skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YCombinator naturally doesn't want divisive content on the front page as it hurts their brand.
It should be web of trust.

You add let's say, up to 3 peoples names and mobile numbers for recovery and then they are contacted requesting to reach out to you to authenticate.

Something like

"You've been added to X's web of trust for account recovery at example.com. If X needs to recover their account, we may ask you to confirm with them that it's genuine."

Then something like

"X is trying to recover their account for example.com. Please contact them within the next Y days to confirm it's genuine and if it is, respond with the the 4 digit recovery code X gives you"

Then from x's side:

"Your web of trust has been contacted. Feel free to contact them now and give them the pin YYYY so they can confirm this is genuine"

This approach pretty elegantly addresses a number of security question limitations and existing 2FA infrastructures shouldn't be that hard to modify in order to implement it.

Probably my favorite feature of this approach is it requires the various security code social manipulation scams to be successful against 2 people instead of 1 which is rather statistically unfavorable for the scammer.
This is why I choose random but plausible answers.

"Mother's maiden name? Cruz-Valdez"

"First Concert? Lil' Mermaid"

"City you were born in? Ubuntu"
Checkout woodgears.ca :-)
Rubber hose cryptanalysis works every time, unless you design your protocol to not have any visibility into the data. Which is impossible in the case of Telegram feeds at the very least.
Use Data Classes
Synex Medical building portable MRI to test glucose
I hate the ones that don’t have a single objective answer. Like “name of your best friend in 3rd grade” or “city where you first fell in love”.
I think it should be the other way around and we should call anime "animation". Anime is just the word Japan borrowed for animation, no need to borrow it back when English has a perfectly usable word for it already.
Hickey is great at trash-talking other languages. In the case of Car you might build a set of builders where you write

Car.builder().make(“Buick”).model(“LeSabre”).build()

Or in a sane world code generate a bunch of constructors.

In the field of ontology (say OWL and RDF) there is a very different viewpoint about ‘Classes’ in the objects gain classes as they gain attributes. :Taylor_Swift is a :Person because she has a :birthDate, :birthPlace and such but was not initially a :Musician until she :playsInstrument, :recordedTrack, :performedConcert and such. Most languages have object systems like Java or C++ where a Person can’t start out as not a Musician but become one later like the way they can in real life.

Notably in a system like the the terrible asymmetry of where does an attribute really belong is resolved, as in real life you don’t have to say it is primary that Taylor Swift recorded the Album Fearless or that Fearless was recorded by Taylor Swift.

It’s a really fascinating question in my mind how you create a ‘meta object facility’ that puts a more powerful object system on your fingers in a language like Java or Python, for instance you can have something like

taylorSwift.as(Musician.class)

which returns something that implements the Musician.class interface if

taylorSwift.isA(Musician.class)

where

TaylorSwift instanceof MetaObject.class
'the underlying “rules” that produce any distribution of data...' is clearly meant to convince the reader that it can produce something we would describe as a "rule", that is, a coherent and comprehensible regulating principle. This isn't just because he isn't being precise enough; he quite clearly wants the reader to understand this as neural networks being able to create a mental model of anything, in a manner similar to how a biological neural network would.

It doesn't, it can't, and it won't in our lifetimes.
> Removable storage should come standard with any mobile device.

Removable storage should come standard with any device.
Interesting, but can't help but question if there's some way to leverage nerf to estimate the keypoints directly, rather than supervise with nerf. It seems a bit likely to be redundant.
Maybe I don't use tvs the way most people do. But the most pessimistic lifetime estimates for my use case on a 30,000 hour panel is 41 years. I don't really see a television as something to pass on to my heirs so that seems like a solved problem for non-commercial use.

I've had televisions fail but it has always been a connector or capacitor that I could replace with a sautering iron and about 46 minutes of disassembly/re-assembly
I collect old laptops.

The difference in brightness and colour reproduction in a pair of 2003 PowerBooks, one used heavily and the other just stored…

It’s quite stark. Dim backlights and washed out colours.
The way I usually do this is with the random article button on Wikipedia, until I find something that sounds plausible.
I'm not on Twitter but in its current form, wouldn't a blocked user be able to see the blocker's posts just by using an incognito window or logging in as a different account?
Well I don't know that one should ignore colonialism, but there was also very much a more open free trade system prior to WW1, than there was fifty years later.
Why is F# code robust and reliable?
According to the graph on this site, ALL countries in the world have very bad water, at least after I move my mouse pointer around the map: all the countries turn orange.
>Try to get it to write something in a programming language not commonly used on the internet, say Forth or Brainfuck, with only the specifications of said languages. Humans are able to grasp the law of reality through a model and use it to act upon the real world.

