skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a democracy, the real problem is voters. In markets, the real problem is the customers. In this case, it seems to be both.

I'm making a guess here that the real issue is that customers don't understand security and won't pay for it. They do understand that security is inconvenient and punish MS for implementing inconvenient features. That would explain the behaviour seen around the release of Vista - a company learning that security might be important to their CEO and dev team, but they will get financially punished for prioritising it so the bean counters step in and overrule that funny business on behalf of the customers.

I'd go further and say that the correct thing to do here is to train government purchasing officers on security and punish them for buying insecure software. This "Microsoft has the market buttoned up due to a few key strengths" business in the article shows that too. If the government really understood its own needs, it could organise for someone else to build software that meets them. From their perspective Libreoffice and MS Office might be incomparable, but there is no argument that technically they are very similar. Business needs could be met too if someone put some budget into it for a few years and it isn't that hard. The issue here is entirely that government contracts won't move around based on real security concerns.
Traditional foods or methods of cooking are not necessarily healthy. If eaten in excess cassava is high glycemic index like other Western starches, and stuff like cooking in animal fats is very unhealthy.

A lot of obesity in developing economies comes from people who have experienced food scarcity overcompensating and overfeeding themselves and their children.
> nobody writes any CUDA

That's an extreme stretch, and far from truth.

Many people write CUDA, both in industry and academia.
That's a damn shame. I think that having it update regularly means you can keep in contact if the situation changes.
> I am willing to defer to State Farm and believe that they are very data driven

Big corporations are such that the left hand and right hand seldom know what they are each doing. A team and I consulted there about ten years ago. In the silo we were working in was the single most risk-averse place I've ever seen. On one hand, that would appear to be a good cultural element given their business, but on the other it was so extreme that I found it to be a major turnoff - it felt so extreme as to be wasteful. Not that hard to imagine then taking an extreme position on who they will insure as the world shifts.
Not on my Android phone or on my Linux computer.
so why isn't there a windows competitor today for the consumer PC market? Surely it's a bigger market than ai chips.

The answer is that the entrenchment of the tools, software and inertia of a defacto standard is what prevents new entrants. The time to stop it is to nip it in the bud. Prevent monopoly from forming, rather than hope that after the monopoly forms, some competitor will break it.
Digital is only part of the audio waveform. CD especially is based on 1970s digital audio processing, not even professional quality. Vinyl is a full waveform. Much fuller, bass, drums, and voices.
A question/poll on the choice ethics, legality, and convenience.

Is it OK/legal to download/torrent a movie/show (media) if you buy/own/paid for a physical copy Blu-ray/vinyl, etc.?
There is also the effect of improved health systems being able to diagnose more. You’re not going to get a cancer diagnosis if you don’t have access to a hospital.
The clunky LRUD interaction model is much slower than simply finding what you like on your phone and casting, which even my TV supports.
Biomed is already too complex to simulate fully, which is why simulating is just, not really a thing that is done to find new knowledge. Heck, some quantum interactions are already (so far) computationally intractable, which is why quantum chemistry exists as a field at all, it's far from trivial. That doesn't mean the best practices developed for medicine won't help in the social sciences as well.

The issue with degrees of freedom can be mostly pinned down with preregistration, among other measures. It won't solve the problem of having more type I errors at any specific error rate the more science you do, but it does give assurances the target type I error rate is accurate.
The cars told you that? Interesting.
Others do, and for commercial reasons.

And how do we classify special government and law enforcement access projects, grants, and the like?

I won't say it is selling, but it is for economic gains.

And when they "anonymize" data, basically selling derivative data products of various kinds, what do we call it when that is enough for another entity to identify many, despite the stated intent being otherwise?

I did not intend to talk anyone down.

I did intend to just state the truth because sometimes we need someone to do that.

If said truths feel/smell/appear somehow bad, I am not sure what to say. Bet lots of us have that problem.

Got any tips?
I agree. I remember Oxide was a balls-to-wall hardcore server "rack" soup to nuts baked by Oxide so they could provide exceptional performance and software stack. This "cloud" thing is new.
That made me laugh. Thank you. Of course, it is not DNS. DNS has become the new cabling. DNS is not especially complicated, but cabling is neither. Yet, during dot.com and subsequent years the cabling was causing a lot of the problems so that we get used to first check the cabling. But it only took a few more years to realize that it is not always cabling, actually failures are normally distributed.

Is it wrong to check DNS first? No, but please realize that DNS misconfiguration is not more common than other SNAFUS.
TL;DR

- I compared Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku and OpenAI's GPT-4-Turbo in various AI tasks.

- Haiku offers faster response times, lower costs, and comparable performance.

- Claude 3 Haiku could potentially substitute GPT-4-Turbo in 95% of AI applications at 1/25th Cost.

