skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, you should disabuse yourself of the notion that our government will only use these powers in our best interest by looking at COINTELPRO, manufactured evidence for invading Iraq, mass incarceration based on nonviolent crimes, surveilling and prosecuting rape victims who live in the wrong jurisdictions for seeking abortions, police treatment of people who speak out against them (they'll have access, too,) the red scare, etc. etc. etc. And that's entirely ignoring what we may be subject to by other governments. Even the increasing polarity between partisan political entities is concerning. If our country is run by someone comfortable with encouraging their supporters to violently put down opposition, do you want them supported by agencies that have access to this stuff? If you are, should everybody else have to be?

One way I gauge where we are is to compare it to what people previously considered problematic. We've witnessed a tectonic shift in the overton window for reasonable surveillance-- each incremental change is presented as a reasonable, prudent step that a preponderance of people agree is beneficial. However, if you compiled the changes that have taken place and presented to someone from 1984, for example, they'd be understandably shocked.

For people that have the correct ideas about what to believe, what to say, what to do, and how to do it according to everyone from their municipal jurisdictions to the federal government and all of it's arms, it's probably not a problem. Can we accept the government installing machinery to squash everybody else?

Speeding and red light camera tickets are one thing-- they selectively capture stills of people who have likely committed a crime. Camera networks that track all cars movement by recording license plate sightings are more representative of what the future looks like. Think I'm being paranoid? It's already implemented: https://turnto10.com/news/local/providence-police-department...

Edit: again, if you're going to downvote me, surely you're capable of articulating your opposition in a comment, no?
Yes. Wear a mask next time you buy shovels and duct tape.

But why stop there? They could watch you walk to your car and do ALPR there too.
(edit: mostly offtopic observation follows)

I only knew Snowflake the id selection algorithm, so was a bit confused, but googling "snowflake db" showed me this blurb and now I'm even more confused.

> Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the ...
Fully automated communism is when we all agree to cut back on meetings and spend 35 hours a week goofing off in our cube.
Its origin was as a proud self-assigned term. It became derogatory entirely due to the behavior of said people. People wanting to speak seriously on the topic should avoid tone-policing and arguing about labels rather than the object referenced, despite knowing full well what is meant (otherwise, one wouldn't take offence)
I'll repost. Imagine shorting Nvidia in July 2023 last year at $500 because it seemed overvalued or overextended. Now at $700 like nothing. It goes to show how markets are more rational than assumed , in terms of correctly pricing in future earnings.

It's not irrational exuberance, but rational. yes, a 200% rally was rational in terms of pricing in huge earnings, not a bubble. The huge rally this year was in anticipation of the blow-out earnings on Ai demand, which materialized.

The 1997-2000 period in which stock prices wildly departed from fundamentals was more of an anomaly than the norm, yet people assume that it's the norm. The late 90s and tech boom and early 2000s crash was an outlier that made people overly pessimistic in subsequent decades.
> > It looks like the safety filter may have taken offense to the word “Cocktail”!

It's almost as if they got some intern to "code" the correctness filter using some AI coding assistant!
One might also argue that 1000 units versus 1 (guessing) would be harder to keep track of.
There's no "middle" in the field of decompressing a short phrase into a visual scene (or program or book or whatever). There are countless private, implicit assumptions that users take for granted yet expect to see in the output, and vendors currently fear that their brand will be on the hook for the AI making a bad bet about those assumptions.

So for your first example, you totally expect racial and gender diversity in the output because you're assuming a realistic, contemporary, cosmopolitan, bourgeoisie setting -- either because you live in one or because you anticipate that the provider will default to one. The food will probably look Western, the friends will probably be young adults that look to have professional or service jobs wearing generic contemporary commercial fashion, the flora in in the park will be broadly northern climate, etc.

Most people around the world don't live in an environment anything like that, so nominal accuracy can't be what you're looking for. What you want, but don't say, is a scene that feels familiar to you and matches what you see as the de facto cultural ideal of contemporary Western society.

And conveniently, because a lot of the training data is already biased towards that society and the AI vendors know that the people who live in that society will be their most loyal customers and most dangerous critics right now, it's natural for them to put a thumb on the scale (through training, hidden prompts, etc) that gets the model to assume an innocuous Western-media-palatable middle ground -- so it delivers the racially and gender diverse middle class picnic in a generic US city park.

But then in your second example, you're implicitly asking for something historically accurate without actually saying that accuracy is what's become important for you in this new prompt. So the same thumb that biased your first prompt towards a globally-rare-but-customer-palatable contemporary, cosmopolitan, Western culture suddenly makes your new prompt produce something surreal and absurd.

There's no "middle" there because the problem is really in the unstated assumptions that we all carry into how we use these tools. It's more effective for them to make the default output Western-media-palatable and historical or cultural accuracy the exception that needs more explicit prompting.

