skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malloy is great. Why do you think it is not taking off if it is a clear significant improvement on SQL and even compiles to it?
But when under suspicion years later, and there's no record of you buying groceries for the past three years with your cards, or spending massively less than you should have, and no records of ATM cash withdrawals, it's painting a pretty clear picture of you spending money that you didn't earn.

Your best bet might be pretending to become an artist and then selling paintings for cash at art shows, and then reporting said income and getting taxed on it. But these frequent large cash deposits trigger mandatory reporting by your bank, and if done frequently enough for a large enough amount of money, you might get people asking you questions
Can you explain it with reasoning?

The explanation without is that the LLM takes the prompt text, applies a math formula to produce the next token, iterates that function to get a set of tokens, and returns the response. Where is there reasoning?

If that is sufficient for reasoning, is my calculator reasoning when I input 2+2 and it returns 4?
Ask HN: Anyone from Telnyx here to help? I've been banned for dev cycle
I signed up with Telnyx Thursday, bought an SMS number, loaded up $10.

During development of a simple chat feature, I was banned on Friday due to suspicious activity. I was only texting myself and my cofounder, and there was a bug in the code that sent 10 SMS messages to my number in a short time frame.

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review this activity.

I called their number to ask what's up and they said they can't do/say anything about my case. Is there anyone on HN that can help? Why have these companies become so bad with their support?
Absolutely. It's the would you rather live in the ugly or beautiful house on the block dilemma. By maintaining the beautiful house, you assume a public responsibility - with all the tall poppy syndrome effects that may entail.
To be fair, thinking that would be completely fair for an English speaker being exposed to spoken Japanese, with how much more common homophones are in it compared to English.
That's workable for many situations which only require data "storage", but the moment when you require cloud-side data "processing" too, the situation changes.

I would agree that if you have no use-case for cloud-side data processing, then the cloud doesn't need the encryption keys; however there are a lot of use-cases for data for which processing is highly advantageous.

For example, if you just want to store data in the cloud, sure, use client-side encryption. But what if you want to query it with, using an S3 example, S3 Select or Athena or load it into a data lake? There are a lot of things one might do. It's useful to be able to query data from within the cloud – without having to transfer it out and separately decrypt it.

This use-case is likely one of the primary reasons why customers are willing to trust cloud providers to manage the keys too – for many data sets, though not all. And that's what technologies like cloud KMS are good for. Access to the actual keys is tightly limited within the cloud provider, both among employees and technologically, and not even other cloud services are capable of accessing them (either accessing the keys or encrypting/decrypting using them) unless you grant them explicit permission, with internal technology that enforces this.

Maybe you didn't intend on using "new fancy foo service" to process your stored data yesterday, but today it sounds good, so you can alter an access control grant and allow it to interact with your existing stored data and the necessary encryption keys. Maybe every time some new data arrives in S3, you want to process that data with Lambda and synchronize it with another system. Then it's helpful if you can grant Lambda permissions to decrypt the data so that it can process it :-)

Generic server-side encryption does do something: it protects against threats that exist at the data center layer, such as certain attacks through lower layers of infrastructure that don't necessarily involve a full compromise of the machines involved, or inappropriate disposal of old storage devices, mistakes by employees, etc. It protects against some insider attacks, just not those by capable administrators.
How come their weather balloons don't run afoul of local flight regulations?
I'm not sure where the line is, but at some point things like temperature a
matter and so a low % resister cannot be high % that passes tests.
Rails on Hetzner with Kamal [video]
I am getting a "Page Not Found" error on this link
I don't like FizzBuzz because it over-weights the interviewees knowledge of the relatively obscure modulo operator. Yes, there are other ways to do it, but the expectation of FizzBuzz is that the candidate has that "Eureka" moment and remembers modulo.

If I need a "Non-Programmer Weed Out" question, I'd rather give a problem that is 1. as easy as FizzBuzz, but 2. is just 'if' statements and loops and cannot be solved by knowledge of a particular operator (or bit twiddling tricks).
Within 2 years, 90% of organizations will suffer a critical tech skills shortage
FYI your security certs are misconfigured and my ISP won't even let me visit your create.shortbread.ai subdomain.

Might want to get that fixed!
There's a difference between doing your job and earning money as a result vs. finding keys to someone's house and selling said keys to the highest bidder.
Most of a tree is CO₂ that the plant has taken out of thin air.

This only clicked for me when I started wondering why you never have to refill the soil for a houseplant even when it grows.
I want to know why there hasn’t been much innovation in the less-sexy parts of ISO SQL. My go-to for this is to point-out how SQL-92 defined the same small set of constraints that we have today (PK, FK, UNIQUE, CHECK, and that’s pretty-much it).