- Haiku demonstrates better readability and can handle specific tasks more effectively than GPT-4-Turbo in certain situations.

Test results

I created a knowledge base for a virtual AI company and asked most of the questions based on this information.
After running almost 100 different prompts, here are the results of each model's performance:

Speed Comparison:

- Haiku's average generation time is 78% faster than GPT-4-preview-0125 (2.283s vs 10.475s)

- Haiku's time to first token (TTFT) is 58% faster than GPT-4-preview-0125 (0.45s vs 1.07s)

Cost Comparison:

- Haiku's average cost per request is 95% lower than GPT-4 ($0.00032 vs $0.007)

- Haiku pricing: $0.25 / MTok (Input), $1.25 / MTok (Output)

- GPT-4-Turbo pricing: $10.00 / MTok (Input), $30.00 / MTok (Output)

Evaluation Tests:

I conducted evaluation tests on Keywords AI. The results are as follows:

- GPT-4-0125-preview: Context Precision: 0.96, Faithfulness: 0.97, Readability: 0.85, Relevance: 0.94

- Claude-3-haiku: Context Precision: 0.92, Faithfulness: 0.91, Readability: 0.88, Relevance: 0.94

- Haiku demonstrates better readability than GPT-4-preview-0125 (0.88 vs 0.85)

- Both models have similar performance in context precision, faithfulness, and relevance

Interesting Observation:

When using the "Airport code extractor" prompt from OpenAI's prompt library, GPT-4 couldn't solve the problem, while Haiku successfully extracted the airport codes.

Conclusion:

Thorough testing shows Claude 3 Haiku rivals GPT-4-Turbo across various AI tasks, with faster response times, lower costs, and comparable performance metrics, suggesting it as a viable alternative for most AI applications.

How You Can Run Your Own Tests:

I ran all tests & evaluations on Keywords AI's playground. You can choose any models you want to test there.
You joke but apparently a lot of startups are putting their cloud bill on a credit card for the points. Sometimes even a personal card.
The most relevant point to the headline is the claim that large grocers unfairly raised prices more than they had to.

Well, if you pull up the report, it says "This study did not test whether the specific companies that received 6(b) Orders increased their prices by more or less than their input cost increases". So .. they don't actually have any data that says this, from the grocers they studied.

What they're instead going on, from the report, is looking at grocer's profit numbers (which they never provide a source for): "Specifically, food and beverage retailer revenues increased to
more than 6 percent over total costs in 2021, higher than their most recent peak, in 2015, of 5.6 percent".

So .. before the pandemic they had peaks of up to 5.6% over cost, and the year after the pandemic they were at ~6% over cost (also, what does "more than" mean? Why not just write the number? They had no problem writing 5.6%, why not write 6.1% or 6.7% or whatever the number is?).

Ok? So basically the same with some minor, less than half a percent variation? Where less than half a percent of difference could be explained by a multitude of factors? Seems like the year of covid and year after covid had virtually no impact. 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. But multiple years on from covid I'm not sure what the connection to covid is at that point.

Also .. isn't it extremely basics economics that when supply drops but demand stays the same or rises, this should result in higher prices? That's exactly the scenario we had in covid. If prices only rose less than half a percent more than pre-covid profit peaks, doesn't that say something extremely positive about the grocers? 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 is really disappointing to hear. It's depressing how many projects don't have a commitment to backward compatibility.
It's (unofficially) a half million to a million depending on configuration.
We have this problem in Australia too. Farmers and suppliers to the big supermarket duopoly are complaining that they have hardly been able to negotiate any raises in their wholesale price to account for increased costs due to inflation (because the two big supermarket players who control almost the whole market have ridiculous market power and they use it), but the price of a lot of food items in the supermarket has gone up in many cases 20 percent, 30 percent, or even more over the last two years… (while the offical annualised CPI hit a peak of 7.8% one quarter and is dropping, currently back to 4.1%)
> What's wrong with a Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive world?

If you center the putative ends and ignore the means, what’s wrong with communism?

Also, even in terms of ends: I come from Asia, where most countries are homogenous. Are you suggesting that Taiwan or Japan is somehow worse because everyone is Taiwanese or Japanese? Would India and Bangladesh both benefit if we took some people from one side of the border and swapped them over to the other side? Or better yet—added a bunch of white people and Latinos? Would Aladdin or Mulan be better with a diverse cast?

