skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a wrong summary.

The claim is that the feds mandated a kill switch.

The law does not mandate a kill switch.

You have a several-stage process where the worst-case scenarios has to play out. 1) the technology needs to be more fully developed; 2) the policies need to be put into place (this could take years); 3) there is at least two years after #2 before it's required, and 4) the majority of Congress have to not want to change it.

The materials I linked to earlier pointed out that in the 1970s Congress mandated driver seat belt interlocks, only to repeat it when there was enough outrage. So it's not like #4 can't happen.

The government could raise taxes to 100%. That's not a worst-case event that I'm going to spend time talking about. Don't buy the fear-mongering this link is trying to sell you.

And even if I'm wrong, you have years to advocate for change once the worst-case becomes public.
Why You Should Be Able to Sell Your Kidney
Here's a better URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/business/carl-rinsch-netf...

Basically, they greenlit a $55M movie with a director who had just one movie under his belt (while the movie was bad, he had made successful short films). He became erratic (conspiracy theories, etc), and Netflix cut him short. He ultimately ended up gambling $10.5M of the final $11M with a personal brokerage account (he did end up making a ton of money, which he went on to use for personal purchases).
Thank you. Collaboration is always a hard-one which requires both UI and database sync.
not loading but might just be summarizing this NYT feature from yesterday:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/business/carl-rinsch-netf...
I think it's good to distinguish them because there are games like Genshin Impact that have literally no accessible gameplay without constantly feeding money into the machine. I am also disappointed in the fact that Valve has started bundling in loot boxes for cosmetics - but games with cosmetic only gambling actually have a gameplay loop that's accessible and equal for everyone. Games that have gatcha centric gameplay are literally just clout games where you can waste money so that everyone knows how wealthy you are.

Both are bad but one is far worse.
I've prayed on this to Tlazolteotl, eater of sins, and have decided to disregard your comment as excessively meta.
Cool service! This, though, may prove to be a weakness of your business model. Having to sign up creates friction (I won't), which may lose you potential paying customers. What else could you be doing to give people a real feel for how well this works? Maybe a gallery of prompts and the respective results?
In most industries, software analysts are a thing of the past. Scrum has largely replaced them, and project managers, with product owners - the people who have to do both of these jobs for a price of one.
Hmm, that is an unfortunate typo and I don't have access to the page any longer to fix it :(

This example is from an earlier version of the language that was experimenting with aggressive flow sensitive typing. Interestingly, I came to the conclusion that, while sometimes magically nice, it was also often confusing. So, in the version that is (slowly) getting built as the first _release_ version has a simpler and more explicit algorithm.
https://archive.ph/dMr6S
I'm sorry, you're arguing that immortality, something that would probably cause all sorts of upheavals in society, will slide through the system in the same way as a new improved way for cutting your lawn.

This of course is my reference to science fiction, people in relation to this particular subject have worries that are dystopia-fodder, which I have to admit may also be silly but will probably be closer to what will happen then betting it will work the same as the process that ended up giving everyone a personal computer.
> Windows apps from the 1990s still work, because they are distributed as binaries.

Only if you have the right libraries, and runtimes, and OS interfaces, and even if you have all that, oh no, it's a MIPS binary and you don't live in 1996!

Any proprietary API exists precisely as long as the owner says it does. Open standards don't suffer from that malady.
How do you become a "general problem solver"?

Is it sufficient to be skilled in one programming language, such as Python, and implementing a software renderer or ray tracer, your own neural network, your own HTTPS server, your own OS, your own memory allocator, your own interpreter, your own virtual machine...?

> The language, the stack, etc.. are just details. Given a problem - they can tackle it.

I agree, but are HR people agreeing on this?
Caused problems with one of the Wipeouts in 2009[1] and that was just on the loading screens.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2009-11-19-wipeout-hd-in-game-ads-r...
What the author failed to mention is that the software industry itself is also responsible for this state of affairs. I am talking about the consultants and the salesmen of enterprise software. In many cases, they convince CEOs that they simply need to sign a contract and all their problems will be solved. They don't care to explain the high rate of failure of software implementations or how much manpower is needed on an ongoing basis to maintain the shitty software.

