skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally off topic because this is v cool, but what’s the use case for things showing the current weather? Forecasts I get, but current? Lots of phones and even Windows 11 prominently display this information but who is it for? People who work in windowless offices or something?

I mean it’s a bit like a restaurant menu app that only shows you pictures or what you just ordered, right?
Holy shit. I wondered if this was possible a few weeks ago and couldn't find anything on it. Thanks for the link!
> clearly not very well designed and implemented if it took days for it to be cracked on the internet for everyone to see

I really don't understand this line of thinking. What was cracked? That the database is readable, unencrypted? How could it be encrypted and usable at the same time?

> If I could trust that it STAYS local

This I agree with. While it's local now, not trusting MS is a valid belief, given their past behavior. If they feel sending some of the info to the cloud could get them $$$, then they will do it. Although I feel regulators might be pretty quick on this one...
In all the MS Recall drama, I've yet to hear or read one single person utter something to the effect of "Wow - great!!! - I've been waiting for something like this for years! This will solve at least one of the major issues I face regularly!". In fact, it seems to me the only people that really want this feature are the ones trying to push it down everyones collective throat. Why is MS pushing something so hard when nobody asked for it?
just say the legally binding results were that ....

the results from all the "rigged" courts(you know the ones where even the judges appointed by trump) found Biden to have won.
And how are they going to convince people to be surveilled voluntarily? This needs to be behind a switch they can silently enable in some update, ofcourse.
The endless moaning about the frontier of things possible with LLMs is very much like a GAN. This human constantly tries out stuff with this thing and then creates endless AI-generated-equivalent text on the subject. It's really tiresome. Yes, dude, political stuff is blocked and an alternative tool is suggested because this tool occasionally makes mistakes.

God, these people are insufferable.
I think the problem (apart from the biases) is actually the focus on the high IQ part. Finding disabilities by looking at significant deviations from expected values on a test is precisely what the IQ test was initially designed to do (before the eugenics movement got their hands on the construct).

The focus on high IQ is problematic for a number of reasons, including racial and class biases. There are also theoretical implications surrounding intelligence, there is no evidence that there is such a thing called general intelligence let alone that this g-factor can be measured and presented as a single number (why not a matrix or a tensor?).

Having a diagnostic based on such a murky concept as intelligence is indeed very problematic. It is much better to just leave the question of intelligence unanswered when we are diagnosing people with autism. And instead focus on the disabilities each person has. If an autistic person takes an IQ test and measures with a significant deviation (< 70) we can safely say that this person has a learning disability and should be accommodated accordingly. If another autistic person takes the same test and measures normally (~ 100) then that doesn’t add anything to the diagnosis.

All that said, I was curious about it a few months back, and decided to look up how popular IQ tests are among psychologists, and I found out that they are very much falling out of fashion in favor of more focused tools. If a psychologist uses an IQ test, they are much more likely to use the individual subtests and never actually measure the whole IQ of the individual. I didn’t search for how popular they are among psychiatrists though, so IQ might still be a popular tool when making diagnostics, but I would be very surprised if things were any different there, especially now that intelligence is no longer used to differentiate Asperger’s from Autism.

EDIT: I’ve been doing some reading, and I found an excellent secondary source on why some researches and autism advocates want to abolish the term high functioning and in particular to advocate against using IQ to separate autism into sub-categories.

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/large-study-supports-disca... [PDF]
You can get cookies/tokens from chrome databases so its the equivalent to passwords in alot of cases
The names and photos of those killed in the strike. RIH:
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1799131569359298754/photo/1
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1798818311284924578/photo/1
The old: "I know you are, but what am I." - well done.

If you can point out where I am cherry-picking data, please do so. If you would point out exactly how I have violated the HN discussion guidelines, please do so (arguably this is turning into a flame-war, mea culpa again for entertaining a bad faith argument for too long)

Otherwise, at this juncture your claim, "at least one pearl clutching internet commentator turned out to be wrong" is not super interesting and your incorrectly extrapolated opinion that "all of them who said X were wrong" is unsupported, debunked by previously cited data, and is a good example of cherry-picking data. You were asked to provide citations and/or backing data for your opinions, and it seems the best you have mustered is: "I'm rubber and you're glue"
Overvalued?
I rephrased the question. The instruction set may be copyrightable, but as in Google v. Oracle, we don't have to answer that question. Even if an instruction set is copyrightable, then under Google, it is probably fair use to copy it for interoperability purposes (e.g., making a compatible processor or emulator). For the actual binary encoding of instructions, there is even less of an argument for copyright protection because the encoding is purely functional.
Others are also reporting issues in the comments:

https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1atwzem/youtube_d...

Via https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
Can you be more specific what exact ethical rules are violated and who is the authority to decide the rules?
Looking at OpenSSH tells a different story. It is a massive, overly configurable behemoth. The 'WireGuard of SSH' would be 1% of the LOC. It would not provide password auth, or let you log in as root with password auth, or let you use old insecure ciphers.

