skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question, I think, is “how many alternative theories were dismissed by no funding?”
IF there was other people asking for funding for other topics or theories were dismissed because “strings are cool” then I expect some explanation. And boy there were other theories and projects asking for funding!
Alexander the Great's tunic identified in royal tomb at Vergina?
It isn’t a return. Baring-Goulds werewolves are thin metaphors for behaviors that we would associate with serial killers, rapists, cannibals. People that have succumbed to the worst impulses of their nature. Those have always been with us. And most of those destructive impulses are uniquely helpful in the short term for the individuals engaging in them. The werewolf has always been the malignant outsider or hidden threat.

A few decades of comfort does not negate a long lineage of behaviors that are maladaptive for a group but potentially positive for the self-serving individual.

The shortlived Pax Americana is not evidence that we have somehow altered millions of years of human nature.
Interesting, make me wonder what are the well known algorithms to solve them and how they compare in term of complexity.
They probably encrypt the export with some kind of hash that is then securely transported to the new machine, decrypt it and import.

Maybe someone can reverse engineer, attach a debugger and confirm, or analyze the traffic with a Transparent MITM Proxy on the new machine. Just grep for your password in the traffic captured, should be easy.

And then write a blog post about that. Let's see what happens.
So summarization is interpretation but ranking and filtering are not. Most would disagree.
In my experience it’s a cultural problem in Germany. Everything has to be done methodically, even if the method adds a disproportionate amount of friction. Often, the purported benefits are not even there. The thoroughness is full of holes, the diligence never done, the follow-ups never happening.

It leads to situations where you need a certificate from your landlord that you take to the certified locksmith that your landlord contracted and show a piece of ID to order a key double that arrives 3 business days later at a cost of 60€. A smart German knows that there’s a locksmith in the basement of a nearby shopping mall that will gladly duplicate any key without a fuss, but even then the price is inflated by the authorised locksmiths.

I document German bureaucracy for immigrants. Everything is like this. Every time I think “it can’t really be this ridiculous, I’m being uncharitable”, a colleague has a story that confirms that the truth is even more absurd.

It’s funny until you realise the cost it has for society at large. All the wasted labour, all the bottlenecks, and little to show for it.
Keychain is documented here and is encrypted using AES-256-GCM:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/security/secb0694df1a/...

It’s then stored in iCloud as a SQLite file and encrypted as it does for your other synced data.
Definitely a US based phenomenon, but sadly like other US based things it spreads to other countries. I talk with friends in CA and EU who are seeing some of the junk we saw 10 years ago with "what is fact"

You would think common sense prevails...
Though not exactly what you are after, Contextual Document Embeddings (https://huggingface.co/jxm/cde-small-v1), which generate embeddings based on "surrounding context" might be of some interest.

With 281M params it's also relatively small (at least for an embedding model) so one can play with it relatively easily.
Do not read "the system is perfect" or even "good" from my post. I'm focusing only on the claim from the post above that there is "zero accountability". The people accountable are everyone in the chain I described and the whole thing hinges on people that ultimately answer to elections.
Yeah I mean get that bag I guess?

Good looking SEO spam generator…
AMD writes MB, and they list the faster caches' sizes in KByte, where indeed I think it should be Mi and Ki respectively. And in the NV space (hdds, ssds) a GB means 10^9.
Reminds me of DDR vendors telling us that memory runs at 8GHz (8GT/s, 4GHz in reality).
I tend to be more pessimistic about the incentives getting fixed than others are. I also think the situation is more complex than some of the people replying to you.

(1) Search is already heavily AI driven, and Google is clearly going in that direction. Gemini is currently separate, but they'll blend it in with search over time, and no doubt search already uses LLM for some tasks under the hood. So ChatGPT search is an evolution on the current model rather than a big step in a new direction. The main benefit is you can ask the search questions to refine or followup.

(2) Aside from the economic incentives faced by search engines, there is the fact that algorithms are tuned toward a central tendency. The central tendency of question askers will always be much less informed than the most informed extreme. Google was much better when the average user was technical. The need to capture mobile searches is one force that made it return on average worse results. Similarly if Kagi has a quality advantage now, we need to be realistic about how much of that quality is driven by its users being more technical.