CEOs think they are buying an appliance. e.g., I buy a coffee maker, I pour water into it, I put in the coffee pod, I press the button, and coffee comes out. In the best scenario (from a CEO perspective), they are getting an assembly line someone else put together for them. e.g., the CEO hires a general contractor who lines up all the subcontractors, installs the different pieces of equipment including the "glue" that connects them, and will maintain equipment going forward. The CEO simply needs to pay for the capital expense and provide the operators for the assembly line. In the typical scenario (bad from a CEO perspective and bad for the software industry), what the CEO gets is a stack of re-purposed software modules that have been pressed together in a slip-shod fashion that works when it wants to and fails without a trace as no logging exists. The CEO has to hire IT developers just to get the thing to run. And he will now look for his next job because the board of directors told him, you failed.
Could you share which phone you were using? We use virtual rendering at both row and column level.
It was flat out impossible for me to get Outlook to accept my mail server. They'd only give me some vague response with no actionable steps to resolve it. I gave up and used a gmail account to route everything outgoing. That way mail still shows up as from:jimm@jimm.horse but rides on Google's reputation. Defeats the purpose a little but there's nothing more I can do (apparently unless I buy my own non residential ISP line, host the server in my house, and build reputatiom forever, but that's an absurd length to have to go through. ideally we'd have antitrust legislation forcing MS et al to be fair towards smaller email and save the open internet overall, but I'm not holding my breath.).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35691618
OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln
Yeah this code definitely wasn't designed to win any performance contests. I was mostly optimizing for readability. The easier it is to understand code, the easier it is to audit it from a security perspective.

The author of that blog post admits he doesn't fully understand Lemire's algorithm despite attempting a Rust port of it, and his functions only support a max range of 256 numbers (8 bits), whereas Lemire's version topped out at 64 bits, and the simplistic version I've outlined in this post supports 32 bits.

This isn't a criticism of the post's author of course, because Lemire's algorithm is inherently complex.
Totally agree, when is everything is functions and data, it makes life a lot easier. I especially find it useful when refactoring code while trying to keep an existing function signature.
Obsidian with plugins!!!!

You can create some very powerful workflows with dataviewer, properties and templates.

Whatever note taking style you want really, automatically moving them to folders, etc.

I highly recommend using unique notes with tags to start with, you can reorganize it as you need.

I have #snippets for code snippets, #walkthrough, #todo. Theres plugins to automatically move these to folders if you want.

Notes can easily link or embed each other too, so going from bug -> bug -> project isn't an issue. And creating glossaries is super easy with dataviewer.

Bookmarks for glossary's and searching with tags a keywords makes it easy to find what you're looking for even if its in a pile. And properties let you mark things like "completed: false" for todo items.

The best part: All of your notes are markdown, so you can easily move them elsewhere if needed.
Oops. Fixed, thats the handle i wanted, but it was taken :)
Cards Against Humanity launches a social network
Note: if you sign up with my code (CLEAN-MACHO-AROMA) and this blows up, I may get $69420 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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My two cents: learn VoiceOver for iPhone yourself, turn on screen curtain for further realism, and spend tons of time with your relative practicing simple things. I am blind and a couple of years ago I was trying to help a friend to learn VoiceOver - the friend wasn't that tech savvy, and it turns out that even simple concepts like swipe left or two fingers double tap present some difficulty to them. So have a lot of patience, but in the end if they can learn to use apps like Mail or Audible independently - that would be a very rewarding experience.
Wouldn't the data interface still be a stream of bytes?
For the first question, kind of. In theory yes, in practice people like to move so it depends on how accurate it needs to be.

It's easier to do with white noise than a sample. But ideally you would use an "impulse" (an extremely short pulse of sound) in a dead-silent room. You play the impulse and record that along with any tailing reverberation/resonance. This it typically used to "capture" the audio response of something like a room or speaker cabinet. (You can purchase Impulse Responses of Abbey Road Studios, or famous cathedrals. It can even capture a speaker response and is often used by guitarists with digital setups). But you could invert it to remove resonance.

Keep in mind, even moving a millimeter will slightly change the phase of the resonances and thus the resulting response. So this would only work perfectly to remove a room response from a fixed speaker and a fixed microphone. But some mixing boards for live shows have an "anti feedback" system that works off this principle. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to prevent a microphone screech.

For 2, That's an interesting thought. My guess is that it would take longer to become inaudible, and be much more "diffuse". Like being recorded in a cave or room with very complicated geometry. It's almost like how most digital reverb effects work. They tend to pass sound through multiple layers of delay (aka echo) while applying phase shifting. Sometimes they are designed to resonate, but usually they are designed so all the delay layers conflict and don't resonate too strongly in any given frequency. Part of why it resonates in such a pronounced way is the fact that it's a fixed room and almost certainly rectangular (Which you may notice many recording or mixing studios tend to avoid being a "box").
I have a lot of sympathy but the case is not helped by oversimplifying in the opposite direction.

