skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "So, CLOUDFLARE ANALYZED PASSWORDS PEOPLE ARE USING to LOG IN to sites THEY PROTECT and DISCOVERED lots of re-use."

https://infosec.exchange/@0xF21D/114178659343887260
> lacks greenery

Seriously? How about:

- Avenida da Liberdade

- The Botanical Garden in Principe Real

- Parque Eduardo

- The beautiful gardens around the Gulbenkian Museum

- Jardim da Estrela

- Tapada das Necessidades

- Jardim do Principe Real

and one of the prettiest urban neighborhood green spaces I've ever been to: Jardim Fialho de Almeida

Edit: formatting
My take is that devastating errata is just normal. Most of it is fixed silently and the end users never hear about it, but sometimes you're the customer that gets to find them. Right before I joined an embedded device team at Google, they brought up a new chip. Turns out... branch prediction was broken. It would mispredict a branch and execute the misprediction anyway. I imagine that was no fun to debug. But a workaround was fine and I'm sure subsequent customers never heard about it, and the devices worked fine for many years.

One time I lived in an apartment that suffered from a variety of pests coming in. I expanding-foamed everything that looked like an entry point, the problem went away, and I stopped caring. However, I could still hear mice crawling around inside the walls late at night and decided just not to be bothered. This experience prepares one for embedded systems / microcontroller work ;)
s/FOR/DO/
This is not accurate; it depends on the subfield. As a rule, the more theoretical the subfield, the more likely that alphabetical order is used. See e.g. papers from a theoretical conference like STOC vs. a systems conference like HotOS.
But the goals that these people pursue are difficult to understand or anticipate. You assume that because these people are employed by some business entity that their goals are "make more money" and such. That's rarely the case, even if we allow for the unenlightened version of "make more money".

Instead, assume that many, possibly even most, are more interested in being punitive out of some warped sense of justice. Though it might cost them a million in legal fees to discourage efforts to fix their DRM which in turn might only preserve a few tens of thousands in sales or other earning potential, they still doggedly chase these "goals". Sometimes, I think, the lawyers even point this out, only to be overruled by top management. This means that legal action can almost always achieve the goal, being that the goal is nothing more than to make their targets miserable.
Interesting - sounds like it would have some negative effect then. Thanks for sharing.

Now I wonder about some periodic offsets. E.g. if the lights are off at night, or if the skies are overcast in winter, does it skew the results in some significant way. I seriously doubt that though.
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Here's an interesting thought about how preferential surveillance can lead to repression even when it's public and not itself acted on:

1. Every demographic commits petty crimes and code violations at about the same rate (things like parking violations and music piracy).

2. However, people who are being watched will be caught more often.

3. The end result is that people in the "wrong" crowd on average are punished more than people in the "right" one at an equal level of misbehavior.
> Clearly false (what words do you use when you plan to throw a ball to a target?)

If a monkey can do it, it's not very abstract.
Because then you'd be running a full speech to text model all the time, and an LLM any time any speech is detected.
that's not clickbait at all
Yes there is a record for most trades done. The regulating body depends on the type of instrument (equities, options, futures, fixed income, etc.)

The Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) is the primary location for this data as it relates to equities. https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/consolidated...

The settlement cycle also dictates the frequency of reporting for many investment instruments.
https://www.finra.org/investors/insights/understanding-settl...
How many gaza protests have there been in the US alone in the past two years and how many of them had any violence at all? I wouldn't call it a "high probability."
The DA is not their boss. Cops are supposed to enforce laws. The DA is supposed to prosecute them. The cops are just using the DA as an excuse to not do their jobs. And once you normalize the cops not arresting people, now the DA has an excuse for prosecuting fewer criminals - at that point how do you decide who's to blame? Now you have two dysfunctional organizations, each pointing the finger at the other, and you've already normalized at least one of them. Even if you think the cops shouldn't be arresting people because of the DA, at the very least this skews data on crime as police are making fewer arrests independent of crime levels.

This is like me saying I don't want to do my job because those other guys in the other department aren't going to do anything with it, so I'm just not going to bother. I think almost everyone can relate to lazy/incompetent coworkers - does that mean you should also be lazy/incompetent? The way to fight laziness is with hard work, and the way to fight incompetence is with competence. What you're advocating for just normalizes dysfunction.
At least of the people who've been on the debates, the motive is quite clearly money. They all have apps, merch, blogs, or Youtube Channels they make money from.
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> Agreed. Amazingly good, in fact. Sometimes I wonder how we can sustain such level of amazing income

Other jobs are getting fucked much more severely. Most industries have bled their labor dry, to the bones. There’s nothing left, they’ve solve the optimization problem of moving as much money as possibly away from them.

