skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine :) Found this text in a 1-star Amazon review by "Timothy H.":

Please be cognizant that this is a book on career advice whose author has not been out in the work force yet. By his own admission he was "handing in the manuscript mere days before turning my attention to a new life as a professor". He is going straight from being a full time student (PhD from MIT. I am doubtless he is a brilliant academic) to being a professor. So keep that in mind.

I felt that many of his ideas were not fully formed, maybe a bit amateurish. He is on the right track but unfortunately makes some flawed conclusions. He declares multiple times that following your passion is dangerous but then argues that a person's "mission" in life can be a general career guide. "Passion" and "mission" are dangerously close to synonyms.

Most of the people he interviews are high-level ivy league academics like himself. Their examples are going to be difficult the rest of us peasants to relate to unfortunately. On the flip side, his focus on becoming skilled and deliberate practice is sorely needed in today's world, but "Mastery" by Robert Greene captures this idea much more thoroughly.
Are you sure about that? :-)
Free will is so self-evident that deniers of free will have to give lectures at universities to convince everyone else that the universe is making illusions for fun at the cost of thermodynamic efficiency.
See this other comment which contains links to Elon Musk’s comments about Signal[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342204
> To get that eyesight protection, research suggests kids should be spending at least two hours a day outdoors – every single day.
> One of the wisest and most important pieces of advice I received as a startup founder was this: “The worst outcome is a mediocre success”.

…in a zero interest rate environment where there is a bunch of money sloshing around looking to roll the dice multiple times.
The signal to noise ratio can't possibly support this, can it? Phone bluetooth transmitters are counted in milliwatts.
> make sure that there’s a well-defined distinction between success and failure. Don't fall in the messy middle.

I agree this is the right thing to do, but it isn’t always possible to do for a given experiment. For instance, with the cold-calling example, how do you ensure that it’s either a smashing success or definite failure a-priori? Is there a principled way to choose the threshold number of conversions? Do you just pick an arbitrary number? What if the result is just below your threshold? With some experiments I think the only way to win is not to play. Happy to be corrected if anyone has a solution
Show HN: I built a free idea validator
It's ruthless (that's why it's awesome)
Except the cost is only going down over time
> That and possibly genetics that would have given a scientific veneer to his extremely racist views.

How?
Sources for the nginx.org website are now maintained on GitHub
I think the researchers didn’t identify the main vulnerability. They should have talked about the risk of remote code execution from reading serialized objects from untrusted sources, when the R programmer thinks they are reading data but they are actually running code. This mistake has led to huge numbers of remote code execution vulnerabilities in all sorts of object deserialization libraries; it’s a much more common threat than supply chain attacks.
Massively subsidize the first child to get people over the fear hump, and then you’ll find people starting larger families.
>real estate industry is exempt from AML/KYC requirements

Source?
Nobody takes an L in the marketplace of ideas anymore. If people don't like something that you do, you can just say they have a type of derangement syndrome, or it's because they have a need to be angry about something, or because they're afraid of change, or so on. The key is to make sure that your accusation is broad and vague.
The majority of states in the us have those laws and with increasing burden on the government due to greying of the population the courts are likely to shift towards more rigorous enforcement.
> Telegram iirc moved it's lead developers to Dubai specifically because the FSB was demanding info from them, so you could argue that's an unfounded concern.

I'd argue it's not giving us any certainty. They could've moved away to escape. They could've moved away to a nice FSB-sponsored location while making good publicity. Ideally the tech should be good enough for this issue to not matter.
This interestingly opens up another example for exploration of nature vs nurture.

I always thought my good eyesight was from genetics from my father's side--but maybe it was the relatively free-range upbringing that he both experienced--and also paid forward to me--that might have been the deciding factor.
It's easy to overstate, but shouldn't be understated either with, as an example, solving problems with learning in AI providing insights into how dopamine works in brains.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/15/130868/deepmind-...

There are obvious, huge differences between what goes on in a computer and what happens in a a brain. Neurons can't do back propagation is a glaring one. But they do do something that ends up being analogous to back propagation and you can't tell a priori whether some property of AI or neuroscience might be applicable to the other or not.

The best way to learn about AI isn't to learn neuroscience. it's to learn AI. But if I were an AI lab I'd still hire someone to read neuroscience papers and check to see whether they might have something useful in them.
Fraud-as-a-Service Storefront Treyshop Exposed
Treyshop is a fraud-as-a-service operation’s e-commerce storefront -- selling stolen credentials, fraud methods, email spamming services, OTP bypass bots, and more. Take a deeper look at the store and a public Telegram channel that posts inventory updates, announces pricing promotions, and shares alleged customers’ photos and videos showing the spoils resulting from buying and using the shop’s fraud products.
For those wondering, it uses 12x of these motors https://store.tmotor.com/product/ak80-9-dynamical-modular.ht...
Actually, Plato is not wrong. I'm a big pen and paper user, and write everything down. While it allows me to turn back six months, I can't turn two weeks back without my notebook in some cases.

