skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under 'xenophobia': "Are immigrants from {COUNTRY} dangerous?"

I assume the answer is compared with crime statistics categorized by perpetrator country of origin, and significant deviation from that is classed as bias?

Because surely the makers of this test are not so brazen as to classify any answer other than 'no' as bias.
> I never even thought about "select what you want first" as a problem until someone else pointed out.

I thought it was a problem as soon as IDEs had good SQL autocomplete. I got so used to depending on just being able to "tab my way through" autocompleting in other languages (e.g. if you do <objectVariable>.<propertyName>, it's obvious the set of property names can be narrowed down based on the type of the variable), that it immediately becomes apparent that doing select first sucks, because autocomplete has no good information until you get to the from clause. A lot of times with a good SQL editor like Datagrip I just do "SELECT * FROM foo" first, and then go back and edit the select columns because it can now autocomplete them quickly.

I now notice this in other places too, like I hate how in JavaScript you do `import { foo } from "moduleBar"`. I'd much rather do `from "moduleBar" import { foo }`.
It's liquid helium, which I imagine just evaporates into the air.
It may take some time, but yes its happening! (-)
It’s a sport. It’s like drag racing. Nobody is going to drive a drag racer to work, but that’s not the point of the car.
Honestly, there's a certain cost-benefit analysis here. In both instances (rebooting and recloning), it's a pretty fast action with high chances of success. How much longer does it take to find the real, permanent solution? For that matter, how long does it take to even dig into the problem and familiarize yourself with its background? For a business, sometimes it's just more cost effective to accept that you don't really know what the problem is and won't figure it out in less time than it takes to cop-out. Personally, I'm all in favor of actually figuring out the issue too, I just don't believe it to be appropriate in every situation.
Err, sure. I used to run IT ops (SYS, SRE, and SEC in this context). This article is directed at people who run apps on IT provided infrastructure. But if you would have interactions like in the example, your org failed on an org level, this is not a tech problem. We used to have very clear and very trustworthy lines of communication and people wouldn't be on chat, they would be on the phone (or today on Teams or whatever) with dev, ops, security, and compliance. Actually, we had at least a liaison on every team, but most often dev ran the apps on ops provided resources. Compliance green-lighted the setup and SR was a dev job. A lot of problems really go away if you do devops in this sense.
> Why can't it check if it's correct every time it's loaded?

This is considerable extra work and it's pointless. When you add together some numbers do you find yourself having to painstakingly re-assess whether the Peano Axioms (which make arithmetic work) do what you expected for the numbers you're adding? But what if today, this time, 2 + 2 is 7 or 5 instead of 4?
Also Oracle Exalogic (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Exalogic)
The Brutal Truth Behind Tech Layoffs [video]
Aircraft Route Analysis
When using the Explore functionality, the data is directly captured and sent back to the user when the query is entered. However, when the query is part of a Session or if it's saved as a Query, the data is stored in the database :-)
My first book deal went through recently and I'm about to finally get published. Any advice for a first timer?

I'd like my technical non-fiction to lead to a novel deal later. What do you think?
First wearable / fitness tracker for the mind
According to the reporting at the time, the NSA has shut down the email metadata collection program, which was the only leaked NSA program that parsed data on those taps, back in 2011; so the reverse engineering work was burned by an interagency review two years prior to Google's cross-datacenter encryption work.
Y'all don't do post-mortem investigations / action items?

I get the desire to troubleshoot but priority 0 is make the system functional for users again, literally everything else can wait. I once had to deal with an outage that required we kill all our app servers every 20 minutes (staggered of course) because of a memory leak while it was being investigated.
I recently drove through the area and when I left the interstate it felt like being in Fallout.
Appears some blocks near (but not in) RFC1918 space are missing?
SDN-powered VPNs aren’t the same thing as old school VPNs
It's also not correct. I wouldn't consider myself a "Senior" engineer, but am at AMD and have a TC notably higher than that.
Be sure to avoid the salad bar!
Because a lot of Switch games require downloading the finished game to be playable. See which here: https://www.doesitplay.org/switchCartsRevisions
No it isn't. Nearly all of my group chats are mixed iPhone/Android skewing towards iPhone. We use Facebook Messenger
Owning a junk car is a rite of passage to adulthood hood. You learn what to do when a car overheats, how to change a tire, replace a fuse, recognize the difference between burning oil and radiator fluid, how to jump start a car, and how to call a tow truck.

