ans JS without some tooling.
Usefully, one identity system is as legitimate as the next, so if anyone wanted to start one with an actual constitution, the hubris of the EU has created the opportunity.
All of my non English speaking grandparents and great grandparents who are not familiar with computers were able to use FaceTime to video call with all the kids.

And we tried with Nexus devices and non Apple solutions first, but the iPad mini and iPad Air is what worked to give them troubleshoot free, consistent ability to video call people.
You seriously overestimate "optimization" part. There's no secret knowledge to manipulate someone. All tricks are simple, the root of the trouble is that some people are more prone to this particular type of addiction.

And you propose to make gov't to get an interest in exploting addicts. Which is questionable
Lol!

You dont have to give up your spanish identity to be able to log into govt services in other countries.

I would take eID any day to buy internet over the asinine NIE process as a foreigner in Spain.
I don't believe so? Your link doesn't say that those nuclear aircraft actually flew. (?)

I understand that the (claimed, alleged) 2023 nuclear cruise missile test [0] was the first, and only, nuclear-powered aircraft that has flown. All of the Cold War stuff was static-fire tested, at most.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/what-is-burevestnik-missile-th... ("What is the Burevestnik missile that Putin says Russia has tested?")
Are you an EU citizen? Because anyone who is who likes to do things online would find this very convenient.

Identity is very important when dealing with things like taxes, legal cases and various other rights and responsibilities. Instead of jerry rigged systems like SSN in the US, having something secure and reliable is gold.
> There's no phased array antennas anywhere near even today.

Wait what? Where's your source for that? Because phased array antennas were used on lots of 4G networks and are one of the cornerstones of 5G.

There where some PAA in deployment when I was in college almost two decades ago.
The problem with that logic is that when someone bottoms out on their addiction they become a burden society has to pay for.
> Causation is more or less unestablishable for your or my argument. No point in bringing it up.

I would argue that it's pretty clearly uncorrelated because countries all over the world have varying degrees of draconian drug laws and have achieved nothing. You have an outlier, that's all.

Of course you're trying to establish causation because you're arguing this is the basis for similar laws elsewhere.

> To even the modern day citizen it's not so clear cut which is better. Western values or Singapore?

It's hard to say. One is better in some ways, the other in other ways.

Thanks for sharing your perspective! I think we can agree to disagree but this was an interesting conversation.
> Uh huh. And if I log what addresses reach out to me to check for the presence of a particular certificate in the logs?

Again, misunderstanding of how it works.

Logs are checked using the SCT in the certificate. It's a signed "promise" from the CT that the pre-certificate will eventually be appended to the logs in a few hours since submission.

The various root programs monitor to ensure that the promise does in fact happen.

Your browser process does *not* reach out to the CT log on its own.
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> Most plastic national IDs obviously don’t work for EU-wide online uses because not all EU identity cards have a corresponding smartcard chip

This is a good thing. It should be inconvenient to authenticate real identities over the internet because otherwise it will be used for tracking. Meanwhile there is no real problem with doing a one-time account creation with your bank or social security administration in person for the few things that actually need it.
The TUI IDE is kinda interesting, looks a lot like QuickBasic, Turbo C and other old-style DOS apps. But otherwise, it would be a lot more sensible these days to just code an Oberon-specific language server, that you could use with any IDE.
They have anti-counterfeit teams, brand protection programs, etc. They say their brand protection is about 99% effective at blocking counterfeits. But, they have something like 350+ million listings, so there's still tons of stuff that makes it through the cracks.

Fraudulent listings aren't specifically an Amazon problem, there's junk like the above example on basically every marketplace site. Search "2tb flash drive" on any of them. It's a fundamental problem with non-curated marketplaces.
Textbook ad-hominem mixed with a side order of appeal to authority.
Like yo-yo, but slower due to the extra W.
Maybe I’ve been lucky but I haven’t noticed a deterioration of software quality in MacOS. Things have been stable, perhaps even improved overall. Also the UI overall is extremely snappy, but likely that’s because of the M-series architectures.

I recall 10 years ago (circa 2012) I’d purchase a brand new MacBook Pro and things would have a small but frequent lag in many UI across the OS. And no, not only during initial sync. It would be a normal part of the “experience”.

Haven’t noticed any such thing especially with M-series in recent years.
Regarding text and other kinds of sensory data, human senses are of unknown provenance as well. Hallucinations happen, and can be complete fiction. Does that means that humans have no basis whatsoever for fact-checking? Other senses would correspond to other pieces of text, so I answer this as "no". If this was true, humans would have been detached from realty.

