skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy you're responding to can be seen routinely interjecting with these kinds of unfounded assertions that LLMs can't reason everywhere LLMs are discussed. He can't help himself it seems. You'd think he'd engage with the responses he receives, maybe down-weight his convictions through exposure to reasonable arguments, but nope.

An LLM would have the wherewithal to consider the possibility they're wrong, or to be agnostic in their beliefs until we ourselves understand better what it means to reason.
It'll be the other way around I expect. Recall will provide more context to CoPilot.

It's not really about looking back at your own activity in case you forgot. But the AI will use it to learn about your habits, wants and hates, interests, people you deal with, usual schedule etc.

An assistant is after all much more effective if it knows you through and through. The one problem is: I don't want Microsoft to be that assistant and know all that about me. Even if "it's all local". They still control what gets done with that info and can change it at any time.
But Satya got the stock price so high!
I've been a Windows user since 3.1, but this was the straw for me. They have always provided an OS that just worked for my home needs, even with the creeping privacy invasions in the last update.

I've been dual booting for a while and last weekend I went full Linux at home. My day job revolves around being truly good at solving Windows issues, and I will happily continue doing that, but at home I'm still just liking for something that "just works" I hope I'm part of a trend, and that 2024 is the year of the....
It does seem to be very similar in spirit and implementation:

> PerSourceNetBlockSize
> Specifies the number of bits of source address that are grouped together for the purposes of applying PerSourceMaxStartups limits. Values for IPv4 and optionally IPv6 may be specified, separated by a colon. The default is 32:128, which means each address is considered individually.

Just like fail2ban, this seems like it can be equal parts helpful, a false sense of security, and a giant footgun.

For example, allowing n invalid login attempts per time interval and (v4) /24 is not a big problem for botnet-based brute force attacks, while it's very easy for somebody to get unintentionally locked out when connecting from behind a CG-NAT.
Tom7 is my favorite content creator. Each of his projects feels like a ~master’s thesis~ video dissertation. If you are not familiar with his work, please take some time to watch his other videos. They are all outstanding so I won’t recommend any specific one.

Tom7, if you’re out there (here), thank you for the free education and entertainment. You are an inspiration!
> Does the energy you put into the system just go puff?

Yes, actually. The most common example of this is drivetrain power loss, which EVs are not immune to. Tesla engineers have stated that they are ~15% which is about the same as with ICE vehicles.
I think a way to connect these different systems as a homogenous system is the difficult part.
absolutely cool stuff!

if we hackers have an aesthetic, it’s ascii and demo scene. truly beautiful things we can be proud of
A blog documenting my journey to learn algo trading: https://learningquant.com

And a basic web app that converts HEX codes to Tailwind colors: https://hextotailwind.com
This seems to be a feature that execs wanted, and people find creepy, and no one has the gumption to push back on the exec request.
I think that’s flawed analysis, if you’re running FaaS then sure you can fail to see benefit from small improvements in time (AWS Lambda changed their billing resolution a few years back but before then the Go services didn’t save much money despite being faster) but if you’re running thousands of requests, and speeding them all up, you should be able to realize tangible compute savings whatever your platform.
Everything comes to Costco stores in pallets, they don't do shipping boxes.

With the exception of certain times (e.g. Christmas) or certain books (e.g. Spare), they don't sell enough of any given book to have a pallet in the store for that book.

Mixing items/books on a pallet is a dumb idea. With single product pallets, you replace the pallet once its empty with another pallet. If you have two items in a pallet with one sold out and another barely sold any, what do you do?
> There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL.

Yeah, some of those (like the backslashes) were clearly intentional. It didn't look to me like the "Is this" / "This is" was, but I guess anything can be put down to being part of the joke.
The "Hey" Popover Drama
Yeah. You tell everyone you learned your lesson and then just go back and do it anyway a year later.
Normal user, agreed. You can find tutorials online, though, for those of us who still remember that the PC was something the user used to own.
Most managers and organizations miss the fact that engineers are often motivated by solving puzzles in ways like this, because it's fun. If you want to accomplish big challenges, quickly, make it fun for the engineer. Working long hours on projects like this doesn't burn engineers out, it sharpens their skills, broadens their knowledge and grows the organizations capabilities long term.

This sort of cultural difference of exploration and letting work be fun is one of the big things that accounts for the differences in velocity between big co's and little co's. Does your work give you energy to the point where not only you love doing it, you want to tell everyone else about it?
Twitter used to do this all the time; they'd make the notification email options more granular and opt you in to the three new options that used to make up the one option you already unchecked.
My 401k is doing great!

