skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the thing I remember most about him was that he could swear for a minute straight and never use the same word twice.

Legend! I’d have enjoyed working with him. The smell of cigarettes could be a turn-off. Only perfectionists (in their craft) can use that level of swearing.
The next generation of regulations is not
I'm getting flashbacks of getting a right answer for a problem in my high school math class

but then getting points deducted because I didn't use the right method for arriving at the solution
I'd find it interesting to ask the opponents of E2E encryption what their feelings are on cash. Cash is also an untraceable form of interaction. Yes, cash is a medium of exchange for drugs and sex crimes, but it is also a bulwark against overreaching local and federal governments.

How much personal choice and freedom should we give up?
business insider says:

“84% of Model 3 owners also identify as male, according to the firm. For comparison, about 49% of licensed US drivers are male, per the Federal Highway Administration.”
With a single stair you can also get windows in opposite ends of the building for the same unit which makes a huge quality of life difference. Getting a real cross-breeze!
Linus Torvalds Speaks: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Programming [video]
The big achievement of DOS and the 8088 was relocation during loading. For .COM files, this was easy: the program was segment register relative, you pretty much had virtual memory. For .EXE files, MS-DOS relinks all of the absolute segment addresses during the load process.

So this means you could have multiple programs loaded at once: often done with TSRs (terminate and stay resident programs), but it also allowed things like shell windows in Lugaru Emacs (Epsilon) to exist. Languages like Turbo-C had system().

Also the OS was well decoupled from the application programs (it could be independently updated). This was not true for many of the other home computers of the time, but some pulled it off: all CP/M systems and TRS-80. I think the main exception to this was the video system- many programs made assumptions about the address of the screen buffer.
Yes. Humans, just like information, are prone to bitrot. Every day your data is rotting, there's no stopping the entropy train, so most anyone who cares about it takes preventative measures by increasing redundancy. Man does this via procreation and perpetuating, hopefully, to other planets while Earth is habitable. Extreme stagnation is a form of degeneration as well as extreme change for change's sake.
Here's my wild guess:

Some other code running in the browser window (probably a browser extension, but possibly another script tag in the page, inserted by an intermediate firewall/proxy) is doing this. It could be corporate spyware (i.e. forced on users by the IT department), or an extension that only tends to be used by large institutions (because it relates to some expensive enterprise product). Alternatively, it could be a much more popular browser extension, but it only executes this capture when it determines that the user is within a target list of large institutions.

I'm making the same guess as the author about the execution process: that the code is shipping a huge amount of page content to a cloud server, e.g. the full DOM, and then rendering that DOM in this older Chrome version. It's not fetching the same page from the origin server, which is how it's able to do this without auth cookies.

As part of rendering, the page's script tags all get executed again, which is why Upollo is seeing this. (Note that I don't know if this re-execution of script tags is deliberate. There's a good chance that it's an unintended side-effect of loading the DOM into Chrome, but it doesn't seem to break anything so nobody's bothered to disable it.)

It's only sampling a small percentage of executions, which is why it's not continually happening for every interaction by these users.

It's waiting ten seconds so that the page's network interactions are likely to have finished by then. Waiting longer would increase the odds of the user navigating to another page before the code has had a chance to run.

The article doesn't say if there are particular kinds of pages being grabbed, but looking for commonality between them would help.

The main thing that stumps me – assuming I've understood it correctly – is why the second render is happening across such a diverse set of cloud networks.
Again, within the Christian view: We've walked away from God, rebelled against him, and broken everything in the process, but it's his fault that he doesn't fix everything?

God doesn't stop evil, but he does limit it, and will eventually end it completely. Why doesn't he do so immediately, when he could?

The bible's answer is that God is giving people time to repent. See, we are part of the evil that needs fixed. It's not just diseases. It's not even just other people. It's us. But we want God to address all the evil in the world that harms us (and those we care about), but not address the evil inside us (that also harms those around us).

So think carefully before you blame God for not addressing evil immediately with big, sweeping measures. He's still in the "rescue" phase; the court cases will come.
It's opt-in per DM.
I thought I messed it up! I had no idea this was a thing.
In that case, the preview system would do (eg) GET https://example.com/private/page, but get a 401 Unauthorized response back, and have none of the page content or execute any of the scripts inlucded in that /private/page:

> * That somehow had the page content from a user

> * Would render and execute all scripts on that page as if it was that user
It would be better to have a list of recommendations instead of one, it’s frustrating after writing what I want only to give me one movie that I already watched, and going back to write the same. Make the list maybe appears under the search bar, so no jumping back and forth.
> See latest Google layoffs. They are automating a lot of things. Most people don't realize it, but the change is going to be dramatic.

