skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love free books, but does the website owner have permission from the author to post this there? The copyright notice says, "Copyright © 2018 John K. Ousterhout. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author."

As far as this book goes, when I read it a few years ago I kind of appreciated it, but found it a bit too abstract and philosophical to be useful.
But the electronics and protocol is so simple. I'll miss them when they're gone, because you won't be finding any DIY electronics tutorials to write NVME cards. And that will be a big loss.
Is there some kind of device that can detect bugs like this? (I'm thinking of the "bug sweepers" I've seen in films)
In the cities I’m familiar with essentially all street parking is metered or resident. There’s a cost for resident parking but it’s typically a lot less than a monthly garage spot would be.

When a lot of people talk about “free” parking I think they’re mostly lumping those in. Resident parking spots are certainly an oversubscribed common resource in many areas.
Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix)
That would be a hard filter to pull off; because LLM technology is getting so good and it's really hard to spot recycled content but taking in consideration Google's capabilities, I'm sure they can make some sort of AI content detection software.
>Using LLMs for picking military targets is just absurd

You'd be surprised.

Not to mention it's also used for military and intelligence "analysis".

>using an LLM for high risk tasks like healthcare and picking targets in military operations still feels very far away

When immaturity and unfitness for purpose has ever stopped companies selling crap?
I have this when I've been awake too long and am very tired, or, when I've just woken up and my mind is still dreaming.

I can play entire songs in my head during those drowsy moments, but once fully awake/alert, I lose the ability.
I moved to the Netherlands for most of the reasons NJB did and it's hard not to get emotional when you're saying "I moved here so a driver wouldn't kill my daughters while they bike to school."

Because at the core of it, giving my kids freedom and independence and not having a driver kill them shouldn't require moving to a tiny country below sea level.
A walkable city doesn't mean a city where you can't drive, it just means that you have alternatives and the freedom to choose.
Ethics is a cultural problem. You can't teach it in a college course.
Tell HN: Twitter/X is inaccessible to all Firefox users by default
Twitter has started changing over its URLs to X.com as the default URL now.

However, this has left Firefox unable to access the site by default.

You will instead get a message about "Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."

This seems to be due to the manual allowlists FF has as part of the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature. It doesn't know that X.com should have access to the Twitter image distribution URLs and other non X.com URLs, so the page load fails. X access can be restored by turning off Enhanced Tracking Protection.

The Twitter engineering lead is asking for anyone who has a direct line to FF staff: https://x.com/cambridgemike/status/1790615764736913557
Who owns the code? I guess you should never really admit that AI coding assistant helped you during coding and there you go....problem solved.

Edit: It's actually more harder than this; the best option would be to roll your own AI coding assistant either on-prem or in your private cloud.
This is what happens in french classrooms when you talk about bits :-)
Maybe the best to guarantee safety is to openly share the science. Lecun is also more 'academic style' than most competing labs
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yes, that would work - describing electrons or batteries in Liters!

(to be clear, I was pointing out that "turbo" is an exhaust-gas powered intake air compressor, which makes no sense when naming an electric car)

EDIT: although supercharger actually does make sense with EVs, just not in the same way as say, Kompressor :)
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but the phrase "So long, and thanks for everything" used in the tweet reminds me of "So long, and thanks for all the fish" from the dolphins in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The background there is that dolphins are secretly more intelligent than humans, and are leaving Earth without them when its destruction is imminent (something the humans don't see coming).

I did once leave a company with a phrase just like that :P A few people there actually got the reference and congratulated me for the burn.
I have this too and it's a lovely device. E-ink screen looks perfect, mine has lasted for months and I don't even think about the battery.
In fairness to the explicitly agnostic, I don’t think evolution or genetics are teleologies of humankind, or of consciousness, or even of simple life. These primal questions remain unanswered, if not unanswerable. Granted, a whole host of prior answers were revealed to be nonsense. (I’m sure Franklin would be unsurprised at this; an enlightenment polymath can hardly have credited the common man’s creationism - Jefferson, by way of comparison, was a rational deist.)
I am in England, on the 'Team Plan'* and got access to memory this week.

* https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-team/
I think this is an area where SD is actually fairly suitable - not for storing the actual OS for the console, but certainly for storing data files. They're mostly read only other than saves, which should be miniscule amounts of I/O, and ease of removal so you can copy more games on is very important.

I don't see any issue with using SD or microSD for that usecase?

edit: I don't think I/O performance for reads should be a big issue either - for most retro games you're going to be able to have the whole ROM in memory as even a 16 or 32MB GBA ROM is still tiny! For PS1 and newer, microSD read speeds are certainly faster than CD/DVD read speeds, too?
The article has a section on that very topic: https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/#detection
Early humans must've been like some sorta unstoppable killing machine, never going particularly fast but never stopping either. Just relentlessly following their target until it was too exhausted to go on and just laid down to die.

