skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early 1990s before shops had internet access a British company called “CardCast” [1] used non-public commercial Ceefax data channels to multicast stolen credit card data to high-fraud locations such as shopping centres and petrol stations.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/cardcast-in-talk...

I think those private data channels were provided via a BBC enterprise called “BBC DataBroadcast”. Their other users may have been the betting industry - perhaps parent OP might know?
> Mistral is in the EU which doesn't have a stable regulatory regime.

I guess the US's "no regulations ever" can be considered a stable regulatory regime.
Another more historic example in the same mold:

>>If men learn [to read], it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.<<

Plato, 400-300 BC

Basically, learning to read and write would lead to an overreliance and provide only a "semblance of wisdom", rather than "true wisdom".

[0] https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/
Show HN: A database of server administration scripts and configuration files
Yee.. 100% resemblance has yet to be achieved. The current resemblance score is 93%. In the future, it will improve.
> not sure if this matters?

Sure, it doesn't directly affect any practical programming tasks to matter in real life... but sometimes it's good to indulge in intellectual curiosity. It sharpens our understanding of how far a language can go, no matter how futile that understanding is. This is HN after all and "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is on-topic on HN.
No video streaming.

"When users load into the sim, only the textures, meshes, and map data that they need will be downloaded to avoid unnecessary bandwidth and disk space usage. "
And in the behavioral and social “sciences,” the fraud is just off the charts. If psychologists wanted to prove that healing crystals worked — if that was the cause du jour — there’d be journals filled to the brim with “research” “proving” their efficacy.

I spent almost 10 years of my life as a founder of a mental health technology startup and the day we got acquired was a huge relief — I could finally get out of that industry — an industry that is much more about academic politics than actually solving anything. Seeing the maneuverings behind the scenes of the DSM-V, diagnostic codes, etc., was profound enough to destroy any idealism I might have felt towards that industry. (And yes, it’s an industry.)

Luckily in fields such as climate science or virology, there is never fraud. Good thing too since a lot of our governmental policies result from those fields. (And yes, that is sarcasm.)

“Science” feels very much like the Catholic Church — many people with good intentions, but there have been enough people participating in bad things that it poisons the entire institution and degrades whatever little faith people might have had remaining.

Follow the science indeed.
It’s a control failure, not a breach. It would also be an incident, one that could result in a subsequent breach, or one that warrants some work to be done to ensure it does not turn into a breach. But it has not resulted in an unauthorised party gaining access to the data, and is therefor not a breach.
I don't have much to add to this conversation except that what a lot of people don't realize it that 2k, 4k, or 8k, tv means very little in terms of how nice the picture looks. Yes to a point that is important but I always tell people the panel technology is way more important. Some TV's look absolutely lifelike, maybe beyond life like and some sort of hyper-reality. It is like a massage on your eyes watching things on a superior TV. But those TV's cost a lot. A brand I found that is very good for the cost is the HiSense ULED TV's. Costco has them. I love the picture for the affordable cost. Not the best but pretty great. I have an led monitor beside my HiSense TV, both hooked up to my pc and I ran a pure black YouTube video on both side by side and the difference is huge. The led monitor looks grey and is clearly lit up from the back light. The HiSense is absolutely pitch black dark zero light emissions.
There is no real point to this post other then to say I am happy with my TV, it definitely is great for the cost.
FILE* is defined by the standard.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “

– Mark Twain
If there is a job that attracts psychopaths, we should seriously reconsider the existence of that job.

If, on the other hand, there is a job that makes psychopaths, we should really seriously reconsider the existence of that job.
> This is a very imaginative use of the word “breach”

You're mistaken. You might be thinking of breach in terms of "hacking into", but they used it as:

personal data breach

Which accurately means "unauthorised access to personal data"[0] and seem to be the language used by the DPC.

[0] - https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/law-enforcement/guide-t...
I think "predictable" would have been a better word than "stable" here.
Not a CS guy, but afaiu guaranteed termination lowers the automata class to push-down automatons or FSMs, which are definitely not what we’d agree to call general purpose programming languages. In practical terms, they have a computing regime equivalent to that one of regexps of various sorts.
Grand visions are more in service of megalomaniacal egos than actual solutions. They all just paint over the very real complexities of the world and expect things to just work as they envisioned. Just get rid of the sparrows eating grains and it will just be fine! There are limits to what complexities can be contained within one human mind, and with a world already orders of magnitudes more complex than that we need the humility to admit that the vision of one human mind is not and cannot be all-encompassing. I think it is fair to say that the usefulness of grand visions is dead.
Funny, though let's not forget, Google and Microsoft are willing to pay merely for default placement on Apples devices. Here, users don't even get the choice to use an alternative.
This is good news. When I read the news that Apple is going to invest into OpenAI, I was a bit sad because Apple always tries to avoid to jump into the hype trains like blockchain, NFTs, metaverse etc.

