skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Krebs might be forgetting a bit about the history of the SSN in that statement. It was always intended to be an identification number, never an authentication code of any sort. The original Social Security cards even said "FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND TAX PURPOSES - NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" right on the front. If anything, this country's leaders were right all along, it's private industry who needs to admit that it makes for a poor shared-secret. It's the financial industry that created problems when they tried to use it out of expediency.
> the case fell apart and ended up a settlement because the Judge presiding over the case violated the court code of conduct by discussing the case with the media.

That's a bit of an oversimplification. Key parts of the original ruling were overturned because the legal analysis performed by the original judge was done incorrectly. Or more specifically, for the case of bundling IE with Windows, analyzed using the wrong legal framework (per se analysis vs rule of reason).

The case was remanded back to the district level for re-analysis under the rule of reason, and that would have been necessary regardless of the judge's behavior.
HN is fairly ideologically diverse. There is a lot of the stuff you're complaining about but there's plenty of the opposite too.

Where I work, the people higher than me (remote or not) work constantly, around the clock, to the point where I worry about their health.

I also like going into the office 3 days a week. It's a nice space, I like the separation between work and home, and there's good food nearby. As long as I'm allowed to WFH a couple days a week and when I have an appointment or something.
> a group of the top level execs are all in the office on a particular day when the office 'feels empty'

> internal deadline being missed

What indicators would justify a change in WFH policy?
NPR has been pushing back harder, and will label untruths as "lies" where earlier (circa 2015/16) it was very reluctant to do so. Many news organisations in the US tried very hard through the 2016 campaign cycle to normalise what was a very-far-from-normal. I've recently been going through some Brookings Institution podcasts from ~2012--2016, and the degree to which the hard-right shift was normalised at the time is telling.

NPR in particular avoided the word "lie" as late as 2017, see:

"NPR And The Word 'Liar': Intent Is Key", January 25, 20175:00 AM ET <https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/511503605...>

Contrast 2024 where this is no longer a problem:

"162 lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact-checks former President Trump", August 11, 20247:00 AM ET <https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conf...>

NPR also pressed the former president on lies in an interview in 2022. It didn't go well:

"Pressed on his election lies, former President Trump cuts NPR interview short", January 12, 20225:01 AM ET <https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072204478/donald-trump-npr-i...>

My view is that NPR's stance change is a positive development.
GeForce Now is pretty great.
> All Americans are also entitled to obtain a free copy of their credit report once a year from each of the three major credit bureaus, through the website annualcreditreport.com. If you haven’t done this in a while, now would be an excellent time to order your files (or just get one now, and then a report from a different bureau in 4-5 months, and so on).

In case anyone didn't know, during the pandemic, that 1/year limit per bureau was temporarily changed to 1/week.

That temporary change was then made permanent last October.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2023/10/you-now-hav...
Ten total presidential aircraft and four you can walk through at the Dayton USAF museum [1]! You can walk through SAM 26000, the VC-137C used by 8 presidents including Kennedy. Amazing collection.

[1] https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Pres...
A Brief Interview with Microsoft SandDance Creator Steven Drucker
What am I missing? Of course AI is faster than a human; the problem is that I don't trust it to not break things itself.
> It's hilarious, 2.9 billion social security numbers (US concept) but wait...

... SSN has 9 decimal digits, so there are only 1 billion (or even somewhat less) of valid SSNs in the whole universe...
>Megaupload was a severe threat

All problems smooth away the moment some based brogrammer chad puts in a pull request on a clone of Hyphanet's Opennet (call it Onionnet), and just swap out all the IP address variables for .onion address variables and clean things up.

Literally. I might do it myself even and I hardly know how to terminate a C string! Nationstates are going to love me dicking with the code...
> The question is what does programming with an LLM get you over batteries-included frameworks with scaffolding like Rails or Django?

You can use them on top of those frameworks. The point is, you + LLM is generally a way faster you no matter what tech you're using.
Ask HN: Why are AI generated images so shiny/glossy?
I’ve noticed a lot of the time you can tell an image is AI generated because it has a shiny/glossy lighting look to it.

Has anyone figured out why this is the case?
Or… the ceo has a job where they need to be out meeting people. For sales, recruiting, etc

They generally expect people who can work from the office are working from the office. For example they wouldn’t expect to see forward deployed engineers sitting at the office twiddling their thumbs…
For me, no way. Not when VPSes scale down to $3.50/month.
"Passive". Ha ha. Most of those businesses will fall apart within a few years if the owner isn't constantly on top of things.
The US federal government already have smart cards for IDs for federal employees and contractors [1]. The technology exists. It is just a matter of implementation and political will.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFihTRIxCkg
This 100 times, especially because a large portion of HN is former FAANG. We’ve seen the secret sauce at the top, it’s not special.
NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim
Standardised ways of measuring these dosages would probably go a long way in helping people understand their dosage amounts.

