skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had some random Amazon items show up addressed to me, but I didn't order them, and I think that was part of a scam, but I never fully got my head around how it works.

These are Amazon shops in China that don't want to say they're in China so they send returns to other US customers. I got sandals this way with a print out saying "return them to this address".
This is good news for VR (or spatial computing). If the models understand the physical world as well as the paper shows, generating two projections of a scene does not sound like a difficult ask. Really excited for what's to come.
This is not correct in general. My job uses SSO and I can change my Slack name.
Check out the pinball museum in Virginia. Amazing.
If you look at the supplementary material, they do a test where they train the Lora with a randomly initialised Unet and it is largely incapable of extracting any surface normals as opposed to using the pretrained Stable Diffusion Unet - clearly showing the features of the model are relevant to its performance.
I don’t understand this view point at all. Widely deployed tech that is not as accurate has a chance to uncover trends no one was monitoring for and to improve over time as they have more data and iterate on the tech.

If we took your approach with literally anything in the tech world we’d have nothing since the v1 wasn’t perfect.

How does it hurt you at all if people have access to a rough estimate of their blood sugar levels?
From the other side however if you really think about it, our understanding of everything must be stochastic as well. So perhaps this sort of thing yields in many complexities that we are not aware of. How would I know I am not a stochaistic parrot of some sort. I am just neural nets traine on current envrionment while the base model that is dependent on DNA, through evolution and natural selection of the fittest. Same as currently competing LLMs where the best one will win out.
In this instance, advantage was taken of the remote work scenario. I'm confining my comments to this instance because that's the topic of the thread.
They are short, memorable and don’t have “butt” in the name.
These seem like general advice and not philosophical difference between himself and Nvidia. I’m sure plenty inside Nvidia share similar “philosophy”.
Why Nextcloud over something simpler like Syncthing?
Yeah, noteworthy point.

Also, I think the article is weirdly sensationalized — the FDA isn't "against" anything here. If you click through to the FDA's bulletin[1], it's merely stating for clarity and public awareness that there are currently no non-invasive CGM devices that actually meet existing standards for accuracy. If somebody did produce one, it could be validated and approved via the same processes used by all the existing CGM products which have been approved.

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do...
Slack Phishing for Initial Access (2023)
Pairs well with a later article: https://pushsecurity.com/blog/phishing-slack-persistence/
Important subject, terrible presentation.
Here in Singapore there was a plague of such cases when China opened up. The main victims were ethnic Chinese Singaporeans being screwed over by long lost family members in China.
That also comes with the side effect that the transistors are leakier at high temperature, leading to higher power for the same performance as compared with operating at a lower temperature. This effect is significant: in mobile systems it can easily be the case that turning on a fan (or speeding it up) leads to a net decrease in power consumption because the power saved by making the chip less leaky is more than the power spent running the fan.
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Lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465250
"I just bought 8 cameras for $1 each, and 5 of them ended up being the correct type."

Monte Carlo Ebay Purchasing. I sense a good paper here.
Yeah, but the eventually the coroner has to work harder.
Um...you used to be able to get by on the wages. The baby-boomer population shrinkage is coming home to roost.
SDPD's surveillance network is online
Isn't there effectively a multi-billion dollar bounty on finding out who Satoshi is and deploying a bit of "Rubber-hose cryptanalysis"?
In Montana we employ corner hopping: https://www.onxmaps.com/onx-access-initiatives/corner-crossi...
And pinball back then was pretty similar to pachinko, according to the article.

"Before the advent of flippers in 1947, pinball was a considerably different game from what it is today. Except for tipping the machines, players were at the mercy of the random bounce of the ball. Players gambled on games, and operators handed out prizes from free games and gum all the way up to jewelry and chinaware."
What universe are you working in where you think ANY of that is actually true? In the land of reality where I live and work (I work in hardware), I'm not constructing philosophical prose about well-defined systems. This is another bad faith argument where undefined behavior is made out to be some house of cards. I hate to break it to you, but every computer and all it's software you've ever used is a monument to the glory of undefined behavior, because people just didn't worry about it.
Marxism is the "we're almost there, just keep trying" of political theories.
Reading these comments makes me thankful for the existence of Nova Poshta in Ukraine. Two years of open war, and they still consistently deliver packages overnight across roughly a third of the country, and are doing their best transporting international shipments to and from Europe. Very focused on keeping things moving and avoiding losing any parcels.
Nice try, Satoshi.
I had not realized that's where Y Combinator comes from... Recursion without self reference. Cool.
I don't really know what I'm talking about, but doesn't this address that?