It’s been 30+ years and the expressiveness of SQL DDL constraints for data-modelling is completely unchanged. So far, only Postgres has extended it with EXCLUDE constraints; what I’d love to have is a “Non-unique foreign key” constraint and its inverse: a “NOT EXISTS” constraint - these alone would go far.

Another huge need is for safe-and-sound data-structure invariants - it’s almost impossible to correctly store a linked-list on a table without running until concurrency issues.
I use to say that you have learned SQL the moment you forgot everything about C/C++.

Imperative programming is a strong habit to kick. You just have to let go. And once you have you will see things from a very different perspective.

Also in other programming you'll start seeing the map/fold/groupby/dict patterns everywhere.
Job openings fall to lowest level since February 2021
Try calculating how much heavier the filter must become every day to make a difference
Marines fielding new light assault weapon with reduced backblast
I was searching something for a web page preservation and also considered Safari web-archives, but decided this is a “no go” for me because of private format which is basically a vendor lock. Thus I ended up with a Chrome extension named SingleFile which does a pretty decent job by saving the whole page (or its part) as a single self sufficient html file viewable by any browser. Also html files are easily indexed by Spotlight or other search engines. The extension has no command line though but personally I don’t need that.
Playing cards in some parts of Europe have alternate suit symbols. Spain and Portugal use clubs, swords, coins and cups. My favorite aspect of this deck is that the clubs symbol is an actual club weapon instead of the usual clover.
There’s also recutils for those that have simpler data storage needs.
Russian forces weren't invading until Feb 24.

Are you sure about that?
I’d say my religious upbringing was a positive experience actually, to the point that today I wish I was able to believe in it. My brushes with evangelical Christianity however are what initially caused me to question the whole thing - it’s hard to believe that they believe in what they say when their actions are so in contradiction with the words in their religious texts. That this was so apparent to a seven-year-old me is quite an indictment and I think explains a lot of the recent secularization of the US.

I do have a possible surgery that may relieve the pain at some point and I think that that hope may be about the closest thing I have to religion these days.
The Bucket/Bouquet conundrum
Instead of scrubbing CO2, just adding the other important components like N2 & O2 to reduce the percent of CO2 in the air would probably be easier
House lawmakers propose $1.3B for Pentagon innovation
You've solved the problem with an incorrect assumption. You have assumed that the ideal situation is to use all of the chips in your collection. A better solution is to ask, what is the most playable breakdown for the poker games I am playing. If I am playing 25c/50c no limit hold'em with 8 players... and a typical buy-in of $20 per player... as an experienced poker host at these limits, I maintain that the ideal breakdown is:
12x 25c
12x $1
1x $5

If you have a set with 100x of white, blue, red, green, etc... your total number of chips used for 8 players is:
96x white (25c)
96x blue ($1)
8x red ($5)

If players lose all of their chips... they can re-buy with $5 (red) chips and make change from the players that have all of the lower denomination chips.

What I have proposed above is a proper solution if you want to play poker.
The CCP hardly qualifies as communist,
I've been building SQL tutorials against my Datasette web UI for SQLite as a solution for getting people started without having to install anything: https://datasette.io/tutorials/learn-sql
Key detail:

> The first step is potentially changing the way data is assimilated into AI-based models. At present, they almost universally use a set of initial conditions produced by a physics model. That is, a model like the ECMWF spends an enormous amount of computing power to collect data from buoys, surface stations, weather balloons, airplanes, ships, satellites, and many other sources and then synthesizes a set of initial conditions for grid points across the planet. All models then take this as the beginning "state" of the planet's weather and forecast from that.

So this is essentially learning the time-stepping part of the physical model, not deriving predictions from raw data. While still interesting and probably still complex, this is far less impressive than the title lead me to believe.
The main issue with this is that you lose text reflowing, so it's more annoying to access on mobile. You also lose interactivity; I've seen links and menus implemented with JavaScript break.
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NOTAMs are issued for every weather baloon.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/notam_ht...
> The general advice knowing nothing about you is to get the flue shot. A doctor looking at you can tell if your BMI is over 40...

The general advice should be for people that are otherwise healthy, or be very specific about the risk factors being considered for the average case. Someone with a a BMI of 40 should be worrying over a whole lot of other things beyond the flu, and conversely it makes no sense to advise overall healthy people to be taking any type of drugs just because the risk is not that high.

