skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have said, it depends. What is weird to me is that the citation doesn't state whether these side effects are permanent. I also had LASIK, and did experience severe dry eye afterwards, but it went away within a month or two. I still have halos/bad vision at night, but I don't consider it life-altering. I would have the operation again in a heart beat.
Hence why the sweet spot is to combine automatic resource management, with affine, linear, and effect type systems.

As those languages are doing.
> The embarrassing truth is that we can't do it.

If what you mean is that we find ourselves unable to do perfect security, then that's clearly true but it's missing the point.

The point of the article is that we do better security for credit card numbers than we do for other information which is more sensitive to our customers. Why do we do better with these? The author's claim is that it is because of the incentives (although, working in the industry, I would say it is also because the credit card industry wrote policies mandating specific, detailed security practices).
Does anyone have experience with running SQLite with mounted Docker volumes in production?

I wonder if Docker provides all the i/o features that SQLite requires to function properly.
Well I've definitely heard of cases where they needed eye drips every evening before sleep or they'd wake up in pain from dryness, which I'd say is pretty life changing. Like having a chronic disability that requires constant medication.
Maybe the UK has the wrong kind of rain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow
Well do.that right when distributed computing finds a workable modrl
France, that socialist country. The current government is a right-wing neoliberal and the next are neo-fascists.
Maybe we need a government pentesting agency that fines companies without waiting for the first breach.
I call this the Barack Obama School of Philosophy:

Yes we can. (But we won't.)
Yep. Seen it in action.

If we store credit card information we need to be PCI compliant. Let’s outsource that then.

All stored personal information needs to be PCI compliant.
Elizabeth line success challenges Heathrow Express
It's the Wadsworth Constant for talks! https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/the-wadsworth-const...
Adobe Responds to 'Terms of Use' Controversy, Says It Isn't Spying on Users
> This is unfortunately how it works here in Sweden, and it's terrible.

I’d say it has its ups and downs.

One upside is that the court does not have to delve into the question of truth as a part of legal proceedings.

It’s also worth noting that “true defamation” is only legal when you can prove it’s true. So it’s not really a freedom to speak truth, just a freedom to speak what is provably true.

I think the main problem with the Swedish law is that it places too little emphasis on the intent behind the “true definition”. For example I think it’s wrong to “defame” someone in order to gain control over a company, in some cases even if the statements are true. But I think it’s a very different thing to indite someone for telling their life story in a book, because a central part of their life is that they were the victim of a crime (see e.g. the chancellor of justice’s prosecution of Cissi Wallin for her autobiography).
This is a large mega corp that prides itself on acting like it is broke.
I'm surprised Amazon's legal team signed off on this. It's clearly against the GitHub terms of service[0], and Amazon employees acting on the instructions from Amazon had to approve those terms. It seems pretty much identical to the LinkedIn vs. hiQ scraping case, where as I understand the fake account creation was the key point.

[0] E.g. no API key sharing for the purposes of evading rate limits, only a single free account per person or organization.
> a bit of extra server load

One of my sites has been spammed by scrapers (Bytedance's Bytespider, Googlebot, Bingbot) several thousand times within just an hour, to the point of making it break. They do this without notification or asking for consent of the users creating the content they ingest and possibly use to train AI models with, and also without credit or compensation. I think the world needs strict regulation against this kind of parasitic, likely illegal behavior.
Do you also leave it outside to sit in the rain? I found that bringing a bike indoors (regardless of it being electric or not) significantly improves the lifespan of most parts.
That is why "firejail" exists.
For fine tuning volume and brightness, why not have a single keypress result in a small change while holding down the key results in a bigger change?
You can’t half a half trillion market cap with a fanboy stock.
Not having the data at all.

It's almost impossible for those of us who've grown up in the last 40
years of commercial computing to imagine.

But it's possible to radically decouple identity from function.
> Change the incentives so credit card companies would be personally liable for any fraudulent transaction and suddenly everything changes.

They already are, which is why CC numbers are secured and all the other important info is not. This is exactly the point of the article.
187K websites directly link to it according to Ahrefs
I think some defaults are intended to show off the hardware even if they are not what you would want to use on a daily basis.

Also, maybe there is too much user testing in some cases? Do you really need a wide escape key?
<< I don’t care what is considered illegal in certain jurisdictions.

I think this is where it gets messy. I care what happens in my jurisdiction, because this is where the laws I am subject to are enforced. The part that aggravates me is that the llms are purposefully neutered in stupid ways that are not even trying to enforce laws, but rather current weird zeitgeist that has somehow been deemed appropriate to be promoted by platforms.

<< A program printed some text and there’s no argument behind the case that it’s dangerous.

As I mentioned in my previous posts, I accept some level of argumentation from security standpoint ( I suppose those could be argued to be dangerous ), but touching touchy topics is not that.