My Experience with this has been SOTA LLMs generating sensible code at rates much greater than random chance even if it may not be as good as i'd like. I don't see how that is evidence LLMs don't understand anything at all especially since there are probably humans who would write less workable code.

>Not GP, but Image generators have ingested more images that I've seen in my life and still can't grasp basic things like perspective or anatomy.

The human brain didn't poof from thin air. It's the result of billions of years of evolution tuning it for real world navigation and vision amongst other things. You are not a blank slate. All Modern NNs are much more blank slate than the brain has been for at least millions of years.
I haven't read this paper yet, but it does look interesting.

For context, there is a famous lecture by Freeman Dyson [1] in which he studies the question of whether it is possible in principle to detect an individual graviton. He considered a couple of different classes of detectors and his conclusions were mostly pessimistic. The essential problem with many detectors (e.g., something like LIGO) is that any detector that is sensitive enough to detect a single graviton would be so massive that it would collapse into a black hole.

I'll be curious to see how this new work fits into Dyson's framework.

[1]: http://publications.ias.edu/sites/default/files/poincare2012...
Not being able to see someone else’s tweets until you made a different account was always security theatre.
I didn't realize I would have to say the answers over the phone when choosing the answers (and thought it would only ever be me filling them in online)

CSR: "What is your mother's maiden name?"

Me: "do you really want me to say it?"

CSR: chuckling. "Yes, I need you to say it"

Me: "Diarrhea"
could you please elaborate on those views? also maybe speculate on why this is?
> if we ignore everyone under 10, half of all people left would still die before they are 40

Wouldn't it be 50 since the half-life is an interval?
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I don’t want to hand over my pictures to a 3rd party.
Is it illegal, in fact? If a cop saw you, you'd be arrested and prosecuted for attempted auto theft, and your "I just wanted to see how comfy the driver's seat was" defense would ring hollow in court. But sitting in an unoccupied car without authorization isn't trespassing unless it's parked on the owner's land, and I'm not sure what other laws would apply to that specific act.
Information that you can and it doesn't interfere would be useful information.

Having an alternative to Tautili and/or getting more information on my media sounds nice. But I have the media so I can watch it, and if it interferes with that then I am not personally interested.
Iron Winds are Blowing on WASP-76B
Yeah, fancy restaurants will often use non-laminated paper menus that I assume they have to reprint frequently.
>When you look at things that way - LLMs start to seem deeply ground-breaking (assuming we work out the confabulation kinks).

even if you don't work out the confabulation kinks, given what was said by the first post, it still seems groundbreaking enough.

Although I can't figure out why every time I do anything with LLMs it's not worth it, I guess because I am using it for things I am an expert in, it doesn't help.

Actually maybe it's like the article Suggestions from Idiots - https://medium.com/luminasticity/suggestions-from-idiots-6b0... - suggesting distracting instead of diverting is not helpful when diverting is the better word in context, but for someone who doesn't know what word to use in the context or uses diverting when it is not the best word the suggestion is useful.

If that's the case what he got out of Claude is probably not that great, but it is passable, just like the word distraction instead of diverting in the right context is still passable, or when I get back a time conversion function from CoPilot that fits all but a few edge cases, it's just fine as long as the edge case never hits it, then it sucks - maybe there's some edge cases where his LED diffusers won't work quite as well as they could if written by an expert.

Then again it might be that since what he is doing is analog edge cases and tolerance for failure is such that when it does fail it is not as problematic as when a bit of code fails because the computer dealing with the output is not as forgiving as the human eye and brain.
> What’s the moral of the story? Containers are, usually, not the best solution to a systems problem.

That is a wild conclusion to make considering previous paragraph. It's only cheaper and simpler if you value your time at 0.
I haven't yet had the luxury to experiment with the latest version of Java, but this is one of the reasons why I wish Java introduced named parameters the say way kotlin and scala do.

Eg:

data class Make(makeId: String, name: String)
data class Model(modelId: String, name: String)

data class Car(make: Make, model: Model, year: String, ...)

Now you can go ahead and order the params whichever way you wish so long as you're explicitly naming them:

val v1 = Car(make = myMake1, model = myModel1, year = "2023", ...)
val v1 = Car(model = myModel1, make = myMake1, year = "2023", ...)
This is cool... One of the team’s proposed innovations is to use available data from LIGO as a data/background filter...

“The LIGO observatories are very good at detecting gravitational waves, but they cannot catch single gravitons,” notes Beitel, a Stevens doctoral student. “But we can use their data to cross-correlate with our proposed detector to isolate single gravitons.”
The trick is to enjoy confusing humans and share the story of why when you get there. I went to the mall for the first time in a long time, every place wants to sign you up on the mailing list for a small discount. So they can email me at <Name of store>@mydomain this way I unsubscribe and if I see email coming to that address I know which store is the rat. They look confused, ask for 'a real address' well that is a real address I say, and here's why: ...

