skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I ask my non-techie friends about stuff like this, they really don't care anymore unless they actually get hacked, scammed, etc. It happens so often that there's now "breach fatigue". Meaning little pressure on companies to do better.
From TFA:

Stop. Here's where most tutorials excitedly throw engineering applications at your face. Don't get scared; think of the examples as "Wow, we're finally seeing the source code (DNA) behind previously confusing ideas".

If earthquake vibrations can be separated into "ingredients" (vibrations of different speeds & amplitudes), buildings can be designed to avoid interacting with the strongest ones.

If sound waves can be separated into ingredients (bass and treble frequencies), we can boost the parts we care about, and hide the ones we don't. The crackle of random noise can be removed. Maybe similar "sound recipes" can be compared (music recognition services compare recipes, not the raw audio clips).

If computer data can be represented with oscillating patterns, perhaps the least-important ones can be ignored. This "lossy compression" can drastically shrink file sizes (and why JPEG and MP3 files are much smaller than raw .bmp or .wav files).

If a radio wave is our signal, we can use filters to listen to a particular channel. In the smoothie world, imagine each person paid attention to a different ingredient: Adam looks for apples, Bob looks for bananas, and Charlie gets cauliflower (sorry bud).

The Fourier Transform is useful in engineering, sure, but it's a metaphor about finding the root causes behind an observed effect.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
It might be a technological innovation that creates actual negative productivity. Mass production of mush-mouthed corpospeak that says nothing at all bombarding people nonstop. Some people will use AI to summarize the AI created bloat, each step creating hallucinations and missing more of the tiny nuance and inverted truth already inherent. Most will just become more ignorant and try to ignore it. The solution will be to increase the output of redundant communications to make up for the error rate and reduced intake.

As it exists and is everywhere you can't just ban it away either. It is like steroids in baseball or adderall in med school, every other participate is cheating so you'll need to cheat just to keep up.
Maybe if someone is learning their first language that's a semi-important choice but, if you already know a programming language, syntax doesn't really have a steep learning curve.
Distinguishing letters of recommendation authored by humans compared with AI
Attention (and the absence thereof, i.e. distraction) is definitely related to memory. See:

* Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin? — https://research.princeton.edu/news/attention-and-working-me...

* Professor Wayne Wu (CMU) on 'Intending as practical remembering' — https://youtu.be/okk-fpwcdbY

However, this is about Working Memory. Autobiographical memory is also related to the experience of emotions:

“Much evidence indicates that emotional arousal enhances the storage of memories, thus serving to create, selectively, lasting memories of our most important experiences.”. From: Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant [pdf] — https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1301209110
They’re numbers from IDC: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3604601/macs-reach-23-...
The LLM is also trained to predict next token given a sequence of "real" tokens. This means that any case where the LLM predicts tokens that don't look like the "real" token string is Out of Domain.

Children learn in an iterative manner generating language, self-evaluating their own language, given validations from parents, and interactions with others. We've also cultivated a curriculum learning approach to make sure that students are always learning language.

We really don't know how small of a corpus is required for an LLM to learn. Perhaps there is an optimal curriculum which could be generated that demonstrates progressively more complex language and knowledge tasks to keep gradients large throughout training. Or a larger LLM could generate new training examples based on the cross-entropy loss of a given batch.
You can just lease hardware from Dell if converting CapEx into OpEx is your main concern. You don't have to go to cloud for that.
Probably not.

As you would not need proton but only wine/vkd3d. And I have a recent build of wine/vkd3d, hardly anything works.

Does it mean valve is not backporting in wine/vkd3d?
> This system ends only when enough people refuse it.

More likely it ends when enough people vote in politicians that regulate it.

Living without insurance in the US is great if you have no assets or if you're fantastically wealthy and can afford million dollar healthcare bills.

If you don't fit into one of those groups, get insurance.

Edit: I do absolutely agree that this system is broken at a fundamental level.
Yeah, I don't know why this hasn't become a thing. There seems to be so much "Latent value" locked up in the semistructured data (in HTML format but not in machine readable format) that could be unlocked via crowdsourcing with the right tool. That's what I want to build. I just think there's so much value in harnessing that. The interoperability you can enable of bringing data out of silos, and mashing up actions and values from different contexts...I mean, we need existing web content to be part of web authoring in a first class way.
Definitely good to define acronyms.

Also, here’s a good primer on LLM concepts which should help in following discussions.

https://flyte.org/blog/getting-started-with-large-language-m...

It’s a bit meta but it’s also useful to read with the help of LLMs. For the past little while I’ve been reading in areas outside my expertise with the help of ChatGPT-4 defining and breaking things down for me as I read.