At the end of the day, I will say that this censorship in itself is dangerous. Do you know why? When I was a little boy, I learned of censorship relatively late, because it was subtle ( overt restriction on what you could read and write typically indicated useful information and was sought after ). It didn't make censorship less insidious, but at least it didn't immediately radicalize a lot of people. This 'I am afraid I can't let you do that Dave' message I get from censored llm is that overt censorship that is already backfiring from that perspective.

<< Someone has to explain how an LLM producing that same text is any different than my bash script printing to STDOUT.

The only real difference is that it has more complex internals and therefore its outputs are more flexible than most programs. The end result is the same ('text on screen'), but how it gets there is different. Good bash script will give you the information needed as long as it is coded right; it is a purpose built tool. LLMs, OTOH, are a software equivalent of personal computer idea.

ok. i think i need coffee
For example, it's worth bearing in mind that the population of Roman Londinium was larger than that of London until about the 16th century, and the population of Roman Britain was also considerably larger than during most of the medieval period. Given the timber-dependent, agrarian pre-industrial economy of the Roman era, this meant an enormous amount of forest removal (military forts and structures like Hadrian's Wall alone would have accounted for a lot of this.)

Thus, any notion of a truly natural landscape of forest in the British Isles disappeared since long, long before the immediately pre-industrial era. Likewise applies for much of Europe even. Again, an example: the landscapes of modern Spain, France and Italy, were repeatedly cleared of forests during their history, particularly by the Roman Empire's needs.

Of course, on the other hand, you could also define natural to mean anything allowed to grow without human intervention for X number of centuries, in which case, yes, there have been many truly natural old growth forests in Europe well after Roman times, simply because they regrew during the hundreds of years between the fifth century and later, heavy population growth prior to the disastrous 14th century depopulation stemming from the Black Death and Great European Famine of the early 1300s (thought to have possibly been caused by a massive volcanic eruption somewhere else in the world)
The authors train a model with two contrastive objectives: (1) predict which video clip corresponds to a given audio file, and (2) predict which audio clip corresponds to a given video clip. Together, these two training objectives induce the model to learn to associate different sounds from a given audio clip, like words forming a spoken sentence, with different objects shown in a video clip, like the pixels depicting the subject of the spoken sentence -- and vice versa.

If I understand the paper correctly, the model was trained on tens of thousands of video and audio clip pairs, randomly sampled 64 million times (80 samples/batch x 0.8 million training steps). For comparison, over the course of a baby's first two years of life, the baby will get trillions of sound samples (measured at 44.1KHz) and billions of frames of visual data (measured at 30fps). It's not too hard to imagine that a large AI model in the near future, trained on comparably vast quantities of audio and video data, can learn to recognize objects and words, like a baby.

The most exciting takeaway, for me, is that a bigger model inside a robot body should be able to integrate learning in this manner across all five human data modalities -- vision, hearing, smell, touch, taste -- as well as any other data modalities for which the robot has sensors -- radar, lidar, GPS, etc.

We sure live in exciting times!
Maybe, but defintely needs to be put on a watchlist. Otherwise, at some point, that deranged guy will actually enact his horrible fantasies and the families of the victims will demand to know why the guy wasn't confined when he was clearly having fantasies about this.

While not all people like him end up actually doing anything, you can't pretend those who do didn't fantasize before doing it. The difference is that now we can potentially have access to people's fantasies and act before it's too late
Precisely. Tell it to the marketing director, you can watch him go hairless in real time.
They aren't from WinDev, rather those valiant engineer efforts.

There are many Windows APIs that cannot be cannot directly, because they expect C or C++ semantics, hence why there are enough wrapper libraries that still reach out to C++/CLI to ease the task.

Additionally anything that requires in-proc COM, or apartment threading models not supported on .NET, can only be implemented in C and C++. Eventually Rust.

Usually the work around is to implement the binding glue in C++ and then RPC into a .NET process, if one is really keen in using .NET for such use cases.

That is something that isn't covered by Native AOT, and was supported by .NET Native in WinRT, mostly because deep down .NET on WinRT is like VB 6 with COM, and not regular .NET.
Are you sure that's not just because it's cadmium plated or packed with other nasties that provided similar benefits? :D

The guy that sometimes services my BMW goes on frequent unprompted rants about how the modern bikes corrode so much more easily, etc etc etc. Not once has he looked into why.
Put CEOs and shareholders in prison for data breaches and watch how magically humans become amazing at security overnight
This is an interesting connection. If I had to guess, the Chomskyist response would be to say, yes but this only applies to LLMs that have been pre-trained already (i.e. have structures in place needed to understand language in general). I think a Chomskyist would say that language learning is precisely like fine-tuning and not the pre-training of foundation models.
No, one cannot just comply with the "general rules" of GDPR, you have to comply with every last letter of the considerable legal legislation. The fact that the rules can be generalised to a reasonable few paragraphs is meaningless.
Both my wife and I did. She went first, and had bifocal lenses inserted. I waited a couple of years and got trifocals instead. I think I've had mine for five years or more by now; I don't remember.