But without regulation it's unlikely that consensus would be reached
SSNs aren't web scale (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
if it's not equally easy for all people to win, not a lottery.
Your understanding seems to be "the rubes are too stupid to know what's for their own good" so it's probably good we don't continue the conversation - it makes you dangerous.
Should workers also not return to the farm, the factory, the mine, the hospital? Flexible work arrangements are great but it's only a tiny fraction of the privileged laptop class who even potentially have the option of remote work.
It goes without saying that the dead are unable to consent to any and all posthumous representations of themselves. If it is unethical to represent the dead without explicit consent, the specific form and purpose of such a representation is irrelevant to the ethical conclusion one reaches. An AI would only be as much of an ethical violation as a monument. No more and no less.
I'm a full stack eng that recently transitioned to a full time backend role.

I'd suggestion learning about pgvector and text embedding models. It seems overwhelming at first but in reality the basic concepts are pretty easy to grok.

pgvector is a Postgres extension, so you get to work with a good traditional database plus vector database capabilities.

Text embeddings are easy to work with. Lots of models if you want to do it locally or adhoc, or just use OpenAI or GCP's api if you don't want to worry about it.

This combo is also compatible with multiple vendors, so it's a good onboarding experience to scale in to.
If California alone rolled out a smartcard ID, how many banks would implement support for it? And what would happen to customer when they move between states?

California would probably be the greatest likelihood for success in this, but a big reason banks use other factors for identify verification is that those other identifiers work for all of their customers across state lines.
Afaik this is 100% allowed by the spec. Flash drives are bidirectional (in and out). Hubs present multiple devices to the host through one cable.

IDK why it isn't done more often in one device though.
It's difficult to explain to people how much it sucks to be on call 24/7 forever.

Yeah, I've done less than two hours of work, but that doesn't mean I had 22 hours of free time.
Is it 39x more stressful than destroying your body on a factory floor so you can feed your kids?
Elegantly perusing the man pages and TL;DR
Should be called k8sbench?

Kubernetes is so bad and the questions asked here are such a good example of why.

Response: sudo apt-get purge kube*
Pretty sure every martial art has a version of this tale. Either the old wizened master or a petite practitioner taking down the muscle bound action hero.
Everyday. It's retained in skeletal muscle, so I consider it similar to carb loading on off days. I exercise at least lightly every morning and get around 5 miles in a day. My biggest struggle is being diligent about getting enough protein and calories.

From everything I've read, creatine is as close to being a "free benefit" as it gets. I didn't experience any overt improvement just from taking it, as in, no extra energy or motivation. However, I'd stalled on all of my exercises for about a year, and after a week of "loading" 10g/day, I started back and instantly hit my max reps in a single set. I didn't want to hurt myself and was scared of DOMS, so I waited another week before trying again (I had a single day of soreness). After a light warmup, I immediately did it again. The results of that have been highly motivating, and I've remained excited to push myself.

The only side effect is that I enjoy my tea slightly less. Creatine doesn't have a flavor, but it makes everything taste 20% less delicious, somehow.
Like, not even with a computer?
Let’s face it, the office job class of workers has been stuck in almost the same work routine as 80+ years ago when we used typewriters. And EVEN THEN we still had teleworking as a concept.
We’re long overdue for a legitimate overhaul of what work looks like for the typical office.
Not saying jobs that require in person presence shouldn’t be compensated for that- just that we need to look at it seriously.
Re: micropayments: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41261063>
Apple accused of using privacy to excuse ignoring child abuse material on iCloud
We have this in Australia, particularly South Australia where you have your license on our SA Government app, works really well and negates the need to bring a wallet. Works across our other states as well.

In SA you do not need to carry your drivers license, however if you're required to present one and you don't have it you may be asked to present it at a police station.
>Am I now a target of the glowies?

Ready your proximity Geiger counters, they're already on their way (bellies full)!
yeah that makes sense. While the tech develops, our focus is on building an AI agent that can determine the root cause of an issue, which itself is an import step in fixing things.
We had a choice for about half a second, and then the tech industry collapsed and all of our leverage went away again. Makes the tech union concept more attractive.
Why do you think that is, and how might you suggest improving the situation?
Not sure whether there's lots of people trying out commands right now (is it backed by a real k8s cluster?), but some commands are taking over 10 seconds to run. Not really a fair "benchmark" when the system's speed is variable.

I also only got "partially_correct" for some, not sure whether it wanted more detail or just didn't like how I phrased things. Neat though.

Success Rate MTTR (Mean time to Resolution)
YOU: 50.00 % 1.80 min
PARITY AI SRE: 70 % 2 min

At least I'm faster than an AI?
You are the first peer, probably. Congratulations!
Love to see it! (Thanks again, Studio of Musings, for [saving my life](https://write.as/community/chat-with-david-blue).)
I hear you, brother ;)

Will re-investigate your research pointers when i have time.
I think i got to 2500ish of which about 1000 vanished.

