skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was replying that "what they're intended for" has no causal power (and thus shouldn't affect how controversial it is) -- the chemical mechanisms that play out don't look at policymaker intent. I don't know what you find so objectionable about that point.

It's not objectionable so much as it's backwards: policymakers can't control what a chemical or element does, but they can make policy decisions based on specific known properties of a chemical or element. It's not like we just YOLO'd fluoride into the water in the 1960s and have cargo-culted that practice into the present: the science on safe fluoride levels was sound back then, and continues to be substantiated by current research.

I think you read too much about "intent" into the original comment. The comment's whole point was that fluoride's value for dental health is incontrovertible, and was incontrovertible ~60 years ago. That's how it fits into the above. If there was any evidence either now or 60 years ago that municipal fluoridation at CDC levels did anything except improve the public's dental hygiene, then there would be a reasonable call for controversy here. But no such evidence exists.
I just use an old computer full of drives on which I ssh mount. I don't even care setting up samba these days.

Even NAS distros/OSes are usually overkill for home and less than 5 different users. In a typical family context you usually only need one filesystem for each user + 1 shared fs with same RW for everyone.
Thanks!

I didn’t no so many people would be offended by this but perhaps that’s a sign that it’s working

I was actually planning on switching to grey already. The colors come from a version of this I made 7 years ago https://minimal-hn.firebaseapp.com/ that this project came out of

I did want to honor the colors of the original project, but I also have genuine concerns with accessibility and would like the default theme to be more accessible. I also like some of the grayscale themes, they remains me somewhat of 80s Macs
The glitches hide the fact that every story has to be loaded async just to get the title and that this is very hard to do without some degree of jank OR a performance hit from loading as many requests are on the page in parallel
The fact that you think this is entirely intentional is proof that it works!
I've tried plex but had issues to set it how I want. I have one kodi to share everything, it's my main pc in home and we watch tv (dvb-t2 streamed with nextpvr), online streams, yt, etc. MCE remote to navigate. play emus or PC games with a click. Yatse to stream over mobile. Plex can't do all that. Plex is neat but still not the way I like it. Kodi is a bit messy to setup but once you handle it, it does the job.
The is a PWA, which means it is a cross platform app that can be installed on most devices

I wasn’t really interested in catering to the 0.00001% of users who disable Javascript. I like the standards of the open web and think they’re worth building on.

While imperfect, there’s nothing comparable in building cross platform applications that are also secure, easy to develop for, easy to release, easily capable of being audited
Well you can install as a PWA, this is a form the HN site doesn’t have
My experience is that I have been in companies where some people were spending a ton of time doing that kind of "clever tricks", and it never brought anything at all.

My opinion is that it must be hard to get visibility for a landing page to a product that does not exist.

Side-effect: I don't believe anything businesses say unless I can see an actual product, because such marketing schemes trained me to be suspicious of everything. Businesses lie, except when they don't (which is rare).
Every little speed bump you put in the way will deter some people on the margin.
The worst thing is I can't read the policy without accepting it.
I think neighbor's kid's injury rate is more relevant than general deaths-caused rate for a home liability insurance policy
I’d say it’s easier to tell in the US as cities and towns tend to be heavily divided into class-based areas. Not to mention people in general are far more comfortable “showing off” their financial status.

Finland is a lot more homogenous in that sense and people certainly don’t flaunt their wealth.
> 1. Are any groups doing meaningful ML research without access to farms of H100?

Sure, there's a lot of work to be done on the inferencing side of things. You're just about boned if you want to train a competitive model without competitive compute though.

> 2. Are freely available datasets as high quality as what might be available to larger companies?

There have been, for a while. The Pile is the one everyone points too, but smaller finetuning datasets are everywhere now. None of them are super useful unless you intend to train a model though.
"We aren’t anywhere near running out of space for landfill. The Earth is huge and we are good at digging deep holes. Space will never be a meaningful constraint."

While true in general there is a very big problem called NIMBYism (not in my back yard) where a great many places refuse to allow new landfills--resulting in the refuse having to be transported very long distances--and thus using a great deal of energy for the transportation.
> they weren't planning on this outcome

Unless they didn't plan at all (an answer I would not accept, or would advocate for prison terms if true), then they absolutely did plan for this outcome. Putting safety importance somewhere except the most important factor in manufacturing commercial passenger planes puts this exact outcome in the "planned" category.
Former Plex user and current Jellyfin user. Never tried Kodi however happy to see more options in this space.
This is what happens when monopolies are allowed to exist. In a competitive market if the CEO gives away market share to rivals due to reckless indifference to safety and becomes a liability, they will be fired or the company gets spun off to fend for themselves. When we as a society allow a monopoly to exist, then government assumes responsibility for whatever that monopoly does with its power. Government intervention ought to be a last resort, not the first. The only reason anyone's calling for government action here is because we allowed Boeing to become a monopoly to begin with, so now we have no other choice but to accept what Boeing has become or else break it up. All monopolies will eventually do something to harm the public in exchange for personal wealth. It is an inevitability.
Yes, reliable NAT and firewall traversal is basically the make-or-break feature for "P2P"/mesh VPNs.

