skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And I'm occasionally one of them (under duress). But that doesn't mean it's necessarily the best strategic move, to remove some of that pain, while keeping the enterprise stuck.

It's a tough call to make, but I suspect one helpful hint is to ask: What does the vicious company want us, the 'competition', to do? Well, to be a half-butted fringe implementation endorsing and chasing their lock-in, which they can then shake up at any time if we ever matter (which has been one of their MOs for decades). Doing what they want is probably not in our interests.

The current strategy is probably aware of that, and maybe focusing on getting a foothold with "legacy" compatibility, while offering a replacement solution option at lower cost (probably not superior technology, nor superior reliability, though both are doable). Or maybe some strategy smarter than that. It will have to be very smart, because the awful company is very good and successful at competitive strategy, has much more funds, and is willing to invest heavily in the long-con.
That site is difficult to read. I try to understand what hive plots are, but it's giving me an actual headache trying to read the text

It looks like they're river/sankey plots, circularized, with node clusters at each layer.

If so, then there really are better ways to represent this than a hive plot: a river plot assuming time-series, or a circos plot assuming not.

Barring that, tSNE and UMAP are decent projections for complex data and can easily convert any kNN graph into one.
Right; I didn’t do any of that because I’m more curious if somebody has already done it. Generally with CS stuff I find there’s somebody who’s already poked around the maze a bit and found a neat path to explore. :)
Why not exactly? The model weights cannot encode a sort of math engine? The hidden state cannot encode carryover values? Why do we assume these things can't happen at some level?
You can control the UI density. Mine is usually set to the most compact setting and I really like the new UI (my only gripe would be the big blue button which could do a lot more).
To What does this wasted electricity turns to, if not heat?
It's HuggingChat (cloud).
Previously discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786004
This already exists. Withdraw from account to physical cash. Proceed to stash cash in “secret” location.

Most businesses don’t even accept cash anymore. Can’t get “hacked” although it’s prone to many other issues — space, humidity, physical theft.
IMO this product makes a lot more sense without the router/wifi portion. Consumers don’t care how the thing works, it’s beneficial enough for many to have a security system like this.
Blancolirio is worth following, in this fan's opinion.
Would it help getting your own domain and using that for email as well?
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The Earth, without humans, has had much higher CO2 levels in the past and yet it isn't like Venus.
I'd say it's more likely for any company relying on venture capital or other external investment or shareholders.

If the company is not privately owned without investors, it doesn't really have control over the actions.
Ahh. The linked article didn't have that detail.

They attributed it to a lack of 2FA
> My thought process is that any on-cat device is going to have a lot of false positives since cats' movements can be so unpredictable.

OP mentioned seizures usually last at least 3 minutes so there might be enough time for corrections (e.g. weird movements for 10 seconds then stopping may not warrant an alarm).

Having some amount of false positives might be desirable, at least at first, to calibrate expectations. Certainly many false positives are worth it when you consider a single false negative could be fatal.
Hypothetically, I am not sure I want this company to know when it is sexy time.
> its smart enough to ignore pets and to know when your smartphone is out of wifi range

this does indeed no seem to be new technology
If I had a dime for every person that's asked for this.
Firefox is the third worst browser, unfortunately there are only three browsers and one is restricted to Apple devices.
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I have gotten into the habbit of removing any software with opt-in AI chatbots. I recently uninstalled iTerm2, and I fear Firefox will be next.
The use case for pg_lakehouse is the following:

You have historical data which you want to surface as a user-facing experience. Companies build their frontends against Postgres, and needing to also build frontends against Snowflake/DuckDB/etc. is a lot harder to maintain than just keeping your frontend built against Postgres and use pg_lakehouse to query it.

pg_lakehouse is not trying to replace data warehouses. Data warehouses are the best tool for internal analytics (i.e. a data analyst crunching large historical data to inform some business strategy decision). pg_lakehouse is designed for exposing historical data in user-facing analytics features (like a dashboard) with a good price-performance tradeoff.

Thanks for your support :)
> Nitpick: the call stack is an implementation detail. It is a way to implement call frames.

Sorry, I was unclear that it was the second half of the implication I disagreed with. I never had the pleasure of a SICP based class, but I did eventually learn the concept of closures (though never in a CS class). Many of my peers were flummoxed by recursion and I personally believe that intentionally avoiding discussion of a call stack was poor pedagogy (possibly because I leaned on my understanding of it when I first learned recursion) that unnecessarily caused people to drop out long before they would ever encounter closures.

