skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd give a lot to have a graphical development environment which:

- allowed drawing a user interface as naturally as I used to use Altsys Virtuoso (or Macromedia Freehand which I moved to when my Cube stopped working)

- allowed programming the UI as naturally as HyperCard (and to a lesser extent Lisp) "clicked" for me

- was as visual as Google's Blockly (which as BlockSCAD: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ I've used a fair bit)

- exposed variables in a mechanism like to OpenSCAD's Customizer: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Customize...

Currently plugging away with OpenSCAD Graph Editor: https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor but hoping that: http://nodezator.com/ will become a viable option (still a bit bummed that I rolled and crashed w/ https://ryven.org/ though in retrospect, maybe I should try to tie that latter in to: https://pythonscad.org/ )
> wild chicken

This does not exist, chicken is a species made by and for humans. As for cows, pigs, sheeps, most horses…

Most vegan wouldn’t be vegan if industrial farming doesn’t exist.
(Notion employee)

AWS Athena packages Trino, I’ve been using it for some queries like “find all blocks that contain @-mentions”. It’s a great tool.
The issue isn’t doing something to your data, it’s what happens after that point.

People would be pissed if Android make everyone’s photos public, AI does this with extra steps. Train AI on X means everyone using that AI potentially has access to X with the right prompt.
Shocker, Google not going quite far enough with privacy and data access? They talk about it but its never quite far enough to avoid their own services accessing data.

We really need to get to the point that all data remotely stored needs to be encrypted and unable to be decrypted by the servers, only our devices. Otherwise we just allow the companies to mine the data as much as they want and we have zero insight into what they are doing.

Yes this requires the trust that they in fact cannot decrypt it. I don't have a good solution to that.

Any AI access to personal data needs to be done on device, or if it requires server processing (which is hopefully only a short term issue) a clear prompt about data being sent out of your device.

It doesn't matter if this isnt specifically being used to train the model at this point in time, it is not unreasonable to think that any data sent through Gemini (or any remote server) could be logged and later used for additional training, sitting plaintext in a log, or just viewable by testers.
… and that situation will persist until other vendors release consumer GPUs with significant VRAM. Nvidia craftily hamstrings the top consumer GPUs by restricting VRAM to 24GB. To get a bit more costs 3-5x. Only competition will fix this.
Yeah it only works well for narrowly defined microeconomic risks.

However, in sectors like vehicles there's a relatively low risk people will stop car purchases altogether but a very very high risk they'll buy from another manufacturer instead of yours.
Not stored on your device or encrypted with keys only you control, not yours.

I assume anything stored in such a system will be data mined for many purposes. That includes all of Gmail and Google Docs.
Yeah, you just renamed `unsafe`.

`unsafe` is the part where the compiler trusts you to uphold your own invariants, necessary to prevent Unsoundness. For example:

- unsafe fn get_unchecked(index) - compiler believes you will ensure index < length.

- unsafe fn set_capacity(capacity) - compiler trusts you will not set capacity to value that will cause UB. Even if its code boils essentially to set a field - which is safe according to Rust, but may invalidate other invariants preserving soundness.
One of the beauties of Morse is that it doesn't require "high tech radio & communication equipment".
The Book Bag That Binds Japanese Society
It's talking about the quick start systems in some laptops of the era. Explained in details in CRD's videos, as referenced in the article: https://youtu.be/Za_Ul08dtj8
- Lots of arguments over whether AI is "really intelligent"

- Lots of arguments over whether AI is "conscious"

- Lots of arguments over whether AI "has rights"

- Maybe use AI to build new stuff that we couldn't have built before AI?
Tech ears: the place where devs can learn English for free
Nobody living the west is under any threat from CCP.

and you absolute can end up up bankrupt, homeless or in prison from a data breach. Many people have

Also how is are remaining Boeing whistleblowers, how many of them believe their life is safe?
Possibly the first good use of AI chatbots so far since it doesn't really matter if the AI hallucinates. Pretty cool!
I just want to add that gmail has a very sneaky 'add to drive' button that is way too easy to click when working with email attachments.

