skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is software, though. I have a X200s with 4 GiB RAM from 2009. It was interesting to see how Firefox got slower and slower over the years. Granted, it not only is Firefox but also retard websites which use loads and loads of JS to display static content in the end. In return, it is not like JS didn't exist back then: The XhtmlRequest thingy for dynamic website updates or whatever the name for that was has been added years prior to that.

So, yes, a lot of this comes down to software and a massive waste of cycles. I remember one bug in Electron/Atom where a blinking cursor caused like 10% CPU load or something along that line. They fixed it, but it tells you way more about how broken the entire software stack was at that time and it didn't get better since then.

I mean, think about this: I used 1280x1024 on a 20" screen back in the mid 90ies on (Unix!) machines that are insanely less powerful than even this X200s. The biggest difference: Now you can move windows around visually, back then you moved the outer frame of it to the new place and then it got redrawn. And the formatting options in browsers are better, i.e. it is easier to design the layout you want. Plus there is no need for palette changes when switching windows anymore ("true color"). The overall productivity hasn't kept up with the increase in computing power, though. Do you think a machine 100x the performance will give you 100x the productivity? With some exceptions, the weak link in the chain were, are, and will always be humans, and if there are delays, we are talking almost always about badly "optimized" software (aka bloat). That was an issue back then already and, unfortunately, it didn't get better.
That’s relevant when storing a users password to verify that they’ve entered the correct data, but password managers (which Keychain effectively is, I believe) need to be able to retrieve the original password
Optimising HTML5 Canvas Rendering Performance
I am not an expert on geometry processing pipelines, however Mesh Shaders are specced differently from GS, essentially one of the big problems with GS is that it's basically impossible for the HW, even after all the render state is set and a shader is bound and compiled (and "searched"), to understand how much memory and compute the execution will take, which breaks a lot of the assumptions that allow SIMD machines to work well. In fact, the main advertised feature of GS was to create geometry out of nothing (unbounded particle effects), while the main advertised feature of Mesh Shaders is GPU-driven and efficient culling of geometry (see for example the recent mesh shader pipeline talk from Remedy on Alan Wake 2). It is true that Mesh Shaders are designed also for amplification, and that word has been chosen specifically to hint that you will be able to "multiply" your primitives but not generating random sequences out of thin air.

It is also true however that advances in APIs and HW desgins allowed for some parts that were troublesome at the time of GS not to be so troublesome anymore.
Update. Turns out PyCharm does not play nice with a plethora of symlinks. :(
They mean that the outer 3x3 is unsolvable taken in isolaton. The tricks will involve unsolving the middle faces and solving them again.
The truth isn't a decision that's made, it just is. So nobody gets to decide it, it just is :)
They don't represent everything. In theory they do but in reality the choice of dimensions is a function of the model itself. It's unique to each model.
I think there's an episode about this in Love+Death+Robots
Well, the real problem is iCloud Keychain is essentially a "black box" system. Apple does use AES encryption in various parts of their security architecture, as documented in their security white papers. But we can't confirm the specific implementation details for iCloud Keychain.

And you should also know...

Best practices for password storage use one-way hash functions (like bcrypt, Argon2, or PBKDF2).
It's only ~10% taller than the top end of stuff that was cranked out for commercial use 150yr ago. Forgive me for being unimpressed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Republic_(1853_clipper)

Yes, the yacht is a much smaller ship but it has half as many masts it's masts are aluminum, it has engines so it doesn't have to run sail in poor conditions to maintain control authority and benefits from 150yr of improvements to watertightness.

I get that everyone wants to act smug because "everybody knows that you don't put big weight high up, hehehe, stupid billionares" but I'm betting that when the dust settles, the circle jerking dies down and the reports get published the end result will be the mast being a contributory factor (I'm betting on the reduction in righting moment rather than wind area) at best and that the outcome would not have been that much more unavoidable had the same other currently unknown errors been made on the other ships of the class.

A modern ship in good state doesn't just sink in minutes from capsizing. Other stuff had to have gone wrong here too. These vessels are designed that you can spend all day burying the bow in wave after wave. A little dip of one gunnel into the water should not be catastrophic. TFA discusses this.
Indeed, why would you want to know if the keys to your correspondence, bank accounts, investment logins, crypto fortune, backup OTP codes or whatever you might be using a password for, are sent in the clear to a third party.
Well, just wait till they benchmark the M4 Max a week later.
I’ve done strangler pattern for a large api and it worked well. I would like to use it for migrating a large Angular spa UI to Blazor. But that seems more daunting. Even if I did find a way to bridge and host Angular code inside the Blazor app, it just seems like it would be pretty complex. Has anyone done similar?
Rather for the classic 3x3x3 cube. I played with it in the 80ies, but never understood the concepts behind it.
> You think it is so hard for the NSA to have a tap within Google's datacenters?