If they're lucky, they may keep grinding on new training techniques and prompts that get more assumptions "right" by the people that matter to their success while still being inoffensive, but it's no simple "surely a middle ground" problem.
> i'm not negligent for not doing enough to prevent the crimes of some other asshole.

If you entire job is selling locks and they don’t prevent crime, then it’s not negligent, it’s fraudulent.

You want to be in the clear? Sell a car without a lock, see how many people buy that.

> if kia makes a cheap car with crappy locks either don't buy it

And if Boeing makes a cheap, unsafe plane, don’t fly on it

I would be happy to run this experiment if lying to a customer about safety/properties of your product led to capital punishment. But currently companies will simply defraud you by lying about their product, and suffer no consequence
I'm using "spectrum" to mean that mild and severe cases of ADHD exist, as well as everything in between.

For example, ADHD controls my life and I was never diagnosed with it until I figured out the symptoms myself, because nobody could ever see me struggling with it - there is no fighting it for me. However for some others, their ADHD is trivially controllable via medicine or habit-forming.
It’s how many Zoom and Teams calls terminate. Not saying it’s a good idea, but it’s not especially unusual.
AE is a special case. Procurement law for public agencies in the US requires qualifications-based selection for professional services. The price is then negotiated, but it's basically whatever the consultant says it is as long as they transparently report labor hours. This leads to the majority of effort being labor-intensive make-work pushed to expensive labor categories. There is no market process for discovering efficient service providers. This is part of the reason why workflows for transportation infrastructure design haven't improved in 30 years and probably won't until the legal landscape changes.
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Humans do look like gorillas. We're related. It's natural that an imperfect program that deals with images will will mistake the two.

Humans, unfortunately, are offended if you imply they look like gorillas.

What's a good fix? Human sensitivity is arbitrary, so the fix is going to tend to be arbitrary too.
They're still shipping stable releases, but now under a restrictive license so they cannot be redistributed.

You can compile the current unstable development branch, but they'll be keeping the stable release branches secret.
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I would hate that so much.
A lot of it happens in closed discussions with pros who are running various simulations. Some of it is posted on training sites but a lot is not.

The game these days is all about reverse engineering strategy principles from GTO simulation output. E.g. what general principle causes the solver output to say raise 30% in this spot vs raise 80%? If you come up with a coherent story, you can apply that thought process to new situations. It's a totally different game than it was a decade ago

Here is one of the solvers if you are interested: https://piosolver.myshopify.com/

Fwiw there is a significant amount of skill involved in choosing how to run simulations. I think they have some intro videos to help you
It's wild to me that they don't implement dark mode and `prefers-color-scheme` for their sign in page, and I'm assuming this will still be the case. Gotta love visiting youtube.com which does respect this preference, then get blasted with light once you click Sign In.
Ask HN: Why do people idolize technology?
I decided to submit once more in the form of the question that these
episodes [0,1] ask.

How do we stop people from idolising technology? [2] How to we restore
reason and scepticism, without which proper cybersecurity seems sunk?

It's a question that other security thinkers like Bruce Schneier or
writers like Cory Doctorow seem like they are trying to express, but
fall short of. And it's a question that Alan Bates, the key
protagonist of the Post Office debacle keeps hinting at.

What do HN readers think?

I appreciate that two episodes are almost 2 hours but would really
welcome sincere feedback and thoughts.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=23

[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=24

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry
Briar ('droid only), SimpleX, and Session; optionally with a cheap VPN like Mullvad or Proton to ameliorate anonymity issues in the p2p voice/video features.
I've had to buy one fridge in my life and it's because the 20+ year old one that came with the house broke, and honestly it was repairable. Likewise, I had to buy one microwave after one that was like 15 years old broke due too much steam getting into the internal workings all the time.

Most new appliances seem to be replacing perfectly functional but outdated appliances in my experience helping people move them. The exception being washers and dryers, but they tend to get mistreated by the owners so it's reasonable that they have a shorter life.
We tried this when we were building DAM integrations. It doesn't work. Lossy integrations. You convert a datetime from Zendesk to your format via Hubspot and it goes from 1943-01-01T14:00:00Z to 0 because HubSpot stores that field as a unix timestamp and is very lax around bounds. You pull a decimal and you loose precision. Floats become ints, lists become dicts, strings become xml, binary blobs become urls, etc.
What problems?

"we need no permission" - duh, it's an FOSS project that nobody has to use. Distro maintainers have chosen to use it because it has a significant number of advantages over SysV init scripts and the rest.

Don't like systemd? Use another init! Use another distro! Use Arch or any one of the distros that makes it very easy to choose your own components. Or... roll your own distro!

People just like to continue beating a dead horse for no reason.

