skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While obvious at the time to anyone with a brain, it's now beyond obvious that lockdowns were an abject disaster. Massive economic damage that's continuing to linger, irreversible damage to children and an entire lost generation raised during the lockdowns.

How could anyone but the most hysterical hypochondriacs still support them?
That was the main way.

Another was some networks had a voicemail number you could dial into from abroad and then enter the phone number and pin of the voicemail box you wanted to access. Before this scandal nobody has ever changed that pin, or known about it, in the entire history of british telephony.
some of those prices are insane. Why are they so much more expensive that OLED TV's of similar size? Frame rate?
they were out doing whatever their parents were doing and/or people were visiting... they missed almost a whole year of that, and even "post-pandemic" people are sometimes more hesitant about being inside public or crowded spaces like they were previously (especially say, if you have an unvaccinated 5 month old)
Engineering is the cumbersome real world tweaking and trial-and-error that engineers do after they take over from the scientists, in the hopes of finding techniques that will let them produce something robust and useful in the real world. Seems to fit the reality pretty well here, to be honest.
First look at asteroid dust brought to Earth offers surprises
That’s disgusting. It’s not right to call them journalists. They are no different than the scum who goes around doxxing people.
The DCS AJS-37 plane is based on the official declassified pilot's manual.

The DCS manual contains many diagrams taken from it as well.

https://tanks.mod16.org/2016/08/29/saab-aj-and-ajs-37-viggen...
Florida law blocks Chinese students from academic labs
Just checked out mystic.ai, it looks like you only pay for usage on any model and not idle time. Might actually fit my requirements.
From the context, I would guess that your cabin in the woods has at least one smartphone in it. Does it have an Alexa or other device that is known to listen?
Hey come on, when Target had their data breach in 2015 due to massive negligence and incompetence, the largest data breach ever to date, they had to pay about 1.6% of their average net income at the time in penalties. I imagine Delta will pay less than that since, you know, it isn't as bad.
I think this is overly critical and I'm not sure I can see the justification. My understanding from that quote is that IBM is a name that everyone "knows", but fewer and fewer persons actually know what IBM even does anymore or why IBM is a household name.

Your additional examples aren't really counter examples most probably for most people; you've just listed additional companies that are likely common enough names that no one else outside the tech/finance sphere really knows why the name is a known name. I don't see this as disingenuous, I see as an accurate reflection of the modern interpretation of many of these older companies. Apple for example is "relatively" old(er), but you can ask anyone what you might get from Apple right now and probably they can name at least one thing like "oh yeah they make good phones" or "I like their laptops."

My entire professional career has been in IT/Programming, and the best I can tell you about what IBM offers is "eh, you can pay a ton for a contract for some server hardware/software. Hardware support is fine, but the rest is a dice roll on what you're actually getting for your money." I don't associate IBM at this point with a specific service or product I'd seek so much as just "this is a tech company that you pay a ton of money to and hope it works out for your project".

Though I will give them credit for their LTO tape hardware -- that is solid and straight forward enough for my tastes.

My personal experience, half the time I talk to IBM sales team or even their engineering team, I end up with far more questions than answers, and I get the distinct impression I'm offending the IBM rep for even questioning what they're saying, no matter how ridiculous their statements are. I know what the words they're saying mean and I understand what the tech is, but when I have practical questions about their design choices or implementation guidance and the IBM employees act as if they resent me for questioning them, I too wonder why IBM is really trying to accomplish in our meetings -- do they want to sell something that will help with my problem scope or do they just want lock-in? This question isn't unique to IBM naturally, but if that's what ends up occupying my mind after a meeting with IBM representatives, I'm quite certain it's an indicator that it's not something I want my team to get wrapped up in.

Edit: Changed "else outside the tech sphere" to "else outside the tech/finance sphere"
I totally get your perspective given your experience. There are unions with bad leadership, but think those generally come about by a disengage union membership. As a member you and your coworkers ARE the union and have the power to affect what it does and who its leadership is.

Several unions have gone through democratic reforms in the last few years to make their leadership directly elected and accountable to the rank and file members. The Teamsters and UAW being to examples, and it turned them from weak company unions into powerful advocates for their members.

Unions are groups of people, just like all other organizations.
That is a really big deal coming from an executive. Leadership 101 is you never mention a business change or action in the same communication as a situation with a competitor. This guy clearly didn't do his yearly antitrust training.
That is also why you might not want to join a union. If you can show you are better than someone else (or at least think you can show), the union is likely to force you to get the same pay anyway. Unions often have promotion rules that harm anyone seeking to move up. Of course if you are content this doesn't matter.

