skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a security consultant, I think I'm aware of security risks all the time, also when I'm developing code just as a hobby in spare time. I can't say that I've come across a lot of stackoverflow code that was unsafe. It happened (like unsafe SVG file upload handling advice) and I know of analyses that find it in spades, but I personally correct the few that I see (got enough stackoverflow rep to downvote, comment, or even edit without the user's approval though I'm not sure I've ever needed that) and the ones found in studies may be in less-popular answers that people don't come across as often because we should be seeing more of them otherwise, both personally and in the customer's code

So that's not to say there is nothing to be concerned about on stackoverflow, just that the risk seems manageable and understood. You also nearly always have to fit it to your own situation anyway. With the custom solutions from generative models, this is all not yet established and you're not having to customise (look at) it further if it made a plausible-looking suggestion

Perhaps this way of coding ends up introducing fewer bugs. Time will tell, but we all know how many wrong answers these things generate in text as well as what they were trained on, giving grounds for worry—while also gathering experience, of course. I'm not saying to not use it at all. It's a balance and something to be aware of

I also can't say that I find it to be thoughtless when I look for answers on stackoverflow. Perhaps as a beginning coder, you might copy bigger bits? Or without knowing what it does? That's not my current experience, though
You don't have to get cast-iron necessarily. Try carbon-steel. My mother doesn't like cast iron because of the maintenance required, and we don't use non-stick for the alleged health issues.

Got a bunch of carbon-steel cookware and she loves it.
also useful for writing unit tests, comments, descriptions, so if you count all of that as code, together with boilerplate stuff, then yeah, it could add up to 25%.
“Characterstic function” is (was) an overloaded term.

What you described is more often referred to as an “indicator function” these days, with “characteristic functions” denoting the transform (Fourier, laplace, z - depending on context). Closely related to “moment generating functions” to the point of being almost interchangeable.
The people who cheered about the firing of 80% of the Twitter staff largely believed (rightly or wrongly) that they were being adversely affected by them. While Google may be seen with more wariness in tech circles, I don't think the average person believes that Google is actively harming them (again, rightly or wrongly).
I think fully remote expectation in non-metro areas can be a big hurdle. I know many startups here in SF who are looking to hire good candidates. But they want in-office presence at least a few days a week.

Someone summed it up nicely for me - remote work gives you speed. Colocation (typically office) gives you velocity. A startup needs velocity.
> When asked to comment on this story, a Broadcom representative declined to answer specific questions regarding VMware customers' concerns. Instead, the company referred me to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan's "recent blog posts"

In other words, their answer continues to be "Fuck you, that's why"?
I think it's just a small segment of the single player version that's playable. Nothing like what was promised in the kickstarter
what if they do? does that bother you?
Embedded stuffs require much more than mere cross-platform anyway ;-)
Discussion (58 points, 16 days ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853733
I have been using Mikrotik gear for >10 years, and have been impressed ever since, the ROI is incredible and there are so many features I wish were available on other platforms.
> I think anyone who uses Ruby regularly knows that `everything is an object` is the defaul

“Default” implies that it is implicitly the case if no alternative is explicitly selected, but such alternatives exist. In Ruby “everything is an object” (or, at least, “every callable method is in a class and can only be called in context of an object”) is more immutable truth than default.

> and that `Object` is the unstated parent for anything not specified

Actually, an anonymous top-level instance of Object is the default object to which things apply; Object itself is an Object (and more specifically a Class), but it is not the default object, it is the class of the default object.
100%.

Altman encourages anyone that will listen to him that monopolies are the only path to success in business. He has a lot riding on making sure everyone is addicted to AI and that he’s the one selling the shovels.

Google isn’t far off.

Most capitalists have this fantasy that they can reduce their labour expenses with AI and continue stock buy-backs and ever-increasing executive payouts.

What sucks is that they rely on class divisions so that people don’t feel bad when the “overpaid” software developers get replaced. Problem is that software developers are also part of the proletariat and creating these artificial class divisions is breaking up the ability to organize.

It’s not AI replacing jobs, it’s capital holders. AI is just the smoke and mirrors.
Why, exactly, would those California notifications cause even mild anxiety (let alone "a psychological nightmare") if you know as you claim that they are merely "panicking about everything little thing"?

If you're certain they're trivial concerns, then they should be easy to dismiss.

If the problem is that you're not sure if they're trivial -- or which are and which aren't -- then what we've uncovered is the shortcomings of a policy oriented primarily around notifications. You'd want judgments made by people with toxicology qualifications whose job it is to focus on questions like this. Which was the point of the comment you're responding to.
My first reaction to the title was, "That explains why things are broken." but this explanation makes so much sense. Thanks for clarifying.

