skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For years, some of the world’s sharpest minds have been quietly turning your life into a series of games. Not merely to amuse you, but because they realized that the easiest way to make you do what they want is to make it fun. To escape their control, you must understand the creeping phenomenon of gamification, and how it makes you act against your own interests."
Not just access point logs, this isn’t WiFi specific. It’s to make packet inspection harder to link to a device. But, if I run say an airport network and control dns for dhcp I can track your dns requests (non encrypted dns) and interface info across MAC addresses and maybe even tag packets somehow. Also, if every device that connects is routed through a dedicated vlan only containing that device, it can randomize itself all it wants, it’s on a network by itself so it can’t “hide in the crowd”. Those are just things off the top of my head and am not a network person. I’m sure it’s not preventing the motivated from tracking you if they want to.
At least it's a company which will allow alternative OSs.

I'm still quite annoyed that I set aside and stopped using my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 because I couldn't figure out how to get it to boot something other than Windows.
Does that mean you can buy your way out of the nonsense that is constantly preached about goals in life?

I am tempted.
Oh, so it's their fault YouTube is a disorienting, addiction-driving hellscape now. Good to be able to put a name to it.

>The homepage showed a bunch of videos that were driven by a mass algorithm (and was pretty much the same experience whether a person was logged in or not).

This was good. Your experience was grounded. Same thing with every video showing the same recommendations for at least a few weeks at a time. The idea that UIs need to be constantly shuffling content so that you can't tell which way is up as you navigate and will therefore submit more fully to The Algo is poisonous.
Thanks, a lot. I'm applying.
I didn’t say “OSI protocol”. In fact is there even such thing as an “OSI protocol”? There are OSI layers. Those layers will have protocols and other such standards attached. Of which MAC addresses are a standard which sits inside a sub-layer of the datalink layer. And UPnP is a protocol that utilises HTTP, which itself resides in the application layer of OSI. But I don’t recall ever hearing the term “OSI protocol” before. However I’m also not a networking specialist.
Visa, Mastercard, etc power the debit card APIs every bank uses. They and every internet enabled cash register and middle-man like Square and Stripe sell all that data already.

The banks were just feeling left out.

If you think privacy is a human right, then help preserve it by using cash everywhere possible.
Try turning off your watch history and you'll get a clutter free home page. It doesn't include the things you subscribe to but it's better than being served shorts and garbage.
Take on multiple menial computer-based jobs (data entry, etc) and automate them.
A lot of high tech around us is 50 years old now. Some of that we would have trouble replacing.
Gizmodo and anything gawker media is utter and total junk, pushing Disney media and other hidden agenda. Was irked when I accidentally clicked it, I block it on almost all my systems to avoid feeding the beast.
My question is, who's the target audience for this?

I only know about Linktree because it's used by some artists and Twitch streamers, and they're unlikely to self-host. So presumably this is targeted to a different audience than that.
Who shoves Google down your throat, though?
> "Busy, busy, busy."

There may be confounding factors in the linked heart disease study, but I think it's probably enough evidence to put a simplistic "8/16 diet" narrative seriously in question. Considering the authoritative and confident way it's frequently proposed, the article really shook me up. It's a reminder to the fact that the body is an incomprehensibly complex system and literally no one has knowledge of conquering this complexity mechanistically, today. In the grander scheme, modern medicine still relies almost exclusively on empirical evidence considering the details. Genetics, epigenetics, metabolism, immunology, ... it's all guesses and the illusion of control. Any "influencer" claiming mechanistic understanding confidently should raise eyebrows. I do admit, their tales are tempting and soothing for me too.

Anyway, in terms of conflating factors, I wonder how much the feeding window relative to activity window plays into these findings, and if a beneficial/less detrimental outcome is prevented by work related factual constraints. Eg. you likely can't space out food intake during typical working hours. That is, many people following the 8/16 feeding schedule eg. skip breakfast, or eat too much at once with large meals fitted into a small break time window. Maybe it's bad to not feed the body in times of increased demand.
Depends on where you live I suppose, but you can get by even on unemployment benefits in most of the EU from my experience. That's a good safety factor.

And I don't think anyone here said to only do things you want to do at all costs. I doubt _anyone_ gets away with that. But I'd argue you can generally use the skills related to your passion to make good money.

Being realistic: If you're doing things you reasonably enjoy 80% of the time, that's pretty much a dream job.
Infinite in both directions of time?
Hi! I am from the Meilisearch team :)
Meilisearch has been designed from the ground up for end-user search. We target to answer results in less than 50ms to give the impression of instantaneity, which is what you are looking for when building cmd + k search

Meilisearch is one of the most recent search engines amongst those you cited, which makes for the best developer experience both for deployment/hosting & for development. You can find integrations with the most popular frameworks & languages https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/what_is_meilisearch/s... which allows you to get up to speed in few minutes.

