skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good idea. I've confirmed all the leadership / tech leads listed on page 12 are still at Google.

Can someone with a Twitter account call out the tweet linked above and ask them specifically who they are referring to? Seems there is no evidence of their claim.
Hey Matt, it's a really neat product idea. I'd really recommend taking a niche and building it for that first. Selling a new Enterprise-wide integration tool is hard. Selling a new data orchestration concept will be harder. I recently moved out of that area, but I worked in this space for about a decade.

I can already see the rejections:

Debugging and Support: Rather than a centralised support system with levels, to support this you'd need a technical user familiar with the integration, or have the field mappings so well-documented and available a level 2 support rep could figure it out. The latter will never happen.

Brittle: This introduces a lot of risk to the organisation, as understanding conditions of failure and what the repercussions are in the event one of those services stops working becomes.. Complicated. There's a reason authN/authZ providers have opted for hub & spoke model, and that's because you need a highly specialised, often under-resourced team to look after it. Sound familiar? If you've worked in integration, it will.

Development and Resourcing: Like any proprietary product, this is another thing to hire for, and support. The uplift required for someone to understand this concept, and run with it for the use-case you've offered which is adopting it across the entire organisation requires.. Executive-level buy-in. To put it plainly, adopting this would introduce too much risk to the business in its current form.

I'd recommend taking a smaller bite with your approach. You're one person. Take a niche, and build something people want for that - people don't want technology for the sake of technology anymore. That money's dried up, and if you're trying to form a business off this concept - you'll need deep pockets to develop it.

Here's one that could be relatively successful: Take SIEM tooling, for example. For small and medium-sized businesses, operating a SIEM can be a massive undertaking. Usually the first thing an organisation wants to understand when they look to do this is: what audit logs do we have, and how can we look at audit logs for a user or employee across a range of services. Every company operating in a regulated environment, or company wanting to ensure they understand what an employee did during their last 2 weeks of offboarding would be interested in this.

If you built a product and demo purely to extract user/employee audit logs from services and expose them in this interface - I'd be lining up to try it.
Pre-2014 nitrocellulose ping pong balls… of fire!
Just ran into this while trying to do some patching:

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Bit frustrating, wasn't expecting to have to rework my scripts right now.
Ok, but why should I trust Bitbox2?
Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader
Someone fact checked me yesterday regarding the findings from Yale. As if random media personalities outweigh an actual published preprint.

This summarizes this conundrum quite well:

> “Both things can be true,” Krumholz said in an interview. “They can save millions of lives, and there can be a small number of people who’ve been adversely affected.”

What we are learning about with regards to the immune system is that our bodies hate persistent antigens.

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adi9379

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45107-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01724-6

Additionally, there is a wonderful talk that covers many of these things here:

https://duke.mediasite.com/Mediasite/Play/ce2ecf77e1934b30aa...
A craftsman doesn't now how the steel was melted for his favorite knife. Hey maybe we're just talking past each other here.
Like a lot of potentially controversial things it comes down to brand risk.
I had a bunch of "PCMCIA to CompactFlash" adapters; which would've been perfect for this.

They're a passive thing, CF cards go right on the bus and poof its an IDE device you can boot from. And you can still write CF from anything.

I suspect they're still commercially available.
I've read a few of these articles on this and most seem to be going beyond what the ruling was about. It could be that the ruling gets construed in some of these more bizarre cases but it's equally as plausible maybe even more plausible that it does not and stays tailored to what the ruling was about.

It was about applying the wrongful death statutes to fertilized and Frozen eggs. This wasn't that the eggs were destroyed during the normal course of unthawing them or implanting them. That is a risky procedure and a number of eggs come out as unviable and that is a known risk in the procedure that a number will be destroyed in the process even when no mistakes are made. This was about negligence on the part of the in vitro fertilization company to properly secure and protect the eggs. So negligence was at the core that allowed the wrongful death statute to be applied.

