skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
on first blush that sounds like a better version of the way the Nintendo power-glove detected finger bending.
I agree!
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Absolutely brutal but mostly what I expected. Too bad - it's a paradigm ahead of its time!

Seems to echo the general reception to the first VR headsets.
hardly. patents are also optional - if you wanna give away all your IP to the world, no one is stopping you.
Apple Mail's implementation was broken for years, it silently failed to encrypt messages (CVE-2023-40440). It also still can't properly sign letters with attachments.

None of these implementations also handle RSA-PSS signatures and the standards basically forbid double-signing that would allow gradual migration to better algorithms. (This issue also exists with PGP/GPG)

Actalis is nice for testing but they unfortunately generate your private key for you instead of accepting your CSR. (Protonmail has the same issue with PGP.)

But it is better in a bunch of other aspects, including tooling, yes.
> Does the creator need to beat the level to publish it or something?

Yes, that is (at least used to be) a requirement to post to prevent something impossible from being uploaded. The game those community of people are playing is to beat hard levels, which is a perfectly fine way for someone to wish to spend their time.

Edited to add that (again at least when I played last) beating the level by the creator didn't count as it being cleared by the community - you played it locally and then were allowed to upload it once you beat the level.
Public institutions get paid the full amount by everyone who receives a degree. Failing out is a discount that the school administrators don't want to offer.

For instance we're instructed by admin to never encourage students to pursue mathematics. They "must" be funneled through an academic advisor, who can establish whether or not this is worth the financial risk of them potentially failing. This is regularly presented as "improving equity".
I wish Linkedin was not so common for companies, just Today I received a message from a hiring manager, asking me for an interview, saying my profile was interesting but somehow linkedin just sent a rejection email without them knowing it. I have been looking for a job for the past few months and only been rejected, even if I checked all the boxes, something is going on there
Interesting. By reading that term, I thought the exact opposite. Mercenary sounds decidedly like a non-state actor.
How the O.J. Simpson murder trial 20 years ago changed the media landscape (2014)
Smart bike parking for a connected infrastructure
I think there's a bit of a straw man here pointing at the series definitions as being applied as the "intuitive" sense for sin and cos.

Instead, I find that the intuition that's sought is more to start by seeing exp(it) as being a generator of complex rotation---a tremendously beautiful and parsimonious bit of theory---and then seeing sin and cos as being 1-dimensional coordinate projections of that.

Then the series definitions are just cute ways of deriving that relationship formally.

Circles over triangles.
https://archive.is/DMmt4
There are fewer than 10 links on each domain, how did GPTBot find out about the 1.8M unique sites? By crawling the sites it's not supposed to crawl, ignoring robots.txt. "disallow: /" doesn't mean "you may peek at the homepage to find outbound links that may have a different robots.txt"
None, it can actually be any constant > 1/2, because you can always run the algorithm a non-exponential number of more times to be more convinced (approaching prob 1) of the answer. 2/3 is just convention.
Did you read the article or the white paper it references? It mostly talks about converting/in-filling strip malls and none of the examples given suggest using the existing buildings without modification.
Same goes for certain types of lead characters in things like American Psycho, Fight Club, Mad Men and Wolf of Wall St. These are seen as aspirational instead of cautionary tales.
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> And then there are the various sports stipendia and legacy admissions and ... that basically bypass the entire process as long as you are either good at football/whatever or been born to a well to do alumni family

I have never imagined it to be actually a thing. Wild.
Paul, what an amazing project, this is what hacking is all about. Congratulations!

Definitely try to explore the commercial side of your invention.

It wouldn't hurt to talk to an IP lawyer, if you're still in Uni they usually have people there doing this and you can just go talk to them, free of charge (for you!).

I'm generally against the idea of patents, mainly because of people who came to know to game the system and exploit it (patent trolls etc...) Your project is a real thing with real applications, you definitely deserve a share of whatever commercial benefit this could bring to the world, :D.
If you “always” have Internet access, you should really just place ntpd onto the physical network where it belongs. Otherwise, the options are all mentioned in the article (and might be used in your distribution).

— Restoring more sane shutdown timestamp from file instead of just using 1980.

— Making blind single use ntpdate request to some public server to set local time after the network is available, but before any other application uses it. There might be appropriate hooks in your init system if you don't want to make it an independent step.

— The same, but using some local time source. It is not widely known that even plain old Windows desktops, while not having a complete NTP server, can be trivially configured to announce time over some form of SNTP. If you have any computer with a real clock running nearby, you can probably rely on it. Next step router is also a good potential candidate.

As for compartments and access control, you can try to use basic VLANs (one for ntp traffic, and only it, and one for VPN) or maybe some two-step network configuration process (get time with one configuration, reset and proceed with other services).

