skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geolocation can be faked.

Not every phone has biometrics but even if it does, it provides little practical security value in this case. It's unlikely that someone will share their phone but in case they are inclined to do so, what will prevent them from enrolling a classmate as a guest user?

Posting/scanning QR/OTP codes and authenticating users is logistically inconvenient and time consuming for both teacher and students.

QR/OTP can be photographed and sent to classmates that are not present.

An easy and nearly foolproof circumvent is to simply setup an empty/spare phone that can be passed to a classmate to use for logging you in.

Last but not least, it may not be legal to *require* a battery draining app installed on student's phones.

Bottom line --- It's difficult if not almost impossible to implement strong security using only devices that others control.
I use a Garmin edge 830 for cycling and it feels like one of those devices where software engineers hated every minute developing the GUI for it. I can only imagine that the reason garmin is profitable is because they keep the same cheap hardware and custom OS they developed 10, 20 years ago for generations and just do occasional GUI refreshments. Definitely going to switch to an alternative for my next one.
It's in the last sentence - GMX FreePhone. It's not one of those "travel eSIMs" though, you need to live in Germany.
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Eventually you learn recipes and their values. I memorised a lot of basics. But mostly I cut out non-vegetable carbohydrates and ate a ton of salads with nonfat Greek yogurt and hot sauce as a dressing, and whey protein.
... what was the bug?
You should be able to run smaller models on an M1. I'm testing this in about 10mins
Another 4 more years of this BS...
You're never going to be 100% precise for every day, but you should be able to be roughly correct in aggregate and the fact of recording what you eat makes you more conscious of what you put in your mouth.
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A simple, privacy focused app that eschews features in favour of simplicity. Just no bullsh*t mailing lists...
I find "CancellationToken" in VSCode extension APIs quite clear and usable, and not overly complicated. Wonder if anyone has done a conparison of Go's context and CancellationToken.
Perhaps. But this is a hypothetical situation you came up with that does not seem to be relevant.

Nobody is or is planning to restrict Polish consumers from buying GPUs from Germany.

The export regulations we're talking about:

> organizations in countries that are not close allies of the US can purchase up to 50,000 advanced GPUs per country over the next two years. Organizations can also apply for a trusted National Verified End User status that would allow them to purchase up to 320,000 advanced GPUs over the next two years.

> The vast majority of countries fall into the second tier. This group faces caps on the levels of computing power that can go to any one state: roughly around 50,000 advanced AI chips through 2027, although that can double if the state reaches an agreement with the United States. Individual companies headquartered in tier two countries—for example, companies such as Emirati tech giant G42—can access significantly higher limits if they apply for their own national validated end user status. That process involves making verifiable security commitments, both physical and cyber, and assurances that they will not use those chips in ways that violate human rights (for example, by deploying them for large-scale surveillance purposes). If a company obtains this status, its chip imports won’t count toward the country’s overall maximum cap—a move designed to create incentives for foreign firms to adopt U.S. AI standards.
Predictive equation helps estimate misreporting energy intake in dietary surveys
For weighing things, I have a kitchen scale that lets me tare it with something on it. I find it easier to tare a container of an ingredient, then dose some of that ingredient out, then reweigh it to get the delta I put in. For things which have a dash of an ingredient I'll just guess. A few grams here and there won't really matter much.

For partitioning a meal: Sometimes I weigh my portion. Over time I've trained myself to estimate the weight of what I take such that my visual estimates are reasonable. Eventually my visual estimates have gotten better.

A lot of your other challenges are just not that important: If you're off by a few calories in either direction, it's not a big deal. It'll average out in the long run. If you're systematically off, you'll eventually recalibrate your goals anyway based on how you feel and/or your weight patterns vs what the calorie counts tell you.
> There are billions of CPUs floating around and none of them are going to be magically prevented from running Linux.

It's called secure boot and there's nothing magical about it. It's already here. You have it in "your" CPU. For now, you can still disable it after it boots the signed UEFI/bootloader. It won't be long until that option is gone forever.
> I specifically build models for financial markets and it's an issue.

Well, as you can verify for yourself, LLMs can spell just fine, even if you choose to believe that they are doing so by black magic or tool use rather than learnt prediction.

So, whatever problems you are having with your financial models isn't because they can't spell.
I get going for things that may help - but from a risk perspective my team has seen many of these get misused and create significant risks especially when it comes to the security of the app flow. Add context blindness to the mix and we've never seen so many vulnerabilities in years if not decades.

And what's really important - when you talk about the induced risks many teams have no clue about them...
>To use the free service on a non eSIM capable phone?