The other problem with discounting LLMs based on the form of sensory input that's available to them is that there is no qualitative comparison of validity of different senses. Sure, getting more visual input counts as more evidence about the world (bar hallucinations). But can part of it be substituted with text without losing the quantitative benefit? Can all of it be substituted with text? You seem to answer "no", but I think it's an oversimplification. Not that I have a definite answer.

The one thing that LLMs cannot currently do is design and perform experiments - or if they can, then they can't integrate the results. I'd look for ways LLMs cannot reach some level of justification for beliefs there. But I would not presume that this level is automatically lower than what humans can reach. I have not compared the size of a human training set to that of an LLM.
Huh. Interesting. I thought it was one of those things like how we ended up with base 10 numbers because we have 5x2 fingers and that kinda stuff, but interesting to know I was off.
The particular issue here is where many people have the same complaint about Cloudflare. You're concentrating that single party to a single provider for a massive number of people. Hence now governments have a one stop shop for all the information they need.
The fact that LCM loras turn regular SD models into psudo-LCM models is insane.

Most people in the AI world don't understand that ML is like actual alchemy. You can merge models like they are chemicals. A friend of mine called it "a new chemistry of ideas" upon seeing many features in Automatic1111 (including model and token merges) used simultaneously to generate unique images.

Also, loras exist on a spectrum based on their dimensionality. Tiny loras should only be capable of relatively tiny changes. My guess is that this is a big lora, nearly the same size as the base checkpoint.
The funny thing is since these have been getting news even months ago, there was almost immediate fire sales on all the main deal sites to sell them off. Everyone that bought them now have a waiting time bomb of a disk to use. Thanks Western Digital for your contribution to society.
> considering life insurance ... single, no dependents

If you're dead, who needs money for what and for how long?

That's the consideration.

So get what you need for that, if you need it. And if you need it, in general more doesn't cost much more, up to a limit the insurance provider puts on you (often trying to limit you to on the order of 5x or 10x annual).
Hmm, that is a good point. Since it is a dream-computer anyway, maybe we can do 2.5d packaging; put the ddr memory right on top so the P cores can reach it quickly, then surround the whole thing with GDDR.
Ask HN: How are you using LLMs or ML to improve your SWE?
The other day I needed to write a polyfill for a browser API. I used ChatGPT (in browser) to do it and it got me mostly there pretty quickly.

But I don't yet use any other LLM tooling like Copilot, WizardCoder etc. and I wonder what I'm missing out on.
> Did you reach a different conclusion from the big table in the wikipeda page where it requires "1 SCT from a google log" ?

I've worked at both Let's Encrypt and Google Trust Services. CT is something I'm intimately familiar with.

> it has to check the cert log.

No, it does not.

> Yes but how does your browser trust it?

Your browser ships with a log list: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...

The public key of the log is included there. It's checked to see if the SCT is signed with the correct public key.
Active curation IS an excellent way to maintain information. Drive failure rates are the kind of thing that archivists can easily measure (and appropriate amounts of redundant storage can nearly eliminate data loss).
Good old times, I used to have a file watcher that would refresh the page on change using a browser extension, not anywhere near the convenience of HMR though haha.

I do agree with you, it's why I'm skeptical about the results of following this advice. I vividly remember how much things sucked, and obv the web has come a long way, but the tools have gotten even further. If I see how much mileage I get out of the tools I use on the daily, I would not be nearly as productive without them, and produce a lot more buggy, inaccessible, and shitty apps.
To be charitable, he could be talking about the implementation of SCT auditing in Chrome, but it has never uploaded all the sites you visit.

There are three possible states:

No Safe Browsing protections -> no SCT auditing
Default Safe Browsing protections -> SCT auditing logic selects a small proportion of TLS connections and performs a k-anonymous lookup on an SCT. If that privacy-preserving SCT lookup reveals that the SCT is not known to Google but should be, the client uploads the certificate, SCTs, and hostname to Google (but no other information).
Enhanced Safe Browsing protections -> SCT auditing logic selects a small proportion of TLS connections and uploads the certificate, SCTs, and hostname to Google (but no other information).

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy/c/Fddjj...
Similar thoughts on hinting - it's "good enough" for me on full HD w/just the antialiasing. With respect to automatic hinting, as I understand it Freetype has autohinting based on heuristics as hints in the fonts are often poor, but I haven't looked at how complex the auto hinter is.