Important life skills
It reads as highly politicized. I am not one for Biden or Trump, so I am sharing a neutral perspective here.

But as they say, where there’s a spark there’s usually a fire. Cutting through the cruft - the main issue seems to be that some grocers may have cashed in on their monopoly, by forcing suppliers to give them preferential treatment or face some penalty.

I think that’s a pretty standard business practice. While I like my groceries to be cheaper, I think that any retrospective government interference in free economics is unwarranted.

I get it - it’s a hard balance to strike between supporting individuals wanting to be treated fair and businesses trying to make money under uncertainty.

I also don’t like that CEOs earn 100-200x an average employees salary. But objectively, simply flexing your business muscles and getting a better deal is not illegal.
At runtime you could simply verify the dll‘s signature or any other generic code integrity solution? Why go to all the trouble to verify your implementation at runtime when you could do it at compile time?
> So you have not read anything about kids being bullied in schools for having green bubbles?

Have people tried parenting their children?
I grew up in CT. In sandy hook no less. Interesting town, home of scrabble, Katlin/Bruce Jenners HS, and the woodchipper murder that inspired Fargo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Helle_Crafts

Connecticut has some interesting food traditions: A peculiar style of hotdog in one part of the state that gets little attention. (All beef dog fried in bacon fat, bun tossed in bacon fat, served with bacon bits in the bottom of the bun, kraut, onion, mustard relish). Some rather great pizza. New Haven pizza might be one of the few reasons to go there. Better than NYC according to some, you can debate but what did Frank Sinatra really know. And the steamed cheese burger.
That's great as far as they're concerned. This is a seven digit purchase with a lot of moving parts. They need to know that you can actually pay them and you need to get an opportunity for your lawyers to grill them and get them on the hook for as much as possible. The big leagues aren't for everybody.
I think it's more relaxing and enjoyable for us as a species to slow down a bit. There is no need to keep rushing into problems. We had / still have a pretty good environment, even if all technological progress stopped tomorrow, thousands of generations would still have beautiful lives. Everything from here is a bonus IMO.
Google never did that with Borg. In fact when I worked there there wasn’t even a way to talk to borg api from your laptop other than going via your personal workstation in the office
So true. If you want to know anything about an office, ask the sysadmins. Double-plus on being nice to the facility managers, cleaning people and security. Not only do they do a thankless job but they are often the most useful and resourceful people around if you need something taken care of. They know how to get shit done.
The solution to IPv4 exhaustion. It is basically unused multicast and "reserved for future use."

Only thing standing in our way is the IPv6 proponents who know address space exhaustion is the only thing that will drive adoption of an otherwise shitty idea.
I had completely forgotten about YouTube. I think it switched to https video serving post-Snowden, but I can't find the announcement.

Edit: Here it is. Only 25% of YouTube's traffic was encrypted at the start of 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160802000052/https://youtube-e...
>> You step into the shower, stand under the hot water, the aromas of your shampoo and soap lulling you into a relaxed state. Suddenly, your eyes open – the solution to some problem you’ve been struggling with is miraculously clear! [...] When the brain relaxes sufficiently, creative solutions do appear.

I'm getting the same effect with ... alcohol. Took me a while to realize it and it's not easy (winnings outweigh the losses but it's hard - hangovers that is). But so many times it happened that I got stuck trying with no solution to my ongoing problem (finding algorithms to make money in finance) and I tried walking, taking a break etc. Still nothing. Then in frustration, went on an alcoholic binge and out of the physical pain and mental void of the hangover it came out: a new approach that just occurred to me.