*Not a anthropologist/archeologist/oldshitologist.
> Apple's desired model of computing.

That is, complete control over what the users can do.
If I understand correctly you need atleast one sms to know the credentials to the web portal. that's probably enough to get caught if someone finds the device.
If not already out there, soon there possibly will be compromised cables with 801.11ah built-in. Given its low cost, low power requirements and the considerable range of the technology, it will be difficult to protect against unfortuantely.
Early humans were prey.
That may be true in term of engineering, but I think everyone had switched to google as their search engine by then. I am not sure openai has captured the market quite in the same way, as I think people are still mostly experimenting with AI, the integration time in any large company is much slower than the rate of progress of AI. And it's not clear to me that there is much of a vendor lockin to use the openai API vs an equivalent competitor.
It seems like a poor faith argument to refuse to address people's attempts to offer differing views (and data).

Among many, many, many "unmeasured" costs is the fact you're stealing people's freedom. I want to live in a flat above a shop in a 5 story building with no car and you propose making it effectively illegal to build such a structure because it's infeasible unless you tear down neighbouring buildings (ruining the neighbourhood in the process) to build parking.
Exactly, a giant LLM is not even close to be as power efficient as a human brain, in the same vein as a plane isn't as good at general flying. Yet it provides huge value and in many dimensions (that are important to us as humans) a plane can do way more than any bird.
Is your aim to have companies leave ?
Where are you getting this? "Romance novel" means a pornographic novel. The term is euphemistic, and universally understood.

Compare this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/RomanceBooks/comments/r8cqrh/are_th...

Where, as you can see, the title is "are there any romance books without sex?", the poster acknowledges that this is a strange thing to ask, and the responses identify special terms for romance novels that are missing the defining feature of the genre.
Is it a poor take against object oriented, or some half-hidden criticism of the use of masks during the Covid-19 pandemic?

For the former, then I would expect a computer science professor to do better than just bashing the concept. When is it good, and when is it bad? What did it bring to programming languages?

For the latter, I would expect a computer science professor to know that epidemiology is not their thing and they should refrain from concluding "stuff" from a scientific paper they found.
There's no return value here:

void my_sprintf(char* format, ???) {
sprintf(format, ???);
}
Downtown San Francisco's Caltrain extension plan gets big boost from government
I meant that now it's backend, and frontend, and apps, oh my.
They definitely need them to find new approaches which you won’t find normally.
The article covers that under the section "detection".

TL;DR: You can easily detect it while it communicates via GSM, and the device is also shielded quite badly, resulting in lots of easily detectable RF interference while it works.

All you need is a cheap RF detector. Having access to a full spectrum analyzer or a SDR will make this even easier.

All this gets much harder while the thing lies dormant, waiting for noise activation or commands. So the "quick bug sweeps" you see in the movies are more difficult.
Canada is addicted to rent seeking, monopoly businesses, corporations that push regulatory capture on the gov't and then parasitize, and -- most of all -- ripping resources out of the ground and selling them cheap, or doing the same with real estate.

My latest annoyance is all the moaning and groaning about the latest capital gains tax increase. People complaining on one hand about how the Canadian economy lacks productivity, and then screaming to high heaven about tax policy that mostly only impacts people making quick speculative cash.

Investment takes no risks in this country because they don't have to. They just dump money into real estate or oil & gas instead and then hang at the lake in the Muskokas.
Physical meters aren’t necessary, this is the 21st century.
Did not seem cringe to me tbh. Okey, the flirty voice maybe ;)
The meat feeds the group as long as the fridge stays powered on.
What do you mean how often, that is a foundation for the most successful economic model in humans. Some may not be discarded, but they will never get enough credit compared to a clueless head with a $1M smile talking to clueless heads with $1B wallets. We should thank god/nature that people who understand and do things exist in our species at all.
I feel like if you were going to call it "A History of Diss Tracks" you should have talked about Prince Buster and Derrick Morgan. They were ska musicians from Jamaica in the 1960s and as far as I know they are pretty much the origin of exchanging diss tracks in the modern sense.
could be that endurance is good for mating, or unfit suitors can't keep up :)
Early Dart was a significantly worse language even compared to early Typescript. And remained so for a very long time.

Plus what the sibling comment said about Google monopoly.
Whatever addiction, you’ll only get past it by assuming and believing it is under your control, paradoxically. Playing victim is, as very often in life, the opposite of empowering.
Ehm, we humans need a certain amount of blood sugar to survive. Having such a resistant bacteria living in my stomach seems a terrible idea ..
Kokotajlo: “To clarify: I did sign something when I joined the company, so I'm still not completely free to speak (still under confidentiality obligations). But I didn't take on any additional obligations when I left.

