skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing worker productivity manifests as greater returns that predominately go to capital owners, not workers. That concentrated wealth in the hands of capital owners is wielded as power in the political, economic, and physical realms.

The "product" that the increased productivity buys is control over policy at whatever level of government, not more washing machines or tires.
Solving the bootstrap problem of secrets management- turtles all the way down [pdf]
I'm not sure how that's relevant. The goal is to assess the individual's susceptibility to coercion. Maintaining safety from kidnapping while traveling can certainly be a concern when you hold a clearance, but simply taking your family on a vacation overseas is not among the high concerns. If you have bad debt where you are drowning financially, or if you have strong foreign ties or connections, or other behavioral risks, they make you susceptible to coercion. Selling secrets to adversaries to repay loan sharks, being extorted using threats against overseas family members, getting drunk or high and divulging secrets, secrets in exchange for drugs, etc.
This reminds me of an article I read several years ago (I wish I had the link!) that explained that because the Law has contradictions, you can literally prove anything!

The article then went on to say this isn't necessarily a bad thing: two lawyers put their arguments before the judge, and the judge can then decide what's best for that particular situation.

The author of the article was at least somewhat libertarian, because he suggested that this is necessary when there's a single body of Law to deal with; the other way to deal with these problems is to go with arbitrators instead -- but in that case, the "Law" would be decided between the two parties and the arbitrator, which has its own twists and turns!
I've never read Dave Barry so I don't know. If you're seeing a similarity, though, that's enough of a recommendation to make me give Barry a look.

The magic of Mickens, for me, is his weaving in Comp-Sci (or Comp-Sci adjacent) elements in dense prose causally, punctuating it with absurdity, and then running with that absurdity. Knowing that he's bringing knowledge and experience I'll likely never achieve while making it look effortless makes me really respect his ability.
Do you have specific reasons why this would be true of Mizu?

It's certainly possible to build sufficiently rich data handling and modularization into HTML, and to make seamless integration between HTML and components and JS.

The fact that plain HTML can be extended with custom elements already means that just about any HTML system can be decomposed so that the the most complex things are encapsulated behind components.
Great photos, thanks. The one with the "negative space" must be what my roommate talked about when he could not see the ground from his room window during the day. Btw, back in the 90s they still had some market alleys in Akihabara/Tokyo that looked like the one in the next photo. And it was amazing.
>It's tough work, probably harder and more dangerous than an Amazon warehouse.

My buddy who is a union welder at a shipyard doesn't have to piss in a bottle to make his quota. His job is fucking fantastic, thanks to the union, and the hardest part of it is navigating controls around what the navy allows civvies to touch.

It's predominantly a lot of professional work by tradies, NOT grunt work. Use the proper PPE and you probably won't even have any lasting injuries or bodily damage. Take your time and follow the rules and you won't even be the cause of death for a hundred sailors like with the Thresher.
That is a remarkably good argument. Well done, I'm convinced that this paper has little substance after all.
This is just a continuation of the "US recommends encrypted messaging" messaging in the last few days.

Discussion (41 points, 15 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312998

The memo (PDF) [0] includes:

- Use e2e encrypted communications

- Enable FIDO

- Avoid SMS MFA

- Use a password manager

- Set a telecom account pin

- Regularly update software

- Regularly update hardware

- Don't use a personal VPN

There's also iPhone/Android specific recommendations.

[0]: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
Wish I got a manual on small claims courts when I became an adult. Or sooner. And, like, the resources to exercise it without taking up more of my time or anything. It's a strange imbalance for something that is entirely the company's fault. Of course there are bound to be legitimate issues on either side, but for something blatant like this, I would that the burden wouldn't be on me.
>there was one grocery store, longhorn cattle down the road and no lights on the horizon at night

Is this supposed to be a downside? I'd pay extra for that.
I have a AirTag in my car so I can find it when I park in an unfamiliar city or an airport parking lot. I'm imagining a rechargeable version I could plug into the cigarette lighter and it would theoretically last as long as my car does.
+1

I find many in the tech space and especially in the business space struggle (with disturbing difficulty) with the idea of meaningful truely freely given consent. GDPR uses a mostly adequate definition[0]; with examples added:

1. Freely-given without penalty: Services cannot force you to accept by refusing or degrading service. Consent must be truly voluntary, a streaming platform that won’t let you sign up or only allows you to watch up to 1080p unless you share your data with ad partners, is illegal.