My wife went from "can't read the big E on the eye chart" to only using readers for very tiny print. She had different prescriptions put in each eye, for different distances. It took her brain a little while to sort all that out, but she doesn't notice it anymore.

We both see concentric halos around light points (a side effect of the bifocal and trifocal lenses, I think), but eventually your brain edits those out and you don't notice them unless you try.

I'm in the U.S. and insurance did not cover them. I think we each paid around $7K.

All in all, they were a good buy and I would recommend the procedure. They may not be cost effective, but the quality of life change is amazing.
Stencil Computations on AMD and Nvidia: Performance and Tuning Strategies
I really wish python would stop being the go-to language for GPU orchestration or machine learning, having worked with it again recently for some proof of concepts its been a massive pain in the ass.
The Power Structures of Cities [video]
What if they‘re not free accounts?
Maybe my google skill is bad, but i found exactly that. It's either no effect, or it has beneficial effect. https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/kids-of-working-moms-grow-into-ha...

What papers did you have in mind?

Also, i think the way this relates back to freud is in the concept of the superego. Which indeed causes anxiety. And it is learned from the parents ego.
Language in this article smells like it's written or rewritten by AI.
Except they have access to one of the largest "botnets" on the planet.
and the guy on the right.. umm.. what's with his face? Or is he an Alien maybe? Image credit goes to https://linkmedya.com - it doesn't say it is AI-generating content but yep, it certainly looks like it
Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js
An article+calculator on how long it would take for you to break even from LASIK based on your selected contacts and rough LASIK price would be a great story for your site.
Google Chrome users probably dont care about privacy or Google snooping.
Every time one of these garbage companies sends me a letter telling me they lost my information in a breach but don’t worry they are giving me FREE CREDIT MONITORING!!1! they should have to put $50 inside.

I think that would go a long way towards solving the problem.
No, this depicts exactly the nightmarish nature of a job at an Amazon warehouse.
> Their extinction was so rapid that only one poorly preserved skull was thought to have survived, leaving much to learn about this enormous bird.

It's not obvious to me how the speed of extinction would affect the number or quality of preserved skeletons.
> - it is truly native, in the sense I can directly talk to native APIs on each platform without going through bridging code and there's no special runtime

I thought Compose Desktop is running on JVM an renders through Swing/AWT? Did this change?
And there you have it. The "technology industry" hasn't had anything
to do with computer scientists, engineers or technology people in
about 20 years. It's run entirely by marketing people.

They just keep the eggheads around as pets.
Agree. Looks like we have a good hear: https://youtu.be/zbo6SdyWGns?t=78
Did they ignore your robots.txt file?
Oh how I agree. However, it would not be necessary if we citizens were able to fix up the broken parts of our democracies.
Sure I don't expect my application to have 14k RPS all the time. However, some spikes can happen, and it can leave you with a large WAL file which doesn't shrink by itself by default. 14k RPS is the maximum my PC could pull off, I think it can happen with a more modest RPS. I ran the stress test with 12 parallel threads, so technically it can happen with just 12 RPS too, if your read or write transactions take a lot of time each (say, it has to read a large table, or you forgot to add indexes, or write transactions update many rows). In fact, a single open read transaction already can trigger checkpoint starvation. Also, it's not only about HTTP requests, my application is event-driven so a few event handlers processing events in the background can easily trigger it, too. A system can accidentally produce many events without having a lot of user requests (say, you forgot to batch events and generate N separate events for N items).
If github cares enough about this, they would have already sued Amazon. I don't think the author needs to worry about any of this
Voyager is powered by RTG, with half life 87.7 years. It's going to run out of energy before that.
I like that idea, thanks!
I don't think there is anything left that is actively maintained and production-grade (e.g. above packages) that uses C++/CLI. It is important to acknowledge that it did and still does exist, but I'm unaware of anyone seriously using it over regular C# + P/Invoke (generated or otherwise).

.NET has COM interop (from its inception?). In .NET 6, a newer ComWrappers API was introduced, which then also gained the capability to be source-generated to work with AOT in .NET 8.

Links:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-int...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-int...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/native-int...
Ask HN: PHP password_hash exits on null byte character
For some reason the documentation does not mention this, but if you succeed in sending the null byte character to password_hash with the default Bcrypt algortihm, PHP with exit the application with a ValueError.

Normally the browser will encode the input, but you can force the issue using e.g. cURL:

printf "password=foo\0bar" | curl -X POST --data-binary @- https://example.com -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

How do you deal with this issue?

