skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. That doesn't make it less plausible.
In this specific article, which is all I've read on the subject, they talked about the latest YoY and post-covid. I did not see any references to 2021.
I've really come to enjoy Debian stable. It's going to take something significant to get me off Bookworm.
Why discard anything at all? If the laptop is sufficiently durable it should be able to endure multiple owners over its functional lifespan.
An attorney with takes like "they don't put the facts from cases into SQL databases to query" yikes! They literally do

> you've clearly never used the software I use

> this tool doesn't know my workflow

> etc.

LLMs already train on knowledgebases like WestLaw. You really think there will never exist an LLM for legal research, etc.? That much is probably happening now, I just haven't heard of the startup.

> Get a f*king grip

So a defendants PII, plea, criminal history, time served, etc. are not important to a defense attorney?
> This is the reason we don't let people who think in terms

Well, in the world of civil lawsuits we do exactly this, which is sort of my overarching point here. Not much can be concluded from the settlement other than J&J being tired of litigation.
It looks more suitable for those who are into mathematics.
"Applied Cryptography", by Bruce Schneier, is also good for those who, like myself, do not need all the mathematical details behind cryptography.
Get a Bloomberg Terminal - just for the social-networking features.
"Let this be a message to all others in our department: no one messes with the MRSA".
I hadn't heard about this, how terrible. It sucks to give in to the attackers, but 20 BTC seems like a small price to pay compared to rebuilding from scratch.

One interesting bit toward the end of this article indicates the royal family has paid ransomware attackers too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240412005905/https://www.newyo...
Retail property value is mostly about location, not whether there is a currently successful business operating there.
the fact that these vehicles will never be allowed into the Western market makes this commentary rather moot. Similar to Huawei on mobile - so what if they are making a comeback in the Chinese market - they have been bounced out of the Western ones and they will never be seen again here.
Turbo - Bitly + Stripe for easier payment acceptance.

Copy, Paste, Paid.

https://tur.bo

Inspiration - Receiving invoices without a clear alternative to mailing a check.
> Why are you bringing sex/gender into this? It has nothing to do with it.

It's easier to victimise yourself than to accept the reality that irrespective of what class you belong to, there will be people who will not like you for what you do, say or how you say it and they will voice their opinions. While there are plenty of isms and ists in the world, everyone gets hate online.

Valid criticisms should be taken onboard, garbage hate should be discarded. If you don't have thick skin but still want to have an online presence: just disable comments or have moderators delete all comments you wouldn't like.

It might also be just me, but I fail to understand why anyone uses Twitter or anything similar, these types of platforms promote trashy conversations in my view.
Yeah, fair, upon thinking about it I think OnlyFans more exists to simulate a "long distance girlfriend" instead of a "stripper", which can have similar but still different roles.
The funny thing is that I just plucked 5MM out of a hat for my number 5 or so years ago when asked and I guess this analysis supports my intuition.

The one big problem with renting is instability. If the owner decides to sell the property, it may be difficult to find something equivalent on your terms or you may be forced to hop around a few times before settling.
For a time GE referred to itself as a 124 year old startup and acted as such.

It didn’t end well.
The first one is still extremely suspicious.

This unfortunate gentleman died of pneumonia after getting the flu and MRSA.

To the extent that his testimony last year is relevant, he may have been under a lot of stress, which can wreck up your immune system. But unless they find polonium in his system or that the flu he had was some novel strain of H-neverbeforeseen-N-cookedinalab, I think this doesn't go deeper than "45-year-old industrial worker doesn't recover from respiratory infection," which by itself would not be news.
> AI or not, the problem of incorrect denials is so bad that there is a market for it.

Who is the customer? Insurance companies?
Even the animals know that plants are medicine. Such a wierd thing that lebel these as alternative.
Reminded me of this in Smalltalk-76 https://github.com/cdglabs/thinglab
That's because McDonald's is a real-estate company that finances itself by selling hamburgers.
That's pretty cool! Perhaps genetic or innate memory is how he knew what to do? Sort of like dogs eating grass when they are sick?
__dirname is back in Node.js with ES modules
If they were really killed because of their leaks, I struggle to find what could be so sensitive that an assassination is ever an option. Do Boeing engineers work on stuff that secretive ? Are you given the nuclear codes on your first day ? I'm really curious
It's also possible that there were multiple, uncoordinated acts of malice and thus not a conspiracy. There are many parties that would like this to go away, from investors to unions to airlines.
> The upshot of all this is that admins who enabled some form of two-factor authentication (2FA) in GitLab are safe and unaffected by the vulnerability. And of course you enabled 2FA, didn't you?