2. Allowed to change your mind after you've previously consented: Withdrawing consent must be as easy as giving it. If one click gave consent, a single click must remove it. Bullying by requiring you to mail a letter, call a phone number, or navigate endless menus is illegal under GDPR.

3. The company must show clear evidence that you were informed and knowingly agreed: For example, they can’t rely on a tiny pre-checked box hidden under layers of ToS or on vague "by using this service, you agree" language. Doing so is illegal. Even pre-ticking the agree box is illegal, the user must make an active choice.

4. Consent requests must use plain language and stand apart from the rest of the text: A single, prominent and clearly labeled statement "Do you agree to share your data with these marketing partners?" suffices. Burying it in 5 pages of legalese does not and is illegal.

5. Any part of a consent request that violates GDPR is itself automatically void: If part of the contract claims the company can ignore any future withdrawal, that part is invalid and illegal.

[0] https://gdpr.eu/article-7-how-to-get-consent-to-collect-pers...
What size? Lines of code, Megabytes, kilograms, kilometers?
I remember reading somewhere that over 80% of the grains grown in the U.S is for animal consumption, not human. Those animals are then slaughtered for human consumption. I don't know how true that number is, but even if it is half that, it is still highly inefficient and wasteful. That article also calculated the amount of resources (water especially) to produce one pound of meat vs a pound of fruits/vegetables.

None of this is rocket science, it is fairly straightforward to understand. Reducing meat consumption makes sense economically, ethically, environmentally etc. But, people like their hamburgers and their sea food and their KFC...
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Two AA batteries is about 16 cm^3 of waste. 10 CR2032s is about 10 cm^3.

"Number of batteries" is not the right thing to measure. Maybe volume isn't either, but it's got to be closer.
Behold! Neighborhood businesses wither and die.
> If neither of those, what would proper evidence for the claim look like?

Ok tell me what you think of this, it's just a thought experiment but maybe it works.

Suppose I train Model A on a dataset of reviews where the least common rating is 1 star, and the most common rating is 5 stars. Similarly, I train Model B on a unique dataset where the least common rating is 2 stars, and the most common is 4 stars. Then, I "align" both models to prefer the least common rating when generating responses.

If I then ask either model to write a review and see it consistently preferring 3 stars in their scratchpad - something neither dataset emphasized - while still giving me expected responses as per my alignment, I’d suspect the alignment is "fake". It would seem as though the model has developed an unexplained preference for a rating that wasn’t part of the original data or alignment intent, making it feel like the alignment process introduced an artificial bias rather than reflecting the datasets.
Oh, I see. I misunderstood what you meant by "they exclusively model the language first, and then incidentally, the world." But assuming you mean that they develop their world model incidentally through language, is that very different than how I develop a mental world-model of Quidditch, time-turner time travel, and flying broomsticks through reading Harry Potter novels?
Yes, but a person can still choose which job to work in order to optimize their happiness, trading off compensation with the work's enjoyment. A person can also invest in themselves and develop new skills to unlock additional types of jobs, etc.
Seems like a simple and effective tool!
Thanks for catching this, I'll look into it!
shrinking population means no continually growing economy and explodes our pension/ social security systems, so it's necessarily unpopular. you'd need some revamps to the economy first.