Granted, this calculus changes with infectious diseases with high fatality rates. This is why it's absolutely sensible to recommend everyone to be vaccinated for measles (1-2% IFR) and polio (5% IFR for kids, 20+% IFR for teenagers), but questionable to apply the same logic to something like influenza which is 100 to 1000 less fatal (0.01% IFR) and when fatality rate is highly concentrated (75%) on 65+ people.
I don't have any equipment to calibrate it or measure it's calibration against. However, when I leave the windows open for extended periods of time, the CO2 levels hit levels that are within 50ppm of [0]. (I live in a different city from this station, with different population density, traffic patterns and all sorts of other micro-climate stuff that can contribute to a baseline difference. Additionally, CO2 levels swing by several hundred ppm when the air quality goes bad, and the ~50ppm range is insignificant in comparison)

It seems good enough for how I use it. I wouldn't conduct chemistry experiments using this as an instrument.

[0] https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/monthly.html
ChatGPT Is at Capacity Right Now
Offtopic, but there's an interesting parallel between making a mistake like that and AI hallucination. In a human, that behavior is a positive signal, but for many people, that same behavior is proof of how LLMs are just a toy that will never rival human intelligence.
Yeha, I guess it wouldn't be a lifetime supply so much as a "getting an extra box or two of cereal every trip to the grocery store", since you'd still want to pay mostly with your regular income. Overall, probably a bad idea to accept the money regardless.
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/what-happened-after-i-stop...
Seems bad for Snowflake? Iceberg is a big part of Snowflake's data lake offering, and I assumed it was a Snowflake-originated OSS project until this announcement (all Snowflake products have snow related names).
You could always try https://github.com/microsoft/tui-test too. It could still use some more polishing on my part though
> SQL is not modular, most features are highly context-dependent...

Examples?

> SQL might be OK for trivial things, as in OLTP...

What is the threshold for triviality? I've seen understandable fairly complex queries, but they're not mind-twisters by any means; if you know what you need, and understand your data, >>and are not a layperson regarding databases<< it's doable without much sweat.

> But anything even slightly more advanced is ... not nice

Again, what is the threshold, or at least what is your threshold, for triviality vs. non-trivial?

You say it's "unique in its uselessness" but "the underlying relational algebra model is brilliant", can you explain a bit further what you mean by that?
If you can measure them with that precision, would it make sense to sell them with that accuracy too? So if you tried to manufacture a resistor at 68kΩ +/- 20%, and it actually ended up at 66kΩ +/- 1%, couldn't you now sell it as an E192 product which according to TFA are more expensive?

Selling with different tolerances only makes sense to me if the product can't be reliably measured to have a tighter tolerance, perhaps if the low- quality ones are expected to vary over their life or if it's too expensive to test each one individually and you have to rely on sampling the manufacturing process to guess what the tolerances in each batch should be.
Would be awesome for ui testing.
If values are normally distributed, random errors accumulate with the square root of the number of components. Four components in series have 2x the uncertainty over all, etc, but if you divide that double uncertainty by four times the resistance, it's half the percentage uncertainty as before. (I avoid using the word "tolerance" because someone will argue whether it really works this way)

In reality, some manufacturers may measure some components, and the ones within 1% get labeled as 1%, then it may be that when you're buying 5% components that all of them are at least 1% off, and the math goes out the window since it isn't a normal distribution.
Ayn Rand's Howard Roark wasn't just some invention in her head. Architects were listening to FLW and other movements like Bauhaus. Even if those visions were different, young architects thought of themselves as leaders in change and you don't get that clinging to the old.

FLW wanted to use new tech to build new forms, others wanted to use it to focus on function. A clash that didn't didn't necessarily conform with the general populations or Schopenhauer's views of the sublime.
The latter would be an axiom. A disproof would be a proof that there is no proof, so if you’d proven that no proof exists one way or the other then you’ve proven it can’t be disproven _or_ proven.

Which means you’ve hit a branch in mathematics. You can assume it to be either true or false, and you’ll get new results based on that; both branches are equally valid.
This comment is correct. This seems like it might have been programmed by someone who has never played poker, or not in a home game. You don't want people to have 112 white chips, no matter how many are in the box.
«Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence», seems to apply here.
You might enjoy this video:
_Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire (LITERALLY ME! INCELS INTERLINKED)_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtLvtMqWNz8
This is counterintuitive if you factor in GenAI.
I don't understand how this reply is on-topic for Servo, apologies.
Loyalty thrives in an environment of mutual respect and benefit.
Good means it gets the job done in a fairly logical and readable way. SQL queries are not giant programs and shouldn't be. I've written some very advanced queries with plenty of common table expressions, subselects, etc. Could it be more modular? Sure. Could the syntax be better? Yes. But would that radically change how queries are written? Not really.