That sounds… racist.
https://indieblog.page/random

Something similar
That's what they told Michael Dell, too.
It would take away a huge chunk of their advantage, no doubt about it. Let Nvida compete on merit instead of lock-in. Then you can say their advantage lies in being better. But Nvidia is very lock-in oriented, which undermines the claim that they are so much better than everyone.
Not just geohot but AMD has a really amazing opportunity here to work with many other talented engineers that are more than willing to put resources into this if they had good documentation and tools to work with, it's really puzzling to me that AMD isn't taking this opportunity more seriously.
You really mean TC and not base salary? That’s shockingly bad.
Do you disagree that the Bay Area and LA have been leading producers/trendsetters of culture on a global scale for the past 50 or so years? I'm thinking movies, television, music, internet culture, counterculture... the examples are kind of endless.
Thanks for the link, and very good to know. I've always struggled to find component prices for Kioxia drives and higher-capacity RAM sticks so it's good to see I can finally look these up on serversupply when I'm curious.
Yeah, private cloud racks are an established market. Nutanix, VxRack, UCS, etc.
On that note I'd largely prefer if `busybox` contained more of these tools, it'd be very helpful to have a 1MBish file that I can upload into a server and run it there.
I'm not sure if this is the opposite of what you intend, but I act on it by choosing their VertexAI over ChatGPT because Google Cloud is way ahead in reliability and performance.
Brute-Forcing 2FA with Ruby
obs works and you can capture per-window via pipewire
I mean, that’s just completely wrong though! (1) It attempts to wrap and then substitute, which is nonsense (2) it doesn’t even expand the string you give it! That f-string in there is basically a no-op and (3) it truncates to only the first line, and throws away the rest.
I always cover such tools when I interview people for SRE-type positions. Not so much about which specific commands the candidate can recall (although it always impresses when somebody teaches me about a new tool) but what's possible, what sort of tools are available and how you use them: that you can capture and analyze network traffic, syscalls, execution profiles and examine OS and hardware state.
> and yet to my eye it messes with anatomy

wait what? Isn't that missing the point of expressionism? Klimt's Judith I is basically a photo, surely he can draw sh*t if he wanted to?

But myriad predecessors such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, da Vinci, et al., have done enough in realism, and also photography was becoming more viable and more prevalent, that artists basically started diversifying? Isn't that what lead to various forms of early 20th century arts like surrealism(super-real -ism), cubism, etc?

I don't mean offense but that's just, surely that level of understanding can't be basis of policy decisions when it comes to moral rights and licensing discussions and "artists should just use AI" and such???
Even if we have the collective wisdom, that doesn't mean it will outweigh the incentives, especially if that decision-making power is unchecked.
Easy Steps to View Your IP Camera Through a Web Browser Remotely
> What they need to do is fix the stability of their drivers, make their stuff work on every GPU they sell or have sold in the past few years (as CUDA always has), and pay employees to integrate support into all the popular open source projects while fixing every bug that gets reported.

This takes a ton of employees which is hard for a company with a fraction of the software employees of Nvidia. (On that note there's 1185 engineering job postings on the AMD site right now... https://careers.amd.com/careers-home/jobs?categories=Enginee...)
> A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba.

Wow.. this is sketchy as hell.
This is the way. Even in a zero trust environment, it’s wise to have your cluster endpoints internal to a VPC. Zero trust doesn’t mean no internal network, but rather no internal trusted zone.

It’s still a great idea to minimize the “blast radius” where you can.
Steamed Cheeseburger
After almost a dozen years spent writing almost as many technical books (some second editions), I wouldn't recommend taking forever with a technical book. It will be out of date by the time it comes out.

Every author has to figure out why they write. For me it was a business decision, and finally this year I'm making more from books than I was doing software.
> I can't remember ever finding it more difficult or backwards than anything else I use."

This is the major problem. SQL looks like is not "difficult". You don't see (as a user) all their MASSIVE, HUGE, problems.

That is why:

- People barely do more than basic SQL

- People can't imagine SQL can be used for more than that, which leads to:

- Doing a lot of hacky, complex, unnecessary stuff on app code (despite the RDBMS being capable of it)

- Trying to layer something "better" in the forms of ORM

- Refusing to use advanced stuff like views, stored procedures, custom types, and the like

- Using of using advanced stuff like views, stored procedures, custom types, and the like, but wrongly

- Thinking that SQL means RDBMS

- So when the RDBMS fails, it is because the RDBMS is inferior. But in fact, is SQL that have failed (you bet the internals of the RDBMS are far more powerful than any NoSql engine, unfortunately, they are buried forever because SQL is a bad programming interface for the true potential of the engine!)

- So dropping SQL/RDBMS for something better, like JS (seriously?)

- And they are happier with their "cloud scale" NoSQL that rarely performs better, needs major, massive hacks for queries, or reimplements, poorly, ACID again, is more prone to data issues, etc.

And this is not even starting. If you think "is bad to make a full app, all their code, in relational model" that is how much brain damage SQL has caused.

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I can count with my fingers the number of semi-proper DBs/SQL usage on my niche (ERPs) and that is mostly mine! (For example: I use dates for dates, not strings, like many of my peers!) and that is taking into account that I actually learned what the heck is that "relational" thingy after +20 years of professional use.