(3) I think micropayment schemes have generally asked several orders of magnitude more for a page view than users are willing to pay. As long as content creators value their content much more highly than consumers do, they'll stick with advertising which lets them overcharge and gives consumers less of an option to say no to the content.
Are the Pico 2 (RP2350) GPIO pins broken?
Underrated by people are unfamiliar with machine learning, maybe.
This is also often referred to as Hypothetical Document Embeddings (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496).
I think you misunderstood my comment.

It is essentially about the trust. You either trust that they don't misuse the cloud-uploaded passwords or not. If you cannot trust that, you cannot trust the whole ecosystem as the same entity controls it and can misuse it in any imaginable way.

So essentially, the issue of deletion is just about the visibility in the UI, if we trust their claim about the end-to-end encryption.
Implementing the real Sieve is quite a challenge in any language:

https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Sieve-JFP.pdf
Companies aren’t people. Compare the benefits to a multi trillion dollar company to maintain security vs the minimal benefits from using your passwords for anything.

They really want to avoid the risk from anyone inside the company having access to your passwords and then doing anything with them.
Ok, so not really like "what is the nature of self". I actually was more expecting something like your answer, but still asked as I would have been more interested to discuss more about other way to engage in such an inquiry.
Thanks for the positive feedback :) There's still a lot of polish (and features) planned out for Element X, so it should only get better!

> I thought we agreed on “security key” for a while, but I do like this name better

Yes, sorry for flipflopping on this. On the plus side, we've finally locked down encryption terminology and are going to get it in the spec to ensure that UX is consistent between clients: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/and...

In terms of clients for other platforms - it's worth noting that GNOME Fractal uses matrix-rust-sdk and so benefits from all the work that goes into Element X on the rust-sdk side, and so is shaping up increasingly well :)
Maybe it it was assigned to a single organism, but it's probably a work for hire.
I really had to reflect a bit on this site, and show it to other friends with kids, to come to the conclusion.

This is helicopter parenting. Specifically, the way that the pledge requires that kids share all passwords and only install approved apps.

Kids need a degree of independence that they've lost in how structured modern day youth has become. An important part of growing up is being exposed to people who have different ideas and beliefs than parents and extended family, and making decisions and having real consequences.

I think it's more important to talk to children about what they encounter in their day-to-day lives, and find out about their struggles. It's important to remind children that they can turn off their smartphone, or delete an account on a social media site, if it doesn't bring them joy. As parents, it's our duty to tell children that they have the choice, but not make that choice for them.
>Secure Storage: "Keep this secret but let me get it back later" (encryption)

This is what keychain does. You retrieve the passwords later.

So, no. It is not a one-way hash function as you stated.
Contextual Document Embeddings
This scares me a little: There was a security alert on the page with the C-code from mp3.
When people click through to their website and see ads or buy product.
Have you tried Kagi? I stopped using Google years ago.
> you still find similar attempts to control

Sure, though it doesn't mean what you want it to mean since you just ignore the $$$ elephant in the room that explains the desire for more control. For the same reason, you "stand firm" in ignorance as to "why the iPhone is locked down"

> Obvious it was made up

Glad you realise that.

> intentionally low bar

Intentionally appearing like one

> if you want to believe ... software is 100% safe to use

Again with your fantasies. I believe the justification should be grounded in reality, both in terms of the % estimate as well as in terms of the severity (so no, "bug free" is irrelevant, you need severe billions-afecting bugs that can only be eliminated by hard-forcing the app store, which you can't have since the reality doesn't align with you).

And as to your standing firm in your argument "why it’s a good thing", well, you don't really have an argument, just a desire for one with made up stats and corporate motivations
I'm always surprised when people speak highly of Apple devices here. While they do have certain advantages, there are some issues that should be dealbreakers for tech literate people. (in my own, possibly biased opinion at least)

In case of Macbooks, it's the fact that they refuse to provide an official GPU driver for Linux and general poor support for things outside the walled garden. The Asahi stuff is cool and all, but come on, is a 3.4 trillion dollar company really going to just stand there and watch some volunteers struggling to provide support for their undocumented hardware without doing anything substantial to help? That sounds straight up insulting to me, especially for such a premium product.

For iphones, it's the fact that you are not allowed to run your own code on YOUR OWN DEVICE without paying the Apple troll toll and passing the honestly ridiculous Apple Store requirements.