What exactly did they automate?
My theory is that people who like math have a reward system that responds well to gaining an understanding on empirical concepts. I have that, and it does drive me to keep studying math. Not that I find it easy though, I don't think I'm able to skip steps, and I often have to repeat things I've already done before they sink in. The difference is that I find this process enjoyable, so I don't mind spending the time.

If I can compare to another activity, I've always wanted to be an artist as well, and have spend quite a bit of time trying to build up the skills. The problem is that, if I'm honest with myself, is I just don't enjoy the process of creative expression, it doesn't trigger any reward system that means anything for me. I wish it did but there's just nothing there. It was a hard pill to swallow, but I realized I like the idea of being an artist, but I don't enjoy the process. Hence my ultimately crummy artwork!

Sorry, I realized I'm talking about myself more than you, but I hope it's some help. The point I hope it makes is that everyone has a different personality, and from that different reward systems. It sounds to me like yours doesn't align with math, and that's fine. I wouldn't try to force yourself to study something which you don't love, at least if it's optional self study. Find subjects that you love learning, and the results will come naturally.
No. Alphafold is absolutely amazing and one of those shining beacons of what humanity can accomplish when we optimize for the greater good — or the other bottom line.

What I’m saying is, I don’t think there’s another one project like it in the pipeline…not from the company that’s focusing its resources and talents on throttling browsers with adblockers.

I realize that this is an oversimplification and these changes take decades to become fully realized but you have to admit, it’s a bizarre thing to focus on from the company that literally solved protein folding.

These geniuses were advancing humankind and at some point and now they’re doing “this”.
"Present birth certificate and touch heartbeat detector to log me in or else there's going to be a very large and very believable botnet dedicated to destroying your life."
Mind Switches in Futurama and Stargate
A couch and a fire and that couch can't be pushed over or jumped over... That's quite a contrived scenario. I suspect that most of the improvements in the fire safety record of apartment buildings have to do with other factors like materials used, fireproof stair doors, etc etc. The reason I think the two stairs don't do much is that first world countries exist outside North America, they don't have this rule, and their fire safety is just as good or better than ours.

Same reason I'm extremely skeptical that our fire trucks need to be so grotesquely large, despite what the fire departments claim. If there were no countries with a good fire safety record outside North America, like sure, okay, maybe. But they're just as good or better at fighting fires in Europe, and manage to go this with human sized trucks that don't require extremely wide streets, wide turn radiuses, and aren't nearly as deadly for pedestrians as a result. Thanks for existing, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan etc! One day we'll accept that you to cities, building and engineering better and just copy you.
This assumes the person is paid by the hour and all this work lost him some day-job's work.

Otherwise, that time is his free time and he can do what he likes.
YEah, but why wouldn't you want HTML CSS to render your ui.

I'm going to revisit electron / nw.js for games again this year. Last time I tried 4-5 years ago I could not get smooth animation with request animation frame.
It appears this is to find threats that might have no otherwise triggered or work out is particular sites are dangerous without monitoring a users machine.

It is scary that for people in a corporate environment this could be rendering banking, messaging or any other pages contents.
Just look at how "open source" the quoted Llama 2 in the article is: https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-dow...
Hi there, my name is Justin Skycak, I'm the Director of Analytics & Algorithms at Math Academy, I developed all of our quantitative software, and I'd be happy to answer your questions.

1. The AI is more like an expert system that emulates the decisions of an expert tutor with regard to what tasks a student should work on at any given point in time (what should the student learn next, what do they need to review). There's a knowledge graph that encodes structural relationships between thousands of math topics (such as prerequisite relationships, but also other types). And then there's an algorithmic reasoning system that looks at a student's answers, overlays them on the knowledge graph, figures out what the student knows (and how well they know it), and decides what learning tasks are going to move the needle most given their personal knowledge profile. The decision-making is inspired by cognitive learning strategies such as mastery learning, spaced repetition, interleaving, minimizing associative interference.

2. Yes, spaced repetition is a core part of the system. Each student has a personalized spaced repetition schedule that adapts to their performance on each topic, and when choosing what topics a student should review or learn next, we're always trying to implicitly "knock out" as many due reviews as possible to maximize learning efficiency. (For instance, if a student is due for a review on one-step ax=b equations, we can implicitly "knock out" that review by having them learn two-step ax+b=c equations instead.)

