skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the report stated: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/xona2024.htm

> "this configuration change was the sixth phase of a seven-phase network upgrade process that had begun weeks earlier. Before this sixth phase configuration update, the previous configuration updates were completed successfully without any issue. Rogers had initially assessed the risk of this seven-phased process as “High.”

> However, as changes in prior phases were completed successfully, the risk assessment algorithm downgraded the risk level for the sixth phase of the configuration change to “Low” risk"

> Downgrading the risk assessment to “Low” for changing the Access Control List filter in a routing policy contravenes industry norms, which require high scrutiny for such configuration changes, including laboratory testing before deploying in the production network.

Overall, the lack of detail of the (regulator forced) post-mortem makes it impossible for the public to decide.

It's a Canadian telecom: They'll release detail when it makes them look good, and hide it if it makes them look bad.
ideas of how it should be and the actual circumstances today are completely different. That ideal is abusive because it is not reflected in reality, taking advantage of young naive adults.
Alife 2024: Conference on Artificial Life
I tried to find some data, and I have to say I'm surprised how low potato consumption is in Germany[1]: 59 kg per capita per year. Metaphorically unfocusing my eyes while looking at the linked map, that seems like it's about average for Europe.

Another, more recent, statistic[2] bears this out, 54 kg, and also has surprising (to me) details. Of those 54 kg, fully two-thirds -- 38 kg -- are processed potatoes (the article names potato chips/crisps, ready-to-eat potato salad and, of course, fries) and just 16 kg are "real" fresh potatoes.

Finally, things used to be different[3]: in 1950, the per-capita consumption was 186 kg!

[1] https://landgeist.com/2021/12/21/potato-consumption-in-europ... attributed to FAO

[2] https://www.bmel-statistik.de/ernaehrung/versorgungsbilanzen... German dept. of agriculture

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/539799/per-capita-consum... it doesn't say, but I doubt people were eating a lot of potato chips in 1950 Germany
What the internet looked like in 1994
Exactly.

Go makes you think you control the details except you don't. Hackernews makes you think you don't control the details in C# except you do.

Yet another project that would have been able to solve its woes if it had picked a better option.
What will be interesting to me if generative AI becomes so good it’s hard to tell it’s fake, will all photos just be fake until proven otherwise.

I mean at this point in time someone could release your porn tape you can just say it’s a deep fake.
Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure
The installer doesn't have the polish you see in Ubuntu or Fedora. I chose full disk encryption and somehow ended up having to enter the password twice after boot. I had to re-install to fix that.

Apart from that, it has been smooth sailing.
I agree that abiogenesis probably required a long buildup to create the necessary conditions, but I think there's still a clear dividing line between that first self-replicator and whatever preceded it. I don't see how you could argue that the predecessors were capable of replication before that point - it's a logical contradiction.

FWIW, I think most people studying this topic suspect that something like RNA (not DNA) was actually the original self-replicator.
I feel like some content creators might not be very happy about that
https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface?tab=readme-ov-fil...
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The code of InsightFace is released under the MIT License. There is no limitation for both academic and commercial usage.
> You build electrolyzers

New solar parks often come with a couple of hours of battery storage. You numbers seem to be out of date.
> You can stop signing it, or register the hash of the program as malware. There, that's two easy ways to stop end-users from consuming harmful software.

The first requires them to be signed in the first place. That violates the prerequisite of your point because your words were "they leave it on, and install malware/spyware/adware anyways" — so that's not a way to actually stop end-users from consuming harmful software, by your own words.

The issues with the App Store are "Apple is a gatekeeper that gets to say no and we don't like the set of reasons they've given themselves to be allowed to do that" and "Apple is a gatekeeper that charges money and we don't like that charge".

The right to stop signing some app, the right to register a hash as malware, both have the exact same capacity for mis-use if you regard Apple themselves (or any other gatekeeper) as being a threat to your freedom. Unless you turn off "run only trusted apps", but again that violates the prerequisite of your point, because then "stop signing it" has no effect.

And come on, hashes? Self-modifying code was a thing when my compiler only output for 68k/System 7.

> It's more like if the police was trying to rationalize some ridiculous security system (say, drones) that didn't help catch criminals in the first place.

It's specifically an example of them catching a bad actor and stopping them. "Pulls" is right in the headline.
It is a lot more constrained than DirectShow graph building.

DirectShow has many characteristics that make its graph building fragile:

- It allows for fuzzy rules to choose filters, which often overlap and require prioritization.

- It runs code in the filters themselves as part of the decision process. This leads to apps breaking when filters are installed that have broken input logic and inject themselves everywhere or reject connections for obscure reasons (e.g. allocator requirements).

