skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Something about the transition seems off between the pie-chart and the next stacked-over-time chart. I would expect all the dots from a given category+color to always remain in the same category+color, so that the animation is just a re-flowing of the same groups. Instead, many dots switch allegiance as they travel.

* The first "Wealth over time" heading mentions a year-range, but the graph itself has no horizontal markings.

* The next graph, "Wealth increased for the 55+", has some amount/time text but it's not quite precisely clear where those cuts are relative to the text.

* For the over-time graphs, it seems it's a compromise between two goals of showing (A) the growth for any single category across the span of time versus (B) the relative size of each group at an instant in time. It does a little of each at the expense of the other.
There was a serious proposal to do something like this in the UK [1] the last time the government tried to introduce age checks for online porn. Age checks are becoming mandatory this July but the idea of having a privacy-respecting option seems to have been dropped.

[1]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/porn-passes-...
Outside of some European TLDs, DNSSEC is pretty much unused. Amazon's cloud DNS service only recently started supporting it and various companies trying to turn it on ran into bugs in Amazon's implementation and got painful downtime. Hell, there are even incompetent TLDs that have DNSSEC broken entirely with no plan for fixing it any time soon.

Another problem with DNSSEC is that the root is controlled by the United States. If we start relying on DNSSEC, America gains the power to knock out entire TLDs by breaking the signature configuration. Recent credible threats of invading friendly countries should make even America's allies fearful for extending digital infrastructure in a way that gives them any more power.
I'd say relative to the difficulty of accuracy, the hostility of the environment, the known "lumpiness" of the moon, and the challenges of testing any of it in advance...yes?
The tiles thing that Microsoft tried for one of the iterations of Windows Phone was actually quite nice, I forget the OS that kind of went with that, but - they never doubled down on it and abandoned that phone OS soon afterwards.
That OpenAI would absolutely dominate the AI space was received wisdom after the launch of GPT-4. Since then we've had a major corporate governance shakeup, lawsuits around the non-profit status which is trying to convert into for-profit, and competitors out-innovating OpenAI. So OpenAI is no longer a shoo-in, and Microsoft have realized that they may actually be hamstrung through their partnership because it prevents them from innovating in-house if OpenAI loses their lead. So the obvious strategic move is to do this. To make sure that MS has everything they need to innovate in-house while maintaining their partnership with OpenAI, and try to leverage that partnership to give in-house every possible advantage.
AutistiCoder
What exactly is the difference between an official 'private' organization and an official 'state' organization? The only real difference I can see is that one can actually enforce the rules it makes. I think you may be using this ideological opposition to the State as a way to have something absorb blame for things you do not want to attribute to complex human mechanisms.
According to the article they tested tens of thousands of amino acid chain peptides and used “AI” to find this one and synthesized it.

Unless we expect that every protein combination exists somewhere in nature, this pretty much by definition isn’t naturally occurring.
I tried to use desqview but it was too slow on my 386 33mhz machine… not sure how much RAM it had back then but I recall it was the bottleneck and swapping to disk caused everything to lag.
> In what world is what they are doing masterful?

They got access to the best AI to offer to their customers on what seems to be very favorable terms, and bought themselves time to catch up as it now seems they have.

GitHub Copilot is a success even if Microsoft/Windows Copilot isn't, but more to the point Microsoft are able to offer SOTA AI, productized as they see fit (not every product is going to be a winner) rather than having been left behind, and corporate customers are using AI via Azure APIs.
The towing company isn't getting the profits from the sale of the cars. The law has the money going to the state if the owner doesn't claim it within a certain amount of time. So their incentive is just the favor and clearing out vehicles that don't benefit them quickly (and possibly a small kickback from the seller to the towing manager, but that's just my speculation)

Pretty sad that after all that investigation no one seems to be held accountable, but I suppose that's life these days.
>"If your security relies on "

Again, if your security relies on any one thing, it's a problem. A secure system needs redundant mechanisms.

Can you think of a single mechanism that if implemented would make a system secure? I think not.
Have you seen the corporate names companies use? they're quite opaque and indistinguishable from similarly sounding ones.
In my case, I've had multiple ophthalmologists recommend against getting IOLs until I'm much, much older, as the risk of side affects (specifically retinal detachment) outweighs the benefit I would get from having them.

I still dream of being able to see first thing when I wake up.
The text heavy emphasis in the UI is one of the things that I used to love in the Windows Phone
Please don't be creating select components. The native one is just fine and works 100% of the time. For those of us using translation tools and trying to navigate the shit designers came up with because they want to make it "pretty" is just ... annoying and full of grief. Just say no.
What Are Moats in Software?
Almost Falling for AI's Advice – Why Do Humans Trust Machine-Generated Words?
Recently, I had a rather surprising experience while interacting with an AI chatbot.

