skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got to love the mindset of the "old-school" cybersecurity folks.
> NYC's subway had 2 billion riders last year. How many of them do you think were victims of a crime while riding?

I ride it daily to get to work and there absolutely is a crime problem down there. Even if you're not the direct victim you'll see things and thus know that the crime is real. The NYC subway crime thing isn't just some made up thing that people don't have experience with.
PineappleCAS: A generic computer algebra system for TI-84 CE calculators
it's even worse. it's not theirs (it's the users'), they are merely hosting it and using it (ToS gives them a fancy irrevocable license I guess).

so they can do whatever they want with it and the actual owners/authors have no chance to really influence Reddit at all to make it crawlable. (the GDPR-like data takeout is nice, but ... completely useless in these cases where the value is in the composition and aggregation with other users' content.)
Okta – Using DuckDB to lower query costs
The app on ios is dreadful...
We got a very sophisticated Amazon gift card scam delivered by the post. Be wary!
I can’t do basic sums even when scrolling before bed.
Cause low regulation always worked well for companies with billions of dollars evaluations lol.
Tech bros promised to be cool and play safe. “Just trust us, bro!”

Classic US policies, if all goes well companies get all the money and benefits and if it goes wrong taxpayers are gonna cover all damage and clean up the crap after corps.
> authoritarian

Thank you for using this term instead of calling Singapore a dictatorship (as many others are wont to do). It's a much more accurate description of Singapore's style of governance.
poor things:)
One could argue that neutron stars are nuclea... If so, at least nuclea production doesn't stop any time soon. Probably you wouldn't call it an atom though...
Kind of ... there's obviously a lot of things that states can do with positive ROI. Infrastructure, policing, etc.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/wh...
I can't believe they don't have a recording/video of the noise and noise level readings. I don't doubt there is noise but I'd like to better understand what they are hearing. Also, what about crypto mining is noisy? Is it massive fans or pumps for water? What am I missing? Actual mining is loud, that makes sense, but this is a datacenter, why is it so loud?
It's not really monopolistic if the same offer is extended to other, smaller companies: https://openai.com/index/openai-and-reddit-partnership/
I had a personal email server on linode for a while but a lot of my family uses gmail. Gmail wouldnt accept my emails and I ended up switching my domain to a commercial provider because it was such a pain in the ass. Never did mass emails or marketing, just my own personal use
Humans also would probably be very likely to guess 2 r's if they had never seen any written words or had the word spelled out to them as individual letters before, which is kind of close to how lanugage models treat it, despite being a textual interface.
Basically every single word out of Mr Worldcoin's mouth is a scam of some sort.
# .top phishing websites / # .top websites total

vs

# .com phishing websites / # .com websites total

make educated decisions
A Uniform Name Service for Spring's Unix Environment (1994)
Story / rant warning.

I remember seeing an unhelpful hyperlink for the first time. It was a random word in the body of a random tech site that redirected to a list of articles from that site tagged with that term.

I remember being stunned, my expectation was that the link would lead me to another website, one that would be an authoritative source on that term and freely accessible.

20 years later we get a paywalled article about fragmented web – and we’re not slowing down.
This really makes me wonder about the value of TLDs in general. Let’s say that “gmail” is a well known enough name that “gmail.com”, “gmail.org”, …, “gmail.top” should be reserved by default. If that’s the case, then the value of separate TLDs becomes interesting because two companies “abc.com” and “abc.top” would now have competing concerns. It seems like only small companies would then be open to phishing, and large ones would possibly be able to use trademark law across all TLDs. In fact large companies tend to try and reserve their name in all major TLDs.

I’m not really arguing for or against greater or fewer TLDs, but it does seem like an awkward situation.
Not sure if this is being downvoted because it's incorrect or bad investment advice, but I am interested to know if or how INTC stock price will react to this.
Is there a country on earth where amphetamine is legal?

Re. ethics check out OC in this thread
>> Also NEVER walk on ground that has no vegetation.

