skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how some of these futures are useful. Mainly detergent dispenser and notification. If you live in a large house and have ADHD...it's a must.
Who verifies that the client on the other end of your line isn’t intercepting the messages after they’re decrypted?
If you repurpose your program for finding grid pixels, you can still beat just about everyone else ;)
> Well, ideally, in a liberal democracy, hold politicians accountable for whether they do what they say they will do.

I agree with that, but consider this hypothetical: Trump’s travel ban. He campaigned on banning travel from certain countries with high levels of Islamic fundamentalism. And then he did that. I think a reporter could say those facts without interjecting their view of whether that promise was a good thing or a bad thing. But Trump’s promise was deeply offensive to the value system a certain segment of society, which deems multiculturalism as axiomatically valuable. They couldn’t help themselves from reminding their viewers that they found Trump’s values abhorrent.

I think that’s where it matters whether the media attempts to maintain ideological neutrality. If CNN reported the facts, I’d watch it. But if they interject moral assessments of the facts, then I’ll watch Fox News instead. If neutrality isn’t an option, I’ll go watch the outlet that I at least agree with.
True, it’s nicely stateless, but it does allow precomputation. E.g. you could spend a few weeks doing PoW for a future date and submit when you reach it. Whether that’s a problem is a matter of taste!
Oh no, the French flag is growing :)
There's also the coordination overhead of trying to do all this, without stepping on each others toes, which is substantial.
The full meeting video was posted by the official SpaceX account

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1744581130727391488
While sum types would be a welcome addition in general, summing an error is logically erroneous. It is an independent state.

The question mark is interesting, but as the try proposal discovered, how do you solve the leaking problem? That doesn't have a good solution yet.
Verizon/Comcast don't even exist here, and I live between India and China, almost half of humanity. Are you talking in hyper-local terms ?

Peering exist everywhere, and at scale you have to pay, yes.
I believe that LLMs are quite useful for sentiment analysis, and could be quite helpful as an aid to search engines. However... the best way to do it would be for LLMs to ingest the entire web and give those analysis for each and every bit of text and image out there.... which is computationally infeasible at present.

If Moore's law can hold for a few more generations of chips, it might become possible.

LLMs are not going to be reliable search engines, but most people will likely be happy with them, especially due to the consistently falling quality of Google's results in comparison. Things that would have been laughed at a decade ago will now be seen as an improvement.
That is an excellent example of the cinematic effect.
When TV still used analog broadcasting, and you were using a rabbit-ears antenna, and, if the signal was at all weak, you could walk around the antenna several feet away and see the effect on the TV screen.
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

In many cases, Node.js is an order of magnitude faster than CPython.

(Acknowledged: You could write your Python in C.)

(Acknowledged: PyPy exists.)
That's already how it is among the SC2 twitch streamer community (and no doubt true for BW and other games with small but dedicated audiences).

Mid-tier streamers get the majority of their money from direct donations (which display a notification live on stream) and twitch 'subscriptions' the viewers buy for $5, split roughly 50/50 between streamer and twitch (usually to unlock access to their VoDs or other perks). Which really isn't the same as passive ad revenue from the platform, as users aren't exactly incentivized to give this money directly to twitch.

The successful ones actively solicit or otherwise encourage subs and donations, and those who struggle with this have generally moved on from the platform or away from streaming as a career. Many of them also have patreon for extra perks, plus a youtube channel with a more curated selection of videos (which I've heard pays better for the time investment, since the content is mostly already created for twitch streaming or sometimes other sources).

At this moment I'm watching a guy whose monetization strategy is a roulette wheel program with challenges and dumb stuff for him to do that gets rolled whenever a viewer donates above a certain threshold. As I am posting a viewer literally just hit "play 100 games" (obviously very low percentage roll, first time I've seen it) and the streamer is pleading with chat for them to let him play the 100 games over the weekend instead of right now. Pretty entertaining, and a funny coincidence to illustrate my point as I'm typing this.

Another guy who is a caster (like a sports announcer for e-sports tournaments) hosts tournaments via donations, ie every donation has a portion go to the prizepool and tournament costs. He has relationships with all the top pro-gamers in the scene and gets great line-ups for relatively small offered prizepools by being a community figure and also being a great organizer and scheduler, etc to accommodate the pro players to make it effortless for them to participate.

It's been this way for many years for streamers trying to make a living with 1-2k average viewers and below, typically working 40ish hours per week if I had to guess (not counting practice and any professional obligations with e-sports, sponsors, etc).

Anyway, I love professional SC2 even though I haven't played for years, and I spend way too much time on twitch.
I agree with Antirez on the fear: I call this the "Google Maps effect", the more you use Google Maps, the less you learn about city streets, etc.

