skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was authorized to read that data. He was not authorized to freely access the server the data was stored on, or to extract the credentials from the software. This is an obvious difference that matters.

I can't break into an AWS data center to access my data, even if I they didn't have any security and I knew exactly where my data is stored. Not because I could be seeing other people's data but because I'd be trespassing.
Dragon Ladies flew over Soviet Union from 1955 until 1960, when Powers was shot down near Sverdlovsk, i.e. a bit farther to the north from interesting locations. Those spy planes could make a photo of the sites.
Yes. Any yellow flags are instant rejections even with referrals right now in my experience. Had to take time off for health and getting nearly no hits with 10yoe and a good resume.
Can you share some of the art you’ve made with generative AI?
the point is you could circumvent one nightshade, but as long as the cat and mouse game continues there can be more
Again, quantify this "majority of women" for me. This sounds like the most sexist shite I have ever read on this website and like complete confirmation bias, if not fabricated nonsense.
I figured Twitter would die about last April, after firing/throwing away/laying off so much staff. I'm as much in the dark as you are.

I did return to Twitter this last fall, so as to be able to look at Tweets that The Grugq has in his daily newsletter, after about a years' absence. I found the amount of advertising, scammy advertising, literal boner juice ads, overwhelming. Despite his ranting and raving, Elon hasn't solved the bot problem, it appears there's more bots than ever.

I think that right now Twitter exists to squeeze the last little bit of value from advertisers.
Equity comp induces a desirable correlation between stock price and retention
Change my mind - this is my best understanding for why public tech companies do, and ought to do significant equity comp, other than the fact that it's a norm now.

I'd love to see any alternate posts / expositions on this. Google seems to only provide me with unhelpful FAQs by lawyers etc.
Doesn't Meta send the data do US intelligence agencies already? I thought this was revealed to journalists by Snowden.
People are not looking for a new twitter even if people leave twitter.
And horse wages (some oats) were low when the car was invented. Yet they were still inflated. There used to be more horses than humans in this country. Couldn't even earn their keep when the Ford Model T came along.
> In contrast, most un-manned NASA projects are roughly on budget and generally have few issues.

This is simply not true. Maybe for some of the smallest Discovery or New Frontiers missions, but then those aren’t actually built by NASA/JPL.

Mars Sample Return is also famously insanely late and over budget, and so have been most flagship missions.
Jurgen Schmidhuber has published on creativity as an algorithmic process for a long time. And others.
There’s obviously no way this finding is true.
Okay, then he only exfiltrated the hashes. Hashing on the server still constitutes processing though.
I was thinking something more like Thunderdome with audience participation.

Two men enter, two bloody flying pins leave.
If the primary selling point of the new technology is something like GraphQL's "if your API doesn't have a good single route to get the data for this page, GraphQL can synthesize it"; frontend just doesn't, in general, iterate at a speed that is such orders-of-magnitude higher than how quickly a new API view can be built, such that a new structurally-different communications layer is necessary.

Additionally; GraphQL never got the community love it needed on the backend side to make things hum. Apollo is the only organization really pushing it, and they invest something I'd estimate as 10% of their time into thinking about Apollo Server, which is in any event JavaScript-only. It turns out, the problems GraphQL creates in a system are backend problems; there's some really freakin hairy edges in the domains of authorization, caching, rate limiting/complexity limiting, even just basic type safety, that can only charitably be described as "solved" if you consider "some ideas in a twenty page blog post" as a solution.

We also had constant problems educating our customers about GraphQL. "No no, you can use any REST client you want, here let me show you how to set it up" (two hour education session later).

There really isn't a perfect solution to the problem space. If your view is complex enough, synthesizing it JIT in GraphQL is just the frontend saying "its your problem now" to the backend, and whether the solution to that is "fixing performance bottlenecks" or "a new RESTful-ish view API for this screen" for the backend team, its still a ticket. If the view is less complex than that: making multiple requests isn't the end of the world. After all, those two highly predictable, optimized, even cached requests may end up being faster than one dynamic and extremely-difficult-to-cache GraphQL request.

At the end of the day, I think there's a reason why REST has lasted as long as it has, and why it still feels state of the art to me. Moving more API capabilities to edge platforms, including edge databases, shortens that string of beads quite substantially. Server-side rendering is back is in full force. There's other angles this problem is being attacked from.
It always catches up to them eventually. Xerox and Polaroid continued to grow revenues and operating profit for a couple years even after the writing was on the wall that their days were numbered without some kind of big change. It's usually fairly easy to pull various levers to juice those metrics in the short run (especially when there was a lot of fat in costs to start with, and a lot of remaining customer surplus), but this tends to be a one-off thing because it generally pisses of customers/users/employees and hastens the end.
Reminds me of the HFT shop that built in Java and simply turned the garbage collector off. Then when the market closed they would restart the process for the next day.
If you require something more explicit, you can totally define strict schemas that your API adheres to.