Yes, there is Apple Intelligence but it is mostly writing tools, Xcode code completion, an emoji generator and so on. Nothing like something that is going to replace jobs, AGI and so on how OpenAI is marketing their products.
I think it's impossible to say there was no breach, given they were exposed for 7 years.
Soon is what timeline? It's still getting better; as long as that happens, no one is stopping.
Exponential growth brews 1M AI models on Hugging Face
My experience with them doesn't quite fit either: I've primarily used LLMs for giving me hints when I'm struggling with a leetcode problem or similar. They're surprisingly good at it, providing you regularly remind them to provide little clues only.
Most of the times it's when people reinvent stuff from scratch. That's why I'm always careful when people implement their own framework in the next shiny thing. Lack of hashing, CSRF, basic XSS issues happen all the time in rust, golang and especially the node.js web crowd.
We are only talking about "fast" relative to normal planetary timescales.

My understanding is that it would still take hundreds of years for the solar wind to strip away the atmosphere. If a civilisation had the technology to quickly put an atmosphere on the moon, it has the technology to continually replenish the atmosphere as long as that civilisation lasts.

It would never be practical (or a good idea) but a post-scarcity society could pull it off as a vanity project.
Black hole jet appears to boost rate of nova explosions
LLMs will continue to be used by increasingly more developers
> Obfuscated C contest seems to be challenging your view. Or Brainfuck.

Both of those are leisure for experts.
plenty of smart people wasting their lives scrolling through bullshit. you don't use your brain to solve problems if you're never bored and allowing your mind to wander.
Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome (2018)
For 7 trillion dollars we could solve aging, making humans immortal and genetically engineer them to be super intelligent. Instead we’re going to create super-inefficient AIs? At least use the money to fix climate change and other existential threats, rather than creating a new one.
That describes an entirely different incident to the one referenced in this article.
Certainly, apart from light and water and gasses, plants may require certain physical soil properties and nutrients, and possibly other lifeforms to thrive.
FTC sues five AI outfits – and one case in particular raises questions
> I didn’t know (or really care) about this battle

Then why comment on it?
Feds charge 3 Iranians with 'hack-and-leak' of Trump 2024 campaign
You occasionally hear stories about teams writing something in Python, then rewriting it in another language because Python turned out to be slow. I have one such story.

With the excellent Python/Rust interop there is now another great alternative to rewriting the heavy parts in C. But sometimes the performance sensitive part spans most of your program
Yes, but:

* Most of the programs I write are not (trivially) parallelizable, and a the bottleneck is still a single core performance

* There is more than one process at any time, especially on servers. Other cores are also busy and have their own work to do.
NASA paid so SpaceX could follow it's vision.

Who will by pay $7 billions so Altman can follow his?

SpaceX costs were much lower and there goal was to become cheaper.

OpenAI will cost more even with all the chips Altman wants. Those chips need energy.
I would agree. Which is why I’m suggesting that the Irish Data Protection Commission and Engadget should refrain from saying that.

It’s also impossible to say that I am not responsible for a breach of your private data either. How much should the Irish Data Protection Commission fine me?
They have a deep hatred for Meta, so Llama is out
Yes, and CUPS was used on macOS, from which iOS was forked before Apple releases the first iPhone. And from that same year (2007) until 2019, Apple employed the creator and chief maintainer of CUPS, which is presumably how they got their hands on the cups dot org domain. Then (as is typical of Apple's treatment of open-source), Apple stonewalled outside contributions and public releases became increasingly sparse and insignificant. So the creator and longtime ch8ef maintainer of CUPS, now outside Apple, created a new fork under the OpenPrinting banner. Thus CUPS became 'Apple CUPS' and the 'CUPS' everyone else cared about was now OpenPrinting CUPS.

My point was that Apple's language on the website indicates that they probably use CUPS on iOS and iPadOS, not that that language describes CUPS' origins or is informative about the nearly three decade history of of the software or the current landscape of its forks. (Although in fairness to Apple here— a company of which I am not a fan— 'developed by' doesn't mean the same thing as 'authored by' or 'created by'.)
Even assuming the best was done behind closed doors, isn't it reasonable to WP Engine customers to give them notice of at least a few weeks or months that "unless your host complies, you will lose access to WordPress.org updates"?

If Matt can pull the rug on one host's customers without notice, he can do it again. He has been on streams saying no other host is in the doghouse with Matt, but a week ago almost nobody knew WPE was on thin ice.

If Matt didn't do the reasonable thing to warn WPE customers, what other unreasonable things is he capable of doing in the future?