How long til gmail attachments get uploaded into drive by default through some obscure update that toggles everything to 'yes'?
Artificial neural network approach to finding the key length of Vigenère cipher
Well, we know that the person in question has a low likelihood of working out. As before, other companies, like Apple, tried but were unable to make it work. As his personality demonstrates, and as the testing at Google concluded, he is unlikely to be a good fit for such organizations.

Sure, there is a slim chance that Google could have found the right fit for him in the end with the right accommodations[1], but why take the risk[2] when there are others lined up that are far less risky?

Of course there are no guarantees in life, but when playing the odds...

[1] That would have to be invented. Now you are also relying on the implementer at Google, which brings great risk on the employer getting things right even if the worker somehow magically came risk-free.

[2] Especially when the tests designed to try and estimate that risk raised red flags.
But the number 3 is there just because we decide to calculate digits in base 10. We could encode Pi in binary instead, and since it doesn't repeat it necessarily will never be a point where there will never be another 1 or a 0, right?
> In reality taxes are borne by a combination of customers/employees/owners

That depends entirely on where the money comes from.

If the company does not reduce profit, then yes, they must raise prices and/or reduce employee salaries.

But if we are willing to put the taboo topic of reducing profits on the table, profit can just be reduced without any impact to customers or employees. I realize this kind of talk is blasphemy, but it clearly needs to be done.
> the pricing model seems weird: it's free to create the app, but you pay by the user-hour.

This seems incredible for proof-of-concept prototyping, to quickly validate ideas. And if one of these does turn out to be a good idea, it then shouldn't be too expensive in terms of user-hour to just use it as a reference while building the production-grade implementation.
No, but it’s adjacent to one in the form of where the data comes from.

The modern practice of trading all our data and privacy for free services and convenience is definitely one.

The devil just hasn’t come to collect yet. When we get a more authoritarian government that’s when the bill will come due.
It's an oversimplification, perhaps a proxy for wealth. Russian oligarchs hoarding London property are moving from a poor country to a rich country, but they are colonisers.
I don't think it's _training_ on your content. That would be a whole other (very horrifying) problem, yes.
I don't think `robots.txt` works on the basis of the crawlers wanting to do this to be nice, or "socially responsible" or anything. So I don't hold up much hope that anything similar can happen again.

Early search engines had a problem, which was that when they crawled willy nilly, people would block their IP addresses. Inventing this concept of `robots.txt` worked because search engines wanted something: to avoid IP blocks, which they couldn't easily get around. And site hosts generally wanted to be indexed.

Today it's WAY harder to block relevant IP addresses, so site hosts generally can't easily block a crawler that wants its data: there is no compromise to be found here, and the imbalance of power is much stronger. And many site hosts generally don't want to be crawled for free for AI purposes at all. Pretty much anyone who sets up an `ai.txt` uses it to just reject all crawling, so there is no reason for any crawler to respect it.
C is, in some important cases, less convenient than assembly in ways which have to be worked round either fooling the compiler or adding intrinsics. A recent example: https://justine.lol/endian.html

Is the huge macro more convenient than the "bswap" instruction? No, but it's portable.

> I don't really see what other ones made sense historically.

Pascal chose differently in a couple of places. In particular, carrying the length with strings.

C refused to define semantics for arithmetic. This gave you programs which were "portable" so long as you didn't mind different behavior on different platforms. Good for adoption, bad for sanity. It was only relatively recently they defined subtraction to be twos-complement.

16-bit Windows even used C with the Pascal calling convention. http://www.c-jump.com/CIS77/ASM/Procedures/P77_0070_pascal_s...
it's 2024! if you run your own infrastructure in your own DC and your defaults are NOT:

- to heavily VLAN via load type/department/importance/whatever your org prefers

- default denying everything except common infra like DNS/NTP/maybe ICMP/maybe proxy arp/etc between those VLANs

- every proto/port hole poked through is a security-reviewed request

then you are doing it wrong.