Would you elaborate on "queries are append only"? I fail to understand the downside you mention.

If you mean that you can only append to the data you return from a resource, you can use versioning to deprecate properties on a resource.
> I'm getting a notification if you use the term "WunderGraph"

What happens if I say it three times in a row?

Will it summon you to appear in my geographical proximity?

WunderGraph WunderGraph WunderGraaaaaaAAAAHHH-
Add most ISSF bullseye rifle to that list.

(Not to knock the people who do that vs less high tech bullseye disciples, because they're also definitely better - they clean house in the lower tech competitions too)

I'm reminded of an excerpt from Ian Banks culture series, the game player one (player of games?). Really good games need some element of random, not just pure skill+gear.
Cool, who are you?
This is already the case. Art is a process, a form of human expression, not an end result.

I'm sure OpenAI's models can shit out an approximation of a new Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams novel, but nobody with any level of literary appreciation would give a damn unless fraud was committed to trick readers into buying it. It's not the author's work, and there's no human message behind it.
> I find it horrifying that someone as well versed in law as you is fine with putting the burden of proof on the defendant, because it would be impractical to force programmers of serious software with serious consequences to actually employ serious standards of work...

That’s not exactly my position.

Basically my concern is that with the hearsay provision of PACE, a fraudster could conceivably require the prosecution to prove that Excel works from first principles, which is absurd.

It’s also patently absurd to refuse to entertain the idea that a computer system may produce an incorrect response. But the law is an ass and you can only work with what you’re given.
Somehow I suspect taking control of governments by - for example - invading them, or fomenting revolutions, is more dangerous than taking control of aircraft.

And the "security weaknesses" were mostly in the White House.

https://www.politico.eu/article/attacks-will-be-spectacular-...
instead of encoding "moved king", encode "moved rook" on each rook. Since a pawn can never be on its home rank, overlap rook (not moved) & pawn (en passant) codes. Now you have a code for "king (to move)" and "king (not to move)".

If you use a variable length encoding you can also use different static probabilities for the different ranks, since "rook (not moved)" and "pawn (en passant)" can only appear on certain ranks and only depending on the piece color (well, pawns can't appear on ranks 1 or 8 at all)
> Whether it's irrelevant is a matter of opinion.

It's just as much of an opinion, or as 'objective', as your prior statements.

Your going to have to face up to the fact that just saying something is 'objective' doesn't necessarily mean all 8 billion people will agree that it is so.
This is my experience as well. Sugar alcohols make me feel horrible (cramps, nausea, bloating, debilitating fatigue, etc.) but I only get that effect from sugar-free gum specifically if I'm ripping through several pieces in a day. One stick of gum isn't enough to do it.
I don't see how the US responded in Rest of World is even remotely irrelevant.
Oh, you mean like the concurrent attack on the Pentagon on 9/11? https://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/digital-exhib...
Hah! I wrote something to go the other direction (YT->Spotify) because the dating apps only work with Spotify.
By that standard, if f is a function of x and y, then writing f(1,2) is syntactically bad because the argument slots don’t have a meaningful order. One could surely invent a valid mathematical formalism with exclusively named argument slots, but this isn’t how math is generally done.

(I admit it might be a lot easier to avoid losing track of which thing is a row and which is a column in a gnarly linear algebra expression if all dimensions were explicitly named, and this would come with a tradeoff of verbosity. Also, the interpretation of a matrix as a linear function from vectors to vectors would need some clarification as to which dimension is input and which is output, so maybe it would look a bit like Einstein notation with superscript dimensions and subscript dimensions?)
> This is simple law.

“One may well ask: ‘How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?’ The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”
The USA dropped the ball on this. I was screaming at the news (or anyone that would listen :) ) that we needed work closer with Yeltsin/Gorbachev to support the burgeoning democracy. The USA just patted itself on the back and didn't do anything diplomatically/financially other than lip service to build economic ties and then the big collapse and rise of oligarchs and Putin.
Still cheap, but the cost per KWH in UK is at least twice the average in the US.
The only thing that has worked for me is solving a problem you are passionate about with ML. I’m not talking about some pretend problem or competition in Kaggle. I’m talking about a problem I’m interested in or curious about. Choose a model, try to get some data, tune the model and deploy it somewhere. See how it performs and keep iterating and learning as you go along
ISSF is trying to gamify the finals for bullseye competitions, and it's... well it's a thing. Idk if it's good, but it's probably more entertaining for the bundesliga cheering people
https://archive.md/hPpo0
Some folks I suppose take a religious fervor, but for my I look at how a child learns -- through the observation of cause and effect -- and know the current architectures don't support how we have husbanded animals and reared children for eons.