It has been regularly upheld by courts that if you injure a woman who is pregnant even in the first trimester and that causes her to lose her pregnancy you can be charged with murder if it was intentional or wrongful death if it was accidental. That has been settled case law everywhere in the United States for a long long time. So this isn't a massive leap to say that the providers of the egg and sperm intended on leveraging them in the future through the normal in vitro fertilization process and they were deprived of that due to the negligence of the company. So in that regard of negligence resulting in the destruction of a fertilized egg it's the same thing it just wasn't in a person's body at the time.

This court case doesn't cover extra eventualities that people are trying to stretch it to cover. Such as the destruction of the eggs during the normal course of trying to utilize them. Because we already have a lot of settled case law around medical procedures that can result in death. That is also a known risk for doctors if they are negligent in their duties they can be charged with wrongful death but if they are applying appropriate procedures processes and standards and death still happens it is a risk of the procedure.
We do need to cut them some slack; no other category has ever moved this fast.
I've always though UUoC while working interactively are fine. One shouldn't interrupt their flow to fix minutia in a one time command.

UUoC criticism, to me, belongs when one sits down to script.
> less than a third (28%) of all STEM trained workers age 25-64...

Ah, opening with a moving the goalposts argument. Good one. I guess now a career in a field includes people that never once worked in the field?

> And the numbers are probably even worse now.

Yet more belief over evidence.

> Over 100K people at tech companies lost their jobs in 2022, over 250K in 2023 and more this year

Of the 35 or so million STEM workers [1], this is how big? And you ignore hiring during those years? Of course, BLS (and NSF, FRED, DOL, ...) all project STEM job growth to outpace other job grouping by a large margin in the upcoming years [2].

Ignoring valid evidence or only looking at one side is not a good way to form beliefs.

> Ignore this at your own peril.

Again the doom and gloom not based in reality. I'm nearing retirement, as are a lot of people I have been in for our entire careers. I make near 7 figures, as do many of those I went through a career with. One person in the group recently asked why such a low percentage of workers are our age. I pulled out annual grad numbers and numbers of jobs in the field. What made our group low is that nearly all of us that were in the field 30-40 years ago are still here, but the field exploded, so as each new group entered, the older ones became a smaller subset.

This completely explained the % you find by age in all STEM fields I have tested this on, which is several.

So go ahead and try it. It's a simple explanation, matches BLS numbers for the past 40 years, and certainly doesn't support your half life of 10 years.

Another way to check the inanity of your claim is simply look at how many jobs there are in STEM, and the number of grads, and compute what happens with the 10 year half life you claim. This is yet another way to check the claim fails.

Of course, you are the same person that outright lied and had to make up non-existent compilers that never did what you'd claim. Did you ever find one you can present? Or did I bust you completely last time on that lie?

Here's a simple subset to ponder: the median age for STEM workers is around 45.5 for women, 47.4 for men [3], which, if your 10 year half life is true, means on average people join STEM fields around age 36? This is clearly nonsense. If most people join around low to mid 20s, which seems much more likely, and (not accounting for the job size explosion. which only pushes numbers even more in my favor), and assuming a reasonable retirement age ~65 (Census backs this up for STEM), then, well shit... I guess there is not really any appreciable attrition, despite your unmeasured anecdotal beliefs...

Maybe the half life is not 10 years. Please explain how your half life claim with the with median age of STEM worker... Maybe you can use your 128 bit fixed point SSE mystery compiler that never existed to check it.

[1] https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23315/report/the-stem-workforc...

[2] https://blog.dol.gov/2023/09/08/new-bls-employment-projectio...

[3] https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-07/Women%20in%...
Google Shocks Industry with 300% Salary Hike to Retain Top Talent
People also behave this way; the high temperature hallucinations are called fever dreams.
> Where do we go from here?

opensource models and training sets. So basically the "secret sauce" minus the hardware. I don't see it happening voluntarily.
I confirmed all the folks listed on page 12 are still at Google (listed below). I am guessing the linked tweet is a BS claim.