But yeah, I wish the new version of Chrome worked better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some people like cold brew, others don't. I fall into the latter camp.

Then again, the only things in the cold-water path of my machine are:

- silicone gaskets

- silicone grease

- PTFE

- silicone tubes

- clear plastic water tank

As for the hot path:

- silicone gaskets

- silicone grease

- aluminium

- steel

- copper

- brass

- PTFE (in contact with steam)
They do have excellent bang for your buck. I haven't used one of their products for 7/8 years but the UI and defaults were less inspiring. I found that engineers found it easy to make catastrophic mistakes. I think opening up a service by default enabled that service on all interfaces, and that you then had to add a rule to keep it off all ports. This lead to things you would normally like on your LAN ending up on the WAN. Excellent reliable kit once you learnt its foibles though.
Why on earth would it be unethical? They are creating a process for retrying a payment for which the customer is already responsible. Maybe the customer ultimately decides to cancel, maybe not, but a business is free to take into account whether a user is “active.”
I knew a superstar developer who worked on reports in an SQL tool. In the company metrics, the developer scored 420 points per month, the second developer scored 60 points. “Please learn how to score more points from the leader”, the boss would say.

The superstar developer’s secret… he would send blank reports to clients (who would only realize it days later, and someone else would end up redoing the report), and he would score many more points without doing anything.
I’ve seen this happen a lot in many different companies. As a friend of mine used to say, “it’s very rare, but it happens all the time.”

I have no doubt that AI can help developers, but I don’t trust the metrics of the CEO or people who work on AI, because they are too involved in the subject.
Get enough researchers to train their metaphorical microscopes on it and it's interaction with any dimension of human biology for long enough and I have to think the answer will eventually be no.
My question to you was whether you know something about technology that von Neumann, the guy behind the idea, misunderstood, such that you would so flippantly dismiss it.

The ball is in your court to prove why the singularity is not real, because many experienced, decorated technologists disagree and have already laid out their arguments. If you can't prove that, then there's no argument for us to have in the first place.
I rather like the derivation of the CLT using MGFs.

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse312/20su/files/...
What do you cook on?
As if initial failure of the product itself wasn't enough.
I get where both sides are coming from.

On the one hand, buying a console and a reasonably spec'd laptop is clearly the better value. I did this during college, and both my laptop, and my console both lasted about a decade without requiring any upgrades. I did this again with the PS4. You wind up spending far less than you otherwise would trying to keep a gaming pc reasonably up to date, and both devices are optimized for their usage.

On the other hand? At some point most of us will realize that we've been successful enough that we don't have to optimize for value, and we can choose 'all of the above'. I now have a PS5 AND a stupidly overspec'd AI / gaming desktop. I've enjoyed having both.
As a scientist, I don’t think there is any specific scientific method or protocol - other than something really general like “think of all the ways people have been deceived in the past and carefully avoid them.” Almost no modern research follows anything like the “scientific method” I was taught in public school.

The way I do research is roughly Bayesian- I try to see what the aggregate of published experiments, anecdotes, intuition, etc. suggests are likely explanations for a phenomenon. Then I try to identify what realistic experiment is likely to provide the most evidence distinguishing between the top possibilities. There are usually many theories or hypotheses in play, and none are ever formally confirmed or rejected- only seen as more or less likely in the light of new evidence.
also, i think they scraped the dedicated server that were kind of implied in the beginning. Chris talked about running your own world on your server. I would have hoped for a renascence of dedicated servers for multiplayer games including some creative communities like Freelancer still has.

https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/12grru/comment/c6uzxz...
I think eggs and certain fish recipes are the primary use of non stick. But there are also ways to cook those without non stick.

For scrambled eggs you can use a double boiler (you’ll never have had fluffier eggs). An extremely well seasoned carbon steal pan will also work wonders (basically what fry cooks use)

For fish, cooking fish whole on a grill is amazing. Another technique with stainless pans is to get the pan searing hot first. Then add a tiny amount of oil and cook the fish and don’t touch it. This should set the surface protein quickly and create a crust that prevents sticking (requires a little practice but not too hard)
Lying about previous salary is not illegal in the U.S. but it will probably cause you to lose your offer if the employer finds out (and there are ways they can check it).

And there’s no reason to do it. Negotiation is about what you will bring to the new company, and how much that is worth to them. Your old salary is irrelevant.