Yes

> You think Google could say no to NSA if they were asking nicely to put a tap?

Yes
Depends on the nature of the content you’re working with, but I’ve had some good results using an LLM during indexing to generate a search document by rephrasing the original text in a standardized way. Then you can search against the embeddings of that document, and perhaps boost based on keyword similarity to the original text.
Who exactly is copy pasting UI elements? I have literally never heard of anyone copy pasting UI elements of all things over just taking a screenshot of the page, so please provide an actual example. And even if you were able to copy and paste, how would you preserve the layout of the UI since only text is selectable?
Researchers combine chloroplasts from algae with hamster cells
>They offer no option to delete your passwords from the Cloud once there?

Seems pretty trivial to download the icloud windows client (which has password manager support), and modify/delete the passwords there?
Agreed. Looks like utter garbage, while the tech could be "groundbreaking".
Neural Networks in Middle School – ACM Inroads
How do you think Google's ad business works?
> I'd be inviting all my friends over to eat at my place instead.

Ironically, this reads to me like a rather American thing. Simply based on typical dwelling size. There's a lot of nights at a restaurant (or cheaper: some venue specializing in space + some catering for groups instead of the full restaurant experience) I could buy for the cost of keeping a dining room able to host a non-tiny group of friends around all year. In American sprawl, with those hardly-more-than-cardboard construction standards? Sure, no problem.
O'Reilly Conferences were pretty good overall although, given how things went down, I assume they were on the bubble even before COVID hit. OSCON was the real crown jewel though that I couldn't always justify attending but did when I could.
That could be 3 servings of whole grains and 3 servings of fruit and veg. Sounds good, though I’d go further and suggest more fruit & veg if possible.
"We/you need to be more careful" is often a phatic expression, a way of ending the conversation while saving face, rather than an actual directive. Because they don't want you to be more careful. They just want you to make sure you respect their time and their timeline, and check that you're not deliberately being an asshole who's fucking up their job that they don't understand, because of some sort of attitude problem. It's social ritual.
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I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results
It’d probably break wildly since it’s really hard to draw Minecraft by hand.
Go sync. Once is Simple... Does It Really?
A remote all hands should have the form of a twitch live streamer. The ceo in his pyamas on a desk with old coffee mugs reacting to content from their own intranet, chat flying by, tts. I'd watch that.

That's the proven format for a one-to-many conversation on this medium.

His underlings prepared some slides, he reacts to them blindly, live fact checking of chat questions.
It’s a cool concept, but I’d be very surprised if it gets much better than this.

“Playable” statistical models seem to miss the point of games entirely
This statement isn't true at all. There are tons of fixed function hardware units for graphics in GPUs in addition to compute cores: triangle rasterizers, texture units, raytracing units, blitters, copy engines, video codecs, etc. They interact with the shader/compute cores and it's getting more common that the shader core is driving the rasterizer etc than vice versa (mesh shaders and ray tracing for example).

Calling it "all emulated" is very very far from the truth.

You can independently verify this by digging into open source graphics drivers.
I didn't read the article but did it shed light on why some survived and some didn't? I am wondering if those who didn't survive probably died from trauma/injury during the capsizing, or was it because they were incapable of swimming in the rough waters?
Firefox and uBlock Origin at the browser level on desktop/laptop. For trackers specifically Firefox also has its built in tracking protection.

NextDNS at the network level for all of my devices that support tailscale[1] wherever they may be in the world.

NextDNS for any other home devices via my router's DNS settings.

[1]: https://tailscale.com/kb/1218/nextdns
Total funding for all human activities is scarce, but can go to anything. Money spent on video games could instead be used to fund cancer research.

Thus the percentage of that funding going to medicine isn’t fixed. We essentially spend extra money on this kind of research rather than diverting cancer funding to look for new pain medications. Further, people with sage IV cancer really have benefitted from better pain meds it’s not as useful as a cure but it’s still useful.

Capitalism has freed 90% of humanity to do something other than farm food. We’re in the 3rd stage of human history first almost everyone was hunter gatherer, then nearly everyone was farmers, now people do all kinds of things. How we spend that seemingly boundless surplus of labor may not seem efficient, but it doesn’t need to be to be dramatically better.
The whole OS is a blackbox. We trust that keyloggers are not everywhere. We need to trust completely or not at all. I think there is nothing between when the same vendor also supplying the underlying closed-source OS.
They own the OS. They don't need to break it to access your passwords
No, because an untestable theory is just a useless theory (i.e. it is not meaningfully predictive). There are more difficult and confrontable issues such as predictions models will make like "supersymmetry", "the proton decays", and "early universe signatures in CMB" which could be, but have not been, observed.

