skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...which is a concept nearly anyone working in IT understands.

I don't think the vast majority of people with IT/ops experience seriously thinks that encryption at rest provides data protection from people getting unauthorized access to the system, in person or remotely...aside from maybe management that ended up in charge of IT and engineering departments without almost any practical-skills background in either.

The author is confusing "it costs us nothing (now that encryption can be done in hardware and is integrated into most desktop operating systems) and protects in some scenarios, so yeah, we just decided to mandate it always be done" with "PEOPLE THINK ENCRYPTION AT REST IS A MAGIC BULLET LOOK AT ME I'M INSIGHTFUL, POST LINKS TO MY BLOG ON LINKEDIN!"

The whole post is insulting to the intelligence of even a fairly junior desktop support technician.
How do you know this (and can explain it so well)? Next level insights these. Thank you.
It often doesn't and a lot of historians are very aware of this. The wars of ASOIAF are brutal affairs which make no sense. The idea of total war didn't become a thing until much later on. This is just one example. Bret Devereaux talks about this on his blog [1] and other historians have stuff to say also.

P.S. The comments on this thread are a tire fire. I feel like I'm reading random Twitter drive-by comments oh boy.

[1]: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/28/new-acquisitions-not-how-it-wa...
I think preventing people from having that incentive vs an actual threat are not the same, which is how I read the hypothetical.
Haha the new guy halfway through looks exactly like a white version of Regé-Jean Page (Simon Basset) from Bridgerton
I've used this example when teaching students about models used for predictive power vs. models used to better understand mechanisms:

You have a model that predicts with great accuracy that rowdy teens will TP your house this Friday night, so you sit up late waiting to scare them off.

You have a model with less predictive power, but more discernible parameters. It tells you the parameter for whether or not houses have their front lights turned on has a high impact on likelihood of TP. You turn your front lights on and go to bed early.

Sometimes we want models that produce highly accurate predictions, sometimes we want models that provide mechanistic insights that allow for other types of action. They're different simplifications/abstractions of reality that have their time and place, and can lead you astray in their own ways.
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If I am being honest, a living. No project comes to my mind at all. Just that I want to work. I love coding, can spend hours on it. If someone ask me to make something, I am all up for it. But nothing comes to my mind on my own. It's just plain numb at this point. A project that I have started working on is a scraper that will have Google Sheets integration and then I will use it make insights + some other plans of scaling this project.
There's an article about this stuff in The MagPi this month [0] -- and about a Stable Diffusion model trained only on truly Public Domain images.

I don't think the Foundation are asleep on the idea people will want to do this, but they clearly want to focus on ethical AI stuff, which is the right call if you ask me.

[0] Edit: last month, so the free PDF is available now:

https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/issues/141
It's a preview link that adapts to your phone screen. Our artists use this link to render the content in realtime as they create. Published stuff goes through a microservice and is standardized.
absolutely. the standard of living is in decline: there are now fewer new cars sold per capita than decades past.
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Its HTTP not HTTPS, anyone or anything on the wire could see the request
Indeed, the people I know who read them are often heavily invested in the art quality and the creator themselves.
This correlates with my recent experience trying the SWE job market (in the U.S.)

Only offer I got was a lowball. Received a surprising number of rejections on technical interviews. 3-4 rounds is common. The bar today is set significantly higher than it was in past job searches.

Most teams where I work are only hiring for staff and occasionally senior. Overall - not a candidates' market.
These sometimes end up being useful in UI/graphics work too. And the math/code is dead simple! https://gist.github.com/tshddx/8341d1bdbe2f83ed4e2c26bc48faf...
Oh, no disagreement. "Practical" really means "practical for math things where you want to guarantee correctness, not just have extremely high confidence". I can't think of any normal use of primes that needs something past what you can do with a bunch of M-R tests.

But we _do_ use a lot of computational power to verify finding particularly interesting primes, etc., so I maintain that it'd be a nice thing to have in our pocket. You never know when you'll find yourself on a deserted island with a powerful computer and need to deterministically prove the primality of a large number. ;)
A countries main assets, beside land, is the attention of their citizens.

Like my attention has a monetary value to meta (eg. To expose me for ads), equally so has all the attention of the citizens of a country.