The reality is that most people who aren't tech people don't care about the changes Microsoft has done, and shareholders especially don't care. Clearly what Satya is doing is working.
> This process is extremely well-understood, and we know necessarily that it is just approximating a historical distribution.

Prove that this precludes formation of mind. Prove that human minds do not work this way.

Until such premises are established, your argument is not sound. This leaves open the possibility what we're seeing is in fact a degree of reasoning ability in LLMs.
*that has not yet been published
The Symphonic Science of Protein Music with AI Music Generator
If you read the rest of the paper it's clear what they mean. SSMs are theoretically no more powerful than transformers, meaning without chain of thought they can't efficiently solve state-tracking problems, unlike RNNs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00729 .
Ironically, a lot of the menu extras are 3rd party utilities for window management, display management, power management, hotkeys, search, etc. being used to supplement parts of the OS with limited built-in capability, but then to fix all the menu extras you have to install another one because macOS sucks at that too

These types of things tend to not have a dock icon, because they run in the background and don’t have their own windows that you common interact with or need to activate
I've been self-hosting my email for over 7 years now. Just threw postfix and a couple standard milters on the smallest digital ocean droplet (so it would have an IP with a good reputation) and let it go. Had some deliverability issues to microsoft mail services at first but went through a support process that took care of that. Never had any other issues.

If you aren't familiar with postfix it can be a pain to setup correctly, but I think there are a bunch of mail server software bundles these days that make the process a lot easier.

Pros: I make pretty extensive use of aliases (every service I give an email address to gets a different one) so it's nice having such fine control over where emails are routed, but mostly I just like not needing to rely on a mail provider.

Cons: Small ongoing cost and initial setup efforts, but no extra effort once it's setup - I haven't had to do any management work on the server in years.
I only have a windows partition for games. I would occasionally use it for other stuff because it's sometimes inconvenient to switch back and forth. After recall, I'm only using it for gaming and nothing else.
New no-win nightmare: Having to chose between a UAL flight on an A320, and a non-UAL flight on a Boeing.
It lacks "AI", but what does text indexing give you that ripgrep doesn't?
Any Recs? i've just gotten a Kubuntu image. I am thinking if i dual boot that and SteamOS i should have everything i want covered.
Author here, the blog post addresses this:

> To wrangle these beasts, we’ve all resorted to wrapping commands in shell scripts or aliases—the infamous “bash spaghetti.” This approach may solve the repeatability problem, but it introduces new ones:

> Argument Wrestling: Ever tried to figure out if a bash variable is a string or an array? Or when to quote something with spaces? It’s a battle.

> Discoverability Disaster: Your beautifully crafted CLI tool is now hidden behind an unsightly bash script. Not the most welcoming first impression.
Raspberry Pi narrates your feline's activities using AI
Yes, HN automatically did that.
Just like in biology a virus can be simpler if it can co-opt existing machinery.
> All because they are treating symptoms rather than the underlying issue.

There is nothing that treats ASD directly. But there sure are a whole host of charlatans that will try to convince desperate parents otherwise. As with pretty much every psychological problem the best we have is treatments to make the symptoms livable. Even what you mentioned earlier could be considered a treatment that addresses the symptoms not the underlying issue.

For some people, meditation and exercise only go so far. Shaming people/parents for needing medication and going with the "You just need to try harder" is what gets people killed. Medication isn't a personal failing.
> Bringing back a king, who was likely literate and learned

A king would know about his society as much as how much do the Ivy League educated, WASP US presidents would know about the actual US society.
This is the correct life hack.
is approximate enough to give you an idea.
and easy enough to do mentally
Yes.

Windows is soo low quality. It feels cheap. It feels like you are at a car dealership.

Fedora, feels like you are at some futuristic office that has buttons that do multiple steps. I was literally angry last year that it took me so long to learn about up-to-date linux. Canonical's marketing of debian-family linux gave Desktop Linux a bad name.
Cache Awareness in DPDK Mempool
Effect of element alignment in a memory pool by L1 cache collision.
Thank you! With the launch of the AI chatbots, I want to separate PARIAN and provide a comprehensive and super easy experience - beyond just a good list of workouts for a goal.

Email me ivan@parianlabs.com and let me know what program you created, and I'll send you the workouts. Would love to hear about how you're progressing with the program and your results.
Help me to understand, then. If this stuff is being done on an autoscaling cluster, I can see it, but if you are just running everything on an always-on box for instance, it is less clear to me.

edit: Do you have an affiliation with the blog? I ask because you have submitted several articles from checkly in the past.
So selling ads, selling points (see: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-b... )

They charge for drinks, you have to pay more to get a humane amount of space, they charge for bags.