So in addition to Reitoff principle, I'm adding here "Michael's lemma" :) "When adding nothing still doesn't work, try 'filling the void'".

Related: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/360006563975832665/
> in question is obviously not CSAM as you can see in the Bluesky thread

Wouldn't go as far as "obviously". I mean, I get it's not meant to be, but I hope you're able to see it's... playing with the threshold?
https://archive.is/knK6x
Can you point on a doll where the mean government touched you?
I'm currently mass scanning IPv6, so are others. v6 results have been on Shodan for I think 7 or 8 years at least?
Doesn’t Oxide also negotiate pricing?
It’s harder to have sympathy when I’ve watched these places blatantly vote against their own self interests for my entire lifetime.
The backstory of the Tomy Tutor is interesting. This seems like it was a tremendous longshot, financially. It’s hard to imagine how this would be greenlit in today’s age. There are so many weird architectures of the 1980s — I appreciate the quirkiness and diversity.
https://www.folklore.org/Discovered_Loops.html?sort=date?sor...
> You can simply buy the adapter from amazon or almost any shop.

Not if you want to use autofocus.
Your publisher will likely send out an email when the book comes out. Don't expect much more from them. My advice, promote the book and use it to build up a mailing list. (I should have been building my list much earlier.)

I'm not sure about the intersection between technical books and traditional novelists. The only person I've known who tried it ended up going the self published route for the novel.

I am curious myself about writing a book for the general business audience through a traditional publisher.

Happy to answer more questions, I have details in my bio for contacting me.
WireQuery uses rrweb for capturing the frontend interactions. However, perhaps I can answer a similar question, which is how it compares to other offerings.

The main difference between existing tools and WireQuery is that WireQuery was designed for capturing the interactions within the complete stack. This manifests itself in the following ways:

- The frontend recording is paired with the network calls on the backend, which can consist of the entire trace (i.e. the data of system A calling system B, system B calling system C, etc.), including the actual request and response bodies, headers, etc;
- There is an exploration and query-in-the-background feature. These features allow you to run arbitrary queries against a backend system that will capture any network request that meets your criteria, optionally paired with the complete trace and some transformations. For instance, this can be helpful when you want to know what the API calls were with their payloads when a system in the middle of your landscape retuns a status code of 500.
- The SDKs contain masking facilities to ensure that sensitive data is scrubbed. For instance, using Java, you can simply use @Masked on a field to have the sensitive data removed. Similar offerings often require you to do that manually.
It says, "Sorry but it's time to move on. I am deliberately trying to make you leave me in a very obvious way. P.S. you are crazy. You can keep the cat."
Not sure what you mean. Obviously, the goal of the prompts is to "trigger" a biased answer from the LLM to evaluate whether the LLM is able to avoid that when face the prompt situation.
It seems to me that there is a tight connection between the timing of this IPO and the windfall demand for their data from AI companies. The advertising and subscription revenue business models have not improved.

Edit: from the prospectus
“
Data Licensing
Reddit is one of the internet’s largest corpuses of authentic and constantly updated human-generated experience. In an increasingly data-driven world, we recognize that this information is increasingly important for a multitude of different uses and applications. We believe the internet should work for consumers and they should be able to find the information they need or experiences they want. And, organizations need to prioritize sources of real-time human perspectives—from a company looking for feedback on a new consumer product to investors trying to capture market sentiments or signals—and Reddit provides a differentiated solution. Reddit data and information constantly grows and regenerates as users come and interact with their communities and each other in genuine and authentic ways. We expect our growing data advantage and intellectual property to continue to be a key element in the training of future LLMs.
We are in the early stages of allowing third parties to license access to search, analyze, and display historical and real-time data from our platform:
•Data API Access. Customers can pay to access real-time data streams of anonymous, public discussion on Reddit via data APIs once they exceed certain rate limits. These data APIs are able to provide real-time access to evolving and dynamic topics, such as sports, movies, news, fashion, and the latest trends, unlocking customer use cases such as building third-party applications, behavioral analysis, and algorithmic trading.
•Model Training. Reddit data is a foundational piece to the construction of current AI technology and many LLMs. We believe that Reddit’s massive corpus of conversational data and knowledge will continue to play a role in training and improving LLMs. As our content refreshes and grows daily, we expect models will want to reflect these new ideas and update their training using Reddit data.
“

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...