All of that is not a problem, the problem is what to do when something fails. Time server becomes unavailable, intermittent internet connectivity, server you use for pings is available, but others are not, etc. You can choose to stop completely if there is no time source, and wait, but that might render the system unavailable for remote configuration. You can try to restart the device or restart the network router automatically (though only a fixed number of times, restart loop will surely break something), but that won't help if the problem gets fixed some time later. You can also use a fallback configuration that doesn't depend on correct time (e. g. only start an ssh server so you can connect to it).
> We had a huge chunk of our engineering staff spending time improving FreeBSD as opposed to working on features and functionalities

They will have the same chunk fighting the bloat in Linux. /s
hell yeah, this is super cool!
I'm kind of thinking now, why bother with generating a weak ETag at all? Unless your backend is doing things that would commonly cause differences in JSON formatting for the same data, this is probably a rare case and not worth the extra effort or processing. Figure it out when you're at a scale that it actually matters, and stick with strong ETags for now.

It's good to know about this option for handling in the frontend if a system returns one though.
Good point -- I need to better explain what "bend localization" means on a more practical level pretty early on.
Apple needs to work with authoritarian governments, or nobody is going to build our iPhones.

I would guess it’s obvious for everyone who gets the message that they are political targets. However it is also important to call out abuse of power, like is in the case of India, Spain, Poland, where the governing party is spying the opposition in order to find ways to get rid of them.
Breaking E2EE in Nextcloud [pdf]
There seems to be quite a bit of outrage against the idea that merit doesn't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things.

Let's consider the times when these institutions have had meritocratic admissions. What exactly have the meritorious students from these institutions contributed to society? The primary accomplishment is that they've engineered a corporate take over of society. The 2008 financial crisis, the tech driven surveillance society, all came from the talented minds of the merited elite.

So it is any surprise that there is support for the idea that merit is a meaningless idea? The gifted class hasn't made life any better for the rest of the society.
I wouldn't rule out running the OS off of that kind of storage if you had a read only root file system, but what madness would inspire you to write logs to it? And swap!?
What is EU's common language and postal service?
I get a lot of email from European vendors, intended for Europeans who don't know their own email address, and that email is not all in the same language.

Anyway, US GDP is far in excess of EU GDP, for example.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/09/04/the-gdp...

You aren't doing your contintent-mates any favors with your flailing attempt to prove European intellectual superiority.
If I might make a modest proposal…
I think the last paragraph was my favorite part of this article.

For those of you who didn't read the fine article, I've quoted it here:

> As usual, this post is not a request for THE ONE to show up. If you are THE ONE, you don't make mistakes. We know. Shut up and go away.
This is really really cool, but why does it depend on TPU? Wouldn't it work with regular fiber optic? Or does it come down to economics?
i wish citizens could tap into the network of nypd cameras so we can run these kinds of analyses ourselves

maybe the Rat Czar can help make that meeting happen :)
> Society is biased, and universities prepare students to be successfull in the real world.

So, if any bias, they should admit with counter-to-general-society biases, since those who satisfy the biases of the general society don’t need preparation.

(Unless the goal is to just appear to be preparing people for success while doing nothing, in which case having biases aligned with those of the general society is the ideal strategy: pick the people that were going to succeed no matter what, and claim credit for preparing them.)
I saw an alternative to sawstop that would not destroy the blade when it deployes and does not require a replacement gas cartrige.

It appeared to work just as well but I believe it pulls the blade away instead of stopping it.

Sadly I currently can't find it.

Edit: I think it was this one https://www.felder-group.com/en-us/pcs
Sure, then by all means share your evidence or data for a successful state owned enterprise vs private enterprises
According to the FAQ the current implementation is in C#:

> Second, you might ask: why write it in C# first?

I interpret their strategy as sticking to a subset of C# which works with NativeAOT -- for compilation to native libraries -- while also working in the .NET runtimes shipped with Godot and Unity (is IL2CPP still around?)
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> LLMs work on a completely different principle

News to me - can you tell me what principle you think an LLM works on?
https://archive.ph/BxL1b
A lot of languages have added support for this over the last few years. It's a nice little quality of life improvement. I use it very regularly now. I find it really handy for currency amounts in cents, so I can say `10_00` for ten dollars, in cents.
Just hope the bears don’t get to the cocaine first.
No, Proton didn't assume WKD was activated, and WKD doesn't have much to do with what's going on. What happened is:

- The user, or their software, uploaded a public key to keys.openpgp.org

- Proton looked up their email address on keys.openpgp.org, and sent them an encrypted email

- They didn't have the private key anymore, and couldn't read the email

The fix is to remove the key from keys.openpgp.org, or remove the email address from the key, or remove the encryption subkey.