What's next an upcharge for oxygen and a flotation device in an emergency.

IM sorry sir, our payment system is down we will be unable to let you sign up for air during this emergency.
Please stop with these kinds of made up fantasy scenarios.

There's no such thing as "accidental enablement" for stuff like this, as if it's a switch every employee at Microsoft has access to, and one of them one day can end up flipping by accident with their elbow and it ends up in production without anyone else noticing.

Either they decide to intentionally enable it or not. There are no accidents , when stuff like this needs to go through a committee of people for approval before it makes it into production.
I’d think that an on-device body cam TPM to cryptographically sign all videos is something that we will need to validate that it hasn’t been tampered with

Otherwise it will be very hard to convict anybody beyond a reasonable doubt with any kind of digital evidence
I often ask myself the same question. We have some user facing queries that slow the frontend down. I’ve fixed some slowness but it’s definitely not a priority. I wonder how much speed improvements correlate with increased revenue by happy customers.
>The early research in neural networks was hampered by proofs that perceptrons could never solve certain functions, like XOR. DNNs could have been developed much sooner otherwise.

These proofs still hold; pure MLPs (without a modern activation function) aren't very useful, both in theory and practice. What made them useful was the realisation that combining them with a proper activation function makes them much more useful, both theoretically and practically; this discovery took time.
Or indeed just results*:2
Futamura projections are super cool, reminds me of another post recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406194
awesome algorithm, curved features seem to be perfectly reproduced by each ASCII character density and geometry.
It must be the year for all this. Bethesda are basically trying again to make paid mods stick with their Fallout 4 update.

Softwar never changes.
I'm not sure what "Zionist Terrorist" is getting us here in relation to Yigal Amir. There is very little relationship between that dude, who is a religious extremist, and the secular zionists that founded Israel.

I can't really debate your other statements because it's pretty short of facts. I seriously doubt the truth of "zionism brought terrorism to the middle east" as there were e.g. massacres of Jews in the region (Hebron, or Tsfat) that predate zionism.

And sure, Lehi were terrorists, I'm not super familiar with the Bernadotte story but that's well into the conflict, not by any means that start of it.

From my perspective it was the Palestinians, through Hamas, that derailed the Oslo accords. By any measure you can choose, the Palestinian violent opposition to peace eclipsed the Israeli one. Also while Israel has a government with the ability to enforce policy, the Palestinians never had any centralized authority that talks for all of them. While Israel was putting extreme right activists in detention with no trial, the Palestinians were letting Hamas out of their jails with a "revolving door".
'Apple Intelligence' AI Service for iOS 18 Will Have These Features
The standard move with hearty invasive plants (brush honeysuckle) where I grew up is to cut it back to a single stem stem then use a paintbrush to immediately apply glyphosate.

I don't like using it myself but it's better than both other options; the invasive choking out everything else or indiscriminately spraying.
Oh man this is totally going to affect:

>My workplace

It wont affect me personally, because I dont use crappy operating systems on my personal time. Microsoft products are just an efficiency loss, I still bill the same.

I literally get everything done faster on Fedora, no linux prayer needed anymore. Its just better.
Link to the logic puzzle that flir is referring to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_and_Knaves
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It's interesting to compare this to the Chrome/Safari/Edge browsing history, which is stored in an unencrypted SQLite database, and tracks what you do for the last 90 days. It's just a bit less visual, Incognito/Private modes work, and some users clear it more often.

But a whole lot of the surveillance attacks people imagine about Recall apply just the same to the browser. I think it's the "little brother" casual attacks that are so well enabled by Recall - it makes it faster, easier, and way more visual.
I'm surprised by how good proton is at running windows games on steamdeck. Because of this and nonsense like recall and the adverts in windows I'm considering just getting rid of windows all together, I'll just run mint Linux probably.
Misleading to who? Sounds like we both knew what I meant.

In any case, my point stands that accelerated extinction is depressing, and this is applauded by the right.

You're also wrong that we'll be in the 10% that survives. Unless you've learned how to live without water.
A person ultimately has two options. He can either conform his mind to reality, or reality to his mind. The first leads to truth, the second leads to rationalization, delusion, and insanity.

Humility favors the first. Pride favors the second.

As Satan famously says in "Paradise Lost", "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." It's not an accident Milton puts those words in the lips of that particular character.
Nowadays the term ADD isn't even used casually by doctors or other people with ADHD... if someone told me they had ADD I would assume they were either self diagnosed, or diagnosed a long time ago and self treating, but not communicating with doctors or the ADHD community for at least a decade. The latter is important because there have been HUGE advances in practical advice on managing ADHD. Look at podcasts like "Hacking ADHD" and "How To ADHD."
It’s a very useful line to have on a CV.
The good, the bad, and the weird (2018)
...that has screen recording privileges on its users' systems.