I get a little thrill every time.
It's probably something that's unexploitable in practice or rarely enabled by default or both if the developers aren't too bothered about fixing it. Sounds like yet another vulnerability that's more hype than anything serious.
The Python core docs are uniquely terrible, though.
This seems like it will be relevant...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
This kind of shape reminds me of the "dot" from Chinese calligraphy. It's a surprisingly complicated shape and kind of tricky to get right, and is the foundation for more complicated strokes.

Here's an example of someone doing four large dots: https://youtu.be/sotKqmaiggQ?feature=shared&t=36
Yeah I would suggest taking a look at PyTorch on AMD before saying stuff like "scaled_dot_product_attention is an NVIDIA CUDA kernel exposed as a PyTorch function", because that is demonstrably false.

Also, FWIW, I would suggest getting a small Llama 3.1 model training fast before trying to do a big 405B model -- faster to iterate and almost everything you'll learn on the small models will scale to the 405B.
I want to see 2.9 x 3.1 meter chips now. Wall height.

Cant it also be a display? Nothing fancy, just rows of flashing leds to illustrate activity would be enough.
Given the IQ requirements for law enforcement, not much human intelligence required either.
I'm using Phosh, GNOME based, on my Pinephone and its fairly good (this comment was written with a tweaked desktop Firefox install on said Pinephone). The lack of powerful, efficent, mobile(read: smartphone), linuix friendly hardware is becoming the bigger issue these days!
Someone needs to fork freetube and add an llm to dehype the videos

edit: just found DeArrow kinda does this - crowdsources titles
Could it have changed since you last saw the system? Because the OP disagrees with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631791
No, the half life for age 10-20 is much higher than that for 20-40 and the exponential function is non-linear.
> Averages are very bad in bimodal distributions

They're bad with multimodal distributions, generally, as well as any random process governed by a distribution with no mean, e.g. Cauchy [1].

(Neuronal firing appears to be non-Gaussian, possibly lognormal [2], which does have a mean [3], but it isn't equal to the simple average.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution#Properties

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6633220/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-normal_distribution
Restricting app filesystem access is easily doable with Flatpak, Firejail, systemd-run, etc. Hardware support and UX are much bigger problems.
isn't Mickey in the public domain now
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In a very unlucky world, they can form a 2D net, with molecules instead of strings and a lot of tiny holes.

If this seams impossible, remember that when water freeze into ice, it expands to a 3D "net" with empty holes.
It doesn’t mean that, it means all the bullshit that people have blocked can now see their tweets.
£34 a month

That’s not nothing and can feel like more than it should cost.
It’s also less than a one sided Xerox at Kinkos, that is cheap relative to historical newsletter costs and within the budget of any business and most organizations.

White listed email servers are what you are paying for. Tools and service are also what you are paying for. A hobby project might not need those, but it is a cost of doing business for a business. £34 a month can and should be passed on to customers. Good luck.
doesn't seem this way?

> Website owners can block all web scrapers using AI Audit, or let certain web scrapers through if they have deals or find their scraping beneficial.

You don't have to make any deals, or participate in the marketplace, "block all" is right there.

And if you are not using Cloudflare, you are going to be abused. This is a sad fact, but I have no idea why you are blaming Cloudflare and not AI companies.
It's definitely incorrect to say that backlit LCD screens don't wear out.

However, it's definitely correct to say that quality OLED screens wear out much, much faster than quality backlit LCD screens.

And as always, garbage-grade screens [0] fall to pieces much, much faster than good ones.

You might also be interested in this follow-up report that was published about a year later than the link you posted: <https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/longevity-burn-in-test-updat...>.

Also interesting is a video that RTNGS made a little while back that I cannot currently find where they took some of the TVs from this test with failing screens that looked SUPER bad in the pictures, and showed them in the video with moving pictures, asking the question "So, hey, can you spot the problem?". For some the answer was an obvious "YES", but for others, no, not at all.

[0] Like dreadfully thin edge-lit ones: <https://www.rtings.com/research/thin-lcd-tvs-break-faster-un...>
> Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”

In my experience, WordPress itself could be called a Cancer to the Web.

The amount of new clients I've picked up who needed help rescuing broken and malware ridden WordPress sites is... well, it's more than I'd like as I really do not enjoy WordPress LOL
> Not yet, according to the devs the plan is to disclose to openwall on september 30 and afterwards the full disclosure will happen on october 6

So I understand this means we will need to wait till October 6 for more details. Would it be safe to assume anything being talked about right now is speculation?
This is actually more commonplace than you'd think. It doesn't seem to be updated anymore, but there is a web site that listed such services:

https://plaintextoffenders.com/
> It mostly is. The biggest gains are in childhood.