> with newly learned parameters that make up less than 0.6% of the total parameters in the generative model

0.6% sounds like a small number. Is it measuring the right thing?

Certainly, I wouldn't expect the model to necessarily be encoding exactly the set of things that they're extracting, but it still seems very significant to me even if it is "just" encoding some set of things that can be cheaply (in terms of model size) and reliably mapped to normals, albedo, and depth.

(I don't care what basis vectors it's using, as long as I know how to map them to mine.)
You are right that the lookahead might be expensive.

(There's probably a way that a sufficiently smart compiler of (ir-)regular expressions can optimize this expression to be still matchable quickly; but Python's regular expression matcher is probably not that smart. I'm not sure if any real world matcher is.)

> The time complexity of finding all matches is not O(N) [...]

If you are happy find a maximal set of non-overlapping matches, you can still do it in O(N). By 'maximal' I mean that you can't greedily find another match (without removing any of the existing matches.)

A sketch of the technique is: take your pattern and wrap it up like this '.?{pattern.?}' (where ? means non-greedy repetition) and match that against your input string. You can do non-greedy repetition and the very limited form of sub-pattern capturing that you need to find all the matches of 'pattern' without breaking O(N) time.

I'm not sure whether you can find the global maximum number of non-overlapping matches, instead of a just a greedy maximum, in O(N) time.
Fantasy novelist Glen Cook likes to hide St. Louis references in his novels.
> Oh? Where do I put my car so the nightly thugs

Somewhere not in that city, because (despite whatever amenities it might have) your city has been taken over by barbarians.

Added bonus: the rent for the garage will be way cheaper.
I disagree. People would instead become like modern politicians and never give an opinion.
> So I am devoid of anything?

The completion was "vacuous [..] underestimation". Something you appeared to be doing in this one phrase you wrote, not something you are. I don't know anything about you as an entire person. Please try not to take criticism of some of your written thoughts so personally. I continue to take issue with characterizing the LLM as "a word guesser" because it implies a limit to capability that I don't think actually exists.

> There is no notion of a bound or even intelligence for a LLM.

When LLMs are outscoring humans on many/most standardized tests, including for tests where the questions are novel, I also disagree that there is "no notion of intelligence for an LLM". It feels like goalpost-moving, to the extent that I now have no idea what you actually mean when you say intelligence.

> we know how they work

I think this is also a hubristic statement. The researchers working on these systems do not speak like this. They say things like "we did reinforcement learning on question-answering in English and it turns out it answers questions in French too now and we were surprised and can't explain why that happens".
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More discussion last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191696

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982191
Aye, and most people who use social networks are midwits!

Butt in the name will absolutely make the project a joke and cause it to misfire. As a fellow midwit I only just heard of the project and dismissed it before I got to the technical pain in the arse you describe it being in other comments.

Butt, lmao. Now Mastodon has disowned the term they should start calling their messages toots.
1/20/24, Japan’s lunar lander settled upside down. 2/22/24, the US lunar lander settled sideways.

Why can’t we make it with a shape that is foolproof, like maybe a sphere?
I don't think OP is reporting because they need to be educated on the motivations of these institutions.[0] I think instead OP is reporting to bring to light an abuse to the system. I'm happy OP is doing this and making noise because we can only address issues we're aware of and that get enough traction.

But I find comments like these often become popular and highly upvoted because of their formulation but end up serving very little utility and ultimately dismissive. I think they're upvoted because they are in factual and accurate, and we like the confirmation because it shows how intelligent we are. But I think they end up being dismissive because it is missing the point. It is dismissive because there are no actual points being addressed or solutions being offered. There is an implicit solution of the government generating said report, but I think this would need to be (more) explicit. It also seems that anytime these comments raise to the top that the conversations become very unorganized and off topic, because frankly there is little to go off of. If writing a purely educational response I think it is quite hard to do (and even this comment might have the same repercussions but I'm trying to add more and my intent here is to align the thread. No one need reply to my comment).

Personally I think a good solution would be for the law regarding these free reports should be updated to specify that they should not be a data collecting process. That they are only allowed to ask for information that they already have and that this is solely used to verify the authenticity of the user. Using this process to generate novel data is an abuse of the system. I also personally feel that the public should be able to have more recourse for mistakes that are made by these companies (within reason). I still feel like there has not been enough recourse for the Equifax breach and that not enough has been done to protect citizens. I don't think this is an unpopular opinion, but ensuring our politicians are aligned with public beliefs is a whole other conversation.