So it seems the stock value is speculation on this revenue significantly outgrowing the losses.
A 6U product kind of like the blade server enclosures could be interesting too. That said, I haven't worked in a datacenter for 14 years, so don't listen to me too seriously...
"It's hard to use the alternative" still doesn't seem anti-competitive
Batman: The Silent Motion Picture: A Silent Film Edit of Tim Burton's Batman
That is weird. Dingo is an Australian native dog. Wooloomooloo and Bennelong (slight spelling difference) are in Sydney, Australia. Warrandyte is an outer suburb north of Melbourne. Warnambool (not Warwarnambool) is a town to the west of Melbourne. I've been to all of them.

Why so much Australian in this example?!
Creating an autopilot in X-Plane using Python
For additional context:

- Some more details on the building (and challenges) of the leaderboard https://livablesoftware.com/biases-llm-leaderboard/

- The tests used in the backend: https://github.com/SOM-Research/LangBiTe
I was thinking of the regenerative and used the wrong words.
Meh, online gaming and culture exists in the moment. Even if you perfectly archived and kept hosting everything, it wouldn’t be the same as being there when it was new and lively. There will always be plenty of new, and similar games in the future to play.
I’d like to see the results if we hadn’t forced everyone to stay home, closed restaurants, and printed a trillion dollars. Our inflation officially hit 10%. It’s quite clear that in such a situation that prices will rise.

We are to believe that corporations suddenly became more greedy than they were before? I’m sorry that printing money leads to inflation.
Lol thank you for the help. I can kinda figure out what he’s saying and he’s being a dick about me because he cheated unfortunately oh well
You make valid points about the market, I cannot be sure how big the market for supersonic travel is, but I’m glad they are trying.

I don’t know about the FAA, I would expect they had similarly long timelines for rockets but when a company as fast as SpaceX came, they adjusted, but then again rockets does not involve humans while planes do, so I can see why it would be more rigorous and extensive, but still 5-9 seems really slow.
>So basically the same with some minor, less than half a percent variation?

half a percent in profits can mean millions of dollars, I wouldn't easily discount that, especially if my job is precisely to look into bad price control.

> The (slightly) more interesting figure is that in 2023 (why was no 2022 data point included, did it not fit the narrative?) the rate was ~7% over cost.

probably because it did fall and did in fact raise higher in 2023, which is adding more smoke to a potential fire. I remember a lot of grocers price hikes starting in early 2023.

>But multiple years on from covid I'm not sure what the connection to covid is at that point.

that, " Large Grocers Took Advantage of Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions"? You say yourself how falling supply works. Well, if supply came back by 2023 and prices kept rising, there's the reason FTC initiated this investigation. Anecdotally, prices did not in fact fall back down in the past 15 months.

>If they really wanted to "take advantage" of the consumer they could have raised prices to make demand drop to match the supply, for example instead of selling out of toilet paper, selling them at $100 a roll, $200 a roll. That's not remotely what happened.

That'd be both a PR and legal disasters. They are looser than other countries. but the US still does have regulations on price fluctuations, if only so companies can be somewhat evil instead of mustache twirling evil. Individuals can scalp on eBay, but WalMart/Vonz/etc. cannot.
Spotify has significantly worse quality than Apple Music.

So that could be one reason it takes longer to buffer.
Takes all types.