"ahh but these ACL request reviews take too long and slow down our devs" -- fix the review process, it can be done.

spend the time on speeding up the security review, not on increasing your infrastructure's attack surface.
Host it on a private git instance.
It stops the animation for me.

However I think it would be more useful if the figure would say something that converts the user to the signup e.g. "Playtime is over, time to learn" and the button would turn into sign up as well.
I’m dumbfounded that this seems to have gone completely under the radar. Does being passed by Trump make it immune to the culture war? Does it just feel right to people that weed is loophole-legal, such that it seems totally unremarkable?
Cool! Any other sites this works for?
Obviously, there are some cases where it makes sense to use an unsafe block. However, I think there might be fewer cases then people might think.

As an example, both the popular generic self-referencing crates ouroboros and self_cell have had memory safety bugs in them in the past. (links at the end) Both of them were carefully reviewed by experienced rust developers before their first public release, and yet they still ended up with such bugs. Admittedly, part of the issue is that both crates are trying to be more generic, so they have to be correct over a larger range of circumstances.

But still, these crates have one job, are both less than 1500 LOC, and they were carefully reviewed to ensure they did that one job before their public releases, and they still ended up having issues that were not caught. They might still have issues.

Thus, while it might be fine to use unsafe to state that your array of zeros is a valid utf-8 string without a runtime check, it's probably a good idea to twist yourself into a pretzel if the invariants are not trivial to prove and the overhead to maintenance/runtime isn't too high.

[0]: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0042.html
[1]: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0070.html
> I always include a title along with the URL

The fact that people use the HTML title attribute for everything except for including the proper title of the thing pointed to is sort of perturbing. Even for Google SERPs and here on HN, it would be useful to have access to the full thing instead of truncated titles when they appear, but neither site is an exception to the tradition of non-use.
So that means it's on but can't be disabled without using this hacking around? That's not cool :(
I daresay the statistics still favour one side or the other though for most words, even if it's not a whitewash (I also view yesteryear as an abstract time in the past, for instance).
According to Duo themselves its already included in duolingo max -- https://blog.duolingo.com/duolingo-max/
A word of caution: Nightly is not equivalent with Stable. Using a non-stable build, especially one built every day, means there's a substantial risk of bugs and data loss.
It does not contain a battery. It can safely go in an aircraft hold.
There is no boundary on the blast-radius of poorly built websites, and somehow the Earth keeps spinning.
Linus strategy on Rust is genius, albeit immoral. — Don't engage the movement head-on, make concessions where it doesn't matter. — Nobody wants to write drivers? No problem, have THEM write the drivers where the impact is minimal. I believe, if Rust people really understood how they're being used exactly, they wouldn't bother with it, and would go on to write more impactful code. And yet, Linus had managed to execute this strategy perfectly; the insult is subtle enough not to cause major injury.
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today (2023)
Infoseccers claim Squarespace migration linked to DNS hijackings at Web3 firms
While the article itself is interesting, could they not have picked a less... offensive word in "I'd like to point out just how schizo this entire logic is"? Like strange, or weird, or unusual
As I understand it, it is impossible for me to fund specifically Firefox development. I can donate to the Mozilla Foundation, which means a portion will go to, for example, "$30M to build Mozilla.ai", which I emphatically do not want to fund.

Given the firehose of money from Google, how much contributor money from people like me would be needed before Mozilla changes their mind? From my viewpoint, they've built their foundation to expect that firehose, and they don't think user funding is enough - they really want that juicy advertising money instead.

Of the $220M spent in software development in 2023, how much specifically went to Firefox development, vs. the other projects they have?

How much did they pay for Anonym, and how much to integrate Anonym into their systems?