[0] Personally I feel it is pretty obvious and apparent that credit agencies operate to collect and process data about people. It is then also apparent, to me, that of course the incentives align to them getting even more data about you as possible. It seems to me that anyone that is doing yearly report generating is highly likely to be aware of the business model. But not everyone is me so maybe that's not the intent. And what's obvious to one person isn't always obvious to others.
Doesn’t meta famously not do much testing at all? Ie they use experiments to “test in prod”.
For better and a (lot) worse most of the TV / streaming device platforms are Android-derived and have access to emoji keyboards if not intentionally disabled, even on TV form factors. I realize it is a wide spectrum of users and a long tail of devices, but at some point again it isn't a technical reason that we are banning emoji from passwords but a political and lowest common denominator reason.

I'm not trying to invalidate your personal experience. You've seen a lot of good social reasons users probably "can't" be trusted with emoji passwords. but at a purely technical level the number of OSes in 2023 that can't pop up an emoji keyboard if asked is incredibly slim and the number that can't have an emoji keyboard in user space as a software addon is even slimmer. If a device doesn't support at least UTF-8 encodings in 2024 that's an entirely different can of worms (and probably a bad sign for the security of the device itself).

Both the Xbox and PS4+ have emoji keyboards. Apple TV has an emoji keyboard. Almost every version of Android TV and Samsung Tizen and Roku and Fire OS and ….

Go ahead, tell me you have a lot of customer support problems that you don't want to support emoji in passwords. That I can believe. I can't believe it's a technical problem in 2023. Emoji are universal enough now in 2024 that OSes are broken if they can't send/receive emoji and don't have some sort of keyboard to input them. Even if we are still turning off the emoji buttons on password fields because we don't trust users to do it for social reasons rather than technical ones.
At the same time the ability to change name is sich a godsend.

We're currently abusing it to have presence info straight in the display name (e.g. mike-2/12~16vac.) to let anyone contacting us what to expect for response times, or wether to ask for a task if it's a few days before a planned vacation.

Nobody seemed to look at the actual status property and it beats going to the calendars to check.
In addition to the elegance, there's also a functional side, which is that people are going to be reading your stuff, at speed. I'm a jazz player, but still play a lot from sheet music, and good layout can make arrangements a lot more readable.
I mean, I wouldn't expect problems if the thing were called "Buttercup" would you? Or what about "Button"? "Saturday" (which has "turd" in it)? Are there problems with a Harpoon ("poon") IPA?

Clearly the presence of a sequence of four silly letters isn't in and of itself disqualifying. Native speakers often won't even register the juvenile bit inside it.

My only surprise here is that "scuttlebutt" doesn't work that way for other native speakers. It must be just my dialect or circles then, because it's an ordinary word for me which subsumes the "butt" within it (like I'm certain "button" does for you). But I guess it's not universally like that and the word is odd or rare enough that it doesn't do the same for others.
Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
You go in for a medical procedure. There are multiple entities that send you a bill, directly to you and also to your insurance. Normal practice seems like it is to wait and see what the insurance will cover, and after a reasonable amount of time (and getting a statement of benefits from the insurance), you pay the difference. Meanwhile you've been reported to the credit bureaus, so basically anyone can see that you had a recent medical procedure with potentially to-be-settled balances.

A couple years later you start getting calls from collection agents saying you owe money, often times only double-digit values. They hound you till you give in an pay it (after all, how can you verify something that was several years old?). All because when you went to the hospital billing clerk, they can't tell you how much you owe the third-party pharmacy, or the radiologist, or the independent anesthesiologist that bills you at some random time anywhere from 1 month to 3 years later.
One gig I worked had web component tests where they committed a snapshot of the expected DOM and asserted that the component spat it out... so for every subsequent change the dev would naturally hit the re-generate button and commit it all. Plentiful deltas, questionable signal.
Dynaboard Is Joining Figma
i believe that up until recent years replay/special features were illegal on machines in new york state as they were believed to be used to signal payouts in gambling settings.
Editable power symbols is a very welcome change. It's a small thing but it was quite annoying not being able to edit them like you can in Altium etc.
>> There's obviously two sides to the issue, right?

This is false.
I've always found this process and surveillance capitalism completely insane. It is a huge national security issue. I know governments like to have data on people to let them more effectively exert control (for good or bad) but the truth of the matter is that any data that is collected can similarly be used by your adversaries. It is always and will always be a double edged sword. I don't think the problems will be adequately resolved until this becomes deeply ingrained in both the public mind as well as the minds of politicians. Data is certainly extremely useful, but we need to take a moment to weigh the utility against how vulnerable it makes us.
"I made an arrangement of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for my girlfriend (now my wife)"

Nerd! ... and beautifully done. The route to a partner's heart can be fraught with danger and false turns.