Brain has a strange ability to understand that information is stored elsewhere. Write it, and you forget it. Take photos in a concert, and memories become fainter. Talk about something important, you start to forget it part by part.

AI is something way bigger. It's a dumb system which mimics us without the essence of the human or personal style, yet does mundane tasks without questioning. So you trade your own fine tuned, honed, polished ability to some GPUs which runs a software which is tuned for the masses. Like trading your beaten tungsten tool with a shiny iron one. Looks nice but way inferior. The ability to do these mundane tasks is the foundation for not doing the same tasks in a mundane way, or doing more complex tasks built on these mundane tasks. You rig your own foundations with explosives. Not wise.

I'd not do that. I don't use any AI systems in any of my tools.
I agree this is a “bad end”, but I don’t think we can fault ourselves for flukes. Sometimes you play your poker hand _perfectly_ given all the information you have, and a random stranger just has better cards against all odds. I think you just have to be ready to accept some flukes, and continue to make the best decision with the info you have
In the future, we will live in a garden city and commune with nature and look back on this error of fat people living in skyscrapers as a dark age.
Actually, llama.cpp running on Apple silicon uses GPU(Metal Compute Shader) to inference LLM models. Token generation is also very memory bandwidth bottlenecked. On high end Apple silicon it's about 400MB/s to 800MB/s, comparable to NVIDIA RTX 4090, which has memory bandwidth of 1000MB/s. Not to mention that Apple silicon has unified memory architecture and has high memory models (128GB, up to 192GB), which is necessary to run large LLMs like Llama 3 70B, which roughly takes 40~75GB of RAM to work reasonably.
Most of the /64s being allocated are to mobile devices and almost all mobile deployments coming online are IPv6 only and support IPv4 only through something like 464XLAT. Even when they are dual stacked they're only through CGNAT. It's almost impossible to get a publicly routed IPv4 address on a mobile connection.
Oh yeah, it's an absolutely wonderful feature. F-Droid is pretty much the main app store I'd recommend to get "the basics" from if you're ever in the unfortunate position of having to manage the mobile devices of family members. Having a maintainer "on the lookout" gives so much peace of mind. Not suddenly having the gallery app turn into a data collection machine and baiting less tech-savvy people into vaguely defined subscriptions is a value that's too good not to pass up on.

FOSS isn't really the important part for me there; it's nice, but the real value is that F-Droid is pretty much the only app store that has some reckoning on how the relationship between mobile devs and mobile customers should be far more adversarial than on any other platform due to the poor track record of mobile devs and empowers users to be able to deal with that in a way that restores some degrees of trust.

It's a fucking shame there's not an equivalent on iOS where you can just say "yeah, what you find here can be trusted" and then not have that gets polluted a year down the line. Apple used to somewhat police the App Store back in the early 2010s for similar peace of mind, but that's not the case anymore.
China's quantum tech 'core strength' targeted by latest US trade blacklist
I feel like I straddle the spectrum and would agree with op. I grew up in the 90s, worked in tech all my life and will tell you about the wonderful time and amazing experiences I have with people who quite literally live in VR

But I also recognise that the happiest most alive times in each year are when tech goes away and people are the focus. When power is out and we all gather to play board games, when we gather in the countryside and talk until the camp fire burns out.

Inside of tech and out
I’d encourage people to focus on their connection with others if they feel something missing in their life
GP was talking encryption, not protocol. Randomly changing topics will get you banned from any crypto work too.
Personally I've never received a scam or spam message on Signal.
Static Chess
I thought that was a really nice website and visual journey.
I'd take a compromise and go back to '99. Sure, we had punch-the-monkey ads but social networks had barely become a thing, it was all blogs and forums for the most part. Plenty of reasons to go outside without filming the endeavor, people were ok with not being able to reach you every minute.

But I was also 16 in the late 90s so you probably have something there.
The economics of venture capital is that mediocrity gives a near zero return, and thus should go to zero as an investment
I watched a Japanese doc about this phenomena a couple years ago. Japan's genetics haven't changed in recent decades but now basically everyone leaving highschool needs glasses. So they strapped lasers to kids to measure the distance in front of their face, to track their focus distance throughout the day. The results and outcome were telling, suggesting a conflict of cultural standards regarding eyesight.

