skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically speaking, it also makes using and querying that data and doing any kind of analytics much, much more expensive. It is done that way in some cases, but in the absence of a technical requirement to do so, there are cheaper approaches.
We've done it too, first time it was hard but it's required and recommended.

It raises the bar for low effort hackers and improves security.

I disagree with the op. Sorry mate go through the casa audit and get the access .
Awh that's legendary, thank you so much! Will be looking into all this. Great stuff
Whoever figures out broadband over utility lines is going to clean up.
If you hire using LeetCode, you will surround yourself with people who enjoy blogging about LeetCode in their free time.

LeetCode was never about LeetCode, it was always a stand in for culture.

It's now a signal for baseline compliance. That's generally good for companies that require mostly operationalists.

The problem is that anyone can learn to leetcode. If you're interested in doing something new and not just warehousing CS lawyers, you're gonna have to ask better questions than that.
It is a typical example of "I'm right so I should be allowed to bypass the democratic process and do whatever I want" thinking. It's quite dangerous.
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If they are connecting to Google Drive, is that not connected to the internet?
Modern cars don't last. You crash them three or four times and the wheels fall off.
I was wondering about this myself. The Loper Bright case (removing the Chevron deference) makes me wonder if the EPA can do much of anything to enforce this. I'm not that smart about laws and definitely not a lawyer, so I have no idea what I'm even questioning, really.
White House Cybersecurity Advisor Calls for Ban on Using Insurance Claims For
Yes, a single variable notification in code, could cost THOUSANDS just because someone would punch ONE card with the new data, compile it (with no errors), save it on a cassete tape, (write the label of the tape with a new version number) and deliver it to the customer. There were no monitors. Computers would have a "BOITIER" (a rectangular box of coloured lamps) who coould have 3 meanings, ON, OFF and BLINKING. We're talking about 16 light points, and the interpretation of those lights would have the answer for the completed action. 3 whites and 3 reds would mean "No errors on compiling". But that action only verified syntax. Logic was another department :)
> For whatever it's worth: I'm guessing our politics are very similar.

I intuited that, which is a reason why I think this is a worthwhile debate vs debating with someone who doesn't have similar basic values about our shared humanity. Thanks for your thoughtful responses!

> I'm pushing back on the idea that Oak Park was open to Nazis in the 1950s and 60s. It was not. What there was was a rapid influx of Germans after the war, and not even 1/4th the knowledge we have today about the Holocaust and Germany's conduct during the war. The fact is: people in Oak Park had the (reasonable!) assumption that if you were allowed to immigrate into the US, you were not a war criminal.

Clearly, once it's known that someone is a Nazi war criminal nobody wants them, in no small part because no community wants to be associated with the Nazis in particular, but yes also because Nazism is deplorable, and it is the law that Nazi war criminals must be deported.

I can't look into the hearts of people of 1950-1980s Oak Park to know what they really thought or felt. I can't demonstrate what motivated them to accept migrants whether goodwill, humanity or any other number of factors.

However, arguably WW2 caused people to be repulsed by the word Nazi, their actions, and their associated imagery, more than the nuances of the ideology itself.

That incongruity persists, and there is still widespread ignorance about the connections - both explicit and thematic - between Nazi ideology and America's own history of racism, as recent high profile events in politics and society have demonstrated.

> And I have no doubt that at every point from 1948 through 2024 that a Haitian immigrant would have had a far different experience in Chicagoland than a German one.

That's my main point.
It is easier for a person like this to pass in the specific context of American white suburban society if nothing else is known about them, vs someone who comes from a different racial and ethnic group.

Conversely, it is not a coincidence that the false claims about Haitian migrants in Ohio were started by a local Neo-Nazi group.

Overall, I feel Oak Park should be commended for how open and welcoming it was to this person, while not knowing his true history. The same charity ought to be extended to anyone fleeing strife and willing to work hard, contribute, and follow the law. (and PS I know I'm preaching to the choir of you).
Shrinkage was a workers benefit!

I don't think normalizing petty theft is good, but taking away 'perks' is still unpopular. Imagine the riots we'd get if FAANG workers couldn't take snacks home with them?
Speculative results with statistical likelihood are still highly valuable to the right buyers.
It's almost like the incentives at Google are misaligned, who knew.
Uber has a rating mechanism. They do not have transparent pricing and have a history of building tools to misrepresent their activities to legal authorities so nobody can trust them not to play games with pricing at any time in the future.

Better than cabs were 15 years ago but we should expect more transparency.
That's because I'm responding to her substack post, not the article. The substack post references Les Miserables and that professors are sounding the alarm for students not finishing it. Presumably, if professors are upset that students aren't finishing it, they are assigning it to be read.
I work for a company managing a team that has built this for GDPR compliance.

