skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this idea, but what you’re describing sounds more like “Software Engineer, Testing Department” than QA. In my experience, QA functions more like an extension of automated unit tests for the things an engineer hasn’t gotten around to automating yet.
Unfortunately in this case, the website does content marketing with known, easy to fix vulnerabilities presumably to put competition out of business while keeping unknown, harder to fix vulnerabilities as part of their "pro" products.
We have to go by some standard, if we don't we fave full anarchy. In a democratic society, that ultimately comes down to the laws and courts at the bitter end. If we ignore that, we can just forget about anything, can't we?

And yes, the two things you mentioned are incredibly close, close enough to see them as equal outside a very deep legal discussion.
> Is it? Excuse my ignorance. If we were talking about simple Markov chains, aren't these just stationary distributions?

"- You're just a robot, you can't write a poem

- Can you?"

It seems that GPT3.5 is already a much better writer than I am, and I'm still much better than a Markov chain, so LLM's are verifiably better.
> This is the "efficacy" part of "safety and efficacy".

Yes. FDA 100% cares if your device works as well. "Works as well as the predicate" is the foundation of the substantial equivalence paradigm that underlies the 510(k) process.

Better is a different story. Legally, they _can't_ care (in a 510(k) anyway), if it works better or not.
Honestly, this has been predictable since the beginning of GPT-3 and Copilot. Programmers tend to overestimate how much time we spend sitting down banging on the keyboard, and management severely overestimates it. Even when we are typing code, much of the time we maintaining code already written rather than creating greenfield code out of whole cloth. So a system that is by design oriented toward creating new things out of whole cloth will be missing a lot of what programmers must do.

GPT-4 makes enough errors when I use it to generate code that my chats with it become excessively long where I am effectively feeding it error messages until it makes something that will at least parse or compile. Having to maintain those over time seems like it would be a nightmare, much worse than the often mediocre tooling programmers are used to.

I'm not anti-LLM, but the hype around them has been unbelievable, and I suspect that's part of the reason for these immense layoffs over the past 18 months. LLMs make me more productive, but I would honestly be terrified to depend on a product that relied on LLMs in its critical path.
One thing is clear: whoever wrote the headline in your link cherry-picked a time period that overstates the effect of "greedflation".

> Corporate profits drove 53% of inflation during the second and third quarters of 2023 and more than one-third since the start of the pandemic

IOW, even according to that report, roughly two-thirds of recent inflation was not due to greedflation.
I've worked on the hardware and firmware design and implementation for many medical devices, almost all of which were approved via the 510(k) process. I always found it a mixture of amusing and bemusing that we'd have to tell the FDA, effectively, "Look at how similar this thing is to existing stuff!" while at the same time telling the Patent Office, "Look at how new and novel this thing is!"
No I understood exactly what you meant. The number of reports is not helpful data without a lot of other context, but you offered it as if it would be convincing or definitive. How many CVEs and 0-days have you filed against Audacity? Is it because that software is security bug free?
Trilogy? There are six Frank Herbert books in the series.

> Of course we cannot verify it as a reader, but the trilogy alludes that genocide and despotic power consolidation and religious dogmatism were somehow necessary to prevent an otherwise even more terrible fate for humanity.

I agree that certain characters in the books believe this. I think it would be a massive oversimplification to suggest the series wants us to accept that uncritically.
What do you think of those "man on the street" interviews where they ask people questions like "point to America on a map," and everyone gets it wrong, except the last person in the segment?
Yes and I also believe:

Experienced Spark / Data Engineering teams would not assume S3 is readily useable as a filesystem.

This [1] seems like a good guide on how to configure spark for working with Cloud object stores, while recognizing the limitations and pitfalls.

[1]: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/cloud-integration.html

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Amazon EMR offers a managed way to run hadoop or spark clusters and it implements an "EMR FS" [2] system to interface with S3 as storage.

[2]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-fs.h...

AWS Glue is another option which is "serverless" ETL. Source and Destination can be S3 data lakes read through a data catalog (hive or glue data catalog). During processing AWs Glue can optionally use S3 [3,4,5] for shuffle partition.

[3]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-amazon-s3-...

[4]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/monitor-spark-shu...

[5]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/introducing-the-cloud-...
I'm more surprised that medical devices were not previously required to be tamper evident.
Well, it actually does at up. Don't forget, the software was initially insufficient as well.
Something about this whole thing made me think of how prompts are similar to laws and contracts.

Just like with prompts, these are never really followed exactly either (in the way that we never read the full TOS), and are mostly there as guidance, as well as justification for punishment/recourse (or at least exemption of responsibility) if not followed.

