skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would love concept of "adult computing", where I can mark a checkbox "I herby guarantee that I'm not going to blame $company for me being a moron and installing malware/destabilizing device due to changing random options". Then device starts behaving like piece of hardware I own, shows error messages that actually tell something and in general doesn't assume if I drop dead if presented with more than two buttons on single screen
I’m not commenting so much on the specific reasoning, as I think it’s a complex topic and I haven’t thought/read enough about it.

I’m more just pointing out that key figures seem to downplay their own agency and responsibility for their actions, offloading them to “it would have happened anyway.” Maybe, but that’s a counterfactual and I think it’s pretty easy to see how a few decisions and lack of funding in certain areas would have changed the historical trajectory quite a bit.
Partial counterpoint: if you were to mutate characters (by changing less distinctive components to other vaguely similar-looking ones) or to reorder the order of characters in hanzi/kanji compounds, I would imagine that a native speaker would still be able to read them with some difficulty.

I can attempt to produce a Japanese example by going to town on an example from Jreibun, but note that I am far from native:

後食に罠くなるのは生里像現なので壁けることはできないが、午後の事士の校率が干がるので木っている。

As far as I'm concerned, swapping out the radicals doesn't hurt that much (this is usually a negative, since it leads you to confuse character pairs like 候 and 侯, especially if you don't practice writing) and swapping the order of characters is a bit more annoying.

That said, a Mandarin one would be more convincing, since reordering the various markers that serve the roles of Japanese verb conjugations would be less disruptive than turning できなかった into っぎかてなた, which I did not do for that reason.

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(The original sentence was 食後に眠くなるのは生理現象なので避けることはできないが、午後の仕事の効率が下がるので困っている。)
Indeed. From his LinkedIn profile we can see he has 43 years experience in finance.

He is a old man as well and sat as the chairman of the National Coal Council.

I imagine he knows a little something about exploiting a mine.

Honestly it's weird that the title was written as if he's an amateur and not the CEO of a billion dollar company that specializes in mining.
In sweden being an Union member is not free, dues are about ~220kr per month(20 euros) depending on your salary(this is what it used to be for unionen not sure about other ones, but probably similar).
It's fairly common to be a member of a union since it also has some nice advantages and swedes like unions.
You can imagine the strike-warchest get nicely filled this way :) .
Where's the power user setting to turn off all the enshittification?
> Kiss could have a concert in three cities in the same night across three different continents. That’s what you could do with this.

in case anyone made the mistake of thinking this was strictly about physicality.
Problem is, this isn’t sustainable. Protocols need to evolve to continue being relevant, and vendors use that for their user-hostile needs. See how WWW evolved from hyperlinked documents into a Rube Goldberg remote application protocol.

Besides, those two - protocols and teaching users not to depend on any single platform - aren’t mutually exclusive.
Only on some routers. It is not supported on USG3 or USG4-PRO, for example.
> But either way, if you believe this is going to be something
powerful, then you would want to be able to possess it, control it
and learn all about it.

This reveals interesting assumptions.

There are some powerful things where you simply want to put as much
distance between you and it as possible. We have forgotten that, in
our hubris.

There are many nasty, predatory things in nature that work by enticing
its victim into wanting to possess and control it. That is the essence
of the con (confidence trick) that underlies a big portion of social
engineering.

When "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" it's compulsion, not
reason. "Technological determinism" is a failure of will, common I
think, amongst those who actually lack vision and need a "Utopian
narrative" to fill in the emptiness.

It's not that "the will" is wrong, it's just missing. We are doing
21st century science bit still with an 18th century science and
technology attitude, stumbling along from one surprise to the next,
mouths agog in technical awe and giddy excitement.

As a kid in the 20th century I'd always imagined that 21st century
science would be purposeful, and rooted in some coherent social telos.
After all, the problems of the world are quite evident.

To "posses and control" one has to see the thing as a weapon, and
that is the unsaid thing in all these discussions.

The "AI debate" is all about blind hope. Hope that a largely
incomprehensible technology will serve my interests better than
yours - and that I can weaponise them before others do, and that I'm
prepared to risk everybody's welfare to take a shot at it.
A reason why VLANing is important.
Oups, i'm afraid you are describing 1999 :/
The US military budget is 12% of the total.