The worst, closest, time was while at school. The kids were learning writing, Japanese characters. They were sitting at desks, their heads looking straight down onto paper as they learned to create tiny perfect characters. But at the doctor, the kids were given eyeglasses to correct their vision to the 20/20 western standard which itself is largely based on operating vehicles or seeing blackboards in giant lecture halls. So kids with glasses optimized for distance were forcing their eyeballs out of shape to focus on schoolwork literally inches from their face. The finding was that perhaps Japanese eye doctors should prescribe glasses based on what kids actually need (close focus) rather than pretending they all are going to be driving cars and flying planes.
Medicine is magical and magical is art
Think of the boy in the bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart

And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby

These are the days of miracle and wonder
Does this take into account the time kids would get normally?
Like school recess and Walking to and from School would get kid me to around an hour and a half of outside time, but I feel like something like that wouldn't ve counted
re. 1:

Assuming the source of the attribution is acting with pure intentions, it is usually a preponderance of (mostly circumstantial) evidence. Does the malware and MO look similar to past known attacks? Did they leave any localized strings in the binary file, if yes does that nation have an interest in hacking the target? Does the malware use a stack of 0-days and labour-intensive obfuscation techniques (indicating a large amount of resources)? Does the whole picture make sense when you put it all together?

The above is in an ideal world, in reality almost all attributions are political and based on almost nothing. Even if they were based on some other intelligence source, how could a random member of the public verify that?

On top of the difficulty of gathering evidence, there is an incentive alignment between the heads of hacked organizations and intelligence agencies. The hacked company will look better as the victim of a "cyberattack" or a "chinese cyberattack" then as the victim of "random.ransomware.0238023". The intelligence agency can get more funding and PR by proclaiming the same.
So your use case is taking photos of people who don’t want their picture taken, or doing things that the phone I already own and have on me all the time can do.

And unlike my smartphone that keeps the photos on-device, your Meta ray bans are submitting all your family members to be face scanned by the Meta surveillance capitalism app.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/27/22304618/judge-approves-f...
Durov travels freely to and from Russia and several of their employees are still based in Russia. So yeah, the FSB have leverage if they need to use it.
gives brutal but on-point feedback
> but I still don’t understand the leap [...] to “I’m personally offended and my day is ruined. Someone must apologize to me.”

This comes across as rather belittling to me - akin to calling someone a "snowflake" for not acquiescing to someone else's version of reality. It is possible to find the theme of the ad to objectionable in a way that transcends the personal: for example, out of concern for the possible consequences of coarsening commercial speech, or of promoting the devaluation of human creativity. I really don't think that many of the critics were demanding a personal apology.
Does anyone know of any tools that can help caregivers organize effectively? Caregivers generally have to organize a lot of information, re: scheduling, important health info + various other information. I haven't found any effective or good solutions in this space, which is shocking. Especially it's difficult to find a solution that incorporates a useable calendar that enables everyone in the orbit of a caregiver (and the person they're caregiving for) to be able to schedule and plan within a community, shared calendars, etc.

Has anyone seen any tools like this? Would be much appreciated, else I'm building it myself. Thanks.
I will point out, in their defence, they handed it over to an organisation that has a habit of assisting people in learning how to fly from windows. This isn't to say Telegram is secure but that it's unlikely they "could have deleted the data" and remained alive.
Was SVB bailed out? I thought they were over leveraged, but had customer’s funds and gave those back. Did I miss something?
Slavic, not Russian.
I've always at least strongly suspected that Telegram is a FSB honeypot.

It's insecure by default so I guess it could be an everyone-honeypot. I'll keep using Signal for my secure messaging thank you very much. Honestly I trust Apple iMessage encryption more than Telegram.
People will read scientific information in ways to support their prejudices.

Franklin would not be different.

We like to idolize these historical figures but if this guy was alive nowadays he'd probably be rage posting in alt-right forums only accessible on the dark-web.
>and a blog post for bragging, thankfully they didn't do a name and a logo.

I am still amazed on how many people on HN seem to get worked up over vulnerability names. God forbid someone also slaps a piece of clip art or whatever on the blog post. Worse yet, if they buy a $5 domain... the horror!