Which is why unions work well for assembly line workers: the line moves at the speed of the slowest person on the line, so there is no way to be better than average. (the company/union can fire someone enough slower than average)
Now, I don't know shit about shit, but from what I've tried to read on the subject, a nascent German empire after the Franco-Prussian war was ready to demand its place at the grown up table of France, England, and Russia for years.

So no, not just a single moment of bad luck turning friends into enemies.
Quick question: what are the NP-hard problems in the database area?
Had to do a double take skimming through the headlines. “Woah, did Prince Harry win a Pwn2Own competition or something? That’s badass! Oh…yeah. That makes more sense.”
You don't seem to be asking a question anymore. That's not what I said maybe to, anyways. If both languages have grammars that are on the same level, I don't see why someone experienced in writing a lexer/parser would have more difficulty with one. I think Rust only needs lookahead for raw strings and there are some quirks with C's grammar, but I'm not knowledgeable about that.
The apparent failure to mirror "correctly" left and right in this illusion reminds me of a great interview question I heard: why does a mirror reverse things left and right, but not flip them top and bottom?

It can be fun to watch people scratch their head over it.
Yeah, I have the choice of about 3 unions where I work, all of which are big unions because there can only be one per industry in Australia. All three have wasted way too much time and members' money on vanity projects that I don't want to join.
I don't know... some of these are about being clear about what you want, and would work with people just like they work with the LLM. Or a lot of what happens in a conversational chat interface is what could happen in a one-shot full prompt; and maybe that's fine for a casual user but if you are programming something you should put in the effort to get that initial prompt right so the conversation isn't as necessary.

I do agree about planning; one of the disappointments of Custom GPTs (among many!) is that you can't do this planning without letting it all hang out for the end user. That is, it would be great if you could tell the Custom GPT to put its plans inside <plan>...</plan> tags and have those filtered out (or at least hidden by default; they shouldn't be _secret_, but they are distracting).

But even so in that case deciding that you need a plan, and what kind of plan, is something that can and probably should go in the prompt. Not all "plans" are the same, just as not all "summaries" are the same – and part of prompt engineering is getting past these rather lazy descriptions and being specific.

Most summaries are a kind of extraction, and asking for a "summary" is deferring to the LLM to figure out what information is interesting entirely based on its sort-of-common-sense assessment. You can always do better than that! Plans are similar, it's an opportunity to give the LLM a template for planning, to specify goals, things to watch out for, etc. You can usually do better than "think step by step".
Yes, it was a combo of either calling from any number and guessing the PIN (which was also likely to be still the default) or number spoofing to bypass the PIN altogether.
"OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company"
I think they changed that
OK, at least in European airlines the term used is "Reward ticket"
"Ten Thousand" https://xkcd.com/1053/

The original person might've instead asked for an explanation in a way that didn't come across as criticizing the article.

But probably best not to insist that everyone should already know the term; just explain it.
Isn't that roughly what you would expect anyway? 50% of the population is below the median. Take a separate population and measure them against the overall median, and simply through statistical chance, a good number of those samples will have an average slower than the median.
Not all that surprising if you've worked with powerful people. For most of them, technical suggestions don't matter much and are ultimately weighed on a rubric of "whether someone else (who is also important) is doing the same".
And so law enforcement just uses GreyKey[1] and problem solved for them.

[1] https://www.magnetforensics.com/products/magnet-graykey/
all LLMs are undertrained to some degree.

assuming the models are identical except one is bigger then the bigger model is better because 70% of a bigger number is larger than 70% of a smaller number.

Now if you train a smaller model much longer than the bigger model (more tokens) then you are reducing the level of "under-trainedness" to some degree. at some point, you may have a smaller model that is better than that larger model.

70% of a bigger number may be larger than 70% of a smaller number but no guarantee 70% of a bigger number is larger than say 90% of a smaller number and so on.
This is literally what the whole article was about. Not only does the quote itself contain that context "and the lego group", but the very next paragraph is "And then… nothing. The Tintin votes dried up, and Lego rejected both his fan-favorite Avatar and Polar Express ideas. The company never says why it rejects an Ideas submission, only that deciding factors include everything from “playability” and “brand fit” to the difficulties in licensing another company’s IP."
Kafka doesn't have fast random-access to a row-tuple in a stream by its primary key, let alone declarative indexing by compound keys / computed expressions.

Kafka with those things would be equivalent to what I'm describing, yes.
It was bought by the core employees here in Melbourne, I don't think the employees in the US have any kind of stake in it
A bonus can exist. The contract has to allow them.

Generally individual merit pay isn't allowed though which is why so many in tech are against unions: we believe that some people are better than others and thus worth more.
I can't even understand why this was even still up for debate - 5th amendment allows you to not incriminate yourself - being forced to give up your passcode is no different then being forced to give up any secrets you might have.