And Tailscale is doing a great job at trying to only resort to relaying when there's really no other choice, both because it improves latency and saves them bandwidth on their relays.

It's very similar to VoIP and videocalls (1:1; conferencing usually performs better with SFUs) in that regard.
What? Fines are expenses, they do "come out of profits" to whatever extent that has meaning. They also aren't deductible expenses for taxable income if that's what you're talking about.
> Instead, there's just indifference to this process

kind of. There are two things that often happen if people don't integrate, mostly wrt company culture:

1. The newbies don't integrate because they have created their own culture because either they don't realize that they are excluded from the "adults table" (different departments, etc) or that their experiences interacting with the existing hierarchy makes them want to reject the existing culture. They surround the "core" even though they may not often interact with it (and maybe management realizes this but most often not). Maybe they do some shadow IT but the projects that they work on are not core to the business because they are locked out from those systems and the work that they do is seen as useless because it is never integrated (maybe their code kind of sucks because they don't get mentorship, etc). The core is mostly untouched by the social group(s) that surround it. The different social groups are not as rigid as departments but if the core has any legitimate power the non-complaint people are usually shuffled around. Some people in the "wrong-group" may learn to respect the existing culture and they are promoted into the sacrosanct.

2. Similar to #1 except that the newbies are better at self-marketing or socializing with management and eventually the core culture is entirely replaced by the newer culture. The business allows this, even perhaps risking business continuity, because they start to see the old clique as stubborn, not inclusive, not open to change or suggestions, perhaps even a liability to the company.

This happens with open source projects as well
> A suspect isn't necessarily convicted even if you do ultimately convict someone.

What does that mean?
Heckler: Breaking Confidential VMs with Malicious Interrupts
> and "foregone conclusion"

I'm unconvinced and be hard pressed to be.

> your fate is the same as if you had never been asked.

This is absolutely not true and is literally the entire reason people go to great lengths to do it. Not understanding this is probably why you're not understanding the rest. I'm not sure how you don't get it because if you're gay you're not going to military service and you're not going to jail. If you're not gay (or not faking) your choice is military service or jail. That's not "the same" no matter how you put it.
Extra percentage points on their tax rate? The question is if they could use more aggressive tax avoidance schemes to counteract this?
I see your point, but I think this might work for them. At my previous place we started on Stripe it was really nice to work with, cost nothing in absolute terms because we had few sales, easy to integrate.

But a few years in we were doing substantial volume and we wanted to re-negotiate the contract. If we had Lago and could re-integrate with that, using it as leverage on a Stripe contract renewal, that could have been worth $3k a month, given that we were paying Stripe $30k per month in fees.

Our situation was a little different being retail rather than SaaS billing, but I could see a world where this makes financial sense.
My kids like snapcircuits but it’s pretty basic- nothing approaching the 60-in-1 radio shack kits.
Why is it the most environmentally friendly car when pure EVs are also practical and widely available. I fail to see how adding a fossil fuel burning motor, no matter how efficient, is anything other than worse for the environment.
They should actually directly hit the stock price. Set the fine per stock unit.
Mistral-7B will run on a Raspberry Pi at q04 and a little bit of patience. For good acceleration though, you'll want an Nvidia machine with enough VRAM to comfortable store the model.
Watts–Strogatz small world graph model
perhaps it relates to a concept of LD50 in chemical testing.. that is, run tests and show a distribution of content and application, that results in "greater than fifty percent" fatality or "less than fifty percent" overall mortality.. continue to evaluate through the entire market system..

No action or formulation is one hundred percent pure and beneficial, though many actions or formulations are certainly one hundred percent fatal, now or over time. This is true in products created by companies, and markets push towards maximum profitability, not maximum safety.
What does the opposite look like in Germany? Meaning, shutting down a Gmbh?

In Sweden, you can get this done in a matter of days, where you sell the shares of your corporation for the net value minus a fee of about $1000.
Too bad for iPhone users, then.
(Airbus is only ~25% government-owned)
In a sense computer and electrical engineers/scientists did largely map out the base layers, over ~150 years from the 19th century through the mid 20th. I think equipment (broadly speaking) is foundational for mathematics. The "stack", as far as I interpret it, is something like

1. Being

2. Communication

3. Equipment -- a device you can put marks on and read off of

4. Discipline -- ability to reliably and skillfully manipulate the device

5. Submission

The stage is set at this point for some "elementary mathematics" -- think back to elementary school.