The tweet about prompts accumulating technical debt also mirrors similar thoughts I have about law - it's very easy to add another law covering special cases, but how all these special cases interact with each other is often unpredictable (the simplest example I think is unintentional tax loopholes).

I'm not sure I have a point here, but this parallel must say something about human cultural and societal structures and how writing/text shapes them. What a fascinating trend to observe.
Yup, it does simplify LLM agent inference on Gym environments but the main technical contribution is reducing your would-be code overhead for online RL
Does Gary do any AI research these days, or is he full-time Tweet-reactor?

It's got to be exhausting having to write about why each new mind-blowing advance in deep learning isn't actually impressive. The best recent example was Sora. His financial backers would've absolutely creamed themselves if his line of work had produced that, but he was nitpicking this insane development with a magnifying glass.
ive been looking for a while how to ELI5 to a kid, why operations on signs follow the rules, other than "they just do"
Yep! Logo I recall.
In my experience, there's little to no reward for rigor and people mostly invoke it when somebody says something they don't want to hear. People are impressed enough if you cite some bullcrap even if it's been refuted since they themselves don't have the rigor to actually question if what you cited is correct. They usually don't have the rigor to even check your original source in the first place.
Sorry, but I use a different criteria for judging the meat on the bones of an argument than if it offends your sensibilities or not.
This is obviously untrue. People accuse Apple of marketing differences where none exist all the time. Thus the trope "X did it first" or "Y on Z is basically the same."
Programming Jigs
> Users could still run DOS programs under Windows 1.0, many of them even in a window,

> many of them even in a window

I think I now understand the possible historical reason why the OS was named 'windows' - I used to think the windows name was related to 'a window into a new world', esp considering the scenic Win XP default wallpaper and 'Vista'
Ship of Theseus vs. Neural Networks?
In aerospace, the engineers that have responsibility are called delegates, or DERs. It's a step above a PE, but your comment still applies.
The proof is in Hilary's emails, I am sure. Either that, or on Hunter's laptop. Maybe Biden shouod be impeached over that, what do you think?
One bit of guidance I've been trying to figure out is this: how does one properly segment one's homelab to be able to firewall potentially dangerous stuff (e.g. IoT gear, hosting publicly-available websites via Cloudflare tunnels or something, all while running on the usual "virtualize all workloads" thing with Docker/Proxmox, etc)?

The best I've come up with so far is segmentation via VLANs, then adding many rules to deal with inter-VLAN reachability (e.g. should it be forced to transit to the firewall and back? Can my laptop reach out to the IoT devices, even if I block connections in the reverse direction?).

Beyond this, I'm not sure how to best handle similar segmentation on my few servers (all running proxmox), e.g. whether to expose VLANs to the VMs (which I kinda need to do for the pfsense firewall, maybe?).

The biggest thing is how to keep these network configs in sync, e.g. when adding a new VLAN, etc. I basically have an Org file that I write all this down, but I'm guessing there's a better way.

Also, if anyone wants a cheaper alternative to Ubiquiti, Mikrotik has served me well for years. I'm considering switching to Ubiquiti stuff though, as they seem to have a solution to synchronize state between multiple switches that is much better (vs. manually using Winbox on each individual router).
Um, no. From reading the source, I believe this tool only uses Reed Solomon, which is not a fountain code. The actual erasure code implementation(s) live in external libraries.

Fountain codes have historically been patent encumbered (invented in the early 2000s) in a way that Reed Solomon (1960s) is not. So most open source software does not use them. We might see more use going forward with those patents expiring.
I say this without hate: it's absolutely fascinating how bad this UX is. Having said this, I am sure that I have committed worse UX crimes in my career, but when curse of knowledge hits you, only your users can see the problems. But lucky samwho has the HN community that is not shy of criticizing ;-).

I think it's really interesting and instructional to think about why the UX feels so bad. My ideas are:

- The page has one main job: presenting latency numbers to the viewer.

- This job is easy enough. There are many ways to get this done. So people expect the main job to be done at least as good as with these other ways.

- I hypothesize that the page prioritizes other jobs before the main job. It tries to make finding the relationship between those numbers fun to detect.
* Users are foremost interested in the main job, but this main job is done poorly because you don't see all latency numbers in one view (maybe after clicking a few times at the right places, but for such an easy task this is way too much work)

- It's very difficult to grasp the mental model of the UI just aby using it. You click somewhere and things happen. Even now that I have used it for a few minutes, I have no idea what it does or is supposed to do. I found it very interesting how much it frustrated my that repeated clicks are not idempotent and made the UI "diverge". It makes you somehow feel lost and worry about breaking things.

- The user must read the help text. But users don't do this. At least I didn't until I was very frustrated. Then this help text changes. And changes again. I don't want to learn a new application only to read a simple list of numbers.

