skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides software and remote maintenance access issues, from the fine article: "The Chinese [ZPMC cranes] can track the origin, destination and other data of the U.S. military’s containerized materiel to determine exactly where the military is shipping it, Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, the commander of U.S. Transportation Command, told the Journal last year. We look to go to the berths that don’t have the ZPMC cranes"
> Software Engineering is a really forgiving field for those of us with ADHD

We have wildly different experiences then.

It's almost made me reconsider my life choices. I love programming, but it does not love me apparently. All the meetings, tickets, remember to do this, do that, focus on X and not Y, etc..
> This is why the UN exists

To split hairs - the UN does not exist to be a world police (Its charter is explicitly built to ensure that it fails at that task).

It exists to be a forum for countries to talk to eachother. But its a purely voluntary engagement.
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I understood it as: a signature of each pattern is stored as 'known' in a dataset. An AI learns which patterns are "known".

I don't believe their method has fine control of placement of the 'readable' parts under the glue; this cuts out methods where you're writing something in data as part of authentication. But, it also makes production MUCH cheaper - you can later just read what you "wrote" under a tag. I would guess in the price points they imagine, this method is "random + read later".

For your method - if you can write data, why not just write a digital signature of the item's serial number?
There's a book version of tic tac toe

Every page is a grid state and each cell contains the number of the page you're supposed to go to if you pick this cell
trust is going to be a real problem when bringing LLMs to the general population. People trust their GPS to the point of driving right into a lake because it told them to. Even with all these examples of obvious flaws large groups of people are going to take what an LLM told them/showed them as fact.

I have trouble convincing colleagues (technical people) that the same question is not guaranteed to result in the same answer and there's no rhyme or reason for any divergence from what they were expecting. Imagine relying on the output of an LLM for some important task and then you get a different output that breaks things. What would be in the RCA (root cause analysis)? Would it be "the LLM chose different words and we don't know why"? Not much use in that.
heh, curl https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/changes | grep -i "fixing conflicts" (e.g. https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/changes/44SHUW5W6RMWYDF2R... )
Well, the prompt is about Norway, not Grønland in Oslo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grønland%2C_Oslo).
Downvotes til grey/flagged = silenced. Which is accurate of nearly every negative comment about Hetzner on HN.
Google has sucked for years, and the level of sucking has been covered extensively on hn.

The one thing that was a real shock was how much more gas was left in the ad model engine. They've managed to grow substantially over the past couple of years largely by pushing advertisers in to a ROAS model that is clearly optimized to make Google more money: gross almost 2x from 2019 to 2023 -- from $161b to $307b. Net income more than doubled -- from $34b to $73.8b.

Google, Google's employees, and Google's shareholders don't need nearly $1b in revenue a day. What they do just isn't that important anymore. That money is very much a tax, and ultimately the money consumers are paying for products and services is going to Google instead of making the product or service better.

The good news is there are now many alternatives that work as well or better than Google. Combine that with LLM options (Perplexity, ChatGPT), and the future looks Google-lite or Google-free. It would be even better if we had more decentralized & localized search options like YaCy. If we want to have any control over our search future we need it.

I'll just keep repeating this: Google today is a yellow pages. For search they offer little of value that isn't provided by others. Old people keep using Google because that's what they have been using for years or because it just shows up (like the yellow pages did, but now as a default.)
This is an ad for a book, what we used to call a slashvertisement. The strategies suggested are platitudes and boil down to saying stop freaking out about the end result when you're just getting started. The strategy that works for me is get a full day of outdoor exercise, but that's just me.
Just poking my head in to say that I technically never departed ReadySet — what happened was that I co-founded the company, but was so burnt-out when it came to databases after my PhD that I decided to leave the running of the company to others. Then, US visa regulations made it so that I couldn't really be involved _at all_ if I wasn't an actual employee, which meant I truly was "just a founder" with no real involvement in the company's execution if you will. Now that I'm back in Europe, that's changing a bit, and I have regular calls with the CEO and such!
This seems really bizarre to me and kind of dismisses the entire premise of this subthread.

So we have a particular activity - theft - which we as a society have deemed to be inappropriate and codified the punishment of such behavior into law. The law doesn't prevent such behavior, it merely lays out the punishment if one is caught and convicted which can be seen as a deterrent. However, vehicle theft still happens which leads us to this entire topic.

The suggestion is to impose requirements via law onto companies who make vehicles to prevent this theft; although interestingly enough no legal requirements for the manufacturer of the tool used in the commission of these crimes. The companies complying with such regulations will pass on the cost to the consumer just like the mandated safety features such as back-up cameras and so forth. So in essence we would be punishing all consumers by increasing the cost of a vehicle to prevent an unrelated third party from committing an already illegal act. Of course what is secure changes over time, so what is secure today may not be tomorrow for a variety of reasons. I'm not sure how that fits into the equation.