You can sometimes make models which can put these under various parts of the proverbial rug and, sure, claim we just need to build the next generation of experiment, but at that point what are you really doing? I suspect this is what "worse than you think" is trying to get at.
Frankly, you're confusing hashing algorithms, encryption and "IDs".

Authentication: "Prove you are you" (hash functions)

Secure Storage: "Keep this secret but let me get it back later" (encryption)

Identification: "Track who/what this is" (UUIDs/tokens)
Yeah it is strange how they make the model sound like it can generate any environment, but only shows demos of the most data-available game ever.
First ads on free version then "limited ads" on paid version while creating another tier for paid users for more money
Based. I know you might just be taking the agnostic position for the sake of the conversation, but the evidence overwhelmingly suggests 6 servings of carbs would massively improve your ACM risk: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...
Not sure if I have just spent too much time in the JS/TS world and so I have forgotten the pain in this area in proper compiled languages, but to me it seems like needing "typed holes" smells like maybe there is some abstraction missing in your codebase.

I prefer to have code layered in a way that my inflection points happen across well defined interfaces. Then I can make changes one layer at a time in increments that are small enough to still be able to reason about. But maybe I am totally mising the point of typed holes!
Firefox + ABP
>Is it really better these organizers do nothing rather than create an online conference? I don't see how that's better personally.

It may well be. I regularly attend one small conference that is very much about the personal interactions with the presentations mostly an add-on. There would have been no point in having people submit a bunch of YouTube videos.
Author of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) here. I've been in the embeddings space since 2020 before the world of LLMs/GenAI.

In principle, I agree with much of the sentiment here. Embeddings can get you pretty far. If the goal is to find information and citations/links, you can accomplish most of that with a simple embeddings/vector search.

GenAI does have an upside in that it can distill and process those results into something more refined. One of the main production use cases is retrieval augmented generation (RAG). The "R" is usually a vector search but doesn't have to be.

As we see with things like ChatGPT search and Perplexity, there is a push towards using LLMs to summarize the results but also linking to the results to increase user confidence. Even Google Search now has that GenAI section at the top. In general, users just aren't going to accept LLM responses without source citations at this point. The question is if the summary provides value or if the citations really provide the most value. If it's the later, then Embeddings will get the job done.
Good lord, are all those non-tech managers the reason Europe can't seem to build viable tech companies?
Sure but the weak link is Sam Altman and the likes, not the tech.
Want Windows 10 Security? That Will Be $30, Microsoft Says
Are open-source AI models worth the risk?
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

>Passwords and Keychain (6): End-to-end
I am building a tiny tool to write user stories and product requirements clearly and fast, for myself and other product managers.

https://getstory.io/
It's not a common Linux thing, all major distros ship with antialiasing configs ootb. The person just disabled it.
> it appears to have a promise of promptable game worlds

Is it a world if there’s no permanence?

We’ve seen demos like this for a while now (granted not as fast) but the core problem is continuity. (Or some kind of object permanence)

It’s a problem for image generators as well.

I’d be more interesting if that was any closer to being solved than to have a real time Minecraft screenshot generator.

I may have missed it, but I didn’t see anything about prompting.
I’d be surprised if this model could generalize beyond Minecraft at all.
Would you recommend following only Sabine to be a good way to get a thoughtful and unbiased view of the issue?
Agreed. But we are talking encryption and why there isn't open source algorithms for iCloud. I find it funny as when you submit iOS apps to the App Store they specifically require encryption standards and no "roll your own algos/cryptos" but at the same time all their crypto is a black box.

I'm a happy Apple user, love the OS...just saying.
> Who Gets To Decide What Is True?

Seems particularly to be a US based phenomenon. Unlike the more transparent manipulation seen under dictatorships... Where people generally recognize propaganda for what it is, even if they can’t openly challenge it—some in USA live within entirely new realities.
Ye I read that. It is just that it is so absurd that I hardly believe it.

I did some searching and I got no result from news orgs I recognized. But like, it seemed correct.

Then again, if I remember correctly Nintendo tried to go after videos of people playing their games at some point. I guess it makes sense from that perspective.
The reduction method means reducing a big cube (NxNxN for N>3) to a 3x3x3 cube by first solving the centers (the central (N-2)x(N-2)x(N-2) square on each face) and the edges (the inner N-2 pieces along each edge of the cube). You are then essentially left with a 3x3x3 cube that you can try to solve by only turning the outer layers (which won't break the centers and edges you solved in the first stage).

The problem with this is that you may end up with a 3x3x3 cube that is not solvable. For instance, you can get a state where the entire cube is solved, except for two edges that need to swap locations. This isn't possible. In group theoretical language, only even permutations are possible. You can swap two _pairs_ of edges, but not just two edges.

