skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A visualization of every time Bitcoin has been declared "dead"
What steps did you take to secure your own living area? I've been through a few hurricanes and part of the recovery process is multiple deep cleans and constant inspection of your own living space, placing desiccate bags in every closet to soak up the residual moisture, replacing water damaged furniture, rugs...

The biggest problem with apartments or condos that experience severe water damage is building management or condo associations that don't want to take on the expense of bringing in experts to repeatedly inspect every apartment for this kind of mold growth. As a resident you and your neighbors, landlords... end up with a significant part of the burden of keeping your domiciles mold free.
I would say that people have currently major misunderstanding between what is more important.

Let's imagine a situation where all the messages from Meta's platforms are leaked.
On other scenario message content is plaintext, but senders, receivers, timestamps and locations are encrypted (on top of app usage behaviour).

On the other scenario, all the contents are encrypted, but the metadata is public.

We would know to whom everyone, in anytime, in any location, in which interval has talked to.

Which is more dangerous or damaging?
Remember to post here in English. Post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.
Someone needs to do that work. Cue a strike of the people that are supposed to help with the hiding. Tesla will back out of Sweden or they will play ball. Those are the options.
The BI world is honestly kind of weird.

You have people who are at the intersection of "understands databases, the relational model, query optimization etc. at the level of a very senior SWE" ∩ "needs to be told how git works in the year of our lord 2023".
This is actually pretty accurate.

Worth noting is that the choice to move on with the rfc process was made very deliberately: there was a large thread on the mailing list to try and find a compromise. In this discussion, Werner Koch's negotiation standpoint basically required things to go 100% his way. The choices for the working group chairs ultimately boiled down to:
1. Closing down the wg with no result.
2. Moving on as a mostly functioning working group, at the cost of leaving Werner/GnuPG in the rough.
3. Reverting everything to the way Werner preferred.

None of those were great options, obviously.

Note that for option 3, the draft that is now LibrePGP and which was edited by Werner until circa 2020, had spectacularly failed to gather support and achieve consensus back then, and effectively stalled the working group for years. The LibrePGP project now claims that this draft was "the last consensus" of the working group, but at that time the reality was that Werner had gotten pretty used to just committing to master of the spec draft whatever he felt like, instead of seeking group consensus.

At the moment there doesn't seem to be a chance for the parties to come to an agreement. I'm curious to see how this develops.
it was obviously marketing material, but if this tweet is right, then it was just blatant false advertising.
I went to one of those once without understanding how the token worked.

They kept coming again and again with the delicious things... I left so full I could barely walk.

It's weird how while I could have turned "more grilled meat" down at any time but I didn't.
The de facto minimum wage in Northern Europe is actually set by the relatively high unemployment benefits. Few people want to work for less than that.

Most wages are of course higher than that because the market can bear more. Those wages are mostly set by market conditions but the unions and the employers' associations do perform a big ritual every few years (and they do affect the wages a bit). The problem comes in sectors with a high degree of monopsony -- only one or a few big employers. Examples are schools and hospitals -- the unions and various levels of the state apparatus (often including parliament and government) have a large influence on the wages there.
People don't really pay attention to disclaimers. Google made a choice knowing people would remember the hype, not the disclaimer.
Meta defies FBI opposition to encryption, brings E2EE to Facebook, Messenger
I mean, in this case this is both their legal right and higher court ruled that it’s legal and doable.

So, who are we to judge? It’s their country and their laws. I just stated that, their laws and the way of action they took resonates with me. That’s all.
Lol, could have done without the cocky narration. "I think we're done here."
Everyone can recognize a bubble once it pops. But the last three years, what you call "bubble" was rational (?) speculation that lithium 1) was going to be needed on a massive scale and 2) virtually all the profitable sources were already being mined.

Also, between 2020 and 2023 we have a ~20% inflation, and the price is not yet stable.
Oh, that's an interesting one! Available on Steam but also open source.
> why would I pay DoorDash or Uber Eats $30 to deliver some fast food when I can go to a real restaurant and get much better food for cheaper?

Because you can eat it in the comfort of your own home, instead of the discomfort of an unfamiliar place surrounded by strangers.

It may just be me but I really do not like eating in public.
> There is nothing strange about the notion of a postal strike, that's why the US has the USPS to begin with (its predecessor's employees went on strike and brought the US federal govt to its knees).

Can the USPS outright refuse to deliver all valid and legally paid for mail from a sender? I don't think so but can be corrected.
It's free speech.
Unions set the lower bar but if you want to be competitive you still offer higher rates. I guess Musk could sign this and give everyone a pay cut!
Sounds like a great idea if you would like to use these in your own dark mode site. The demo site is not in dark mode, however, so why should they optimize for this?
I don't believe there's settled case law to answer that question. Anyone's answer is speculation at this point until it actually gets litigated.
Microsoft should acquire them and cut the non-profit crap.
They've reached market saturation, are not profitable, continually fail to find ways to become profitable, and yet they have a nearly $40 billion market cap. Any concept of valuation is meaningless these days.
Thanks a lot for your website it's really nicely written. Can you add a disclaimer for this one to say it does not work on firefox android (i also hit the issue ^^)
Correct. I’m not contesting the power to strike, I’m contesting the power to selectively target entities in such strikes.