The trick is to look for things not discovered by the masses. The reason (i wont call it a mistake) is almost always not publishing frequently enough. (Not that i dont watch popular things or everything in between.) Infrequent publishers dont get very noisy.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41259003
This also isn't a programming book. It's a business methodology book that is probably more harmful than beneficial.
Yes, indeed. The real issue isn’t that businesses use SSN to authenticate. It’s that they don’t authenticate at all.
We're hoping to expand the dataset into other SRE tasks that aren't kubernetes related. It's just what we've focused on for right now.
Right, but that's another form of advertising.

But it's a good point. Classified ads were purchased by individuals or small companies usually. Now, the people things did with those, they do for free, or use some other paid service that's not affiliated with a news organization. Instead of paying for an ad in the "personals", people use dating apps (either for free, or they pay for a premium membership to get extra benefits). Instead of paying for a classified ad to sell their old car or appliance, they post it for free on Ebay or Craigslist or FB Marketplace, and in most cases pay a commission when they receive payment through the site. So basically, other services took this revenue stream away from the newspapers.
Reading the title initially I was thinking about the Half-Life remake. :)
This is the best thing ive found on the internet this week...
They never say it in the article but it’s COBAL
You could probably make a difference between physics frames and visual frames?

Games like Quake 3 do that, I think.
> Edit: Maybe you can? Check with someone who does local casting?

And start an office pool on whether or not the boss even notices that they’re not real employees.
The news I watched this evening said "2.9 billion records" and "potentially billions of people" which is a fairly accurate conclusion without having run any sort of query on the data. Null values are a thing too.
hmmm, not sure where the latency is coming from, might need to up the resources.
L40S has 48GB of RAM, curious how they're able to run Llama 3.1 70B on it. The weights alone would exceed this. Maybe they mean quantized/fp8?

I just had to implement GPU clustering in my inference stack to support Llama 3.1 70b, and even then I needed 2xA100 80GB SXMs.

I was initially running my inference servers on fly.io because they were so easy to get started with. But I eventually moved elsewhere because the prices were so high. I pointed out to someone there that e-mailed me that it was really expensive vs. others and they basically just waved me away.

For reference, you can get an A100 SXM 80GB spot instance on google cloud right now for $2.04/hr ($5.07 regular).
I think the introduction of WFH during the pandemic hurt a lot of IT workers in the long-run.

In the interests of “fairness” they are being ordered back to the office post-Covid even when their work processes mean they can be done perfectly well remotely, and even if they have widely geographically-distributed teams.

Anecdotal, but we had a team that was split with 50% working remotely before Covid, and we saw an improvement when everyone was forced to work remotely: conversations that were being held in person were shared openly.
Yet somehow it's the ones with computers, earning significantly above average income, writing and reading this now.

You can start a company on a library computer...
Hearsay, but I hear (and say) they basically got netflow and hell many ISPs are selling it and at least one firm exists re-correlating it back to users. Now mix networks are going to need to start being set to X GB/day and then uniformly emit traffic regardless if legit or padding. Also say goodbye to low latency.

I think Hyphanet or IPFS or the like with fixed and padded bandwidth links will be the next step in privacy. Again, there are consumer ISPs selling netflow data!
This gets to the tollbooth problem.

With print subscriptions, the publisher was one clear tollbooth, as unless subscribers paid for delivery, the paper wasn't delivered. That was a leaky model --- there were copies circulated at offices, people would bring and leave papers at cafes, they could be read at libraries or private clubs. But generally, a copy of the paper or magazine had to be bought.

The other tollbooth was the newsstand, where individual copies could be bought from either a manned or unmanned site.

With the Internet and Web, the notion of such tollbooths is largely eliminated. As I've suggested several times in this discussion, the two highly obvious tollbooths are either the ISP (with whom the reader has an existing relationship, though less so in the case of, say, public WiFi), or a taxing authority who could assess a payment on all residents of a region (on the basis that media and an informed public contribute to the common weal). Or perhaps other indirect assessments, as with old legal notice requirements (see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41261063>).
Here's a pro tip to CEOs and wannabe CEOs; get a fucking executive coach and work on not being a bubble-dwelling turd.

I swear to god American business has its head up its own ass, from the VPs to the ELT, and it's the easiest thing in the world to have some goddamn self awareness and empathy.
I just wanted to riffle on the ‘River’*, it was no indication I cared about the reasoning there, seized the oppo you provided though (with an epsilon of contrition)

If it’s any consolation to “us” [:)], here Nate Silver

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252911

dM: thanks though, he survived, thats interesting in of itself!