6. Symbolism -- the equipment is not just equipment. Mathematical relevance springs here.

7. Geometry -- from vision we see area and edges, objects of perception, they are interpreted as mathematically relevant and hence symbolized.

8. Algebra -- manipulating our equipment with discipline, an equivalence is perceived between different sequences of operations.

9. Proposition -- conviction the relevant facts of geometry and algebra can be formulated clearly in declarations of the sort "if ... then ..., and ... (... and etc)".

Higher level mathematics

10. Refinement
11. Proof

12. Application
13. Theory

14. Computer science, engineering, and design

...
We Tested Kids' Smart Toys for Privacy
Your normal workflow is only finding bugs once you've released your program to other people? You don't find any bugs while you work on it? You write a program and if it compiles you immediately assume everything is fine, release it and wait for someone to complain?

Do you realize that this thread was about someone saying that debug builds are a legacy holdover from the 80s ?

Testing is but a proxy to achieve the true goal, and is far from perfect.

What is this supposed to mean?
It is not the end because it is still getting only worse.
https://archive.ph/jqIuC
Airplane manufacturing sounds like a natural monopoly.
> You are far better off getting cheap hardware and running TrueNAS or Unraid on it as they actually get regular software updates and don't have a history of major security issues.

Unpopular opinion: really you'd be "far better off" using Dropbox or Drive or whatever. By demanding to store your junk yourself you've already walked away from the clearly most robust solution.

Obviously this will engender the standard HN freakout about privacy and Big Tech and whatever, and I won't engage. But at the narrow level of robustness and security, the cloud experts are going to do this objectively better than anything under your personal control, probably by more than an order of magnitude.
its one to 2 years of pain. my gmbh shut down also cost 15 000 and ultimately led to me leaving the country.
Sometime ago I found an alternative "OS" for my DNS-320L called Alt-f [0]. Granted its UI is very old-school but it has worked flawlessly. There has been no release since 2022 but at least it's more recent than the last official firmware (and I assume is not impacted by the vulnerability).

IIRC I didn't even had to format or move the data I had on it before installing.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/alt-f/
IIRC it reads from the same sources as command line tools do, so /proc/, /sys/ etc.

So it sits in the same place as `top` or similar.
And necessarily at that. A well-educated person will not swallow the nationalist dogma as easily.
If you have 25k€ of capital but get flustered because the state wants to make sure that you are not opening a shell company for someone else and that your articles of incorporation are legally valid, then maybe you need to rethink something.
Gen Z Are Increasingly Choosing Trade Schools over College
Earning estimates are manipulated to dangle a carrot for the executives to act on short term signals for short term outcomes with zero regard for long term consequences. Short term investors love it, moving from stock to stock, like locusts, using up the resources like mobsters that takeover a business to create financial leverage to take over more businesses.

It's this irrational and unapologetic greed that Americans like to accuse other cultures of but guilty of themselves.
And the low-hanging counter argument says there are limited resources in the social safety net, and an arbitrary line is necessary for the administration of such assistance.
I second the point about learning a classifier over them - it is practically quite useful. But I'd caution against believing Active Learning (AL) would be unequivocally be useful; most positive performances seem to arise in very specific circumstances [1]. Esp. see Table 1: a Linear SVM with MPNet (one of the embeddings sbert supports) has indeed strong performance, but, in general, random sampling (over an AL strategy) performs quite well!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15744v1.pdf
> And why maximum security, do you believe they are going to be tunneling out with spoons?

Boeing makes military hardware that plenty of people would (literally) kill to get their hands on even just the plans for.
I don't think this is at all certain yet

There is language about restrictions on downloads on offer inside apps

But that is very different from explicit language that in-app downloads must be the ONLY way to open content, which there is none

In fact all it says is that the "emulators can offer downloads", not that they must

It's normal for Apple rules to not clearly state what IS allowed, or to encourage things it allows explicitly
That does seem like much of a deterrent to be honest.
Q: Who Found a Way to Crack the U.K.'S Premier Quiz Show?
Musk's politics align very neatly with the Republican party, for example:

* Belief that the administrative state (e.g., the SEC) is unconstitutional

* Strong distaste for the government telling him what to do (e.g., railing against the COVID-19 lockdowns)

* Engages in transphobia

* Has a view of free speech that focuses on "making people self-censor due to fear of reaction is a violation on their free speech"

(I'd add in "anyone who says mean things against me is liable for defamation", but that's pretty much true across the political spectrum)

* His views on the Russo-Ukrainian War seem to align more strongly with the kiss-Putin's-ass wing of the Republican party, although admittedly the Republican party itself is split on the issue.