I loosely agree, in the sense that the current common view is too focused on making the individual bear their own cross. But in a literal sense you are wrong, in that there are many who are helped by pills.
Losing the money to a crazy director who gambled it away is at least better than actually finishing the series but never releasing it to get tax write-offs (looking at you Max).
What kind of useful information could someone derive from the delta?
So we're pretending smoking and vaping weed doesn't cause lung cancer? Still?
I've never before heard anyone ever suggest that we're "supposed to" be sorting and washing our trash at home. What an unbelievably wasteful and pointless notion.
We disagree on that, I think the focus on developmental is on the assumption that it's easier to do something about the environment than to reliably treat medically, this is only true because doctors etc. know so little about how to treat it medically. Which in my view is not a good enough reason. I hold the opinion that there are effective ways to treat anxiety medically (Low Dose Naltrexone as an example that works for some) and if those were better known then medical interventions would be more effective.
Just opportunity cost? [1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/opportunitycost.asp
That is almost the exact argument from the toxic Graphene community GP complained about.
Only the anti-user part of the security model is really destroyed, and rightly so. The part that considers the user to be the attacker and wants to protect the app and their developer's evil intentions from the user.

An RCE that only affects a non-root component or a component that ran with system privileges anyway will not be enabled or facilitated by this.

Of course current root implementation may be not be as secure or convenient as they could be. For example after each update they must be re-applied, from a downloaded app, leading to people updating later and opening another problematic supply chain. But that could be remedied if they were better integrated into ROMs.
What makes you think AIs will have interests that align with each other more closely than they align with humans?
It definitely has a unique history, but Michiganders are proud to have it as a part of their state and love to visit for the food and culture! It’s mostly the west side of the state that has issues with bigotry (which unsurprisingly was settled by Dutch religious fanatics).
Ah. Could you share more on how you got this error, Maybe i should setup sentry.io for the demo.
>3- Over-the-Air Firmware Updates...

Mate I feel like you're getting your security know-how from watching Mission Impossible.

"Over-the-Air" doesn't actually mean you can magically beam SW updates wirelessly through the air to the Intel chip like in the hacker/spy movies, as airgapped networks, as per name, don't have wireless cards.

Intel ME still requires a network connection to the internet/network from which you want to apply the update. If you're on an airgapped network this becomes impossible to do without first breaching the airgapped network physicality, but this is not what happened according to the article, they just compromised some employee Microsoft/O365 account which is on the less secure network anyway and probably stole whatever IP they could find shared through the e-mail accounts and on Sharepoint.
Both of you can be correct: while some people, such as yourself, can see benefits, there can still be no research showing generalized positive effects, and some research showing generalized negative effects.

(Not saying GP is correct, as I'm not interested enough in the topic to know if their take on the research status is accurate. But your anecdote -- while great for you -- is not a basis for making generalizations.)
Performance for something like this is critical. How do you test or plan on testing performance to prevent regressions? I’ve yet to crack this nut in a way that makes me happy.
>In the scenario you describe what's stopping one of the plebes from killing Zuckerberg?

Lots of people want to kill lots of different Billionaires, but billionaires ain't dropping like flies.

>very one with 6 months to live on a totally curable terminal brain cancer diagnosis is going to want to hit.

unless getting a terminal brain cancer makes people John Wick in the universe this movie is taking place in, I don't think that's how the plot will play out.
What Is OpenAI, Really?
Yowza – The new social network by Cards Against Humanity
Look at that! This might be the missing piece.

https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/
I have pretty mixed/negative feelings about this, but it seemed like a relevant, new tech event worth sharing here.

They're trying to start a viral signup campaign by paying lots of money for signups. They want to create a place that is free from hate, crypto scams, etc. It's a noble idea, but bribing people for traction seems antithetical to their core value proposition.

The virality seems to be working. Their servers are clearly on fire. My phone has yet to receive a sign-up code after 5m+ waiting.

Thoughts?
Then why is medical marijuana a thing?
Sam Altman and the OpenAI power struggle [video]
Important to note though, that even if they say it has 200k context, there's a good chance it won't be able to use all of it.

For example, here is an experiment on long context recall for Claude and GPT4:

https://twitter.com/GregKamradt/status/1727018183608193393

https://twitter.com/GregKamradt/status/1722386725635580292

Even though claude claims 200k tokens context, perfect memory stops at about 19k tokens.

I'd personally expect the Yi-34b models to perform even worse at the task, though I have not tested it.
> I’m surprised there isn’t a price cut Apple TV “stick”. (a $99 price point) would juuuuust crossover into the “good enough” zone for me,

Is that $30 really make-or-break for you?

