skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I wasn't very complete with my description. I mean that 0,0,0,0... would correspond with the "most probable" continuation of some prompt and it would map to sensical english. And then 48298346,1,3,2... would correspond with a less probable continuation of the prompt, but it would also map to sensical english. But where more vs less probable, and the associated probabilities, are only knowable by someone with access to the secret LLM.

So you'd feed the algorithm some starter text like: "Here's my favorite recipe for brownies", and then you'd give it some data to encode, and depending on which data you gave it, you'd get a different, but "plausible", recipe for brownies. The recipient could reverse the recpie back into numbers, and from that they'd decode the hidden message.

The trick would be balancing the LLM's attempt to make sense against whatever additional constraints came along with your data encoding scheme. If you tried to encode too much cyphertext into a too-short brownies recipe, the recipe would fail to be convincingly a recipe. Conveniently, it's conventional to prefix recipes with a tremendous amount of text that nobody reads, so you've got a lot of entropy to play in.
The year in tropical rainforests: 2024
Jury is still out on if the Russian Federation can survive in one piece for any length of time imho
Title says "everything" but author didn't mention Android/iOS apps.
That doesn't help the attacker if their key can only decrypt the subset of frames which Netflix wants them to be able to decrypt.
It used the server version and references mapped back to the local clone when you clicked on a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/medfound/pro...
Sure, it'd also be nice to have a small portioned meal that tastes good and meets your needs and satisfies your hunger for longer. Can GLP-1 agonists (intestinal enzyme, so maybe just package it well?) just be added to foods like MSG to achieve this? Like a lactaid but it's a GLP-1 agonists
Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
You can't give a worse experience to people who paid more for a better GPU.
DD2 is a single player game, those generally don't maintain their active player counts forever. It peaked at 228,285 concurrent (not total) Steam players which are pretty good numbers.
I have had a somewhat similar journey but 14 years instead of 25 and I always wonder how it would be different today.

We were lucky enough to grow up with the industry and progressively learn more complexity. The kids out of school today are faced with decades worth of complexity on day one on the job.
https://native.hotwired.dev/ — I’m curious how well this works
"Dead" languages still have codebases that need to be maintained, and companies already invested that need new development may lean on the expertise the company already has, but this is more a sign of subsistence, not thriving life.
So, a spuriously quantitative prediction pulled out of his butt?

How can anyone take something like that seriously? Do you even bother to ask yourself how he could possibly know that?
Why is the grandparent dead? Makes an interesting point and am glad I read it and the replies. Please vouch.
> It's probably hard to get a recording of the Apple Vision Pro for instance.

I hadn't actually thought about that! For 99.995% of my time on this earth, "screen" meant "flat, glass, viewed from some distance". I guess it's time to spend some time thinking about what new ways to exploit the analogue loophole are...

I wonder which part would be harder: designing something to fool the "am I on a head? Where are the eye balls looking?" bits or the optics needed to re-combine the stereo?
That's not what "software engineers" in Silicon Valley or Redmond typically do.

They write software that usurps other people's computing resources, e.g., CPU, storage and an internet connection that they do not pay for.

It's one reason I use NetBSD, custom barebones Linux. I write and compile software on single core old computers and cheap eMMC laptops.
I feel like that's been helped along culturally by fandom.com buying out various independent wikis and then shittifying them to the point of unusability.
No.

The estimated number of galaxies in the observable universe is between 200 billion and 2 trillion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy

The number of stars in our galaxy is estimated between 100 and 400 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
> If that was the motivation, there's a far more direct option available. Just charge for the upgrade.

That's a far more direct option, which also largely doesn't work. Corporate IT doesn't like doing in-place major OS upgrades. Consumers just plain won't, unless it's free and easy.
The west could have kept the Soviet Union alive. The Soviets were poor and an easy adversary to plan for. After witnessing what occurred in the 1991 Gulf War, they realized the writing was on the wall. The Soviet or Russian military would never be able to match what their "main adversary" had just demonstrated, a major ground incursion that took only a few days. 30 years on and over a trillion dollars of military spending, and Russia is still not capable of defeating one country in a three year struggle, and in the process destroyed most of its incompetent force.
Sure, there’s already oral versions that exist:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6969659/

Unsure if it has to be in some stomach-acid resistant packaging or slow release or something though.
They don't. You leave the cover on until you are sure you got them all and then you throw away the mattress and get a new one.

Also wash everything you own in hot and dry on hot. Or put it in an airtight box for at least a year. They can and will live anywhere within a few feet of where you spend a lot of your time. Couches, beds, chairs, carpets, etc.