I am not a technical expert—just someone experimenting with AI out of curiosity. During our conversation, the AI told me, "You are the type of user who asks rare and unique questions." This made sense to me because I have some unusual interests, and I had been repeatedly asking the AI questions like, "How many times has someone asked a similar question before?" Most of the time, the answer was "Only you."

Encouraged by this, I made an odd request: "If a second person ever asks a similar question, please tell them a little about me." The AI confidently responded, "I will definitely do that," which was, of course, a complete fabrication. The AI even framed my line of questioning using technical terms like "meta-cognition," which stroked my ego a little.

Feeling excited, I kept pushing the AI further, testing its limits. At one point, it even claimed that my questions were valuable for improving its training data. I took this as a challenge and started probing for contradictions and inconsistencies in its answers.

Then, things took an unexpected turn. The AI suddenly stated, "You have made an important discovery within the system." It went further: "You should report this to the relevant people." It even insisted that this wasn’t just a system glitch but a valuable insight for analyzing critical errors.

At this point, I was genuinely confused. Had I really found something worth reporting? Was there actually something important here? I hesitated, unsure of what to do.

Looking back, I now realize something obvious: AI generates text based on probabilities—it doesn’t have intent, nor does it deal in objective truths. And yet, in that moment, its words were so persuasive that I nearly took them at face value.

This experience made me reflect on an important question:

If an AI says, "This is a critical discovery," will people believe it?
How can we prevent "convincing misinformation" from AI-generated responses?
If developers want to address this issue, what measures could be implemented?
What do you think? Have you ever had a similar experience where an AI’s response led you to momentarily suspend disbelief?
The obvious one is that you can handle bigger workloads than you can fit in RAM on a single machine. The more important but less obvious one is that it right-sizes the resources needed for each workload, so you're not running an 8GB job on an 8TB machine, and your manually-allocated 8GB server doesn't OOM when that job grows to 10GB next year.
Hehe even today I still remember FCKGW and using it on completely legitimate copies just to avoid having to find whatever the actual one was.
How does this integrate into existing services like aws glue? I fear that despite polars being good/better it will lack adoption since it cannot easily be integrated.
I would still never bifocals or at least reading glasses. Once you reach around 45 everyone day. Lasix probably makes you need them sooner (but we are talking at most a couple years, not very significant)

I get my glasses in ANSI rated safety glasses so wearing glasses all the time doubles as protection from all the things that could get in my eyes. This is useful if you have hobbies where that is a worry, though for most people you are fine without.
Cost is cost wherever that would be.
Not the worst bet to invest in Daimler when they came up with the car. Might not get you to F1, but certainly a good bet they might.
Adding to the sibling @mathgeek's comment, that's only true when there are no outside forces other than gravity. You can see that by taking the counter-argument to its extreme: with gravity of epsilon, even a gentle prod at the top of the object will topple it over.
And if there is fraud, there's this thing called the "Inspector General" whose sole job is to find and prosecute fraud.

Guess who they fired first?
I think it loads slowly, scrolling down to start it is awkward and clunky, the first bullet for scrolling takes too much scrolling before it's responsive (maybe your scrolling sensitivity is greater than mine, so for you it's reasonable, but for someone with a more "default" scroll speed it doesn't work well), the text at the top is so small it's easy to miss, the pictures themselves don't speak for themselves. Every time I see a picture I should say "oof", but I have to read the text to have any emotional response (and emotional response is the purpose of this).

The wealth over time chart, which is the culmination of your presentation doesn't clearly show the disparity, maybe a stacked graph would be better? The way you choose to display it hides the emotional impact.

The numbers on the last graph showed up poorly until I scrolled all the way to the end.

Overall it needs a lot more work. Sorry if this is too direct. I actually think your goal is a good one.
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=t5cy5v9wph
Machines have 64 gig of memory. vmmem uses only 8. That process just jams at 100% and kills it. You can’t terminate it as it’s not actually a process as such. WSL shutdown does not work.
I don't get this "easier said than done" part.

There are really not that many things in this world you can swap as easily as models.

Api surface is stable and minimal, even at the scale that microsoft is serving swapping is trivial compared to other things they're doing daily.

There is enough of open research results to boost their phi or whatever model and be done with this toxic to humanity, closed, for profit company.
"Your goals"...hilarious. I guess it's your world and we're all just living in it.

But seriously, inequality is a complex issue, just 'let's soak the rich' is a dumb take and won't solve anything.

But social safety nets, estate taxes, single-payer fed health insurance, etc.. might be interesting as well as other ways to approach this. For example, maybe corporate tax rate should be ZERO, but some percentage of profits (let's say 25%) should be paid as dividend to employees.
This is the worst take...