> I want affordable housing. Affordable healthcare. High speed rail. Better zoning laws. New subway lines.

Are you saying we only need 12% of the budget to fix these things? Note that coincidentally medicare is already accounting for ~12% of the total.

Say the military budget goes to zero (which it can't), and we spend half of that on medicare (it would be 18%). Will it fix the problem?

I think the problem is much deeper than wasting this 12%.
This argument would conclusively disprove exoplanets as recently as the early 1990s.
The example of the Before and After of the glacier, with 20 years time diffenrence is very unimpressive. Do I miss something? I would have thought that the reduction of the glacier over two decades would be much more visible.

Apart from that: I really like the UX of the page. Especially the option to choose between the 3 comparison techniques:

- Side by side

- Curtain

- Toggle
> Serious question: why is NATO even needed? Shouldn't it have been dissolved after the collapse of USSR?

Look at the list of wars involving Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia

Russia has been constantly at war and it was only a matter of time before they turned their sights on Europe. NATO wasn't "expanded", it was Eastern Europe that decided to do everything they could to join NATO for mutual cooperation against Russian wars. These fears were ridiculed for a long time, but the war in Ukraine has proved them right.

NATO is a threat to Russia insofar as it makes wars costlier, and if we're lucky, untenable.
Yes it is.

If you want to deploy a typical small office traditionally you’d have wifi, switching, routing, firewall, vpn. Typically some of this would be integrated into a single box (routing and firewall for example), but you have a bunch of different specialist bits of equipment to manage and interoperate.

This is unifi’s version of “we provide a one stop shop”, with your entire network managed through a single and of glass

It’s nothing unique, but it’s unifi’s version.
The US is offering as much protection as the New York mafia offers local shopkeepers - protection from themselves. Sure, we need to pay tribute, but that's because we're vassal states, not because we get anything in return.
You're making huge assumptions there. Specifically that LLMs are only trained by megacorps (not currently true) or that copyright is only held by individuals (also not currently true.)

Besides those mistaken assumptions, I think you have thr copyright issue exactly backwards.

Let's imagine the court decides that any computer processing of a work (that isn't intended to help present that work in a licensed manner) requires a special ML license from a each copyright holder.

This automatically creates a huge moat for all the large AI companies that can afford that licensing and maybe even negotiate LLM exclusivity. Now you've created an even larger power imbalance by putting this domninant new technology into the control of large corporations.

Additionally, legal disputes around copyright already tend to predominantly favor those with large legal budgets. Who is going to be more successful in finding and suing LLMs that use unlicensed content? It's going to be the large megacorp copyright holders. CoughDisneyCough.
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Only issue is that power user in the microsoft world means someone ticking a checkbox to enable picture backgrounds.
Yeah so it’s not the device for you and you buy the another higher model in the line up?
Some of the AI art I've been browsing is far better than many human artists could create, it totally lacks the blandness and dumb trend-following of human creators.
On the plus side, the high temperature is only there for a few seconds. So it doesn't need to permanently withstand it, just for long enough to keep the systems operating.
Such a major bummer that Atari restricted cartridge sizes to 128kB (not enough address lines for more). Really limits what can be done with that interface. Can't even hold a new TOS ROM (192kB).
Recording and generating animated screencasts within the browser
That's the only way they could possibly work: impossible to see through all that burning air at the front.
It also doesn’t answer why a company that has 50 vlans wants to buy a tiny prosumer router.
You’re 10 years out of date. With certificate pinning the dubious benefits of breaking SSL and introducing major severity risk no longer works, far too many exceptions to manage

Run your endpoint security on your devices
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Was thinking the same. If the words are maintained and only the letters that are jumbled... it gets easier the further you go.

Forgive the pun, but "The words literally start falling into place"

If we assume a sensible sentence, there are only so many combinations that make sense. The complexity of decoding (as a human) feels greatly overstated.

It's computationally-expensive spell check. Not to dismiss the study/tech, it's neat to see the machine apply context too.

