skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I finished digitalising my analog photos (that was only a few albums, I got a digital camera around 14 years of age) and sorted them then made both my mum (early sixties) and my grandma (mid eighties) a set on a digital photo frame (along with copies of some of my digital photos). Those frames are a bit pricy and will need a techie to setup, but the gifts were very well received.

I would have done that with my other grandma, but we grew apart and then dementia destroyed what was left of her. I will likely digitalize her photo collection when she is moved to a retirement home.

As others have said, you should also get their stories on camera on as a recording, if possible. There will come a time where this is no longer possible.
See who follows who on X and pick up on hidden signals.

If you're hiring or investing and looking to find undiscovered founders, see who the top tech people are following on a weekly basis.

If you're interested in this check out thenetwork.com for more info, or email me at andres@thenetwork.com
Additionally, there's no way to buy the Dolby Atmos mixes of most albums yet. Spatial sound mixes might actually have a chance at going mainstream, but you'll have to pay for these subscription services to access them.
I had quite some fun implementing this at a very lovely lake in Sweden, while my colleagues were attending GPCE.
There is no lock-in to Microsoft in C#. It hasn't been like that for years, and it's only getting better. IDE wise, there is Rider, which is free now, and one of the best IDE experiences you will have in any language (I personally prefer using VSCode which also has great support nowadays despite its rough history).
I got kind of double-lucky in my case too.

When I dropped out, I assumed that my job options were limited to minimum wage work, so I applied to McDonald's, Lowes, Target, Walmart (as a cashier), Aldi, and a few other places in one day (driving around the Orlando area). When I got home, sort of on a whim I applied to junior-level Coldfusion+Flash job I saw on Craigslist, thinking that there's no chance but it also didn't cost me anything to apply.

The only job that called me back was the software job, which I thought was bizarre, but it's what kickstarted the career.

In hindsight, I think the reason none of the others called me back was because they saw some college and they were afraid that I would quit the second that I went back to school.

I learned two important lessons that day: 1) The typical Wayne Gretzky "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take", and 2) the less qualified you are for a job, the more willing a company is to overlook a lack of qualifications.

I'd like to elaborate on point 2 because I don't see it mentioned much.

The conventional wisdom for finding a job (qualified or otherwise) is to see what's in demand and learn that skill (e.g. something popular like Java), but then you hit a problem: everyone is applying to that job. There are lots of people who learned Java from school or work, and you're competing with all of them. 2012-dropout-tombert would be applying for the same job as a 4.0-GPA'd-Harvard-Graduate, and as such the company will almost always choose the latter.

When I applied to the Coldfusion job, I accidentally discovered that because it was (even in 2012) a pretty niche bit of tech, no one applied to it. I didn't really know Coldfusion either, but the fact that I applied at all was an artifact of me not having the option to work in a more popular platform, and I was able to learn it quick enough to where it wasn't really a problem.
The people publishing books using the term "degrowth" (Jason Hickel, etc.) do call for destroying capitalism and believe fighting for climate change isn't compatible with growth.

Green growth people (like myself) argue that we can grow without incurring the negative carbon impacts given proper policy / tech.

We very much want solar, etc. technologies that do this. Degrowth isn't the solution.
Trump's drop-kicking Afghanistan was probably the largest external factor that encouraged Putin to launch the full-scale invasion against Ukraine.

More specifically: the final troop pullout happened under Biden; but the real damage was done by Trump, by negotiating with the Taliban over the heads of the local Afghan government, thus leading to its precipitous collapse a short time later.

The idea that Trump enables Putin is just a laughable counterfactual

Trump has already signaled an intent to end the war on terms favorable Putin.
What makes you think it doesn't work for Europeans?
I really cannot parse if you're for/against Waymo, lol.
> when you factor in risk of a crash, it's also safer than Uber or driving myself

It’s also predictable. Uber and Lyft have been so desperate for drivers they’ve accepted people who drive dangerously, cancel at the last minute or plain can’t follow driving directions. You skip that with Waymo.
I would love to read your Kafka analysis
What even is your allegation? That someone has a joystick in a remote center and they're directly controlling the vehicle? And they are doing it all in real-time over cellular networks?

This isn't remotely feasible unless you think Waymo has invented new concepts in physics.
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WGU is a real and legit, and probably one of the top things I would consider if needed to get a bachelors degree while working as a now middle aged adult.
Instead of base 10, you use base largest known prime, then this is pretty easy to do: 1
I suppose that if the vehicle will crash or hurt people without human remote operation of some kind, that's driven remotely in essence, no?

If there is more than 1.0 people running the vehicle, that's not good either.

I like Waymo! I just think that they aren't the only ones to figure out autonomous driving, and the crazy thing is that maybe they are specifically not trying to figure out autonomous driving, and that is maybe why only they have found success?
I may be wrong, but I disagree with a lot of the spin being pushed in this article, although of course Hinton deserves a lot of the credit for keeping the field alive and igniting the "deep learning" explosion.