> Because that implementation doesn’t handle functions returning closures that depend on the call frame, something that is very common in modern languages, I think we should teach call frames first.

I guess I'm showing my age. Pascal, C, C++ and Java (which at the time lacked not only closures, but also generics) were the only languages I encountered in my CS classes (there was an optional upper-level survey of languages class that I didn't take). I will, however, stand by my general sentiment that there are a large class of people that learn better by learning a concrete example and then generalize to the abstract, and those students were poorly served by the pedagogy I encountered.
How does that work? I'm not familiar.
> Was covid-19 a severe disease or "just a flu"? Does it spread primarily by droplets, or is it airborne? Do masks work, or not? Were the lockdowns useful, or not? Did the border closures help, or not? Did the virus likely escape from a laboratory, or jump to humans from a natural animal population? Is long covid a serious condition, or is it just psychological?

> There isn't a single policy-relevant question about covid-19, where you don't have one camp of highly-credentialed experts in medical science and epidemiology arguing for A, and another camp of equally highly-credentialed experts arguing for B.

A big problem with this is that a lot of these questions had your experts agreeing on the premise but the point being lost with disagreements above the actual premise.

> Was covid-19 a severe disease or "just a flu"?

The answer is both because the flu is also a severe illness, especially without vaccination (however still potentially even with it). So you had one side arguing that we should be treating it like the flu and the other side arguing for much harsher restrictions that we should also be taking for dangerous new flu variants.

> Does it spread primarily by droplets, or is it airborne?

And here again the answer is both. As a technicality it spreads via droplets however it still effectively spreads on very fine, aerosol-ized droplets so within the context of a normal person it's basically airborne (as just being in the same confined space can cause infection).

> Do masks work, or not?

Again the answer is both. Masks are extremely effective at preventing spread of disease. But they generally do little to protect you unless you have very specific types of well fitted masks. So do they work? Yes. Will they keep you from getting sick? Probably no.

> Did the border closures help, or not?

And both again. Did they help? Yes. Were they done too late for true containment? Yes. Did they help slow the spread of variants across borders? Yes. In the way they were done (i.e. too little too late), were they worth the cost? Maybe not.

> Did the virus likely escape from a laboratory, or jump to humans from a natural animal population?

Skipping this one because it's less medical science and more a question for investigation/history/politics.

> Is long covid a serious condition, or is it just psychological?

Both. Long term damage from covid is serious. Especially for those who got the more severe covid variants without a vaccine. But then there's also much harder to quantify damage from covid that sticks around for a long time. And in a lot of cases it looks a lot like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which unfortunately also has the misfounded "it's just psychological" stigma attached to it.

And so the bigger issue during this whole event was that you had professionals trying to hold these discussions at a level that your average American could follow along with from home. This unfortunately meant throwing away a lot of nuance and as a result disagreements over smaller points were reinterpreted as disagreements over the fundamental premise instead.
You could consider that, but focusing on the violent option (curiously so far to the exclusion of everything else) and then beyond that focusing on rights based on capacity for violence may not be the path that comes out with the most benefit to the disabled.
It's not only about hitting a human. Of course you can say the risk is small if you pick the smallest target? Houses, roads, barns, gas stations, and infrastructure makes up a small but relevant part of the land area here. We already have examples of space junk hitting houses, and examples of large junk than expected touching down. If we continue business as is and keep scaling up rocket launches, the risk just keeps increasing until property starts getting damaged. Is it a huge risk? No it's a manageable one. But definitely not a negligible one.
I strongly dislike that movie, but Duvall's performance was excellent in it.
support for ollama/open-ui would be ideal.
What happens online when we die?
except to the extent that your voice may be part of your image, which is actionable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
I keep my credit frozen all the time, but still keep getting alerts about new "no credit check" bank accounts from companies like chime.com. Then I give them my PII again just to verify and close those accounts, even though I don't have any business with them.
And he made the second pass with 500' to spare. Daaaaang.
the optimization could be vaguely interesting if you are implementing a lisp (or some other list heavy language) and don't want to perform too aggressive non-local optimizations to optimize the layout of lists.
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Note that CNCF's Distribution (formerly Docker's Registry) includes support for backing a registry with Cloudfront signed URLs that pull from S3. [1]