If you want 110k just say that. If they ask what you made before, you can say something like “I was underpaid at 80k, which is why I’m talking to you now.”
Plus a means or magnet arrangement to prevent tumbling. But it would be very dangerous getting in and out without special engineering.
can someone tell me what the difference is to the webclient? Seems like a webview to me. No local caching/store.
Streisand effect bait?
Preaching to the choir here - I love carbon steel and cast iron.

Unfortunately try as we might to get people to switch, the fact is that undamaged Teflon is more non-stick than anything else and most people don’t want to put the effort into seasoning their pans.

Teflon is popular, and Teflon owners could do with utensils that don’t destroy their pans or give them cancer.
Guns. Knives. Bats. Hammers. Hatchets. Spears
>We’ve been getting far too much money, for far too long. In normal office jobs, it takes a lifetime of sacrifices to get to higher pay grade.

I don't understand this mindset. We should all support our working class brothers to get better wages. Just because the custodian, accountant, and jr HR person are also paid crap doesn't mean we should all grin and bear because at least we're not the day laborers outside.
could be made necessary for pro players many of them were caught cheating
Discussion (96 points, 21 hours ago, 119 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998840
> based on a premise that human intelligence cannot be reduced to next token prediction

It can't. No one with any credentials in the study of human intelligence is saying that unless they're talking to like high schoolers as a way of simplifying a complex field.
Sam Altman must be fuming at this founder’s fabulous flounder!
There are humans that do not experience emotions, they are not un-real pipes.

Featherless biped -> no-true Scotsman goalpost moving [saving us that step]

Humans are no more capable of originality, just more convinced of their illusion of consciousnesses. You could literally not pick a human out of a conversational line-up, so it is moot - computationally functionally equivalent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)

At some point, their models will 1:1 our neuron count, and Pigeonhole principle then implies we are the "less intelligent ones" since "internal model" (implicit parameter count) is the goalpost of the hour.
"The approved replacement Charge Case Accessory will be available in approximately 3 to 6 months."

Will Humane still exist in 3 to 6 months?
https://archive.is/F7LqP
Yeah, we rolled our own server framework in .NET mainly because we were doing MMOs and there were no off-the-shelf frameworks (including Unity's) explicitly designed for that. In fact, I believe this is still mostly true today.
I see what you mean https://github.com/chrisgo/fabric2-example/blob/159ca5ea1844...

Also, I am obligated to point it out every time I see it: `curl --fail` for life otherwise bash will cheerfully try and execute the 503 html that curl writes out https://github.com/chrisgo/fabric2-example/blob/159ca5ea1844...
It's 2044. You wake up at 8am as a freelance VFX artist in the slums of Miami Islands. You pay 3.0 dogecoin to activate your Internet connectivity and refresh your ACACV degree. There's a 12pm deadline for the 4D VR animations in the New New Yorker's October 18th anniversary celebration of Jeffrey Toobin's Zoom call. An update to Wonder Animation 35 is released, saying "New: Retargeting for testicles." Rejoice! Your brain sheath rewards you with a lower dose of GLP-1 agonists. You spend the time you saved to earn points to claim an airdrop by watching a withered Elon Musk rant about electric boats.
> The former Google supremo's argument is that recent conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, have demonstrated how "a $5,000 drone can destroy a $5 million tank."

Wait until this guy hears about what the same drone does to a $50,000,000 stealth jet. Will be say that we need to replace those with cruise missiles too, then?
Can we take a metascience / meta-scicomms perspective? Quanta magazine, like all scicomm journos, relies on the receptive access to researchers for source content, especially exclusive results. So scicomms is essentially the same kind of access-journalism evryone comolains about in DC beltway rwporting, but amplified & couched in the 'but science" brand. In Quanta's case, its sources are quantum physicists / particle physicists. So couching everything in terms of quantized particles (bonus points if somehow 'spooky') avails of the continued access. Articles from the likes of Quanta get cited in particle physicists' onward grant proposals. Pwrticle physicists get grant, get results which get reported just so, and the scicomm journo gets invited to show up once again to scribe away. The circle repeats, meanwhile everyone just hopes it's a virtuous one.
> And in order to predict the next token well they have to build world models

This is not true. Look at gpt2 or Bert. A world model is not a requirement for next token prediction in general.

> This has been proven

One white paper with data that _suggests_ the author’s hypothesis is far from proof.

That paper doesn’t show creation of a “world model” just parts of the model that seem correlated to higher level ideas not specifically trained on.

There’s also no evidence that the LLM makes heavy use of those sections during inference as pointed out at the start of section 5 of that same paper.

Let me see how reproducible this is across many different LLMs as well…

> In other words, you don't know that you are not just a fancy next token predictor.