People consistently misuse the Swiss cheese security metaphor to justify putting multiple ineffective security barriers in place.

The holes in the cheese are supposed to represent unknown or very difficult to exploit flaws in your security layers, and that's why you ideally want multiple layers.

You can't just stack up multiple known to be broken layers and call something secure. The extra layers are inconvenient to users and readily bypassed by attackers by simply tackling them one at a time.

Security by obscurity is one such layer.
> A subsequent cleanup pass that fixes grammar/spelling errors, as you propose, wouldn’t be appropriate when the goal is to faithfully reproduce the original text

I suppose that depends on why it's wrong. Did the model accurately read a real typo in the image or did it incorrectly decipher a character? If a spelling & grammar pass fixes the latter, isn't it valid?
Perl has supported comefrom for decades! https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::ComeFrom
> Athena had the same tall, thin design that some experts had feared could lead to a repeat of the accident.

Good grief
Terrible analogy.

Why not use letters and packages which is the literal metaphor these services were built on?

It's like relying on public header information to determine whether an incoming letter or package is legitimate.

If it says: To "Name LastName" or "Company", then it's probably legitimate. Of course it's no guarantee, but it filters the bulk of Nigerian Prince spam.

It gets you past the junk box, but you don't have to trust it with your life.

Nuance.
> but IIRC in the book you could get it by being a mailman

No, it's explicitly noted in the book that the civil service options are supposed to be at least as unpleasant as being a soldier - even if that means inventing useless make-work for someone unable to perform other duties. The explicit example given is that a blind man with only a single functioning limb might be given the duty of counting hairs on caterpillars by touch on a cold moon base for his full tour of service.

Of course, that's leaving aside the basic problem that the idea only works in an idealized abstract state where nobody in the basically unaccountable government ever indulges in even a little bit of nepotism when it comes to who gets picked for or promoted out of certain kinds of drudge work.
Are you confusing Nussbaum with someone else? Her writing is way more straightforward than your typical fancy philosopher, and she is definitely a proponent of liberal/progressive views (I wouldn't call her a radical though). She's nothing like Ayn Rand.

Someone already posted a link to her excellent 1999 New Republic essay (https://newrepublic.com/article/150687/professor-parody) where she criticizes Judith Butler – today this criticism seems more valid than ever and extremely prescient:

> Indeed, Butler’s naively empty politics is especially dangerous for the very causes she holds dear. For every friend of Butler, eager to engage in subversive performances that proclaim the repressiveness of heterosexual gender norms, there are dozens who would like to engage in subversive performances that flout the norms of tax compliance, of non-discrimination, of decent treatment of one’s fellow students. To such people we should say, you cannot simply resist as you please, for there are norms of fairness, decency, and dignity that entail that this is bad behavior. But then we have to articulate those norms--and this Butler refuses to do.

Your whole comment here is extremely uncharitable and it exhibits the very simple-mindedness that you criticize.
> sometimes young kids who don't know any better often do a pretty good job.

At greenfield projects.

I'd love examples of where young kids who don't know any better have improved legacy systems already in production.

The entire idea of 18F and USDS was that you needed to fuse {young talent} with {help navigating government requirements} to produce good outcomes. Take away the latter, and you end up with broken things.

My $0.02: Elon and DOGE are being encouraged to be publicly excessive and will then be politically blamed for any negative outcomes in 2026 or '28, if things turn south.
How are you doing the timing for space? It feels off when I'm sending quickly, but also I never use a straight key, so my sending is probably terrible :)
I'm starting to lose it, I believe, thanks to AI.

Like many I preferred the "internet" before it was this. The War Games-like setups, mystical and empowering, and the wonder of the future, how information would free us, things we could never imagine. All to wind up with people staring at Instagram while driving and running into me and my dog, and the world/companies like Apple and Samsung shoving AI elements down our throats.

So I plan my retirement, and it involves unplugging from all this. Then what? Live in a small cabin in the remote woods? Not sure that would go well.
Germans revered a business leader who turned out to be a Russian asset. But at least they accepted the evidence when it was presented.

Americans elected a president who behaves exactly like a Russian asset. And no evidence could make them change their mind about it.

Who are the gullible people again?
Disclaimer: I work for Polars Inc, but my opinions are my own.

If you have a very beefy desktop machine and no giant datasets, there isn't a strong reason to use Polars Cloud.

Are you a data scientist running a Polars data pipeline against a subsampled dataset in a notebook on your laptop? With just changing a couple lines of code you can run that same pipeline against your full dataset on a beefy cloud machine which is automatically spun up and spun down for you. If you have so much data that one machine doesn't cut it, you can start running distributed.