Yes. I paid 5 €/month for LIDL Connect for 1 GB. I don't need much mobile data and in just a few months the cost of the adapter is amortized. It might also come handy in the future if I travel abroad.
The problem is that the phone doesn’t know where you will be in the future or how you personally think about time. If you are typically in New York, but plan to be in San Francisco next week, and you make some one-off meetings during your visit, how should the phone show you your “next week” view? Should it show the meetings in NY time while you are in NY even though you’ll be in SF next week? What about regular weekly meetings you’ll be attending this week in NY and next week in SF. They will be at different times depending on where you are. But if you are looking ahead and planning your trip, you’re going to get confused.

The unfortunate truth is that there’s no simple UI fix for this problem. Even if the phone could infer or just be told where you will be in the future, there’s not one obvious model for representing times across time zones in a way that will make sense to everyone.

If you travel for work a lot, you come up with your own way of dealing with this stuff. If you travel for work rarely, you’re going to be confused and frustrated no matter what.
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Of course, I just want the activity and sleep tracking, and the occasional alert or notification, so the tradeoff is easy. If I wanted whatever the apple watch can do beyond that I might make a different choice
> instead of using them implicitly from the context, without documentation and static typing

This is exactly what context is trying to avoid, and makes a tradeoff to that end. There's often intermediate business logic that shouldn't need to know anything about logging or metrics collection or the authn session. So we stuff things into an opaque object, whether it's a map, a dict, a magic DI container, "thread local storage", or whatever. It's a technique as old as programming.

There's nothing preventing you from providing well-typed and documented accessors for the things you put into a context. The context docs themselves recommend it and provide examples.

If you disagree that this is even a tradeoff worth making, then there's not really a discussion to be had about how to make it.
> they claim they catch 99% of cheaters

But that's easy. The tricky part is catching the cheaters _without_ also catching non-cheaters.
I've also written 1,000+ page books https://wjgilmore.com/books so if a book is defined by its length then I think I have that down pat. In any case, feel free to call it what you will, I'm happy with the information and experiences shared within this slim volume and think readers will find it useful too.

And as is typical of all my books I will continue updating and expanding it over time and always provide those updates for free.
- Be honest that it sucks.

- Keep it simple and stick to the facts = "This is happening. This is your severance. Sorry."

- Don't plan it and keep it a secret for months - once it needs to be done, just get it done. Otherwise people will be even more pissed at how hard they worked for you when you had no intention of keeping them around.

- Offer severance. In the the USA include continued health coverage for a few months afterwards.

- People are going to be pissed at you. Accept that with grace.

- Do not give empty platitudes of "I take responsibility...." Because you still have a job and a paycheck and probably will get kudos and bonuses for saving the company money.

- If you try to pull the "We're letting you go, but stick around for 6 months to train your replacements", you need to pay massive retention bonuses for that.

Most of all, recognize that you are screwing with your people. Badly. You are hurting them, it is your fault. You are probably going to severely damage some families with really bad timing. So don't spend time saying "how great it was to work with us, how it is not personal, love to work together again...". They do not want to hear that. Just do it and let everyone react and adapt to do what is now needed for their own lives. And please recognize that most of your people now really dislike you - and probably will for a long time. Your bridges are burned, so go away.
Yes, you typically cook the custard before freezing it.

You can also make ice cream what's called "Philadelphia-Style" which doesn't have eggs and requires no cooking before churning/freezing.

But the custard method is more typical.
Both need eachother.

Poland couldnt enable them, I guess
Good luck ensuring every PCIe device with DMA access is "trusted."
The AI block was cancelled:

https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-stock-trump-revokes-...

I have no idea why the original article was even published.
Not trivial at all. How does the phone know what I meant if I’m not willing to specify?
I have a feeling, if Context disappears, you'll just see "Context" becoming a common struct that is passed around. In Python, unlike in C# and Java, the first param for a Class Method is usually the class instance itself, it is usually called "self" so I could see this becoming the norm in Go.
Same thing happened with my post about Sam Altman's alleged sister abuse, the tech bros just look out for each other.
And: I think it is very difficult to gain weight by eating to many cucumbers ;-)
I’d say what actually made his ventures fail is his Google shares.

Having a fallback scenario doesn’t allow for the complete focus and ruthlessness to succeed at company building.

Weirdly I know the SVP Eng at that Virgin charter company.

The great thing about this article is that they talk about startups dying before they even really start …

I think this is the common case that’s never talked about.
Testing not training
Agreed. I was starting a small law firm (small biz, not a startup) and asked other dudes who had done the same what they did for healthcare. The all said the same thing -- I had my wife get a job at a bank.
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Such studies do exist - randomized feeding trials. In these studies the participants are provided all meals and snacks, and sometimes are under constant surveillance for weeks and sometimes months on end.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39134209/

Obviously such studies are far more invasive and expensive to run than the classic "fill out of a survey" observational study [1], so they tend to be the outliers. But they exist and have incredibly useful results.