The life expectancy of a 60-year old going from 74.4 to 84, or a 70-year old from 79.1 to 85.9, is significant and meaningful. Not as much as a newborn's LE going from 41.6 to 81.1. But far from "pretty stable in the 70s-80s range for most of human history."

Also, recent life-expectancy increases have come from adult morality reductions [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000019/
That's an interesting fact but a weird take away. Of course you can always find an arguably worse candidate selection process.
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Writing people a check and foregoing the theater of employment would also wreck the lies behind the value of our money.

Money has to seem scarce and earning it needs to be by doing things we consider work. Without both, most people would likely realize that our monetary system is one big game rigged against them.
That's funny, thanks for sharing. I was watching his video where he's saying "you can see it right there, look how much calmer it is, it looks like ice" and was thinking "I don't know what he's talking about I don't see ... oh, that ice patch is water"
Title is: PSA: Toronto Hydro is able to see your login password in plaintext.
> authorities don't take care about installing bird/raccoon/bear proof bins

"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists"

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/jx7w1z/th...
I or L
Defold is another great open source Lua-based cross-platform game engine, and has a healthy ecosystem.

https://defold.com/
> Yeah because insurance companies never actually look at real data and just go by their gut feelings on everything.

Just like company execs never go by their gut feelings and always actually go look at real data?

Even companies that you'd think would have everything straight sometimes don't. Assuming that a company that should be a sophisticated actor is ALWAYS doing the correct thing is no less foolish than the converse.
Those wide DECwriters were the standard console terminals for DEC systems in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It is the only kind of terminal shown on the cover and interior of DEC's VAX-11/780 Hardware Handbook [1] (especially see Preface p. x)

We had two of these, for our VAX 11/780 (delivered 1980) and PDP 11/23 (1981).

You wanted a printed record of everything that happened at the console. A system crash would print a register dump and other information that would scroll out of sight on a video terminal (there were no scrollback buffers then).

1. https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece447/s15/lib/exe/fetch.php?med...
I remember this guide, as well as the Binky guide to pointers that was also on Stanford’s website. I didn’t go to Stanford, but nearly 20 years ago I took a C course at Sacramento City College. This guide, Binky’s guide to pointers, and K&R were my main references. These Stanford guides were so helpful!

C was my main language throughout my undergrad years at Cal Poly and my grad school years at UC Santa Cruz; my research area was in storage systems and I used to be a Ken Thompson/Dennis Ritchie wannabe before I got bit by the PL theory bug in grad school. Now I long for modern-day Lisp machines.
You're absolutely right on the strict point of POSIX compliance. I think there's a point to be made though about just stability of the functional/CLI interface, aside from what's technically in the POSIX standards. ripgrep is pretty damn good on interface stability AFAIK, but the other tools that similarly don't try to position themselves as POSIX+/POSIXish compatible, are a mixed bag. It's nice to just have the stable tools you know, and have them practically everywhere (if you include WSL/msys2/Git for windows, etc.). And similarly you pretty much know what POSIX+ features you have on a GNU system (most Linuxes), or a BSD one (macOS, OpenBSD, etc.).

I like having an excellent set of system tools from GNU/BSD, etc., then I can install/use the SotA stuff -- and I'll still end up using both sets of tools all the time, even though one set is not absolute best in class, because I don't have to worry about how to use sota-tool 1.2 on one system vs sota-tool 2.1 on another, when there may be important interface changes.

And to provide the full context going back to my first comment: I won't consider using "performance will be looked at later" tools whose purported benefit is just the use of Rust, pretty much at all.
At the risk of pissing people off, I think you may be better served by a distribution that provides a more up-to-date kernel. Debian 12 will give you Linux 6.1 LTS, which is probably OK if you're using an older Radeon card, but I've heard support for the 7900 XT/X series is a bit dicey and beyond that (e.g. Radeon 890M) non-existent.

If there were improvements on the AMDGPU DRM driver side, you would not see them in Debian any time soon, as the 6.1 LTS kernel will be stuck with roughly whatever shipped January of last year. This is just a shortcoming in the Linux kernel, due to its lack of any kind of stable ABI for drivers.

Of course it is possible this would help nothing or even hurt. My experience running stable (or even newer) kernels has been quite good, though. I run stable or newer across a few devices and run into hiccups not more than once every few years, which is definitely worth it to be able to get new driver improvements years in advance.

(FWIW Debian is not even supported by ROCm[1]... although distros with even older kernels are. But, even if ROCm works, I can't imagine you will get ideal hardware support when running older kernels. I am not sure if ROCm has some workaround for enterprise Linux distributions specifically, but it feels like they must, given how many of their customers in the datacenter are likely to want to use them.)

[1]: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/compatibility/compatibil...