My comprehension speed has gone up tremendously and I can follow complex material without getting too lost.
Bug Report: My terminal color settings are a bit unusual and I'm getting yellow snow.
For a personal website with few readers (say one view per day), it's difficult to know if the analytics report actual viewers or bots. Therefore it's useless.

For a personal website with many readers (say more than 100 views per day), it's vanity in the best case, and bad influence in the worst case (one should not produce content just to make more views, that's the lesson we get from social media). Therefore it's useless, at best.

For commercial websites I don't know. If I had to guess, I would say it's not making the world a better place, but maybe it helps someone justifying their job (which I see as a reason, but not as an excuse).
> I am confused by the statement about "frames", where each design team gets a limited amount of "new" bricks they are able to introduce. Yet all of the internaly come in all colors available.

LEGO has a large part catalog -- a lot of different molds that define the shapes. They also have each part available in some selection of colors. If you need an existing part in a new color, it's not terribly expensive to spin up a production line for it because the molds are ready. There may need to be adjustments to the color chemistry for the specific part (some colors are more brittle/fragile, others may require different processes -- transparent parts for example.)

If you need to spin up a new mold, that's where it gets complicated and expensive.

As for the internals, they largely come from the existing part:existing color matrix. Over the years LEGO has created a lot of colors, but in reality not every part is available in every color, and if you buy enough LEGO sets you notice that a lot of the internals tend to actually use similar color schemes. Technic axles and pins are now even largely standardized to specific colors. High friction 2x pins are always black, low friction 2x pins are beige..etc.

> In my mind having two blue bricks where there should only be one is unacceptable for the price that lego is inevitably going to charge.

LEGO used to do a lot more custom one-off pieces for sets in the 90's and early 2000's, and it was one of the factors in them nearly being bankrupted. Reducing their part catalog and going to using more small pieces to build up assemblies instead of just molding them as a single piece helped them get out of that predicament. And as an AFOL, I prefer that they use more pieces to 'brick build' things -- not only do you see some really cool building techniques, but there's also so much more that you could possibly use them for. There's also a large spectrum of complexity in the sets. Smaller sets for younger children will use larger simpler parts and less complicated building techniques. The sets that really go all out on details with tiny pieces are usually designed for adults (and a few very lucky kids.)

> This, the colourful internals, are what defines lego for me nowadays

The internals used to be much more monochrome, but one of the things LEGO tries to improve is the build experience. It's much easier to tell which pieces is supposed to go exactly where when they're all different sizes and colors. Heck, it's still a problem sometimes with sets that heavily use a single color, like some of the batman ones in recent years. There are places in the instructions manual where it's almost impossible to tell the placement of pieces because it's just one big nearly-black mass of bricks both on the table in front of you, and in the pictures in the instructions.
How big is your business? Facebook has poured immense resources into speeding up PHP. It makes sense for them. It doesn't even remotely make sense for me.

However, people tend to underestimate this sort of thing in general. Even since before programming... we have adages about the importance of sharpening the axe precisely because people have been hacking away with metaphorical and literal dull axes hoping to avoid needing to sharpen them for a long time. Sometimes you just won't be able to convince a business person of the importance of stopping work for a moment to sharpen the axe, because all they see is the work stopping. I don't have a solution to that level of lack of wisdom in a leader. These are the people who save $200 per programmer on computer hardware at the cost of 5 hours of productivity lost... per week. Some battles just come pre-lost.
As a retired telecom manager, I can assure you that in the 1990' French police were used to make illegal wiretapping.
Unofficial instruction was to be blind when police entered a telecom mainframe (répartiteur)
If I view the full images of the first two in two Chrome tabs, two Firefox tabs, or download them and open then both in Preview on a 27" 5k iMac and flip back and forth between the two I see nothing changing.

There is definitely something changing though, because if I open each in Preview, switch Preview to full screen, set the view to be actual size, and take a full screen screenshot, the screenshot for the WebP image is 14% smaller than the one for the JPEG.