Do you replace null byte characters or use e.g. the Argon2id algorithm to get around this problem?
>One upside is that the court does not have to delve into the question of truth as a part of legal proceedings.

That's only an upside for lazy jurists. For the people who say true things and punished for them, it is only repression.

I think should follow the basic view that we have always had: that the courts may consider anything they have knowledge of, the free evidence evaluation.

The primacy of freedom of speech must central, and I think we should think as if though everyone were psychologically very strongly compelled to speak about what he does and that we should have the presumption that he speaks honestly.

Truth is also special, and rightly holds a special place in people's psychology and in religion.
I know the plural of anecdote isn't data, but I question those numbers.

I know lots of people who've gotten LASIK or PRK, and nobody I know personally has regretted it. I only see the horror stories online.

I myself have gotten LASIK, and have had no issues outside the original healing period, except a slight tendency towards dry eyes in the morning, but it's mild.
A marble powered music supercomputer [video]
Really? I got a Windows binary and Wine Stable installed automatically as a dependency. Monterey, on x86.
In a cooler alternate reality, you'd simply request your money back, online. The business would be required to come to your place at a convenient time of your choosing to collect the remains of the device.
Microsoft is probably one of the few companies that can sue Amazon without worrying about retaliation from Amazon.

For example, GitLab would need to think twice before suing because they offer deployment on AWS.
When you pay your legal teams as much as Amazons, they probably tell you "Yeah, you'd probably lose any case, but the fine will be a couple of million dollars and you won't have to pay it for a decade, and by then you'd have cemented your market leadership".
I've only skimmed the paper, but I didn't find anything that would clearly distinguish between things that harm someone's reputation in a justifiable way, and things that harm it in an unjustifiable way. For example, if the CEO of a startup has previously been convicted multiple times for financial fraud, it would both hurt their reputation and be beneficial to potential investors to know this. But what if it's only one conviction? And a long time ago? It seems like the whole argument comes down to drawing this line, but I didn't see any real attempt to do so.

A lot of the impulse for this paper seems to be based around "the [claimed] right to a fresh start":

Moreover, if reputational interest is understood as a presumption of good
standing, then there is another reason to prohibit true defamation, one that depends upon the presumption, namely what might be called the right to a fresh start. By “a fresh start,” I mean the right to have a misdeed from long ago eventually cease to be part of one’s current reputation, so that it ceases to have any impact on one’s life. ... The interest in a fresh start stands against this veritable life sentence—an interest, instead, in being treated as a new person, no longer associated with a misdeed from long ago.

Yes, if you grant that such a right exists, it might make sense to make it illegal to point out true facts about someone's past. And I can easily see why many individuals would want a "fresh start". But does society as a whole benefit from having such a right? I'm far from convinced that it should be any sort of universal right, and don't see any good way to define when it's applicable and when it's not. Are there good solutions for this problem somewhere?
Nvidia's CEO said that a day after Elon raised a capital multi billion dollar capital round all spent on a 100,000 gpu Nvidia cluster for another of his companies, so it could easily just be flattery.
If they are so much as inconvenienced by our probes, they are not a greater power but bumbling roboticists like us.
I am not well versed in Rust so I can't judge the design decisions fairly but I do find that cpp2's in, out, inout, move and forward keywords for functions arguments much easier to follow mentally that rust's lifetime annotations :
https://youtu.be/6lurOCdaj0Y?feature=shared&t=3076

We can do the same kind of (basic?) borrow checking with those can't we ?
No. That would just put a market price on your dignity. Fifty bucks is
cheap that they'd happily pay you that.

Please forgive me... I don't mean this as a personal insult; but a
better system would be where you get fined $50 for being stupid enough
to give them the data in the first place.
Noone knows what babies do. Anything else is speculation.
Indeed on rereading my question I see it was not phrased correctly.

Yes, the `journal_size_limit` affects the maximum journal/wal file that remains on disk if larger than that — and by the way ensures that these files are not deleted once created.

Your setting it to ~25MiB while the default `wal_autocheckpoint` PRAGMA is set to 1000 pages (with the typical page size of 4KiB that means after ~4MiB the WAL file contents will get moved to the main database file if no other transaction is active) is what confused me. 25MiB seems very specific for a file size to keep in the occasion that the WAL file keeps growing beyond 4MiB. Perhaps you also meant to tinker with the `wal_autocheckpoint` PRAGMA but didn't?
Exactly the same boat here. That site and reddit caused me to put off having good vision for years and years. My right eye couldn't see the E on the eye chart. If I hadn't been able to wear glasses I'd have qualified as legally blind.

Now I have perfect vision, and everyone I personal know that has had LASIK or PRK have the same story. Bad vision, to good vision, no complications. Everyone I know (including my optometrist) says they'd do it again in a heartbeat.