- The ImageNet dataset / competition pre-dates neural net entrants, and I'm not aware that Fei Fei created it in anticipation of such. The reason that AlexNet (2012 ILSVRC/ImageNet entry) made such an impact was that it beat all non-ANN entrants by such a huge margin that it was impossible to ignore, and pretty much killed all ongoing attempts to hand-design transform-invariant image features (such as SIFT).

- While NVidia deserve credit for enabling GPU-compute with CUDA, it was pure luck that ANNs subsequently took off, and became the primary use of CUDA (which then added ANN specific libraries such as cuDNN).

- AlexNet (ImageNet 2012) was certainly what started the ANN boom, which Hinton/LeCun/Bengio then decided to re-brand as "deep learning" to escape any historically negative association of "neural networks". However, while AlexNet demonstrated the power of a large (& deep) neural net, I don't think it's fair to say that it was responsible the current/waning belief in LLM "scaling laws". The immediate aftermath of AlexNet wasn't bigger datasets, but attempts to build bigger/better ANNs to do better on the ImageNet benchmark. The LLM "scaling laws" originated from OpenAI's GPT-1 and GPT-2 where unexpected model capabilities lead to experimentation of scaling, with Sutskever and Amodei being two of the earliest believers. Sutskever has recently said that he thinks that transformer scaling has plateaued, and has started his own company (SSI) pursuing a different approach.

I don't think we can say that Hinton accidentally created the deep learning boom. He always (to his huge credit) believed in ANNs, pushed it into the public eye with AlexNet, created the "Deep Learning" branding, and generally promoted it until it got too powerful for his liking.
Does anyone know if through some chain of adapters i can plug my old Cinema HD 30" in to one of the new mac minis? i already have the mini display port adapter. but it doesn't work correctly if its not plugged in to a real USB port on the computer, doesn't like hubs.

Ive been tempted by the new machine, but really like my old monitor. 16:10 displays are getting scarce.
Abstract:

> The overwhelming success of GPT-4 in early 2023 highlighted the transformative potential of large language models (LLMs) across various sectors, including national security. This article explores the implications of LLM integration within national security contexts, analyzing their potential to revolutionize information processing, decision-making, and operational efficiency. Whereas LLMs offer substantial benefits, such as automating tasks and enhancing data analysis, they also pose significant risks, including hallucinations, data privacy concerns, and vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Through their coupling with decision-theoretic principles and Bayesian reasoning, LLMs can significantly improve decision-making processes within national security organizations. Namely, LLMs can facilitate the transition from data to actionable decisions, enabling decision-makers to quickly receive and distill available information with less manpower. Current applications within the US Department of Defense and beyond are explored, e.g., the USAF's use of LLMs for wargaming and automatic summarization, that illustrate their potential to streamline operations and support decision-making. However, these applications necessitate rigorous safeguards to ensure accuracy and reliability. The broader implications of LLM integration extend to strategic planning, international relations, and the broader geopolitical landscape, with adversarial nations leveraging LLMs for disinformation and cyber operations, emphasizing the need for robust countermeasures. Despite exhibiting "sparks" of artificial general intelligence, LLMs are best suited for supporting roles rather than leading strategic decisions. Their use in training and wargaming can provide valuable insights and personalized learning experiences for military personnel, thereby improving operational readiness.

I mean, I'm glad they suggest that LLMs be used in "supporting roles rather than leading strategic decisions," but... no? Let's please not go down this route for international politics and national security. "Twitch Plays CIA" and "Reddit Plays International Geopolitical Negotiations" sound like bad movies, let's not make them our new reality...
I guess because that seems the path of least resistance within the existing Python world.
yes, I see a lot of value in this approach, especially for ADHD learners (who represent about 10% of the student population). Imagine if the only thing a kid could access on their school computer was the thing they were supposed to be doing? How much would that help focus? On MacBooks, you can use https://gertrude.app/ to enforce this allow-list only approach, which has proven very beneficial for homeschool students.
I didn't say "they're all going to laugh at me because I'm fat". I intentionally left the reason unspecified, but fat-shaming wasn't even on my list of considerations.

To be more specific: They're going to laugh at me because I have no idea WTF I'm doing. I have no idea what my own (or anyone else's) expectations are in a gym. I don't know what anything does, how to use it, or even what it may be called. I don't what cultural norms, unwritten rules, or written rules may exist in that environment.

I don't even know when to go, when not to go, what to wear, what not to wear, or et cetera. All I really know is that gyms are things that exist -- and that those who do go to gyms all seem to have the broad assumption that everyone was born with the specific knowledge needed to go to the gym, and that it is all implicitly obvious to anyone who is breathing.