From a quantitative standpoint, the spaced repetition model was one of the more challenging (but equally fun) parts to build. You normally think of spaced repetition in the context of independent flashcards, but in a hierarchical body of knowledge like mathematics, it gets really complicated because repetitions on advanced topics should "trickle down" to update the repetition schedules of simpler topics that are implicitly practiced (while being discounted appropriately since these repetitions are often too early to count for full credit towards the next repetition).

Our spaced repetition model not only accounts for implicit "trickle-down" repetitions but also minimizes the number of reviews by choosing reviews whose implicit repetitions "knock out" other due reviews (like dominos), and calibrates the speed of the spaced repetition process to each individual student on each individual topic (student ability and topic difficulty are competing factors).
So your criteria for success is to ‘save the world.’

How about we aim for ‘reduce emissions’ or ‘develop solutions’? Or even better ‘stop opposing people who are trying to help’?

All tech starts at small scales. Yours is an absurd rebuttal.
Why is concrete bad in Oregon? Autoclaved, aerated concrete is common in Germany which has a slightly harsher version of our Oregon climate.
Thank you for bringing that visual memory back.

Why do I struggle to remember my anniversary date but have that image burned into my brain.
It’s a trap to be scared and try to gamble on near future.

By the time most of today’s wannabe AI gurus are good enough to get a decent job offer - AI would not be such a big deal (best case scenario imo).

I didn’t notice any “obvious” changes in the game that weren’t there before.

For instance I don’t see anything different in requirements and comments of HRs reaching me.

JVM is still same jvm, bugs are still bugs, unit tests are still unit tests.

The fact that now instead of googling a problem you google and gpt it is a minor change in any real world complex engineering context that im aware of.

What exactly is obvious to you that im missing?
Exactly! Our library is embedding in these pages and similar to Segment or other analytics tools will get told information about user events from that state. Sometimes that state is stored in the page that is sent over the wire (eg. userid) and as such we get a request saying a particular user is on the other side of the world.
Being able to generate believable (but ultimately false) information at scale is a very powerful tool. Even when it is just humans with automation assistance it is already a massive problem, if it can be done completely hands off you can essentially drown out the signal and create an alternate online reality that will only look different to eye witnesses. And we're not that far from that. Being able to do something and being able to do that same thing at a different level of scale can be qualitatively different.
So tell me: Where does all the heat go?

To freeze water, heat must be removed. So where is it going to? The atmosphere to add to rising Arctic air temperatures? To the sea so that it melts the ice from below, and negating the whole exercise?

Magic thinking.
Hey, maker here! Genuinely appreciate you sharing this feedback. You're 100% correct - it's not a good look that an app takes in such detailed PII and doesn't have a clearly outlined TOS/privacy policy. Pricing should be more transparent as well - the app is currently free.

As for the approach, I think it works fairly well for the career recommendations problem space given its limited and defined scope (there are a finite number of careers out there). However, for a task that requires more divergent thinking (open-ended chat, idea generation), this approach would definitely fall short of what GPT-4 could do
Deceptive Deprecation: The Truth About NPM Deprecated Packages
He’s pointing out that the phonetic maps are so loose and nondeterministic that Virgil’s Aeneid’s first line

“Of arms and a man of Troy i sing who first from shores”

Turns into absolutely unrelated gibberish when applying the deciphering phonetic maps, and comparing the meanings.

* nerd alert: I wrote the English with the word order in Latin, which has a endings-based freedom to word order allowing planned beats, in this case dactylic hexameter…Latin rap sort of when i think of it
Some Feelings About Apple Vision Pro
> I can’t control if my neighbor blocks the stairwell with a couch that gets stuck while he’s moving in and now I have no egress if my other neighbor starts a fire.

That is an extremely specific situation!

> How is double stair MFH overzealous?

There is a cost to every regulation. The cost to this one is that housing is more expensive for all Americans. Stress, poverty, and homelessness all lead to negative health outcomes. Taken as a whole, those negative outcomes may very well outweigh the fire safety benefits of double-stair (which have never been proven to exist).

> I’m in favor of greater freedoms, and the freedom to choose a single stair MFH if I want.
> But I don’t want.

Right, so it sounds like you are in favor of removing the double-stair regulation?
I don't understand this quote without more context. Five years of tax cut cycles does not seem abnormal, nor does it explain why only Midwest manufacturers received a (false) signal.
Tried it on something I cooked, wasn’t too accurate but it did a good job!
It's like the 70s but parties flipped. Conservative back to the land. I remember reading my dad's mother earth news magazines. He wasn't a big hippie, but he had lots of hippie friends.
If you read old cybernetics writing it’s hard not to see a striking analogy with the excitement around machine learning. They had all kinds of medical experiments showing the usage of feedback mechanisms on the body and brain and how they were just on the edge of unlocking artificial humans.
Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
If we were all rich, we will never lurk on HN.
> 5. swap out GPT-4 with your fine-tuned model and enjoy your healthy margins

Wow, finally a meaningful AI startup playbook beyond 'be a thin wrapper around the openAI api'.

