skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the language is part of the embedding. At least, when you use those for clustering, utterances in the same language group first.
Animation has always been the achilles heel of new 3D representations, the first thing you should ask when someone claims to have replaced triangles is "how do I animate this?". The answer is generally "you can't" and then the technique fades into obscurity. A decade ago it was voxels coming to replace triangle meshes and that went nowhere.

It is possible to turn a NeRF into a mesh, but the quality of the meshes produced is currently so poor that it doesn't really get us any closer to being able to animate or edit the model.
Maybe it's Stephen lurking.
If that is such a perfect way to avoid getting sued, why don't they put that on every page of their website and train all of their customer service staff to say that when they talk to customers?
This is rarely talked about explicitly, but if the population of a country (or substantial subpopulation) has a high propensity for crime, for cultural or other reasons, the country needs harsher and more pro-active crime laws. In countries where this is not the case, like Japan, Switzerland or Finland, the crime laws can be much more liberal, because people can readily trust each other in a society with a low propensity for crime.
Show HN: Modguard – a lightweight Python tool for enforcing modular design
Hi HN!
We are excited to show you modguard - a Python tool we built to enforce a modular, decoupled package architecture.

We built modguard to solve a recurring problem that we've experienced on software teams - code sprawl. Over time, cross-module imports would tightly couple together what used to be independent domains, and eventually create "balls of mud". This made it harder to test, and harder to make changes. Mis-use of modules which were intended to be private would then degrade performance and even cause security incidents.

This would happen for a variety of reasons:

- Junior developers had a limited understanding of the existing architecture and/or frameworks being used

- It's significantly easier to add to an existing service than to create a new one

- Python doesn't stop you from importing any code living anywhere

- When changes are in a 'gray area', social desire to not block others would let changes through code review

- External deadlines and management pressure would result in "doing it properly" getting punted and/or never done

Attempts to fix this problem always came up short. Inevitably, standards guides would be written, and stricter attempts would be made to enforce those guides. Teams would lead developer education efforts, and restrict code review. These approaches each had their own flaws, and didn't scale.

The solution is to explicitly define a module's boundary and public interface in code, and enforce those domain boundaries through CI. This means that introducing a new cross-module dependency required explicitly changing the public interface or the boundary itself. This is a significantly smaller and well-scoped set of changes that can be maintained and managed by those who understood the intended design of the system.

modguard is:

- fully open source

- able to be adopted incrementally

- implemented with no runtime footprint

- a standalone library with no external dependencies

- interoperable with your existing system (cli, generated config)

We hope you try it out! We’d love your feedback.

Github - https://github.com/Never-Over/modguard

Docs - https://never-over.github.io/modguard/

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You can't steal from them once you're out of the store. There's little business benefit to watch the parking lot.
The US isn't very uniform. Mississippi locks way more people up than Washington state. Both states are pretty ineffective in keeping crime down.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2021.html?gad_source=1&g...

Washington is put at around Thailand, Mississippi locks more than twice as many people per capita up (and isn't very comparable to a country).
Google Reneged on the Monopolistic Bargain
It also seems like a straightforward resource coordination problem.

If a city has 10 car thieves and all cars are relatively hard to steal, the city can manage the police resources to investigate the crimes. If a city has 10 car thieves and half of all cars are very simple to steal, the city needs to devote a lot more police resources to investigate the crimes.

Of course the worst fear is the number of car thieves has gone up. This is probably true in some specific cities. But even if it hasn't, other people owning an easy to steal car hurts everyone since it drains resources.
We're just somewhat sophisticated apes and we've built a world that our brains aren't designed to handle. Of course we all have anxiety.
It’s all of the above. That’s my point. Good, bad, ok if you’re on their side, some never have a side to be on.
The Radcliffe Wave, a large cosmic structure near the sun, is oscillating
- They pay like shit (compared to "sexy employers")

- Headquartered in Champaign, Illinois (not a bad town, but not sexy)

- As "cool" as their software is, not a lot of people use it. Python is eating their lunch, ESPECIALLY outside of academia. Although, they're losing ground in academia as well

- Stephen Wolfram isn't a charismatic leader who is fun to work for. There's no shortage of stories of him short circuiting in meetings and treating employees disrespectfully.

- They're not doing quite as much cutting edge stuff (that matters, at least) these days. Their AI/ML suite isn't that interesting, numpy/scipy does a lot of numerical stuff better, Matlab does a lot of stuff (like digital signal processing, for example) better. And Python, being free and open source, is a better prototyping language for most stuff. Symbolic computing is probably the one place it is actually a leader in... but for so many applications in the real world (engineering, r&d, real-time algorithms, etc) symbolic computing simply isn't needed.

As you hint at, they can attract some talent because there are opportunities to work on some niche stuff that's hard to work on elsewhere. But that's a minority of roles at the company.