Thanks for the nile and gezira link - it'd be fun to handle the emoji fonts too, at least as an addon...

Hammer looks interesting. I'm right in the middle of yet another parser combinator library in Ruby, but focused on text (it annoyed me that the Ruby Toml parser pulled in a 1500 line dependency for several hundreds of lines of excessively verbose parser definition for a grammar that can be defined in ca 50 lines) and frankly more an excuse to toy with refinements to see if I can get closer to BNF for specifying it.

I might have a look at hammer for inspiration for ways to shrink the ttf parser later.
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So he's saying that having got to where they are without all these apparently sensible yet strangely vapid things, he decides now's the time to go for them? Doesn't that kinda collapse the whole argument into a bunch of PR fluff if they were never in the house in the first place?

Weird.
True but All the terms to describe the phenomenon are meaningless. It’s like we have been robbed of words to even describe the problems and they have all been replaced with buzzwords
The CO2 in plants is 100% from the air, and then goes back into the air when burned
This doesn't actually fix it.

Suppose there is a some age-gated content you want to access. It's age-gated because it's controversial and politically sensitive. You now have to give your identity to a third party each time you access it, which they can use to correlate what you read with who you are if they collude with the service provider or either of them is compromised and the intruders record the data and either publish it or are themselves a government intelligence service that directly uses it for oppression.

It also does nothing about the concern with turnkey authoritarianism. Once the infrastructure is in place, shouldn't we have a way to unmask these people? What if they're child abusers? Or the profane religious minority? The minor advantage of building something like this is vastly outweighed by its potential for use by governments in order to do things that Must Never Happen Again.
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> It should be inconvenient to authenticate real identities over the internet because otherwise it will be used for tracking.

Depends on how it is implemented.
> doing a one-time account creation with your bank or social security administration in person

You think people like going to a government office and standing in a queue forever? The whole purpose of this stuff is to reduce hassles that people commonly complain about. Especially when dealing with tax and social security, it is a point in many countries’ favor for entrepreneurs that, thanks to eID through the bank, you can run your whole business without having to visit the office in person. As far as tracking concerns, those were already dealt with during the long period that this legislation was being drafted.
Many of these adapters have their own quality problems which vary with the version of the controller. That version number is rarely available prior to purchase.
The problem is you can’t ban things because a minority of people don’t have self-control. If that were the case, we would ban beer, since it has destroyed far more lives than gambling.

But then, say you do that, the slippery slope gets more and more extreme. Like you have all these middle-eastern countries that ban alcohol, premarital sex, gambling- everything you can think of is illegal but people still need their vices. And then they lash out in dangerous and disturbing ways.

IMO the only free society is one in which people have the ability to act out vices in a controlled fashion. It’s an uncomfortable fact but real life is uncomfortable.
These are some of the best Shopify apps that incorporate AI tech
There are libraries that help with more tricky stuff on-device like cub or cuFFTDx.
Quite a letdown that the solution for a web-based spreadsheet is for users to install a local backend. Might be a case for edge computing even.

> WebAssembly has a single contiguous, linear memory space shared by all dynamic memory allocations. This means that WASM cannot make use of several memory management features that operating systems provide, such as Virtual Memory, Swapping, etc. Additionally, it cannot make use of the CPU’s MMU optimisations such as prefetching and caching.

WebAssembly has memory issues, but those are not them. Virtual memory and swapping are OS features that work at the page level. CPU prefetching and caching are CPU features that work at the cacheline/address level. [1] covers the major design limitations with WebAssembly memory.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1397
I don't use the "copilot" style stuff either; I am basically in constant communication with GPT-4 via the normal interface, copying and pasting stuff in/out of there and asking questions.

For a software engineer not to use LLMs now strikes me as basically "malpractice"
You're ignoring the amount of their products used by professionals. Apple is the dominant brand in media production and IT alone, and its role in powering these fields is unquantifiable.

I don't use Apple products, and the fact corporations abuse legal loop holes to evade taxes sickens me, but it's a huge leap to claim a company like Apple hasn't made substantial contributions to society.
Yes, it's handy when you write the rulebook.
Lots of things are “proven” false by groups that don’t do things at global scale.

Maybe it’s possible to do cleanly, that isn’t the reality.
I just can't fathom someone paying a premium for a particular VIN number. Is it just me?