This is why "The Year of the Linux Desktop Is Just a Year Away!". People belly ache about anything modern... and stunt development for their niche requirements.
Can you look at the tokens generated from an image?
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In other news:

* Children are throwing tantrums over the fact that the adults are maintains their boundaries and don't allow pushing them.

* Competitors are annoyed that their competitor is trying to maintain its competitive edge.

* Crowd is angry because the gatekeeper disallows free passage.

Water is wet.
Nobody is claiming that FaceTime is the singular universal communications method. Certainly not Apple.
Well, it's supposed to be, anyway.
I'm not sure how closely that applies. We didn't, but mostly because people hadn't really studied it and hadn't worked through the mechanics. As soon as we really started looking AFAIK the solution came pretty quickly; it's a combination of 3 things that all make the bike steer towards where it leans: gyroscopic precession, head angle and CoM of the front steering section. All 3 of those things can be tuned to be larger or smaller and that affects the velocity required to achieve stability.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAc5t2lkvo
Am I understanding this correctly, that you judge market rationality on NVidia over the period of 1 year, absolute bubble rally ?

Even with those materialized earnings, as you say, the market valuation is still at >30 times those earnings (and I'm being very generous by extrapolating this quarter earnings, not the past year).

There is a reason for the saying "the market can stay irrationnal for longer than you can stay solvent". One should not short bubbles. But it's still a bubble !

EDIT: It's a bubble in NVidia valuation. Per se, it's a very good business, generating huge amounts of $.
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I would consider an if-chain to be a lookup table. A sufficiently smart compiler would treat it as one.

I agree that the challenge isn't rigorously defined. But the spirit is to not allow this kind of trick.
Great write-up!

Does your pricing plan (“Lifetime Deal”) mean that you will make more money up front, but potentially have to spend more years later to maintain the service even after new signups have declined?
I mean now you d to train AI to recognise the bias in the training data.
Hi,

rebooted the heroku dyno, now it is up again :) You can take a look. It is about concerts, theater, sports events ...
That is pretty silly, and a misunderstanding of the research. All of the mutations in dopamine transport associated with ADHD are pretty weakly associated, and still very common in the non-ADHD population.
Gemma.cpp: lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Gemma models
Hi,

Now it should be up again :)
I would second ayhanfuat's comment[1] - if the programming beginner is at the level that we'd prefer to show them Python over Java or C#, then they probably aren't ready for understanding these design patterns.

The other thing is that Python doesn't actually seem like a good language to discuss these abstractions compared to Java or C#: it's dynamically/gradually typed and in general dependencies are handled in a more "UNIX"-y way. In particular Python doesn't have first-class interfaces (at least last I checked, maybe mypy has something?). But statically-checked first-class interfaces are critical for why e.g. the service locator pattern works "seamlessly"[2] in real-life Java/C# codebases with lots of people doing lots of different things.

My gut is that a lot of inversion-of-control design patterns don't actually work so well in practical Python compared to just throwing things in a dictionary/etc and using strings + careful unit testing. I do see there are some service locator Python packages so maybe I am being too closed-minded. But for teaching C#/Java is probably a better choice.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39459732

[2] I have been mystified by too many null pointers to say this with a straight face. But when the bugs are squashed it really does manage a "magical" level of complexity.
That’s not true. What content is important context on the screen might change dependent on the new changes.
Threema is a paid app and I have never received a spam message on it. I have received spam on Signal, though.
Linkerd is a CNCF graduated project. It's unclear whether CNCF projects are owned by the CNCF or not, but in any case, it is clear that being a CNCF project you have to abide by certain rules. An organization unilaterally making decisions outside of the CNCF governance model seems to be completely against the rules.

I suspect this won't end well for buoyant.
When in reality they just went "oh hey, double struck mathematical operators? Cool", typed "&1D54F;"[1], scrolled through their font picker, and then sent the invoice.

[1] https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1D54F/index.ht...
Good for you. All I’m saying is the original statement is given as a fact when it is actually highly debatable whether it actually _is_ best for the user. I don’t think it is and I’m not alone.
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That's the far right of the hype curve.
I didn't find it prominent and had to read pretty far down to find out that it's only betting odds being displayed. I find betting odds useful to know expectations going into a game. You can turn the betting odds off as well.
You aren’t contributing to the conversation by going on a tirade.
If so, you'll have to credit ChatGPT4 with the ability to do just that.
Your point are generally good.