- It often needs to build a telescope of multiple filters to complete a requested connection, such as a decompression codec followed by a Color Space Converter. This makes it vulnerable to filter loops and horribly inefficient conversion paths (like converting color spaces by compression followed by decompression).

- Filters are provided by multiple third parties and installed system-wide.

DirectX work graphs work with a private node/shader collection provided by the application and connect inputs to outputs by matching node IDs, so it's more like serialization/deserialization of a predefined graph than constructing one by depth-first search, and it's not pulling unknown external nodes of ambiguous quality.
> I doubt I would have described it as soap-like[herbalessence] or stink buggy without being "primed" though.

I thought this way until a few days ago, when I smelled some new soap in the shower and the thought popped unbidden into my head, "Man, this smells like cilantro!"
Company CEO's may be top-down bureaucrats, but they don't have power to coerce you. No one is legally required to have a Facebook account, on pain of civil or criminal penalties. And if Facebook becomes less popular with its users, Zuckerberg feels the hit immediately as the value of his stake in the venture drops. Government bureaucrats can have vast powers of coercion at their disposal, and there's no obvious way to replace them if this power is abused. Elections are better than nothing, but they're also slow and imperfect.
> “We were captured by the generative AI zeitgeist just like the entire world was a couple of years back,” Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s director of Artificial Intelligence Innovation

The intelligence agency was.. "capture" by "zeitgeist." That's an exceptionally unsettling view into their internal marketing process.

> “We also acknowledge that there’s an immense amount of technical potential that we still have to kind of get our arms around, making sure that we’re looking past the hype and understanding what’s happening, and how we can bring this into our networks,”

I love how when AI is applied to any other field of labor, people immediately imaging shrinking the labor pool as a result, yet, amazingly, that does not apply to the CIA.

The rest of the article is a fanciful story for the tax payers to convince them that because of AI, the CIA somehow needs _more_ resources and people, and cloud computing providers are well justified in building "air gapped" AI solutions.

Disappointing on several levels.
It's a fact, money doesn't come from nowhere and for nothing. You can see it for yourself if you do the work. It doesn't matter how things were eons ago - it matters how it is now.
it was "high risk", and then downgraded to "low risk" as this several week and phase long project proceeded without initial issue.
On an article that got flagged to death within 25 minutes of hitting the front page and therefore stands no chance of developing into a decent conversation. That's only long enough for surface-level reactions and hot takes.

HN is not a curated map of links to discussions, it's a forum, a set of link-discussion pairs. If a discussion fails to take off and receive "significant attention" [0] there's nothing wrong with resubmitting it, much as that may offend your sensibilities.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
[vouched to bring your post back from the dead]

Yes that's true but the secrets API isn't really that useful last time I looked. It isn't capable of stopping one app reading the secrets of another, which makes it little different to just a regular file stored in the user's $HOME
I didn't even know some schools/universities had dedicated security (beyond doorkeepers checking IDs for certain buildings/nighttime security).

Much less did I expect it's an ecosystem you could make money with. My university had 35k students and got by without such things. If something was amiss you'd call regular police.

What sort of need does dedicated security address? I can see it for university buildings who store dangerous materials, but doorkeepers would address that just fine. I don't see why you'd have some sort of pseudo police force students would call with an app rather than calling the actual police.
I built a simple self hosting micro blogging platform which can also ingests rss feeds and turn them into posts (lamb — it’s in alpha) so that could produce a master feed and hook nicely into this.
Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop
Does the language make a huge difference here? In a distributed system a signal to be sent over the network travels at the same speed whether it was transmitted by a C or Python program, right?
That's because in military operations your failures tend to be existential.

Companies with monopoly positions have no such outlook on their operations.
You can attend all events without signing a form, I’m pretty sure no one would also mind if you volunteer without being a member.

The form is only a thing in case you’d like to support a registered nonprofit and has no influence on your participation.

(EDIT) there are also events in the city, Munich Database Meetup, which are less frequent.
CPU got too fast so let's run interpreter inside interpreter.
> Completely left undisturbed is the ugly and true dichotomy caused by ever more extreme wealth imbalance across most of the world. Zuckerberg at one point seems to bemoan that even his very well paid employees cannot afford housing in San Francisco, as if this were the crux of a major problem.

Except a hugely important point is that Zuck and Thiel are arguing that Boomers are responsible for policies that exacerbate the huge wealth inequality by transferring wealth from younger generations to Boomers.