Apple TV's entry model is already only $129.00 USD, and the hardware is really really nice. Easily the fastest and most fluid interface of any "TV Stick" I've used (nicer than any Chromecast / Roku / Fire TV stick, nicer than any built-in smart stuff from LG/Samsung/Vizio), while also having the least amount of advertisements of anything you can buy.

I don't love Apple's high premium pricing on a lot of their products. But the Apple TV doesn't really have that, it's competitively priced with alternatives (a base Apple TV is only like $30 more than the equivalent Fire TV Cube, and only $5 more than the nVidia Shield TV)
There are other options! Here's a few:

ollama run yi:34b-chat-q2_K # 2-bit
ollama run yi:34b-chat-q4_0 # 4-bit
ollama run yi:34b-chat-q8_0 # 8-bit
Exactly. Ignore the language. Get offended by intention, don't get offended by language.

My problem is other people having arbitrary problems with language.
Yes. We are working on adding support for aggregation and pivoting using https://github.com/finos/perspective
I would recommend them to ditch video ads and maybe people won't use ad blockers anymore. But I'm afraid that this ship has sailed.
The intuition here is that the rules that block when CVC/ZIP doesn’t match necessarily happen after the bank already decided the transaction was okay, because that’s when Stripe learns whether CVC/ZIP match what the bank had on file.

So if you block on a mismatch, you’re throwing away an approved charge every single time since the bank already decided that other signals say the transaction is okay. The bank can block it themselves if they think it’s suspicious (which from my understanding wouldn’t increment this metric).
If everyone you know has consumed cannabis for only "health" and not health reasons you must be blessed to not have much cancer or other serious ongoing debilitating illnesses among your family and friends. Count yourself lucky.

For folks in those situations it can be a true blessing.

Its the exact same thing with morphine, opiates. On one hand they're the scourge of society and abuse of them is a real problem, but for a soldier dying on the battlefield from horrible injuries, or someone dying of the unbelievable pain of sickel cell, in those situations we call it one of the best inventions ever, so much so it'd inventor/discoverer was given a Nobel prize.

Long story short, I've known some. But they all died of cancer. Thanks for putting them down.
If pricing is the only decisive factor then Walmart Onn streaming box for $20 is better than fire stick. I have fire tv 4K stick, Walmart Onn, Nvidia shield pro. I rarely use fire stick now.

I would have gone for Apple TV instead of Nvidia shield pro if Apple TV had Stremio app support.
Welp, my browser ate my longer response. But in short, when I was at WhatsApp, dist worked fine over WANs, I think the WA contributed pg addresses the issues we saw with pg2. It was obviously not ideal, or normal, but sometimes our WAN connections would get bandwidth limited due to congestion or other issues, and things would generally keep going without unexpected problems: replication got behind when the change stream was more than available bandwidth and there's no separation of dist traffic, so if replication has minutes or hours of delay, so does any other traffic in that direction, so interactive traffic will timeout, net_adm ping will take minutes or hours, etc. I guess technically the connection ticks must not quite suffer the same queuing, because the connections would not be severed by tick timeouts.

The other issue related to WAN that we'd see is when you start a mnesia node, it loads all of the tables from peers if peers have copies of the tables, but out of the box it doesn't have a concept of LAN vs WAN peers, so it may load your half a terrabyte or whatever worth of data from WAN instead of LAN. Loading all that data from LAN might be undesirable too, but that's another story; you could probably maybe come up with a way to store and later replicate changelogs for offline mnesia peers, but that doesn't come out of the box, and WA didn't build it either.

The community at large often reported maximum dist cluster sizes that were way less than what we ran in production, and comments about WAN distribution that didn't match our experience either. shrug It does help to have a very solid private network between nodes though. Dist in general, but mnesia specifically, don't like for nodes to disappear. pg2 has some quirks too, but pg resolves them, afaik, as I mentioned earlier. Some of pg2's issues were rooted in global locks, you've got to be careful about those if node lists are rapidly changing and there's contention on the locks.
Don't expect the same raise you got last year
My local government is using GlobalSign and the Tax Agency (and probably all of the central government) uses Entrust.
According to this site[0], their revenue for 2022 was $31.6B, so $55M would be approximately 0.17%. Stated otherwise, on average, they make $55M every 15 hours or so. So yeah, it kind of seems like a rounding error.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272545/annual-revenue-of...
So many stories like this recently. Coyote vs Acme drama is so interesting as well. I bet the movie industry will become as crazy as the world of casinos
There's a saying I heard, which goes a little something like:

"You can't use a coping mechanism to heal from an issue/ wound/ trauma. It's basically just replacing one addiction for another."

I'm paraphrasing. But I agree with that statement (which isn't to say that healing is an easy or simple process).