You got it right, by the way, minus the name. I didn't copy that part to check

Edit: another way to look at this, a lot of information is encoded in those spaces
The very few actual studies revealed there is no difference in legibility between typefaces that differ only in the presence or absence of serifs.
It's been discussed elsewhere in the comments.

It's affordably prices and just works.
I don’t miss windows at all, been all Linux since 1995.
Maybe that's what this is. A way to bring all those advanced settings from the Control Panel into the Settings window.

Think of all those smaller unresizable windows that are a few hundred pixels wide and tall with the tabs at the top and the OK, Cancel, Apply buttons at the bottom. You know the kind. Those are in most cases advanced settings.
Besides the obvious reasons this is an invalid comparison I found the Rust bugs returned by your search quite interesting. For some reason that term seems to disproportionally turn up very poor bug reports. It's mostly compiler crashes caused by weird issues on the reporter's machine. For example: "I cannot reproduce this on rust tarball sources outside our Yocto build environment."

Edit: Part of the problem is your search term is `stack overflow` not `"stack overflow"`. Many of your results are issues where the reporter included a stack trace and someone mentioned the word "overflow".
It's a psyops campaign run by DevOpsers/SREs to enable them to actually write code instead of being 100% ops.
I was employee No.3 in a start-up a long time ago.
When the founders & senior management started
spending time redesigning the (perfectly fine) logo,
I knew it was the beginning of the end.
I began to look for an escape route to another role.

It took 3 months for the logo to launch.
I was ready. I left.
They cashed out my Angel options at the Series B price.
It crashed and burned about 1 year later.
I still believe I was the only person to make money from that startup
It’s called “install Linux”
> the signing identity will reflect any changes made to the workflow by the attacker,

Why? I'm not super familiar with github actions specifically, but AIUI there's a build B with properties (like git hash(es) that went in, user, repo, etc.) P(B), then a signature S(P(B)) that gets either embedded in the final artifact or shipped next to it (I think the former but doesn't really matter). So an attacker with code execution on the build host can write a fake P(B) that claims to represent the right repo+workflow and a plausible git commit hash, but combine with their own compiled binaries and sign that combination. With reproducible builds you could expose this after the fact by showing that that git commit does not build that binary, but I'm not following how end users can tell without doing the compile themselves.

Edit: So reading more docs, I think you're going to meet L2 easily, but the plain language claim sounds like L3. However, it kinda reads like L3 just relies on github promising that the build machine won't get compromised, which... I guess if you accept that precondition it works.
That would definitely be a fun project. I guess you would connect the sensor to a small processor which would drive steerable fins. Not sure RC aircraft give out much heat for a sensor to track though.
> I think the point is that the purpose here is not relevant if the function includes the ability to do so.

What is your basis for asserting this? My understanding is that intent and new purposes are a key part of many copyright defenses, especially around fair use.
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Prompt injection is a huge security problem for LLM-based apps. Language models don’t have a clean separation between data and instructions, so any LLM that processes untrusted data (e.g. by searching the web) is at risk of being hijacked by malicious instructions embedded in the data.

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* Although these are instruction-following models, they still love to complete patterns, and few-shot prompts tend to make for powerful attacks and defenses.

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Microservices are about the data, not the code. Sharing code is really not an issue. Defining data domain boundaries and data change protocols is the challenging issue in application level architecture. See no mention of data here, so...moving on.
40% of my screen was a sidebar that has no content halfway into the article. I was expecting more from a design site.
It fits what happens with the companies. They all start to look alike.

Same culture, products, pricing models

The logo is just a result of that
They do pay tribute. Slightly obfuscated behind the financial order that comes with that 'protection'. Look up debt levels, or how ownership of strategic assets changed hands in the historical blink of eye since eg Eastern Europe joined NATO / EU.
Don't forget about 'netsh' and all the PowerShell cmdlets and objects that can manipulate windows settings.....

The CLI is all we really need... If Microsoft can expose all settings via CLI or PS, then folks will build the advanced config UIs for them!
- You make a lot of money, do you?

- I make, no, I paid enough for health insurance. I have no equity in OpenAI.