There are also places on this planet where toxicity issues preclude vegetation. If there are fumes coming through the soil so powerful that grass doesn't grow, take the hint.
Show HN: NoteTech – Create personal automations by writing notes
I speak 5 languages and lived in many countries, and I got my first car at the age of 30.

Here's another fact: not a single large transit-rich city in the _world_ has faster commutes than the US average. And car-rich Greater Houston Area has faster commutes than ANY other megalopolis.

Surprised?
I'd argue that it is completely useless. They have the actual parser that runs in production and then a separate "test parser" that doesn't actually reflect reality? Why?
I think you should look a bit deeper. Your comment seems to imply if you would just suck it up everything would be perfect but I'm skeptical that it's true
Until I was ~12, I thought 'a lot' was a single word.
To help keep track of the race, I put together a simple dashboard to visualize model/provider leaders in capability, throughput, and cost. Hope someone finds it useful!

Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1foc98Jtbi0-GUsNySddv...
I was surprised that such a distinctive word shares its root with words for diverse things - philosophy and minerals, along with the topic of this thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=intitle%3A%22Por...
To be fair, I just asked a real person and had to go to even greater lengths:

Me: How many "r"s are in strawberry?

Them: What?

Me: How many times does the letter "r" appear in the word "strawberry"?

Them: Is this some kind of trick question?

Me: No. Just literally, can you count the "r"s?

Them: Uh, one, two, three. Is that right?

Me: Yeah.

Them: Why are you asking me this?
Real geniuses are typically humble: Dirac, Einstein, Von Neumann…
Monday was hottest recorded day on Earth: 'Uncharted territory'
I believe Brave Search is also starting their own index. There are some tiny independent indexes too:

https://www.crawlson.com/
https://search.marginalia.nu/
https://wiby.me/
https://searchmysite.net/
> I don't ask someone how many r's there are in strawberry by spelling out strawberry, I just say the word.

No, I would actually be pretty confident you don’t ask people that question… at all. When is the last time you asked a human that question?

I can’t remember ever having anyone in real life ask me how many r’s are in strawberry. A lot of humans would probably refuse to answer such an off-the-wall and useless question, thus “failing” the test entirely.

A useless benchmark is useless.

In real life, people overwhelmingly do not need LLMs to count occurrences of a certain letter in a word.
Surfacing and underscoring obvious failure cases for general "helpful chatbot" use is always going to be valuable because it highlights how the "helpful chatbot" product is not really intuitively robust.

Meanwhile, it helps make sure engineers and product designers who want to build a more targeted product around LLM technology know that it's not suited to tasks that may trigger those kinds of failures. This may be obvious to you as an engaged enthusiast or cutting edge engineer or whatever you are, but it's always going to be new information to somebody as the field grows.
that's great. enjoying the ux so far.
How does that change anything about my comment? what does "available weights" change about the system being closed source? additionally, they have the developers, the second they figure out a way to achieve AGI or something close to it they'll take it closed source, this is just outsourcing maintenance and small tweaks.
FWIW, we inquired to the reddit sales team about paying for data sometime last year, as we do similar elsewhere for use cases like helping emergency responders, and even though they were launching the program and asking for customers... no email back. Nor on our second and I think third attempt.

I'm not sure what to make of that.
Not sure if it's ever been made official, but I'm pretty sure they look to see if your parents or close family have had an existing long term relationship with them. That's how I was able to qualify for Platinum, even though my credit score wasn't the greatest at the time.
Insertion Sort is usually the quadratic sort used for small lists, is there a property of bubble sort that makes it better here?
This. It's a mac port of the iOS app. Using the API.
jerks can slow you down drastically. worked with someone who was a genius, but couldnt move in a direction until he proved everyone wrong. it felt like every decision took hours to move on. even low impact ones.
Japan to give U.S. the data it gathers for active cyberdefense
Who would you consider to be not real geniuses? Elon musk? Steve Jobs? John Carmack? What makes one a genius "real"?
This is also my perception using it daily for the last year or so. Sometimes it also responds with exactly what I provided it with and does not make any changes. It's also bad at following instructions.