And for relevancy/accuracy, Meilisearch offers full-text search with typo tolerance, synonyms, etc and the latest releases introduced semantic search & hybrid search. This is an API we are very proud of because it gives you a state-of-the-art search with the best DX out there.

Typesense might be a good alternative because it can be more performant for some use cases, but the DX is less smooth, I'd say.

Vespa might be relevant if you are looking for a very specific recommendation system. Still, now that Meilisearch offers semantic search & hybrid search I am not sure today in which context Vespa might be more relevant

I don't know much about Manticore unfortunately.

Let me know if you have any questions about it, but I'd encourage you to spend 10 minutes to see by yourself what's possible or not and join the community on Discord if you have any questions https://discord.meilisearch.com
>Finally we are getting out of bandaid of dark matter.

Model in article is another form of dark matter. And tachyonic dark matter has been considered for at least 20 years.
> For example, there are many failed artists out there, and it would be more helpful to these people if they were given realistic advice early on.

I don't like "follow your passion" advice either, but as someone who knows more than one failed artists in real life, I believe it has little to do with whether they followed the passion (anecdotally ofc).
There were occasionally multiple-choice adventures using the colour buttons. I must say as much as the slowness is annoying in hindsight, I still have memories of how exciting it was waiting for your team's football score to page back into view, and the thrill of seeing your team had scored.
> Then millions fled America's inner cities in the 1960s due to skyrocketing crime and racial violence.

Let’s make sure we keep the cause-and-effect straight here. White flight was what created the crime, not the other way around. Inner cities in the US became poor, losing their business and tax bases, because of the racially-motivated flight of white people to avoid coloured people. Policies that facilitated white flight were done with the explicit purpose of creating white suburbs and preventing coloured people from following suit. It was not people making rational decisions about crime statistics.
It’s 2024 if you’re opening ports on your firewall/edge router still, you’re doing it wrong, both as a user and as an app developer.
Yeah, the latest MI is one of the few games I wished I never played: it managed to somewhat taint my childhood experiences, as it wrapped up the story in such a bad way to be retroactive (past self / reader: if you don't know, please don't look it up, it's not worth it).

It's a true shame as it could have been a cute finale, just ended up being rubbish for me.
The reality is we've seen very few source available projects take off, and it's likely that we'd all be using a competitor if Redis had started source available from the beginning.
Sure. Actually, I think I misunderstood OP. I think what he was trying to say is that by switching to Qt you also get a nice visual editor in the form of QtCreator, to which I agree!
Banking apps may or may not have a big budget. They're created in a highly political environment. Engineers might not be making the decisions. E.g. do we spend time fixing X? Some business person might decide that since it affects only 10% of the user base they would rather have the tech team work on something that increases their bonus.
In Samsung's terminology, it is a business signage display. Note that this is considered a separate product category from "business TV".

The point of a sign is that it shows what you want it to show. Whether that's an advantage depends on whether that's what you're looking for. But every feature of the display is going to be oriented towards that goal.

Notwithstanding the Amazon review that says "Yes it has wifi", you might find it noteworthy that this model does not have wifi connectivity. (As can be verified from its spec sheet, https://image-us.samsung.com/SamsungUS/samsungbusiness/pdf/s... , or from its page on CDW, https://www.cdw.com/product/samsung-qe43t-smart-signage-qet-... )

Your comments elsewhere in this very thread seem to indicate that this product is exactly what you want, a display that won't show ads and, in the general case, isn't connected to the internet. What exactly are you imagining will happen to someone who uses one?
I don't see it having any better performance than integrated chrome pdf viewer. Furthermore, with it using wasm i'd expected it to have custom renderer, but it's just pdf to html converter.

And loading times are quite bad (10 times slower - compared to firefox or chrome pdf viewers).
I’m not defending Microsoft here, but in fairness, we are talking about 1000s of entries when normal use might only see a few dozen over several years of Windows usage even under extreme circumstances. So I can see why cache invalidation probably wasn’t at the forefront of their mind.

However, as this incident demonstrates, there’s always an edge case that breaks things.
Exactly. I've been using dehydrated on two servers since it was named acme.sh (pre-2015) and updated it once. It just works and no dependecies.
So, you would fire all of France?
If it is just a few curl and openssl commands, why make a user install hundreds of megs of python deps just to ultimately call mostly openssl commands anyway

One of the biggest risks today is supply chain attacks. The more dependencies you have, the more people you are giving the ability to tamper with your critical code paths.
It is a part of the general trend of unproffessionalism and ignorance.

Everything started being taken for granted -> people got lazy and stopped doong good job (in all levels from dishwashers to presidents) > everything slowly going downhill

But there are good news.