Not sure why this hasn't been slapped down a long, long time ago.
I believe when this first came out it was highlighted that a lot of employees moved back and forth between McD and Taylor. The implication that residual stock or friends across town could influence the situation.
I would need to hear that from someone who actually works in a CC company fraud department because I don't think it's that straightforward. I've had MC transactions declined on a card I use for everyday purchases at two stores in my neighborhood. I don't think reasoning about their transaction monitoring like someone might monitor network traffic is a good analog-- they're specifically looking for patterns in small-scale, localized events without many data points. They don't have to connect the events to stymie the fraudster's efforts.
Due to: https://blog.archive.org/2020/02/25/brave-browser-and-the-wa...
My best friend does this and it both drives me insane sometimes but also blows my mind. It's how he has always used Google search. He does not use keywords at all, he simply states the generalized phrase out loud.

Like if we're talking about a movie with Dean Winters in it, and I say "You know, it's the guy from those auto insurance commercials who would pretend to be a little girl in a driving accident." And he goes, "Hey Google" to his phone -- "Funny talented actor who pretends to be little girl in a funny auto insurance commercial" and "Dean Winters" is the first result or whatever.
Its tabloids. I dont think many people call them journalists.
I saw a lot of babies playing with a smartphone pre-covid
Unions negotiate collective minimums. Individuals frequently manage to negotiate more for themselves, if they have the leverage.
I don't see how it gets you out of the dichotomy. If you can't trace the tokens back to the user then somebody can set up a service that will proxy sign for anyone and you have no way to know who they are. If you can, attackers can unmask legitimate users.

You're also describing a real-time system, which is subject to timing attacks. Even if you couldn't compare the tokens with each other, you could see that each time User 32323 logged in, John Smith requested a token.
Down voting for disagreement is base behaviour. Of course nothing is stopping somebody from being base on HN, neither in real life. We've all met our fair share of rude and ignorant people. They're not going anywhere.
Any hints on what's next? Smalltalk, perhaps, or HyperCard, or maybe NeXTSTEP Interface Builder?
"It's basically just trying different approaches until you come up with something that subjectively seems good enough"

Sounds like a lot of my engineering! Especially architecture, but generally any higher level code/object/function organization is exactly like this, and in practice even though I know a lot of patterns and have lots of experience and opinions, I often refactor architecture when I'm in a new domain. Which is also true of prompt engineering.
Conductor Open Source
The tubes prevent accidents, that is the main innovation.
> make me very deeply uncomfortable

Especially when thinking that we ourselves may very well be AIs in a simulation and our life events - the prompt to get an answer/behavior out of us.
The part about finding a "sticking point" is really important - if you know what's next, you can pick up the context rather easily and get going. If you end the day feeling confused or not sure how to approach the next problem, it's going to be rough coming back to it.
they empirically saved lives and were based on the best available scientific recommendations at the time. Their factual basis is not a matter of opinion.

Whether the opportunity cost of risking lives outweighed the cost of re-opening, second lockdowns, etc. is a whole different topic, but if you're speaking to the first "two week lockdown" then it is no question.
To me, it seems people who predicts huge impacts/"democratization" from genAI are at best not in the market for existing content, or in some other times hates it. That projects onto predictions.
To quote the explanation about why they're working on the editor in parallel with the desktop environment:

> As is often the case with scientific research which many people believe to be pointless, technological innovations aren't always made by achieving the end goal, but through the technologies developed to reach that goal.

> Development on COSMIC Edit has lead towards improvements to the cosmic-text library, which is used by many GUI libraries in the Rust ecosystem now. Similarly, the UX designs for the text editor improves the COSMIC interface guidelines, and puts design theories to practice. Likewise, widgets that are necessary for the editor are added to the COSMIC platform toolkit, and existing widgets and features are improved to improve the development experience for applications like this.

> No one would want to build applications for a platform that lacks widgets capable of properly displaying, formatting, and editing text. Also, we're talking about a default text editor. It's a fun side project that's being developed solely by our principal engineer. Many would also find it debilitating to have a desktop environment without a text editor preinstalled. Imagine if GNOME didn't have Gedit, and KDE didn't have Kate.
From the top of my head:

- Hungarian translation is not the best (they provide it, thus I use it). It has missing parts, and sometimes problematic mistranslations. Localization (date format and date conventions) is sometimes incorrect in the calendar.

- Some calendar workflows are clunky and unintuitive.

- some other similar UX papercuts (don't get me wrong, others have theirs too, but it would be nice if fastmail would be better).