The inherent capacity for true self-directed learning may well be there, but it isn't hit yet in what we see.

GPTs are still neat.
Looks like an ICBM flight is about 30 minutes. Even if you have good launch detection, that's not a lot of time to communicate, decide, and launch the counter strike. If missiles aren't on standby, it takes time to prepare them.

There's a good chance some counter launches get delayed... Seems like a lucky first strike could significantly reduce the counter strike. But everyone loses anyway.
I'm totally down for the courts handling this AI/copyright mess, but I don't think technologists are going to like the results.

By virtue of the fact that it is "fuzzy" and open to interpretation, we're going to see lawsuits, the resulting chilling effects of those lawsuits will blunt US tech firms from the practice of ingesting large amounts of copywritten material without a second thought. US tech firms will be giving it a second, third, fourth, etc. thought once the lawsuits start.

It's gonna be like submarine patents on steroids.

Like I said, I'm down for letting the courts decide. But AI supporters should probably avoid kicking the hornets' nests regarding copyright.
No? I think it's quite relevant.
You can remove the entirety of the guix package set (26468) from the non-unique part of nixpkgs (71875) and it would still be the largest non-unique package set (second largest non-unique is AUR at 37900).
Beginners talking about SQL joins.
What is this newbienews or hackernews?
"But but ChatGPT says"...

Disgusting
From my perspective, Twitter is better than it used to be - it now seems more dynamic with more of a "Wild West" feel than it used to have, and it seems to have more diversity of political opinions than it used to have. On the other hand, I've heard that some advertisers have pulled out and I don't know how Twitter has weathered that storm.
Exactly. A load from or store to memory protected by a mutex could be executed before the store that sets the mutex as locked. Unless there is an appropriate kind of memory barrier in between.
Thank you, this was a very insightful blog post!
I don't think it will stop foreign hiring for R&D, since the cost differential is often greater than the tax obligation would be.

E.g. if you pay $150K for local research, you expense $15K (10%) the first year (and 30K the subsequent year). You pay taxes on $135K of 'profit'. Let's say that's $45K (I have no idea what's realistic here.

Alternately you pay $130K for a dev from Canada, expense $4,333 (1/30) the first year, and pay tax on the remaining 'profit' of $125,666. Even after admin costs you're coming out ahead
How is your negligence relevant to the topic of AEB in a highway setting?
We did the same -- Sequoyah regional library has been really cool!
Confused, this only occurred during installation? Not booting after the OS was installed?
The cost of training them is going down, though. Given the existence of models like Pixart, I don’t think we’ll stay dependent on corporate charity for long.
oh fellow JIRA hater, aloha! Here I propose that the biggest barrier to achieve human-level AI os JIRA!
JSON to FFmpeg – Edit videos using JSON
I send cash and it has worked just fine. I guess depends on honest mail people between you and them though.
Tidal energy.
In the old HN fashion:

- congrats for writing and publishing this useful looking tool!

- why are there no screenshots or preview how this will look like before I give access to my calendar
I think that explains my observations.

FTA: “New Jersey’s waiver policy was similar. Candidates could earn a temporary credential before passing the normal licensure exams or completing a teacher preparation program. The licenses were good for one year, at which point candidates would need to go back, pass the tests and complete their training”

So, those people would have a job for a year, but in that time also would study to pass “the normal licensure exams”?

I would think that strongly selects for people motivated to teach.

Also, did they really have to _earn_ a temporary credential? The answer to that question seems to be “yes”. Google gives me https://www.nj.gov/education/covid19/teacherresources/instru..., which says:

“Candidates who have met all requirements for a CE or Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced Standing (CEAS) but have not yet passed the basic skills test and/or test of subject matter knowledge are eligible for the Temporary CE”

Doesn’t that mean people who got that waiver are educated as teachers, but haven’t managed to pass all exams (most of them likely not because they can’t pass them but because there wasn’t any opportunity to do them)?

I couldn’t find the regulation for Massachusetts, so I couldn’t check whether it had similar provisions (https://www.doe.mass.edu/licensure/emergency/ Probably comes close, but it mentions a program extension, and becomes confusing to me because of that)

Also FTA: “Starting June 2020, Massachusetts began temporarily letting anyone with a bachelor’s degree teach”

So, it’s not “without degrees”, but “without teaching degrees”, at least in Massachusetts (the article isn’t clear as to whether New Jersey had a similar restriction, but it had. See the link above)
"Make another endpoint for getting the whole thing in one go" is a pretty good description of what GraphQL does. Except instead of writing an endpoint in some general purpose language you define it declaratively.
Hi, Maltese here, always lived here since birth, my family is Maltese going back generations.