I don’t know if you thought there was a contradiction there, but I don’t see it.
Particle Physicists Offer a Road Map for the Next Decade
a bug i guess :-) ? where did you see that ?
So you are okay with, say, the individuals of a fire department deciding not to put out a fire because they don't like someone? This is a public service we are talking about here.
They dug (some of) them up: https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/landfill-smit...
> This may seem obvious to you and others, but giving an LLM agent write access to a database is a big no-no that is worthy of fears.

That's...a risk area for prompt injection, but any interaction outside the user-LLM conduit, even if it is not "write access to a database" in an obvious way -- like web browsing -- is a risk.

Why?

Because (1) even if it is only GET requests, GET requests can be used to transfer information to remote servers, (2) because the content of GET requests must be processed through the LLM prompt to be used in formulating a response, it means that data from external sources (not just the user) can be used for prompt injection.

That means, if an LLM has web browsing capability, there is a risk that (1) third party (not user) prompt injection may be carried out, and that (2) this will result in leakage of any information available to the LLM, including from the user request, being leaked to an external entity.

Now, if you have web browsing plus more robust tool access where the LLM has authenticated access to user email and other accounts, (even if it is only read access, though the ability to write to or take other non-query actions adds more risk) expands the scope of risk, because it is more data that can be leaked with read access, as well as more user-adverse actions that can be taken with write access, all of which conceivably could be triggered by third party content (and if the personal sources to which it has access also contain third party sourced content -- e.g., email accounts have content from the mail sender -- they are also additional channels through which an injection can be initiated, as well as additional sources of data that can be exfiltrated by an injection.)
You can have that functionality integrated within tmux with https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ : if you terminal doesn't support sixels, you'll at least see something close to the picture they represent.

Then of course it's not pixel-perfect unless you make your terminal very large (like 800x240 instead of 80x24) but something being better than nothing, I'd argue it's for the better if all you can do is 80x24 with no pictures otherwise.
I'll admit I was fooled. I didn't read the description of the video. The most impressive thing they showed was the real-time responses to watching a video. Everything else was about expected.

Very misleading and sad Google would so obviously fake a demo like this. Mentioning in the description that it's edited is not really in the realm of doing enough to make clear the fakery.
> Because the voters wouldn't accept that.

So in other words the unions don't own the government so much as they own the voters (or is it the other way around)? I'd call a decision that voters agree on democracy.

> The unions "own" the government in the extent that they where tightly connected to the Socialist Democratic party that ruled Sweden for decades and are responsible for much of today's legislation. If you were a member of a union, they would on your behalf sign you up as a member of the Socialist Democratic party, until 1991.

Another explanation could be that both sides of the political spectrum agrees and thinks that the power re: labor decisions such as this _should_ lie with the unions, regardless of left/right lean. Even the "right" parties in Sweden are pro unions.

> Another example is the government church in all the nordic countries, which is not much talked about, but indeed strange to people from other backgrounds.

Huh? This hasn't been the case on paper since the year 2000 in Sweden, but in practice far longer than that. The church might still be called "Church of Sweden", but it has nothing to do with the government.
$1 video games are an unsustainable market anyway.

Nintendo's practices saved the industry. They weren't suitable forever (limiting publishers per year wasn't popular to begin with) but it's undeniable that they rose the bar in game quality on home consoles and helped restore it to a respectable industry. The Seal of Quality used to mean something.
There are unwritten rules everywhere. The nice thing is that when the unions in Sweden do strike unlike in the US where maybe they will get some support, there is massive groundswell of support behind them to actually get the company to make a change.

The fact that the whole country collectively agrees gives the workers far more power.
There is no best, it depends on your usecase. Auto1111 is popular, ComfyUI extremely flexible but complex, and there is a myriad of other wrappers, some with a focus on simplicity, some not so much.
Fun "crossover" observation (ROT13; spoiler for first night)

Gur fheanzr bs gur crefba jub vf gur nafjre gb #1 yvgrenyyl zrnaf 'sve gerr' (nf ersreraprq va n snzbhf Puevfgznf fbat).
In Germany, if you lay off many people you might need to inform the unemployment office beforehand. There are thresholds based on both the amount of people laid off and the size of the company.

This is not exactly a circuit breaker, but combined with other employment law this means laying off many people is quite a lot harder and takes longer.