The "reprieve" of a new Oct 1 deadline is still far from reasonable in my opinion to the point that it is further infuriating that he is using it to virtue signal, though it is at least a tiny start of an implicit acknowledgement that he screwed up. But it's a matter of rebuilding trust in the ecosystem now, and I think Matt is still digging a hole, and this can't be fixed until he apologizes, and the governance of the WordPress.org update server is clarified (best case: out of Matt's hands), or somebody more neutral creates a competing update server, fracturing the ecosystem.
This is cool and terrifying in equal measure. :)

What model are you using? Will you produce a local version for those who would prefer more privacy?
Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns with Proof-of-Presence
Even if you don't ignore this part they (e.g. o1-preview) are still better at proofs than the average human. Substantially better even.
My closest Albertsons and Kroger stores are across the street from each other. This merger would absolutely destroy thousands of jobs from redundant locations and remove a ton of competition.
Weirdly, just a couple of hours ago I was trying to find this as an alternative "recommendation" for a buddy whom is digging around in this space. Couldnt remember the name of it, except that I had used it a while back for some simple lottie related work (and a couple of other simple tasks)... After trying various iterations of search terms that included the word "lottie" (and spending much longer searching than what I expected to) I eventually clicked through some link and landed on the Synfig site. And now, coincidently, this post shows up :)

Nonetheless... I have no idea of how this really compares to other tools, but when I have had a need, Synfig was a breeze to use for what I needed it for. Importantly, it was quick to get started with, and without needing to spend hours in tutorials trying to figure out how to do things.
So happy user and all that :)
I'm honestly never surprised by any of this stuff. I've done some contracting and file access is always a shitshow.

Picture this:

> Intern or contractor gets hired.

> Someone runs a script to create the user because permissions have turned into a rats nest that no human can understand

> No one knows how the script works anymore, it's probably outdated and only does 60% of the job

> User is added to a quagmire of groups

> I cant access the Citrix apps

> "Oh you don't have access and I'm waiting on that app owner to give you access, give me a few days"

> Ok it works but I don't have a login for "the program I need"

> "Looks like there's a licensing issue, give me a few days"

> Ok it works but I don't have credentials for the database connection

> "It's legitimately complicated, give me a few days"

> IT gets tired of fucking with the back and forth on this 13 day old ticket "Just give him everything, so he can get X done"

> Get access

> Finally. Let's just dump this out into another file/folder/location so I don't have to go through hoops again and I can actually do my job.

Now that dump is in a remote profile folder or /temp folder somewhere in a 100TB blob that will be backed up for 7 years or more. I've been on both sides.
Oh so the hashing and rainbow table attack questions they ask in Meta interviews is basically a cry for help?
Yeah, I guess "stable" works too, though.
Sure; one of the simplest languages possible, the binary lambda calculus [1] is Turing complete. It has no pointers, no variables, and no data type sizes. Only functions (from functions to functions). Everything else must be built out of functions.

Brainfuck with an unbounded tape length is similarly Turing complete.

I think less esoteric languages like Haskell and Scheme qualify too.

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
The article just lifts the content from the book and doesn’t add anything original. Great. We’ve heard.
But being transparent does not change the fact.
I talked to Kevin Jahns (the author of the YATA paper & Yjs) about his paper a few years ago. He said he found errors in the algorithm described in the paper, after it was published. The algorithm he uses in Yjs is subtly different from YATA in order to fix the mistakes.

He was quite surprised the mistakes went unnoticed through the peer review process.

There have also been some (quite infamous) OT algorithm papers which contain proofs of correctness, but which later turned out to actually be incorrect. (Ie, the algorithms don't actually converge in some instances).

I'm embarassed to say I don't know Isabelle well enough to know how you would use it to prove convergence properties. But I have gotten very good at fuzz testing over the years. Its wild how many bugs in seemingly-working software I've found using the technique.

I think ideally you'd use both approaches.
I was concerned, reading your thing first, that the title (“Meta fined $102M for storing passwords in plain text”) was going to be false—that they were actually only fined for not disclosing the breach. But the article says the decision also claimed a GDPR violation for storing the passwords in plaintext, so that’s good:

> The DPC found that Meta violated several GDPR rules related to the breach. It determined that the company failed to "notify the DPC of a personal data breach concerning storage of user passwords in plaintext" without undue delay and failed to "document personal data breaches concerning the storage of user passwords in plaintext." It also said that Meta violated the GDPR by not using appropriate technical measures to ensure the security of users' passwords against unauthorized processing.
The islands in BNW: "[Bernard is] being sent to an island. That's to say, he's being sent to a place where he'll meet the most interesting set of men and women to be found anywhere in the world. All the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community-life. All the people who aren't satisfied with orthodoxy, who've got independent ideas of their own. Every one, in a word, who's any one. I almost envy you, Mr. Watson."
I take it you mean that like the dotcom bubble? As in The Internet didn't go away, but the investors returned to a little more sensible thinking.
Honestly surprised the trademark wasn't nullified earlier. It's pretty clear the term has become genericised at best, and was in common use before the trademark at worst.