[1] There is a widely cited nutritional survey vehicle called the Nurses' Health Study, and it is the foundation of countless largely disposable nutrition clickbait results. This survey-based observation has been used to prove that meat is bad for you, and good for you. That artificial sweeteners make you thinner, and fatter. And on and on. That single "every now and then try to remember the kinds of things you ate over the past period of time" survey is the root of an incredible amount of noise in nutrition science.
>> Most engineers figured out that the options/stocks of startups are worthless.

Also, if the startup gives you options/stocks without showing up the cap table, they are giving you a numerator and not a denominator.

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

Never trade real cash for imaginary money unless you have the facts
You don't even need to cheat at COD. They are so buggy they'll do it for you. They'll load a gun in place of your knife in ranked. They clearly have a faulty case/if-else statement in the ranked gun loadout checker to allow that and also to default to XM4 if the gun shown in the load out picker isn't allowed.

It's probably the only game I know of where the ranked version is more broken than the casual version...
The entire Steam account is tainted: that's the issue.

Some random commercial third party can make an accusation and damage the value of thousands of games on a lark.

Meanwhile, any determined cheater just bought another copy of the game on an account dedicated solely to that task. This person suffers no extended consequence.
Camera monitoring what goes to mouth combined with AI?
I suppose it depends what goals you're pursuing with your tracking. If it's simply losing weight, you can focus on the things with lots of calories in them. Oil, sugar, processed foods. Tomatoes, cucumber and lemon juice shouldn't be an issue.
yes but there are only liberals on this site so try to be less obvious with your agitprop or its pointless
I'm in awe that in 2024 the first introduction to programming can be a turtle in Python, just like it was in 1982 when someone came to my primary school to show everyone a turtle in Logo.
You don’t travel much for work do you? If your calendar is just for you, then fine. But if you have to coordinate with anyone else, you can’t be so sloppy. The phone doesn’t know what you mean unless you tell it.
I'd be interested in what you set up in Cambridge, if you're happy to share?
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Keep in mind that I calculate enough to achieve caloric deficit. Not to reach an exact number.

I also leave the nutrient part on just eating a varied diet, with lots of whole foods.

I personally use MyFitnessPal, weigh the calorie significant food (e.g. the Protein, starches, fat-rich vegetables and fatty sauces) and establish a rough estimate about the calories.

I try to maintain the error an order of magnitude lower than my estimate. That's why I don't bother weighing leafy and "watery" vegetables (e.g. spinach, letucce or cucurbits).
Also, I try to keep an eye of sauces like Mayonnaise, but I usually relax on Mustard (I dunno where you live, but mustard here tends to be low-fat by default).

That error can be easily burnt by the casual movement we do in the day.
You mean the charity* foundation** Open***AI?
The best reason to join a startup is to learn how to create a startup. That’s the main thing you won’t get at a FANG job.
They really could have done all this in the open (test database aside) and would have had same outcome.

They gained literally nothing and took another knock on rep. It’s not like it was a mystery that they’re working on reasoning models.
The Project 2025 that he disavowed until he didn't, of which the writers are sitting in his cabinet[1], and the policies are getting implemented with executive orders right now?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/us/politics/trump-project...

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-executive-orders-list-...
The smart advisors around him pursue a loophole that relies on the text “invasion”. If framing immigration like that can be woven into a brief for the Supreme Court, it gives the 2/9 swing votes some cover.
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So that companies in less reliable countries like Lithuania couldn't purchase high numbers of GPU and resell them to Russia/China/etc. through countries like Kazakhstan etc. (like they do now with other products).

> if demand is below the cap, then why have the cap?

It might be for Lithuania. But the same 50,000 cap applies to Poland.

Anyway:

> Individual companies headquartered in tier two countries—for [...] can access significantly higher limits if they apply for their own national validated end user status. That process involves making verifiable security commitments, [...]. If a company obtains this status, its chip imports won’t count toward the country’s overall maximum cap

So this isn't an export ban as such.
I already have to remember people’s names, what’s the difference?
“The mission” isn’t the only meaningful drive.

It is hard to build a successful business out of even a most mundane ideas. That alone can be a great accomplishment that many people strive for. Also to be able to set and execute initiatives is also a great motivation. Seeing the fruits of your labor can be very rewarding.
Im reading Sapiens at the moment and one statement really got my attention: human society is a marvel, but individually we are embarrassingly similar to Chimps. This mental model really helps put put so much behavior into context, like resource hogging and the hoarding instinct, despite obvious surplus of everything everywhere at all times.
This looks exactly like the story that convinced me I would never accept a loan with the preferred stock bullshit. Except the year 2021 is much later than when I decided that.
Everyone: Big Tech ruins news/social media/small businesses/democracy!