Maybe OpenBSD itself is better at sticking to these principles than OpenSSH. I haven't used (experimented with) it for ~5 years but read about various updates every so often.
Nice thank you, I've been considering playing around with JavaFX for quite some time. Do you have any advice for someone getting started who has quite a bit of Swing experience but no JavaFX?
> Without Recall, an attacker needs to get a program to stay resident in memory to log keystrokes, screen contents, etc

Or it could just steal your cookies which are out there in the open.
I really appreciate the time, effort and detail of the release notes.

That's super rare these days and takes considerable effort and discipline to perform.

It's also indicative of a well run project.

Please consider donating: https://ziglang.org/zsf/
All of these ideas involve depositing the heat elsewhere on the planet, or even keeping in the same spot. That's not going to be great.

There's only one solution: stop the greenhouse effect at the origin.
Sam Altman doesn't work at Google though
The continued search for interstellar meteors
People need beauty. When people are put in an ugly environment and situated in a culture of ugliness, this need will be expressed in destructive ways. In such an environment, the female body will become increasingly the sole focus of male interest as it becomes the only source of beauty in that environment. And that kind of intensity, which would otherwise would sublimated in the richness of a beautiful environment, is now directed entirely toward the female body. This doesn't bode well for either men or women.

Beauty is not a luxury. It is essential to humanity. Deprive us of beauty, fill our world with ugly architecture and ugly art, with ugly human culture, and you will breed misery.
Wow, it's not just current politicians - it refuses to tell me who the first US president was, or define the word "election".
> Planetary scientists Robert Stern from the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya from ETH-Zurich, the two co-authors on the study, suggest that the presence of both continents and oceans, along with long-term plate tectonics, is critical for the emergence of advanced civilizations. They consequently propose the addition of two factors into the equation: the fraction of habitable planets with significant continents and oceans and the fraction of those planets with plate tectonics operating for at least 500 million years. This adjustment, however, significantly reduces the value of N in the Drake Equation…

> According to the new study, plate tectonics are crucial for developing complex life and advanced civilizations. Earth’s plate movements create diverse habitats, recycle nutrients, and regulate climate—all vital for life. It’s important for plate tectonics to last for 500 million years, Gerya explained, because biological evolution of complex multicellular life is extremely slow. “On Earth, it took more than 500 million years to develop humans from the first animals, which appeared around 800 million years ago,” he said.
The long-standing bug where it only started to a black screen with iCloud activated (on iPhone and iPad) seems to be fixed, but now I apparently don‘t have permissions to write in the Documents folder when creating a vault. Let‘s wait another few months.
People don’t buy cyber trucks to do trucks stuff anyway
They can solve it if you keep adding layers to the transformer, it's just not efficient; you'd need exponentially more layers than a similarly sized RNN.
> My original and subsequent posts were that the nuke made the world safer. Post-1945 battle deaths dropped to near-zero by comparison to pre-1945.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a well known logical fallacy. That is what you are doing here.

Also, the relevant comparison, as I said before, is not post-1945 vs. pre-1945. It is something like post-1945 vs. pre-1914, so that the comparison involves peacetime conditions on both sides.
The layer of management reporting to leadership are yes-men.
If the squatter is allowed to break in while you're not home and change the locks, why can't the owner wait for them to be out and also break in and change the locks?

Does the law specifically say that breaking in is allowed by anyone except the legitimate owner?
All of Bitcoin's gains are overnight
What's luxurious about fast food? I can't believe 80% of people would think that.

Got to be some weird biased study or data sample or something.
One difference is that you can get root access after the fact and get however much prior data Recall recorded vs only going forward.
There's no audience like a captive audience! Do companies pursuing these increasing desperate ad streams really expect decent conversions from these, or is this for completely mindless companies like Wells Fargo blowing a billion fake dollars on celeb cameos for their credit card ads? (Also if you want a credit card with 2% cash back, why in the world would you look at Wells Fargo? Capital One will at least not empty your checking accounts with fees)
It's interesting that for years Safari stored page screenshots in its history to allow a "coverflow" view and there wasn't broad concern.
I managed one machine with such a mechanism, and I had to remove it, because it basically took all resources. I can't remember which daemon it was, but now the machine is only accessible from a limited set of ip addresses.
The answer appears to be 'no' based on corporate response to, what they perceive is, a PR issue[1]. It is odd to watch. I have eaten a fair amount of fast food lately so I have front line view to the increase. It is there. But I don't see people learning how to cook either. Corporations notice.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/business/dealbook/compani...
AI music generation with contrastive learning algorithm
There's a strategy in politics of opting for the impossible futuristic solution that's "right around the corner" instead of doing boring (and sometimes unpopular) things today. It gives the illusion of progress without having to actually make the hard decisions. See also: Hyperloop vs. regular high speed rail.
How did papers that demonstrated single layer neural networks can't do XOR, but multi layer neural networks can, hamper development?