If I use screen zoom to go way in and then flip between the two images I can finally see some changes. The JPEG background has more small scale variation in shade. In the hair there are some white streaks that aren't quite as long in the WebP. Lots of small changes in the shirt, but it is about 50/50 whether or not any given difference there looks better in the JPEG or the WebP.
trying to squeeze an extra $0.01/pouch of profit by poisoning children is supervillain enough for me.
https://archive.org/details/cihm_00271/page/n2/mode/1up

Queer People with Wings and Stings and their Kweer Kapers (1888):

https://archive.org/details/queerpeoplewith00coxgoog/page/n8...
there is no such thing as plain text...text ages better than most other formats but it still ages (how many versions went past from 7-bit terminals to utf-8?)
Purposely poisoning children vs simply being indifferent about poising children through your actions aren't that different, in my opinion.
The idea of a Lego AI sounds amazing... just thought of what might happen if you took a photo of your pieces then said "I like original Star Wars, make me a series of spaceships from that" and it outputted step by step instructions to create them. So cool.
Sure, something seems a bit lost in the creative flailing that is the growth path of young Lego-ists, but it would be really cool.
Speaking as a life-long Apple user who mostly thinks the rampant attacks on Apple are basically the same as the ones people have been throwing for 30+ years, just with "Apple is dying, no one should use their stuff" replaced with "Apple is too big/tyrannical, no one should use their stuff"...

I agree.

But.

The solution to that is to get antitrust regulators to step in and use the force of the law to change things.

Not to cheer on a third party using security vulnerabilities to piggyback onto Apple's service and charge a subscription for it.
I think the key thing you’re missing is “of equal merit” and practically speaking if you’re picking a surgeon you’re not going to be choosing between two new graduates. Let’s say your choice is between two senior consultants who have the same position, then you’re better off picking the one who least fits the bill visually.
I would be interested in the behaviors that would be included in "daydreaming". For example, Jeff Bezos recently detailed to Lex Fridman the importance of his daily "wanderings". [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/DcWqzZ3I2cY?si=6wR1HMnjxqxOqHAP&t=1300
Man, this http://lalo.li/lsd/ is a really fun game, i lost about half an hour on it now
Golang Interfaces Are Not Meant for That
Thank you. It seemed off to me too. Even the first image caption:

> In the classical world, if you tried to charge a battery using two chargers, you would have to do so in sequence, limiting the available options to just two possible orders.

Uhhhh. Of course you can charge in parallel, just like you can power something from batteries in parallel. How do they think a solar panel array charges a battery at a specific voltage while increasing wattage of the array? -- parallel solar panels => parallel charging.

I don't know if it's a translation peculiarity or what, but the whole thing seems off.
At my large health organization the ONE guy that approved badge photos was so strict that, he wouldn't let me change my profile photo one time, in support of the Save the Children red nose day. But now since we all use teams, everyone has everything from furries to pictures of Lebowski. I don't think many people care anymore. But I can understand why you wouldn't want to see a picture of freddy kruger when the sales person is calling to close the million dollar deal you've spent months working on.

Otherwise, I'm hoping we're getting closer to a point where we don't judge people based off of what they look like or what profile pics they use.
The post doesn't explain why scale_rt_power() isn't in the code snippet, or how it factors in.
EU: I'm trying to get everyone i know onto signal. Hard fight.
I tried whatsapp for a month and it was so facebooky (that I also got rid of yeeaaars ago, after trying for a month) that I deleted it.
Whatsapp is very common, though and I am gradually being pushed out of various communications (my doctor, for example, pharmacies).
At least I don't have to bugger about with Teams which is the requirement for my kids' schools. Amicable divorce, but I don't have that on my phone, unlike my ex (who hates it).
its not silly just because it can't solve all problems. It goes a long way to gas station type skimmers less valuable because you can't print a phony card from them, or the phony card you can print is limited to a subset of possible purchases. perfect-enemy-of-good yadayda.
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Poisoning kids for money is worse than poisoning kids for fun.
Smoking has become socially unacceptable. Eventually this will happen to alcohol as well since it is worse for health than smoking.
On the top right, click on "Figures". I almost had the same reaction.
Ah yes the “exhaustive dependencies” rule that can trigger huge unnecessary refactors for absolutely zero value.

Linting has some value, it’s just that in my professional experience its costs outweigh its benefits
There's also quattro, which is 2x duplo, and compatible
CEP 'Webinar': Houthi Procurement and Terror Finance [video]
TBH, I know of at least one other breach that everyone got hit by too...afaik it was never made public though.

It's been a while since I was told the story, so bear with me. It was Experian. They shipped tape backups of essentially their entire consumer credit DB, unencrypted, via UPS.

UPS truck got robbed at gunpoint, only one package stolen...

EDIT: Transunion -> Experian
The full title makes it sound like a catastrophe that "could happen to Earth too" but then towards the end of the article:

"A similar phenomenon occurred on Earth in 1999, when the solar wind "nearly vanished" for three days (May 10 to 12), which enabled our atmosphere to swell up to 100 times its normal volume before eventually returning to its previous size, according to NASA. This event did not cause any noticeable short-term or long-term damage to our planet."