The SF/CA housing crisis is a perfect example. Boomers were able to buy property when it was affordable and new developments were still being constructed. Then they made it nearly impossible to add new housing stock, so you have people who could afford a small, nice house on a blue collar salary in the Bay Area that now goes for 2-3 million, transferring all this wealth from younger (poorer) people just starting out to landowners.
I guess so, but who would force it for a dead thread, that the person you're responding to will never see? Maybe they're using a completely custom HN client tbh.
It's not an accident. Both big-C capitalism and socialism are the rule of the strong over the weak. They are tyrannical, where "tyranny" means rule for private self-interest instead of the common good. In a society that makes self-interest the highest and only principle of the land, the result will always be that the strong will, out of self-interest, come to dominate and use the weak for private gain. Hierarchy, rather than becoming a structure by which the common good is secured and by which each person can play their part, becomes a structure of domination and exploitation. Socialism is the terminus of individualistic capitalistic error, consummated in the grotesque error of egalitarianism. Your society is effectively made the supreme corporation.

We should want subsidiary and solidarity.
Taylor Swift looking at you....
You cannot throw things into wasm and call it safe. It is wholly irresponsible. You need to do the work to ensure it's safe to a theory and in practice.
AFAICT there are 3 broad steps for creation of "green" methane.

- creating H2 from H2O
- concentrating CO2 from either the atmosphere or the waste products of an industrial process such as cement production
- creating CH4 from the H2 and the CO2. AKA Sabatier.

This paper uses H2 as an input, so is only talking about the last step. A cheaper/better Sabatier is nice, but AFAICT it's the least expensive step of the three.
CoreWeave CEO: The World Is Dependent on Nvidia
Isn't modern EDA software sophiscated enough that it can place transistors as it sees fit, rather than rely on standard cells?
Just decided today to re-read the entire series.
quickjs with wasm can be considered secure before different system apis are introduced
I like your approach and think it sounds very balanced. Creating and preparing for a high quality talk is quite a lot of work, so it’s maybe a bit unfair to expect people with jobs or startups to do them for purely altruistic reasons.

A talk that is mostly substance but contains a quick plug here and there has always been reasonable to me. It’s also a lot more effective for marketing than just giving a blatant product pitch, so it should be a win-win.
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They took care of it:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/16/david-kelly...

Oh, and this whole thread was in HN's first page just a moment ago and now it dissapeared. lol
They should have put the second order on the books immediately. All companies have a ledger. Failure to understand the use and management of this ledger causes these types of problems.

In the articled example, you could put something like a "buy back" on the books, so while your budget is temporarily reduced to benefit the company, the end of year shows the same amount you _would have_ spent, so next year you don't have to fight uphill for "more money."
Their Mastodon is less active than Twitter. But both don't have an update on the downtime.
doing this on a broad scale is a great way to get sued
Here's a whisper-generated transcript of the first episode for people that prefer text:
https://nopaste.net/boom_transcript
> author wishes to use the distributed lock service for some purpose that's not well served by distributed locks

Exactly. It should be clear that a distributed lock service has a finite, and low, overall rate of progress. It obviously cannot be in the critical path of every transaction globally. But when using it for events which rarely happen, such as electing a new master of a partition of a database, or some other thing that happens once a week, then the low throughput is not an issue.
Not to mention that the “top 10%” shifts year-to-year as much or more than HYPS admissions.

Talent _development_ requires substantive feedback, or at least substantial visibility into the competition versus a binary outcome. For example, tell Founders if they have the substance or right fidelity but poor sense of timing. (And market timing often in the hands of the VCs anyways).

Without real feedback, it’s much closer to a real estate license than an academic math program.
I'll reply to each comments as fast as I can. You can also drop me an email @ alvis@designlabb.cc

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What's SerenityOS's stance?
They merged a PR to replace males pronouns https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/24648

If I understand correctly, there was just a social media mob calling the project transphobic over the use of a couple of "he" in the documentation, that is uncalled for.
>If a user is tricked into running malware

...then it's over.
yeah, but it's not high performance, which was my original point.

I spend a lot of time optimizing stuff developers thought was "high performance" and they're scanning a 100gb+ dataset on every page load.
Yes, as part of teaching one topic, teachers have to tell students to "not worry about" some other related topic and just take it as given fact, even when that's not technically true
Paraneoplastic syndromes are not rare buddy.

> My appeal to you would be to allow more disruption in this space

No. There is far too much disruption that we don't want/need. If you want to help, go put yourself through medical school first, and then bring your CS knowledge to supplement it.