...which begs the question: What US federal agencies aren't deploying their GitLab instances behind CAC auth at a minimum?
I'm not sure what you think this shows.

If we had an organization responsible and capable of preventing MRSA deaths, and was failing to do so, they'd be in prison at 8 million deaths.

The issue here isn't how many deaths, it's whether boeing has a duty and capability to prevent them; whether it has failed to do so; and whether this failure has caused a systematic problem with its recent planes that could lead to more deaths.

On all accounts it seems: yes, they've gutted product quality and it has lead to severe accidents.
That's another spinoff of Festival Singer. What's good from the LLM era?
This is relevant and many do not use Reddit.
Ubuntu provided a Windows installer to set it up, but it was indeed wubi under the hood.
> Feyerabend is widely considered one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century

L. Ron Hubbard has been very influential too, but that doesn't mean that re-reading Dianetics is likely to be an effective use of my time.

> As far as your "useful result," one example of the man's influence is right here

OK, Stephen J. Gould's endorsement is good enough for me. I will re-read "Against Method."
there were things much less intelligent than chat bots infiltrating scientific publishing prior to the ai boom

this is a nothing-burger
Chipotle took on McDonalds as an early investor, used McDonald's investment to quickly expand from 16 to 500 stores. Chipotle had a tremendously successful IPO, which they used to fund further growth. McDonalds, who was always a minority investor, divested themselves from Chiptole earning $1.5 billion on a $450 million investment. It trades on the NYSE as CMG and has a market cap of 88 billion.
Actual articles from April:

Nurses gather at Kaiser SF to protest AI in health care

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/health/nurses-kaiser-sf-prot...

A.I.’s impact on nursing and health care

https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/artificial-intelligence
an exception that proves the rule
So you’re saying there’s a tremendous allowance to be made for quality to diminish further before you feel like it’s a real problem?
CryptoForify
Either way, boeing looks kinda suspect here...

Small number of whistle-blowers: boeing looks pretty suspect, because why do they keep dying?

Large number of whistle-blowers: boeing looks pretty suspect, because why so many?
The effect on the value of the company and the strategic effect of letting Airbus (a European company) dominate aerospace manufacturing is a pretty big threat
While your point is perfectly valid, I think it should include fairer comparisons than infectious diseases. Most people don’t willingly participate in something that would risk MRSA, whereas many do fly. Not sure what a better comparison would be though.

In this case, it would be something that includes: number of deaths or injury or near death (door flying off and potentially getting sucked out at 30000 ft) due to flying Boeing vs driving X number of miles in a car.

This would be a similarly rare occurrence but would be nice to see the comparison between plane types.
GitHub Artifact Attestations
Reddit is highly censored and can get you banned easily unlike X.
I don't think he is aware enough to even know what he was seeing, let alone remember meeting her.
When we started our current system 15 years ago (Rust wasn't an option) 5% of the code needed C++, so everything was written in C++ as there is too much friction trying to make with a different language.

I'm sure there was something other than C++ that would have worked just as well. I don't know what it would be, but there are many options. Even then the article makes a good point: we can hire C++ developers, could we hire someone who knows the other option?
There are still a lot of unanswered questions around the first death.

In a post-COVID world, a 45-year-old dying of a respiratory infection isn't at all surprising. I concur with the reporter's assessment that more evidence of foul play before open accusations is warranted in this second case.
also, stock prices aren't economics. In aggregate they can be useful indicators, but they are not a measure of a business' results (due to derivative factors)
Wegovy, Mounjaro prices cut as British pharmacies compete for patients
> At scale people will always act in their own self interest

That assumes self-interest == money.

Doctors and nurses go into the profession because they're interested in the work. So their self-interest is a combination of "good work" + "money".

Like there's easier ways to make doctor-level pay than going to medical school and residency for most of a decade, and graduating with nearly a half-million in debt. FAANG, finance, big law. So there are more incentives here than mere dollar bills. You don't have to be a "commie" to see this.
Doesn't this depend heavily on inflation? With the ballooning US debt, how do people imagine the government will continue to pay interest without massive inflation in a few decades?
The US and EU spend very little of their GDP on War/Defense (as a percentage). Their focus is predominantly on enjoying themselves and civil society (in rough, broad strokes).

Russia spends a quite large % of their GDP on War/Defense (almost twice that of the US, and approx 4x China), and as Dostoevsky wrote - "the most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything."

Suffering this long of course requires a reason - and the Russian state has provided no shortage of them, even if they are absurd to folks outside the system.