By the way, I am Italian too; I lived in the US (SF) for ~10 years, and I speak (I think) a pretty good English.

More than 20 years ago I wrote a novel, Nonovvio, in Italian. A couple of months ago I decided to translate it to English, using GPT-4.

Here you can find both the (original) Italian version, and the one created with GPT-4. [0].

I don't think the novel is amazing nor a work of art; however, what I find interesting is how prescient I was on a number of things that happened after I finished writing it in the early 2000s.

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/Nonovvio
Babel fish, you mean?
Anyone know what were the big inflection points in 2022 and 2023 for star growth?
And folks, this is why you sell your exploits to the highest bidder.

Being "good" and giving companies free work is a HORRIBLE idea. They're never gonna pay, or even than you. If they're not willing to treat security researchers properly, I see no reason to return the favor.

Remember security groups: if your company wont pay, there are others that will.
Thanks for the context - that is a great revenue source if morally dubious
I just checked, and newly created tables without RLS are accessible to anyone: After running `CREATE TABLE x` in my SQL client (which succeeds with no warning), if I go back to the table UI on Supabase it says "WARNING: You are allowing anonymous access to your table". (It's good that there's a warning in the official interface, at least, but what if I use my own SQL client? What if my ORM is creating tables?)

Your confusion probably stems from how you can have RLS disabled, or RLS enabled with no policies. If you have RLS enabled with no policies, the access is restricted. But if RLS is disabled (or never enabled!), then your table is blasted to the entire internet.

This confusion kind of proves my point; if DB access from untrusted clients were baked into SQL since birth, RLS would probably be enabled by default.
Oracle RAC is a shared storage system, every database instances write to same datastore, so as long as a transaction is committed by one node, it'll be seen by other nodes.

Of course, the issue with all shared-storage systems is how much it costs to have a reliable and fast shared storage.
I believe we are in complete agreement though, if you read through the entirety of the post? :)

My main point was indeed: "While we may not have as immediate and visible impact on people's health, we can and do have significant impact on people's well-being, and should think more consciously on such connections"
This post about how gold veins are produced may help to understand this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38732825
Everybody has that goal until they get a knock on their door at 6am: https://github.com/disclose/research-threats
Most apps are online by default these days and don’t even gracefully degrade without internet. Firebase does have the offline DB, but it had a ton of more features and I wouldn’t say the offline db is the only selling point of FB.
The consumer facing product is closer to solidified, but advertising, moderation, etc features need to change over time.
does this count as authorized access under CFAA?

I’m curious what the limits are
I’ve used their products. While the market is still small it is one of the coolest hardware projects I’ve ever experienced
> Summing an error is logically erroneous. It is an independent state.

Doesn't compute for me. Care to explain?
>Korea has a philosophy of local conglomerates first and foreign companies only existing if they prop the local conglomerate up.

I don't doubt that there is some degree of domestic favoratism—it would be surprising if there weren't any—but Korea was for years the last bastion of Internet Explorer because of government requirements, as opposed to Chrome, Firefox, or some special Korea-reskinned Chromium. iPhone has lots of market share despite Samsung.[1] Relevant to this discussion, Korean players going back to Starcraft a quarter century ago were and are well known for competing in and livestreaming mostly non Korean-developed videogames.

[1] Yes, I know about Apple being a Samsung customer
ChatGPT Launches Personalization
ChatGPT now learns about users with a RAG system. This is the first step towards an OpenAI assistant:
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-in-chatgp...
I use this and it's been fantastic and rock solid; (I've been using Unix shells intensively for 15 years, started using it 1 year ago and never looked back).
> There is no way for a person to know if what they experienced happened during a time that an outside observer could see no brain activity.

Exactly...so, when a human on planet earth, 2023, encounters such a scenario (indeterminateness), they project an illusion upon it, declare that illusion to be true, and most other humans will agree with them, depending on the metaphysical framework (aka:culture - currently, we are in the age of "science", before that it was "religion") they have been trained upon (like an LLM....if there are differences, I'd very much like to know).

You can literally see this in action as people talk, relatively highly rational people will literally make things up, utilize very well known (by science) cultural/psychological exists, etc etc etc.

For fun, try this: point out where they claim something (in general, or specifically), and then ask them for proof/evidence - then, do this 1000+ times - you will see a normal distribution of stories emerge, reliably.

There is something very weird about humans in 2024.
Product Management Is Broken
That’s cool but why not fetch the photos via URL? Seems easier than having to maintain an email inbox
It seems a fantastic game.