Customer submits a deletion request. We have a fan out process that takes the deletion request and submits it to a bunch of different data locations. All of these must respond within 2 days (though the required time is 72h). Each of those data locations will queue up a job to remove access (soft delete) the data, and schedule a hard delete for 28 days in the future. If the customer says they don't actually want the data to be deleted, we cancel the data hard deletion and revert the soft delete. If nothing happens the hard deletion goes through.
> Another issue besides tearing up the whole front yard (our line is 8' deep) is it would likely destroy the ancient ceramic sewer line. An upgrade can get expensive quick

Normally you're supposed to put away 1-2% of the home's value into a repair/maintenance fund. That way you won't get hit too hard for all the random crap that crops up when owning a house.
WikiProject AI Cleanup
I pretty wholeheartedly disagree with this entire sentiment. For some people making a game engine isn't a monumental task, but implying that it's easy seems like an out-of-touch sentiment. There are many people who love making games but who aren't software devs that are enabled to make whatever they dream up via by the plug and play nature of game engines.
The fact that we still waste fortunes pretending we can ban drugs, despite the drug trade preserving every single time without fail, irks me to no end.
I have an old school Roomba - no Internet/Wifi capability. None of what you said is that helpful.

Obstacles: Not sure what kind...? It's either a large enough obstacle that it will bounce off and continue vacuuming, or small enough that you should probably pick up.

Zones: Solved with the virtual walls that come with the old style Roombas.

Schedules: My Roomba has it - no need for networking.
And if you have hard water, stainless steel will still oxidize (rust).
Yes and no. If congress has granted the EPA authority to regulate water to ensure it's not bad for you, then someone needs to determine what "bad for you" means.

Previously, under Chevron, the courts would defer to the EPA as the experts to make that determination (with the understanding that congress could always pass more specific legislation if they felt the EPA was overstepping its granted authority)

What the Supreme Court has said is deferring to the agency is going too far, and that if congress wants specific things regulated then it needs to be specific in it's legislation. Prima facie that makes sense, except for two major problems: congress is not productive enough in passing legislation, and congress are not the experts

This means that when questions like this arise, it comes to the courts to be the ones who end up interpreting the statutes and making the determination on what "bad for you" means.
I had the same thought: Just eye-balling the graphs, the result of the subtraction looks very close to just reducing the temperature.

They're effectively doing softmax with a fixed temperature, but it's unclear that this work is going to do better than just learning a per-head temperature parameter.

c.f. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04245 which shows an improvement by learning per-head temperature.

The other way to think about this is that it looks like a hacked-up kinda-sorta gated attention. If that's the case, then doing softmax(alphaq_1k_1^T - log_sigmoid(betaq_2k_2^T)) might be better? (where alpha,beta are learned temperatures).
love this, never saw one. writing a lot of boot code this looks amazing to me :D definitely another hole to happily tumble into, thanks
Look, they were kicked off for their content. I hesitate to call their content "viewpoints" but it's become roughly synonymous with speech so I guess it kinda fits. Regardless, I'm happy they did it. I think there is room for "exception that proves the rule" type behavior. When the bridge too far is literal Nazis I'm okay with considering AWS to still be politically neutral. No ToS violation (which was flimsy at best) needed.
lead is extremely toxic even in small doses, microplastics are comparatively a non-issue.
Off the top of my head… cars are perfect,
Independent, mobile, distributed, self contained radio platforms. Travellers in cars need timely, relevant information during large scale disasters. Travellers in cars are frequently in areas that are underserved by other communication systems.

Cars are already nearly universally equipped with sound systems that include 99 percent of the components to make a good AM radio, and the cost of adding this capability to existing designs can be less than a dollar plus the antenna.

While following popular guidelines for emergency preparedness is a great idea, this is an opportunity to create a public good and a means (listeners) to maintain the required infrastructure for a robust, improvisable, resilient, nation-scale emergency communication system that will be there regardless of the level of preparedness of the average, clueless individual.
We store all our financial data in Greenwich Mean Dollars.
That take is predicated on the assumption that the govt will always side with the union. Ask ATCs from the 1980s who the govt tends to side with when it comes to critical infrastructure.
I have built systems for a lot of EU companies, and they all took GDPR compliance very seriously.

Maybe some mom-and-pop shop would bodge it, but any serious business has legal council and wisely listens to them.
There’s no way for someone on the internet to reach into your Transmit app and make it do something.
"Cabbies, unfortunately, cannot work for a negative wage. Uber can pull that off then. And so, for 14 years, they never turned a profit. Losing hundreds of millions a year."