This is just the new generation of protectionism and toll.
Any good easily digestible sources on this topic?
It seems like a very straightforward, reasonable prediction on this story is that he's preferencing the companies he thinks he has a future with away from a company he might soon leave and if that's the case, I'm long on popcorn.
>> But 80 is within 20% of 70 so we're fine ;)

So are the 68 Ohm and 75 Ohm.
"Locations to be determined", but when I worked there it was mostly Mountain View. I believe they've shut down most (all?) of their offices, though, so I'm not sure if they have a physical presence anywhere.
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Record voice memo and transcribe them into text (thanks to the IA)

Please review the copy.
Can it then still be used for commercial purposes?
Is this what passes for discussion on HackerNews these days?
I mean, the first "slashfic" (smut fiction starring two popular characters) was Kirk/Spock slashfic written in the 1960s by a woman. The majority of writers on AO3 are women or enbies.
To summarize Intel's reasoning, the extra hardware (and I guess associated firmware or whatever it'd be called) required to manage hyperthreading in their P-cores takes up package space and power, meaning the core can't boost as high.

And since hyperthreading only increases IPC by 30% (according to Intel), they're planning on making up the loss of threads with more E-cores.

But we'll have to see how that turns out, especially since Intel's first chiplet design (the Core Ultra series 1) had performance degradations compared to their 13th Gen mobile counterparts
But ISPs DON'T patch routers. Plenty of spectrum modems still run a decade old firmware
I did actually. Not the code but how to proceed. As in a senior might guide a junior developer at job. But it forgets what we were doing within 24 hours because I am using Snapchat's AI (which is ChatGPT)
Edison was really enormously promising, but it sort of only existed as a reactionary product in that whole ed-tech/maker bubble that blew up and then shrank a few years back.
>hopefully this fad will die out soon

Are you talking about ChatGPT? That seems pretty delusional.
The requirement for a domain name makes this worse than Nostr.
It's a fake "solution" that doesn't solve the problem.

Nuclear is a real solution that solves the problem. It's the only solution that does with current technology.
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One way to have tighter integration between the database and the application logic is to abandon the application code altogether. Express the application logic right in the database using (custom) data types, domains, defaults, constraints, views, triggers, and procedures. Then you can delete much or all of the "application tier", delete the ORM, and simplify the entire stack. That's one way to avoid having "the database [feel] very separate from the rest of the project."
From a modeling point of view it likely has order of magnitude of order of magnitude of too many parameters to be a "good" physics model.

The standard model is considered to have too many free variables and those are few enough that you can memorize and describe them all.
The thing that's blowing my mind here is that this standard was adopted as ISO 3. It reminds me of the Simpsons joke that Mr. Burns' social security number is 000-00-0002.
I replied to your other post in this chain, but felt like adding:

Does a bad mechanic leave you in physical pain and have the potential to leave you suffering worse than before you arrived?

Can you avoid the problem of a bad doctor by just getting a new body?

Remember that the origin of this discussion is in many doctors not believing a woman despite reasonable evidence to the contrary.

Nobody would be outraged if they still were broadly and even justifiably wary but put in ANY effort at all to attempt to at least humor the possibility she wasn't an alcoholic, especially after passing psych screening tests, however primitive.

And sure, she could have gone to doctors other than ER doctors, but that is why I mentioned my own experiences that it isn't very different with (at least some) specialists.

Going a bit back to the mechanic analogy, it's hard for people who are busy and suffering to make extremely well thought out and slow decisions in that state, especially if there's sometimes enough improvement they can seemingly be recovered.
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That's what SPARC and Power architectures do now, with 8 threads per core.

The only issues with these architectures is that they are priced as "high-end server stuff" while x64 is priced like a commodity.
Herbie: Optimize Floating-Point Expressions
> for women

What a wild thing to say, you should reconsider that one
Well therein lies my confusion; why did their competitors get 10 years into making a competing API, and then give up?

If the reason that OpenCL died is because Apple decided that they'd rather draw blood than work with the community, then yeah, this is a well-deserved failure on their part. Even Nvidia was willing to contribute to OpenCL; the only thing stopping us from living in a CUDA-agnostic world is the pointless and childish aggression between device manufacturers.

It feels less like we're slowly realizing things, and more like the persistent failure of Nvidia's competitors is forcing them back to the negotiations table. It's pathetic that American businesses are this willing to throw each other under the bus before they consider working together for the common good.
CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening gap with the workers they oversee
Does curiosity make you read more hard news?
Causality is the other way—the job market being in the toilet is causing the skills shortage. Why don't companies staff up, then?

Yeah, good question. I think they're trying to see how long they can ride along on "what we've got now is good enough" and then when they've find out they can't, it's going to hurt.
Yes, sorry, 14 miles (a wishful typo!)
Google Contractor Used Admin Access to Leak Info from Private Nintendo Video
Lot's of hacking attempts on this page

https://www.wikisky.org/ui_index.jsp?locale=EN
> I don't see anything at all that contradicts the idea of the Shire as an idyllic anarchic/collectivist society.