Tech is still working on that optimization problem.
Project Unreality: 2 game engines (Unreal Engine/Unity), 1 game [video]
Chomsky has that wrong theory about language innateness. In reality languages that don't fit child brains don't survive. It's the other way around!
You make a really good point! The average law abiding citizen is much more afraid of petty crime against Elon Musk, a man who does the Nazi salute, than they are about losing their constitutional rights. That is how we wound up with a militarized police force in the first place, with the average person being more afraid of terrorism than encroaching totalitarianism.

> i would argue the people in these protests are likely the people committing street crime.

evidenced by?
I think the comment was way shorter than it currently is when I replied. It is sometimes difficult to say what is meant with "validation". Many also use it to mean "functional testing", for example, which is incorrect.
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I've always thought there's a third variable: something causes the lack of sleep, and the lack of sleep causes mania. Disturbed sleeping causes a wide variety of different psych symptoms in different people. An acquaintance was almost committed for schizophrenia - but sleeping pills fixed the night horrors and they avoided commital.
On non-conformant inputs, a parser will barf and yell at you, which is exactly what you want.

On non-conformant inputs, there's absolutely no telling what an LLM will do, which is precisely the problem. It might barf, or it might blissfully continue, and even if the input was right you couldn't remotely trust it to regurgitate the input verbatim.

As for bugs, it is at least theoretically possible to write a parser with no bugs, whereas an LLM is fundamentally probabilistic.
Fully agree! 3blue1brown is who have single-handedly thought me a majority of what I've needed to know about it.

I actually started building my own neural network framework last week in C++! It's a great way to delve into the details of how they work. It currently supports only dense MLP's, but does so quite well, and work is underway for convolutional layers and pooling layers on a separate branch.

https://github.com/perkele1989/prkl-ann
Not really. It's just one source of randomness among many. The entire point of having multiple sources is that they are redundant, you don't need them all.
I love it, but no floats is a practical limitation.
Beyond long Covid – how reinfections could cause silent long term organ damage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds vs AIDS
>I don’t really understand why they’re being treated as the enemy here?

The gross manipulation attempt is what did it for me.

"We were planning to now focus on new accessibility features on our open-source Thorium Reader, better access to annotations for blind users and an advanced reading mode for dyslexic people. Too bad"

The legal threat at the end wasn't very cool, either.
> However, at least you have the option of installing a ROM that supports toggling adb root out of the box.

That's not valid for all devices, all Samsungs need a cooldown of one week (Knox lock, presumably to thwart people from rooting stolen devices to bypass antitheft), all modern Androids require a full wipe of the device as part of rooting so it's useless for forensics, and a shitload of apps will flat out refuse to work on rooted devices - forget many games, forget anything with streaming, forget banking apps.
I’m still not completely over CloudBleed, if I’m honest.
Google Authenticator at least does support cloud uploads.
> LLMs are interest case, but they are nearly flat.

They are less specialized than brains, but compensate millions of years of evolutionary adaptation with a larger corpus of text, about the same size as 11,000 people use in their lifetime, assuming 1B words/human.

Interestingly, humans needed 10 million times more text for cultural evolution, based on an estimate of 110 billion humans who ever lived.

So making progress is millions of times harder than catching up.
The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2022)
Oh my. :( I wish...
The "grammar vigilante" isn't funny–he's mean (2017)
> The C code is able to use switch implicit fallthroughs to generate very efficient code. Rust does not have an equivalent of this mechanism

Rust very much can emulate this, with `break` + nested blocks. But not if you also add in `goto` to previous branches
If you want something that ‘just works’, it’s hard to go past the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing bothers you, the new Creality ‘Hi’ series is probably where I’d start if I was starting today. For other useful things to print, check out Gridfinity as well!
That's the interesting paradox of technological development. If it's out of the bag, then it's out of bag, but that cuts both ways. You can never control who will gain access to advancements. Even if you trust the custodians now, you don't know who they will be in the future, &c. Eventually you end up at a fork: either pursue and endless technological arms race or find some way to build lasting cooperative and peaceful relationships. As they say, the surest way to destroy your enemy is to make them your friend. Still a massive challenge, but presumably that's why empires eventually always fail. They don't know how to make friends.
Transformers as Support Vector Machines (2023)
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So would I
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Holy cow, that guy is intense! Also: cool stuff! I know what I have my neighbor print for me.
Show HN: Today – A task manager that resets at midnight, powered by localStorage
I had this random thought while coding late: what if a to-do list just wiped itself clean every night? So I built it for fun.
Turns out, this odd constraint became surprisingly effective. With the deadline of midnight looming, I found myself focusing on the things I could act upon today.