XOR is simply not linearly serperatable, requiring an MLP or kernel trick still holds.

It is a similar reason that attention works for majority gates but not parity gates in the general case.

Acknowledging that reality resulted in new developments, but is still a limitation.

Perceptrons are binary classifiers.
I am no familiar with SSH certificates either. But if there is no revocation system in place, how can I be sure access from a person can be revoked?

At our org we simply distribute SSH public keys via Puppet. So if some leaves, switches teams (without access to our servers) or their key must be renewed, we simply update a line in a config file and call it a day.

That way we also have full control over what types of keys are supported and older, broken kex and signature algorithms are disabled.
> The emperor directly mentions the atomic bomb in his address...He only tacitly mentions the battle situation

I know that. And I said why: to save face. He didn't want to tell the Japanese people that the Soviet invasion of Manchuria was the reason. The atomic bomb made a much better reason for public consumption. That doesn't mean it was the actual reason that drove the decision, which was made in private.
Just ordered. Thank you :-).
Switch your blind faith to Go (s5cmd) and get ~1200 MB/s upload speed!

zfs send tank/pgdata@snapshot | pbzip2 > mybackup.zfs.bz2

s5cmd cp mybackup.zfs.bz2 s3://mygooglebucket/

https://github.com/peak/s5cmd/blob/master/README.md#Benchmar...
The Thinking Game
Believe it or not, also a wave.
If you're still doing ML locally in 2024 and also use an ARM macbook, you're asking for trouble.
Like a news paper that get tossed right through your window onto your desk! I love all those too thank you!
You’re not thinking long enough term. We’re doing this for the benefit of our (far) future generations who won’t have any fossil fuels left to fall into this trap when restarting civilization.
Clarifying the status of the Emperor if Japan surrendered. I have posted about that elsewhere in this discussion.
Uhh the price? What used to be a $4 meal is now $12. Doesn’t matter for developer salary, but a huge deal for the other 90%.
Taking ADHD meds reduces the chance of substance abuse though, and it balances out to forgetting to take them being more likely than being addicted.

Wait, I forgot to take mine.
I've read the commit message in the post, and read it again, but I did not understand how it would be configured. The penalty system seems complex but only 2 parameters are mentioned.

From the documentation, one of these parameters is in fact a group of 8 parameters. I guess the separator is space, so one could write:

PerSourcePenalties authfail:1m noauth:5m grace-exceeded:5m min:2m

See https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config.5#PerSourcePenalties

Unfortunately, the default values are undocumented. So `PerSourcePenalties yes` (which will be the default value, according to the blog post) will apply some penalties. I did attempt to read the source code, but I'm reluctant to install a CVS client, two decades after dropping that versioning system.
Evolution is quite fine with individuals suffering, so long as it has a net effect of propagating genes being more likely.

There are likely many genetic and environmental factors that all contribute to ASD. A gene that is generally helpful, even if debilitating when paired with an unlucky combination of other factors, might still be very strongly selected for. Some people on the spectrum deeply suffer, but for every such case there are many more moderate cases, to the point we might not even recognize them as being on the spectrum, that can be very successful under the right circumstances.
Congratulations on your launch! All the best for your entrepreneurial journey.
I stopped at a rest stop on the highway, and regrettably got a breakfast "meal" from the only establishment there, a McDonald's.

It consisted of a small, spongy sandwich, called a "McGriddle", which I will never order again; a single potato-patty "hash brown" thing; and a small black coffee.

This cost $14.

Surely I will continue to make other mistakes in my life, but this is one I can avoid in future.
Good progress, but to take it just over the trust threshold for me, I'd like it to be a component that you can add/remove (like Hyper-V or IIS); removing literally uninstalls the associated services, applications, DLL registrations, scheduled tasks, etc.
It's working absolutely stupendously today. btc down 4% vs flat market. I dunno why this works so well but it does, especially on Fridays. There must be some hedge fund or other entity that chooses Friday to liquidate its Bitcoin holdings.
And yet the profit margins of fast food companies keep steadily and consistently increasing. Maybe the cost isn’t the issue, but simply greed?
A good open source model for handwriting recognition is sorely missing as well.
DNS Topics at Ripe 88
Rewind.ai is the Mac version of this and many is the same talking points apply. However, it’s a third party tool, and as such isn’t enabled by default.