GPT-4 was great until it became "lazy" and filled the code with lots of `// Draw the rest of the fucking owl` type comments. Then GPT-4o was released and it's addicted to "Here's what I'm going to do: 1. ... 2. ... 3. ..." and lots of frivolous, boilerplate output.

I wish I could go back to some version of GPT-4 that worked well but with a bigger context window. That was like the golden era...
In short - on the CPU the encoders spend more time looking for similarities between frames and have access to more frames of history to find repetitions. Finding similarities is where all the compression comes from.

The hardware encoders are designed to be fast (at least realtime), small (in component count) and power efficient so they usually don't have the ability to do extensive searches for similarities in frames to really squeeze out the best compression. Pretty much all of them are also largely fixed in supported operations during encode so you can't really implement better algorithms with software updates on them.

Making them better would mean growing their (sillicon) size which would make the graphics cards more expensive to produce and take space away from actual GPU cores. Most customers don't buy a GeForce for its video encoder. And once you'd grow them enough, you'd get something similar to a CPU anyway.

And this is how we get back full circle - even enterprise "encoder-in-a-box" providers have lately gone from boxes with ASICs in them to essentially seling proprietary servers with normal CPUs and proprietary OS on them. With the current prices of 64-core+ CPUs, it just doesn't make much sense to design ASICs and HW encoding blocks for these types of encodes.

Realtime encoding is, of course, another game.
Here's hoping the person who winds up with the naming rights is a proper nerd. I want it to be called something fun, like vibranium, adamantium, or midichlorium.
I'm typing this on a 96GB RAM Framework 16. It's a nice machine, I recommend it.
This isn’t a car misfiring. This is a large eruption of tens of feet in front of you. Even primed to anticipate geysers, this needs be setting off alarm bells. The quicker you can assess danger and override your social instincts that minimize your response in a situation like this, the more likely you are to survive.

Yes it’s easy to armchair quarterback. I have no idea if I would perform any better than those in the video. But we should all aim to respond more accurately when in actual danger.
BE150 is sort of inbetween: https://www.catalog.caltech.edu/current/2023-24/department/B...

"Advanced undergraduate" or "beginning graduate." It's Caltech though so the distinction is a bit meaningless.
Just reeks of incompetence. Do they not have e2e smoketests of this stuff?
What would be User x Role?

Is it
(Name x Password x Role) x (Normal + Admin)
= ?

What data-structure would that represent?
Paris Metro is better (but not a lot better) than NYC in this regard. The thing the two cities have is that there are millions of law abiding people who ride them. The crazies and criminals are like 1% of the people in the system at any given time but there are so many normal people that it's not as noticeable. You go somewhere like SF's BART though and you'll sometimes find there are more homeless than normal people on a train.
older folks struggle with the set up so the efficacy is mixed.
Maybe it starts there, but over time works its way up to better jobs as it becomes normalized.

Also, our current system is already pretty terrible. Generally some recruiter who reports into HR is the first pass, and they generally don't know which skills are relevant, transferable, or important, nor do they have any real ability to assess how experience translates into ability to do the job.
Other stacks I would love to try a startup with:
happstack.com
gnu clog
aidaweb.si
swi prolog
werc.cat-v.org
possibly use happroxy.org and varnish-cache.org for scaling.
What country is that in?
Tech companies have to cannibalize existing revenue to stay relevant long-term. If you don’t cannibalize your own revenue streams, then some other company will figure out how to take your revenue. (Innovator’s Dilemma takes this concept and stretches it out across a whole book.)