Crisis are there for reason. It fixes these things.

Then we got another 5-10 years of growth and prosperity.
"One consideration is that, from a legal rights and social inclusion perspective, places aren’t fungible."

You do understand that works both ways? If you reverse the areas you're thinking of, there are people who prefer the rights or social environment in the opposite direction. Shouldn't we be trying to bring similar opportunities to all social groups? If we want to look at how this turns out, take a look at Native American reservations.
Well I don't match with your experience almost at all (20 years under the belt, but I don't count 5 years at university studying software engineering so almost same range as author). Self-assessments of your own success are frankly... looking for polite word as non-native speaker... not advised, since ego creeps in, such as in your case.

I don't see a single mention about private life, which is where real long term satisfaction from life comes from, career is just an unimpressive optional cherry on the top. I don't see words like balanced, happy and so on.

I never had any goals, just went with the flow. I moved when I felt like it, stayed when I preferred it. Listened to my intuition with mix of cold rationality, always. Increased my income cca 30x over those 20 years, for exactly same work (100% permie), but obviously at different companies and even countries. That tells nothing about 'success in life', at least to person like me.

Having tons of personal passions like extreme mountain sports, learning 4 foreign languages and using them continuously, having healthy lifestyle, seeing the world as a backpacker for what it truly is, choosing a good wife, trying to raise 2 kids well (thus playing the game on life on hard difficulty, more challenging but also more rewarding just like say in computer games). Career success? Meh, thats not what life is about, not to me.
I don't disagree that a motivated attacker can set up advanced infrastructure to collect network-related fingerprints, but this requires active effort. MAC address randomization is designed to at least prevent multiple unconnected networks from trivially tracking a user by making up a per-SSID MAC address.

Ideally, Apple would randomize MACs within the same SSID too, but this would break a lot of "free wifi for X time, then pay up" schemes that rely on consistent MAC addresses, and despite the appearances Apple is still very much in bed with the establishment and doesn't want to rock the boat too much by giving that much control to the users.
The only joke here is Certbot, a tool intended for use on servers but distributed on a channel intended for consumer use - Snap. The only package manager that will update on its own, when it feels like it, without a killswitch, runs as a daemon intertwined with the system.

Icing on the cake is that the Certbot team advertises alternative install methods, of which none work and all of the lengthy guides for them recommend to use Snap instead. It’s an insult for professionals.
Nvm https://github.com/groq/groq-python
Idk but we should probably preemptively strike to ensure no such thing happens, what do you say?

/s

I hope you aren’t really this paranoid and distrusting of other humans. Man, folks don’t realize how indoctrinated they are into this bullshit. Nobody has done anything, but look at what you’re talking about.
Good ideas are arguably emergent from "time spent on problem" - where time spent on problem is also considered a key metric.

If people do want to play the VC industrial complex game - then at least understand the pros and cons of it; otherwise it's good to understand it so you know how to better position yourself.
Given the streak videogame movies have, I'd rather not: I'm still recovering from the latest MI game...
I like the scientific approach to research but its pretty obvious they werent trying to optimise anything for the user. Its like reading an interesting account of someone inventing a better version of a nerve gas.
On the other hand, I often do non-required things just because I'm curious and they have often been boons for my team. As an example, as a proj manager at a big org I went through the steps of setting up my own tenant account in our org's AWS system so I could play around with compute nodes. A year later they had issues with the team that managed the AWS environment and couldn't create new accounts for almost a year. As a result, no one in the org could bring on new contracts requiring cloud computing. Except my team: Our contractors could be added to my tenant account and continue work. This was a huge deal when we were trying to get a few experimental projects off the ground very quickly.

Almost all of my success has been a result of doing things no one else did because I was curious about them.
I think with any talk show it mostly comes down to how interesting the guests are. I kind of agree with you that Dwarkesh's steering of the conversation isn't the best, but he seems to put his guests at ease and maybe they are more forthcoming as a result. He is also obviously smart, and it seems that encourages his guests to feel compelled to give deeper/more insightful/technical answers than if they had been, say, talking to some clueless journalist. This was notable in his interview with Ilya Sutskever, who otherwise seems to talk down to his interviewers.

The main strength of Dwarkesh is the caliber of guests he is able to attract, especially for being so new to the game. Apparently he'll research a potential guest for a couple of weeks before cold e-mailing them with some of his researched questions and asking if they'll come on his podcast, and gets a very high acceptance rate since the guests appreciate the questions and effort he has put into it (e.g. maybe Zuck enjoying being asked about Augustus, and not just about some typical FaceBook fare).

If you were inclined to give him another try, then I'd recommend the Richard Rhodes or Dario Amodei episodes, not because of any great Dwarkesh interviewing skills, but because of what the guests have to say. If you are a techie then the Sholto + Bricken one is also good - for same reason.