And of course, in both cases, they actively sabotage third party repairs of their devices.
The question was to the person above where it seemed like that's what they were doing and then expected us to take their view as something worth considering. It was giving them an opportunity for them to explain their position and give themselves credibility.
Apple refers to this as escrow and is a feature* of their secure iCloud Keychain recovery.

[*] They consider it a feature; you may not.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secure-icloud-keych...

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/escrow-security-for...
“History of incompetence” really needs some citations, especially for the belief that open source tools are better - they had Gotofail but OpenSSL had Heartbleed, etc. One of the better questions to ask is not how the source code is managed but how it’s audited: there’s a long history of problems in both open and closed software but well audited codebases tend to have them patched before exploits are publicly available.
If robots are doing everything, people will have bigger kitchens...
> You just open Keychain/Passwords and delete the passwords.

This also deletes the local copy of the passwords.
I meant disability support workers, I should have been a bit more precise, sorry! I'm not sure if that clears up what I meant but in case it doesn't: Disability support work is a super broad label so I'll just ramble a little about how they've helped me. I've been really lucky to find people who are interested in the particular tasks at hand to help me. Sometimes it's like hiring an additional frontal lobe, sometimes I need them for really specific things like helping me travel. Sometimes I just need extra support in planning and executing something at home that my ADHD and/or Autism makes very challenging like filling in a bunch of paperwork. It's often that I don't need help with the literal paperwork itself, but I need help/guidance in self regulation, managing my disabilities symptoms that can be destructive and unhelpful like when I just start trying to push though and do a bad job and burning out to boot is something support workers have helped me with. Longer term strategies and capacity building I work with my psychologist on but I'm always going to be disabled and neurodivergent lol.

Unlike 'coaches', disability support workers are regulated (somewhat laughably atm but they are regulated and registered, they have police checks, and professional standards), they must do at least a certificate through a registered training organisation, and if they want to do certain tasks with more like help with dressing changes or helping someone manage their medications, they need to have extra training. Those aren't fantastic examples because those things are often done by nurses, but the point I'm trying to make with that part is that as a general rule, they know their role, their skills, they know their value and don't feel the need to 'dress it up' to manipulate people into thinking they're equivalent to a psychologist or something like these abhorrent 'coaching' services do. They're also regulated and misrepresenting oneself is a bit of a no-no.

My lisdexamfetamine has run out for today. Dunno if that's obvious or not /s

If there's something I can try clarify once I'm back to being medicated please let me know
Likely referencing Firefox's enhanced tracking protection.

You can control it with the lil purple shield icon to the left of the address bar (not that you're obliged to disable it for some website just because they asked, of course!)

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote...
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BTW you can use s[1]

you can combine it with your shell to call claude, chatgpt

sc expands to s --provider claude
sgpt expands to s --provider chatgpt

[1] https://github.com/zquestz/s
>and would benefit from looking at actual conviction rates for serious crimes (~2%) [0].

Murders have much better clearance rates than other "serious crimes" (whatever that means), so the chances of getting caught is probably far higher than 2%.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
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I'd like a more precise definition of "misinformation" before judging this proposal.

There is nothing bad in strengthening people's skills in the scientific method, educating them about cognitive biases and teaching them how do be aware about the sources and context of statements.

What worries me about the proposed method is that it does not work without any kind of objective sense of truth: Which statements you present as "truth" and which as "falsehood" is completely arbitrary - it just depends on the kind of weakened strawman argument you present. This makes it more a political propaganda tool that can be used to present your side's narrative as the absolute truth. And that feels sinister and downright authoritarian.

(Even if you're a True Patriot for whatever side you're on and believe manipulating people like this is just and moral for the cause: Keep in mind that the other side could use the exact same inoculation strategy against you)

I think we should acknowledge that currently the world is in a deep epistemic crisis: We're back in a cold war situation where there are (at least) two deeply incompatible explanations of the world's power structures, each one seen as the "obvious truth" by billions of people. The differences have become so irreconcilable that we've already arrived at a point of open war between the two sides.

I think this situation should give you pause when thinking about absolute (political) truths.
The video just gives execs more leverage to use the skills they use every day (people skills) to overwhelm the skills you use every day (charitably either the same skills or some sort of knowledge or physical skill). The more they're comfortable, the worse off you are. Their entire position within the company hinges on being able to exploit you for as much as you're willing to let them get away with, which hinges upon how well they're able to convince you you're worth less than they are (after all, you earn less).