Guess it shows you the dangers of uneven legal resources, since I suspect if the folks whose trademarks were shot down using this had fought back, it probably would have cancelled way earlier.
Salt and pepper? Sure you aren't applying to our canteen?
It's mentioned in nested comments, but (as you'd probably expect) meta does not intend to store passwords in plaintext. There was a bug where they were logging plaintext passwords for some period of time e.g., when someone tried to log in etc.,.
Do you have a citation for this? I did my Phd on this topic 8 years ago, and I didn't completely follow the field after. I'm curious to learn more.
"- I am physically the most disgusting form of existence that ever lived, I am so ugly people vomit when they merely see me. I can't even buy a prostitute no matter how much I would pay.

- I have a condition which makes me physically unable to bear seeing or hearing just 1 second of ads.

- I am immune to propaganda and see the world in undistorted way, resulting in previous point.

- My favorite algorithm is most likely Hough transform.

- It physically hurts me when someone says "the reason ... is because" or "just because ... doesn't mean".

- I immediately turn off any documentary where a woman starts talking as a "scientist"."

Ah, I miss personal webpages.

Reminds me of an article which said that positive side of autism is that autists are impossible to brainwash, and that they are the only ones to speak up in a nazi society -- because they ignore the social cues.
Arguably religion used to provide that purpose but most of the Western world has walked away from it without choosing something to replace that sense of purpose. If, as Marx asserted, that religion was the opiate of the masses then the current "attention economy" is the methamphetamine of the masses.
When you select candidates based on whether they know how to invert a BST and other trivia it's not terribly surprisingly.
With LLMs.

Writing c++ or c code of equivalent python code is wayyy too easy.

I can write code in any language even the ones I don't know.

Just fine the constraints I'll meet the goals 100%.
Scaling up self-attention inference
Making your competitor solely responsible for an important component in your ecosystem is bad news, and ClosedAI is basically an arm of Microsoft only separate to shield them from legal concerns around copyright. (And if the component is not that important, which is possibly the case with LLMs, then why spend so much money and undermine user privacy?)
Nothing. More integrations are coming in the future and the user will be able to pick which one to use. Apple have already reportedly had talks with Google and Anthropic. They went with OpenAI first because that’s currently the best.
> Apple always tries to avoid to jump into the hype trains like blockchain, NFTs, metaverse etc.

What do you mean by "avoid ..metaverse"? They released a premium headset for AR/VR.
BrotliMiddleware
I don't follow Python closely. So why PyPy isn't adopted?
> metaverse

What about the Apple Vision Pro?
Do you mean "Brave New World"?
Where it says that? Its simply that Python releases features in yearly cycles and thats what was completed for release.

Idea is to let people experiment with no-GIL to see what it breaks while maintainers and outside contractors improve the performance in future versions.
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/robert-martin

Part about politics, race, gender. He is insane.
You also can't create actively yourself! TV was definitely a consumer only culture, with all creation heavily gatekept by an entire industry. Compare this to the print culture prior to that.

The Internet definitely has changed this, and now we are back into a creation capable metaphor.
Edited the link out. It doesn't make a difference anyway for the purpose of this discussion.
I wish, but why do you think so? Last decade the flow was from local compute to the server, not the other way around.
Pubs used to be 11-3, and 6-11, give or take, whereas High Street restaurants, that can often also serve alcohol and family friendly, are 11-11, so it's not much of a surprise that they're converging, slowly to the same business model: there's not a pub in my area that doesn't do food, or coffee, or indeed breakfast. If you have a building that needs heating 24 hours a day, having revenue for most of that time is going to help, so a small number of those additionally offer free wifi for the WFH types, which actually seems to be beneficial.

Some of those pubs local to me, that have been purchased and gutted by smaller boutique brewery chains, have been turned into something indistinguishable from a coffee shop - the dangling light bulbs, brickwork, copper pipes. Coincidentally, I'm off to my local #1 CAMRA pub later, and it is much like the article describes. A typical pub. Dark wood, central bar, low ceilings, two bars (saloon and public), darts, and one tv screen. And it will be full by mid-afternoon through to the end of the day, which is unusual for pubs now.

It just seems like the main problem for pubs, and in fact, most of British industry, is costs, and that seems to be the exorbitant cost of electricity at the moment.