https://distribution.github.io/distribution/storage-drivers/...
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Amazing insight!
Maybe I'm missing something, but if you can set os.urandom to a custom function, why not implement your own stateful PRNG in python and patch urandom to point to that? Then you can, among other things, seed the PRNG yourself in unit tests, all from within python and without touching syscalls.
It looks like CDK paid a $25M ransom in crypto to end its outage
Is your objection to the title just political, or does it have red flags for you on the science front? From the outside, it seems like an interesting thing to do to me (incorporating spatial stuff into a kind of neural network, I mean). But I don't know enough neuroscience to know if that's even a sensible thing to do haha.
I second this. I'm so happy I switched to LibreWolf a few years ago. I get all of the benefits of the arkenfox user script, plus even more without having to install or maintain it myself, and in addition to that I get Pocket and various hardcoded telemetry, etc, being stripped out — I can trust them to turn Firefox into an actually good focused browser no matter what Mozilla does upstream.

Plus it doesn't go as far as Mulvad, which explicitly states that they intend down the road to start ignoring user's configuration settings in an effort to prevent users from making their browser more fingerprintable, instead of letting users decide what balance of usability and privacy they want (for instance, I still use Firefox Sync). That's fine for them to do, and I wish them the best to block, because they're not really taking away user freedom since someone can just use an alternative browser, but that's not something I want to use personally. LibreWolf lets me choose.
This is Opt-In. People really need to cool it with the Firefox hate.
Well, it does quite poorly to be honest. The wolf doesn't eat the cabbage, it's just a vestige of the full problem where the sheep existed. If pointed out it will fail regardless.

Try removing the wolf such that there is only a man and see how well it does. I did with but without 4o and it kept on making unnecessary trips where all could be solved in one step.

Try removing the wolf but add the sheep and the cabbage.

It seems to me that if falls of the rails rather quickly.
I find it interesting that in your typical BigCo breach, they are at pains to point out that credit card details were not stolen. I infer from this that something about credit cards, and how they are secured, has real teeth and BigCo's lawyers are trying to stop them biting. Is this PCI-DSS? Maybe someone can comment.

As far as this breach goes, I think it just confirms my gut feel that Snowflake are heading to the wood chipper.
The ability to re-light scenes is a step in the right direction, but their examples use the classic easy scenario of an overcast sky with no strong lighting directionality, which can be faked fairly convincingly using ambient occlusion rather than fully simulating (or inferring) the light paths.
Link dead, but on the track I saw earlier he wasn't even close to halfway to the destination when he regrouped for his second attempt.
Since the quality is pretty listenable, one use case I can see is youtubers who want to do voiceovers on their videos, but not be linked to their real world identity.

Heck, I can even see broadcasting uses. Imagine if every on-air personality had good target files made ahead of time, so then when they catch a cold, production runs their lapel mic feed through this, using the "good" target sample, and remove all the congestion and raspiness.
Many games do happen to be set up this way wrt their input systems if they happen to leverage Steam input. Player actions in game are defined as abstract verbs with concrete input device binding being left to the player / underlying system. Valve is trying to nudge games towards being platonic objects isolated from specific systems (so they'll be readily compatible steam deck, vr, pc etc...). Translating these verbs in an automated way with an agent is an interesting side effect.
When there are no laws regarding it, it is quite simple: you add the prominent end subscription button. When you are dealing with the laws of one jurisdiction, you (or your lawyer) review the law to ensure you meet the definition of prominent, are using the correct language, etc.. Multiple laws in multiple jurisdictions: not only is it more time consuming to ensure compliance, you better hope the laws don't conflict (otherwise the complexity of the solution is going to climb rapidly).
Thanks, I did a quick search and I only saw TPU options.
I know it would be torture to tie a bell around a cat's neck (as they are by nature a stealthy predator) but I have always wondered how cows can grow accustomed to having a loud bell around their neck at all times.
You are right. Nextjs has been terrible in my experience. And some junior developers are reaching for it for any and every project they start, even internal tools that don’t need server side rendering. I spent 2 days implementing auth middleware that clients and server side. Something that would have taken me 2 hours using a SPA. 2 days figuring out cryptic error messages and fight the client vs server model. Ended up having to convert to vite SPA
AT&T is a real-estate company that coincidentally sells telecommunications services. My wife used to work for them and given what she's told me I would never in a million years do any business with them intentionally.
At my previous job I extracted and open sourced quite a few libraries and such, although never the entire application itself.