Giving them anything is the wrong move. If you think you are getting as much out of the video as they are getting out of you watching them speak, you are wrong. The degree of wrong depends on your affinity with their chosen craft (which is, to be clear, grifting you).
Also search is unavailable, regarding missing features.
But, should we deceive people like the tech companies are doing right now with privacy?

If someone is scared that his position will be known and still do it only because there is some fakely advertised security in place, you may ruin that person's life againt their will.

I prefer a system where people know how things work, take risks and are responsible. For what do we need a democracy if people are so scared of their family, neighbours and coworkers political views. The way we do democracy should me more mature after all this time. Probably the only place in the world trying to do it right is Switzerland, per example they have frequent local votations accomplished by raising one's hand.
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Even if after all the investigations it turns out the manufacturer were without blame (which usually is not the case) their attitude doesn't reflect well on them.

Do you want to buy your yacth from someone who will blame everyone but themselves when things go wrong? I would rather buy a yacht from someone who will incorporate all the learnings into their new designs to make them as safe as possible.

The attitude of "we are perfect, somebody else's fault" stinks, even if they are. More so if they are not.
I guess we're just calling any company that crosses some vague threshold of size/wealth "evil" these days.
>how many people kept their Macbooks for nearly a decade

Are your laptops not lasting 10 years? (battery swaps are a must though)

The only reason I switched laptops was that I wanted to do AI Art and local LLMs.

I have so many old laptops and desktops that each of my 5 kids have their own. They are even playing half-modern games on them.
Of course. Apple has to decrypt the passwords when it pre-fills the browser.

And the decryption keys are stored on your devices in the Secure Enclave. Apple doesn’t have the keys on their servers.
The dog demo was introducing something new. This isn't.

I don't want to be negative about someone else's project but I can completely understand why people are underwhelmed by this.

What I think will be the real application for AI in gaming isn't creating poorer versions of native code, it will be creating virtual novels that evolve with the player. Where characters are actual AI rather than following a predefined script. Where you, as the player, can change and shape the story as you wish. Think Star Trek Holodeck "holo-novels" or MMORPGs but can be played fully offline.

Rendering the pixels is possibly the worst application for AI at this stage because AI lacks reliable frame by frame continuity, rendering speed, nor an understanding of basic physics, which are all the bare minimum for any modern games engine.
That KDE are making their own first party distribution to showcase KDE, as well as making the DE.
There was no 8000 series, and 9000 has largely been a wash.
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We had something like this in Spad — the extension language for the computer algebra system Axiom. They're not terrible to implement; but, utilization was always low. There's amusingly high effort optimizations with range-dependent integral types deduced from flow control around blocks that are tail calls. I mean ... theoretically, yes, we can; but should we?
Summer daylight is not scarce. Between the 30th and 40th parallel is the bottom half of the United States.

DST exists so that the sun doesn't rise around 5am. And that seems to be what the argument boils down to: "I don't want it bright too early".

The sun is going down around 8pm during DST on the 30th.

If you're arguing to keep doing what we're doing, you've managed to have an even wronger opinion than getting rid of Standard Time.
Well. Where is your blog?
Which is not the approach being advocated here by the author.

A bridge should be engineered and then designed according to the following process:

Determine requirements based on intended use and available resources (engineering) -> make something that looks nice while meeting those requirements (design)

The author's process is:

Make something that looks nice while deliberately ignoring constraints (design) -> figure out how to make that and also satisfy requirements (engineering)
> In Rust we have Option<T>, which is equivalent to T | null

No, not true!

As the author correctly states earlier in the post, unions are not an exclusive-or relation. Unions are often made between disjoint types, but not always.

This becomes important when T itself is nullable. Let's say T is `U | null`. `Option<Option<U>>` in Rust has one more inhabitant than `U | null | null` in TypeScript - `Some(None)`.

Union types can certainly be very useful, but they are tricky because they don't compose like sum types do. When writing `Option<T>` where T is a generic type, we can treat T as a totally opaque type - T could be anything and the code we write will still be correct. On the other hand, union types pierce this opacity. The meaning of `T | null` and the meaning of code you write with such a type does depend on what T is at runtime.
I'm not opposed to video, but if stuff gets lost in the written version that's more a statement on poor exec written communication skills than video being better than text.

People ingest info differently, and being able to communicate the same info in multiple ways should be table stakes at that level.
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