Alternatively, setting up WKD would actually work as well, since then Proton uses that instead. I.e. if there's no key on WKD, we don't send encrypted emails.
Beyond some basic literacy, you really need some filter on math. I tutored in an MBA program which, I assure you, was not at all math-intensive. There was some subset of students who were just clueless about basic high school math. (Read any of the first year MBA memoirs and this is sort of a theme.)

Even many of those who were not clueless definitely leaned on those of us who had worked as engineers to take the lead on the math stuff in group projects.
Is it possible to use this libgourou to fix this situation? So that it's possible to both pay for books and read them without wasting hours? I didn't quite understand from the readme if this is specific to library things. So far all solutions i've seen are either

1. Pay and not be able to read (on device of my choosing)

2. Not pay and be able to read wherever

3. Pay and spend hours fiddling with weird windows-only software and forget why i wanted the book in the first place
Ask HN: Are weather balloons going to be replaced by weather satellites?
I am not a professional meteorologist, but I enjoy reading about numerical weather models as a hobby. I have launched a few latex weather balloons in the past, and recently I have been researching weather satellites such as Spire's radio occultation and Tomorrow's radar satellites. With their 24/7 global coverage, I wonder if radiosondes will eventually become obsolete. Is this a possibility?
Sure, then by all means share your evidence or data for a successful foreign state owned enterprise vs private enterprises in that country and other countries
I can see the first guy writing a README , so desperate because people would ask obvious questions ignoring a file called readme:)
I just say "Taking PTO today."

> Companies are legally required to allow me to prioritize my health over my job without discriminating against me. They aren't allowed to ask.

Assuming you're not in the US?

In the US, companies are required to provide reasonable accommodations for disabilities as part of ADA but can and (often) do ask for documentation of the disability and the specific accommodation requested.
I think you're talking about manufacturing (chip fab) in Foxconn in Taiwan. But this is the case for the intel chips in Huawei as well.

I am talking about assembly (supply chain), which is in China.
IPv6 internal network is simpler and probably a good idea for a brand-new network.

The big advantage is that don't have to worry about subnet size. No deciding how big subnet is going to be, and either making it too small and having to resize or making it too big and wasting space.

IPv6 is more complicated in that supports multiple addresses, but that is an advantage. For internal use, assign ULA addresses and route those over VPNs. For accessing Internet, computers use the ISP assigned addresses. Then assign fixed addresses from hosting provider to load balancers and external servers. This means that only Internet only sees random addresses; they know the provider but that is known with IPv4.
It doesn't! I heavily used TPU to drive home the point that it can work with almost any light-transmitting fiber. I used PMMA optical fiber for the more fine demos.
this is just like the fusion of monopolists and military lineage in South Korea in the 60s up until early 90s. They marry each other, one group controls violence, the other group controls market and produces stuff the West wants which in turn looks away from the violence. It was never about democracy but control.
First-party documentation quality varies wildly, and in general has fallen off a cliff from the days when everything had a comprehensive, multi-volume, doorstopper manual.

There's also a lot of tinkering and breaking things that is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of a piece of technology, without which the manual is far less useful. Knowing where to look in the official documentation is half or more of the battle. Modern attention spans, planning expectations, systems complexity, etc. are not geared towards developing this deep understanding.

Moreover, the number one tool developers who cut their teeth over the past ~20 years have relied on to help them find the right answers, Google Search, has degraded massively in quality lately. Stack Overflow arguably breathed new life into search engines for a while, until SEO-hacked junk overtook it. Who can forget the classic forum posts "I fixed the problem [no details]" or "Why don't you Google it [even though this is the only meaningful Google result]". Even Stack Overflow runs into those issues, sometimes, though.
It's a shame NYC 311 doesn't include attachments from reports. I'd love to create a ratty version of https://poolette.pages.dev/
"random college student"

I think there's a misunderstanding on what constitutes a valid or ideal target for state sponsored (or "mercenary") attackers. Simply working at a research lab, industrial manufacturer, power station, tech company or knowing a certain professor can put you on a target list.
Do they have an unlimited data plan option?
>I don't believe there's a way to send down a working web component from the server without accompanying client-side logic.

Do you mean declarative shadow dom? That landed in FF 123, so I think it's now available on all major browsers.
> ruling elite

There are 4 main factions:

Northern VCP - the original VCP founded by Ho Chi Minh, and ruled Hanoi since 1956. The current GenSec of the Vietnamese Politburo is from this faction and from that era.

Southern VCP - the more business minded and ethnic Chinese/Hoa cadre of the VCP. The last president and most of the purged cadre are from this group.