After the Ukraine war blitzkrieg failed, the Russian economy was also switched to a war economy footing. A lot can be accomplished if that is the case.
PepsiCo acquired Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC to increase its soda fountain sales of Pepsi products.
You don’t find it concerning and possibly suspicious that both whistleblowers have died? The first one said “if anything happens to me, it’s not suicide”. Now this…
Maybe you should actually read the book before you pass judgement on it.
He was unbanned because who he is, any other person they wouldn't care.
One of the things I like about Bluesky and ATProto is that you can build your own feed algorithms to do things like this.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator

You'd probably have to write your own UI to enable buttons / inputs to simplify the reconfiguration (I want to look at a different set of users now).
I would encourage not directly using the user-uploaded images. But uploading directly to S3 is probably fine. I just wouldn't use the raw file.

1. Re-encoding the image is a good idea to make it harder to distribute exploits. For example imaging the recent WebP vulnerability. A malicious user could upload a compromised image as their profile picture and pwn anyone who saw that image in the app. There is a chance that the image survives the re-encoding but it is much less likely and at the very least makes your app not the easiest channel to distribute it.

2. It gives a good place to strip metadata. For example you should almost certianlly be stripping geo location. But in general I would recommend stripping everything non-essential.

3. Generating different sizes as you mentioned can be useful.

4. Allows accepting a variety of formats without requiring consumers to support them all. As you just transcode in one place.

I don't know much about the cost on the AWS side, but it seems like you are always at some sort of risk given that if the user knows the bucket name they can create infinite billable requests. Can you create a size limit on the pre-signed URL? That would be a basic line of defence. But you probably also want to validate once the URL expires the data uploaded and decide if it conforms to your expectations (and delete it if you aren't interested in preserving the original data).
Well, in the case of the Lancet, at least at the moment it's decently safe for frontline use. There isn't a surefire way to stop them rn, except for jamming which has its own problems and using much more expensive systems to intercept, and its main advantage is that it has at least a 2x range improvement over an ATGM system, which is quite a bit.

The rest of your comment I agree with, but whilst people/countries are adapting/discovering what the actual value of tanks is vs what a drone offers you(and same for everything else, its a portfolio optimization problem really), the tanks do seem mispriced(at least the current generation). If all new tanks come with a comprehensive EW system the calculus will change again, but at least at the moment they seem to be overvalued.

The exact same thing applies to Russia as well, the entire Black Sea navy is basically useless due to rockets and maritime drones.
I’ve never had nor heard of anyone having an issue with a foreign object breaking a side window. Is it common?
Would punch too many holes in the argument :)
As C++ fan, that used to teach it as TA, spent time at CERN doing HPC in C++, I would assert C++ has gone beyond PL/I complexity level.

And just like 50 years ago with PL/I dialects, a reboot will eventually happen.

I expect C++26 to be the last relevant ISO C++ revision, for the use cases where C++ would still be the main supported language, like existing infrastructure.

I don't forsee post C++26 revisions to ever gain major industry relevance.

One issue with all wannabe replacements, is that C++ will never go away as long those replacements aren't bootstrapped, relying on GCC or LLVM for their toolchains.
Companies are essentially subsidizing $1M (or more now?) mortgages if you are willing to go into their SV offices. You don't have to retire there! Just sell the house and move on.
From that link:

From experience, we have found the following five SMART metrics indicate impending disk drive failure:

SMART 5: Reallocated_Sector_Count.
SMART 187: Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors.
SMART 188: Command_Timeout.
SMART 197: Current_Pending_Sector_Count.
SMART 198: Offline_Uncorrectable.

That's good to know, I might start tracking that. I manage several clusters of servers and hard drive failures just seem pretty random.
Everything written about halting machines presumes a mathematical system, not a physical system. It makes statements about model systems, some of which have physical counterparts. THe whole point of a turing machine is that it's abstract, not made of tape or transistors or anything else.

The halting problem is not really widely discussed in physics journals. They care much more about the physical limits of actual computing. If you have good examples of physics people talking about the halting problem in a non-theoretical and distant way, I'm happy to see it. But from waht I can tell, physicists are not concerned with uncomputable functions.
No, because you're confusing loss functions: a LLM makes a probabilistic prediction, not a hard decision. That is the optimal strategy only if you have something like a 0-1 loss function†, akin to betting on a coin flip, which is not a proper scoring rule (and not easily differentiable either).

Whereas LLMs are usually trained with a proper scoring rule which incentivizes them to report calibrated predictions, like mean squared error. For that, the optimal prediction is just '50%', perhaps transformed into log-odds, and whatever the equivalent of '50%' is over the BPE vocabulary.