It's not shady to sell a business. It's not shady to have screen recording privileges because that's legitimately needed to provide the functionality. It is shady to sell that product to some unknown group without notifying your customers.

I trust(ed) Ben Surtees to run his software on my machine with enhanced privileges. I'm not thrilled that someone else controls it now, and that I'd probably never have known that if I didn't follow tech news closely.
Report warranty fraud here https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/form/main?TC=RightToRepair

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For future reference, it is possible to edit the titles of stories you've submitted. This allows you to correct any errors introduced by HN's title rewriting heuristics at submission time, without waiting for a moderator to do it for you. Just like for comments, though, the edit window is time limited. For comments the window is two hours. I don't know if it's the same for story titles.
pam-script with xt_recent works just fine.

Everytime when an authentication fails, you add the ip address to the xt_recent list in /proc and in iptables you just check via --hits and --seconds and then reject the connection attempt the next time.
Very well said. It absolutely drives me crazy - the focus on the model architecture for autoregressive text generation as the “key” (or blocker) to AGI seems so misguided as a debate. It seems clear to me (and maybe I’m wrong!) that a much larger system of modules interacting is essential (actuators, sensors, short term and long term memory, working memory, etc), and I completely fail to understand why it feels like the debate revolves around neural network architectures as opposed to the larger system architecture for agency. The language and decision making component is obviously extremely important and necessary, but it feels to me like it will always just be a necessary but not sufficient component for AGI.

The fact that we have already obviously developed a technology which has an excellent grasp of language, can select between tools, perform knowledge retrieval from external databases, perform some form of simplistic reasoning and planning… it really feels (again, only intuitively!) like everything outside the perimeter of LLMs is where the actual frontier of AGI will be.

It feels like with enough sensorimotor affordances and mechanisms for saving and accessing memory, all that is left is the (obviously complex) framework for connecting all of these together, with potentially many instances of each module working together… especially when you consider that one such system can potentially use human actors as tools (eg “hello fellow human, please complete this captcha for me, as I am low-vision”).

I guess more succinctly - I do not believe that GPT-4 et al are remotely close to AGI on their own, but I do feel (again, this is just “vibes,” and obviously people smarter than me disagree!) that GPT-4 could be a component combined with lots of other tech we already have to essentially achieve AGI already. Perhaps what I am describing would just be a pale imitation of what others mean by AGI and be reductively called another mechanical Turk. I am probably the misguided one, but nonetheless, I can’t escape the feeling that “the one model to rule them all” is a red herring vis-a-vis a complex network (ha) of modules interacting together to achieve meaningful agency. Maybe it’s just that I am more interested in “meaningful agency” as a guiding principle over “AGI.”
So you get free, easy, wide distribution from them?
That's an okay workaround, but you lose part of your screen and create a thick top bezel.

As a laptop user, I want to use all available space, so what I do is to use https://topnotch.app/ (or a dark wallpaper) which makes the background of the bar black and until now I was using Bartender, which would display the hidden icons on a second bar under the original one when we clicked the icon. I barely noticed the notch.
For customers who will choose whatever the cheapest option is.

Short of flying private, paying more doesn't insulate people from all the pain of commercial air travel but it sure insulates from a lot--but most people aren't able/willing to pay for it.
AI summary to protest the clickbait title:

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The key points include:

Moderate Activity: Aim for at least 30 minutes of moderate activity each day.
Reduce Sedentary Time: Avoid sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time. Regularly interrupting sedentary periods with physical activity can significantly benefit overall health.
Incremental Goals: Rather than focusing on a fixed number of steps, gradually increasing your daily steps can also be beneficial. Starting with small increments, such as 200 additional steps per day, can help improve activity levels over time.
This approach can help mitigate health risks associated with prolonged inactivity, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and mental health issues, by promoting more consistent and manageable physical activity habits throughout the day.
You will never be done
Let me know if I got this right:

You're purposely making other people mistake you for a racist... solely for the purpose of upsetting them... and when they get upset and think you're a racist... they're the "dipshits"?

Yeah, everyone knows the origin and they know the cover story. Even and especially in light of those facts, if a grown adult does it, they're either 1) a racist, 2) an asshole, 3) a moron, or 4) a combination of the above. No one is calling out children for playing a children's game. They're calling out adults who are either identifying as racists or pretend identifying as racists in order to be an asshole to other people, otherwise known as "being an asshole."