Off the top of my head:
1. The country is constantly polarised. Politics and football especially. Voting based on your family's political legacy is very common.
2. The idea of being constantly ruled by someone else used to be s convenient excuse to steal from the colonists. The downside is that this attitude never left with the british, so tax evasion is rampant as if you're sticking it to the man by doing so... But in reality you're stealing from yourself.
3. While similar to Ireland in the sense that the economy grew very fast very quickly, it has the opposite problem when it comes to housing: massive supply is not managing to sate the massive demand, so housing prices are persistently astronomically high.

Happy to answer more questions.
I like the RESTful approach taken by Graphiti:

Single request and response and with a graph of nested relationships. This approach lets one still use HTTP GET caching, whereas GraphQL hides everything behind a single POST endpoint.

https://www.graphiti.dev/guides/
I think that would fail since that is just wg through a wg tunnel
The problem is that the question of what is a "browser" is an easy question for humans to answer but doesn't line up to software.

The short story is that the permission model would have to be changed; they have to add an Android permission for sharing browsing data that apps would have to declare and users would have to opt into. And of course that increases the risk surface area; We know from past examples that malicious apps sneak through (or non-malicious apps previously signed off on end up purchased by someone else and become malicious) and users really don't understand security.

The state is extractable via Google take out and the safest solution might honestly be to not support this directly on Android and instead require Mozilla to figure out how to import a takeout archive via the cloud.
> Yes he did help to design and build the rockets. By literally any definition. His impact on the final products of SpaceX is clearly larger then anybody else at SpaceX.

Do you think he had a greater impact than Tom Mueller? I'd expect the guy who was lead on the TR-106, and already developing liquid-fueled rocket engines, had more technical impact at a space company than a guy who worked in e-payments.

> And if you actually read the books on the topic, listen to talks with people who worked with him rather then some anti-space socialists on twitter.

I find it fascinating that you use "books" in the plural, like a totally normal person would read multiple books on Elon Musk.

From my survey of the material, Elon Musk books fail to consider anything he does from a critical perspective. Perhaps that's a requirement of getting access to interviews, or perhaps the authors know their audience are parasocial fans. Are there any books that you recommend that take a critical look?

> How about we judge the company 5 or 10 years after he takes control. Tesla was a shitshow when he took over as well.

Was it? It seems Tesla was any early-stage company. When he took over Twitter, it was already making revenue and even reached profitability in 2019. I don't understand the endgame of driving advertisers away.

> Again, I love to know what he has actually done that constitutes 'act mentally ill'.

It's hard to pick just one, but I'd start with the Twitter acquisition. Specifically, the part where he felt insulted by the CEO, so he initiated a hostile takeover. Then he put together a contract that he couldn't back out of. Then he spent much of the year trying to back out of that contract by just making up silly excuses.

Following the transition, he has cultivated an image and a platform that no sane advertiser would touch with a ten foot pole. Would a person grounded in reality tell a room full of advertisers, "Go fuck yourself," and then pause for applause that never come?

Then there's all the behavior in his personal life. I'm an open minded person, so if you want to have children with two women at the same time... and everyone is a consulting adult... good luck? But not telling both women what was going on seems unwell.

If you described this behavior to someone while leaving out the names, they'd probably describe it as self-destructive.

> But go to now that you are professional therapist who can make medical diagnosis.

It doesn't take a medical professional to watch bizarre episodes by Kanye West, Charlie Sheen or Britney Spears, and know something is up. I won't venture to say Elon is bipolar or has a drug problem, but if the news came out, most people would react with, "Sounds right."
Laws are used by humans to blackmail, extort, and damage.

When you have an idea how to cancel out human emotions fucking up the high minded poetry, platitudes, euphemisms, coded language society relies on to function let us know.

Studies show that we kill each other in random acts of violence; spurned lovers, and the boss who fired the office shooter without understanding how close to the edge they are; we kill each other over those things at the same rate we always have.

Our language just implants mind viruses that obfuscate the mechanics of reality. Something we evolved into intuiting (enough heat, water, food) before language. Language just gets in the way. It creates hallucinated problems that only exist given the language they exist.

AI isn’t a problem if we can’t understand it. Let it emit whatever Anglo-gibberish it wants. Just unplug it when it mouths off.

AI won’t be the problem people fear it will be because most know it’s just a dumb machine under the hood. They aren’t lost to a puerile hallucination like IT narcissists who can’t cope with reality as-is.