Go figure!

P.D: And then go to my code and see "what the heck, I could have done this in some few lines of SQL" and "what the heck, if only SQL were well designed I could do this dozen lines of SQL in 3!"
Europe is close to 3x what America has sent now. Less direct military support, but much of the funding buys weapons anyhow.

The US has a ton of mil equipment, built for the European theater, that is sitting in storage. Significant amounts (over half) goes back into replacement with new & upgraded kit for the US Mil
For information, I need to decypher this. It is my boyfriend James and what he said about me to his friends and the girl Emily he hooked up with when I left this part. I texted him saying if he didn’t come home I was packing my things and leaving because, he was hitting on other women in front of me. I need help lol
Skimping on software is penny wise and pound foolish. This is worth a trillion in market cap. If it cost a hundred billion dollars it would still be worth it. They need to swallow their pride, admit they've been wrong this whole time, and start hiring software engineers like crazy.
> For example you’ll find no challenges getting insurance in San Francisco city or San Jose for the most part.

While some of that is climate, much of that is because the natural environment was wiped out and urbanized years ago.

I have a higher wildfire risk not because my home is in some wooded canyon, but there are more plants, trees, and open areas around vs paved cityscape.
He's basically SEOing Spotify. Search for "peaceful piano" or whatever, and you'll likely find the guy's tracks.

At home, whenever we eat X, we have a habit of asking Spotify to play X. We've made some great discoveries this way (Cornflakes 3D is an Israeli psytrance group, while The Dumplings is a Czech indie band), but these days almost all the searches have been hijacked by "playlist called Italian Restaurant Music" etc.
If I was an AMD shareholder I'd seriously be considering a vote to remove CEO Lisa Su. They make nearly identical products to NVIDIA, yet that other company is worth literally ten times as much, because pytorch actually works on their cards. Why isn't she prioritizing firmware that doesn't crash?
I'm interpreting it more like this is a standalone locally managed program, the user would like a screenshot feature in it.

But if you add remote management around it then this screenshot feature can be invasive, but then again so is the management software that prevents the end user from changing the config.

So the way I see it, the developer is getting upset over something they'd be unable to control.
The headline links to a lengthy article.
we all know it was you!

your UPS bill must be huge.
I also think this is only true because a generation of office workers have been trained to believe it is true. We don't have a better option because it is impossible for an alternative to be established. Excel begets Excel.

Further lock-in like VBA on Excel desktop, the crippled capability of the web version, and second class support on platforms other than Windows should not be taken as virtues of Excel. Forcing everything into a "document" paradigm sucks. Needing the editor to view the data is awful. There is no separation of concerns between content and presentation. Opening a file in the state the last person edited it in is horrible.

Conceded it is a powerful application, but what I see it used for mostly us visual grid layouts using cells, rather than true tabular data. I constantly see PMs using it to painstakingly make gantt charts, when MS Project is available. It's one step away from oil and canvas.
To be fair, with git, specifically, it's a good idea to at least clone for backup before things like major merges. There are lots of horror stories from people losing work to git workflow issues and I'd rather be ridiculed as an idiot who is afraid of "his tools" (as if I have anything like a choice when using git) and won't learn them properly than lose work thanks to a belief that this thing behaves in a way which can actually be learned and followed safely.

A special case of this is git rebase after which you "can" access the original history in some obscure way until it's garbage-collected; or you could clone the repo before the merge and then you can access the original history straightforwardly and you decide when to garbage-collect it by deleting that repo.
the Google SQL variant has where required for deletes. on my first encounter of it I was just like "huh, neat", you can always use 1=1 as the predicate if needed.
The title alone speaks to me.
Thank you for the article.
The only thing that's sketchy is Spotify directing everyone to the same content, making stuff that appeals to the audience isn't against the rules.
You to are having a debate over semantics. Most dictionaries would probably agree that punishment is, definitionally, retribution for an offense. You cannot punish without a reason because that's not punishment, it's just hurting people. Your definition may be different, and that's fine, but you can't logic your way out of a difference of opinion on the definition of the word.
Finally a burger without that French “maillard reaction”
I'm not sure what that proves.

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dChsc1LUaZ8
No, the latest proposed aid appropriation for Ukraine is stuck in the House for months.

The latest aid package (insifar as appropriation was required, it is from remaining authority on other appropriations) was a $300 million value package announced 11 days ago: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-prepar...
As a home owner with residential solar, I don't care about weight.

On the other hand any supplication involving transport does.

Both are very large markets, so weight would be a good point, especially if it was materially different.

So while you are correct, not all applications are weight sensitive, its an important factor. Or, to put it another way, if you discovered the new battery was half the weight of li-ion, how would that affect your opinion?