Unclear how to value the equity I gave up, but it probably would have been about 85% of my family's net worth at least.

Basically I wanted to retain my ability to criticize the company in the future.“

> but "stop working on your field of research" isn't going to happen.

We’re talking about NDA, obviously no-competes aren’t legal in CA

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kovCotfpTFWFXaxwi/?commentId...
You haven't even clarified!
Wow, never realized Pinterest had 6 petabytes of data. I wonder if they're including images in that. Even billions of rows is usually around 1-2tb, so makes you wonder what they're storing many billions of.
SRED is basically a subsidy for companies that do your SRED paperwork for you, not the company doing the engineering itself. There's a whole industry of this.

No evidence that SRED has done anything ever for actual R&D. I've seen people get SRED for making web pages in JavaScript&HTML. When I had to fill in the SRED stuff it was ridiculous. Someone doing actual innovation would throw their hands up in the air.
> I have tried almost every major non-alcoholic beer in the U.S., and none of them truly taste exactly like beer.

Agreed, but if you drink them exclusively for a few weeks, your taste buds and brain will reframe around them, and it'll cease to be a problem. I did this with Brewdog's Punk AF, and after 2 weeks on that, most non-alcoholic beers triggered my brain's "I'm drinking beer!" response.

It's a lot of work for overpriced soft drinks, and isn't for everyone.

Also, I'm back to drinking real beer again anyway.
Very interesting! Still, I don't know if the Babylonians developed formal proofs in their time (the greeks, in turn, did).
This is distressing in few ways, but the flamethrower capability linked in the article really sent me down a rabbit hole. The marketing team for the flame thrower had some product attrsibutes I found notable:

All of our flamethrowers are made with pride right here in the USA.
(This seems to be on point branding for a consumer-targeted flame thrower )

Lifetime Warranty. Built to last! Enjoy a robust lifetime warranty.
(Is that warranty for the Lifetime of a user of a flamethrower that shoots 30 feet? If so, I am not a ‘flamethrower engineer’ but couldn’t there be defects where that could be circular /self limiting ? )
Whoa. So, on a whim, I got my eyes measured when my wife was picking up her glasses. Very slight astigmatism in my right eye.

And like you say, even though it's a minor abberation, the difference it makes in fatigue is incredible, especially after a day of coding work behind a screen..!

Straight up the best 200 bucks I spent in terms of QOL improvement. Well that and a very nice thick blanket to sleep under.
Tldr the activist put his personal iCloud email as recovery on his activist protonmail account and protonmail had to hand it over.

It seems they can’t share anything else than meta data and whatever data you give them, that would include billing information I suppose.

According to the article they only hand over data from their Email service, so using their VPN in conjunction would be useful to hide some metadata. Unfortunately I think that if one uses the same account for email and vpn the billing information even if only used for the vpn service would be linked to the email and handed over.
> a great feature for when people (inevitably) needed to retract something.

Ah yes. Because that's a significantly more important and more often used feature than actually reading the content
I never experienced a "runner's high" until running barefoot.

Tangentially, I wonder if driving (cars, bikes, etc.) fulfills a mental desire that otherwise isn't met with a sedentary lifestyle?
> Idiocracy

I definitely enjoyed this movie, and it's understandable that people of any era, starting with ancient Greece, enjoy lamenting at how stupid people are becoming. However, as long as videos explaining quantum physics and 4-hour long interviews with historians and engineers are still one of the most popular kinds of content on Youtube, I would suggest that it's not a documentary, at least not yet.
It reminds me of the often optimization story (how we got 2x+ faster by not doing very inefficient things), in this case going 6->3 replicas.

Example: TiDB at a certain time didn't write rows clustered by the primary key on disk (they had a separate index). This is very costly in distributed setups (less costly on single-node setups like PostgreSQL).

There are many such cases in many dbs. Another point lacking in most dbs is the "lsm compaction overhead" you need to do for all replicas when you're not using shared distributed storage.

This optimization can be seen on QuickWit (building/compacting inverted index is even more expensive than LSM compaction).
You are assuming a lot here: as far as I remember, someone proposed a name change, then these accounts came up supporting the change. It's not like people were complaining left and right on the mailing lists, but when the opportunity arose to fix once and for all a problem they had, they spoke in favor.