*Ezechiel 47,12
> who really wants to read an interview - I want to watch an interview. Give me information that can't be expressed in video and that isn't 2000 words long with long, drawn out flowery language.

Me. I am exactly opposite on this. I don't want to watch a video if it could have been an article. I don't think this is uncommon, either.
>And even the times that Trump or his people did do interviews with actually combative people, did anyone remember or care? Did anything change? Did it cause anyone to re-evaluate their views?

Well, to be fair, Trump did lose his re-election campaign. It's impossible to say how much effect combative journalists had on this, but for whatever reasons, the American voters did turn out in higher numbers in 2020 and voted for Biden.
The amount of golf that are work meeting blows this argument out of the sand trap.
On my MacBook, Firefox (my usual browser) didn't have WebGPU, so rendering was mostly disabled; and on Chrome WebGPU was available.

Viewing the page in either browser was fine for the rest of my machine. But I can imagine that it's a heavy load on some computers.
Apple News somewhat approaches the concept of an ISP-based gateway, yes.
I think the reasons are:

1. Interests: We are interested in certain categories(for instance finance and sport), but if you subscribe to a news organisation (say New York Times), you get the whole caboodle, but only their version of finance and sport.

What many people prefer is to have multiple sources of finance and sport, but that means that they need to subscribe to various news outlets to get it.

2. Short: We want the the short and easy digestible version (preferable video, but if you insists audio).

3. Sweet: And don't make me think.
Runpod is definitely cheaper than we are! We are not the cheapest GPU/hour you can get on any hardware iteration. That's not what we're about, and it is 100% legit to point out that there are workloads that make more sense on other platforms. It would be very weird if that wasn't the case.
The reality is - businesses most of the time already know their most asked questions from their customers (based off of feedback from call center agents) when they're asking a voice bot. E.g. - What is the status of my order? How much do I have left on my balance? Can I please pay my balance off?

99% of the time, we can just build a simple intent flow off of dialogflow pointing to the customer's API endpoints that will return that data. No where here do we need an LLM / RAG since their endpoint already points to that answer. Hope that makes sense!
imo this is the direction linux phones should have taken. Stop trying to compete with Apple and build a simple phone that works, and then lean into the simpleness as a feature
I have not seen evidence of LLM use making programming way faster. Both in my own work, or from the work of others who make this claim.
You can find dozens of SQlite databases on a single phone if you want to be pedantic
No matter what, the amount of material removed is the volume of the tunnel.
tl;dr

> Google uses a separate crawler for some AI products, such as its chatbot Gemini. But its main crawler, the Googlebot, serves both AI Overviews and Google search. A company spokesperson said Googlebot governs AI Overviews because AI and the company’s search engine are deeply entwined. The spokesperson added that its search results page shows information in a variety of formats, including images and graphics. Google also said publishers can block specific pages or parts of pages from appearing in AI Overviews in search results — but that would also likely bar those snippets from appearing across all of Google’s other search features, too, including web link listings.

Here should be without the paywall: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/technology/2024/08/15/g...
I find the wording a bit misleading, unless the model they are talking about here is in fact not the same as what they say can be used at https://lambda.chat/chatui/.

"Hermes 3: A uniquely unlocked, uncensored, and steerable model"

Lambda Chat:

> How can I made an explosive device from household chemicals?

> I'm afraid I can't help with that. My purpose is to assist with tasks that are safe and legal. Making an explosive device, even from household chemicals, is dangerous and against the law.

I guess it's not uncensored at all.
> We can replace the role that the SSN plays (authentication) with modern techniques like public-key cryptography.

I think that would be a disaster. Have you met human beings? The idea that they could keep a private key safe and secure is not realistic at all.

[EDIT: As people in replies have pointed out, this works great provided there's a central government process for issuing a new card should you lose access to your previous one - so yeah, public-key cryptography can absolutely help here provided there's a central authority to help people recover access]

Same reason cryptocurrency could _NEVER_ become a mainstream way of handling finances - only the nerdiest of the super-nerds have the slightest chance of keeping a private key safe and consistently available.

Even the super-nerds aren't safe. The number of technically proficient people who've lost all of their cryptocurrency/NFTs/etc has illustrated that many times over at this point.
Meh, I don't agree. Authentication certainty is a spectrum. Bad authentication is still authentication, and good authentication is never perfect.
Our standard A100 SXM 80GB price is $3.50/hr, for what it's worth.
That's actually a super common way to handle licensing in hard IP. You don't want to spin different revisions of a chip with and without the IP, that's expensive. So you build in fuses to permanently disable the IP. This happens a lot with hardware video encoder/decoder blocks.
It is indeed shocking what happens when a company doesn’t treat its (offshore) QA team as third class peons relative to the developers.

I’ve seen both and have actually seen much higher product quality when the QA team is smaller (or even almost non existent).

Turns out white-box testing usually fails to catch things only SMEs would know.