Keep in mind this is just one aspect of a vehicle out of many. We already have loads of regulations around vehicles from safety features to emission standards. When you say that a buyer presumably expects a lock to be resistant to this sort of attack you are adding to a very long list of things the buyer may or may not actually care enough about to spend their money on it. When do we admit that many, many different groups have convinced legislators to regulate what vehicles the public is allowed to have rather than pretending we are speaking for the consumer?

Please note that I am not saying all laws and regulations are bad, far from it. I do believe that there are no solutions in law, merely trade-offs which I alluded to above. My point here is to question if another law will actually fix the issue and if the knock-on effects are worth it. As a society we tend to pass laws that stay on the books long after we learn how damaging and counter-productive they actually are; e.g. the war on drugs. We also have an uncountable number of laws and regulations on the books; we literally don't know how many there are. So saying the only solution is more laws seems a bit like saying everything is a nail because all I have is a hammer.

You also brought up ethics in relation to manufacturers. I have to ask though, why do they have an ethical responsibility to prevent a bad actor from using a tool to steal their product from their own consumers? I'm having a really, really hard time agreeing with such an ethical responsibility. How much ethical responsibility can we really put onto manufacturers to prevent crime?
He is no Feynman. Feynman warned us about people like him and this kind of alternative science. No one is saying anything.
You don't typically get to the Sigma_2^P level unless are a sadist or forced.

Attention works differently in RNNs, and it may be able to find different tractable forms, and may solve different problems, but increasing generalization is a reduction of compression in the general case.

A many to one reduction to a recursively enumerable set gets you to finite time, a reduction to NP gets you to quadratic time.

Obviously those are upper limits and specific instances or classes of instances may do better. P being inside NP is a good example.

All ANNs are binary output, which helps with that. SNN or spikey neutral networks, which better model cortical neurons and have continuous output have problems with being un-computable without much complexity as an example.

That can be viewed as the problems with computable numbers in place of the reals. But there are lots of interesting and practical things to solve. It is just those solutions will be more domain specific IMHO.
Only Biboumi for IRC.
Cats have ADHD, dogs can learn to focus and sit still. Do you think cats would survive better if they were more like dogs? I don't think so, they are good at different things.

But human society has had much more use for dogs than cats, people who can focus and follow orders reliably are just much more easy to scale.
Intel's focus was chip design and manufacturing, not tooling; it took a long time (and money) for ASML to develop its cutting-edge EUV tech. Besides SVG, ASML also bought other key US EUV component developers like Cymer (lasers) and HMI.
I think you would still have big problems if you had an adversary at meta. Bigger than this.
turned down what offer? was it a serious offer? i doubt anthropic had the funds to actually acquire it.
hello? https://github.com/rizerphe/local-llm-function-calling
Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave
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> These investments not only have no stipulations about how the funds are used, but often aren't used for the business at all - instead directly paying out founders/employees.

Pay for employees is a business expense.
What is it, 2008?

What kind of exotic stuff is a utility company's public website doing that makes supporting an established browser engine impossible in 2024?
some indies use Subversion, but Perforce is the industry standard.
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I imagine society would rather implement something like eugenics than change for our benefits.
Google becoming the main funder of Mozilla was a brilliant strategic move.

Now the Mozilla CEO knows where the money and it's salary comes from, and they know what they need to do to please the funder.

Thus the Firefox usage stats shows a perfect downtrend line, just as Google would want it to be.

No words need to be spoken, but everybody understands what the game is.
I love ante's concept, I need to try actually using it sometime.
This is a lot more than app has bug - it effectively demonstrates that all the hype about LLMs being "almost AGI" and having real understanding is complete bullshit. You couldn't ask for a better demo that LLMs use statistics, not understanding.

While I agree that Marcus's tone has gotten a little too breathless lately, I think we need all the critiques we can get of the balogna coming from Open AI right now.
I keep reminding myself that, despite not being as successful as I had once hoped and been told I could be, I'm doing fine: graduated college (after 8 years), got a desk job, got married, and have a kid.

I also like to remind myself that, in the old days, people like me didn't "just deal with it." People like me lived awful lives, often as addicts. Thank goodness I'm only on a drug that lets me maintain a job and relationships.

>I literally got my first job out of college (several months after graduating) because the interviewer forgot to ask me my GPA!