German source with the thresholds: https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/unternehmen/personalfragen/pfl...
1. Compassion is key
2. I'm of the opinion one should listen to the people in the room who are more well-versed on the topic at hand.
3. Harmonious living. I like to write music as a passion. Many others have written music too. Whats the difference between that person being biologically-based, or transistor-based?
4. It's not a zero-sum game. It's not a chase game. It's play.
"Forget about whistle-blowing in Europe, it will likely blow up in your face."

In most European countries, in fact not any that I am aware of, will you get a reward for blowing the whistle. If you do, best case, you don't get any legal problems. Don't expect anyone to hire you in the future. Nobody blew the whistle with the "VW/Audi emissions scandal". They would have gotten a big reward in the US. In the trial the big boss claimed as long that he had nothing to do with it, that it was the sole decision of his engineers, until the court offered him a probation sentence. You blow the whistle? Expect that your boss will claim that it was only your responsibility and he knew nothing about it. Emails on the company server? Expect them to be gone.

"Best thing is, if you are in a company with unethical behavior, to pack your stuff and leave ASAP and hope that you don't get anything of the fallout."

When I was a young engineer in a terrible place, the big boss told me to do something. Disregarding all good practices, risking the health of the employees with this action etc. If I had followed his oral command, it would have been at the same time a reason to be fired on the spot. I could have lived with that, but they could have also claimed millions in damages from the circumstances. There were other issues (IP that I developed). I called in sick for two weeks and then submitted my resignation. Best decision ever. I read about this guy many years later in a major newspaper when he screwed another employee totally off. (Do you read hear H.L.?).

Bottom line: If shit hits the fan, people will lie. They will try to throw you under the bus.

I actually emailed my old boss when I saw the newspaper article, put a link to the article and wrote: "I'm glad to hear that you stayed true to your character." He did not reply.

Yes, he got trouble from the Newspaper article, but they guy he screwed over, he screwed over deeply.
It can violate copyright, but as or equally important, companies have trademark protection on their characters and symbols.
That's great! Hopefully the authors of Rails Guides and the Getting Started tutorial see this. I'll share it with a core member and ask them to reshare it. I'm sure they'd appreciate seeing their hard work get recognized, and would welcome for your feedback.
If power was really the problem I'd just use a battery inside the cage.

Related, this is a neat experiment which powers a galvanically isolated circuit optically using LEDs and a solar cell: https://youtu.be/9JinSfCKuNQ?t=823&si=kBwesUsVgAGBVVwq

He didn't need to block RF though, the interface seems mechanically challenging to build into a cage.
Yes!

Check out the history of Ultra Games if you want some fun trivia.
You're thinking about this the wrong way: if your data needs to be secure, then it's already perilous to keep it around with with weak or broken encryption. Security models where data is too important to risk encryption upgrades but not important enough to encrypt correctly are internally incoherent.

(This is sidestepping the other parts of the comment that don't make sense, like why a single read implies multiple writes or why performing cryptographic upgrades is somehow uniquely, unacceptably risky from a data corruption perspective.)
If the quantities of Lithium need are going to keep going up its better that speculators big up the prices to high levels now than that manufacturers bid up the levels to crazy high later. High prices get people who don't need as much of it to start economizing and let producers expand production to levels they'll need.

People have, from time to time, experimented with banning speculation in commodities like onions in the US. And the wholesale prices of onions are much more volatile than other vegetables as a result. Sometimes commodity traders cause wild price swings and usually lose tons of money with stupid speculation, but more often they act to smooth things out.
> ...

Yes, such a weapon will never be very precise. But since no weapon ever is (collateral damage) that doesn't mean it won't be used.

> And how do you prevent the bioweapon from mutating that specificity away?

You don't. But even that won't stop such a weapon from being used. Every weapon that man kind has been able to envision and create has been used. Not a single exception.
This is rad, Damien. Great work.

Can you send an email to ryan.glover@cheatcode.co (didn't see anything listed on the site)? Want to discuss how I could make this work with Joystick [1].

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
Still protected by trademark depending on how it’s used.
FTC tries again to stop Microsoft's already-closed deal for Activision
First of all, weight-and-size-accurate dummies (whatever they're actually called in English) have legitimate uses.

Second, being honest about commiting fraud is counter-productive. Comercial fraud, even though illegal, is still a commercial enterprise at its core and its goal is the same as of any other comercial enterprise: to bring in profit, the more the better. Fraud is not about sending a message on ethics, or showing off someone's character, or helping the marks to keep their money, it's about getting as much money as possible at little cost as possible (with the costs of dealing with legal persecution accounted).
From your link:

https://www.agc.org/sites/default/files/Files/Communications...

Wow you're waaaay off. As someone in this industry I am acutely aware of how way off base you are.

Look at answers 4 - 10, the rest of it backs this up too.

