skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What figures can you point to on mg/L of fluoride in (commonly consumed) green tea vs tap water?

Municipal tap water in the US is fluoridated between 0.7mg/L and 1.2mg/L, per the CDC's 1962 guidelines[1]. To my knowledge, most municipalities choose the lower end of that range (since the effects are diminishing and, well, it's cheaper).

By contrast, at least one survey of black tea infusions finds an average of 2.65mg/L[2]. So over twice the CDC's highest baseline for municipal fluoridation.

(Note: at that average for black tea, an adult would still need to drink ~4L of black tea a day to pass the CDC's tolerable upper limit. People grossly overestimate both how much fluoride is dangerous, and how much they actually consume.)

[1]: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5160

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672222/
My sincere hope is that that would happen. Especially in medium and high income jobs in mass scale.

Working for living is a problem to be solved.

The purpose of technology is to automate things, increase free time.

The purpose of politics is to distribute gains justly, whatever that is.
If it doesn't make sense then you apparently haven't come to terms with the fact that capitalism is a zero sum endeavor. We're getting off topic though quibbling over where to plant the goalposts.
It should have read force or incentives. The point is there were incentives, be it threat of force or a salary. LLMs are not given any either way.
what does that give you compared to a normal subscription?
Isn’t this just exploiting the loss of letter-level resolution from tokenization?
Yea you're right. 500ms vs 10ms on an older server. Was thrown off by this statement and thought only the perf/valgrind/gdb attachments were what really brought it to surface.

> Initially starting sshd outside of systemd did not show the slowdown, despite
the backdoor briefly getting invoked. This appears to be part of some
countermeasures to make analysis harder.

Performance was much worse but not enough to actually nudge the author into digging into it until the random ssh logins started piling up:

https://twitter.com/AndresFreundTec/status/17741907437768663...

https://nitter.poast.org/AndresFreundTec/status/177419074377...
I'm not sure what you mean here.
"RUN --mount type=cache,dest=/foo" is exactly for keeping a persistent cache on the host.
There are none. We live in an era where anything remotely unique (like that new Knob keyboard) costs $500.
Why? And please, cite sources when making the case for reasonability.
Wondering what prompted the blog post. The recent publication of RFC 9539?

It would be interesting to hear how often the google dns servers see attempts to poison their cache. The mitigations probably prevent folks from even trying, but he numbers would be interesting.

The OARC 40 presentation PDF mentions cookies deployment is low for large operators but open source software has compliant implementations. Are large operators writing their own dns servers, but badly? I would think there wouldn't be many custom implementations, and that you would be able to detect which software nameservers are running, each with known capabilities. But from the way the numbers are presented it seems they only look at behaviour without considering software (versions).
Most people don’t know the difference between a Netflix documentary and research.
Maybe. ‘Fork it’ means a bad actor can… fork it and advertise as a successor.
It's a process. Maybe it'll stick as a ritual.
This is just five more verbose ways to say "Consider..."
Anticipatory Music Transformer
Hah. Damn our pedantic ways. I was about to come comment the same on brutalist. The author created something they are proud of but weren’t able to accurately describe.

Author; great work! Keep making things and you’ll figure the rest out along the way. No I wouldn’t buy or use it but I see the effort and potential you put in. Don’t stop.
After reading the article and reasons for the tax, I think it's a good idea.

What do you think about the reasoning behind the tax?
The irony of starting a comment with again when you yourself didn’t read the reply.

I acknowledged that all this info is already out there.

That insurance companies can demand to inspect your home.

And even further that that this aerial footage is already widely available.

My comment was specifically calling out that collecting data one house inspection at a time is different than collecting data at high volumes.

But let’s gloss over the fact that someone didn’t even fully disagree with you, but even then you couldn’t get over that one point that you didn’t like.
My position is that the requirement was humiliating (a sibling comment says this has been discontinued, which is all to the good) and there's nothing consensual about mandatory military service. This was all explained to me in a verbal conversation, so I could be wrong about this part, but homosexuals didn't have to skip their military service, however many wanted to because they would be punished if caught in the act, so to speak. That makes deciding whether or not to submit photographic evidence into a pretty hard decision, but again, the nonconsensual part is being forced to serve in the military in the first place.