- Really? That's interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7FsL6GPesY&t=19s
That is a normative and outdated view of science proposed by logical positivists, it tells you how science is ought to be not how it is. A cursory look at history of science will tell you this is not so. Scientists bring their own biases and opinions and colour the data as they seem fit. Other major point is data is not value neutral it is theory laden.
Worldcoin

Whoever thinks that was a good idea doesn’t seem to have any concept - nor care for - morality and ethics, in my view.

Maybe the board firing him was exactly over this and look who prevailed.
I don't think every user has to reproduce the build; it should suffice to have a handful of verifiers building and checking the published versions. Someone needs to do it, but not everyone.

(Edit: yes, you do need a way to make sure everyone is seeing the same published hashes; no idea how to do that)
This has now become more confusing than Linux.
> nonbiding agreement.
> Microsoft is developing an 'Advanced Windows Settings' panel to give advanced users more control over their operating system and improve workflows.

> Give developers more control over their system settings and advanced behaviors

>

> - Help developers discover powerful settings that can improve their daily workflows & improve machine performance

This is the set up to start charging for these right?
Wild video. I have to admire Mary Robinson, staying firm on asking for a commitment to phase out fossil fuels while Al Jaber accused her of favoritism and ignorance.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, I just don't see the connection between what you said and the subject matter. As far as near 80% cases occuring in developing countries is concerned, developed (US) and developing (India etc) is not the same.
I love how this article provides examples of all kinds of mainstream falsehoods, from beauty filters to Mao, and then keeps completely silent about the oldest and most prevalent one. Says something about its target group I guess.
Could you tell us more about the system, project etc.? And how does one enter such a subfield?
And people laughed at Samsung's moon shot thing.

I still use my phone camera, but man do I appreciate that all my Sony a7 may do is interpret the sensor using a colour profile and that's it.
Finally can we be rid of Control Panel
Ages ago, the Apple HI group had a saying: a word is worth a thousand pictures. Alas those people are all gone.
The decline of the modern corporation in general, then? Just gets bogged down by bureaucracy and the marketing departments taking everything over? Or some similar malaise.
What if he's really, sincerely trying to make the business work? What if this is actually the best he could possibly do and he's just really fucking bad at it?
Do you have a reference for this? Would love to include it in the post
Yup, thought it was clear in my comment, the software producers should be building and signing THEIR copy from their machine.

Seeing the same public hashes can work just like people check shasums now, also possible to independently verify at any time
Yes but every photographer strives for a baseline of "as close as possible" otherwise lenses wouldn't be expensive bc "photographers don't strive for reality" so who cares about chromatic aberration, vignetting etc.
I tried J (Iverson's successor to APL) in earnest but struggled to understand what I was supposed to do when I needed data structures other than arrays. E.g. tries, trees, hash tables and so on. The majority of the out-of-the-box vocabulary is centered on arrays, so it seemed that either you convert your problem to some kind of an array representation, or go somewhere else.
If true, would anything about this even be untoward or unusual?
hell no. One of the last things that still works.
> Or if it replaces us then hey, we weren't doing so hot anyway and at least AI is has a better shot of getting off the planet.

Just like Page was mentioned, there is an alarming amount of people who believe "hey if we kill all humans so that our computer creations go on to do cool things, so be it." Including e/acc founder. https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1683462000360280065

You are far past the crazies that say "just nuke X country."
As a monthly subscription.
Because your population isn't electing a government that is working toward that.
True. But this effect isn't limited to design. How many cookie cutter / copy-cat businesses (i.e., apps) do we see? The origin of lack of (brand) identity is rooted in the companies themselves and their leadership.

The irony? Avoiding risk is itself a risk. The higher your chance of failure, the more significant this risk (from self-commodit-izing).
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World ID is great. I like logging into stuff without verifying my email, linking my GitHub/Twitter/whatever, or solving a bunch of CAPTCHAs when I’m on a VPN.
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It's a conflict of interest.
Google has their own chips. Amazon do... Meta as well...

Vertical integration is a competitive advantage worth pursuing for OpenAI. The spin is just that - spin.
15" CRTs were physically significantly larger than anything mobile today.