Featureset:
- Pure localStorage (no accounts or servers)
- Kanban board for flexible organization
- Built-in Pomodoro timer for focused work sessions
- Ambient noise generator with various soundscapes
- WebRTC for peer-to-peer board sharing between devices
- Works offline as a PWA

No backend, no tracking, no complicated roadmap - just a simple tool that started as a joke but became genuinely useful for daily productivity.

Would love to hear if anyone else finds the "fresh slate daily" approach as oddly motivating as I do.
Discussion on the original article, or part of it (274 points, 14 days ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244739
HTTP/3 even more so due to QUIC's shorter handshake process.
The current problem with human rights is it was turned into ever-moving target. It’s a pretty shitty situation to be forced to believe in something people on another continent keep coming up with. With old school religions, at least they move slowly and there are literally centuries to adapt. Now what was obscure crazy stuff in some far away corner of the world a decade ago is claimed to be must-have human rights.

Good luck trying to civilize Afghanistan again. Chinese would looooove West trying again. Nothing better than yet another proxy war.
Remember that actual literal swastika-wearing nazis were average law abiding citizens. If nazis are scared to come in contact with you you're doing well.
Sure, you could say the same thing about most religious leaders. That doesn't necessarily mean that they don't sincerely believe what they're preaching. Flat-earth doesn't seem to me to be a particularly lucrative scam, the audience is too small. If money was really their primary motive I would think they'd find greener pastures elsewhere.
Markov chains are very very far off from gpt2.
IMO the most realistic generated psychedelic images were made by Google's Deep Dream 10 years ago. It seems like it's been mostly forgotten about after the advent of DALL-E, Midjourney, etc.
That's one of the purposes of darkpools, to let institutions trade large size without moving the market. No one's getting manipulated here: both the buyers and sellers know what's going on.

You can trade on these yourself - the darkpool operators are always looking for new market makers. All you need to do is agree to quote a few hundred US equities in decent size inside the NBBO, six and a half hours a day, and you too can have access to this flow.
I've watched that a couple times and I'm pretty sure he accidentally cancelled autopilot by jerking the wheel with his hands. His hand movement lines up with the autopilot disengage. I've done that several times myself, it is deliberately sensitive to wheel torque as a manual disengagement mechanism.

the footage he posted on x does not fully match the in car footage on youtube so there was evidently multiple runs. it seems unlikely that the mirror wall could be repaired so I am left to conclude that he kept driving the tesla at the wall until he crashed through it (manually). that being said I would not be super surprised to find that a carefully crafted mirror wall would confuse autopilot. that seems to be a logical weakness of a vision based system.
I see, tyty (been wondering for quite some time)
I would not expect anyone who says "most businesses" in a sentence to be using the definition "the minority of businesses that most people work for".
That's a really good point, back home, Verizon didn't bother with Fios investment until then.
Honestly I just do any arbitrary uint64, it's good enough for a majority of usecases.

Sometimes I like to have fun and encode a 1337-code easter egg in the hexadecimal representation
They actually have thought it out well. The short of it is you can set up a device to constantly stream to home assistant so that you can use any wake word.
That comes with the draw back of more power use and more importantly higher cpu use for each microphone you add. It's still possible (https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord)

The alternative for a dedicated low power device is to have trained a model to run on smaller micro controllers so that it can run locally on low powered devices (https://github.com/kahrendt/microWakeWord) this is what they have chosen for their dedicated devices.

This choice also comes with much higher default privacy. Which is great as home assistant offers cloud integration and the fact that they put privacy first in this area makes it much easier to trust they do the right thing in other areas.

A brief run down on the subject https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/about_wake_word/
But the weights trained from machine learning are a black box, in the sense that no human designed e.g. the image processing kernels that those weights represent.

That is one reason people are skeptical of them, not only is training a large model at home expensive, not only is the data too big to trivially store, but the weights are not trivial to debug either
The other thing Notion has that’s tough to replicate is the network effects. Enough “influencer” type people use it that there’s a pretty rich universe of readymade and shareable templates and workflows available for other users. These can be replicated in similar applications, but that takes work.

The fact that it got popular with productivity influencers seems pretty key to its initial and sustained popularity, even if it’s performance and the general clunkiness of its interface is frustrating.
IIRC wasn't it Librem that wanted to have the device attest itself to the user (ie a second device)?

Agreed though. Any major vendor deploying this globally and making it available to developers without restriction would be an affront to our freedom.
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This is a situation where beatings will continue until morale improves.