And in my opinion multiple such accounts coming up are a good reason to proceed with a name change: the problem shows up as a pattern rather than isolated incidents, and a reasonable fix is identified.
That is still incorrect though. You paying taxes does not void their right to privacy. At least that's how it works in Germany.
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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Did exactly that, hacked together a small pipeline in Nushell with simonw/llm. Even with GPT-4 turbo and given direct guidelines on common spam heuristics, it seems to perform worse than a Bayesian BoW. Endless trails of questions with no relation to the title it describes as informative, presence of affiliate links often gets forgotten in a mass of tokens in their tracking parameters, relevance is consistently near 0.8 even if there's relationship between title and content, and as for insincerity, our favorite BS generator cannot for the life of it correctly recognize its own creations.

Your ideas for metrics are good, but LLMs seem to be quite terrible at any of these. A simple set of heuristics and maybe a tiny language model for named entity detection and "vibe checking" would serve you much better.

Also, a lot of the worst offenders seem to use the same Q&A +- conclusion structure, which Viktor from marginalia.nu wrote a simple heuristic for, which I recall he said did wonders for pruning it. Solving SEO spam is easy when you aren't the one being optimized against. What's left is scaling and information retrieval.
not a sleep expert by I think the biggest impact is on deep sleep, not REM
It reminds me of when I used to work in SPARK Ada. On a number of projects where there was no supported Ada target (especially very small devices), it would be converted to C and then compiled for the target. That allowed us to perform the various forms of static analysis in the SPARK land.

It obviously introduced issues around verifying the output or the transpiler, but I think the resulting C code was quite readable and limited in style for verification purposes, and the tools had a high degree of trust.

The SPARK static analysis was only ever a part of the whole verification and validation process and there was plenty of testing and other activities that provides additional levels of trust.

The whole approach seemed to work pretty well.
> OpenAI has a thousand employees and almost unlimited money

You could say the same about Google - and yet they missed the consequences of their own discovery and got behind instead of being leaders. So you need specific talent to pull this off even if in theory you can hire anybody.
I think most apes would fuck you up in direct 1on1 combat without weapons.
Beethoven surely was an interesting character. He often had trouble finding apartments because he was such a difficult neighbor (and it didn't help that he played his piano as loud as possible, so that he could hear it). One time, he was arrested because he was creeping around Wiener Neustadt at night, dressed like a beggar, and peeping into living rooms. Nobody believed he was the famous composer, and a local organist had to be brought in to identify Beethoven. He also fought a long violent legal battle for custody of his nephew Karl after the death of his brother (Beethoven hated his sister-in-law) which lead to a suicide attempt of Karl, and the break-off of all contact. His sister-in-law in turn told the authorities that the "van" in Beethovens surname had nothing to do with nobility (as he seemingly had claimed), but was just a normal surname in in the Flemish region of his ancestors.

What I also find highly fascinating are the entries in his conversation books which document how relatives tried to teach him basic math. It's strange to see that one of greatest composers in human history was unable to grasp multiplication or division.
Do you consider personal a computer with very limited access to its filesystem? It's a content consuming device as it has always been.
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Link to the paper: "Fundamental Groups and the Milnor Conjecture", https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15347

> It was conjectured by Milnor in 1968 that the fundamental group of a complete manifold with nonnegative Ricci curvature is finitely generated. The main result of this paper is a counterexample, which provides an example M7 with Ric ≥ 0 such that π1(M) = Q/Z is infinitely generated.
Jump cuts are awful, but no-one on YouTube seems capable of creating a video without using them. Maybe read from a script instead?
It makes no sense at their scale to store images in Hbase. It's probably just user tracking/analytics.
hi, glad you liked it! thank you!
Raspberry Pi Announces Plans for London Listing in Win for City
> but how do you handle stuff like pebbles etc?

Usually put a grimace on my face in a short moment of pain ;d.

I try to take a route that doesn't have plants with thorns or lot of stones and pebbles. In my area that is not difficult. When it is not possible, or I have some wound on my foot, I wear very thin, flat sandals (could be called "minimalist", but cost like 1/3 of the price of sandals really marketed as such). And I need to look out for vipers, but so far they tend to escape when I approach, and, to be honest, normal running shoes wouldn't help me if I would step on them.

In the city I would definitely be more cautious. When I lived in a town, there was a forest around 20 km away, and I preferred to take a car ride there instead of running though streets. Took more time and planning, and maybe I couldn't run as often as I would like to, but it was much better experience.

As for wounds, at least here in the countryside, so far I didn't catch anything serious. Few splinters or thorns. Nothing that would require seeing a doctor. Definitely it is wise to begin slowly, run much shorter distances, maybe even slower than you are able to. In time your feet become stronger and more resistant. You also notice that you become more aware of the ground and what lies there. This makes it easier to spot and avoid things that could be unpleasant.
Project IDX, Google's next-gen IDE, is now in open beta
nothing in this says they used an LLM