“You can’t prove that you’re NOT just a guessing machine”

This is a tired stochastic parrot argument that I don’t feel like engaging again, sorry. Talking about unfalsifiable traits of human existence is not productive.
But the stochastic parrot argument doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
I saw AN AD for Heroku yesterday, and it honestly surprises me that they still are around.
Use the stuff from Marshal and OS interop then, there are even malloc/free variants.

Also there is C++ for that, if the goal is to use C# as C++.
In my experience (American), the top 1-4 results are ads/sponsored links. Sometimes, very relevant to the search. Most of the time, not what I'm looking for.

I only use google search on my phone because I have a pixel, and the google searchbar is so well integrated into the launcher. If I don't like the results, I can just open a new tab and the default search is DuckDuckGo. Besides the ads, I'd say the searches are usually the same quality.
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I hate those kinds of abstractions, ends up becoming as useless as it is all-encompassing.

Take linux "everything is a file", yes, your word document and your sound device are files, also how do you increase the volume of your speakers, er.... it's a file and you can write to it!

The usefulness of a system lies in the stances it takes, it takes guts to be opinionated. It's easier to create a system of stem cells that can be anything and can be configured to your needs, all you need to do is write a turing complete configuration file.
> Just because you say something doesn’t mean it’s true. They are literally next token prediction machines normally trained on just text tokens.

Just because you say something doesn’t mean it’s true.
I really like that approach-- you could also increase the conductive stripe density towards the bottom, for a more free-fally experience at first.

This sounds like a really fun ride, actually.
> dev lead suggested I write a JIRA. I’m the CEO, so this is not my usual thing (and probably should not be)

Fascinating point of view.
Totally forgot about that. There was so much stuff promised in that early fundraising that it was clear they would never deliver on all of it. But I expected to at least see a complete game by now.

The budget for this thing is absolutely insane and I have no idea how it's all going to end.
Putting wooden spatulas in the dishwasher shortens their life, but it doesn't destroy them straight away. I don't feel bad at all about putting cheap wooden cookware in the dishwasher. And, of course, if you're using non-stick pans, worrying about black plastic is a mote/beam kind of situation.
Nice Try Mark Cuban.
Sloth was not the right answer
That's his/her point.
It’s a disservice to the public to assume they aren’t capable of understanding why AI job losses might be concerning even if they aren’t directly impacted. Most people aren’t so committed to class warfare that they will root for the apocalypse as long as it stomps a rich guy first.
It's more of a hassle to get working vs. having everything nicely polished and first party support.
Just another plus one for cast-iron pans and wooden spatulas. We’ve been using those for over a decade, 20 bucks each, never needs replacing, works for everything.

We switched from gas stove to induction and now they work even better since the handle doesn’t get as hot and it’s easier to control the temperature.

The whole seasoning thing is extra credit, the only failure mode I’ve seen is trying to fry an egg on a completely unseasoned pan, which just means some extra soaking and scrubbing is needed. The pan seasons itself after a few uses. Hand wash the pan instead of sticking it in the dishwasher, done.
Hidden Players: the bacteria-killing viruses of the gut microbiome
> constrain those interfaces to be structs or ref-structs

How?

I know of constraints on generic type parameters, but not how to do this. A cursory search is unhelpful.
I think this ventures a little too deep into experimental shit that we do for questionable reasons and claim is perfectly fine.
Just use an elevator platform, or even a belt? What is the unique experience you hope to achieve?
Yes, there are some deviations. But minor adjustments to the Standard Model handles those. And don't really point in the direction of a better theory.

More relevantly to the previous question, I'm not aware of any of those which affect interactions with the strong or weak nuclear forces.
> When dedup is enabled [...] every single write and free operation requires a lookup and a then a write to the dedup table, regardless of whether or not the write or free proper was actually done by the pool.

Linked clones shouldn’t need that. They likely start out with only references to the original blocks, and then replace them when they change. If so, it’s a different concept (as it would mean that any new duplicate blocks are not shared), but for the use case of “spin up a hundred identical VMs that only change comparably little” it sounds more efficient performance-wise, with a negligible loss in space efficiency.

Am I certain of this? No, this is just what I quickly pieced together based on some assumptions (albeit reasonable ones). Happy to be told otherwise.
In theory, unfortunately VC++ and clang implementations since 2015 still leave too much off the table for us to fully rely on their lifetime static analysis.
Using latexdiff with git
The connection seems responsive over a terminal, I think its the Emacs handling of it that's the main slowdown
Has anyone made a game where cheating is not just explicitly allowed but is in fact the game? It really seems like there could be something there.
we're all adults here. doubt these superstar cofounders need coddling