I'm not even talking about the wage aspect of the business. Before Uber and Lyft, getting a cab was inconvenient. Mostly telephone or hailing it in-person. Uber and Lyft forced them to innovate. There are now apps available to get a cab in almost every major city.

Why did it take the Uber/Lyft disruption to get something like this? Because the cab companies didn't need to compete and the unions kept this monopoly in place.
Not anymore.

Or rather, judges have been given the power to make technical interpretations of law rather than just looking at the broad meaning of a law and leaving the technical interpretation to the agency.

See the overturning of the Chevron decision.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/supreme-court-strikes-dow...
But what will it be replaced with? HDPE? If it’s plastic based, it seems that instead of lead we’ll get microplastics and other plasticizers. Neither are good. At least with lead is that if the pH is correctly maintained than I believe the risk is actually negligible. There isn’t anything you can do for plastic to prevent its leaching and degradation.
> But it also intimidates folks into not sharing some really good stuff.

Do people really care what some other Internet rando thinks about their book preferences? FWIW (though of course could be missing some), I haven't seen any recommendations that have been dumped on. Heck, your comment recommending "junky fantasy books" is currently #2 for me, in a very long thread.
New Technique Slashes AI Energy Use by 95%
That's true for all free stuff. It's a pain to constantly monitor if the service is still free, and a pain to keep migrating.

Web hosting is very cheap - especially for static sites. Much easier to pay and forget about it. I've used my provider for 20 years.
I too hated my last minute scheduling when I was working retail while in college, but it's also equally ridiculous that benefits like health insurance are tied to an employer in the first place.
Wouldn't a blog be generally simpler and, thus, generally comparatively a better candidate for a "static" site than "a social network application"?

The Hacker News pages are "static" -- correct?

For my startup's Web site, I wrote the code in ASP.NET and made the site "static" before I heard about "static": So, "static" is okay with me for what I did write. When I finally (whew!!) go live, I hope the candidate users will not mind, or even notice, that the site is "static" and not single page. Today, do nearly all users expect a "single page" site and not like "static"?

Last time I checked, my pages send for ~44KB per page, and I'd guess that that is comparatively small?

If only as a user, a single page site can be amazing, subtle, surpising, not really intuitive or obvious, but by now there may be millions of such sites with significant differences between any two, thus, requiring users, by try it and find out, to learn how to use the site. In contrast, a static site seems to stand on a history of computer interaction, e.g., with the standard controls -- text boxes, check boxes, radio buttons, links -- that go back to some IBM work for the airline industry and the 3270 terminals and that by now maybe 3 billion people understand immediately, and if so then that can be an advantage.
>Are you sure comments are still desirable? Isn't step 1 of the internet anymore "Never read the comments"?

It very much depends on who you ask. As a reader, I always check the comments on an article. It's easily 75% of the fun of the Internet to me, more so if it's a shitshow. I can understand not everyone feels the same. I've been hearing for years from many different people how Twitter is a garbage dump, but to me it's no worse or better than any other place where people can respond to each other.
How much was the external audit they are now requiring? As it's most likely not based on company revenue, it's obvious that it's less of an issue for bigger companies who can afford to pay an auditor for their stamp of approval and task a person with talking to Google over a few months every year.
I'll take microplastics over lead any day.
Brilliant, I had seen Project Sandcastle but it hadn't popped into my head since acquiring this little old machine. I'll absolutely look into if it can be done on the 6, cheers!
If you can't afford to buy starbucks every day, I'd really question your ability to buy a private jet. However, that doesn't mean that being able to afford to buy starbucks every day is sufficient to being able to afford to buy a private jet.
No mention of the surest counter-strategy: Drive a car that is just too old to have offending technology.
My thoughts exactly. Sad.
Don't know why you'd bother. I, and my friends, and soon my family are in All of Us. We'll be in every genomics dataset you want.
I've been running frigate for a while now and I find it's object detection has a higher than preferred false-positive rate.

For instance, it kept thinking the tree in my back yard is a person. I find it hilarious that it often assigns a higher likelihood the tree is a person than me! I've needed to put a mask over the tree as a last resort.
Fines for non-compliance with GDPR regarding data of European citizens can amount to 4% of annual revenue:

83(5) GDPR, the fine framework can be up to 20 million euros, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of their total global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.
I think they look at the overall impact not just one single thing. a lot of people invented backpropagation independently but after that their impact was low. Hinton is like everywhere when you look at the state of machine learning now
Insidious was the right word. Thank you!
Mildly tech-savvy people make weird choices. Pointing at thicker laptops and calling it outdated and unattractive, for example.
If there is an CoolBar grab handle (which is UX hint), it should be functional and not just work as a click site to play the video ;)
My concern is that people aren't building their own horses the minute it becomes feasible. The farrier now seems mystical and occult to a generation even though they're more than capable of picking up the tools themselves.
I have seen plenty. The key is to take frequent backups and aggressively delete older backups once you know you won't be restoring from that backup. Also, don't appropriate backups to do other things, such as audit logs.
Why would they when Homebrew was amateurish compared to MacPorts built by Apple engineers? (For e.g. it didn't follow accepted unix conventions or macOs conventions on installing libraries for a long time. See this discussion thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818192 and this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34844292 for more details). But credit where credit due - the founder is a better marketer than developer and more people know about Homebrew than MacPorts.
I got 5/1000 :)

I reloaded the page and I got back to 0 :( :( :( :( :(

Pleas add and autosave feature using cookies or something.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of better.
American Water shuts down online services after cyberattack
You can easily put compilers on Android. Put the whole system on it if you want https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula
People are convicted all the time without any "proof" of guilt. It all goes to "beyond a reasonable doubt" and with enough circumstantial evidence, that "beyond" can be achieved.
I read the letter and it sounded like the "Bush Doctrine" of preemptive aggression. The claim is that Russia is by nature aggressive (based on a very long-term historical trend that does not include its current regime) and so aggressive action against Russia is warranted, regardless of the current government or any existing treaties.

The aggressive aspect of NATO is also minimized, which I think is naive.

I was in Ukraine in 2016 and saw the US fighter jets flying formations on Russia's doorstep. Calling that "defensive" is absurd. We now know that since the 1990s there has been a US goal to aggressively expand NATO mainly to suppress Russia.

The problem with this strategy is that it does not care at all about Ukrainian lives. As someone with family in Ukraine, I do not want my country (the US) wreaking havoc in the region. Thousands of Ukrainians are dying every single day right now, all because the US doesn't want to respect Russia's security zone. Mearshimer calls this the US nostalgia over the "uni-polar moment" when the US was briefly the only superpower.

Too much of the modern notions of American exceptionalism rely upon biases from that brief moment in history, to everyone's peril.
Think mine is one of my favorite purchases ever, turned something that used to take me close to two hours into something I don’t even have to do.

Bought a lidar one too (BotVac) so never had to worry about camera feeds and it’s smart about navigating the rooms, not even connected to the net.
Book Review: Countdown to Launch by Ralph Hollis
We rocket enthusiasts all know Werner von Braun and Willy Ley. This
first-person account in "Countdown To Launch!" introduces another
rocket pioneer. Raised in the post-war midwest during the nuclear
missile race, living within the circular error probability of a
military base strike, Ralph Hollis led a group of high school students
to design and build two-stage rockets. One of these was capable of
reaching 35.000 feet and returning gently to earth using hand designed
parachute mechanisms. Ralph used very primitive computers to help in
the construction of vital U.S. missiles such as the Minuteman III and
ring laser gyroscopes for submarines. Joining the pantheon of Werner
and Willy, Ralph Hollis give a first-person pioneer insight we rocket
enthusiasts thirst to hear. If you love rockets, you need this book.
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It wasn't even that expensive. Ada security audit from tekta in Spain was under 4k.

There's nothing like a racket here. The list of certification agencies goes from KPMG at top end to smaller companies.
Those are solvable problems. I could also argue how address space separation and more generally MMU protections make things so, so much more complex (they do!), yet we don’t question that one very much.

There is no end to end encryption involved here, so you don’t need to resort to such voodoo as homomorphic encryption.
Can we just skip all the Atlas shrugged swellhead arguments? They take up all the air in the room/(scroll in the page) of every best book thread. Just bump it up if you agree, provide an alternative if you don't.
Before you make a deletion request, make a subject data request and see what they have on you; then request deletion; then make a subject data request again.
I’ve read this is because they are in a legal conflict with Khronos for a while already
nothing about working with locales, or text in general, is basic. we were decades into working with digital computers before we moved past switchboards and LEDs. don't take for granted just how high of a perch upon the shoulders of giants you have. that's exactly how the mistakes in the blog post get made.
Protein Optimization 101
The Google "support" black hole even exists for their high budget ad customers. I've seen a case where things went into the Google support black hole for a company spending a few million per month via DV360 / Google Ads. Nothing anyone could do about it, campaign blocked, work with "support" to fix it.
Lead limits are in the text of the law, as they should be. So no need to cry wolf.

Section 1417 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) establishes the definition for “lead free” as a weighted average of 0.25% lead calculated across the wetted surfaces of a pipe, pipe fitting, plumbing fitting, and fixture and 0.2% lead for solder and flux. The Act also provides a methodology for calculating the weighted average of wetted surfaces.