- The most annoying: if I'm logged in I need to open a private browser session to see their main site, as it instantly redirects me to the app, and I cannot access resource from within.
> Would an autocoup be against the Constitution? Absolutely.

In normal circumstances, the military doesn't make up its own mind about what is against the constitution - they defer to SCOTUS to do that.

Suppose Pence went along with Trump's plan, and refused to count the electoral votes of certain states, and declared Trump the winner. Biden surely would have challenged Pence's act in the Supreme Court. What if the conservative majority upheld Pence and declared Trump the legitimate winner?

Does the military oppose an autocoup if the Supreme Court declares it constitutional?

> So yes, I would expect the Joint Chiefs to support the actual election winner, by force if necessary.

In practice, I think it would really depend on how the other side responded. If the SCOTUS majority had endorsed a Trump-Pence autocoup as constitutional, Biden might have announced that even though he believed the majority decision was gravely wrong, he was going to submit to it for the sake of national peace-in that scenario, the military would almost surely accept the autocoup too.

Conversely, suppose Biden had announced that he rejects the SCOTUS decision as illegitimate. This is where things get a lot messier. Would the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) refuse an order by President Trump to enforce the SCOTUS decision? Well, operational command authority doesn't go through the JCS, it goes from the President through SECDEF directly to the commanders of the Unified Combatant Commands - USNORTHCOM has responsibility for the domestic US, so maybe the real question is whether the commander of USNORTHCOM would obey the President.

What if, come January 20th, there are two parallel Presidential inaugurations - one of Trump (endorsed by Congressional Republicans and the SCOTUS majority) and one of Biden (endorsed by Congressional Democrats and the SCOTUS minority) - to which President would the US military owe its allegiance? I don't think it is guaranteed that the JCS would be of one mind about that question. And even if they were - what if lower-level commanders and their units disagree? One could foresee a scenario in which some units swear allegiance to one President, others to the other, yet others refuse to swear allegiance to either and insist on remaining neutral regarding the matter.

Likely in such a scenario, some state governments would recognise one President and others the other. If military units in a state recognised the opposite President to the state government, that could create a significant risk of federal-state violence - which might give military units an incentive to adopt the position of the state in which they are based.

In a scenario in which the US military has internal disagreements over who the commander-in-chief is, US military effectiveness could collapse overnight. It could be a prime opportunity for America's enemies to attack.
Check out Peter Zeihan on YouTube for more info on this kind of stuff globally.
Their fraud detection algorithms are specifically looking for small, localized, per-transaction events with few data points as well as overall patterns-- I doubt it would be that straightforward. It might not mean you'd be targeted, but on a per-transaction basis, I there's a good chance you'd get blocked for any individual attempt even if you got a match.
I somehow feel it is a very different thing with ice cream machines versus automotive applications.
>because McDonalds corporate profits off of the deal with the manufacturer/servicer who in turn profits off of the McDonalds franchisees

Is there more on this? If they can dig up CEO's emails surely they can dig up the financial arrangements between them and mcdonalds?
"Mr. Big," entrapment via police-run criminal organizations
I recently picked up a copy of this from a retro game store while on vacation. The box was covered in dust and slightly damaged on the corners. To my surprise everything inside was in mint condition. Simulators obviously have a higher standard of documentation, but it really made me miss game manuals in general.

Tunic, a game released last year, contained an in game manual in the style of older games. I personally found it legitimately useful, and fangamer recently released a hardcover version that is now out of stock.

https://www.fangamer.com/products/tunic-hardcover-manual
You can connect 2X10TB to a PI, mini PC or similar at home and access your files over a variety of interfaces (SFTP, nextcloud, syncthing, etc) using a vpn such as Tailscale. Why does one need to pay for expensive storage?
Generally speaking I don't think Linux is a target platform

Maybe, but you’d think an iOS iPad might be a target. I just closed the tab, as there’s no reader view, and the janky scrolling and waiting for text to load (text!) wasn’t worth the effort.
The „bus factor“ is a pars-pro-toto idiom. The „bus“ refers to any event that suddenly removes an important team member. This could be literally being hit by a bus (or SUV…), but could also be an illness, a move to another city, or simply a new position.
Google's voice assistant can't even understand what I am saying when I am holding the phone up to my face and clearly pronouncing my question that I am asking directly. And then it spends a minute fussing while it compresses and uploads my voice to send across my crappy cell network.

I'm supposed to believe that it's listening to my every word from my pocket on a noisy road with a half-dead battery?

I think people just don't want to accept that:

1. We fall into very basic trends and interests that are very predictable based on age and gender and expressed interests

2. We do so much mindless scrolling and are not aware of all of the random content we see until we get something that triggers a memory.