Mass extinction averted...
There's a clear difference between the JPEG and WEBP versions. Especially on the background on the right of the man.

There are clear bands of various shades of grey that circle out of the brighter areas behind the face and from the mid-right edge. They appear to join about two thirds from the middle to the right edge. That artifacting is most notable at full size, but is still visible on the smaller size on the web page.
It’s pretty sad that after decades of such breaches, these still do damage. We have had tech, such as security keys, for some time. Even basic Authenticator app helps. These should be standard with anything remotely sensitive.

Another sad point is that there is rarely true accountability. Offering 24 months of some service is a pittance and an expense of doing business that could be factored/priced in, continuing the poor security practices.
I think it's possible you did not continue reading the article. This is all covered.
This reminds me of the recent discussion about adulterated turmeric.

The Economist, how to stop turmeric from killing people: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/02/how-to-stop-tur...

Hacker News post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38139011

The FDA deputy commissioner’s statement on the adulterated cinnamon is very interesting.

“My instinct is they didn’t think this product was going to end up in a country with a robust regulatory process,” Jones said. “They thought it was going to end up in places that did not have the ability to detect something like this.”

In fact, the regulatory process failed to prevent the lead poisoning of the children involved. The goalposts the statement erects are to stop a poisoning that’s underway once children already have high levels of lead in their blood, rather than to prevent lead poisoning to begin with. And it suggests that the supply chain issue was a mixup that was only possible due to the failure of other countries to reject lead-laced cinnamon, seemingly an attempt to scapegoat other countries for the agency’s failure at preventing the poisoning of children within the United States.
I'm using the official definition negotiated by the Office of Secret Intelligence and Guild of Calamitous Intent at the first Treaty of Tolerance Summit and I don't think this quite qualifies. This is just regular ol' villainy of the invisible hand.
This, with virtual certainty, permitted. I am a founder of Ubicloud, so, I suppose you can take that to the bank.

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I'm using Elasticsearch to put a search box on my cat-picture SaaS product.

This is permitted under ELv2. Meow!

I'm a contractor setting up Elasticsearch and Kibana for my clients to use internally.

This is permitted under ELv2, because you are not providing the software as a managed service.

My cat-picture SaaS product shows view-only Kibana dashboards of analytics on searches and views.

This is permitted under ELv2. The use of Kibana in this case is limited and this does not represent access to a substantial portion of the functionality of Kibana.

I am a Managed Service Provider (MSP) running Elasticsearch and Kibana for my customers.

If your customers do not access Elasticsearch and Kibana, this is permitted under ELv2. If your customers do have access to substantial portions of the functionality of either Elasticsearch and Kibana as part of your service, this may not be permitted.

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The whole point of a hardware wallet is that the security of your computer shouldn't matter.
The great thing about this argument for chronic bullshitters like Phony Stark is that it's heads-he-wins, tails-you-lose:

* if the platform implodes, clearly the people who were fired didn't build a good platform

* if the platform doesn't implode, clearly the people who were fired weren't needed
PSA: Never eat the yellow snow
Are there tests for aphantasia?

It's fascinating to me that (as far as I'm concerned) we mostly learn about it by self-reporting but then those reports vary pretty wildly.

I myself don't have aphantasia I think but I feel like I really have to work on "drawing things up" when I try to picture something with my eyes closed.
Or maybe that's just the normal amount of effort for the complexity and detail I'm trying to capture?
Actually it's easier to "imagine" things with my eyes open which I always thought was weird before I read this comment about daydreaming blocking out vision.
Which still sounds extreme to me, but maybe not more extreme than all those other reports that claim they can procure fully detailed houses / places / system architectures / electrical diagrams / etc on a whim.
> I agree that “opt in by default” is a dark pattern

Not only that, it's a nonsequitor. It's ridiculous on its face to say someone else making a decision for you is you "opting in".
> Sort of elitist, but IMO devs capable of tackling that complexity level won't be hindered by a different language much.

Not elitism, just an honest appraisal, though I think flawed as competency isn't linear it's heterogeneous - you'll find the most surprising limitations accompanying the most monumental talent. Language fixation is a common enough one, but even beyond that, the beginner-expert curve on each language shouldn't be underestimated regardless of talent or experience.

In particular when it comes to Javascript there's a tendency to believe the above by virtue of the community being very large & accessible - bringing in a lot of in-expert contributors, especially from the web design field. This isn't fully representative of the whole though: there are significant solid minorities of hard JS experts in most areas.