I would also guess that the number of men who submitted to anal intercourse on camera with someone they wouldn't normally have sex with is approximately zero, so it qualifies as consensual in the ordinary sense. I'm not sure calling the result "amateur gay porn" is the ideal way to put it, but it is in fact all of amateur, pornographic, and gay.
Few potential users also asked about ClickHouse. We might offer it at some point, but for the sake of full transparency, it is not on our roadmap right now. There are bunch of other essential services we need to offer first, like K8s.
This just isn't true though. Do you mean to say thay legal remedies are more accessible to the rich? Every single small business owner benefits from the liability protections of corporations. If my business burns down and it's not fraud or something then I am not personally liable, nor should I be.
Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and confused
Compare the integer square root algorithm used in "Spacewar!" [1]. So, even by 1960 it should have been possible to implement a square root step instructions for each bit, much like division or multiplication shifts, and progress from this to full-fledged automatic operations by the use of a sub timing network. (I guess, it really depends on the economics of the individual use case, whether the effort does pay off or not, as you would amass a few additional hardware modules to accomplish this.)

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside/insidespacewar-pt6-g...
2-3x slower 0m0.299s -> 0m0.807s [1]

[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
Absolute nonsense. We've known since at least the 90s that this shit posed significant health risks. See Also: Parkersburg, West Virginia.
'Latrodectus' uses sandbox evasion techniques to launch malicious payloads
For what it’s worth, I did reply, but I probably wouldn’t have if you hadn't expressed frustration at the prospect of not reading further.
We are starting with billing indeed, with a long term vision of becoming the « open revenue hub » (laid out the high level steps here: https://www.getlago.com/blog/lago-raises-22-millions), meaning we want to offer an open alternative to everything RevOps. Instead of choosing to be in a closed source ecosystem like Stripe’s (they have 21 products and most founders don’t realise they are using 3-6 of them, not only « Stripe payments », each of them usually taking a cut on revenue), you could build a customised stack, in a « best of breed » approach, and add the long tail of tools/use cases/home-grown system if you’d like.
Can i ask why, in 2024, basic internet payment infrastructure isn't a commoditized resource shared across FANG/governments/ISP/banks? Why Does it have to be this way? Why must it be so convoluted for the merchants themselves? Why must it cost so much money just to be able to accept payments? Don't we all love payments? Don't transactions make the world go round? Are we already paying taxes on literally everything? Wouldn't it be in everyone's best interest is to make the simple act of doing business be as simple, frictionless, and barrierless as possible?
This is how it already works in e.g. foreign bribery for UK and US companies.

Executives just “letting” it happen is a crime, they have to explicitly ensure employees are educated and told not to do it.

Source: I worked in finance where we had tons of such useless courses.
At least they gave sizes in American and metric this time.

Snark aside, rounds to 30mm diameter and 6.5-8.5mm height, if memory serves.
https://anonymous.4open.science/api/repo/more_agent_is_all_y...

How can you have majority voting based on text produced by LLMs, won’t every answer string be essentially distinct with extremely high probability if it’s over a couple dozens bits of output (which any useful LLM output would be, right?)?
This may be true in the most technical sense but it's a pointless observation. There are of course plenty of big businesses now so it's a perfectly rational business decision to target those big ones first. Because they were small 5, 10, 50 years ago is completely irrelevant.
Using ReLU instead of sigmoid is a significant departure with regards to how closely it models actual neurons.

Using non fully connected layers is as well. Our brains likely aren’t fully connected, but the connections that matter are made stronger through living life and learning.

If you squint, it’s kind of like training a dense series of linear layers, but that’s not what we’re doing anymore (for the better)

Comparing NNs to organic brains is an apples to oranges comparison, is what I’m saying.
House to Take Up Bill to Reauthorize US Spy Program as Expiration Date Looms
Yep, this is the quote.
That’s the point. I have enough systems to administer, I don’t need to manage my phone as well.
It’s horrifyingly bloated but my main complaint is that you can’t put a normal-ass chat in a “Team”. Instead Teams themselves are stuck with this super-weird forum-in-a-chat-UI paradigm that makes them nearly useless except for announcement-type interactions, and not even very good for that. This pushes things into ad-hoc or meeting-connected chats, which encourages siloing. This makes it absolute poison for remote work.

I think the rest of it’s probably a lot worse if your org isn’t all-in on a ton of other Microsoft stuff, but mine is. Also I ignore lots of it (it’s easy to lose shit in it anyway so I don’t really trust it, but I find that’s true of lots of “productivity” programs—including most project management systems) so maybe all the parts I don’t use are terrible.
Your comment also reminds me of the late 80s and early 90s when tobacco companies pumped massive amounts of cash into cancer research to muddy the water around the harms being caused by their products.
If they are all made in the same factory..what differentiates one brand from the next, besides cost?

I noticed LG was not mentioned in here. Made in South Korea?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. You apply what you learn to make your next server setup better. Your db got encrypted by a ransomware? Then for your next setup you'll make sure to configure the database to only listen to local network connections and have daily offsite backup. Out of disk space due to huge log files? Then your next setup will have an automatically rotated log files. Your apps died without you noticing? Then your next setup will feature health checks and alerting. Repeat this enough time and you'll eventually have a bullet proof setup.