That said… Alexa seems like such a waste. It’s like Sony making an MP3 player. Sony Electronics was never going to make a good MP3 player as long as Sony Records wanted copy protection. These are user-hostile decisions that protect the larger business. Likewise, can Amazon deliver an AI assistant that does something else, besides get people to buy more products through Amazon more easily? No, the incentives aren’t there.
X-rays? MM wave is not ionizing and is extremely safe. I'm not aware of any X-ray emission from those devices.
When I started on the internet, in 1987, there were still !(band) addresses. Not for long, but... compuserve had their own format, uwasau.fi was connected to the US internet. GNU (GNU trix Ha!)( before HURD) was distributed by magtape. TLG, The little garden was my ISP.
If you're relying on such superficial disguising, just put your process name in brackets directly, no mount privileges required.

As a general rule, if malware gets root privilege, no other process on the same system (container, at least) should be expected to be able to detect it.
So the A.I. Overloaded making sure it will happen
Why does that graph look like it's upside-down? Shouldn't having more binding energy per nucleon make an isotope less stable, not more? Are the energies implied to be negative potential energy?
What are the good apps that need to be side loaded?
Proton releases a self-custody Bitcoin wallet
Get a continuous glucose monitor. You should be able to convince your doctor to write you a prescription for it. If not, there brands that will do the prescription for you after a quick video call with a doctor (but they're more expensive).

Also the FDA cleared at least one brand of CGM to be sold without a prescription, starting "summer 2024": https://www.dexcom.com/stelo

You should expect to pay $80 - $200 per device, and they last one 14 days, but the insight they give is really worth it.
No, but their release process should catch major bugs such as this. After internal QA, you release to small internal dev team, then to select members of other depts willing to dog-food it, then limited external partners then GA? Or something like that so that you have multiple opportunities to catch weird software/hardware interactions before bringing down business critical systems for major and small companies around the planet?
Jesse, we have to cook!
I hope they patent it, just to draw attention to the absurdity of IP law.
That video though...
I didn't read the paper, but am familiar with: https://mpeg-miv.org/

One challenge here is dedicated hardware support, running any sort of video processing/decoding on the CPU is unfeasible (GPU less so), particularly if the context is a battery-powered device (Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro), with high resolution and framerate (6K-8K, 60fps).

That doesn't even get into the logistics of capturing, serving, and software supporting this video data either
All good, and I also apologize if my objection came across as disrespectful.

This whole 'Open Source' thing is a bigger pet peeve than it should be, because I've received criticism for using the term on a page where I literally just posted a .zip file full of source code. The smart thing to do would have been to ignore and forget the criticism, which I will now work harder at doing.

In the case of a pork producer who labels their products as 'vegan', that's different because there is some authority behind the usage of 'vegan'. It's a standard English-language word that according to Merriam-Webster goes back to 1944. So that would amount to an open-and-shut case of false advertising, which I don't think applies here at all.
Although it is quite surprising that mainly text websites (Reddit, Twitter) are hard to run sustainably but video and image websites (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok) can because it is easier to sell ads against them.
Ignoring neutron stars or exotic states of quark matter, I think conventional nuclei will become effectively unbound to proton or neutron emission if sufficiently massive.
Do you need a very high limit? I pay every other week and my limit is already higher than my paycheck usually is, so I'm not sure what I'd use an even higher ones for?
I'm not familiar with Carmack but the other two are marketers. Clever but certainly not geniuses.
For me the killer app was listening to music while doing the dishes.
Essentially, one mitigates the financial risks through tax credits, grants, and labor subsidy programs. i.e. the initial cash burn is money you would have paid in taxes anyway, or simply not purely your own capital.

YMMV depending where you live, and your groups financial situation.

You would be mistaken if you think only "small" firms operate this way... =)
> This is only an issue if you send commands to a LLM as you were communicating to a human.

Yes, it's an issue. We want the convenience of sending human-legible commands to LLMs and getting back human-readable responses. That's the entire value proposition lol.
Amazon is pretty generally user hostile. We see it in their corporte behavior too. I think for that reason culturally they'd struggle to design a device users want to interact with.
It's great for repeat items. Stuff I've bought before I need more of. Buy "X" and the first item is the thing I've bought before. I use it that way when I know I need it, but I don't want to forget. So I just say it, and it's done and I don't need to remember or record it somewhere or pull out a phone or what have you.