If 5% of my funding goes to 'the producers of Firefox and the infrastructure needed to get it built and released' and 95% goes to crap that make things worse for me, then I'm better off funding something like the Tor browser or variants like the Mullvad browser, where my funding is more directed toward improving my personal privacy.

I'll let them figure out what things to disable so I don't have to watch the release notes with a keen eye every time I update.
Well the AI could hallucinate the meaning of a sentence in a different way than the original, if that happens then it could be problematic.
> I wondered: why can't I use my phone's LTE data to hotspot?

I heard of this 10 years ago, but is this still the case in the US? You can't just hotspot? I thought iOS and Mac devices did this automatically when they were near each other.
GrapheneOS helps here by having no real backup solution at all. Google account is entirely optional

Pixels have first class support

You can also disable Network access to any app

(It's a buggy ride though and requires reading a lot of docs and forum posts)
By that metric, C can't represent ASCII correctly either, because there's no particular reason you couldn't have a NUL character somewhere inside a string.
Entertainment was abundant in the '80s and '90s too, including games and in-person socialization.
Taming the Panthor: OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance Achieved on Mali-G610
Claude managed to write code successfully.

```

DISCOVER HOW TO square_root WITH x, iterations
RUMOR HAS IT
EXPERTS CLAIM guess TO BE x DIVIDED BY 2
DISCOVER HOW TO improve_guess WITH current_guess
RUMOR HAS IT
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END OF STORY

DISCOVER HOW TO iterate WITH current_guess, remaining_iterations
RUMOR HAS IT
WHAT IF remaining_iterations SMALLER THAN 1
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT current_guess
LIES! RUMOR HAS IT
EXPERTS CLAIM new_guess TO BE improve_guess OF current_guess
SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT
iterate OF new_guess, remaining_iterations MINUS 1
END OF STORY
END OF STORY

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END OF STORY

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EXPERTS CLAIM num_iterations TO BE 5

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YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS number
YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS 'is approximately'
YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS square_root OF number, num_iterations

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> if we are willing to put the taboo topic of reducing profits on the table, profit can just be reduced without any impact to customers or employees

We’ve capped profits in various industries before. The benefits didn’t flow to customers and employees equally, they flowed to specific employees and specific customers. (You also see R&D grind to a halt.)

There isn’t a clean technical solution to this social problem, that of redistributing wealth indirectly. At the end of the day, if you want investors’ profits, you have to take them directly.
Hi, one of the authors here! Thanks for your question – you raise a good point about inference and model size.

We touch a bit on potential applications in section 8 of the report ("Future directions"). One of our main focuses is on autonomous troubleshooting agents that can query and reason about metrics. In this context, the size and cost of Toto is considerably smaller than that of LLMs already in use for similar workflows. In future work, we envision using Toto in a multimodal context where expect the time series backbone to represent a manageable proportion of the overall compute budget.

We are also exploring how to use Toto to improve our anomaly detection and proactive alerting solutions at scale, and you're right that more work remains there in terms of inference efficiency.
Pixel 4a with lineage os
> But they don't want to be writing file systems; instead, the only goal that matters to them is getting to the heart of the most popular OS, so as to secure some longterm success.

Wrong final word: security. In the war against remote exploits, harden the most widely used target first.

Rust only exists because getting people to reliably and consistently write secure C++ proved impossible.

(yes I know C++ is a much larger and more complicated language than C)
Really like the idea. As someone who has been losing his limited spanish since college, I've been wanting something like this.

A couple pieces of feedback:

- It would be very useful to be able to get text translations of just one word at a time. Currently, I can give up entirely and have the whole message translated for me. But there's no way to just get help with the one word I can't remember the meaning of