This person is downplaying how hard it can be to get rid of them.
Some small tweaks on the built-in theme ayu_evolve.
My fault, I meant x86 has no architectural TEE - various vendors offer their own weird things. But thanks, this is good clarification.
As a consolation there is good ol' U262D. I have mine set up as

<Multi_key> <c> <c> <c> <p> : "\xe2\x98\xad" #symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers
That's still pre-warming. Sometimes you can target hardware and do it at dev time but its the essentially the same process.
Depends on the frameworks more than the language. Ruby is dependent on Rails, Javascript on Node and the various front-end frameworks, and PHP on Wordpress and Laravel. Not to say that there isn't vanilla development happening in each of these, but that's not what drives adoption. (Especially when you use upstream dependencies like Docker pulls as metrics)
Every thing you need to do math homework
Note that the usage of “blog” in this poem has nothing to do with livejournals and pre-spam personal journal blogs in general; it’s referring to the post-indexing apocalypse brought on by SEO and Google reacting to ‘freshness’.
Yes, the memory controller can simply deny accesses to specific areas from the CPU while still permitting them from the GPU.
Or you can deploy on app engine, lambda, firebase, etc.

Kubernetes is not the only game in town.

Sometimes shipping asap is more important.
As with just about anything in tech, it’s about tradeoffs.

I may be biased, since I worked in devops before k8s came out, but building a decently scalable system architecture with load balancing and rolling deployments is pretty straightforward with monolithic systems. Especially since service discovery isn’t really a concern. Horizontal scaling works well in many many cases.

Realistically any app simple enough to be deployed by hand with a few docker containers will not be difficult to convert to k8s anyway.
Watermarking was a problem when Widevine L1 was first introduced. Pirates seem to have found a way to scrub the watermark from their releases. Either that or someone is burning a _lot_ of cash on playback hardware judging from the rate of 4K WEB-DL releases.
> Assuming that the device has an up-to-date browser available for it.

Not necessarily. You can target older devices with old browsers if you want, by carefully choosing JS/CSS versions and features, or just by making sure your code degrades gracefully.
Wiki's are still doing well in the gaming space I think (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki to name one, has a dedicated community of thousands of players behind it).

I agree with you in general though, the GitHub wikis really don't feel the same.
My experience: The higher you go, the dumber they get.
> We knew from studies in the 1950s comparing London bus drivers and London bus conductors that lived in the same environment, but one — they had the bus drivers who were sitting, the conductors were standing, and the heart disease rate among the drivers was twice that of the conductors.

Yeah, uhhhh, driving a bus in an urban centre built before motor vehicles doesn’t sound like the most calming of careers.
What is the serious downside of open internet centric review?
It's the Intel intrinsic `_mm256_set1_epi32()` except with an amusing name. Got to give Rust the win here.
This is all due to the preverse incentives of modern academia prioritizing quantity over quantity, flooding journals with an unending churn of low effort garbage.
> you can have "listX" and then write a non-list into that same name; statically typed systems would not allow this

Well, that depends. In most SQL databases there are many cases where supplying the wrong type of value will implicitly convert to the expected type, often in unexpected ways that can result in subtle bugs.
CI should speed your development up, not slow it down. It's definitely something you should add earlier to the project than later.
They also operate out of New York.
The peak was the release, after which it promptly cratered. It was below half that within a month and below 14k the next month.
Anthropological too.
I'm writing this on a docked Steam Deck in desktop mode. It works pretty well, and at $400 for a perfectly serviceable computer that you can undock and use as gaming console, it's quite a deal.

There's one major downside though, and that's package management. Flatpaks still take a bit too many resources to run quickly, and using native Arch packages relies heavily on the AUR repository, which can be hit and miss.
Availability of resources and talent are very real concerns.
saw similar project on an AI subreddit that got a lot of upvotes
Mercure: A WebSocket alternative for server-sent events
EBCDIC porn really punched my cards. ;)

I had to carefully select just the characters that would punch low resolution monochrome pornographic images into the holes of the punch card.

Just joking, I'm not that old -- I started with ASCII line printer porn, like "MC:HUMOR;VICKI BODY", over the government sponsored ARPANET, at 300 baud, so it was like a nice long strip tease on taxpayer dollars. Vicki took almost 4 and a half minutes to finish at that rate, longer during busy weekday business hours. If I recall, the good stuff was all UPPER CASE, which made it much more intense.

NSFW:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210512025608/http://its.svenss...

Decades later, somebody on HN with a sharper eye than I noticed that Vicki's nipples were clearly labeled "A" and "B". Go figure!

HN:
Should computer scientists keep the Lena picture? (lemire.me)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15671629

DonHopkins on Nov 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should computer scientists keep the Lena picture?

Does "AI:HUMOR;VICKI BODY" get grandfathered in, too?

