skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s just ties back to silicon valley. Does the sector inherently require a processor/transistor?

Cars no
Aircraft no
Pills no
Banks no

Self-driving car yes
Software yes
Fintech yes
Tablet yes

Sure modern cars use lots of processors, but the Model T didn’t. It may seem a little vague around where the line between industries is, but at the extreme things line up quite well.
Could you elaborate on your claim that there's flaws in Motorola's AES encryption?
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That's the opposite of simple.
I think that's happened, a number of times. There was a survey, not too long ago, that (I think) said that most successful startups, were comprised of generally older folks.

However, I like working with younger folks. I enjoy the enthusiasm and creativity. I can provide some structure and help to unwind some of the problems we face, but there's a lot to be said for heterogenous teams.

It's just that, given their preference, people like working with others, that don't challenge them, so you have teams of olds, yutes, women, men, etc.

I worked for a couple of decades, in a company that had very heterogenous teams (people think Japanese companies are a bunch of old men, but I have found that not to be the case).

I feel that, in those teams, the "olds" had a bit too much authority (I was a yute), but it was educational.

I got used to being in environments where I wasn't the smartest person in the room, and I got challenged a lot. Not comfortable, but we did do some interesting stuff.
> snappier term than “declarative on-demand server provisioning, configuration, and scaling”

Quoth the raven, “servermore”…
Not really my cup of tea, would prefer the GPD Duo when it launches.
https://gpd.hk/gpdduotechspecs
That's a proper workstation, only thing I don't know is if the sdcard slot is fully recessed.

Nice to have the second screen as an input monitor as well.
> I'm unsure of the copyright status so I'm a bit reluctant to share it.

I can totally understand that, but at the same time I'd really love to have a look at that as well. Maybe you could reach out to archive.org and see if they'd be interested in hosting a copy?
>Not so for student loans, though.

I don't think we disagree on this. Students, by the nature of generally have no/limited assets, are able to get loans because they are backed by the government.

>As far as I can see it started in and around the 1950s

It took on a completely different character in recent decades, though. Changes in regulation and private loans have changed the rate of debt.

>Mostly a function of what else are you going to buy?

Forgive me if I'm putting words in your mouth, but it seems like you're saying money flows to education administrators and they disproportionately invest in housing. I'd need to see some data backing that up before I draw a stronger conclusion on it, otherwise it's just a neat and untested hypothesis. And you would expect other administrator-preferred asset classes to follow suit. If your stance is that money goes into the economy as a whole, I would expect a range of products to track with student loan increases, but I'm not sure the data backs that up either.
> Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird

France's national bird is the rooster, it's not really a game bird but it's definitely eaten.
Which means any board could be nuked with bots... Kinda reminds me how opposition media got nuked from VK using a similar tactics.
Could probably used against hashtags on Twitter.
Genuinely curious.. in what sense do you not consider SSL to be encryption?
It seems you never tried Phosh or SXMo.
And that's great. But Telegram promotes itself as a secure messenger. And that's a big lie.
If they would advertise themselves as a WeChat / Line for the West, nobody would question it.
Agreed: Most of the computers from earlier eras did not have the speed, memory or disk space to even remotely support most of the CS practices today. The raw speed, multiple cores and gargantuan memories of today's CPUs makes things like AI feasible. Many of the ideas we use today existed in the late 50s and 60s. They simply were not practical to implement.
The page now says AMPEX. Did they read your comment?

p.s. I'm imagining ECHELON flagging your comment and someone from the NSA quickly modifying the document on the sly...
It wasn't hopeless back then. You just had to develop on bigger hardware than the target. Like most other engineering processes.

AutoCAD for the Macintosh was developed on Sun workstations and cross-compiled, for example.
The study about the influence of the ultra-rich on policy in the US is 10 years old, and matters haven't gotten better since: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

It'd not wrong to view "the government" as something that is run by a small group whose interests are not congruent with the majority of the population, and experience shows this.
I noticed in Chrome based browsers that when I copied an image to clipboard, whole UI would freeze. For large images it would become unresponsive for 5-10 seconds.

I dug into the source and turns out they PNG encode it, I believe at highest compression. (The comments indicate this is something to do with how old versions of MS WORD handle transparency..?)

My "workaround" was to change the compression level to 0. Not ideal but I only needed to change 1 byte in the exe, and I was glad I didn't need to rebuild all of Chrome!

Firefox has 0 lag and has the benefit that you can paste directly into file explorer, because they put the original image file into clipboard instead of image data.
I once visited Moscow for a AI coding jam sponsored by the Russian state, and while I was there, there was a Telegram group for all of the students to use to communicate during the jam. This Telegram channel was set up by the state officials.