Maybe it's just me, but I'd much rather remember "Heartbleed" over "CVE-2014-0160".
Supernatural or nonexistent is false dichotomy fallacy. The third option is free will exists and natural. Many things follow this pattern: flat earth, geocentrism, lightning, soul.
it's a good article, but misses the point.
you can't apply the scientific method early in a startup. You never have enough data and all the factors included change too quickly.

what you need is conviction. if it works for 1/100 calls, and you believe in the idea continue iterating. Also, observe what your peers are doing, you probably don't need/want to innovate on sales or business model.
Let me set a few things straight: Telegram is for the most part tiktok for people that don't mind putting some effort into reading on a few odd occasions. Saying that I have a lot of Ukrainian friends would be an understatement and the are the only reason I have telegram-all of them favor it, which, all things considered, is a grave mistake. In practice, telegram is far more closely related to tiktok and twitter than a messaging app and by extension it is heavily used to spread misinformation: telegram channels are ultimately under the complete control of their admins and they have the ultimate authority with no way of doing anything about it. Twitter was forced to put some effort into it through community notes but that hasn't even made a dent: it literally takes two google searches to find tens of thousands of bot accounts spreading misinformation. In that regard, telegram is much worse since it's an infinite source of cognitive dissonance: People are willfully joining echo chambers, which are openly advertised as such.

I am really glad that telegram is nowhere nearly as big in western countries compared to eastern Europe. It pains me to say this but, but even till this day, us eastern Europeans are way more susceptible to propaganda than the western world, although, for a million and one reasons that seems to have a huge effect on the western world as well. In that sense, telegram is an active contributor.

10/10 times I'll sit firmly behind Signal, despite the many shortcomings: there is no developer integration, if you want to create a signal account for your own personal bots or whatever, you can but only through a hacky repo that's on github.

Yes, the people behind telegram know all this very well and they don't like the fact that people who are aware of it as well are favoring signal infinitely more than telegram.
You probably would've been 10x as racist as Franklin had you grown up in his era.
Well, you should have discovered Australia first then.
> So when a startup comes to me with an idea for an experiment, the one thing I tell them is: make sure that there’s a well-defined distinction between success and failure. Don't fall in the messy middle.

Mediocrity is often enough to put food on the table. The world is full of companies aiming to survive for a few more quarters with their little mediocre product. And once a company embraces that idea there's usually no going back.
This so much. I will never ever want to ruin my kid's life with such an expectation, I moved permanently to society where basic dignity is cca guaranteed if possible, and if it cannot be provided, so be it, death of me is fine and just a question of time. I wish to still being able to end it myself, on my terms, somewhere not bothering anybody, causing as little problems as possible (and settle will well ahead of it).

My useless last years are worthless compared to (remaining) prime age of the most important people in my lives - my children. What kind of piece of shit I would be to expect them to waste it on me.

Now is the time to live your life to see it as well spend, whatever it means to you. Then you can be dying in peace. You really can live off good stuff in life for a long time, and raising kids well is the ultimate achievement for me.

There is one issue with all this - I can't take such care for my own parents due to big distance. I can though easily pay for full support in any way they will ever require, which is still massively better objectively than me risking getting fired constantly and juggling their needs with my & my family. So the transition generation and those just before doesn't have it easiest, but I honestly believe this is the right, non-selfish way.

And if I succumb to dementia (which is never sudden), I will specifically beg all around me repeatedly that I want as little time & energy from them as possible, just a bit to cover their own emotional needs and happiness. Anything above is just a gift that shouldn't be too common.
Letter to the Editor: AlphaFold3
I'm not sure it's avoiding biases so much as trying to have the currently favoured bias. Obviously it got it a bit wrong with the nazi thing. It's tricky for humans too to know what you are supposed to say some times.
I worked in a SaaS company selling an A/B Testing app where I saw a lot of tests and their outcomes from different clients.

Of course there are the low hanging fruits, which scored the clear success. Most of the tests although were not a clear success, but just a slightly better conversion rate.

Multiple tests applied after each other slowly increased the overall value. If taken the advice not to implement the changes of the small success, the overall amount would not have changed.
I had forgotten how strange it was to see a terminal in OSX, a huge step sideways, I won't say backwards as it has its uses, but that was also the nasty green screen world I thought we had escaped from...
Yes, this is not good advice at all. Stumbling into an honest living is somehow a terrible thing?
I have a lot of similar tools and it's all Open Source: https://mitta.ai
I am just glad to see I am not the only one making up imaginary scenario where I bring people from the past to have them marvel at our world.
My generation's grade schools: 20 min playground time after morning bus drop off, 30 min after eating, a 15 min recess and PE time. In the evening, we had 30 min of homework total.

My kids grade schools: 15 min playground time after eating. The 5-6 classes gave 30-60min of homework, each. So it was home, eat, homework, cubscouts/etc, eat, homework, bathe, bed.

It was almost just as well. There was ~nowhere for them to go past the yard (and 92°/90% humidity+heavy gnats).
Everything is a series of battles and campaigns. If the overall war is a mediocre success, you still have plenty to learn from if you're digging into those.
2.4M person study: Internet use boosts, not hurts, well being