PAVN - the Vietnamese Army. they have been mollified by being given control of all the key sectors of the Vietnamese economy. Viettel (Vietnam's Telco) is owned by them and VinGroup's founder and CEO is the son of PAVN royalty

MPS - Vietnam's KGB. they hold the actual cards in Vietnam. whenever you go to any town, village, or city in Vietnam the biggest building is always the MPS building (even the local VCP's building is smaller).

The SCB chick was close with the Southern VCP faction, as was most of the leadership in Vietnam from 2012ish-2022. Due to the COVID slowdown and public anger against corruption, the Northern VCP decided to step in and cut the oligarchs and business minded types back to the ground. The PAVN kept out of this fray because they're making a lot of money, and the MPS backed the Northern faction.
It's interesting: perhaps the stability (from a change management perspective) of the tokenization algorithm, being able to hold that constant, between old and new training runs was deemed more important than trying to clean up the data at an earlier phase of the pipeline. And the eventuality of glitch tokens was deemed an acceptable consequence.
Interesting use of language on your part as well- what makes the NSO Group spyware illegal?
It would be fantastic if data caps also had to be expressed in bytes per second, as a counterweight to the fallacious instantaneous speeds.

Although what's even better is building out municipal broadband and forgetting about these rent seeking dinosaurs. I've got 1Gb/s symmetric, no data caps, no term contract, and a steady monthly price.
You must be joking, the title of this post literally says "build fast LLMs from scratch" but the code is neither an LLM, nor particularly fast.

Python dicts are actually different from JS objects, Python uses a hashmap behind the scenes while most fast js vms will apply some heuristics to decide whether to use a hashmap or to make the object as a static struct with a known offset for each key, this explains it better than I can: https://v8.dev/blog/fast-properties

Nevertheless, for your specific use-case I would be really surprised if there was any significant difference between the performance of python and js – hashmaps are fast enough for this – plus with js objects you might be trading insertion performance for access performance in some cases, as there is overhead creating a v8-style "fast property" object
Ask HN: What is your favorite AI blunder or failure that you find insightful?
That's 91% cheaper than a human therapist (~$200/hr).

That's 52 weekly one hour "therapy" sessions for the price of one month of weekly sessions with a human.
EXACTLY!!!!!!

This is why Korean boomers love investing and living in Vietnam.

It's literally how Korea used to feel in the 1970-80s.

The entire economy in VN is basically owned by Korean Chaebols like Lotte after they were kicked out of China in 2015-17 due to a trade war.

It's 60-40 Chaebols-Local Oligarchs

And the VCP is fairly worried that a 1980s SK or 1990s PRC style democracy movement might arise, because unlike China today, the Vietnamese government is very incompetent and pays their civil servants shit ($200/mo for senior govt doctors for example, $600/mo for the head of the Politburo, most soldiers are abused and unpaid conscripts), and western services like FB cannot be cracked down because it will scare western investors away and because most of the country is still dependent on the remittences of the 2nd-3rd gen diaspora living in North America and Eastern Europe, and the migrant workers in JP/SK/TW/CN.

There's a reason why KDramas are so popular in VN. It isn't just because of Hallyu wave (though that plays a role too) but also because the exact same kind of problems and mentality that Koreans have going from third world to first world are faced by Vietnamese as well.

Vietnam is at the same position as Korea was in the 1970s-80s essentially.
> You can call them whatever you want, but once you've called them something, their order matters, which was my original retort.

Right and different "local cultures" in Flatland call them different things, so the order matters.

Orientation is a red herring. The same issue appears in 2-D manifolds inhabited by 1-D sub manifolds that one day "discover" the "other" dimension.
"In these cases, if you give the LLM explicit permission to tell you that it doesn't know in cases where it's not sure, that will significantly reduce hallucinations."

I've noticed that while this can help to prevent hallucinations, it can also cause it to go way too far in the other direction and start telling you it doesn't know for all kinds of questions it really can answer.
That’s how admissions used to be run. No single aspect of an application ever guaranteed admission.
You just set limits on everything (time, buffers, ...), which is easier said than done. You need to really understand your libraries and all the layers down to the OS, because its enough to have one abstraction that doesn't support setting limits and it's an invitation for (counter-)abuse.
It doesn't take much to be a target. CIA spy maybe not, but the net is wide when it comes to surveillance. Infrastructure providers, higher education, research labs are all common targets.
Pet peeve: This story alternates between "nations" and "countries" as if they were synonyms. A nation is a group of people sharing cultural, ethnic, and historical ties. There are many more nations than there are countries, especially within the US. A country has a political boundary, a flag and an anthem. It's one thing to use a word in the wrong way, because maybe you don't know the other word exists, and that's okay. But it's really annoying to hear both words being used in the same story but alternating them, without any explanation as to why. Is this an AI generated story?
Yeah. I guess in layman's terms it's a long squishy cable that knows where it's being bent.