Source: Used to work there.
As in the case of constraint solvers there are tons of heuristics that have been applied over the years to make performance look like it scales somewhat linearly in many or most problems. This doesn’t mean p==np
It works decently well as a translator, correct? I wonder how it's been doing that - is it "native" to being an LLM or is it somehow processing it before?
Musk says Neuralink brain-chip patient can move a computer mouse 'by thinking'
The classic "Big Keith's Appraisal":

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IkYUDQCYGHA
I vaguely recall some movie where a jammed toaster with two pop-tarts, under the kitchen cabinets with other flammable items was used to create an accidental fire.
HackRF Portapack Mayhem v2.0.0 release
Because subsidizing the top 25% of earners in the country with the taxes of everyone else seems fundamentally unjust, especially when they voluntarily took on the debt.
Amazon has taken legal action against the fraud organization REKK for engaging in systematic refund abuse, resulting in the theft of millions of dollars worth of products from Amazon's online stores.

The defendants operated a scheme where they obtained fraudulent refunds for products without returning them, exploiting loopholes in Amazon's refund process. The fraud involved various methods such as socially engineering Amazon customer service, phishing Amazon employees, unauthorized system access, and bribing Amazon insiders.

The defendants, including REKK operators, users, and former Amazon employees, were involved in orchestrating fraudulent refunds for over 100,000 orders from various retailers. Amazon detected the fraud through its sophisticated fraud detection measures, including machine learning models and manual investigations, which led to the discovery of the fraudulent activities orchestrated by the defendants.
You can actually call `unstable_noStore()` from `next/cache` to do that without needing to set it on the segment level[1]! We're working on improving the DX around Dynamic API's to make it a seamless experience.

[1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/unstable...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450669
Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor
A very long time ago I used the idea that there aren't actually that many possible tic-tac-toe boards to make an HTML player that is just static web pages

https://www.craig-wood.com/nick/oxo2d/

I generated this with a C program that tried to minimise the number of boards. There are 427 pages including the index.

This has been through quite a few revisions of my website and I lost the source to the C program so it remains a historical artifact only!
...you're not wrong. It would be peaceful, in the most horrific way possible.
I had a friend who worked there. A very smart Ivy League-educated math PhD. He was very critical of the work culture at Wolfram Research. Apparently in his experience Stephen Wolfram treated people badly.
I just view in emacd org mode and make use of org-agenda. My notes are only for me. My notes are backed in github but I’ve never wanted to read them on the site.

For documents that others should read and write, I use something else (ms word/ppt/Figma.
Creusot: A deductive verifier for Rust code
And yet, it is also claimed that:

> Astronomers using the Webb telescope discovered complex organic molecules in a galaxy located over 12 billion light-years away.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/06/world/webb-telescope-dist...

To me, this sort of claim is beyond embarrassing. How can we possibly reconcile knowing about organic molecules, and not know about our backyard.
Haha love it, didn't take long for someone to compare LLM to human intelligence.

Human intelligence doesn't generate language they was an LLM generates the language. LLM's just predict most likely token, it doesn't act from understanding.

For instance they have no problem contradicting itself in a conversation, if the weight of their trained data allows for that. Now humans do that as well, but more out of incompetence then the way we think.
It's really good, but the AI cracks still show up. Trying the demo therapist, I mentioned I'm not finding a job. It suggested finding a career counsellor and said "it would get back as soon as possible"... yeah, no it didn't. It claimed to be "working on it" but would say "I'm here if you want to speak...". It clearly doesn't understand what it's saying, it feels like bing's ai would be "better" at not claiming to do a task it can't.
Absolutely a reference. Dilithium (from Star Trek) is name of their signature algorithm.
Unless you enable Advanced Data Protection, which escrows the keys solely on your device. This is hardly a secret or a scandal.
Overlooked alternative energy resource
I agree, and I think these are really easy to munge (and I've munged them)

1) your ability to perceive risk that is there to be perceived and act accordingly.

2) your ability to operate in places where you are not able to make risk-based decisions and you have to just "go for it"

I am very good at #1 and it has been a handicap in navigating #2 because I keep searching for a "risk model" where one isn't available.

