skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like MBAs doing a CYA and throwing the Engs under the bus.

Why did this action take _this_ long for this to happen? To me it says they were burying their heads in the sand hoping things would blow over.

I'll believe Boeing if they turn a new leaf and prioritize engineering over marketing and being number one in aircraft deliveries in the short-term at the cost of long-term viability.
The behaviour seems perfectly reasonable to me. They are not in the business of reflecting reality, they are in the business of creating it. To me what you call wokeness seems like a pretty good improvement
> Security tools like Flipper Zero are essentially programmable radios, known as Software Defined Radios (SDRs)

The Flipper Zero is not a SDR, it is less capable than that.

That's the ironic part, the Flipper Zero is a rather weak hacking tool.

It can open car doors, but it is so impractical that it is not much more than a party trick. You have to record the code by pressing the button on the keyfob out of range of the car and in range of the Flipper. You can then open the door to the car, once, and only if the owner didn't open it first. There is a more advanced and maybe practical attack called rolljam, but I don't think the Flipper is capable enough to do that.

The only thing is that the Flipper Zero is fun, cheap(ish), and popular, but real thieves already have better tools for their job.
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My old emails are temporarily unavailable during transition for impacted accounts. I got the “Welcome to Migadu” email you get on the new mailboxes, and my mail clients saw blank after that.

> During this transition, your current mailbox will be cleared. However, please rest assured that new emails will continue to arrive in your inbox on the new cluster.

> - Old Emails: You might be wondering about what happens to your existing emails. We have a solution in place. We are diligently copying all old emails to the new cluster. This process is designed to ensure that none of your important emails are lost during the transition.

I don’t mind a short term incident, as long as I don’t end up losing emails.
Seems appropriate given that a Huffman code is a compression strategy.
I'm pretty sure nothing was broken, they just like to troll
> As these systems get better, they'll figure out that "1800s English" should mean "White with > 99.9% probability".

The thing is, they already could do that, if they weren't prompt engineered to do something else. The cleaner solution would be to let people prompt engineer such details themselves, instead of letting a US American company's idiosyncratic conception of "diversity" do the job. Japanese people would probably simply request "a group of Japanese people" instead of letting the hidden prompt modify "a group of people", where the US company unfortunately forgot to mention "East Asian" in their prompt apart from "South Asian".
That Forbes article is about a loophole involving encryption that could allow the NSA to collect and store data that they might not otherwise be able to. Now that everything is encrypted, that loophole might cover everything.

Nothing in the article implies that the NSA can magically collect all the encrypted data in the world and keep it for many years.
Is there a free trial?

Does it still try to make up shit when the answer is "it can't be done"?
More about that board move here https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-approached-an...

And non-paywalled https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/report-openai-tr...
You can stand by it all you want, but that's not the nature of the world.

Your engine isn't a smartphone. It's a tool used by a craftsman to make immersive experiences.

Maybe I'm coloured by the fact I work in AAA gamedev but the notion of ignoring my tools and expecting good outcomes is just complete fantasy.
It's been broken into three times or it's been stolen three times? Because any car is easily broken into. Just smash a window.

South Korea's car theft rate is 5.3 per 100,000 per year. In the US it's 282. Canada is 217. Fewer cars had immobilizers a decade ago but theft rates were lower then. The main reason why car theft is higher is because of car thieves.
Is there any evidence that this is a consequence of DEI rather than a deeper technical issue?
Yes it's a combination of blunt instrument system prompting + training data + cherry picking
Ignoring the obvious ethical and ideological minefields...it feels like this ruling is just begging to be gamed.

What's the legal age of a frozen "child" who is 5, 15, or 25 years "old"? What tax deductions and child-care benefits might he be good for? How about per-student state funding for schools? Can he vote once an "adult"? Own property and enter into financial agreements? Marry? Be charged with crimes?
Ask HN: How do you come with research ideas? <focus on LLMs>
Hi HN-ers,

I'm looking for research ideas for my master thesis and I'm quite bad at determining what's feasible to do within 6-10 worth of work (approx. 15h/week).

Currently I'm thinking about either measuring bias/variance in LLMs or looking into time-series applications of transformer-based models, but I'm still in the exploration phase and I'm very much open to any thoughts/remarks/suggestions :DD

Thanks & wishing y'all a nice end of February & nicer beginning of March ^^
I don’t have experience with Django but this sounds interesting, I’ll do some research. In general, being able to integrate Hyperdiv selectively into existing stacks would be cool. Currently you could probably do it with an iframe, which works but is not ideal.
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My question is, "was the defect tracking process influenced negatively by spending cuts?"