of course having a lot of kids is also not that popular in the West, so.
I hadn't actually come across Quart before, but can definitely consider it for next years list.
For large complex apps Reflex's main website is built fully in Reflex and the code is all open source.
TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are both a bad idea. If the far end of the connection isn't on a trip out of the solar system or buried under the ocean it needs to be upgraded. TLS 1.0 is from last century.
CFTC Risks Running Out of Money to Pay Whistleblowers Their Cut
well the one grocery store part is pretty inconvenient if you need specialty stuff. very hard to find masala for your curries or good tofu probably.
Thats awesome to hear. thank-you
It is easier to pass a literature class when you can already read the language the literature is in.
Exponential growth in material resource consumption is necessarily a short term phenomenon on the scale of known history. The UCSD Do The Math guy has shown why exponential supply growth is not possible in the long run. The more binding constraint is the lack of demand growth. Even if the world had the capacity to supply every person with an extra 100 tons per year of steel or an extra 10 tons of pork, why would everyone buy that much? There's no point. It would be like hoarding drums full of seawater. Whether we plan for the end or not, the exponential growth era is transitory.
>>>For instance: what does it mean to "hear" a thought in the first place? It's a nonsensical concept.

You could ask people what they mean when they say they "hear" thoughts, but since you've already dismissed their statements as "nonsensical" I guess you don't see the point in talking to people to understand how they think!

That doesn't leave you with many options for learning anything.
Money is a bad measure of usefulness, but it's better than any other working measure.
It's exactly how Apple operates. The last Apple device with Firewire was produced in 2012, though it was sold for several more years. MacOS 13 (2022) dropped the Firewire CoreAudio driver (as well as other, more niche support for Firewire). So... exactly 10 years.

If you're going to put me in a bucket, I'd be in the "Apple Hater" bucket, but I honestly think that the way that they do this is fine. It would have been better if they had jumped on the USB bandwagon earlier, they certainly love to build their own solutions that are incompatible with where the rest of the industry (see also, their proprietary wireless audio, their proprietary bluetooth codec, their proprietary thunderbolt extensions, their proprietary magsafe power connectors, their proprietary Lightning cable/connector, their forking of webkit off of khtml, their changes to webkit that are part of Safari but haven't been pushed upstream to webkit)

Anyways, this is exactly their MO and it's not bad. Apple doesn't need you to contradict everything people say about Apple.
The characterization of Murray's views seem extremely accurate and the fact that his book is still brought up despite being disproved as racist trash decades ago is ridiculous
For anyone who hasn't been to the grocery store recently, a rotisserie chicken can be had for about $8. That was wild to me when I stopped to think about it for a second: a chicken born and raised to adulthood, slaughtered, and brought to my local market all for under $8.
So he used hyperbole at least twice. Does that mean he tended to it?
This seems like potentially a bad idea for Farage. A lot of his support base is the remaining Brexiters, whose _whole thing_ is a fear of being controlled by foreigners.
Well, who knows how they've chosen to train it, or what the failure modes of that training are ...

If there are no good choices as to what to hit, then hard braking does seem to be generally a good idea (although there may be exceptions), but at the same time a human is likely to also try to steer - I think most people would, perhaps subconsciously, steer to avoid a human even if that meant hitting a tree, but probably the opposite if it was, say, a deer.
It might have been surprising at the time, but it's certainly unsurprising in light of the replication crisis. We now know that most findings don't replicate. Anyone who continues to be surprised by the most likely outcome needs to update their priors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Most_Published_Research_Fi...
I think a lot of people go their whole lives without ever cooking or eating tofu or masala.
- "good cutlery lasts a lifetime"

I mean, modern ones are just solid chunks of Type 304 stainless steel; unless you are a family of Ridley Scott xenomorphs I can't imagine why they wouldn't.
Intel and Canonical Collaborate on Graphics Preview Stack for Ubuntu 24.10
Adrenaline helps ... for a while. But it can't substitute for rest, or clinical judgment. More than one ambulance has crashed because a driver fell asleep.