Jumping in when you haven't learned the basics wastes everyone's time like you have here.
Also, ads. I guess the shorter the time is between clicking the play button and the ad starting, the more people will have "seen" more of the ad before deciding that the video isn't worth watching the ad.
In my case the users were just really happy we solved the problem, I don't think they would care if it ran on minecraft redstone.
So how about disallowing YouTube embeds and requiring users to upload videos?
> Search interest obviously isn't a direct correlation to name recognition

No, it is not, but I'm willing to admit that my antipathy towards spectator sports may have led me astray here.
> subjective impressions of the effectiveness of instruction are unreliable

Yes, common finding in studies that explore subjective vs objective measurements of learning under conditions involving "desirable difficulties":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desirable_difficulty
>we're talking local construction workers FFS.

But you don't fix that by offering tax breaks to well off laptop tourists from abroad. You fix that by investing in those construction workers and giving them tax breaks.

>Observing the tug-of-war HN votes on my post, some people must have taken that footnote as a cue for their ideological warfare du jour. Poor-vs-rich! Pitchforks now!

You seem to be victimizing yourself over nothing as people are allowed to have diverging options. It's not due to poor vs rich ideology as you imagine, is that those rich people you root for and the ones Portugal attracts don't contribute much to Portugal's economy or success but on the contrary help cause gentrification.

Investing in those construction workers that left might be better than investing in some foreign web devs who are here just for the partying and tax breaks.
I worked at a 6 person startup with 2 hour weekly all hands where we went over dashboards, metrics, and KPIs. We had over a million in funding and less than 30 users. It was hilarious. I put in my 2 week notice 6 weeks in.
This was obvious to any statistician working in the area, as the same thing happens with gene expression in virtually any tissue. There are also seasonality effects in gene expression, and even in microbiomes: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan4834

Accounting for these covariates is important. But with larger sample sizes, they might cancel out anyway. IMHO, larger studies will be reproducible. There are other much more serious technical issues.
The solution to the SF/CA crisis - and indeed, to 'gentrification' more generally - is for people to vote with their feet and move out of SF/CA. There's plenty of "second-rate", cheap cities which are seen as "second-rate" only because people have yet to move there.
> The article mentions the model doesn't work well on things that it has not seen in its training data, which makes the whole argument of AGI spontaneously appearing given more data a bit unrealistic.

It seems like we're talking about two different things.

If you understand what ChatGPT is, and what it can and can't do, then there's no problem. It's a useful tool. If you think ChatGPT is AGI or it's going to replace actual programmers soon, then there's a problem.

To me, it sounds like the issue is mostly unrealistic expectations.
> TFA author - I have worked on low-cost embedded systems. (Tens/hundreds of megs of RAM, not KBs.)

I worked with kilobytes, small team, everyone sat together. No one was hoarding resources, because just to ship out the door we had to profile every single function for memory and power usage!

IMHO Hundreds of MB of RAM isn't embedded, it is just "somewhat constrained". :-D Regular tools run just fine, you can use higher level languages and garbage collectors and such, you just have to be a little bit careful about things.

When you drop under a MB, but are still expected to have a fully modern UI, then things get interesting. (I wrote up a blog post about my experiences working in embedded @ https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/cooperative-multitas...)

> Researchers actually have a limited and smallish hardware budget, so academia is likely to come up with cost-saving ideas even when hardware performance grows very quickly.

Agreed, but I also think it is difficult to determine when forward progress is stymied by too many resources VS too few!
> Succinctly; socialism within, anarchy without.

Great essay. I feel like I read this 20 years ago, which is the last time I read the Culture novels. My impression at the time, which remains true on reread now, is that the idea that a post-singularity, post-scarcity society would organize itself along something like socialist lines makes no sense to me, and isn't well-supported (by my recollection) in the novels I read. This is a universe where, if you want, you can just fuck off and have your own planet. It's a place where everything is taken care of for you, not through the thoughtful allocation of resources for mutual benefit, but because it's trivially easy for a machine to just give you everything you ask for. There is no need to even think about who owns what, because everyone can usually have what they want, go where they want, do what they want. I see the anarchy, I don't see the socialism.
Dispatch from a Writing Shed
“Reaction time” isn’t really a single value: it depends immensely your own attributes (age, experience, level of alertness or fatigue), on what you’re reacting to and how you react to it.

Under certain (admittedly very specific) conditions, people can view an image, categorize it, and indicate the category with eye movements, all within 120ms.
Here’s one demonstration:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004269890...
Alternative explanations exist: the subject is actually controversial among people, and your line of reasoning here supposes that all people are on the same page WRT the conflict, when in reality they aren't.
Totally. Many of the biggest tech companies are using for core use cases. Stripe uses a modified version:
https://stripe.com/blog/how-stripes-document-databases-suppo...

We use MongoDB’s cloud offering called Atlas as our core DB at TableCheck.
Doomsday Prepping: Reactionary Behavior or Inherited Instinct?