Of course, not wanting to go through all of this is a valid choice too, especially if you have no interest in running your own services.
now: how many multi-paragraph responses (containing thoughts both novel and good) does one get from a blog vs posting on X?
I know people around here won't like it but Symfony is a pretty solid choice. It just works. You don't need fancy servers, weird deployments, etc.

You can create monoliths, miroservices, APIs, it works with almost any DB, it has a good performance, etc.
Here's a demo of my project shape faces https://shapefaces.com/
You might want to try the actions cache "--cache-to=gha --cache-from=gha", but still it needs to pull that stuff down, just that locality is likely better here.

There's also an action out there "GitHub cache dance" that will stick your whole buildkit state dir into the gha cache.
I disagree. Cities are in a endless race to build more housing. They need to continue building housing to keep prices temporarily lower, a metaphorical treadmill as more people will always move into the city. If a city stop building housing, prices will go up for sure because demand continues to increase. Cities of course always have more demand, but that is their nature as economic and cultural hubs, we have no choice but to try and match this demand.

Housing prices will not be low without building more housing, except your city has a specific reason that lowers demand, like lawlessness, economic ruin or some other disaster.
I'm a little surprised Google only implemented case randomization by default in 2022 considering it's been around since 2008. Presumably they had concerns about widespread compatibility? Although my understanding is that for a lot of DNS servers it just worked without any specific implementation effort...but maybe there was a long tail of random server types Google was concerned about.
So incentives, in other words. It is possible to teach a human there are consequences not to, and rewards for doing so, because we are consistently fine tuning and retaining state over time, and we have feedback mechanisms in the form of drives.

Nothing I said is to suggest it can't be done with LLMs - I'm on record in HN saying LLMs can be made to work as turing machines just fine, and I stand by that.

What you can't expect is to give it a prompt, no ongoing constraints or reinforcement, or other feedback, and stay on task for prolonged periods of time.

Humans don't do that with any consistency. We self regulate through a whole array of feedback systems, including internal ongoing thoughts, that by the time of exams have been conditioned over years to get better at sticking to a task and consider exam outcomes to matter.

And still a lot of us struggle to keep focus for even that kind of time period. Or engage in activities we know are bad for us.

Provide similar mechanisms to regular LLMs and they can stay on task too - we can trivially get LLMs to execute individual steps of turing machines, so getting them to keep doing it is a question of how to regulate their ongoing behaviour, not an inherent limitation.
One reason is that the Baby Boomer generation is nearly 100% retired now and no longer making big money and paying big income and sales taxes. This means government revenues are down, right at the same time that the Baby Boomers will begin heavily leaning on public services, particularly healthcare. Immigration brings workers, who are young enough to not need much healthcare, to replace the Baby Boomers and increases government income and sales tax revenue. It's like a Ponzi scheme they are trying to keep from collapsing. As the Baby Boomers pass on, their homes will become available for younger generations to live in.
My problem is that if you're an actual C superset, you're carrying a lot of baggage that will permanently compromise the best case of what you can ever become.

These days, with C standards back on a regular cadence, the thing you have to be a superset of is also a moving target, and you have to make sure your extensions don't end up incompatible with future C changes. If you succeed enough, the C standard has to be worried about compatibility with you in return.

Even the most conservative C supersets like non-standard GNU C have created friction for what the actual ISO standard can do in future, including the highly demanded addition of nested functions [1]. One could almost argue that the long-term value of that C superset will be net-negative precisely because it was successful enough to become a permanent interoperability hazard for C itself. (They could have avoided that by not claiming to be C at build time, but that would have also avoided anyone ever using it, just like almost all of the other supersets).

C++ isn't even a C superset and still that relationship creates friction both ways [2].

Now if you're not a C superset, you have a more difficult adoption story and that is enough to kill a language before it ever has a chance. Even so, far more languages have succeeded by tackling interoperability problems than by being supersets.

Rust has a fair amount of friction binding to C, but people see enough value in overcoming that; and part of what people claim to love about Zig is that it has much less friction, right down to the build tooling. It's looking like interoperability is increasingly winning over creating supersets.

Related: In the "C++ successor language" space race, almost every candidate is trying to be low-friction to interoperate without being a superset, because in C++'s case there's even more baggage to want to avoid.

[1] https://thephd.dev/binary-banshees-digital-demons-abi-c-c++-...

[2] https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/c/
Ye it is a really good scapegoat. You get cover from war mongerers in a "don't blame the victim" way too.
So something in the realm of Proxmox or PVC or xcp-ng?