Shareholders are more than willing to reward the relevant executives for cutting spending, but they rarely hold the same people who made those cuts for issues stemming as a consequence of the aforementioned cuts.
I initially guessed that this would be a "technically true" claim that proves underwhelming upon further inspection [1]. But no! The claim includes trafficking in weapons grade plutonium.

In the course of this conspiracy, EBISAWA and his confederates showed samples of nuclear materials in Thailand to a DEA undercover agent (“UC-1”), who was posing as a narcotics and weapons trafficker. With the assistance of Thai authorities, the nuclear samples were seized and subsequently transferred to the custody of U.S. law enforcement. A U.S. nuclear forensic laboratory later analyzed the samples and confirmed that the samples contain uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.

Where did he obtain the plutonium from originally? Weapons grade plutonium has never been produced by the private sector, and there are only 6 countries that have ever produced weapons with plutonium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...

[1] Like trafficking in natural uranium, or modest quantities of tritium.
AI Profiteers are excited. Everyone else is annoyed.
You can also do:

grep “thing I want” !$

Bash (and similar) will replace !$ with the last parameter of the previous command.

This is a trick I’ve used lots when wanting to perform a non-piping operation on a command I’ve ‘cat’ed (eg ‘rm -v !$’)

I’d never criticise anyone for “useless” use of ‘cat’ though. If the fork() overhead was really that critical then it wouldn’t be a shell command to begin with.
Russia has a fleet of ~200 Superjet planes which are handling a significant fraction of domestic traffic, but it's indeed not clear whether any more may be built after the 2022 sanctions. They also currently do not have engine replacements.
pork rinds are also excellent.
Boeing filed ta petition with the USITC, but it was ultimately the Department of Commerce that fined them for what they decided was unfair trade.

The USITC reversed their own decision a year or so later, and Boeing chose to not appeal the decision, but Bombardier and Canada ended up deciding to not pursue things further.
This was actually a QA problem — a set of design issues starting at the front of the process. All QC can do is identify problems after they have occurred.

As the saying goes, “you can’t test quality into a product.”
`cat -n` prints with line numbers, which is occasionally handy.
It's something, but I find it difficult to get excited about "we trained another NN to perform this specific transformation on this specific type of asset". Does it not generalize? What are you supposed to do if the NN doesn't get it right? It's an inscrutable black box on top of a stack of other inscrutable black boxes, which maybe make things easy if you hit the happy path but make it impossible to reason about the problem if it fails.

I can't say I'm a fan of replacing well defined systems with a big blob of weights that nobody really understands.
I recommend seeking the opinion of an ADA/disability attorney, might cost a few hundred bucks for an hour or two of their time and sending the letter to your HR department. Document you were hired remote, create a paper trail with the assistance of your attorney in the event you need to file a disability complaint with the DoJ: https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/
It's not just client side trackers that get blocked -- any server side tracker that only counts specific resources being requested is going to be blocked by Adblockers too.
It creates some good optics, meanwhile the execs can funnel more money out of the company and parachute out before the thing blows up.
No legal or financial strategist at OpenAI or Google is going to be worried about buying a couple months or years of fewer deepfakes out in the world as a whole.

Their concern is liability and brand. With the opportunity to stake out territory in an extremely promising new market, they don't want their brand associated with anything awkward to defend right now.

There may be a few idealist stewards who have the (debatable) anxieties you do and are advocating as you say, but they'd still need to be getting sign off from the more coldly strategic $$$$$ people.
sounds like you agree with me, the idea that it's cheaper to buy a new refrigerator vs moving it is ridiculous.

People will rationalize all sorts of poor decisions.
It's the, "Intuitively, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to" that kills me.
British nuclear missile 'misfires and crashes into ocean'
Perl has the advantage of only having one implementation, unlike sed and grep (e.g. BSD or GNU) and /bin/sh (can be one of many POSIX shells), so upgrading this pipeline to 100% perl is safer in some respects. The example in the article is light on details so it's hard to comment very deeply.

I have heard snarky Perl putdowns ad nauseam at work and on HN and may have regretted using it a handful of times but I can say worse or similar for other popular tools, languages...
> I think people take issue with CEOs pretending to be experts in things where they aren't - Wolfram in physics

Stephen Wolfram has a PhD in particle physics (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Wolfram&o...).
Second, system calls vs. library functions.

Many years ago, when I first struck C, I wrote functions to do various things. Imagine how I felt when I discovered there were whole libraries that did exactly what the functions I was writing did.
The model is fed individual frames from the movie BUT the movie is segmented into scenes. These scenes, are held in context for 5-10 scenes, depending on their length. If the video exceeds a specific length or better said a threshold of scenes it creates an index and summary. So yes technically the model looks at individual frames but it's a bit more tooling behind it.
What if you don’t have the same controls as a bank and lend to a lot of people who can’t pay you back?