The Shire is both an "anarchic" society (what government exists is extremely weak and has little impact) and a class society with a definite social hierarchy, which does play a strong role in organizing people's lives. The social hierarchy is not a government, but that doesn't mean it's weak and that people just do whatever they feel like without regard to it.

> resources are plentiful and everybody is afforded a lot of leisure

It's not at all clear that this is true of the Shire. Wealthy bachelors like Bilbo and Frodo, or heirs of wealthy families like Merry and Pippin, seem to have a lot of leisure, yes, but what about Sam? He clearly has plenty of work to do, as did his father before him. So do the other hobbits of their own class that they interact with. The hobbits that gather at the Green Dragon of an evening do so after a day's work; they don't idle there all day.

> This is the last holdout in a world being corrupted by lust for power and greed

While "corrupted by lust for power and greed" is certainly true of Saruman and the ruffians he gets to infiltrate the Shire, it's not at all clear that it's true of, say, Gondor. Even Denethor in Gondor, while he comes to a bad end, does not do so out of "lust for power and greed". He does so out of his despair, based on what Sauron shows him through the palantir, that he is doomed to fail in his life's task of preserving Gondor. But Gondor as a whole does not despair, nor does it go to the other extreme and use the Ring against Sauron--which, as Tolkien himself pointed out (and had several characters point out in the course of the story), is what would have happened if "lust for power and greed" had been the primary motivator.
But it's not... it's just ML rebranded.

It's impressive, but these days mostly hype
I share the authors view that if things align and compound we are in for a very wild ride.
However, I feel the bull case is over emphasized.

Not all likely "walls" are sufficiently discussed, some that I think about:

- will AI blow past human general intelligence or level off? (because of diminishing returns and "weak" human teachers)

- can AI really achieve online learning (economically)? the current architecture can't (just shoving things into large context windows doesn't seem to be enough)

- do we as a society tolerate this rapid change or will there be interventions? (protest because people don't want to lose their jobs)
Thank you for your suggestion. I will actually look into it. I found other bootcamps like this before but they weren't affordable to me.
I think the atrocious housing marking is definitely to blame here. I would love to move closer to work but I'm not giving up my 2% 15y fixed and the housing market is such that I don't feel comfortable financing a 2nd purchase (and rent out the original).

So we stay, I do hybrid/flex and only come in about half the time.
sure. How effective is faith/placebo at curing those conditions I wonder?
ARM's next-gen CPU and GPU cores are faster, more efficient
There are more people in the world, I've been born when population was 5 billion and something, now we're at 8. City centers or good locations remain the same and don't magically expand or spawn out of blue, what is growing is mostly less interesting stuff due to distance to good stuff. You would have to battle hard, really hard, to just counter this force in economy.

This ignores massive push for people moving due to work, so in better places there is exponentially more interested people than space available. Just look at SF or NY is we talk about US.

Plus add strong emotions, most world population simply wants to live in their own, renting is frowned upon, despite ie Switzerland having very low home ownership, population is one of happiest globally and nobody here bats an eye, there are more important matters in our short lives to focus on than gathering as many available resources in some rat races.
> The author is confusing "it costs us nothing (now that encryption can be done in hardware and is integrated into most desktop operating systems) and protects in some scenarios, so yeah, we just decided to mandate it always be done" with "PEOPLE THINK ENCRYPTION AT REST IS A MAGIC BULLET LOOK AT ME I'M INSIGHTFUL, POST LINKS TO MY BLOG ON LINKEDIN!"

What in the article gave you that impression?

I do not hold this confusion in my mind, nor did I deliberately encode such a statement in my blog. I'm curious why you think this is what I was saying.

> The whole post is insulting to the intelligence of even a fairly junior desktop support technician.

If that was true, every time someone posts "Show HN: My Hot New Database Encryption Library in Haskell", they would be mitigating the confused deputy attack by design, rather than what we see today: Namely, failing to even protect against padding oracle attacks.

That's what the article was actually talking about.
I trust Microsoft to not send photos/videos of user activity back to home base. Seems like a lot of bandwidth.

What I imagine will happen is the Recall feature will send summaries of user activity back to Microsoft. That way, it's "anonymized" and somehow legal
Why not when you feel the opposite about "faith healing"?
The Not-So-Secret Language of Financial Scammers
On the subject of Encryption ar Rest:

On AWS RDS, you can't turn off encryption once you turn it on.

The encryption secret keys always stay with AWS and all you can download are the public keys.