There is near infinite room for housing. As long as people keep living in and moving to expensive cities, jobs will continue to concentrate there.

Companies follow the talent, and talent follows the companies. The feedback will continue until one party blinks.
Discussion on original source (1403 points, 22 days ago, 831 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43150085
Instead of this PR nonsense I feel the cloudflare news we should be discussing today is the fact that they just admitted to logging the usernames and passwords of users for websites which use their service.

https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/cR4dJWj3KZltPv3rqX
My recipe for large files: 3 copies. Right now, 1st copy on external 8 to 16TB NTFS desktop hard drives, and 2nd copy on 14 to 16TB internal ext4 drives. Theses drives I power up only for copy purposes, once a month or so. At present time, my drives are 5 to 7 years old, and still good.

Main working copies I keep on 4 to 8TB NTFS SSDs (mix of sata and nvme), plugged into a PC I'm using regularly, but intermittently.
Still love my truck though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPO2nUYaoM
Just added you to Launch Point Zero

https://launchpointzero.com/launchsites/innovativ_es
> set to the tune of an AI-generated song.

way to completely ruin an otherwise lovely article
The fact is that for a lot of projects, you don't write a lot of code. And for the occasion that you do, the issues lies mainly in integrations and requirements/design cycle. I learned Vim and Emacs, not to write code faster, but to edit it faster. I've never been in a position where I said: I wish I could write more code.

In fact, most of my coding happens in an unfocused state. It's when I'm reading code (when there's a gap in the docs), learning a new system (libraries, platform, language), or designing a system (architecture, integration,...) that I give my full attention. The actual writing is mostly Edit/(Compile|Lint|Test)/Fix cycle that actually goes pretty fast in term of iteration and don't use that much mental energy.
When I was first getting into Deep Learning, learning the proof of the universal approximation theorem helped a lot. Once you understand why neural networks are able to approximate functions, it makes everything built on top of them much easier to understand.
Knocking down abandoned buildings is costly but has benefits for Detroit
USSR tried that for a decade. Then US. But reality is such conversion would take few generations at least. Good luck convincing tax payers that 50 years occupational forces are worth it.
Anyone remember the not so distant past when you were labeled a "conspiracy theorist" when you mentioned dark pools?
No, LLMs do not have "bounded reliability". All reliability figures for LLMs are based upon empirical observation in specific contexts using artificial benchmarks. As they say in finance, "past performance is not indicative of future results".

Saying LLMs are no worse than random bit flips is, again, an unjustified comparison. We can control bit errors with ECC, we cannot control the output of an LLM except to shackle it into uselessness.
You're right, it's definitely better than 4G, my wording was unclear, more in the sense of "Would I make this my home ISP?" than "how did 5G go?" (I would have thought cell providers would have 20-30% of the market now, ah, the follys of youth...)
It's very useful for things where the specification is much simpler than the implementation. Databases and file systems are good examples. A database can be specified as giant arrays with linear search. Now prove that the database with all its optimizations and concurrency behaves the same as the simple spec.
Yes, the upside of the contemporary on-line software distribution is clear. No question about this. "The good old days" :-) reference was only about the comprehensive and ordered documentation that often used to come with the physically shipped software medium.
Iguanas "Rafted" 8k Kilometers from North America to Fiji
Ogre Systems Interconnection standard model?
Any way to lerp transitions like Milkdrop does?
Casein plastic is made from casein (milk).
A big place where this gets used is to make Kindle ebooks only able to be read on a kindle.

Any time they update and change the DRM there’s a brief period where newly-released amazon kindle books essentially cannot be read anywhere except kindle hardware and official kindle apps. People have pretty consistently found ways around the DRM (for now). But amazon is always trying to crack down on this.
In the traditional terminology, "ultraviolet" and "infrared" are abbreviations for "ultraviolet light" and "infrared light", so ultraviolet and infrared were definitely always classified as kinds of light.

However, what was initially called "infrared light" is what is called now "near infrared". What is called now "far infrared" was traditionally called "radiant heat", which is a term that dates from before it became understood that both radiant heat and light are electromagnetic waves.

The traditional divisions between radio waves, radiant heat, light and X rays were determined by the fact that each of these 4 required different kinds of emitting and detecting devices. However the evolution of technology has extended the ranges for each kind of emitter and detector, so now the ranges of the corresponding kinds of devices are overlapping, so any precise thresholds in the frequency ranges are only conventional.
Why would they not be loud about it? I think "We've built out 5G so we can get rid of your data caps!" is a message any telecom would want to broadcast out, unless I'm missing something