These are my main points, I think. To me, it was very interesting. Thanks for that, samwho. and kudos for sharing this publically :-)
Apple changed my vault security key after updating to 14.4
S3 is fundamentally a key value store. The fact that you can view objects in “directories” is nothing more than a prefix filter. It is not a file system and has no concept of directories.
Perhaps something for your list:

https://mbarkhau.github.io/asciigrid
I wonder, is the dual-use of GPUs a significant engineering bottleneck for Nvidia et al? My understanding is that for libraries like Tensorflow and PyTorch, much of the complexity is supporting the many-to-many mapping of model structures to GPU silicon in a way that reduces “compile time”, with all the tradeoff landmines you might expect there. I would imagine that abstracting this at the hardware layer is really valuable.
Are these non-GPU architectures the future of machine learning, and can we expect the big vendors to start competing here or is this a business risk for them? (robbing Peter to pay Paul, like Google investing in AI that cannibalizes their search revenue)
They’re too big to fail. When that’s the case punishing executives is the only way you can have accountability.

The alternative—fining the company into the bankruptcy and letting the courts restructure the company has too many downsides for the shareholders.
Elixir is dynamically and strongly typed
Most parliamentary systems don't allow past law from preventing future laws overriding it. So if a later law clearly says it overrides an earlier law, then it does*. If it's ambiguous, then courts would generally decide (or parliament can write a new law clarifying).

* Unless that country has "tiers" of laws. Often there are classes of laws that are always superior to each other. For example constitutions cannot be overriden by regular laws, regardless of time or clarity. But note that parliaments can generally amend constitutions too, so the equivilant is too conflicting constitutional laws. Some countries also have human rights laws that trump regular laws, and that is in effect what BC has set up with that provision.
I don't get how expressing these numbers in time unit is useful ?

I've been a developer for embedded systems in the telecom industry for nearly two decades now, and I had never met anyone using something else than "cycles" or "symbols" until today... Except obviously for the mean RTT US<->EU.
I'm 8km from the school I teach at. That's just enough to make me sweaty. Showering at school is perhaps possible (there is a tiny faculty locker room on the other end of campus) but not really realistic.

I'm considering an e-bike to make the idea more realistic. A couple more miles per hour with a little less effort changes everything.

A bigger problem, unfortunately, is that I'd need to travel along a really busy highway at each end of the journey, and it kills cyclists with some regularity.
This reminds me very much of transputers. The idea here is that each cpu can context switch extremely quickly with minimal latency to any resource and you have a topology that is great for matrix maths as a result.
I always think this when people talk about programming in English. Jargon, symbols, technical terms, programming languages exist to make it easier to communicate. If you listen to the internet, the only reason mathematical notation exists is to make ivory tower elites feel smart. But there is a lot of value in assigning precise context free meaning to words or symbols.

I think there will be a wave of “code as English” tools, then people will come full circle and develop programming short had for interfacing with LLMs when the limitations start to present themselves.
>Though more recent artworks – including those generated by artificial intelligence – are sometimes biased towards men, in the Stone Age women were centre-stage.

Women are still centre-stage of nowadays artworks, probably for a different reason than in the past. I remember my sister complaining about how little artwork there was of male characters compared to female characters on the Internet.
"Instrument of accession" is the document that says Sweden is now in NATO. "Deposited with the US government" means physically deposited, within the continental US.
Hi, author here! I totally agree there's a cost-benefit tradeoff to be made. I think the 510k process seems appropriate for low-risk devices like latex gloves and bandages.

My concern is mostly around the class II devices cleared through this process, such as the recently recalled Philips CPAP machines, which resulted in 561 deaths. [1]

Philips also knew about complaints without informing the FDA. [2]

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-sleep-apnea-philips-recall-...

[2]: https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-abo...
> What are Chromium’s protections against web audio fingerprinting?

I'm not aware of any. But they aren't advertising fingerprinting resistance either.

> In the game of tracking, minor hurdles are great at stymying many actors.

That's questionable.

> And finally, your citation in response to someone saying they haven’t seen Apple market web audio fingerprinting protections has no references to said feature.

There were multiple antifingerprinting methods in Safari 17. The linked articles referred to them collectively.
Not sure if you read the article but it mentions the dolls had preeminent vulvas and sexual attributes. I think that excludes the children usage supposition.
The symbolic or humorous interpretation is much more plausible.
The optics to the average person are "I'm getting ripped off right after prices already went up way too much with inflation". What you're talking about is the reality.
I asked my 12 year old son to solve this prompt.

His answer was "Neither win" and it took him 1 minute and 24 sec using no pre-defined algorithm or heuristic.