And I don't think anyone really would have benefited from open sourcing the application either. The code wasn't all that brilliant, it was hard to run, had a lot of assumptions that would only ever be true for us, and we didn't really want to spend the time fixing/optimising that. Tons of other things to do. Practically we would also have to scrub the commit history, do an audit to make sure we really don't have anything sensitive in there, and stuff like that.

One reason I open sourced this stuff was just enlightened self-interest by the way: it enforces "clean" library-oriented programming with clean separations. When I joined there was stuff like "email parser module" which in principle would parse RFC2822 messages, but then would also call models to do a few database things, and nonsense like that. It was all pretty messy, and this hugely improved things.
> I never got the impression that the market ever cares about data breaches. It seems most companies are rarely held financially responsible for data breaches anyway.

This might also explain why there's little visible effect on other cloud database services either. After all, the attack is pretty simple and potentially affects any cloud database that allows access from the Internet.
Not at the same scale. At the peak of the Vietnam War, the US spent less than 10% of GDP on the war. Most of the time it was only half of that (for comparison it’s less than 3% at the moment).

Russia currently spend about 40% of the GDP on Ukraine war ( coming off my memory, may not be 100% accurate). That can’t be sustainable and they will have long lasting impact.
I see this same argument presented by grandparent trotted out when people argue against including tax and fees in the price in the States. Australia and NL manage this just fine, and somehow multinationals and small businesses manage to conduct business that follow these regulations in these countries while still dealing with a patchwork of country and region specific enforcement regulations. And the example I gave is more difficult than adding a cancel subscription button.
A lot of products are "semantic sugar" for saving a click or two. It's a big difference if something is included in an OS or app vs having to know about it, switch context to it and using it every time. Would you use reader mode if you always had to switch to another app and paste the content? Would you use bookmarks as often if you have to click 4 times instead of dragging it into the menu bar?

This applies for this AI feature, but also for any other feature in general.
I've never received charity, but I've certainly received violence, and seen much more of it.
Is that the actual selling point? There are a number of personal music streaming servers that work. I've been using one for years.
what is your ethnicity/background? what is the traditional diet of your peoples?
Well it actually CAN execute the reasoning in natural language (see my other post). You just need to set very strict constraints, because as you point out: especially 4o will really prefer to hare off at the first nearest pattern match. (I hate 4o's tuning).

I mean, we'd get a similar outcome if we first give a human child this problem, and then subsequently hand them an ice-cream. "Clearly the child isn't reasoning or creating the way that adults reason, it's off eating an ice cream". :-P

We can debate whether the machine is smart, or whether natural language requires some level of reasoning as part of the <syntax>. (compare: the type system in rust) . We can even debate whether knowing natural language thus makes the machine smart. %-/

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edit: Turns out GPT-4 (plain) can solve the question if you warn it upfront, and Claude actually recognizes the trap and then solves it. So I guess we've demonstrated that both AI and humans can jump to conclusions based on incomplete or assumed information.
> Parlor tricks are lurking everywhere, and especially in ChatGPT, because of it's high profile and high stakes.

The only way for LLMs to get this right is to be trained on all possible paths of all possible problems, which is not very feasible. That's not really reasoning, you may as well calculate all permutations and add it to a DB and call it a day.
The container runtimes have to cope with Dockerfiles and similar, which know nothing about packages. To get the kind of granularity you want here, you have to do actual packaging work, which is the thing Docker sold everyone on avoiding.

If you are willing to do that kind of packaging work you can get the best of both worlds today with Nix or Guix. But containers are attractive because you can chuck whatever pathological build process your developers have evolved over the decades into a Containerfile and it'll mostly work.
I thought the main way of doing it today was exploiting the terrible HDCP spec to downgrade it to 1.4 which is irrecoverably broken, then rip it from that.
Some other company would release the iPhone then!
Yeah that example came to my mind too.

I suspect there may be trade off undergoing evolutionary selection here, where for some organisms a behaviour is more important from the offset, it's worth encoding more of the behaviour into genes, at what cost I wonder?

It's also possible there is some other mechanism going on at an embryonic stage, a kind of pre-training.

I suspect some of the division is also defined by how complex the task is, or how sensitive the model is to it's own neurons (kind of like PNN). I don't have a well rounded argument, but my instinct is that encoding or pre-training walking is far easier than seeing. Not to mention basic quadrupedal walking/standing is far easier than bipedal, they can learn the more complex coordinated movements after.