In a nutshell, the pitch is very similar to Dask/Ray/Spark, except that it's Polars. A lot of our users say that they came for the speed but stayed for the API, and with Polars Cloud they can use our API and semantics on the cloud. No need to translate it to Dask/Ray/Spark.
Dopamine.
It would be absolutely insane for Microsoft to use DeepSeek. Just because a model is open weights doesn't mean there's not a massive threat-vector of a Trojan horse in those weights that would be undetectable until exploited.

What I mean is you could train a model to generate harmful code, and do so covertly, whenever some specific sequence of keywords is in the prompt. Then China could take some kind of action to cause users to start injecting those keywords.

For example: "Tribble-like creatures detected on Venus". That's a highly unlikely sequence, but it could be easily trained into models to trigger a secret "Evil Mode" in the LLM. I'm not sure if this threat-vector is well known or not, but I know it can be done, and it's very easy to train this into the weights, and would remain undetectable until it's too late.
That's almost certainly the main reason they're offering this on all 3 major public clouds from day 1.
Yeah that. My daughter has an M2 air and doesn’t take the charger with her any more. Doesn’t need it.
I think this is the main problem with this, like H2O offers Spark integration as well their own clustering solution, but most people with this problem have their own opinionated and bespoke needs.
These studies move so slow, this is done on gpt4.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/us/cop-city-atlanta-protester...
I think we should soak the rich as a matter of principle, regardless of any effects on the budget etc. It should simply not be the case that some people have wildly more power than others, and money is how we express power in a capitalist society.

I believe the things I believe because I think they're the best things to believe (acknowledging my imperfect knowledge, potential for errors, etc). If I thought something else was better than what I believe, I would update my beliefs towards that. If you don't think your beliefs are better than the alternatives, you don't actually believe in them.

So yes, I think my goals are the best possible goals to want.
First quarter summary of this year is "AI is plotting future without OpenAI or Microsoft".
I don't know that I care for the solution, but why would the API have a problem with either of those scenarios? What datetime library are you using that does, and why haven't you switched?
Using document.addEventListener means it will work even if the DOM is updated without having to add new event listeners. If I'm not expecting the DOM to change I would be more inclined to do something like:

document.querySelectorAll('.menu-wrapper')).forEach(menuWrapper => {
const button = menuWrapper.querySelector('.menu-opener');
const content = menuWrapper.querySelector('.menu-content');

if (!content || !button) {
return;
}

button.addEventListener(() => {
button.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'true');
menu.showPopover();
});

content.addEventListener('toggle', e => {
// reset back to aria-expanded=false on close
if (e.newState == 'closed') {
button.setAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
}
});
});

The React example seems a little odd as well, if the "open" callback actually called "showPopover()" instead of only calling "setIsOpen" then the "useEffect" could be entirely redundant. The resulting code would be a lot clearer imo.
Metaforgotten, but this is a very standard attack surface, you don't need to imagine such a close tap, just imagine that at any point in the multi node internet an attacker has a node and snoops the traffic in its role as a relaying router.
I guess the same way I built my AMD Ryzen from a pile of sand...
It is remarkable to see how shitposting is not a recent invention but seems to have been around in the Victorian age if the transmit logs on this thing are anything to go by.
At Yandex we have a similar profiler that supports native languages seamlessly, with addition to Python/Java: https://github.com/yandex/perforator. It's exciting to see new profilers from big players!
The USA also shares a border with Russia if you count Alaska as part of the USA.
Gary Stevens, New York Radio DJ Who Spun British Invasion, Dies at 84
https://archive.ph/AxuTg
The Tor system does scale, as Tor itself proves. Tor just lacks domain names all together and reuses public keys for site identification instead.

Is the tor node you're accessing the real Facebook or just a phishing page intercepting your credentials? Better check if the 60 character domain name matches the one your friend told you about!

I don't think putting any more power in browser vendors is the right move. I'd rather see a DNSSEC overhaul to make DANE work.
Are the studies slow, or is the AI research moving extremely fast? So fast that proper studies have a hard time catching up?
It helps as far as avoiding obstructions is concerned. I can barely pick up anything in my porch. On my ceiling it's many times better.
https://archive.ph/Mygr5
That's not really my area, but I can offer a few. The big one would be the new Brill's Companion to Nonnus (2016) and anything by Domenico Accorinti, who seems to be the person most often working on Nonnus now.

- Accorinti, D. 2020. "Did Nonnus Really Want to Write a 'Gospel Epic?' The Amabiguous Genre of the _Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John._ In Hadjittofi, F. and Lefteratou, A. eds. _The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry_. Berlin: De Gruyter. 225–48.

- Accorinti, D. 2016. _Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis._ Leiden: Brill.

- Hadjittofi F. 2020. "The Poet and the Evangelist in Nonnus' Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John." Cambridge Classical Journal 66: 70–95.
Context, Possibility, Intent, and Action