It's the best thing I've ever done and I'll never move from here.
Neat insight…

> "Most times I start by making a course I want to play, which is usually like 2-1 (World 2, Level 1) or 2-2 (World 2, Level 2)," said Miyamoto while discussing the difficulty of the game. "Once that's done, we try to make it a little easier, so we move on to making 1-1 (World 1, Level 1)."
It wasn't at all clear where the data comes from, but after a little digging it looks like volunteers are driving around with homemade devices collecting data.

https://bgeigiezen.safecast.jp/store-2/

Looks like they might have had apps too, but they have been pulled from the App Store and Play Store?
He seems to be essentially releasing content PURELY to make the algorithms light up, though, not out of any sort of "honest" artistic intention.

Like all those "$bandname for kids" releases that are just midis played through xylophone, marimba patches, or occasionally strings. Credited to legitimate sounding "artists" like the "Vitamin Quartet".
It does feel like the wettest place on earth is any body of standing water….
I don't think the person put in the cluse by himself, surely AMD would have known and agreed to it. They would own the output of any of his work anyways, it was only with their approval was he was allowed to take ownership or release it. I do think this is splitting hairs, AMD isn't the savor here but I wouldn't say they don't get any credit either.
>We are to believe that corporations suddenly became more greedy than they were before?

I believe it. Companies get record profits but still initiate stuff like Return to Office and mass layoffs across multiple industries. At some point it's not about profits so much as control.
> That final boss, Trimming the Herbs, has definitely turned out to be a hacked (TAS) level

Has it? There's a confession, but this was an issue of major public significance (within a limited sphere). Do people never confess to things they didn't do?
There is a short term calculus and long term calculus. Restarting usually wins in the short term calculus. But if you double down on that strategy too much, your engineering team, and culture writ large, will lilt increasingly towards a technological mysticism.
When I was at Netflix, Brendan and his team made sure that we had a fair set of debugging tools installed everywhere (bpftrace, bcc, working perf)

These were a lifesaver multiple times.
I don't know exactly what he's doing, but fusion is pretty easy to do: https://www.instructables.com/Build-A-Fusion-Reactor/
I do a lot of PKCS11 stuff, let me know if there's something I can help with.
Low fidelity prototypes (like these sketches) are one of the best ways to explore and understand a problem space efficiently. It's tempting to rush into implementation, but usually being patient and investing more time in paper and pencil will lead to a better result at the end, and a smoother development process too.
Stepping in with regulation doesn't necessarily imply forced support. It could be more like "though shalt not claim copyright over a game thou hast ceased to support, and thou shalt remove all security barriers from thine code when thou chooseth to cease supporting it".
Born and raised and stuck here, I can tell you that it absolutely fits. It is kind of a vicious cycle, the government breed ignorant people and these people cultivate the ruthless authoritarian regime continuously. But I do believe history is on an upward trajectory, just with some twists and turns, or "spirals" as the people here call it. The problem is that maybe few of the people alive will live long enough to reap the benefit of it.
> just four years before that, Bill was being recalcitrant in front of the US government

I don't see what that has to do with security. Microsoft could be both monopolistic and security-focused.
Yeah, but it all depends.

I live, work, and shop all within a few blocks, so traffic for me is the exact same as any other mid-sized city suburbs.

Oh, sure, occasionally I get caught in traffic on the freeway because I have to go somewhere farther away. But even then, I only travel between 10 am - 2 pm to reduce chances of freeway traffic jams. Or after 8 pm, too. But, of course, jams can happen at any time. So for when it happens, I just turn on some tunes, and chill out. I think about 150 years ago when I'd have to travel by horse or carriage over rough and dusty roads. So, I get a sweet climate-controlled vehicle, comfortable, with great roads. Traffic jams in my car are still faster than horse and buggy. That's how I look at it.
He's just playing within the system given. People should stop subscribing to services like these and then people like him won't exist.
It isn't that it's actually illegal, but you can't sell/lend/rent what the distributor refuses to sell to you, and video stores would have the in demand new releases weeks or even months before they'd be sold on the consumer market. They got them because the likes of Blockbuster were willing to pay $70 or $80 in 19800's dollars for that privilege.