First make something unsustainable, then once your users are hooked do a classic bait and switch to an inferior self-hosted AI model and reap rewards!

...of course, some people will complain, but remember, you can always just tell them they're stupid and randomly rotate the real model back in 1/10th of the time or for demos or promotions, or charge for a 'premium' model.

I never really thought about this before, but I bet lots of AI startups are already doing this!

(I am being sarcastic; this is some deep user-hostile-for-profit action, and yet another reason to be both skeptical of, and avoid, AI startups. Enshitification at its finest.)
AOPS audience is gifted high school kids, so it doesn't get up to the college level. The core texts are:

- Prealgebra

- Intro to Algebra

- Intro to Counting & Probability

- Intro to Geometry

- Intro to Number Theory

- Intermediate Algebra

- Intermediate Counting & Probability

- Precalculus

- Calculus
When I went back to school for CS, I used this book https://a.co/d/7hlRdnK to relearn math. I couldn’t recommend it more.

It starts with algebra and works through calculus. There is a pretest before every section, so you know what you need to focus on and what you can skip.
Ah yes, the "humor" of repeating an obscure antisemitic conspiracy theory. It's "funny" because it's obscure enough that the majority of the audience will assume it to be innocent, and liable to jump to the the speaker's defense against the apparent "crazies" who take offense. Like a silent fart, the "joke" is on the audience, and a smile merely indicates that the author is amused.
Experience and “scalability” as a mantra.
Why are children even allowed on social media? From a society standpoint, social network use is correlated to mental health problems(1). Then factor in sexual harassment and bullying.

(1) https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-h....
I hear so much about "side channel attacks", and I get why they are important if you don't know what software is running on your computer. But are they important if you don't run any outside code (not on the cloud, not running JavaScript in a "container", etc?)

Are there other major reasons not to roll your own crypto besides "you might do it wrong"? Wouldn't a fuzz tester (comparing your implementation to a known good one) be well adapted to making sure you didn't do it wrong?
HTTP servers and an overview of the CGI interface
My first try at a blog post, hope you find it interesting!
If only we can have something between a McMansion filled North American suburb and Kowloon Walled City.
Sounds like it could easily be the Cisco umbrella junk a few gov/universities have had that I’ve seen. They install MITM CAs[0] on managed hardware so they can definitely see page content.

[0] https://docs.umbrella.com/deployment-umbrella/docs/install-c...

Edited to add link to docs.
That was on my list of candidates as well! Those usually have a specific user agent making it clear what they are, they appear from a companies netblock (eg. Facebook, Microsoft) and cannot access authed pages (unless the key is in the url).

In this case these appeared to be all MitM'ed pages from a security device since the key wasn't in the url and it contained userids for a specific user.
Yet people keep flocking to them dreadful single-family-home-majority cities, happy to pay rent and all.
Leadership and engineering are two different skills.

They may coexist in one person.

But great engineering is not always a great leader.
> there is usually no mechanism to reevaluate them during the following decades

One of my favorite parts about Texas, at least on paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Advisory_Commission
That's something people have been able to do for decades. How are you planning on growing a headless clone of a person for spare organs?
which other countries? that's certainly not the case in Germany. you might see some proofs in geometry, and maybe some informal derivations of things later on, but "induction" is a university level thing (it's possible that some kids that focus more on maths in school see this kind of stuff earlier, but it's definitely not a universal experience).
> VC money really seems like the beginning of the end.

For a lot of businesses, raising VC money is a mistake because rapid growth just isn't the right strategy. VC is expensive - you give up a lot of equity every round and are betting that your ever shrinking slice will be bigger because the whole pie grew faster. That is a very tough target to hit.
That’s like saying the magic of a model is its predictions. The magic is really the process of gathering data, cleaning it, creating a model architecture, and meaningful objective function for the model that creates the embeddings.

Embeddings themselves aren’t new. It’s how they’re being trained - and the incredible scale - that’s new.
This is the kind of stuff I saw as a kid whenever I had a bad fever.
Tangential, but: the notes that this post refers to are probably not the best way to learn how transformers work. If you want mathematical precision, those notes are based on this paper from DeepMind:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09238

The paper provides mathematically precise definitions of all the parts of a transformers, though it's showing its age (ha!) in that it doesn't include some formalizations that are common in, for example, Llama.