But it is not implicitly obvious at all, to me, except for step 1: I am going to fuck this up.

And then: Yes, they're all going to laugh at me. (That's step 2.)

Step 3 is: Fuck it, I'm done. (I can get right to step 3 without even bothering with steps 1 or 2.)

AFAIK, absolutely zero of my friends "hit the gym" (or ever have) so it's not like I can ask for local guidance from someone who I know and trust.

It's daunting just to think about, much less consider actually doing.
>> It is very dangerous. Is this happening, though? I don't recall Biden calling for pulling news channels' permits. Did he revoke press corps passes?

So you don't remember the government going to social media platforms during Covid telling them they have to suppress information that contradicts the idea that if you get the vaccine you're 100% protected from getting or passing on the virus?

Or the 55 CIA agents who signed a letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation even though they knew it wasn't, and then directed the media to push this complete lie to the general public?

There are copious other examples, but you don't need to pull news channels permits or press passes. You just tell them what to report instead.
> anything that requires human interaction fails at scale

What do you mean by "fails"? It doesn't have the zero-marginal-cost dynamic favored by the investor class of the tech industry?

Don't confuse "you can't scale human interactions" with "human interaction fails at scale". The former is talking about the venture-capital-accelerated winner-takes-all business strategy, the latter is a misunderstanding of civil societies and living a rewarding life because you can only envision such things through the lens of owning a zero-marginal-cost process.
This reminds me of SQL Anti-patterns, which is a book that everyone who works with databases should read.
Trick questions, first instincts, and the benefits of thinking twice
Fast, Flexible, and Practical Kernel Extensions [pdf]
There are, which is why the author included the quoted clarification of what "EdTech" means in the context of this article.
Is there another term the article could use that would fit better or be more clear?
> That is, however, true of almost all of the big players. If you want the security of the big paycheque every month, you do the deal with the devil, so the speak.

And you will pay the cost of it with time, physical and mental health, and career longevity.

Ultimately you are signing up to be servants and servants are not valued within or outside the organization.
We'll see if they ever start operating in Mexico or India.

It's not only because of the chaos but also that maps aren't accurate enough.
Mock all you want, a brute force attack (why the quotes? This is literally the textbook brute force attack) is an important part of pentesting.
Burned out: Rockchip's best Linux distro goes AWOL [video]
And so what?

Those gatekeepers might not accept a John Carmack or a Palmer Luckey (or Bill Gates or Larry Ellison or Vitalik Buterin, etc, etc), but how many of their certificate-holders have done any comparably significant engineering work?
It required the invention of beer (which was predicated on a number of technologies, including large-scale agriculture, pottery, and zymurgy). Once they cracked open the first cold ones though, it got hard to get up off the stone-age couch and people began to specialize in such fields as philosophy and singing.
The paper argues against using LLMs for military strategy, claiming "no textbook contains the right answers" and strategy can't be learned from text alone (the "Virtual Clausewitz" Problem). But this seems to underestimate LLMs' demonstrated ability to reason through novel situations. Rather than just pattern-matching historical examples, modern LLMs can synthesize insights across domains, identify non-obvious patterns, and generate novel strategic approaches. The real question isn't whether perfect answers exist in training data, but whether LLMs can engage in effective strategic reasoning—which increasingly appears to be the case, especially with reasoning models like o1.
I would never buy a D-Link NAS
>Many graduate students tend to favor abstraction over practical skills.

Isn't that the point. There was a time when companies valued problem solving skills instead of being an automatron. Back then companies would train you with practical skills that the company needs. Each company had their own way of doing things.

But I guess now companies want automatrons instead, no wonder they are pushing to replace people with "AI".
> The "supervised" requirement is basically just being used as a legal loophole to avoid liability if it fails.

"If it fails" - so it is supervised for a reason then. It makes sense because FSD has an intervention rate in the low double digits according to community trackers like https://teslafsdtracker.com.
That other than 2020 (ie COVID), life expectancy has been continuously rising for the last 100 years?
There are plenty of companies successfully doing allow-list only filters. At home for focus: https://gertrude.app/ At work for security: https://adamnet.works/
you can start with these podcasts for inspiration, not exactly in this order; "Emerging Research in Educational Psychology" "The Evidence Based Education Podcast" "Psychology in the Classroom" "The Edtech Podcast" "The Cult of Pedagogy"

i never liked school and actually what made avoid it as much as possible (to the point i proposed to my parents to work as a minor apprentice in the construction field because my plans were to quit school) was a 8° grade math teacher saying after my question about why that formula came to be, something like "you need a university degree at least to understand this"; so a neat direction i would like to see education taking is slowing down the amount of stuff we throw at students throat... maybe emotional intelligence/awareness, cooperative behavior (like knowing how to give someone a good feedback) & tech literacy! would be so cool if more people had the basic knowledge of getting some Arduino/ESP32 libraries at Github and hooking up into a board for small things, like a paddle Atari controller or just a cute LED thing as adornment/gift for a loved one (which i think to do that, lots of concepts can be taught); as well critical thinking so we don't have people lured to modern bullshit, like "buying this new fancy iPhone meanwhile i don't even understand what a shutter or aperture control serves, nor i use apps fancier than iMessage and Instagram" etc.
Interesting how he's for regulation.
I think I'd only consider the promise met if they take the liability
It's really useful to know this when working with SQL interactively.