# Product Management
Tris Warkentin
Ludovic Peran

# Program Management
Minh Giang

# Executive Sponsors
Clement Farabet
Oriol Vinyals
Jeff Dean
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Demis Hassabis
Zoubin Ghahramani
Douglas Eck
Joelle Barral
Fernando Pereira
Eli Collins

# Leads
Armand Joulin
Noah Fiedel
Evan Senter

# Tech Leads
Alek Andreev†
Kathleen Kenealy†
That kind of expands the scope of this conversations to mugging/carjacking, which also comes with a higher penalty, and probably higher priority to the police.

And, it involves interacting with someone, who presumably can call the police afterwards, and activate any lojack / immobilisation device before it can be removed. Presumably the appeal of stealing a parked car it may be a while before it has been discovered and reported stolen.

Also, doing such a thing in a gas-station where there are likely cameras and even other people / attendants make it seem pretty risky to me. Are these dudes just hanging around the pumps in masks? What country is this?

> not considered by most to be an acceptable solution

Things change, but also, it's as much up to the government and/or insurance corps what's acceptable.
Why are you asking me?

The state has a monopoly on violence, is that generally bad?
What's the recurrence rate for people who commit a crime but aren't locked up?

> another crime severe enough to end them up back in

Then ramp up the penalty for repeat offences.
Even seemingly unnecessary and cruel feedback can be valuable for growth.
No, it's not possible. Laziness is more to do with the fine-tuning/policy stage than pretraining.
Also photogrammetry from an industry level.

I work in construction, we take photos of the building in situ as a lot of the important elements are encased later (eg. Reinforcement inside concrete)

This level of 3D NeRF is great for that as it's much easier to parse than a folder full of images.
An app for Quantified-Self enthusiasts: Self-tracking and Journaling
The app is called Hyperspaces (https://hyperspaces.live/) and tackles two closely related practices that often goes hand in hand for a QS enthusiast:

1. Self-tracking
2. Journaling

We’ve been working on developing this app for over a year. We figured the best way to let a user capture maximum context from their life is provide them the freedom for manual input + the power of frictionless automatic input.

Automatic input comes in form of:
* Locations
* Activities (sleep, exercise, steps, music minutes, reading minutes)
* Photos (associated with a location or event)

Manual input comes in form of:
* Journal notes
* Habits (checklists, day summaries)

This enables a user to visualize their life events as they happen on a timeline, and journal about as much life events as possible, while also retaining as much context about their memories, their progress, their performance, and more, even when they don’t take any journal notes.

More about this on the blog (https://zeyads.com/hyperspaces).

The app is currently at the end of the dev phase. We’re looking for 10 people that frequently journal to conduct 15-min video calls with, during which we wish they could provide feedback about their current journaling ways, and what they would want to see in a perfect journaling app that matches their needs!

In exchange, and as a token of appreciation we want to provide these 10 users with 6 months worth of our Timeline functionality when we launch (instead of 3).

If you’d want to join, you can directly book a call via this link: https://calendly.com/zemahran

Or send any thoughts you might have about the app or journaling in general directly to my email: zemahran@gmail.com
Next step is to use all of YouTube to train Gemini 2.0.
Safety is becoming an orwellian word to refer to things that can’t actually harm you.
Zoom was a successful enterprise business pre-pandemic, but it was unequivocally the lockdowns that accelerated their growth and valuation. In one year they went from 10 million monthly meeting participants to over 350 million (https://www.vox.com/recode/21726260/zoom-microsoft-teams-vid...).
> The world would survive without their precious work and would be a much better place without the shitty experience they bring to everyone else.

People have very different needs for harmony. Your statement likely implies that yours is rather high. My stance differs: great research is what advances mankind. Unpleasant great researchers will die some day, their research is there to stay.