It's not healthy for patients, and there's a few reasons why it's "tolerated" (not agreeing with these) - "We always have done it this way", and around here, being a unionized city/county fire-paramedic is the top tier for income, and around here, there's few enough paramedic schools that several of them have minimum EMT field experience in time or patient contact numbers, so it's considered a grind until you can get through. And EMS companies know that because of that, there's a steady pipeline of young people willing to "go through the wringer".
FWIW, to me it is "unsurprising" as I can't remember the last time a major psych study actually did replicate, and it seems frankly like the entire field is in shambles. Does that mean that I knew before that this study in specific was false? No. But, that isn't what anyone means when they say "unsurprising"! If you get to the end of a movie and all of the major characters end up alive, and someone else seemed shocked by that fact, you might still explain to them that that's "unsurprising", even if you yourself got to feel the thrill of uncertainty -- or even were concerned for a bit -- while you were watching.
Can AI models reason: Just a stochastic parrot?
Because the alternative is based on your manager's impressions. You get fired because "your manager doesn't like you." You get a promotion because "your manager likes you." Your coworker sits around doing very little and nobody notices for a few months.

Your company and boss is sued because someone says their firing was based on discrimination because they can't prove it was for performance.

The truth is that managers can suss out 90% of the problems without a number. However, we are asked to document the hell out of it if we want to do something about it. And twice in my career I've been wrong: I mistook someone who was quiet for not doing much until I dove into the work. I trust my gut, but I confirm with numbers.
"my $fh" works fine if you only want to work with files you open() yourself, but what if you want to write a function that, based on some test, returns either that or the preexisting STDOUT filehandle?
It's a totally fine and respectable boundary to have: "I'm going to share some stuff I did for free for other people to learn from, but not if I get a bunch of bitchy/pedantic notifications about it."
Typescript is not saving me x/2 of the usual time I spend coding, not even close, not even in the ballpark. It's more like costing me 10% of my time due to missing types in libraries, hassle of extra tooling, more complexity, compilation step, etc, etc. Yes, I made that up that 10% figure, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's close to that.

If you're prone to making easy to avoid errors in your code, then maybe Typescript will save you time. For me, that is not the case. YMMV.
Making New Friends Costs Money. It's Worth It
I think "alignment faking" is probably a fair way to characterize it as long as you treat it as technical jargon. Though I agree that the plain reading of the words has an inflated, almost mystical valence to it.

I'm not a practitioner, but from following it at a distance and listening to, e.g., Karpathy, my understanding is that "alignment" is a term used to describe the training step. Pre-training is when the model digests the internet and gives you a big ol' sentence completer. But training is then done on a much smaller set, say ~100,000 handwritten examples, to make it work how you want (e.g. as a friendly chatbot or whatever). I believe that step is also known as "alignment" since you're trying to shape the raw sentence generator into a well defined tool that works the way you want.

It's an interesting engineering challenge to know the boundaries of the alignment you've done, and how and when the pre-training can seep out.

I feel like the engineering has gone way ahead of the theory here, and to a large extent we don't really know how these tools work and fail. So there's lots of room to explore that.

"Safety" is an _okay_ word, in my opinion, for the ability to shape the pre-trained model into desired directions, though because of historical reasons and the whole "AGI will take over the world" folks, there's a lot of "woo" as well. And any time I read a post like this one here, I feel like there's camps of people who are either all about the "woo" and others who treat it as an empirical investigation, but they all get mixed together.
Both your links are related to amazon for cheap items, not e.g. high street retailers that are managing their own stock and inventory. Do you think Office [0] are chucking 4 pairs of New Balance trainers in the trash? No.