Lucky! I applied for a government job in a state that used exams. So my crappy GPA could be overlooked by good test-taking skills.
i have seen websites that actively block you from using them unless you’re on a “supported” browser. it’s kinda nuts
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Firefox has been declining in popularity for a decade and a half.
There's probably a nicer way to say this.
>> potentially taking high-cost welding processes out of the equation

I wonder what kind of cost they're talking if a high-powered electron gun and vacuum chamber are cheaper
I think it’s a reminder of what Mitchell’s priorities were as CEO: lining her pockets and funneling money to her political projects.

She has deep ties at Google and after getting out of the Yahoo deal when Verizon bought them, she got a sweetheart deal from Google that was an 84% increase of revenue YoY. She then laid off 25% of the company that year. This last year she ran a budget surplus as she failed to hire as aggressively as we had planned to at the beginning of last year and she still cut 6% of the company (for reference we were behind more than 60 hires for the year which is the amount that was cut). Meanwhile she took a pay increase to 6.9M
How is it a Ponzi scheme or pyramid?
Yeah, thats why I don't use streaming services much. My partner likes Netflix and that's cool, but until they stop treating the customer like a burden after they paid a fee for a service, I'll continue to sail the high seas.
I don’t think that last sentence follows. There are always more problems to solve. They’re just stupid and lazy and loyal to their owners.
OP here!

People are rightfully pointing out that this can be compressed further.

My challenge to you: Implement a compressed representation along with the get_cell and set_cell methods, without resorting to lookup tables!

Also, check out Alejandra's blog at https://goose.love/!

(And yeah, you need 12 or 13 bits, not 10, if you don't want to eliminate symmetries.)
Right. What I'm saying is they could slap either the "Vizio" name on any other cheap crap, or slap any other random name on the same TV and the people buying them wouldn't care.
Nice. It’s a good test of (the whole system, including calls to external services, of) ChatGPT itself. I think a pure LLM though would have trouble with these sorts of trick questions…but that’s not surprising.
Why does there need to be 'hundreds or thousands of weld lines'?
That is definitely a tradeoff. On the other hand, the history of all human progress is a history of path dependence. Constraints spur creativity and Jujutsu works extremely well.

(I've worked with the main author of Jujutsu before. Also, having worked on Mercurial for many years, I have my biases about how source control should work. Jujutsu's workflow is very similar to Mercurial's, with some rather stunning improvements on it.)
Handy app for model testing!

One usage question: after you've downloaded a model and are finished trying it out, how do you remove it?
Was this diagnosis from your employer or colleagues?
Admittedly, I'm not a huge user of mobile web (I'm not an iPhone user either, I'm still using a Pixel 4a).

However, I am absolutely not going to defend extremely heavy javascript content either. There needs to be a balance, and as your linked article mentions it will vary a lot depending on the demographics of the audience.

The original article though was not a good critique of any of that (your linked article is much better).

Even so a lot of work has been done to counter a bunch of the problems with doing everything with React. SSR while not a panacea, goes some distance to solving the problem.
This is related to high-trust and low-trust societies.

In a high-trust society, norms prevail and in general you can expect a certain level of treatment from everyone: your government, your employer, your neighbor, and the person next to you on the train.

In a low-trust society there is no guarantee of norms being universal, so you rely on physical security, contracts, lawyers, and law enforcement to enforce standards of behavior.

Low-trust societies are very taxing. Every transaction is an opportunity to be scammed. Every unlocked door is an opportunity to be robbed. It forces everyone to be highly defensive about everything.

The US has always been somewhere in the middle, compared to high-trust countries like Japan, and low trust countries like South Africa -- but it definitely has regressed to lower-trust. And part of that regression means that more norms have to be encoded as actual laws to maintain order.
> Most gave their staff one full day off a week, either universal or staggered.

I think that this will start to take off if stakeholders can start to coalesce around a single day. Either Monday or Friday. Once you build up the expectation that people are off on a given day, it becomes that much easier for a new firm to adopt (because, e.g., none of their counterparties are in the office).
Neither have I. I mainly experience issues when I'm stupid enough to over-pay for some kind of media.
How can I stay productive while recovering from an injury?
As I'm recovering from an injury and need to limit physical activity, I'm looking for ways to stay productive and make the most of my time at home. What are some effective strategies or activities I can engage in to maintain productivity and make progress in other areas of my life during this time?
Does anyone know what's the rationale for settling on application/yaml instead of text/yaml? Couldn't find on within the text.
Humans do it too, it's called glossolalia...

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

It just means the LLMs are in touch with divinity.
Correct, the NT kernel etc has nothing to do with OS/2. But they raided OS/2 for parts: LAN Manager was ported over ("Windows networking"), OS/2 1.3 personality, I think NTFS may have been based on HPFS, etc.
Yeah, I was wondering about this. Who the heck is PG&E and why is it newsworthy if a single company doesn't support Firefox browser fully?
> Statutory law fits perfectly with our capitalist society, efficient, inflexible, uniform, quick and cheap. Judges and juries are expensive.