* He has repeatedly endorsed things like Great Replacement Theory or other white supremacist views.

The main views he has that seems to diverge from the Republican party is environmentalism, but to be frank, Musk doesn't seem to be a fierce advocate of environmentalism outside of shipping electric cars. And I'm not aware of any endorsements he's given of Democrats, but several of Republicans; he's even posted things that indicates that he believes himself to be centrist but thinks the Democrats have run off to crazy-crazy land, living him with only Republicans as a viable option.
I think the sum of it is:

1. Governments CAN "create money". They do, they create all the dollar-bills. The question is what those bills represent, they represent "I owe You"s.

2. Banks do NOT "create" money. They print out "I Owe You"s. They don't probably have the money you deposit into them, but they do owe it to you.

This was good education for me at least, to think of it this way.
Agency conflict of interest. It's like Enron executives. They put society third, Wall Street second, and themselves first. That's the default alignment of incentives in our capitalist system by the way. Good governance and good regulations can try to align all those things but often falls short.
> For a home, I think VPN + firewall is sufficient security against insecure management software on network devices.

If you have some iot devices which phone home on the same network, then this theoretically could be a vector. It can be hard to know if that's the case.

On the more paranoid side, be sure your guest wifi can't access these devices.
Why not just AWS EC2? That's probably where most of these commercial VPNs are hosted anyway, just with an additional cost on top.
I use Kodi on a Shield to play any local files I want to watch, which reside on a USB-attached SSD.

Results have been pretty good, although it suffers from some non-intuitive UI design... the sort of which also plagues other media applications I've tried.

Let me try it on my computer... OK, specifically, Kodi says, "your library is currently empty. To populate it... enter "Files" section, add a media source, and configure it."

So I did that, and navigated to a directory that contains some video files. There's no way to "add" it. Clicking on it opens it. And so on for contents. If you click on a video file, it just plays it.

Then there's no control for going back to the home screen. You can go up to a parent directory, but once at the top you're stuck there. On an Android TV you have a Back button on your remote, but there's no control for it on the computer UI.

This is disappointing.
I’ve heard inverse used to mean reciprocal often enough. And it’s technically accurate - a reciprocal is a multiplicative inverse. The problem is mainly that “inverse” is ambiguous, especially in this particular case (an inverse square root is a square!), whereas “reciprocal” is clear and unambiguous. Online you can find lots of uses of inverse, and questions about inverse vs reciprocal. So yes reciprocal is the better, more clear term to use here, but “inverse” to mean reciprocal does happen.
It's worth mentioning that Feynman's dissertation was on a Lagrangian formulation of quantum mechanics. However, just because Feynman thought it was interesting doesn't mean it's a good idea for the rest of us (although it's a relatively short 69 pages and an interesting read).

http://files.untiredwithloving.org/thesis.pdf

The path integral method of QED does make the Lagrangian for field theories easier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation
I think this is probably the right answer.

The only thing that makes me think this was amateurs/criminals instead of professionals is that I tend to think that professionals are more interested in post attack security.

So if the gate was closing an amateur would say, "Act now! Let's get what we can!" A professional would say, "This is all going to come to light real soon - our exploit won't be read and there's a high chance of this all falling apart. Pull out everything, cover our tracks to the degree we can and find another opportunity to pull this off."

But then again I also think on professionals would work an exploit that takes years. Criminals by their nature want a quick payout (If I had the patience for a long con I'd just get a job) a motivated individual amateurs (i.e. crazy people) rarely have a wide enough skill set.
i could not find the most important question while skim reading: does it have to be germany. i would rather sit in boiling water than found a company there again. you don't always have to move away completely to have a non germany company though i can also recommend that final step.
I didn’t sign a contract without seeing it. I didn’t sign a contract with the homeowners insurance. The bank contracted with the homeowners insurance.

How could I have signed a contract without seeing it? I wouldn’t have anything to sign!

But none of that was my point. My point was—if asking to see the agreement was this far outside the norm, then how many people are actually confronted with the paperwork? My guess, based on my anecdotal experience, is not many.
What benefits will they have if they keep it to themselves? I think being freely available is the differentiator from OpenAI offering
One of us is very very VERY confused here
It wasn’t for a long time. It sort of is now.

The question is if, with new tech, we might be able to undo that?
Having thousands of people working on making your models better is pretty nice. And it undercuts their competitors who rely on income from LLM services rather than selling people like Facebook does.
Amazon succeeded in large part because they ignored the complaints of short term investors for years. So while I think that the widespread short term outlook is definitely an issue, it is a choice of boards and CEOs. Ultimately if the company tanks on being blind to long term risks - short term investors will be the fastest to leave the stock.