Even with FU money, I mean, what are you going to do, carry your registration around so you can show people your VIN number?

Or maybe invite them outside and ask them to stick their face down where your feet usually go into the car so they can get a real-life glimpse of that amazing VIN number that you have?
For BMW and Audi drivers the law does not apply. /s
Nice summary.

Add to this the need for greater security for some elements of the application, which often necessitate server-side activity, and you have a recipe for the current web app SotA.
Do we know who's the supplier of the OLED panel? Samnang? LG? BOE?
Maybe the author swapped the encouraged and discouraged.
Another way to think about it is that "social" media may call itself social, but it's actually more like broadcast media in most ways.
> Ireland is no longer reliant on them, in that the country does not fund current expenditure from the CT take

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2023/09/05/corpo...
I think the answer is in the question. They're not playing to win money. They're playing because whatever rewards that have been engineered into the game suck them in. Social aspects, FOMO, "winning" at a game, etc.

Different people crave different rewards. Some people may care more about the financial reward, but they're out playing some other gambling game that caters to them.
If they are constantly wrong they are a good source.
Just take the opposite
I had the same problem, so I ended up classifying all HN posts because I believe HN is my most relevant and trustworthy source for tech news. Example: https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack/6194542d-2157-4e3c-8321-a437...

This was more of an experiment for a personalizable HN feed, but I'll fully productize it if there is enough interest.
I’ve been intrigued by Fedora Silverblue but never got round to trying it out, though I’m tired of potentially fighting with NVIDIA drivers whenever I update my kernel (linus_torvalds.mp4)

Have you looked into it all? I think it uses flatpak and containerizaton to separate the base OS from everything else.

Not sure if it would help with my driver issues though.
The problem I see is with having the government be the one that issues your digital id. It gives them more power to fuck with politically undesirable people. Currently I can get one of several companies to issue me with a digital certificate that I am person A, at least one of which could operate in defiance of corrupt orders.

As an example, our banks will refuse to do business with you if you use your account to trade cryptocurrency. That is, if a bank catches you transferring money for the purpose of buying or selling cryptocurrency, you get blacklisted from doing any business with them at all forever. Your accounts get closed, you get your money back and are told to fuck off and never return. But you can still do it by using some other banking service. In contrast, if my government was the only bank I could use, they could debank me entirely and totally fuck me.
The US is the deepest investment market. That's the bigger power.
Got it. Just for reference for others, SCT Auditing is different from SCT validation.

I was talking about the validation side. SCT Auditing basically helps ensure that the logs are keeping their promise by letting the root program (Chrome, and Apple) see what certificates are flowing on the internet and if the merkle tree structure is valid.
> Just use a single CSS file with sensibly named classes

IMO you no longer need an intelligent naming philosophy for CSS classes due to how far CSS has come.
After looking up the specific definition of eugenics I don’t really agree with the concept of perfecting the human race through sterilization.

I think that’s an entirely separate issue from sterilizing people who society can seem to not be fit to be parents. Most places still have the death penalty. Sort of crazy to me you can be put to death but we draw the line as snipping some meth addicts tubes so they don’t keep making meth addicted babies.

Source: I live in an area where there are lots of meth addicted babies being born multiple times to the same mother
2023 AR Prototypes: Reflections, Mirrors, Gaussian Splats
OK, so you've reproduced copy/paste from stackoverflow, but by using the electrical consumption and CO2 production of a small country. Congratulations.
They don't get recognized and replaced with a cartoon image.
This was one of the coolest space projects NASA ever cancelled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter ("Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter")

(for background context on "what's nuclear-electric propulsion for?)
GPT doesn't read text. It tries to predict it. Gradient descent prediction is just a dumb optimizer like evolution. Generalization from it, like evolution is broad and sweeping rather than exact and pinpoint.

Understanding is a spectrum. Yes if it is making moves above random chance, it has a little level of understanding.
> What's wrong with plastic national identity documents exactly, are they too heavy, too large

Yes, in fact they are. I can store my credit cards on my phone, but I still have to carry around my id cards and it's annoying. I have to take my phone and I'd rather not take anything else.

Having only one thing to lose (actually two including my car key) means that I might actually be able to keep track and hold onto it. It's a real problem for the absent minded.

Inconveniencing yourself due to some vague paranoia about government is for the tin foil hat crowd. Here in the real, rational world you need to carry your driver's licence and your id card to get things done.