I just got a recent permit done in 5 months - plan, submit, approval (submit->approval was 3). ADUs in CA are mandated at 60 days max for approval

Also, outside of CA approvals in some jurisdictions are weeks:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Homebuilding/comments/sk3bd2/how_lo...
That kind of sounds like pretty much any society: lots of unwritten rules that can be costly to violate.
In my opinion, the Internet should not be removing support for older SSL. The highest SSL version that is common to server and client should always be used.
... and after the latest openai episode, we now know that msft was pulling the strings in the "shadows" (the "nah! I am just supporting without doing anything...").

It is not conspiracy anything to think it is certainly happening elsewhere.

And there is so much critical open source stuff on github... that said, github is at least noscript/basic (x)html friendly for its core functions.
Burned by the shared responsibility model way more than we would have liked. AWS said that they will “take the muck away” back in 2011. I guess we are back to owning the muck now :)
In the same way other photographers taking pictures have displaced each other throughout history?
Am I reading this correct in that they essentially are able to capture (what’s called commercially) a real time bandwidth “block” of around 350-450MHz? I’m getting the term realtime bandwidth (rtbw) in relation to a device such as this which can capture up to 245 mhz of RTBW , although that requires 2X antenna ports / inputs:
https://aaronia.com/en/produkte/spectrum-analyzer/spectran-v...
So is key management, key exchange and discovery, revocation, etc.

That stuff is very hard to get right within a single app.

Now do it across mutually-antagonistic companies with incentives to not cooperate.
> Announcing Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in the new world of generative AI

translation:

> how we are advancing the police state or some bullshit. btw this is good for security and privacy

didn't read, not that i've ever read or used anything that has come out of myspace 2.0 anyway.
Thank you to everyone at TS involved in this feature!!
It will solve a big pain point for us re reserved CGNAT ranges that were causing conflicts.
Cheers
It can be realtime while still having more latency than depicted in the video (and the video clearly stated that Gemini does not respond that quickly).

A local model could send relevant still images from the camera feed to Gemini, along with the text transcript of the user’s speech. Then Gemini’s output could be read aloud with text-to-speech. Seems doable within the present cost and performance constraints.
Wasn't that kinda solved by Foveon X3? Film-like yet digital.
Ask a B-school professor whether or not the whole-industry RoI, or the yawning chasm between what was promised vs. what shows signs of actually being delivered, have yet qualified for "Miserable Failure".
Same thing happened in rare earths. The Mountain Pass, CA mine was shut down, reopened, shut down, reopened, shut down, and reopened since the 1980s, as prices went up and down. Probably will stay open now because rare earth usage is up.
Deepgram Aura, Conversational Text-to-Speech for Voice AI Agents
Planet Money (best podcast of all times) did an episode on this a while back: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197954459
What I find strange is that when a subset of employees strike, PostNord doesn't feel obligated to deliver at all, even though they have employees that are not part of the union and are not covered by the strike. This while PostNord has legal obligations to deliver mail.

Consider a "model factory" where 60 % of employees are union members. A strike is initiated and those 60% go on strike. It is reasonable to expect that production decreases with about 60%. In the PostNord case, the union member relationship is about on that level, and the registration plates probably fit in a small van. Still PostNord cannot see a way to meet their obligations even though there are plenty of employees that can deliver. If a non-union employee refuses, then their strike strike is wild and illegal.

I think the courts will see this, but it will take a while.
GDP always gets trotted out as if it is a holy grail and a benchmark for social welfare, which it isn't so think of it as a (failed) preemptive strike against getting a longer comment thread.
>What is the purpose of this kind of science journalism?

Clickbait.
Good, that video was mostly annoying and creepy. The AI responses as shown in the linked Google dev blogpost are a lot more reasonable and helpful. BTW I agree that the way the original video was made seems quite misleading in retrospect. But that's also par for the course for AI "demos", it's an enduring tradition in that field and part of its history. You really have to look at production systems and ignore "demos" and pointless proofs of concept.
I was wondering if it would be wise and feasible to add WebGL shaders over SVGs?
Volvo Cars is a company incorporated in Sweden and is traded on the Stockholm stock exchange. It does have a Chinese majority owner, but also large Swedish institutional investors and have to abide by Swedish corporate regulation and the regulations of the Stockholm stock exchange, so unfortunately it’s more complex than what you want it to be.

Polestar is in turn majority owned by Volvo Cars but also traded on the New York Stock Exchange, having to abide by rules there

Also, remember that time when Elon Musk claimed he would make Tesla private in cooperation with Saudi Arabia?

Also speaking of Saab: The Emily GT is set to start production in the old Saab factory soon, if/when that happens it looks like a solid Tesla Model S competitor.

Lastly: Remember the Tesla Semitruck? Well, Volvo and Scania is performing a bit better there… And Northvolt is supplying them batteries, and the Swedish carbon free steel will soon provide them great raw materials…