So I'm not so sure what's the point of encryption at rest in AWS except just to tick off a compliance and regulatory checklist.

The private key is with them anyway, just don't encrypt and save few milliwatts of power.
Yes -- the weekly releases have been really promising. The TNP mitigation is not yet bug-free but I think next week's weekly will have fixes for a few bits.

The most striking thing is that there's experimental support for multiple separate solids in Part Design. RealThunder's experimental version has had this for a good while but I wasn't expecting it to be user-facing in 1.0, because so much of his work has needed refactoring to fit.
Thank you. I cannot thank everyone commenting on this post enough. I really needed this support.
> focus on function

Great point. The "form follows function" mantra was taken to it's logical conclusion. And since beauty has no function[1], it ceased to exist.

1. Other than intangible enjoyment.
I think subqueries are a useful feature that doesn't get taught often to beginners. Using subqueries it's much easier to think clearly and intuitively. Even imperative programmers who don't have a ton of functional programming experience still understand nested function calls `f(g(h()))`. With this you don't even have to know when the different parts of a SELECT are applied, and you don't even have to know things like HAVING.
All of this is true.

"Being ok for trivial things... that programmers tend to work" with is precisely why SQL has won over the years. SQL has never been a great general-purpose language, but is fantastic at the things programmers tend to work with. That SQL (and associated databases) keeps getting extended to meet new data storage/retrieval problems has really helped SQL stick with us.
Sorry for the notification issues. Not intended like this - will fix now!
> Only offer I got was a lowball.

Maybe expectations are unreasonable?

I a high interest environment we will see more compression. Ie. Fewer multiples between the lowest paid people and the highest paid people (median for a role).
Honestly for OLAP use cases, I think dataframe apis are superior.
https://archive.is/tyFQn
I tried DOMpdf and it's variations but the problem was that they didn't support modern css, worse Tailwind, I used a laravel lilbrary, spatie/laravel-pdf, it use puppeteer and a chromium instance to take screenshots of a rendered html page
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> The TPU is basically an ASIC as far as I know; it competes against CUDA in a very small subset of it's featureset. CUDA is essentially a composition layer on top of multiple GPU features that optimizes them for general-purpose compute.

my understanding is that compilers can compile some straighforward JAX, TF, Pytorch programs to both Cuda and TPU, so they in direct competition in current hot topics (LLM, deep learning).
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Wow, those examples are way better than I was expecting! Consistent characters, nice lettering, coherent (if uninspired) plots. Nice work!

I think you'd be well served by improving your site a bit, which currently gives serious "low-effort AI" vibes.

Examples are sorely needed, as out-of-context screenshots do not do justice to what you're creating. I'm not going to download an app just to figure out if I'm interested!

Also, it sounds like the real value you're providing is in the Shortbread AI Comics Studio, so I'm confused why there doesn't seem to be any focus on that.
> Lobby groups representing cable, telecom, and mobile Internet service providers sued the FCC in several US appeals courts last week. Industry groups also filed a petition with the FCC on Friday asking for a stay of the rules, claiming the regulations shouldn't take effect while litigation is pending because the industry is likely to prevail in court.

> If the industry loses at the appeals-court level again, lobby groups would seek review at the Supreme Court. Their hopes depend partly on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who argued in a 2017 dissent as a circuit court judge that the "net neutrality rule is unlawful and must be vacated" because "Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule."

As I predicited six months ago that the US Supreme Court is going to have to get involved to settle this matter one way or another: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38224394

Also from paulddraper at the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225342
I was planning on this. Just didn't know how because of this loop. Money doesn't matter to me. It only matters when I actually have to spend for the job (like moving to a different city)
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As you identify in the second paragraph, it is not true to say that “you don’t know what you don’t know.” There are indeed things that you do know that you don’t know. I know I don’t know how to fly a plane.

Basically I am complaining that you choose to rephrase a perfectly good description of a problem (with a lot of history) into an incorrect statement.

So it would be more accurate to say that “there are some things that I don’t know that I don’t know.” However, “unknown unknowns” and “known unknowns” are more succinct. And, thanks to that idiot Rumsfeld, more commonly understood.
S. by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams is a book called Ship of Theseus with hand-written back and forth marginal notes from two college students who take turns borrowing it from a library. It comes with loose pieces of literature stuck in the pages. It's not on the literary level of Pale Fire or anything but it was definitely enjoyable.
I’m reading this more like “New York Times reporter discovers used electric vehicles exist, cost less than new ones.”

Used EVs have been affordable for years. In fact, cars like the Nissan Leaf have depreciated so quickly that they’re a downright bargain (as long as your use case lines up with the limited range).