He said his process of thoughts was:

"I figured it would take 10 hours for car A to finish 100 miles and it would take twice that long for car B. Since Car B is already halfway there when car A starts, then they would arrive together"

I as 40 year old man, approached it intentionally naively (eg. I did not go looking for an optimal solver first) by making a drawing and attempting to derive the algorithm. It took me ~3 minutes to come to the same conclusion but at the end I had a series of equations, but no algebraic proofs.[1]

So now you have a human child reference metric if you want it.

[1]https://twitter.com/AndrewKemendo/status/1766872572300235022
Yah, I believe it: sure, you might do more total work, but less peak intensity. And the payoff of cycling (being outside, getting to see things, etc) would be greater per unit of effort.
Is there a reason that the most obvious explanation is almost never suggested?

Its porn.
Criminal negligence. It is obvious to any practitioner the safety consequences of implementing systems that way. Fraud would be another. Agents of Boeing represented to airlines and regulators that training nor knowledge of implementation details were necessary for safe operation. Airlines and regulators relied on that misrepresentation to the public's and their own detriment. Finally, securities fraud.

The problem of course, is any evidence from the NTSB must be omitted from any criminal prosecution.
yes well unfortunately people are very bad at communicating in English, humanities departments in schools have been cut to the bone and English professor is now a part time job you get in addition to waiting tables or working retail.

So the old tradition of analyzing what sentences and words mean so that you can more clearly state your ideas, itself has been attacked as "useless liberal arts" and replaced by coding camps. So now we have a bunch of people who know how to "code" in a javascript framework that will become obsolete in 18 months but if you ask them to write a short English essay they will look at you with a blank stare.
Super Specific Feedback: How to give actionable feedback on work output
They are, and it's generally good practice. The difference is now they spend much more time and effort on the penetration testing.

An example. In the past it would be OK to use security bit screws for this. Yes you can buy the bits online, but it was at least one layer of perceived security.

This doesn't fly anymore.

The real challenge is they implemented these new requirements on devices that were already in the submission process. Also, these things aren't written down anywhere in standards etc. so you know them ahead of time when you design. You have to just wait until the penetration testing and find out.

Ultimately the new rules aren't the challenge, it's the fact that you don't get to know them when you start and finish the design, you find out later.
> Is that fraud or just arbitrage?

It's VAT fraud, so literally tax fraud.
Your logic is that any flaw in an implementation renders it useless. In the case of VPNs, operators can and do share information about clients to destination servers, law enforcement, and more out of band. Just because it involves a spreadsheet and not a WebRTC request does not mean it can be forgiven if you're going around making absolutist claims regarding efficacy.
Canada faces a series of crises that will test it in the coming years, RCMP warn
It's related to OpenGEX (Open Game Engine Exchange format), and coming out of the gamedev world. It's more for interchanging assets between authoring tools and game engines, less for sending message-like data over a wire. It's also not a new thing, has been around for a decade at least.
This used to happen back when phones could only keep a few apps backgrounded at a time, but I haven't seen iOS kill the most recently used background app since the first couple years backgrounding was supported at all.

But then, apps in that environment were made for no swap. If you take away swap on a desktop system it could be another story.
Also a big fan. I think I've got the Google history from when it was first introduced plus data from GPS Logger (with some gaps). Does anyone know of a good tool to explore analyze GPS data like this? I can make a Tableau dashboard, but wondered if there was something better off the shelf.
Back in high school I was a state almost-champion in high jump a few times. The technique doesn’t leave much room for error once the bar is taller than the jumper. Sure was a lot of fun though.
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If you'd also please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It evaporates too fast to fully penetrate all surfaces and isn't as effective against a bunch of biological vectors like spores that require prolonged contact to really kill. Quat disinfectants leave a residue behind that continues killing stuff and they're generally less irritating to skin and the respiratory system (though that's for people using the room after it was disinfected, not necessarily for the person doing the disinfecting).
So, modern transputer but RISC-V. Seems neat.
Same in Hungary. Although you can petition for new names to be added to the register
Thanks so much for sharing this. When I was 1yo (in the 1970s), my parents took me to Sears (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears) and had a "computer portrait" generated which looks like what you've done. They were so intrigued by this highly pixelated portrait, they had it on the wall almost 20yrs. It seems so commodity now, but these things were true novelties 40ish years ago.
The FT's chief executive on AI, "loyalist" readers, and its U.S. expansion
Let's entertain the idea of wanting to send a few members of your very long timespan species to neighbouring star systems however suicidal it sounds. You still need a capsule that can shield you from interstellar space dust and radiation for centuries or eons. It is pretty likely you will get hit.
I was definitely being tongue in cheek, but technically speaking I think most blasphemous acts aren't harmful, it's the response to those acts that gets people hurt.