I use it sometimes for new items, usually when I know what I want and I specify brand. If it's not the first item, I can easily see the other options on the screen and it's not much to say to buy the second or third item on the list.
> As a consumer who got in trouble during the 2008 depression, I will note that Discover is less forgiving, and quicker to sell your debt to debt collectors than any other bank.

Discover does lots of subprime lending so that makes sense, sell the debt off quickly to get the most pennies per dollar for the bad debt.
Sometimes I think if you need 128GB of RAM for your application then maybe it would make sense to build a tower/rack server and remote into that with your laptop.

Often, but not always, big RAM requirements like that also involve big CPU or disk requirements that would be impractical in a laptop form factor.
This is quite intuitive. We know that a biological neural net is a graph data structure. And ML systems on GPUs are more like layers of bitmaps in Photoshop (it's a graphics processor). So if most of the layers are akin to transparent pixels, in order to build a graph by stacking, that's hyper memory inefficient.
I think most of us have been interviewed by such people. You know, the ones who grill you endlessly with obscure trivia trying to find that gotcha that proves they're smarter than the candidate, at which point I'm begging to be rejected because I don't want to work with such people.
If you jump off a bridge to your death nothing can save you. If you take something that raises your body temperature it is still possible to compensate.

But yes in that case blunt trauma is the cause of death and the blunt trauma occurred because they jumped off the bridge.
If you’ve been socialized not to really believe anything is really real, and your life is mostly spent in social modulation, physical danger that doesn’t register immediately with the hindbrain can really trip you up.

I know of a scenic overlook someone falls off every couple of years, going well back before the smartphone selfie era.
Why does that matter at all? If I go and create a bunch of legitimate .top domains, is it suddenly better somehow? No, it's still the first of the list, and .com is still second.
Intel's been asleep for a decade. Anyone still remembers how they charged outrageous prices for 1-3% improvements every year during AMD's Bulldozer years? They did nothing in R&D and just kept printing money.

Yeah this is the result of that complacency. Ever since the first Ryzen launched Intel's become more and more irrelevant. If either AMD manages to capture the low TDP and embedded market or ARM improves in compatibility they'll become largely the last choice for anything. They're so damn lucky AMD is fantastic at shooting themselves in the foot.
> The more interesting question about determinism is in which way it is deterministic? Like the movement of the planets? Like the weather? Or like brownian motion? Probably a mix of all of those, but what mix?

Yes, as I stated, if you follow philosophers of the mind, they cover all of these aspects and more. It is hard for me to go in depth without rehashing their arguments so I will invite you to study them.

> there would be no way to test that theory with two separate human entities and no way to make accurate predictions on long time scales, which makes the whole point kinda moot.

Just because this is the case does not make it untrue. There are lots of things we cannot fully test with certainty (in the Locke epistemology sense) that we nevertheless assume to be true. This may or may not be one of these cases, but it does not make it "moot."
I agree the gov't should not censor.

What companies do is moderation, not censorship, and it is their 1st amendment right to do so
For those that do have an Alexa, how does this work? Do you have to haggle with Alexa, and then it picks from the different sellers that meets your haggling? It seems like a much longer conversation is needed than "Alexa, add Tide Pods to my list" as Amazon propaganda wants you to believe.
By this point, instruction tuning should include tuning the model to use chain of thought in the appropriate circumstances.
Driving fast is not safe, because there is the risk of sudden deceleration and death. But you indeed don't get killed by driving fast, you just end up killed.
It's just called "Blue Cash", not "Blue Cash Everyday" or "Blue Cash Preferred". It seems like they don't offer it to new applicants anymore. The only downside is that you have to spend $6,500 before the 5% cash back kicks in for groceries/drug stores/gas stations, though I usually hit that in a couple of months anyways.

edit: more info here https://www.reddit.com/r/amex/comments/12r91y4/what_happened...
How do we know it hasn't?