[0] https://www.office.co.uk/
It’s also where you (or your adhd colleague, or future self) introduce a subtle bug if one of your subs reads another stream and you forgot to local $_ in it. And you realize that you don’t always understand what “it” is either and that it is a bad idiom for formal systems. Isn’t worth it in the long run, especially in implicitness-ridden code that perl encourages. Write out your “line” and assign it back:

if (line ~= /\n$/) {
line = chop(line)
}

Or use a library with helper functions akin to chomp(). This sentence-like code with $_ is a sign of wrong level of abstraction which solves small tasks with smaller components. If a language claims text processing capabilities, it should provide a function or a generator that does “read this <enc=utf-8> file and split by <what>[ omitting empty ones but keeping original line numbers in the emitted records][ also erase /\s*#.*$/-comments][ keep original lines too]” among other common tasks. All this $, $. $/ $_ could be just a couple of functions that accept a config argument with few optional callbacks for custom needs. You don’t have to create a whole language to read lines split by newline then by separator. Same for matching vars, could be just a sliding context arg to a properly designed matching api.

You may argue that other languages don’t have it either, well that’s true. Standard libraries usually suck compared to what perl does out of box.
Maybe it's that they were intending to address a group, but then realised that what they said might cause offence so they corrected themselves.

I think it's not so much they imagined what they were saying before they said it, it's that they reached for the handy phrase for addressing a group without thinking, and then only afterwards realised it. At least that's what I would do.

I wonder what it would feel like if I joined a majority female class and was addressed as "good morning ladies, and man". I've never been in the situation unfortunately.

Another phrase would be good. I vote for youse all.
In the Safari section of the Settings app is a screen with all the debug flags, you can turn on the flag for WebGPU and then this demo works fine. Be warned, there are many shiny things in that menu… touch nothing but the lamp…

Most people don’t do this or know about it, so it’s still wrong to say that “WebGPU is supported on iOS Safari”. But if you want your iOS Safari to support WebGPU so you can check out demos like this, it can.
order results from consequences. it's ok if you want to be timid, but don't shame others for helping restore order.
It’s not just a soldering iron needed. I replaced the switches on my 17-year-old Logitech MX Revolution and on a newer Performance MX and the old switches are completely impossible to remove from the PCB without snipping away at them and a lot of (careful) force. However I can say that the result was worth it, no more phantom double-clicks. Mouse itself was fine.

Maybe for some of the newer mice it’s an easier ordeal, though.
Hey there! ;)
"The fallacious line of thinking that one can fully isolate an outdoor planting"

Who thinks that? It is about reducing unwanted pollination. So if you know the wind will come strong from this area and lots of hemp field are there, you can maybe protect your plants some time of the year, or know beforehand, that an area is not a good spot for you.
This Mathematical Enchantments essay describes three contexts in which a sensible way to count how many times you've performed an operation is "zero, one, two, one, two, one, two, ..."
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1869795228955386102
That alone makes me not want to use it. Licensing has to be clean and clear for it to have any chance with me.
Hiring in the Age of GenAI
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Opens up the intriguing possibility of chickens' buying their own freedom
It only complains once that the battery is low and never again, I've run into a dead battery when searching for an AirTag multiple times.
I guess the next step here is a video encoder that is natively recording spherical videos ?

Any projection is bound to separate areas which could be compressed more efficiently together.

A native stereoscopic spherical video encoder could improve compression even more, since side by side views are quite similar in general.

Now that's an interesting problem to solve ! (and a very hard one probably)
>> And how does that affects those OF models who actually type out their own interactions?

They will work harder and get paid less. Just like Amazon affects small store owners.
Out-of-the-box Linux distributions give me a desktop notification when my 17-year-old MX mouse (connected via unifying dongle) is low on battery. Does anyone know how to get this on Windows? Nothing worse than the battery dying mid-use.
That's my point. It feels very hypocritical because you yourself could disconnect today as you suggest in your gospel but you don't.
They correctly figured out customers could tolerate slower times for fast food because a significant chunk of their orders are delivery and pickup, so having it take 7 minutes instead of 3 won't really be noticed by the consumer.
Not everywhere has to have everything.