The worst SQL I've ever seen is when someone attempts to program it imperatively. It takes a different mentality to write SQL then to write imperative code.
How does any of GRRM's ASOIAF make realistic sense then?
I initially glossed over this believing it may be something trivial, but it really is a deeper XSS concern.

It feels weird me to dismiss as wontfix a security issue that gives the archived page far greater access to browser data than it has loaded at its original URL.

> Last updated at Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:26:37 GMT

> tldr: For now, don't open .webarchive files, and check the Metasploit module, Apple Safari .webarchive File Format UXSS

> Safari's webarchive format saves all the resources in a web page - images, scripts, stylesheets - into a single file. A flaw exists in the security model behind webarchives that allows us to execute script in the context of any domain (a Universal Cross-site Scripting bug). In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must somehow deliver the webarchive file to the victim and have the victim manually open it ^1 (e.g. through email or a forced download), after ignoring a potential "this content was downloaded from a webpage" warning message ^2.

Just look at the number of (relatively trivial) attack vectors identified by the author in this post:

> Attack Vector #1: Steal the user's cookies.

> Attack Vector #2: Steal CSRF tokens.

> Attack Vector #3: Steal local files.

> Attack Vector #4: Steal saved form passwords.

> Attack Vector #5: Store poisoned javascript in the user's cache.

https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/2013/04/25/abusing-safaris-...
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I totally didn't realize this until these comments. Neat!

I went digging in wikipedia.. the Backpropagation article was created in 2005 and yet the mention of association/derivation from the chain rule wasn't mentioned until 2014, through a borrow from the German article

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Backpropagation&o...
Yes. The floats in [0,1) come in blocks: [1/2, 1), [1/4, 1/2), [1/8, 1/4), etc. There are 2^23 floats in each block and there are 127 blocks. The reason there are so many floats in [0, 0.5] is only one block, [1/2, 1), is outside that range. If you exclude the denormals (which have a special block that stretches to 0, [0, 1/2^126)), you still just excluded a single block.
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust Microsoft hasn't earned
Didn't read, but right off the bat i'm skeptical of an article titled "How to Make a Great Government Website" that doesnt mention gov.uk
do geometric sequences care about the base?
This so much.

Elon's huge personality was great for Tesla in the early-mid days. He had a way of making headlines that made Tesla a household name without having a marketing department.

But these days, he's absolutely toxic for the long-term success of the company. His firing of the entire Supercharger team right when all the other manufacturers were adopting NACS is nothing short of lunacy.

Then there's the pushing of unpopular things like removing the stalks on the steering wheel in favor of touch-sensitive buttons on the steering wheel for turn signals and swiping on the center screen to switch between Park/Reverse/Drive, not to mention the entire debacle of the Cybertruck.

What worries me the most is that Tesla's Musk-led implosion will make other manufacturers see it as some sort of proof that EVs aren't viable and cancel their developments.

Elon needs to go. He's become poison, killing everything he touches.
If you prefer video format, the author, former OpenAI superalignment team, also just had an interview with Dwarkesh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdbVtZIn9IM
WebScrapbook is also worth a look. I find that I like it slightly better than SingleFile for creating copies that are not packaged as single files. This lets me hard link identical asset files to save space.
The warring conmen at the heart of a €5B carbon trading scam
Apparently, someone solved it and achieved an 1187:1 compression ratio. These are the results:

All recordings were successfully compressed.
Original size (bytes): 146,800,526
Compressed size (bytes): 123,624
Compression ratio: 1187.47

The eval.sh script was downloaded, and the files were decode and encode without loss, as verified using the "diff" function.

What do you think? Is this true?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neuralink-compression-challen...
context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hsQ6zbKIo
Accountable signals are going to be much more valuable than unaccountable noise.
I'd imagine this started years ago?
I work in a company with thousands of tech folks, and we have a huge skill shortage.
If skills shortage is so prevalent then why is the job market in the toilet?
At the end of the foreword, Kinbote says:

> Let me state that without my notes Shade's text simply has no human reality at all, since the human reality of such a poem as his ... has to depend entirely on the reality of its author and his surroundings, attachments and so forth, a reality that only my notes can provide. To this statement my dear poet would probably not have subscribed, but, for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Final exam questions:

1. To what extent did Nabokov agree or disagree with this approach to literary criticism?

2. Did Nabokov personally identify more with Shade or with Kinbote?
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