NSFW: MS C0LLINS - 0UI - FEBRUARY 1973:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210512025608/http://its.svenss...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause

mercer on Nov 11, 2017 [–]

Is the nipples being marked 'A' and 'B' part of the joke?

DonHopkins on Nov 11, 2017 | parent [–]

As far as I know, those were not the points of the joke.
I noticed them for the first time yesterday too, after not noticing them for decades!

As a teen, I'd printed it out, pinned it up on my wall next to the Cray-1 centerfold, and scribbled a bunch of modem phone numbers, user names and passwords all over it, and never even noticed.

I did a quick search for other A's and B's and found that it used those characters as much as any other character for shading, but that sure seems like something some mischievous student, lab member, turist or sentient TECO script at the MIT-AI Lab might have done.

There was no file security so anyone could have edited them in.

Maybe one of Minsky's grad students was performing some A/B testing or eye tracking experiments.

Somebody should ask RMS if EMACS had some special mode for editing line printer porn.
The last few jobs I had all ran confluence for docs. I dont know why its so slow but does the main things you want.

Any tips on docs that integrate with support tickets and maybe some AI would be great.
3-6 hours is nothing in terms of the money you will spend on development for even a modestly funded startup. You definitely don't need to be a healthcare or banking app to quickly reap the benefits of a robust dev/deploy cycle.
on the contrary, that's exactly what he states in comment discussion below the thread

having higher reputation means higher responsibility not to crush someone with it in the sub-fields you aren't as proficient as
I've been through DEI training at two different jobs. In both jobs, the trainings were about learning to ignore any biases one might have in order to hire the most qualified candidate, FWIW.
I think it would have been very unlikely for a number of reasons, but specifically two main ones:

- The Soviet Empire never transformed into an assimilative empire and was always something of a post-war occupation state. If you look at other empires that managed to last longer, they almost always had an “absorbing” of the captive areas, adopting some of their cultural ideas, incorporating local elites into the state apparatus, etc. (think of the Romans in Greece, for example.) This didn’t really happen in Soviet member and client states and was more of a top-down promotion of particular individuals and parties.

- The existence of Poland. Soviet history really goes back to Russian Empire history, which includes the partitions of Poland and the numerous uprisings for independence during the 19th century. I don’t think it was ever realistic to think Poles would be happy in a Russian empire, and the continual existence of such a large, unhappy client state in the Soviet sphere seems like it was an inevitable weak spot. The Solidarity movement was key in bringing down the USSR, so that is essentially what happened.
Which considering how terrible living conditions were, is impressively terrible!
The open internet.

i.e. trolls, brigades, spammers, bots, and all manner of uninformed voices.
> There's a bit of hand waving around installing Ruby (which is still more difficult than it needs to be).

For real. I put together a simple Jekyll blog, and figuring out gems and this and that after not looking at Ruby for 15 years was a real slog. A lot of that was my fault for being out of the Ruby loop, and being unfamiliar with Jekyll, but I feel like the process could have gone a little more smoothly.

Anyway, this made me excited to try Ruby again.
Why is Senior to staff such a step change for a software engineer in a product company/department?

To be honest, before 2020 aa a software engineer, I spent my entire career working in unknown companies with no real leveling guidelines.

I fell into my only role in BigTech as an L5 (mid level) cloud application architect at AWS Professional Services in 2020 and now a Staff Software Architect (5th and highest IC) at a smaller consulting company.

The leveling guidelines for a “staff” where I am now are about the same as a “Senior” at AWS ProServe or a similar position at GCP

That being said, the leveling guidelines at AWS for my department were straightforward

- L4 junior - expected to be able to complete tasks/storues with little guidance

- L5 mid level - expected to be able to complete work streams and lead a work stream where the business requirements are well defined. But the technical requirements aren’t and you work with the customer to complete the requirements. You were expected to be a subject matter expert in one or more verticals.

- Senior - more ambiguous - neither the business or technical requirements are well defined and you have to work with the customer to discover the business problems/opportunities, define strategies and then plan an implementation and coordinate multiple work streams with the project manager, customer, etc. They could also be over multiple projects.

- staff - over multiple seniors, usually a team lead and they deal with strategies over a practice (https://aws.amazon.com/professional-services/)

I’ve had one offer as a staff engineer for a product company (as oppose to a consulting company) at the company that acquired the startup I worked at before going to AWS. I would have been over strategy for all of the acquired companies.