That was the thing I've learned to overcome somewhat, as mentioned in the post you replied to.
Marcel, will you do an scheme and polymorphic identifier for webdav?
Yes, which is why I suggested a combination of measures to change that. An active per-device transaction would make it clear when a dealer’s access is being misused, and if it affects their business viability it would turn out that they could do a better job of controlling access. Hundreds of thousands of people work at banks, too, and many of them do not care about their employers but thefts from customer accounts are rare because the companies are incentivized to set appropriate safeguards. There’s no reason why car repairs couldn’t be the same other than that it costs more than what they’ve been doing, and there aren’t strong enough incentives for them to take on those costs.
this looks cool. I have a request: I've been using the Notes app for my todo lists since mid-2020. I have one note per day, and I then break them up by quarter and year. e.g.:

2024
Q1
Monday, January 1, 2024:
- [x] [XYZ] - Review pull request from [Person]
- [x] Investigate error rates for [XYZ] in Sentry

I look back through these documents for two reasons:

1. Right now, I have to go back through all of my notes from the past week for engineering sync meetings to assemble a list of completed tasks, then I group them by functional area, and then I write out a little bullet-pointed synopsis that I share with my peers.

2. I use my completed todo lists from the previous year to help fill in my annual performance evaluation. I look back through the entire year for major projects I worked on.

I'd love to speed up both of these processes by pointing an LLM at all of these documents and having it auto-summarize either on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis.
Genuine question: Japan is in a very bad location geographically speaking: weather events like earthquakes and tsunamis are a reality.

How is this still a good investment, considering the worsening of such events in the coming decades?

Doesn't it make more sense for companies to look for a safer bet?
Knife Maintenance and Sharpening (2003)
Yes this is the real problem. We aren’t stopping fentanyl from coming into our ports from China/Mexico and we aren’t stopping stolen cars from being sent out to Africa and the Middle East.

More spot checks and inspection resources are needed at our border.
Erm. They are arresting pigeons already:

https://apnews.com/article/india-chinese-spy-pigeon-f3543790...
Nah this is totally a thing. There's generally two theories I've heard:

(1) US folks are fragile. They pathologize normal thoughts/behaviors to the point that they never actually learn to live with (or fix) them.

(2) Non-US folks are under-informed. They ignore diagnosable mental health issues to the point that they never get appropriate care for a problem that can be fixed.

It's probably a bit of both. I'm American, and its obvious to me that we are great on some dimensions compared to other countries. E.g., Asbergers-type autism is SO MUCH more understood (and addressed!) in the states. At the same time, "diagnosed with OCD thinking" is a nonsense phrase, as far as I can tell, and is probably going too far.

Therapy & medication are powerful tools; the US is learning to use them more than other places; that might be good or bad for any given person - hard to tell.
Yes, I believe both things are pretty clearly true.

And not just American. India, every major EU country + UK, and a number of others are prepared to dump billions into chip fabs. And this does not even include China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries. The glut is going to be incredible.
It is technically correct that having more potential failure modes is not the same as being more likely to fail, but... now there are many more ways that car subsystems can fail, and they can render the car unusable, force the car into "limp mode," or reduce overall long-term reliability. The added complexity can also increase the cost of repair, rendering the repair a non-economical choice for the owner.

For a car, examples can include drive/brake by wire controls, traction controls, a variety of fuel efficiency (e.g. variable cylinder management), additional emissions controls, etc.

Some examples of non-powertrain related features can include windshield rain sensors, headlight leveling sensors, etc.

The manufacturer trend toward smaller-displacement turbocharged engines in ICE designs in pursuit of emissions and fuel economy performance is one of the most obvious areas of added complexity and failure modes where the long-term trade-offs are questionable. In general, serviceability has gone down, with greater need for maintenance. Fuel economy in actual driving applications often aren't as good as promised on paper and end up being comparable to the naturally aspirated engines they replaced.

The ownership experience of stuff when new versus after five or ten years is now a very different experience. Many things seem to be more obviously designed for lease or designed to be "reliable" within its factory warranty window.

If I paid for a heated seat subscription in a new vehicle, would the manufacturer would also ensure that the heated seats were still physically working if it broke?
That's useful to know. My experiments with the 4bit 7B currently tagged for use on ollama are not going well at all. Lots of refusals and junk. Downloading 7b-instruct-fp16 now! :-) (Update: Yes, much better, though much slower too, of course.)
Kindness for Mean Girls: a discussion on type-level programming in Haskell(2020)
> Apparently in his experience Stephen Wolfram treated people badly.

Are you able/allowed to provide more details?
Assange Appeal Hearing Plagued by Media Access Issues
Doesn't really help the argument that it is a proprietary Google technology. The fact that it had to be "made available" to Apple means that it isn't an open standard and requires trusting Google, which many of us don't.
Nendo: Open-source audio intelligence platform
What does tokenization look like in 256k vs 32k?
Hi HN! I'm one of the developers of modguard.

I'm excited to get feedback from you all, and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have!
The people getting help from this are getting less than the child tax credit

This is only for people who've borrowed $12k or less and have been at it for 10 years
For clarity, you need sales.

Building a sales team punts that problem down the road.

And if you haven't actually done sales of the thing you are selling:

1. You can't make an informed decision about who to hire.

2. You can't make an informed decision about what is a good lead and a bad lead.

Sales is the most important thing for a business. It needs to be the top priority of the person in charge.