A small section of Russian students were floored, and responded that they thought Telegram was banned in the country at the time (circa 2017-2018). The state officials laughed and responded that it wasn't any concern because they could read everything in any chat they wanted.

I've avoided the app ever since. I can't say how, why, or when the app became compromised, but anecdotally, I was told that it was and that it was no longer a concern in Russia.

Maybe it was some dry joke, maybe those students were woefully misinformed, who knows. But it certainly broke any confidence I had in the security of any existing messaging app.

I personally use Signal, but that's mostly just because I have personal friends who use it and it's convenient to use on my PC.

Edit: Kinda funny, I only just logged into this site again, and some of my last previous comments were about the same thing.
if they can get the better screen from the pro into an air it'd be ideal
Downloadable software can be doing all sorts of things that you might not be aware of. Recording mouse movements is probably the least of your worries. So be a bit wary about what you download, especially free software from unknown sources.
A big reason copilot spread so fast is because people already trust GitHub with their code - enabling AI doesn't really modify risk. If GH wanted to break TOS and train on your code they could, even without copilot, if you're using GH for private repos.

Any other third party needs to get vetted/trusted - I would be the first to doubt an AI startup.
That's the dream!

There's the "cold" self-referential I, and the "warm" embodied self that persists. Hormones go a long way towards building that second self.
Again, easier to do prompt engineering than to engineer humans. The human also hears the thick regional accent. At least with computers you can control the medium or what they are aware of (maybe normalize the voice, or convert to text).

Every example of bias I can imagine is infinitely more difficult to address with humans than AI models.
> my startup

This is where your a step out of pace.

> by the work life balance mob

And this is where they are missing the boat.

Pay me enough to live, and save, give me a giant cut (not the meager equity of the last 25 years) and a place to show up to 3-4 days a week.

The whole point of a startup, of putting in that work is that you're making a bet. A bet on the idea, and the team, the team is making that bet too. The table stakes for startups have changed, and you're going to need a much more egalitarian distribution for your first 10-50 hires now if you want to attract talent.
Yes, just rewording is enough in this case. It will fail if it tries to be clever with the code interpreter as mentioned.

I used:

"Extract the important dates and times from this pdf in Swedish"

[..]

"Great now generate the content of an ics formatted file, just the text, with the schedule above"

[..]

"Now use the code interpreter to create a file with the above content then save the file as an .ics extension"
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>"sperm-obsessed co-founder of Telegram"

>"possible vector for child sex abuse material"

>"hub for various scams and crimes—but"

What is it? Setting up a mood to make sure people feel that Durov / Telegram are bad? This is anything but even a try to objective journalism. Whoever the author is - fuck you.
Im sure this is on their roadmap, but honestly a pre-requisite should be a separate piece of software that analyzes and suggests changes to your error handling.

This is a cool proof of concept but almost useless otherwise in a production system

I can already feed Claude or ChatGPT my kubectl output pretty easily

Error handling and logging that are tailored for consumption of a specific pre trained model, thats where this will be ground breaking
There is a difference between having code and writing code. For example, sometimes I want to have code that I don't want to write. I often use libraries from package managers for this case. Using existing libraries frees me to write the actual parts of the program that I value (and/or enjoy) while skipping some of the boring parts I do not value (and/or enjoy).

It seems to me that there is a middle ground between writing programs myself and downloading code from a package manager. LLMs fill up some space within that gap.

I think refusing to use an LLM because of "reasons" is the same as refusing to use packaged libraries for "reasons". That is, reasons for both definitely exist but I consider that kind of stubborn intransigence to be a sign of mental disorder.

I recommend simply adjusting the criteria you use to decide when and when not to use packaged libraries to help determine when and when not to use LLMs.
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To clarify, there's no way for any software to do that. You need to somehow validate the keys' ownership out of band.
It is fake, they went out of business and this site is a scam
"Trick" maybe but I think every successful social platform has a body buried somewhere. The two-sided market problem is just that tough.
> I don't see a purpose for documenting it.

Because when it goes wrong you will want to know what it did. When you discover something new, you are going to want to be able to change the runbook. New employees are going to want to learn how things work from the runbook.