I ended up turning it down. I understood the requirements of operating at that level in cloud consulting. But not product development. The technical requirements didn’t bother me as much as the organizational requirements.
This is true for every field. Everyone has had to step into a field that was built upon the hard-won experience of others and had to get up to speed, and the easiest way to do so is to recognize that fact and take advantage of the wisdom of those who came before.
We've been overselling what exercise does for weight loss (almost nothing) and underselling what exercise does for everything else. Even better if you can get your exercise outside.
I thought that too when I got started but I learned otherwise.
It is better to have a USA visa to attract well educated professionals who will improve USA companies inside the country.
Marcus is of a school of thought that intelligent brain requires symbolic reasoning, not just a neural network. He also believes intelligent symbolic reasoning is attributable to a genetic origin and can’t be entirely trained. I don’t know enough to say the school is wrong, but it is in crisis with the successes of large language models.
Especially if they open the draw bridge in front of you:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7m8dmkglxo
Predates the web but not the internet.
The whole wiki notion is decentralized and free . . . everyone adding things as needed.

That conflicts with things like known governments and corporations: authoritarian, if not also bureaucratic. The attempts to control wikis make people much less likely to contribute.
So the original press release from Kenya's space agency stated "about 500kg".

This is then converted to "some 1,100 lbs" for some backwater non-metric country.

That's then editorialised to "over 1k pounds".

I mean sure at least it's not been converted into the "average dumps produced by the spotted miniature horse after a good run" unit of mass but that's pretty low bar to meet or exceed.
There's an ongoing mini-revolution against Fandom, with the wikis that have the manpower moving away to other platforms like wiki.gg, WeirdGloop, or just self-hosted. Minecraft, WoW, Runescape, LoL, etc.
It is actually worth ingesting some toxic content just to really see what people are being influenced by. It hurts because they do branch off of tiny truths here and there... before veering off into whacko-town
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus
Construction of a Huf Haus in the UK featured in the 2004 series of Grand Designs.
Well, you were talking about 'rational' points, not what's easy to measure.

The Egyptians picked the appearance of a certain store above the horizon as their fixed point for the year (or something like that). That was rational for them, but doesn't have all that much to do with equinoxes.
From any realistic humanitarian perspective, the fall of the Soviet Union was a horrific crisis that resulted in untold amounts of human suffering and poverty. Russia spiraled into a terrible mess, celebrated by the West.

Perhaps worth noting, shortly after the fall around 1991, Yeltsin hijacked the Russian government and prevented Communists from retaking power. The pattern of events immediately after the fall (and their strong support from the West) raises an eyebrow about how exactly the "collapse" was precipitated.

Yeltsin used self-anointed emergency powers to abolish the Constitutional Court and dissolve parliament. When the people protested, he ordered a military attack on parliament, killing hundreds and jailing hundreds of protesters.

Yeltsin seized control of all broadcast media, banned opposition publications, and permanently outlawed 15 political parties. He ordered assassinations of his political opponents, parliamentary deputies, and journalists.

Yeltsin illegally dissolved the Russian constitution and replaced it with one that gave himself nearly absolute power over policy.

By 1996, he was losing badly in his bid for re-election. A communist candidate was far in the lead.

During re-election, his administration was bankrolled to the tune of $10B by the IMF and World Bank. Even so, he was still trailing the communist candidate by a long shot. So, he threatened civil war, making it clear he would not relinquish power. About half of the country thought there would be a civil war if the communists won. Ultimately, he rigged the vote count, as reported by ABC news in the US.

When he won re-election, Bill Clinton famously lauded the event, saying Russia has "turned its back on tyranny".
Given the fact that the keys are fixed-size integers with a not-too-terrible distribution, I would consider chasing the partitioning idea a bit harder, and possibly even removing all the fancy S-tree parts. Some ideas:

For 32 bits, using the first few or even a lot (16? 20?) bits to index an array and then chasing down the remaining bits somehow (adaptively depending on size of that partition?) seems like it could work.

In this direction, and with really impressive asymptotic performance, there’s the van Emde Boas tree and its variants.
At the tail end of my so-called career and I have learned it again and again.
Externally routable IPv4 as seen by whatismyip.com.
multiple/week is pretty infrequent for bed bugs. I've gotten more from spiders (proportionally; I vacuumed them up after the first night)
what if someone invented it before 1905
Literally from the article, emphasis is mine:

> An ASCII artist who goes by the screen name “goto80” told me in an email that, according to his research, the first modern text-based porn was probably sent via teletext. Teletext was a late 70s pre-internet technology for sending text and graphics to a television set, that never quite took off in the way people thought it would at the time.
The parts involved in protected Audio/Video path do have their own encryption keys and hardware support outside of anything touched by the OS. In fact it's major part of what Intel Management Engine does if you do not have the "advanced" license for remote management, and AFAIK why AMD PSP on normal AMD cpus has closed source firmware. Both are responsible for setting up protected media path and both are interrogated by DRM modules to setup encryption.