I've just heard the .mp3 - very nice (sorry - only nice!)
And yet the standard explicitly states that undefined behaviour can behave in some documented manner characteristic of the environment. As a simple question of quality of implementation, we should surely be able to demand that nothing confusing happens.
I recommend reading the resources under https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/behavior#External_l... (–> External links).
Hard to believe? Possession of a pinball machine is still a first-degree misdemeanor where I live.

https://codes.forchagrin.com/chapters/chapter-715-coin-opera...
Show HN: React and Angular micro front end bookstore
Example online book store web application, using 3 react and one angular micro frontend orchestrated over fusionize network
Trust me, If USA's economy collapses, no amount of bitcoin will save you. Nothing will
the latest versions of the software are somewhat old
They haven't innovated in years. The only real changes to reddit have been a cosmetic re-work and release of an app for mobile use.

Well, that and the API changes that drove away something like a third of the users.
"Bad" in what sense? Continuous glucose monitors have been available for several years and can show blood glucose spikes (or lack thereof) after eating certain foods. But you're not going to get any useful data about fructose from a wrist device. The issues with fructose seem to be interrelated with sodium and uric acid.

https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson2/

Lately endurance athletes have been increasing their fructose intake during races and hard workouts in order to maximize energy availability.

https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/how-to-use-carbs-for-maximu...
nice black and white thinking there.

it's not an either-or situation. people who want to go into an office should. people who don't want to, shouldn't have to.

and hell, with the way you seem to think, why would anyone want to go into an office and be around people like you all day.
The start of that set, has, to put it blunty, moved in.

Dorico, in particular, is light years ahead, having an actually useable GUI while still being able to do advanced layout stuff, some of which would take hundreds of lines of custom macros in lilypond.

I can enter 100 bars in Dorico faster than I could 5 in lilypond… 10+ years ago when I was using it at least weekly.
A recycle bin isn't a backup solution. 30 days is plenty and anything beyond that is ridiculous. If you need backups, implement backups.
OpenGFW: Build your own Great Firewall on a Linux home router
OpenGFW is your very own DIY Great Firewall of China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall), available as a flexible, easy-to-use open source program on Linux. Why let the powers that be have all the fun? It's time to give power to the people and democratize censorship. Bring the thrill of cyber-sovereignty right into your home router and start filtering like a pro - you too can play Big Brother.
Not sure, whois showing:

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When will this AI agents be able to do great math?
Is it possible already or in next years/decades? Not meaning something with AI + wolfram alpha at all.
Well, the alternative to complaining and having nothing done is complaining and being disappeared, so there's that
You ask such good questions here. I am curious about the same. The other comments provide some clues as to the answers.
The lightweight, easy-to-use, distributed relational database built on SQLite
Techstars Is Struggling
Ask HN: Current Best Practice for Securing Windows?
I'm setting up a new machine with Windows on it for a family member. Since I've personally not used Windows in over a decade, I'm a little disconnected from its current best practices.

I remember setting up an antivirus back in those days. The recent article on Avast let me know that AV software is apparently not a popular thing anymore. So what should I be doing? This machine is for the exclusive use of my parents (50+). They're kind of good at detecting scams and stuff, I haven't really needed to give support for the old machine in 5-7 years.

What are the current recommendations for setting up a machine with some security?
soon to launch!
They said it has already been done enough to know that it costs 50%. "Not easy" is meaningless and not an argument.
The Air Force certainly doesn’t treat them like stars. Pilots on the other hand…
> So casually dismissing the fact that this provides a HUGE amount of employment and revenue

At this point just tax the remote workers and pay those folks to work on social or community programs, or dig holes and fill them in again, which is net positive because it means their health and fitness improves.

Why force people to give up their valuable family and personal time to pollute the air and clog up roads, create more accidents, and clog up transit? Time is the one thing in life that you can never get back. You're also ignoring the fact that remote work results in stores and restaurants closer to home getting more business.

> Like... what's your plan for these people, this huge proportion of the population that can't work remotely, won't enjoy working remotely, don't want to work remotely etc

Here's a plan, let them... work in the office? I don't see remote advocates insist that everyone work remotely, but I do see RTO advocates like you wanting to force everyone back to the office. Why?

> Society is not going to change to revolve around shut-in people haters. You're a minority. You're not normal.

Yet people like you seem to be unable to socialize without forcing people to hang out near you against their will to the point of threatening their livelihood. That's not normal. I can socialize fine with people around and near me. And hang out with coworkers outside the office too.