† eg if you are betting $1 on whether heads or tails come up, it is true that you can't do better than always betting $1 on the side with P>50% - and strikingly, this is not what people do in setups like the spinner game (or Twitter polls), they 'probability match', which is optimal in terms of Thompson sampling, as if they were playing a indefinitely-long repeated bandit to minimize regret. I usually take this as an example of System I vs System II: showing how hard it is to break our real-world-appropriate intuitive behavior in artificial game setups. If you think about it, in the usual spinner-game, probability matching is just straightforwardly wrong and it's not like a bandit at all; but you do have to think about it.
More realistically they stored passwords instead of bcrypted or hashed or some post 2000 technique. (I recall writing blog articles in the late 90s on storing passwords vs md5'd passwords.)
> It's going to take something significant to get me off Bookworm.

Do you have experience using "Debian LTS"? It might have gotten me to stick to Bullseye for a little while longer, but I don't know much about it, and EOL was coming along soon.
New treatment method using plasma irradiation promotes faster bone healing
Viruses tend to kill the old and the sick whereas plane crashes kill all equally.
Ask HN: What is your arsenal for datavizualisation in Python?
I'm starting some datavisualisation activities in python, and while matplotlib is very powerfull, it is not as convenient as one would like. I had some fun with gnuplot for quick and fast plot on the fly.

So, considering python, what are your tools when it comes to visualize data ?
I started about 10 years ago with modding games. C++ is what everyone used (and mostly still uses) to write mods/cheats, dll injections, and so on. There were some shared online that I used as reference to learn how it was done. Looking up everything I didn't understand, reading hundreds of forum posts, blogs and stackoverflow. Modifying it to do silly things.

It's a really steep difficulty curve to start like this, but it'll immediately force you to understand all the low level fundamentals if you want to accomplish anything. You can't make a functioning mod if you don't understand the memory model of the game and engine you're messing with, or what your code is actually doing. So you build a really strong foundation by force, and everything after comes naturally.

Now I work at a AAA game studio and it's really fun to be able to easily make large changes to the engine as needed. Sometimes you have to write complicated generic code, and sometimes you get to write really fast and simple code. You always understand what happens behind the scenes, how the computer will represent your data and how it processes it. How different threads interact when accessing shared data. There's not really anything that can't be figured out.

Somehow I never cared for any courses or books. They all want you to make boring things, and that's the best way to get disinterested and give up. Wanting to get a particular thing to work can be incredible motivation to keep digging at it for weeks and learn large amounts of trivia along the way.

I think my suggestion would be don't try to learn C++. Find something you actually want to do (maybe you want to make a game?) and use C++ to do that. At least that's what worked for me.

Also, this meme is very much true. Try to stay clear of "modern c++" template over engineering. There's a reason why no game studio uses the STL. https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273
From what I've seen that's kind of overselling it, his own family hasn't claimed that he said that, an anonymous person who claimed to be a friend of his did.

But I may have missed any further developments to actually verify that his family had been told something similar.
140k in spend in SF is a broke lifestyle. So more like 10mm at least
Old doesn't mean unmaintained, old buildings have run longer than COBOL has existed. Tearing down an old building just because a new building is objectively better can still be seen as a shameful waste, and although I don't know much about construction, I'm sure tearing down and rebuilding is also a minefield.
Calling fetch(url) 15,000 times, in batches of 50
At least in SF, tenants get pretty generous buyouts when the landlord decides to sell.
Please. Those folks have a canine dental hygienist on staff. They don't go to walk in clinics.
This is just juxtaposition of two completely unrelated things. The only relationship they have is an endpoint of death.
Even today, the 4090 with path tracing cannot achieve 1440p at 120 fps in Cyberpunk, and the 1% lows are not great. Also, high-resolution VR will require much more performance.(Unless we manage to get foveated rendering working effectively)
Looks exactly like Margorie Taylor Green..
I think you have me confused with someone who cares about the difference between binary and text logs. I have no pony in this race; my comment was just made to help.
This analysis doesn't seem to account for inflation? In 40 years, withdrawing $140,000 will not be nearly as much.

For reference, inflation over the last 40 years has been 300%. So you're talking about $47k in inflation adjusted purchasing power in 40 years.
I wonder what the number would be assuming you own your own home. I thought it would make a real difference, but instead of $60K/year you spend on renting a house (in his calculation), you'd spend $30K/year on property taxes :-(( So, not much of difference if you own a $2M house.
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> science is the only way we can know truth

You need to read the third installment in my series:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/three-myths-about-scient...

and in particular Myth #3.