(just to be clear: there is nothing good or bad with having a high or low need for harmony)
Deep breath in... Many people who suffer from ADHD actually have undiagnosed allergies.

My father was told he had ADHD late in life... he had allergies. I had problems with focus and being scatterbrained... on days the tree pollen was up. Kiddo was starting to get easily distracted and unable to focus on schoolwork... It was an allergy to the hard wheat used in U.S. bread making and preservatives.

You [edit: most people] don't just "have ADHD." That's like diagnosing someone with a headache disorder. There's an underlying cause that requires more work to dig out.
1 reactor per day would double the number of reactors in the world in less than 18 months. Can we generate enough people qualified to run them without compromising safety?
Good luck changing building regs to suit that.

Also, it sounds like you’re proposing building adult dormitories. Is there any evidence people want that?
There is a very good reason that isn't possible/analagous to traditional rekeying.

Mechanical keys are not secure. They can be reproduced with basic skills. That's why there used to be a giant key cutting industry where much of the business was car keys (Thanks, GM.)

The whole idea of CA PKI and all modern TPM architecture on devices is that they CAN'T be reproduced or replaced in context without massive effort that would make the intended use moot; IE replacing the TPM and associated on both the key and car. This would require some bureaucratic pointless process to prove your identity, and it would be very expensive and frustrating, and completely at the manufacturers will.

Further, if the car CPU could allow this, it would be >.0001 second before theives use the same exact tools that the manufacturers use. This is basically what's happening now with current NFC/Radio Keyfobs. Basic access to existing cpu through canbus makes NFC/Radio moot.
Huh, does this mean they're going to oust all the executives that resulted in the environment that produced the 737max saga?
Even easier, press alt+. (fewer keystrokes too! cli golf is fun), it'll copy-and-paste the last parameter from the previous command. If you press . multiple times it'll go further back into your history.
once they get around all the bugs causing cross bot sexual harassment, we are doomed
Absolutely it won't. We've armed the issue with a supersonic jet engine and we're assuming if we build a slingshot out of pop sticks we'll somehow catch up and knock it off course.
The LWE problem is one level of abstraction away from the fundamental lattice problems it reduces to. It is somewhat analogous to the Diffie-Hellman problem that many constructions reduce to, which itself is related to the lower-level discrete logarithm problem.

The lattice equivalent of integer factorization is the shortest vector problem: you're given n vectors of length m, and you have to find the sum of integer multiples of those vectors that comes closest to (or a small factor away from the closest) the zero vector. Say you have the 4 vectors

[ 3 92 4 2]
[54 0 92 41]
[19 91 61 48]
[39 59 40 14].

The shortest vector that you can obtain from adding integer multiples of these vectors is [19 -8 -15 2], which you can obtain by 3*[39 59 40 14] + [19 91 61 48] - 2*[54 0 92 41] - 3*[ 3 92 4 2].

With only 4 vectors it is easy to find the solution here. But the hardness grows exponentially with the dimension, and the dimensions in cryptographically relevant lattices are in the hundreds to thousands.
Pursuing 'American Dynamism,' Andreessen Horowitz Ups Its Game in DC
This is a bit anecdotal, but my freshman high school programming course, in 1999, was taught in Dr Scheme. I had already been programming in Q Basic and C++ at that point, and found it _maddening_. Not because of the perens really, editor was fine, but because of the lack of structured constructs for control flow that I was used to. Tail recursion, while now quite natural to me, just did not make sense at the time. My classmates had less trouble getting that bit because they had no preconceived notion of how control flow worked I think, and also didn’t expect parts of the language to exist that either didn’t or were hidden in the teaching mode we had to use it in. For most of a decade I listed that as my least favorite language of all time, until going back to find out that many of the things that were missing were actually there, they had just been hidden from us, pretty sure by imposing the “beginning student” mode: https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/htdp-langs.html

Simplifying for teaching is good. Making useful things completely unavailable… not sure I agree.
Just a bit lower on the same page:

> When iCloud Backup is turned on, everything inside it is end-to-end encrypted, including the Messages in iCloud encryption key.