I would agree that the three things I can list here are a hard sell compared to any integrated cloud provider - they all focus on VMs and the rest is up to you, or so my experience has gone so far. Looking forward to trying this out!
The value prop is composability, extensibility, building trust, and no lock in into Stripe’s ecosystem
More details here: https://www.getlago.com/resources/compare/lago-vs-stripe

Yes we’d love feedback on our UX/UI as well!
This a bit controversial but once this clicked it really helped me in work and social situations.

Humans have varying degrees of intelligence and you cannot treat them exactly the same.

I used to strongly believe that all humans are intellectually 100% equal. If someone doesn’t not understand simple logic or flaws in their reasoning, then it is because they are being lazy or malicious. I always understood knowledge gaps and didn’t expected business side to understand tech side and vice versa. I am talking about simple concepts like if you give a child caffeine once in a while, the child will develop addiction eventually.

By treating everyone equally, I ran into a lot of conflicts.

It took me becoming parent and realizing I can’t use logic with my children. You can say that children helped me develop emotional intelligence.

Now I try to really focus on the person and their emotions. And use emotional language. If I don’t know the person that well I use their culture, racial, religious background to develop rapport. I will use logical arguments only with trusted friends.

Sometimes, this feels purely evil to me though. I hate it when I use generalizations, I hate it when people do that to me. Sometimes, some smarter people especially developers get annoyed by it, no one directly said it to me but this might fall under patronizing, mansplaining, manipulation etc.
But it avoids interpersonal conflicts more often than not.
Of course it is. It’s your it team spying on you.
Oil and gas companies knew that their product would cause large scale global climate impacts half a century ago. They suppressed that information, and then proceeded to go the extra step and create the current "climate change isn't real" worldview through a carefully planned and executed influence campaign.

It's a remarkably effective strategy that appears all over different industries, including tech. Keep an eye out for large political battles, and wishy-washy scientific studies funded by the industry that profits off the issue at hand.
What is it exactly that you want Amazon, the US government, Verizon, and JPMorgan doing together that isn't done better by Stripe and its competitors right now?

For a discussion around payments this seems very similar to the "internet is a utility" discussion from decades past with a weird anti-capitalist / "a private company doing this is bad" vibes.
Dolphin ships with a bunch of keys in the source code[0]. So do almost every other emulators for any console from 6/7th gen consoles (ps3, xbox360, gamecube), see delroth's post on the matter here[1]. It's really not that simple - jurisdiction matters a lot, and also Nintendo's own priorities.

[0]: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/34527cadcce49a9a...

[1]: https://delroth.net/posts/emulation-crypto-keys-copyright-dm...
Zipcar is still going strong around my neighborhood. I use it occasionally. It's a much better deal than owning a second car.
Facebook leaderboard for AT&T back when they were dropping calls like crazy. So really early in social media days.

The more you commented or liked posts the higher on leader board. Top comments would be automatically highlight.

I kept trying to get word to people in charge that the project would fail. No one would listen.

Went live for 1 day. Every top comment, was on how horrible AT&T was.

Shut down next day. 3 months of work for nothing.
Watch: Mount Etna puffs 'smoke rings' in rare display [video]
>I don’t expect D-Link to offer us an updated firmware any time soon

Don't worry, some botnet will infect all of these and fix the vulnerability in order to prevent competing malware from gaining access. This fix will deploy within an impressively tight timeline.
I hate Teams. Zoom just works, regardless of environment or browser. Teams keeps wanting me to download something, install something, and just causes delays in getting to the meeting.

As for the rest of Microsoft...the gross attempts to ruin the product (Windows and Outlook) in the name of forcing us into the Microsoft ecosystem, had done more damage to the brand than anything. I will not upgrade. I will not update. When Office and Outlook stop functioning I will find something else, until then I am hanging on desperately to a once solid product until Micro$oft forces me out.

Edge is dog crap. Full stop.
“Every cycle”
There is more money in having Nintendo be happy to support iPhone platform with games than having them feel insulted over a low revenue app that is also on the platform.
It’s because it integrates with the whole group policy management system and it always checks with those policies as you switch from one thing to another.
For a Platonist, "La Démonstration", like El-ahrairah, exists. (I prefer Borges style to AMS style citations)
"land of opportunity"
Abroad
Honestly something I want to change

I just didn't find any good free images of a Kiwi (bird) when I added the logo
You don't typically get accurate results with most humans either without processes for cross checking/tests.
They could also have regrouped and found another way to do the exploit, given the relative ease of updating the payload (though it's probably a limited number of times you could change the test blobs without causing suspicion?). But I agree this explanation is plausible.