In GE's case the finance side of an otherwise manufacturing business became so large that the tail wagged the dog.
I had someone massively door ding me at Kroger like 15 years ago, and talked to their security and they had cameras but the angle didn't show enough of the door ding to definitely say the person parked next to me did it. I suppose it depends on your specific location, but it's not like they don't have surveillance at all.
While many here won't disagree in general, be wary of holding this sentiment as dogma. There can be bad apples in engineering, and MBAs who can see that whether or not they have the knowledge or experience to make it better themselves. Whether or not they can (or want to) make the next step of hiring better or more honest engineers is what matters then.

(I'm not optimistic about Boeing here, but hey.)
“At this point, the researchers also realized that the heat could inadvertently melt the adhesive cellophane and cause the flaming SPTs to suddenly eject from the toaster. Unfortunately, this did not occur.”

That made me laugh out loud. This research paper could make for a pretty good intro to scientific writing example for any of your 101s.
I believe Gridspace is an IVR solution, not one based on LLM. It's challenging to ask questions that deviate from the initial settings. We're using LLM to generate responses, which makes the conversation smoother.
Not entirely wrong but there isn't a single German ethnicity, just to be clear. Because of geographic reasons. I've studied that topic in depth, there is genetic data to back it up as well. Germany has almost the same haplogroup makeup as the notoriously heterogenous Belgium, which is to say that there is groups stemming from all surrounding regions. And that traces back about two millenia. It's different from say Japan or parts of Scandinavia
Worth consideration…

https://x.com/progrium/status/1733239398869704746?s=46&t=U3l...
And good engineers that become bad managers
I've mentioned it somewhere else, and maybe I've just been really unlucky with my experiences in industry but I'm at the point where I feel like someone with an MBA or finance background should start any new company (regardless of previous experience) by sitting in the janitor's closet for a month. If the janitor says they're ok, the MBA can start following the janitor around at a distance of 10 feet. If they don't screw anything up, they're allowed to ask one question a day of said janitor. So on and so forth. I estimate 10-15 years of persistence before the MBA/finance can be in a position to make minor decisions
As well as that, I suspect the major AI companies are fearful of generating images of real people - presumably not wanting to be involved with people generating fake images of "Donald Trump rescuing wildfire victims" or "Donald Trump fighting cops".

Their efforts to add diversity would have been a lot more subtle if, when you asked for images of "British Politician" the images were recognisably Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, and Tony Blair.

That would provide diversity while also being firmly grounded in reality.

The current attempts at being diverse and simultaneously trying not to resemble any real person seems to produce some wild results.
the king is dead, long live the king?
I think users are desensitized to what google search turns up. Generative AI is the latest and greatest thing and so people are curious and wary, hustlers are taking advantage of these people to drive monetized "engagement".
The Soviet Union and USA have used electron beam and laser welding in space [1].

1. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200002259/downloads/20...
They just want no liability for old models.
But can we agree whether AI loves its grandma?
The details of the MD acquisition is pretty crazy. It was like an unintentional SPAC whereby the company you’re buying owns you
And the fact that Google are on their own hardware platform, not dependent on Nvidia for supply or hardware features.
I don’t think they were being sarcastic
I look through a lot of logs, so I've aliased `not` to `grep -vE` and using the method you describe over several iterations i end up with a history that has a lot of

cat log | not spam1 | not spam2 | not 'spam(3|4)' | .... | less
It's getting pretty good.

The problem is the primary author demanding CLAs for changes to the "plumbing" part of pijul (but not the "porcelain"). There are a handful of outside contributors who agreed to it for small drive-by fixes, but a lot of others (like myself) who saw the CLA and said "yeah no thanks these always end with somebody getting screwed".

It's a real tradgedy. Hopefully the pijul plumbing is close enough to "perfect and finished forever" (like TeX, djbdns, etc) that it can survive for the rest of its life on one serious contributor and low-effort drive-by bugfixes. Otherwise the only plausible outcomes are a no-CLA fork (highly unlikely since the main author wouldn't participate) or the project dying.

I do hope the primary pijul author will rethink their "no limits" CLA. History has shown that these always end with contributors getting screwed, either by the primary author, or some other entity to whom the primary author sold the rights.
Looking at the examples... Was someone using an LLM to generate a meeting agenda?

I hope ChatGPT would go berserk on them, so that we could have a conversation about how meetings are supposed to help the company make decisions and execute, and that it is important to put thought into them.

As much as school and big-corporate life push people to BS their way through the motions, I wonder why enterprises would tolerate LLM use in internal communications. That seems to be self-sabotaging.
https://contentauthenticity.org.