Specifically, if I'm banging out an ad-hoc query that no one will ever see, and I'm going to throw away, I don't worry about casing.

Otherwise, for me, all SQL that's checked in gets the commands in ALL CAPS.
I have a minipc with an AMD 8945HS, 96GB ram and 2x2TB storage for quite a bit less than $1400.
Yeah, I've had an account for quite a while now (from before registrations were open), but it was largely a ghost town. The last few days there is a lot more stuff happening in my feed. And so far free of all the drama, bots, etc.
You seriously think that walking or taking public transit in the US feels dangerous in 2024? It may have felt a bit different in the 1980s but, even then, most major cities were not in general hellholes even if some locations were sketchy.
Hoping the M4 Mac Pro/Studio will be incredible. Bought a non-pro M4 Mini to tide me over until the M4 Ultra comes out.
IDEA if you want to use it for other things (or any other JetBrains IDE). Nothing comes close feature-wise.

If you don't:

- https://www.depesz.com/2022/09/21/prettify-sql-queries-from-...

- https://gitlab.com/depesz/pg-sql-prettyprinter

Or https://paste.depesz.com for one-off use.
I think I dislike it more on the highway than in the city, and I really dislike it around traffic lights. The highway lane change decisions are awful.

Maybe the end-to-end NN version is better, though. I haven't been able to try it (hw3).
The most obvious way the US national security industry could use LLM's right now is simply to spam foreign adversaries with chatbots. That's their greatest strength right now—a use-case they have amply proven themselves for.

This paper comes off as eager to avoid this topic: they (briefly) talk about detecting foreign LLM spam, which is called propaganda, but sidestep the idea of our own side using it. If we were considering talking about that, we wouldn't choose negative-sentiment descriptors like (quoting the paper) "nation-state sponsored propaganda", or "disinformation campaigns"; we'd use our own netural-sentiment jargon, which is "psychological operations" ("psyops") [0].

That we're not widely debating this question right now *probably* means it's far too late to have a chance of stopping it.

edit: Or, to rephrase this as a question: Is it ethical to spam another democracy with millions of chatbots pretending to be citizens of that country—if the effect is to manipulate those citizens to not go to war with our own side, saving our own lives? Is that an atrocity or is that legitimate warfare?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...
Pre-Greek Substrate
Is the "scraper" still running? If so, how many users are there today?
Intel can't afford some two cups of coffee per employee per day or 40 cups a month per employee?
You control someone else's self preservation? That doesn't make sense to me unless you're suggesting the passenger also threaten the driver. Did you answer the question they actually asked?
That's a good deal.

But the M4 Pro Mini has a significantly faster CPU, much faster GPU, much higher bandwidth, quieter, cooler.

And while mini PCs can get pretty small, they often come with an external power supply that is half the size of the computer. M4 Mini doesn't have an external PSU, which is a really nice bonus if you ever want to put it in a backpack.

It depends on what you value.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8794796?baselin...
Go ahead and worship the cult of the omniscient government panopticon.

Even the Snowden leaks were clownshoes mysql LAMP apps that would never pass the bar at a tech company.

Where are the thermals for this system?
We live in a world absolutely awash in corporate and state surveillance, where virtually all parties constantly position themselves to increase information gathering. We are literally talking about an abuse of the fine print in TOS by a government entity, and I am paranoid?

More like Russell's teapot would apply to anybody who would assert there is a benign and benevolent corporate actor out there. Prove it. You can't, and every major company in this domain has been caught out at least a few times, plus we know there are laws on the books that force them into secrecy.

This is honestly so basic it almost feels like gaslighting to call me paranoid. Either keep your phone in a metal box, or presume it is compromised. Just like the the most basic level of opsec for virtually all relevant government agencies.
WARNING: never try to take Waymo to the Hollywood Bowl.

Their app lets you book a ride to the entrance... then stops and makes you exiut, in front of a motel, blocking its driveway, a mile from the venue.

There is an invisible "exclusion zone" there that is not marked on maps, and not communicated to you in any way. You just get dumped somewhere other than the displayed destination and there is no ability to "add a stop" or otherwise modify the ride.

Ask me how I know when trying to make a show... or ask the people in the other Waymos we watched pull up as were frantically trying to get a Lyft.