Also everyone: FAANG employees are better than everyone else!
The article was written by an LLM

> A couple of my internet stranger friends and chatGPT says this number was chosen by redis developers post a massive benchmarking. The consideration was trade-off such as performance vs blocking, memory management and avoiding overhead.

Deep dive is a colloquialism in english, at least in the US.

We are going to see a lot of these about Redis since the source has so many comments. Basically re-stealing Salvatore's work again, unpriced asset.
I was thinking of methane as input. But what about it as output? How much does leave the system? And should this not be in calories "out" column, but I don't think that is usually counted there...
>The problem is that the herbs become harder than the ice cream, creating an unpleasant sensation in the mouth.

The obvious solution to this is to make an syrup infusion and use that instead of sugar or as a topper.

I make herb and floral syrup all the time. I do 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, handful of herbs. Heat and simmer for around 10 minutes. Strain.
Just have Github Actions run a monorepo tool like turborepo. You're just trying to do to much in a yaml file... The solution for all build pipeline tools are always to do most of your build logic in a bash-script/makefile/monorepo-tool.
> Apparently they never understood that beauty is also highly functional

How are gothic pillars and ornamentation functional?
The estimating is often enough to make better choices.

I know I’m not going to be able to eat my main, a couple slices of pizza, one or two entrees and a dessert with only 800 calories left in my budget.

Sure, I might be somewhat off in my estimate, but in practice, I might forgo the entrees and dessert (or share a bite from someone else), set some of my main aside to take home, and have a slice of pizza.
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at least I can fire my politicians.
I actually really like the fact that my Garmin Instinct is not really a smart watch, it makes connecting it to your phone optional. Mine has never connected to a phone because I don't like to run Google's spyware on my phone. Yet, I can use most of it's functions I care about (time & date, GPS, moon & sun, compass, steps, heart rate, temperature, sports-specific stuff) without giving up my soul to Big Tech.
This sank fast.

In any case, the point about writing down the red lines was a good one.

I wonder if anyone did and what they were.
Your issue is going to be that people don’t want to keep track of yet another platform.

You may be able to get away with the free tier of Slack.
This is why I always go back to Windows. I constantly run into issues with Linux even on Debian. I don't have time to troubleshoot for an hour why I can't open gimp or something. Not to say that I don't run into issues in Windows, it's just way less frequent. I don't see the point for my own use at this point because of WSL
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Have you actually used them recently? Gemini is top of chatbot arena, and Gemma is one of the best open models at its size.
moderation to keep things on-topic is not the same as censorship. spaces are allowed to, and should, exist for certain topic areas.
Mastodons share of the AP network fell to ~70% the last few days alone, due to a huge influx of users to Pixelfed (fleeing from Instagram). I myself run my own GoToSocial server at home, so I am doing my part to increase the diversity of AP implementations :)

I have also been thinking in the lines of a generic "all-in-one" client. The only reason this is not common yet, is old habits from decades of captivity in silos. I believe we will see such clients developed in the next few years.
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Sure OCaml is 10y younger than Perl! Though I'd consider OCaml a serious option these that for a green field app. Cannot say that much for Perl.
Good point. I started looking at HN a few years ago, and though I knew it was run by YC it didn’t even occur to me that it at one point was startup-oriented
Yep, it doesn't particularly matter if something that's actually 212 or 198 is entered as 200. Sometimes you'll be slightly over, sometimes slightly below - just try to be accurate and these small mistakes average out.

Typically I figure out the actual weight/volume once or twice to get a sense of how much it is, then just eyeball it most of the time and go for the same amount as last time I measured.
For any society where breeding domesticated animals is a familiar aspect of life for most people, I would guess this isn’t obscure knowledge.
It’s most of the Americas; 3 dozen or so in total. Saying “very few” is cover for Trump to lie that it’s “only one”.
One of the failures is selling a business to Richard Branson for $10 million.
The crown prince of France spent his entire life surrounded by courtiers who would fulfill his every whim. He barely needed to lift a fork to his mouth himself.

Maybe he had depression from this kind of passive lifestyle.
the Cybertruck was a PR disaster and isn't exactly a "new product" either, in my opinion this change of heart came a bit after the release of the Cybertruck
Oh, Wikipedia is in the constant change of what do need an illustration and what does not or what type it should be. Back in 2009 the most pics in the sex and genital articles had a self-made pics, which even prompted this:

Internet access - $25
A digital camera - $250
Making the whole world see your vagina - priceless
For everything else there is MasterCard

And somewhere in 2018 I discovered what almost all photos in these articles (on the English Wikipedia, other languages didn't changed much) were replaced by the most basic pictures or the illustrations from 19th century anatomical atlases.
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