I wish they did something like that for the old "Core War" [0]. I played it in the late 80s, it was so amazing, and I learned some assembly as well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Edit: I meant Red Code, but that led to Assembly.
having a purpose built device reduces number of clicks and other friction. currently phones are hostile to AI interaction (not that I'm entertaining this specific device)
What is wrong with shaming when it's warranted?
In Hong Kong I'm sure there is a (not small) section of the population that buys the new flagship every year.
This is not entirely true, at least not anymore. Twitch forces ads every two hours? or so nowadays (some predefined amount of time), even if the streamer has ads disabled entirely. I believe it's either that or preroll ads? Don't quote me on this but I've seen it happen and explained like that by more than one streamer.

Prerolls in particular are super annoying to the point that I've moved on to twitch turbo, even though I have a subscription to the vast majority of the creators I watch regularly. Just opening a stream of some other creator to see quickly what is going on and just getting slammed with a 30s+ AD is not a good experience.

In fairness to twitch though, they do cover all the bandwidth usage from all these streamers, including the ones which don't even qualify for partnership and ad revenue. I'm just glad they offer the option to pay to get rid of these things.
How can I use this to spy/leak/share?

(not asking for any friend - but seriously, do these have exploitation vectors?)
There is a big difference between discovering a vulnerability that allows you to forge tokens and immediately reporting it versus dumping terabytes of data on the darknet for sale.
It's sad, HPE will suck out all the life-force of Juniper; I have had other HP-acquired products and they never got better in subsequent offerings, only worse.
>> It was invented by Italian people and Catholic religious orders.

Interesting. Do you have any sources on that?
The reverse happens too, HP split into HP and Agilent.
The Wright flyers had their own engine. They were not gliders. The Wrights were making long, controlled flights powered by engines years before Dumont. First flights in 1903, first complete circle flight in 1904, and flights of over 20 miles and half an hour in 1905. The 1903 flight did not use a catapult, although several of their 1904 and 1905 flights did.

Dumont made a flight of 50 meters in 1906. Dumont's 1906 plane had no ability to do turns, rolls, or banking, useful maneuvers when you take a flight. It was not something that could be considered a usable airplane.
I’m sure something like this already exists but can’t there be a distributed streaming platform that pays people fractions of a penny for hosting (all/part) of a video like bitorrent. I’m sure there’s some cryptocurrency equivalent. Or even better some combination of CDNs and distributed bitorrent like streaming. At the very least, it should atleast ease the burden of massive central hosting.
Yeah as soon as someone gets a demolition bill as high as the construction bill, the desire to reuse everything will disappear quick.

This also presumes in 40-100 years when a house presumably makes sense to demolish, the same standard design is still considered good and the new owner has heard of your weird bespoke construction style.

Consider that currently the age of a house maybe worthy of demolition is 1978 and earlier at this point, and many many people refurbish and renovate houses significantly older than that.
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It's pretty common in my experience, especially from larger companies

Recently I reported an issue to a company valued at >$10bil issues were quietly fixed, not a single response back, not even a "thank you"
Ha yeah I even replied to the wrong comment and accidentally replied to one that.. yup has WiFi and an app for it.
Have you ever considered building something like "Core War" [0] as a way to help people learn WebAssembly while having fun?

I played with it in the late 80s and that's how I learned some Assembly before I was a teenager.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

Edit: I meant Red Code, but that led to Assembly.
EDIT: I read the original article in the opposite way and described the largest PNG file with single pixel, oops. It's still a good tidbit so here is the original comment.

There is a much easier way. You can put an arbitrary number of empty uncompressed blocks, which are normally used for the sync flush (Z_SYNC_FLUSH in zlib). Such blocks do not affect any other block or zlib checksum (but do affect PNG checksum). For example a DEFLATE stream `7801 (00 0000 ffff)* 01 0100 feff xx yyyy yyyy` is always valid and decompresses into a single byte `xx` where `yyyy` is a big-endian representation of `xx + 1`. Also PNG IDAT chunks have to be implicitly concatenated, so you can technically have an arbitrary large PNG file of single pixel if you really want.
The device itself is really cute. I'm not sure about handing oauth tokens to all my accounts to a third party for them to run huginn/selenium on a backend that might not be online for more than a year. I'm barely comfortable with Alexa having a connection to my iTunes for podcasts. What happens when Uber or whoever decides to throw a captcha between Rabbit and the web frontend?

I'd like to see it do more than help me buy things. Teach mode seems to be the main way to do productivity tasks?

https://github.com/huginn/huginn
Automated programs are not limited by stamina, attention span, sleep cycles, etc. so I don't think AIs being better at something is necessarily an indicator of failure for humans.