It is more important than building the thing and you can sell something that has not been built. Whatever is on the list of reasons for not doing sales yourself, consider each and every one an excuse.
Somehow, Thorium has been the future of nuclear reactors about as long as fusion has been. It's almost a running gag.

(And yes, I know that there are concrete plans for commercial Thorium fission reactors, in a way that aren't for fusion, but still no fully-operating, commercial reactor, afaict).
That's my issue with articles like this. It sounds pretty great, but it provides barely any context. The quote at the end is a quote from the company's project lead, which sounds like it was taken from a company press release. So, yay?

Edit: The quote actually was taken from a news release. See: https://www.sheffieldforgemasters.com/news-and-insights/news...
Economics of Bugs
These are the defaults. You don’t need to turn on iCloud Backup, it’s already on. You don’t need to turn off Advanced Data Protection, it’s already off.

Literally all you need to do is turn on a new iPhone and try to install any app. It will prompt for your Apple ID login (impossible to install apps without it) and will automatically enable iCloud, iCloud Backup, and iMessage (and will not enable ADP).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/01/21/appl...

They explicitly killed the e2ee support for backups some time ago at the behest of the FBI to preserve the backdoor. It’s still practically backdoored for nearly all iMessage users because it is off by default (and the UX sucks even if you turn it on). Approximately nobody is using it; the status quo is preserved. iMessage is backdoored and is not e2ee due to key escrow. If you message someone on iMessage, Apple will be able to read the message, even if you have ADP enabled (because the other endpoint does not). That’s fact, today.

Additionally, even if you turn on ADP, the hashes of unencrypted file content in iCloud are stored non-e2ee, so Apple can still see who has which unique files and when, and who else receives them and when. This allows them to monitor social graphs, too.
Now think of no fewer than three abhorrent use cases that would potentially be enabled.

Sometimes, the good isn't worth the bad.
Egregious is subjective. You think it's egregious for cars to have locks which can be circumvented by thieves. Maybe I think it's egregious that construction firms don't install iron bars on all ground floor windows.
True, but you can find them used once in a while for cheap enough. It only takes a few stolen cars to pay off the tow truck (you want to be legal here as this is easy to track), and then each one is pure profit.
My views on "surveillance" have evolved over the years.

I'm in favor of local, private, surveillance of private property.

I'm not in favor of aggregating that surveillance in a way that allows warrantless search by government officials.

Nowadays we have to define what we mean by warrantless search. In this context, I specifically mean any system or human associated with a government having access to the footage in any way prior to obtaining a warrant. This includes indexing the footage into a database accessible by law enforcement without a physical transfer of property.

When it comes to my property, I have surveillance. It's all offline. It goes to a set of HDDs with redundant onsite backups. The system can survive a power outage for a _long_ time on battery backups, all the cameras are PoE and the storage device and wifi network for accessing the footage are all on a dedicated backup power circuit.

If something happens on my property, I have recordings of it. Those recordings exist to protect my family and our assets. Proving my innocence, or helping us find and recover my kids, if we ever have "one bad day."

I choose what to do with those recordings. The recordings self destruct on a timer. And it's not accessible without a warrant. You have to go through me to get them.

This is in contrast to the form of surveillance I'm not in favor of, which appears to have been normalized over my lifetime in the U.S.

The U.S. scoops up a huge amount of surveillance data into databases, and then focuses the conversation on whether or not those databases can be queried without a warrant.

It's a mind bending situation where our government has managed to reclassify "search" as querying a database, claiming the search didn't happen when the information was indexed into the database.

The physical analogue, for me, is a government official coming into your home once a day. They take a complete inventory of all of your property. They put that inventory into a folder, and then place the folder in a filing cabinet promising not to look at it unless they suspect its relevant to a crime. Then they claim that the search doesn't happen until the look in the filing cabinet.

No good sir, the search happened when you aggregated the inventory of my home.

There is a nuance here that this analogue uses _content_ and not _metadata_ - but I'd posit that for many privacy advocates that nuance isn't a meaningful distinction.
All cars are insecure but what the government should be doing is forcing auto makers to allow customers to install their own security add-ons.

Car manufacturers are now locking down the OBDC ports because people were using them to add functionality to the car that they want you to pay for, like 3rd party adaptive cruise control. But this also prevents you from adding your own security.

They also fail to encrypt security systems but block you from replacing them with encrypted versions.

They claim they do it “for safety”, and while there is some merit to that, they are drawing the line way to far in the “we make money at the expense of your security and customizability” direction.
Wait, isn't software their product? Or are you distinguishing between their infrastructural and their math/science libraries?
Runs on Windows too. 99% of the research projects I run into are Mac/Linux only.