I should say I drive a twenty year old car with an immobilizer chip and basic logic sounding the alarm when someone breaks a window to open a door. As far as I can tell, that makes it very secure. So it seems like the onus in the car manufacturers to create a vehicle at least as secure as this simple system.
The value was always the implicit object graph. I don't see what IO has to do with it. DI lets you label nodes and the container toposorts and makes edges for you.
Hi,

this is in order to localize you roughly on the map. Instead of showing you completely different part of the map :)
Ask HN: Is there a need for better ways to verify trustworthiness of businesses?
IKR, Who wouldn't want another Clippy constantly nagging you, but this time with a higher IQ and more intimate knowledge of you? /s
The thing that's frustrating for me, particularly, isn't having to build/package these container images, it's knowing which versions of the software are considered "good to run in production".

I take the announcement today to mean, every edge release might fuck your shit up in ways that are unpredictable. The canonical authority (linkerd maintainers) are now gating that information behind a paywall.
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> They tried hard to ban encryption in apps many times.

That's true of most places. We should applaud the EU's human rights court for leading the way by banning this behavior: https://www.eureporter.co/world/human-rights-category/europe...
Nvidia is a hard to value stock though. The revenue growth, while insanely high (120% annualized quarter over quarter), is decelerating. But the net income levels are insane (55% net income margin on revenue).

This suggests huge space for competition to drive earnings growth down. But it's unclear when that will happen.
So to give a bit more of an answer to this, and having not heard your thoughts on pp.205-229, which discuss this issue:

First, I don't think "Theory of Everything" is a good phrase for what you're trying to get at. Any theory is necessarily incomplete, since a theory attempts to describe reality using formal symbols, and formal symbols cannot be equal to the reality they attempt to describe. They cannot capture the entirety of the reality. But this is kind of nitpicking.

The very very short summary is as follows:

Omnipotence: if we accept that (at least one of) the Five Proofs succeed, it follows that God causes any given thing to exist at any moment in time. If he causes its existence, he also causes its power to act. Without God, nothing can act.

Omniscience: again, accepting at least one proof succeeds, it follows that God causes everything to be doing what it is doing at that time. Hence any 'state of affairs', like 'the cat sits on the mat', will be caused by God. Therefore he knows about them (yes I know this doesn't logically follow, the book obviously goes into far more detail).

Perfect goodness: this is a bit more complicated, since we hit disagreement about what good and evil actually are. As a premise, let us say that in classical philosophy, any evil (or bad-ness) is a defect, or alternatively, a failure of a thing to instantiate its essence. Hence a tree might be bad to the extent that it's diseased and therefore failing to grow; a dog might be bad to the extent that it has only three legs. With human beings, some defects are moral defects, which are defects of intellect and will: the person fails to perceive his true good, and therefore fails to pursue it. But moral defects are not fundamentally different from the amoral defects of trees, dogs and even artifacts like chairs and computers. This is one area where classical philosophy differs radically from modern philosophy, which posits a fact-value distinction that allegedly cannot be overcome.

To summarise, a defect in classical philosophy is where a particular, concrete example of a thing fails to instantiate its essence: that is to say, it lacks what is proper to it.

Since God's existence is the same as his essence (if you accept the Thomistic proof), it follows that God cannot have any defects, and therefore must be completely good.

Love: God does not have emotions. But to love a thing (and 'person' is included under 'thing') is to will its good: that is, its true end. Since God does this, he loves everything.

Again, all this is the ultra-ultra-cliffnotes version.

More generally, God cannot possibly lack anything, including the 'personal' qualities you describe. Again, you realise this is so when you grasp that God causes everything to exist, and therefore causes all their qualities as well. It would be impossible to cause something that you don't in some sense have yourself (either formally or eminently -- hence the objection "but God doesn't have ears!" fails). Also, remember that evil is a defect, a failure to have something, so therefore God cannot 'have' evil qualities. In a strict sense, nothing 'has' evil qualities, it only lacks corresponding good ones.
Sure but I bet the original one cost $100 in 20 years ago money and the new one was $15 on sale. These sorts of comparisons never compare like to like.
VxRack, Nutanix, Outposts, Azure Stack as you said, probably something from Oracle Cloud...
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Barely anyone uses sms nowadays. People use WhatsApp, FB Messenger and co (outside of the USA).
I believe I've seen DDG's CEO or founder on here claiming that they do not proxy requests through Bing and that they do their own indexing. I think they had been using Bing at some point but I'm pretty sure current DDG results is all DDG indexing. Probably still falling for most of the same tricks which blogspammers use for Google SEO, though.
yeah. I save them all in database to keep track of the stats.
Submitted pages might get deindexed by google later, so I keep checking their status every day.
Do you mean:

> There are essentially no mainstream systems that don't [use PQC/ECC hybrid cryptosystems?].

If so, good. I'll admit my expectations are a bit biased from having to deal with projects that go out of their way to produce defective software (eg DRM, malicious abuse of undefined behaviour by compliers, cloudflare and other captcha-walls, etc) so I tend to assume the worst by default.
Happy to localize myself thanks
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