I think most, if not all, of the overwhelmingly negative feedback is tied to this being enabled by default, and shipped by default
Not to be nit-picky but double checking myself, isn't a token just 0.75 words, so 170 token would be 127 words and not 227?
For those not familiar with Baha’i temples or houses of worship, lmk. I’m a Baha’i in case anyone has questions. Fun fact… do you know who introduced Steve Jobs to Wozniak was a Baha’i? It’s the only tech related thing I could think of when I wrote this. But Baha’is are pretty progressive towards tech.
> requiring that users prove their identity via its Microsoft Hello authentication function any time they either enable Recall or access its data,

So now I need MS permission to read my own data stored on my own machine? Insane.
At some point we're going to go from tokens to embeddings for everything. I saw some research on variable length embeddings, I wouldn't be surprised if someone generated a huge embedding space, did some form of PCA on generated embeddings, threw away low eigenvalue vectors, then trained a distilled model that generated variable length embeddings directly from that.
This list seems long but closer to typical than 5-6 would be, imo.
That also struck me as a great way to make software more whimsical. Imagine if you randomly got an "Achievement unlocked!" message if you churn through more than 10 GB of data in a single invocation of `grep` for the first time or something. So many possibilities!
"tvOS workstation" is one of the strangest combination of words I've ever seen.
I use the search inside Windows all the time. To me, this seems like a 2% improved version of that. Probably useful, mostly mundane, something I would use but not get excited about.

I assume they would push it for the same reason they would push any other mildly-useful feature improvement.
This seems like a misleading title.

I think it's just desktop computers where it's 88%.

Pretty sure if you account for gaming consoles then it's a lot different.
Love the clean UI! Congratulations on the launch and best of luck with your entrepreneurial journey. I really admire your bold move!
Any toddler can ask "why" ad nauseam (at least it seems that way to adults in the vicinity) - and that is a good thing - but answering is the clever part.

Strangely, some philosophers seem to shy away from answering. Philip Goff, for example, whose forays into popularizing include "Galileo's Error", merely declares that consciousness is fundamental, without explaining the second thing about what that means, and he is not, apparently, at all interested in following through; in fact, he seems to think that is a job for scientists - the same scientists who have made the error of adopting mathematical models, apparently - who should gratefully accept his insights and do something (what?) with them.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599229/galileos-err...
> but that may just be your writing style

No, that's more like an unfortunate choice of wording :( . Sorry.
I've heard Microsoft wants to do away with on-device Windows entirely for consumer devices, and go with a "dumb client" form factor that is always connected to a remote Windows server.

I'm not sure who at the org is pushing for this as it would essentially hand the PC games market to SteamOS. I suppose they saw how well it's worked for enterprise customers that essentially already use a Windows VM through Citrix or some other provider, and think this would solve the virus/malware problem once and for all.
It's sad that Microsoft (or any big company) wouldn't take a step back from such privacy intrusive or anti-user behavior unless there's a public backlash.

Can't we just have a peaceful life without wasting time on constantly following and analyzing every single move from these companies?
Indexes? Indices?
This product will likely never exist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/198y1xi/comment...
Then the question becomes: what else are the people who don't have time to cook actually eating?

It's possible to make that tasty, healthy, or relatively inexpensive. But it's not easy to do all three.

My fear would be that the price point fast food used to be able to hit is not populated by many healthy meals at all.
It's not hijacked, the formulation is the same. For any layer there is a state-space formulation

h = Ah + Bx
y = Ch + Dx

where x is the input, y is the output, and h is the state. They use "h" instead of "s" for the state variables because they're called "hidden states" in the literature. edit: it is obnoxious they've flipped the convention for A/B/C/D which is the one thing controls people agree on (we can't even agree on the signs and naming of transfer function coefficients!).

Where this diverges from dynamical systems/controls is that they're proving that when x/h/y are represented with finite precision numbers, the model is limited in the problems it can represent (no surprise from controls perspective), and they prove this by using an equivalence to the state-space formulae that's consistent with evaluating it on massively parallel hardware.

The classical controls theory is not super applicable here, because what controls people care about (is the system stable, is its rise/fall time in bounds, what about overshoot, etc) is not what ML researchers care about (what classes of AI problems can be modeled and evaluated using this computational architecture).
Recall got recalled(ba dum tss).
not ashamed to admit I will never fully comprehend this.
That’s good, but I still have to pay my taxes
They're fair questions, and yeah it will have to disambiguate in such cases. I tried it now and it picked:

- Springfield in Illinois

- Sandwich in Massachusetts (the exact coords: https://www.google.com/maps/place/41%C2%B045'31.0%22N+70%C2%...)

I think that people underestimate how much non-AI technology fails in these cases. And the recovery path is to retry with more specificity in either case.
The developer and property owner are (usually) still different people in this case. Owning and constructing a rental property have very different risk profiles so the same people don't want to be in that business.
Nice! So what this means is that you put all info for flashing a part of flash in a 512 byte sector so you don't need filesystem info (place within file, even order) since it's all written as a bunch of self contained 512 bytes commands in the data itself. Clever!