Dogs were used to rotate roasting spits in Britain during the Early Modern era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnspit_dog Does this mean humans were inferior to dogs at the task? Absolutely not. It was just a more efficient alternative based on what was available to them at that point in time.
Ill be honest most of what youve said here is gibberish to me. Maybe vaguely anti-Semitic based on the whole khazaria thing? I am not sure its all kind of unhinged, but your whole attitude and approach to conversation seems like it might not be cut out for this message board. Try r/worldnews or something it might be a better fit for you. Anyways this thread is buried so many fewer people will ever have to read your drivel, so im gonna disengage now.
I’m an atuin user too, and think it’s great. It’s a significant improvement over the bash history configurations (incantations?) I used previously.

Where atuin really shines is in keeping a single unified history across multiple shell windows, which my incantations could never get to work correctly on all the platforms I use (zsh/bash on OSX/Linux/msys/cygwin/babun).

I’ve also enjoyed running SQL queries on my atuin-history to learn more about my own workflows to see where I can optimize.

Thanks!
Sounds like the author is missing an interface to abstract the DB backend.
No growing company has a feature-complete product, as just load increases can make a product go from fine to inoperable. Sometimes it's not even more users, but more historical data: Something that used ot parse through 3 months of history is probably going to be unhappy with 5 years.

In big tech, having services without anyone having a semblance of maintenance responsibilities tends to lead to relatively quick failures. Even in boring enterprise companies, handing out maintenance to a 3rd party is still going to cost you, and is likely going to lower quality. I've seen way too many companies that ended up rewriting things after leaving a system mostly unmaintained for 5 years made it sop being fit to purpose.

If there's a lesson of software from the last decade is that undermaintained services become zombified software, and can eat your company's brains. That's why a place like google often would rather shut something down than claim it's finished.
Any Antenna designer wants to see the antenna being an elevated ground-plane or dipole mounted clear of obstructions well above the phone.

However he is stuck with a compromise design and knows that there are various effects that a nearby conductive body can have on the antenna's performance.

- Anything nearby will effect the tuning of the antenna. And if the antenna is no longer at resonance, then it's efficiency is greatly reduced.

- Anything nearby will disturb the antenna due to its missing ground plane, which will change both the tuning and the loading (eg impedance).

- And anything nearby will act as Directive or Reflective elements thus greatly effecting the radiation pattern (eg directivity).

In the early days, it was common for phones to have an external whip antenna, and also a socket so an outdoor antenna could be plugged in if required.

But forcing the designed to include the antenna within the body of the phone, (and without an effective ground plane) results in a mess of compromises.

Unfortunately the general public thinks that phone works by "magic", and is somehow exempt from the fundamental need for a radio to have an efficient external antenna.
err != nil works fine, exactly the same way it works for plain error: interface values can be nil,
I struggled learning about Mamba's architecture but realized it's because I had some gaps in knowledge. In no particular order, they were:

- a refresher on differential equations

- legendre polynomials

- state spaced models; you need to grok the essence of

x' = Ax + Bu

y = Cx

- discretization of S4

- HiPPO matrix

- GPU architecture (SRAM, HBM)

Basically, transformers is an architecture that uses attention. Mamba is the same architecture that replaces attention with S4 - but this S4 is modified to overcome its shortcomings, allowing it to act like a CNN during training and an RNN during inference.

I found this video very helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q_tqwpTpVU

His other videos are really good too.
https://archive.ph/og1pQ
That’s too bad for you. I’d say for general corporate development, the output is directly usable 90%+ of the time.
> A lot of developers would rather make websites in their language of choice than learn JavaScript. (And who can blame them?).

Personally I’m quite happy to blame them. If I want to do ML I use Python, if I do statistics I use R, for messing with Windows I use C#, for using databases I use SQL and for the web I use JavaScript. I think that refusing to learn other languages is a foolish consistency.
The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
"The MOE architecture uses 20 times the parameters, is this comparison fair? Can it be compared with a single model that also uses 20 times the parameters?"
Quora was amazing the first couple of years. The experience is now terrible. Perhaps intentional to drive more views. I can't tell if there's actually an answer to a question or not. It's bloated with ads, related questions, answers to related questions, all within the same feed where I expected an answer to the question I'm viewing.
>The pharma industry doesn’t own the US

The pharma industry spends more money on lobbying US politicians than any other, almost 2x more than the next biggest spender

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries
How are you different from Pixie?
Attack of the Naked Short Sellers
> I can't find any place where OpenAI leadership has implied that it is or will be.

have you tried saying the name out loud?
Researchers make skin bacteria that secrete and produce molecules to treat acne
This is bizarrely suspicious. Another deep side-channel planted by a large, nation-state grade actor?