- It would be very useful to be able to hide the text by default. I am interested in this app only because I am pretty bad at listening to spanish. That said, I am quite a bit better at reading it. Having the text always appear ruins my ability to practice listening

- The language selector at the top has 5 vertical bars that can be dark or not. I believe this might be a difficulty indicator? But it's not very clear

- When I speak some words are yellow. I assume this means my pronunciation was off leading the AI to not be very confident. That could also be a lot more clear

edit: fix formatting
Slowly on the way out, but the abacus and school-type notebook are still the weapons of choice for many a shopkeeper across the FSU.
Gender is being used here as "trait arising from genetic sex + behavior". It's not the same as the human social construct, but it is analogous. It's also not commonly used in biology in this way from what I've seen, for what that's worth.
They mentioned the timeframe as 2006-2016. I think they were purposely omitting the recent gains to highlight their point about the unexpectedness of NVDA's stock jump.
Microsoft has actually been a nice investment if you bought in the latter 2010s. I don't remember why I did. Probably I liked what Nadella was doing.
Ideally governments would provide an index of registered businesses with some basic filtering (e.g. location or category of services provided) with a name, address, phone number, and url. Present in random order to be fair.

My state seems to have a search tool, but no list. It also only has name/address (so presumably it's more for serving legal papers or whatever).

If I want to find a plumber, I should be able to ask my government for a list of the licensed plumbers in my area.
I think you're misunderstanding the situation.

Kent Overstreet is the bcachefs maintainer and he's extremely pro-Rust. He has in fact talked about wanting to move bcachefs to Rust, and the userspace tools for bcachefs are already written in Rust.

He's been participating in the mailing list discussions about using Rust / providing Rust APIs for the FS subsystem.

I don't know who you're confusing him with, but you're confusing him with someone else.
Honestly, any language where you are manipulating strings is a footgun. Especially if you are manipulating text, and not character data. You can avoid many errors, but almost certainly not all. And as soon as you have someone that thinks they can piecewise localize any text, heaven help you.
The suggested system would use bootnext to allow you to boot to windows. You could also put something in front of it like reEFInd
It’s just stating the last number of pi they found.
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There's even a keyboard shortcut to do that: from the Files view of a Repo on GitHub type a dot/period (.) and it will shuttle you from .com to .dev.
We Don't Need Managers
On the other side, for people who are interested in Virginia Woolf as a novelist and wanna get fucked up, check out "Orlando".
I worked on RNN and CNN models for text a few years back and I really liked the idea of character or byte-based models but it seems that these fasttext-like token encodings won.
I'm guessing it must be because of some kind of deal between Microsoft and Financial Times. If that's so then probably there are also similar deals with other publishers.

Edit:

ChatGPT seems to disagree with me:

https://chatgpt.com/share/8b85ea2f-86bc-4c63-91fc-e32482c8e5...

(It says that it's more likely just an unintended side-effect of the mechanism that FT.com uses to let search engines like Bing or Google index their full articles.)
I recommend using a well respected browser based password manager, protected by a strong password, and having it generate strong passwords that you never think of memorizing. Web sites that disable that with JavaScript on the password field should be liable for damages with added penalties - I'm looking at you, banks.
Huh... I must be missing some huge bit of information, then.

Using my example, how is the business worth $14M if it's not making, say, $1M a year? If it's not making any money, wouldn't the value be much less? Maybe the current business value is very low, but the land is worth $14M because someone else could make more money with it. In that case, the wisest decision would be to sell it, use the proceeds to pay off the taxes and whatever liens are hanging around, and then invest the balance more productively. Say you have $10M left over after settling taxes and debts. That's still a huge windfall, and anyone living on that farm would never be poor again. Invested wisely, and that family never works a day in their life again. Hell, a risk-free 30 year US Treasury bond is paying in the neighborhood of 4.5% now. That windfall could be turned into a risk-free salary of $450,000/yr, with zero investing skills.
With the up and coming browser LLM API, you could just have the LLM translate everything on the frontend. One of the few tasks that LLMs are consistently good at.
Machine Learning and the Microscope