As far as AI optimism, I gather Dwarkesh has moved to SF, so that maybe goes with the territory (and some of his friends - like Sholto + Bricken - being in the AGI field). While arguably being a bit too deferential, he did at least give some pushback to Zuck on AI safety issues such as Meta's apparent lack of any "safe scaling" tests, and questioning how Zucks "increased AI safety via democratization" applied to bio threats (how is putting capability to build bio weapons in hands of a bad actor mitigated by others having AI too).
OpenAI's Whisper is a good transcribing tool. You can use MacWhisper for free and it uses the OpenAI Whisper technology locally on your Mac.That is if you're using a Mac. I'm not sure about Windows or Linux.
https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
The Netherlands aside from being Atlantis is also sinking. Nobody is worried because the government will fix it.
> That's often easier said than done. Figuring out how to constrain growth now (and build reserves) is better than facing hard choices in a panic later.

And as the data at the top of the essay shows, they already demonstrated this during the pandemic! And they have an extremely healthy reserve. Even if their fundraising got halved, they'd still be able to continue for quite a few years before having to reduce expenses by any significant amount. You can say "hey, maybe you should be building more reserves" but this is an organization with _a quarter billion dollars_ on hand and growing. Expenses might be high, but how much reserve do you expect them to keep?

At some point you're just hoarding cash. An organization simply can't make the argument "hey, please donate to us to keep us running" when they spend very little and have hundreds of millions of dollars in reserve. Nobody would donate to Wikipedia if they knew it could survive on a few million dollars each year and it had hundreds of millions of dollars handy, and no new work was being done to add services and improve existing services. There has to be a balance, and where they are now is extremely balanced.
With that rationale, why not use https://github.com/go-acme/lego which is a self contained lets encrypt client in Go?
It’s hard to imagine a scenario of young people getting pushed a skinner machine without any real pushback. But in this case, it’s possible because advertising companies can pay top bucks to the brightest minds to make their platforms as much addictive as possible, and criticism is deflected by a combination of appeal to personal responsibility, and the ideology that political collective action is bad and profit seeking is good.

I guess we can find an alternative scenario, yet is hard to argue that it isn’t capitalist ideology what brought us here this time.
Biocubes – An Inventory of the Biomass and the Technomass
in general devices from time to time pretending to be a new device can be preferred as a form of privacy protection

E.g. with IPv6 we have enough addresses to give every device in the world today and for decades to come unique addresses and using devices MAC you can reliably generate them collision free. So you don't need NAT so routers can well only route instead of routing and proxying IP Address/Port. Problem is that leaks a lot of private information. So a schema was added which while upholding the properties allows "randomizing" (and changing over time) addresses.

But coming back to the smart TV I don't think this is the case here as it changes the address _far_ to often and it's a UPnP i.e. local network only Id. Furthermore UPnP also advertises devices descriptions so de-anonymizing randomly changed IPs is more then trivial.

My guess is the UPnP software module is started anew every few minutes and generates a new uuid every time. This might be due to it not persisting the uuid. Weather that is because they just didn't bother implementing persistent device ids or weather it regenerates it after every time it crashes and it crashes every few minutes I can't say. But it looks a huge lot like a software bug.

What also is a 100% a but is that this external device misbehavior can mess up Windows (through I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't just Windows which has problems with that).

It means that there is a resource controlled by external events which isn't "bound" which from a security POV is always a terrible idea, even if it might at most cause a DOS attack (not just because DOS is bad but also because it's not rare that people find ways to use DOS attacks alongside other found attack vectors to more reliably succeed).
Cool project, I like the incorporation of 3d-printed copper heat syncs with integrated coopant channels to the specific components so that they can control coolant distribution more accurately. That has applicability in many other areas.

As battery tech gets better and energy densities increase, these improvements in inverter tech are critical to keep up. This could also mean improved AC output in battery energy storage systems as wel.
Curious - whats the real life implication of using GPL in this case?
Yes, but...

> some kind of energy

The negenergy (negative energy) here is just the (unnormalised, hence the 1/Z term) log-probability mass or density. Like the logit outputs of classifier.

You shouldn't read anything more into the 'energy'. There is no temperature parameter in these minimax models (although adding one to smooth the model during sampling or learning can be useful, to interpolate between pure noise and the learnt model).
You can always just refuse. They will find somebody else for it if they need it (usually they don't, system outages/errors are opportunity cost most of the time, not actual emergencies) but they will most probably still keep you for your normal "day job".
I never understood devs who took on-calls without very significant pay bumps. Imagine that in other industries except medical where human life is involved. The market is really not that bad, even now.

I'm about 10 years in doing business software development commercially and I always simply refused.