When you end up in such an unsolvable 3x3x3 cube, you have to temporarily turn the inner layers of the cube and break apart the centers and edges you built in the first step, and then reassemble them again to a solvable 3x3x3 cube.
Didn't you enjoy orgzly?
The Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator proves its efficiency (2021)
I can't speak to the merits (or lack thereof) of string theory. That's well beyond my physics knowledge.

It must however be daunting to be a theoretical physicist right now. It seems like the field has been in a standstill for years. The advances in the 20th century were just eye-watering. The Standard Model is a mixed bag of stunningly accurate prediction (eg electron monopole moment [1]) vs the wildly inaccurate (eg the so-called "vacuum catastrophe" [2]).

And there are so many unanswered questions, like nobody really seems to know what particle generations are or why they exist. Or that particle masses can't be derived from first principles (or that the math can't be solved, I'm honestly not sure).

It seems like we have no intuition for a lot of this stuff because there's no analog in the real world. So we give names to things (eg color, spin) that are just abstract properties. Electromagnetism is tantalizingly simple. The strong nuclear force interacts with its own carrier particles so is far from simple. The mediating particles of the weak nuclear force were, I believe, the first evidence of the Higgs field (because they have mass) but again, not my speciality.

But here's the interesting part (to me): the human systems surrounding it. When progress slows in a field, you'll find the tendency of people to coalesce around certain ideas that may border on dogma because careers are built on reputation and nobody wants to be "wrong". Likewise, string theory has a lot of investment in it. People have built careers on it. Nobody wants to throw that away.

The LHC gave experimental evidence to the Higgs boson, which was one of its goals. It's also managed to disprove a lot of theories, which is useful. But it hasn't given any hint of where to go. There's already talk of a successor but nobody really knows what to look for so it's hard to imagine that'll go anywhere.

So string theory seems to be like physics orthodoxy now.

j[1]: https://cfp.physics.northwestern.edu/documents/PhysicsToday-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant_problem
The thing about Australia is that voting is mandatory. By definition this makes it difficult for politicians radicalising the edges to pull the mass of the normal curve away from the centre. In the US the opposite is true. The radicalised are more incentivised to turn up and vote than the centrist mass. So much so that the last 40 years has seen the hollowing out of the centre and this ridiculous (to my eyes) seesawing of extremes.

What I’m trying to explain is that (successful) politics in Australia doesn’t stray too far from the centre of the body politic. As a result there’s greater faith in institutions here than in the US. It’s far less alarming to us (conceptually) than it is to Americans.
Took down in the sense made it private to yourself ? or completely stopped it altogether.

I recently started a blog hosted in my home server no point in making it public
Maybe that is the use-case- a hallcuinated internet with links, that you click along in search of something, until the gpt has enough information to generate it from thin air. Maybe the journey is the destination.
> They offer no option to delete your passwords from the Cloud once there?

Does it matter tho. Like in general internet, once something is posted, it will not disappear with certainty. We can never be certain that there is a copy of the encrypted password on some log file when we have no visibility into that sytem. Since it is encrypted, it passes the regulation checks.

That is just a UI bug if passwords keep coming back in the cloud/you still see them. Unless there is a system in place that can transparently verify that indeed, the passwords are deleted, does it matter?
Firefox, ublock origin on desktop and on phone. Also AdAway on phone. They are usually pretty aggressive and can break things, so I don't use any network wide blockers.
The singularity is always just around the corner. It's like a whale in a casino. The big reward is always just around the corner. You need to drop a few more coins and soon you will be rich
I can think of some differences:

1) You get out of your house.

2) You don't have leftovers from a big meal to deal with.

3) You can duck out early without having to kick everyone out..

4) you can fit a LOT more people at a restaurant.
I also point people to the Mac mini line whenever they talk about price. The new M4 at ~$700 is a steal, but they have been affordable since the m1 refresh. Real “bang for your buck” computer IMO
We’re talking about checking/debit accounts for people who are unhoused/unbanked not “the government having full control over the entire life cycle of our wealth”.
> Base OS is Arch-based

Considering they're aiming for reliability I would've liked if they'd built on a truly reliable atomic distro base.

https://getaurora.dev has been so damn good, but despite being a Plasma distro it still packs a lot of GTK apps from Bazzite for basic functionality.
If you don’t want it, don’t store your passwords in it?
From skimming the article, it seems the boat sunk in about 2 minutes. While most of that time it was already laying on it's side.

This would make it virtually impossible to get out, if you were below deck.
> Best practices for password storage use one-way hash functions (like bcrypt, Argon2, or PBKDF2) rather than encryption algorithms like AES.

That is true if you are running a service that USES passwords. In that case you just need to confirm they match. That is not true if you are running a password manager where the user needs to be able to get their plain text password back out of the system.
GitHub Bot to Review PRs
Created a Github bot that can review PRs to catch bugs and security issues. It has been useful as a quick first check for issues before diving into architecture changes. Also, discovered while building this that current LLM eval tools suck.