This seems a bit of a false equivalence. Capitalist societies are the ones that are based on liberalism and think individuals are important - important enough to make companies and agreements between each other. They quite often are the ones that also think individuals are deserving of justice in and of themselves, not based on what group someone has put them in.
Hmm... North Korea? Sealand?
you heard of rhombus ?

https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1aw7jim/rhombus_a_new...
Very excited to hear this! Congrats!
Old DOS "8.3" restri~1 are still followed by some people. Force of habit I suppose? Also the docume~1 or examples of some projects use .yml and I can't be bothered to experi~1 if both work, because it doesn't really matter.
Key exchange (whether it's a PQ scheme or more classical DH) does not prevent active-MITM on its own, you need authentication too.
They're both based on the techniques outlined in the Noria paper (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi18/presentation/gjengs...) and my thesis (https://jon.thesquareplanet.com/papers/phd-thesis.pdf), so not terribly surprising they carry some resemblance :p
ADHD is definitely a major cause, but another big one which is much more complex to talk about is “avoidant” type behaviors that are a result of trauma/neglect/abuse early in life.

There is correlation that occurs among diagnoses of ADHD, Autism, CPTSD, and other “mental issues”, such that by the time one becomes noticeable as having pathological effect, then it’s likely to be able to identify at least a few more issues acting in a comorbid manner.
It's more a case of they don't bother testing using firefox. It may incidentally work on firefox, as a side effect of being tested in browsers that people still commonly use in the 2020s.
Brave is unsupported by a lot of websites, but almost always works (at least if you turn off shields).

"Unsupported" = "We don't test or develop with this browser in mind", not "This browser doesn't work." If that browser effectively mimics one that is supported, it usually works fine.
Yeah Telegram absolutely nails the desktop experience like few other chat apps do. The way they put all the functional bits into a library to make it easy to build high quality third-party clients helps, too; while the Qt client is quite good across platforms, users also have the option of a Swift-based client on Apple platforms, a WinUI/UWP client on Windows, GTK client for GTK-based Linux desktops, etc which takes it that extra mile. Heck there’s even CLI clients for users of that inclination.

Its security is questionable but it gets users by the boatload anyway because it doesn’t consider any platform an afterthought, they all get first-class treatment. Other cross platform messengers would do well to embrace a similar philosophy.
what is this, are you applauding the legal structure of mozilla?

what does it accomplish that excuses this level of waste?
I'm just confused as to what this has to do with the content of the post
My stack is Remix + Hasura + FastAPI + Postgres, with Apollo client and Tailwind. In my opinion this is the best in slot loadout for the majority of web apps in 2024.
You're telling on yourself a bit here. Why should I think highly of the religious when they are as petty as you?
I don't see "Drugs" on that list, but it could be because that's a totally conventional way of getting out of a creative rut.
I'm always dumbfounded by this obsession with video & license plates. What are you going to do with that information?
This has literally nothing to do with rule of law.

Rule of law simply means that the laws of the land are respected and enforced (no matter what law it is). Ie codified rules are followed.

This has nothing to do with how the rules are written or what they are.
Finally time for Web4
The author’s other blog post is also interesting, highlighting some of the complexity in Rust arising from tying together the concepts of shared references and immutability: https://antelang.org/blog/safe_shared_mutability/ (I.e. in Rust, mutability precludes shared references, even when it would be safe, such as when those references could not be shared across threads.)

Getting rid of explicit lifetime variables is also an interesting choice within this design space.
You don’t understand how it works either. Mitchell is both the chair of the foundation and until like 2 weeks ago was the CEO. She had full control over where the money goes hence why she increased her pay so much. The foundation is sole owner of the corporation.
It is not only tech companies doing it though.
https://archive.is/TgGXg
You are missing the point entirely. This is about vanity from the most privileged person in the country - vanity that we all have to pay for one way or another.

It is entirely pointless that we as a society have to pander to the current monarch's preferred fucking crown, especially when so many people are deciding between feeding themselves or turning the heating on (and other unenviable decisions)
I think you are missing the third leg of this, which is how those monopolies extend outside of the US and act as part of the states global soft power strategy in those other countries where they are also monopolies.

The US is no more likely to break them up as it is to cut its military budget in half.
Me personally? I am concerned about dying of a preventable disease in my middle to old age and without work, there is no insurance. With no insurance, presumably I would be left to die by a harsh, uncaring society.

So I think your question might be reversed: what good is society doing for us, by forcing us to amass wealth because we are scared of being discarded to die early?

The answer, of course, is that society accomplished by way of this blackmail the ability to deliver many plastic electronic consumer goods that would not otherwise be available.