I haven’t used it, so I don’t know how good it works, but they claim tooling supports a fairly large set of file formats. See https://opensource.contentauthenticity.org/docs/c2patool#sup...
Here's a fairly intuitive 16-bit encoding:

Use 9-bits to store positions of either blanks or Xs, depending on which there are more of. 1 extra bit to indicate which case it is. Then you have at most 6 remaining cells, so 6 more bits to indicate which of the two remaining options each contains. 16 bits total.

This also has the benefit that you can use fewer bits for many game states, e.g. a blank board can be represented in 10 bits.
A number of European languages use ó for indicating the long vowel o, rather than stress: Czech, Slovak, Polish, Icelandic, Irish, ...

According to Wiktionary, ō is used as a long vowel in two Latvian languages, and in Swedish as a hand-written form of ö (not always a long vowel). Also in Silesian, a language in a region of what is now Poland.
Tell me you take this seriously: https://twitter.com/napoleon21st/status/1760116228746805272

It has no problem with other cultures and ethnicities, yet somehow white or Japanese just throws everything off?

I suppose 'bias' is the new word for "basic historic accuracy". I can get curious about other peoples without forcibly promoting them at the expense of my own Western and British people and culture. This 'anti bias' keyword injection is a laughably bad, in your face solution to a non-issue.

I lament the day 'anti-bias' AI this terrible is used to make real world decisions. At least we now know we can't trust such a model because it has already been so evidently crippled by its makers.
someone in marketing is having a bad day
The real frustrating thing about this is how Gemini 1.5 is a marketing ploy only.

Not even 1.0 Ultra is available in the GCP API. only for their "allowlist" clients.
Weirdly it’s basically one long ad for an implementation.

But I agree with you.

Many years ago I worked with an ex-IBM “strategist” who wrote and talked in this way. Supposedly something of a visionary; hired as an evangelist. Everyone was very impressed by him in meetings and customer consultancy.

But I am not sure if he ever said a single thing of substance.
Using Generative AI to Organize Video Game Screenshots
I feel that while youtubers and influencers are heavily interested in video tools, most average users aren’t that interested in creating video.

I write a lot more email than sending out videos and the value of those videos is mostly just for sharing my life with friends and family, but my emails are often related to important professional communications.

I don’t think video tools will ever reach the level of usefulness to everyday consumers that generative writing tools create.
Almost certainly not.

It's absolutely just sampling with temperature or top_p/k, etc. Beam searches would be very expensive, I can't see them doing that for chatgpt which appears to be their "consumer product" and often has lower quality results compared to the api.

The old legacy had a "best_of" option but that doesn't exist in the new api.
Largest Covid Vaccine Study yet Finds Links to Health Conditions
> pork has been super cheap

The meat industry is subsidized so we end up paying for it in other ways.

But rising prices shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. We still use fossil fuels to transport practically all our food. Every increase in fuel cost will be passed on to the customer.

In some cases farmers are chasing profits and competing for resources in resource insecure areas.

I keep seeing products "produced in Israel" despite a "war" going on. There's a war in Ukraine, violence in Congo, a civil warn in Sudan. Russia is under heavy sanction. All of these have impacts on the markets.

And how are the bees doing? Has anyone checked on the bees?
You can still put them on a small few sites, with heavy security. You will still reap the yet-to-be-demonstrated benefit of cheaper per-MW power (personally I'm hopeful).
Not necessarily. I am alluding to a specific policy that the NYT adopted that said only negative stories about the tech industry would be run. Some NYT writers like Matt Yglesias have confirmed this policy and the knock-on affect at other publications.

Amazon and Google and Apple all still have extremely high public perception of their brands, despite only receiving negative national press, so it's hard to pin this as a reason that people wouldn't want to work at these places. But I think it's contributed to places like Google transitioning from being open and publicly glowing places to work, to circle their wagons and becoming more private and cagey with their employees.
Seems that a "expand all" button would be a good compromise.
Oh, individuals absolutely matter.

Just not this one specific individual.
Both the appstore and the playstore are indeed making most of their money on casino type games but usually they try for obvious PR & legal reasons to avoid this subject.

Anything mentioning the store will show plenty of productivity apps or something similarly positive. I'm also very surprised by this move.
Apple seems to have a legitimate take here:

> "...malicious web apps [on the home screen] could read data from other web apps and recapture their permissions to gain access to a user’s camera, microphone or location without a user’s consent. Browsers also could install web apps on the system without a user’s awareness and consent. Addressing the complex security and privacy concerns associated with web apps using alternative browser engines would require building an entirely new integration architecture that does not currently exist in iOS and was not practical to undertake given the other demands of the DMA and the very low user adoption of Home Screen web apps. And so, to comply with the DMA’s requirements, we had to remove the Home Screen web apps feature in the EU."

Being "open" potentially has consequences that Apple has taken a decision on. It's reasonable, especially when most of their customers are not developers, and not technically savvy.

PWAs as native apps have no answer for this security issue.