Why WOULDN'T you want to document what it is doing? I would never trust an AI that didn't tell me what it was doing and why.
I made a neovim plugin awhile back with that explicit purpose: being a toolbox to assemble your own AI stuff with. I struggled a lot to make AI useful and was hoping if the tools were there to make it easy to play around with, folks would figure out how to utilize LLMs effectively and share their results. Til now though, I'm not sure if anyone's even using the plugin beyond the starter prompts (which were only meant as examples). Maybe the API sucks.. idk.
There's not enough cops to handle crimes committed today, so why is it a question on why cold cases are just sitting there getting colder? How does the budget for that get approved when current cases aren't getting solved? It's really not a hard thing to understand when you compare it to software teams that get shuttered because managers are scared that it is not revenue positive.
It was a Reallybigasaurus. ;)

It's always interesting to watch programs about paleontology and cosmology, and see them tossing around "millions" and "billions," like "minutes" and "seconds."

My mother[0] was a geologist, and our family vacations were often extremely educational. Every time we'd go through a roadcut on the highway, she would point out the layers, and tell me about the ages and whatnot.

Today's XKCD sort of speaks to this[1].

[0] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm

[1] https://xkcd.com/2976/
Beyond Unicode, it should be possible to define a Web Component that generates SVG on-the-fly from a datasource.

Imagine:

<sparkline src="an image or csv"\>

One cool thing about SVG is it can inherit styles from your application, so you can produce e.g. dark-mode aware graphics rather easily, also one of the perks of this Unicode approach.
> You aren't in a position to make that choice when it would need to be made!

As it stands now, you presumably need to make a choice to enable bringing your projected self back from the dead in the first place.
We had, back in the '90s, a 'semantic diff' that ignored whitespace, knew about programming languages, showed only significant code changes (not comments; not empty lines; not refactoring of code into a different number of lines). All I used after that.
> you can't work 80 hours a day.

But you can work for more than one person. Professional athletes and move stars in particular seem to have that figured out quite well, working for many millions, if not billions, of people when they work in a professional capacity. Labour scales quite nicely when doing work that a lot of people want to have done.

Often better than capital, even! The stadium can only hold so many people. He who owns the capital often has less ability to scale than the worker.
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Curious: for this type of infra, what do people use for file/object storage? Using something like AWS would negate all the savings with egress costs.
In what sense? In terms of additional peerings wasting bandwidth proportional to the number of messages? That can be addressed with techniques like erlay ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518 ) though the erlay paper's settings are tuned for lower latency than something like Bitmessage would want.

In terms of the fact that it is just a global broadcast? Not everything needs to "scale" to handling all messaging for the world. Bitmessage style broadcast can support occasional small messaging for tens to hundreds of thousands of users (maybe even millions) without using outrageous amounts of bandwidth.

Not everything needs to be or should be the next twitter replacement.
Someone else here probably knows more than me. I don't want to speculate too much about what it actually does, I just know that the original device takes part in authorizing a new one, so it seems like they can't do it on their own.
Concentration is more likely problem. When there are only a handful of competitors in a geographical area they'll find a way to collude one way or another, even if it's just a signal group or staring at each out while slowly raise prices. I think >=6 is probably the point where you might start to see defectors.
Oh no.

Acorn was - and is - the then famous Acorn Computers. Makers of the BBC computer and eventually the inventor of the ARM processor (first used in the Archimedes range of computers).

Please use another name (end of rant).
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate your honesty and your willingness to share.

> The "explainer" video is trying very hard to be cool

I have been working on a Loom version. Before putting a lot of time into the demo, I wanted to validate that people were watching it (and they are). I quickly put something together in iMovie that would introduce the product in <1 minute, was not trying to be cool. It stings to hear, but I accept that was the vibe.

> it's very busy and information dense ... nothing on the home page gives me enough detail

It has ~the same number of words as Render/Coolify/Vercel, so I will take your point that I'm not yet telling the story as well.
Need the same for companies fixing salaries through third parties where they signal their pricing. It’s all anti competitive.
It really feels like anyone coming down at the extreme of either side of this (the French government and Snowden included) is greatly simplifying a very complex issue.
Here is a better resource by an actual respected cryptographer: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...

One of the links shared by the comment you're linking to points to a paper which concludes:

> We have presented the formalisation of the MTProto 2.0 protocol suite in the applied π-calculus, and its analysis using the protocol verifier ProVerif. This approach adopts the symbolic Dolev-Yao threat model: an active intruder can intercept, modify, forward, drop, replay or reflect any message. Within this model, we have provided a fully automated proof of the soundness of MTProto 2.0’s protocols for first authentication, normal chat, end-to-end encrypted chat, and rekeying mechanisms with respect to several security properties, including authentication, integrity, secrecy and perfect forward secrecy, also in the presence of malicious servers and clients. Moreover, we have discovered that the rekeying protocol is vulnerable to a theoretical unknown key-share (UKS) attack [ 5 ]: a malicious client B, with the help of another client E, can induce a client A to believe that she (still) shares a secret key with E, and instead A shares the key with B. The practical exploitability of this attack in actual implementations is still to be investigated. Our formalization covers also the behaviour of the users, when relevant; e.g., if the users do not check the fingerprints of their shared keys, a MitM attack is possible.
Because we're on HN I'd say that StumpWM being made in Common Lisp may be trotted out as the main advantage. Personally I'm quite fond of it having Emacs-like key chording (it's the keyboard equivalent of a cascading menu versus a flat menu). That said I'm so fond of awesome's tags and layouts that I can't bring myself to switch over (and programming those myself is way above my skill level).
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We need a total revision of the antitrust act to respond to all the ways in which mega corp distort the market and limit competition with it being a full monopoly.
If the initial premise is that an all powerful being created, well, everything. I am not sure that arguing the specifics of how manipulating continents is physically demanding is going to sway hearts and minds.
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So, TOR is illegal?
I understand your sentiment, but I also don't think it's fair to say people are being disingenuous. I don't work for an AI company, I just use it with decent results.

My last project needed a way to tag certain types of business activity indicated in 17,000 user reviews. I wrote a prompt with 5 different tags along with descriptions for each business activity, took a few-shot approach by defining 8 different examples and how I would tag them, and then ran the tagging prompt on batches of indexed reviews, giving it 100 reviews per batch. I did a random sampling of about 200 items, and the success rate was roughly 89%. I could have improved it by doing more iterations, and possibly fine-tuning if I felt that it was worth it.

In every run, it generated matching results for the input JSON in a corresponding output JSON with no errors in any run.

That's the only example I have numbers on off the top of my head.

EDIT: This was using `gpt-4o-2024-05-13`
> The data speaks loud and clear. People are eagerly searching for meaning, belonging, holistic care, and appreciation at work.

> Yet the factors employers think are important are more transactional in nature—things like compensation and flexibility.

Company pays shitty consulting firm to "study" and conclude that they don't need to pay employees more. Shitty consulting firm does exactly that. Pizza parties for everyone!
One of my family members used to have a home out in a forested area, with access to a lake that had lots of fish in it. Not long after the fall of the soviet union, someone bought one of the nearby properties, and started fishing the lake with explosives. Within several years the lake had basically no fish left because of how indiscriminant the fishing method was. The family member and some of the other people who had access to the lake finally managed to drive out the dynamite-laden arsehole, but by then the damage was done. Even 20+ years later the fish population in the lake hasn't recovered.
No, that someone would also be able to indeed receive your messages if there is an attacker in the middle who gave you his public key and is then forwarding the message using a channel established with the true recipient's public key.

Message secrecy does rely on being able to authenticate the recipient's public key.
That makes more sense then. Is it still right to say that they're afraid of a US company being compelled to access data at the request of the US gov when it's stored in the EU, or is it still only trying to avoid EU data actually going to the US during _regular_ operations of a business (paragraph 63)? I feel like it's still a threat if some US employee could access servers inside the EU as a one-off for NSA/etc surveillance?
I'm not sure they are highly correlated. A committee uses the same LLM with the same input context to generate different outputs. Given the same context LLMs should produce the same next token output distribution (assuming fixed model parameters, temperature, etc). So, while tokens in a specific output are highly correlated, complete outputs should be independent since they are generated independently from the same distribution. You are right they are not iid but the calculation was just a simplification.
Sounds great! Any resources on where to start? This thread is the first time I heard from that
It's a tech blog, not that 'objective journalism' exists anyway.
AI can't blush. Also we've seen cops literally arrest sober people for DUIs. Adding AI doesn't really make me more excited
> we think SREs will still find it useful

There are two kinds of outages: people being idiots and legit hard-to-track-down bugs. SREs worth their salt don't need help with the former. They may find an AI bot somewhat useful to find root cause quicker, but usually not so valuable as to justify paying the kind of price you would need to charge to make your business viable to VCs. As for the latter, good luck collecting enough training data.

Otherwise, you're selling a self-driving car to executives who want the chauffeur without the salary. Sounds like a great idea, until you think about the tail cases. Then you wish you had a chauffeur (or picked up driving skills yourself).

Maybe you'll find a market, but as an SRE, I wouldn't want to sell it.
Do you have some suggestion for me to complete the MPC controller? Anything can help! For example: reference rust repo, optimization engine, optimization algorithm (linear / nonlinear). For nonlinear I am deciding between panoc and admm.

It is hard to demonstrate MPC in a simplistic way, but I want to take the challenge!