Meaning that Apple does not actually have access to that key, because it is encrypted before being saved to their servers.
The problem exists with the default 7B model. I don't know if different quantizations would fix the problem. The 2B model is fine, though.
Adobe workers protest Calif conference move to 'hostile environment' of Florida
The answer you get in 10 seconds is worthless, though, because you need to know what SQL the ORM is actually generating, not what it might reasonably generate.
It's native. There is nothing in the LLM except more LLM.

(And a safety model afterwards. And a tokenizer. But those things make it behave worse, not better.)
Little bit of A, little bit of B.

I am almost certain the federal government is working with these companies to dampen its full power for the public until we get more accustomed to its impact and are more able to search for credible sources of truth.
Bombardier had a lot of other problems going on as well. Generally, their entire transportation division (they also had railcar manufacturing) had manufacturing and timeline issues. The price cut that resulted in the dumping penalties was an attempt to shore up a program that was already flailing.
I can't help but wonder how successful a project it would be if Embraer built a 757 clone (but with modern engines and cabin). If executed correctly that could put Embraer on an equal footing with Boeing and Airbus in the narrowbody market (and their C-390 is a widebody that could be modified into a passenger carrier...).
> have never understood why someone would choose .yml

Probably for the same reason people don't type other 4-letter extensions, like `.ruby` or `.rust`.

I guess `.java` is the exception (no pun intended).
May I ask which service do you use? Could you share more info about your setup?
Human's obsession with race is so weird, and now we're projecting that on AIs.
ScreenConnect Authentication Bypass (CVE-2024-1709 and CVE-2024-1708)
Can any of you smart programmers look at this? Is the auth bypass just incompetence?

Screenconnect is a remote admin tool that enables IT support to remote control screen and run scripts. Usually used in companies to provide support to computers.

So, if hacked, this enables the attacker to run anything as SYSTEM account (similar to root) on computers connected to the Screenconnect instance. It is handy to have agents on machines to enable hands off support.
I also use cat this way, and for me the biggest reason is it just allows for a more intuitive left-to-right reading of any pipeline.

Things like this:

head -n 500 access.log | grep ...

head -n 500 <access.log | grep ...

Feel like you start with the filename, then go leftwards to the first operation, then start reading rightward again through the pipe. At least in my brain, it feels slightly more awkward.
Depending on how broadly you define it, something like 10-30% of the world's population is white. Africa is about 20% of the world population; Asia is 60% of it.

One in four sounds about right?
I've been using Linux for a very long time and never thought of that as an alias. I love it! Thank you for sharing.
> Totally moronic to let someone go with 18 years of experience. Just move them.

What is your moronic comment based on? experience isnt everything.
I realized I forgot to share my most memorable piece of code ever: llvm-crap (Compatibility Restoration Adaptive Protocol)

https://github.com/c3d/xl/blob/master/src/llvm-crap.h
The main selling point of Signal is privacy. That's basically the only reason it exists - without it, why not just use WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat, etc?

What is the usability concern for no longer needing a phone number?
Ansible Best Practices: Part 2
> The best of example of this is when he said he invented the field of cellular automata.

Source?
New AMD ROCm Software Blog Platform
Apparently heavily based on VMS[0] and MICA[1] from DEC. I believe DEC sued because of this Microsoft, but they settled out of court.

[0] https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_MICA
The seven virtues of simple type theory (2008)
Yes- they have about the same energy content and will burn about the same.

High fructose corn syrup is sugar, and is very similar to table sugar (sucrose). It's about 42% fructose and 58% glucose, while table sugar (sucrose) is a disaccharide, of fructose and glucose bonded together in a 1:1 ratio, so table sugar ends up having slightly more fructose and slightly less glucose.