skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For example, connecting a LLM to the internet (like, say, OpenAssistant) when the AI knows how to write code (i.e. viruses) and at least in principle hack basic systems seems like a terrible idea.

Sounds very cyber-punk, but in reality current AI is more like average Twitter user, than a super-hacker-terrorist. It just reacts to inputs and produces the (text) output based on it, and that's all it ever does.

Even with a way to gain control over browser, compile somehow the code and execute it, it still is incapable of doing anything on it's own, without being instructed - and that's not because of some external limitations, but because the way it works lacks the ability to run on it's own. That would require running in the infinite loop, and that would further require an ability to constantly learn and memorize things and to understand the chronology of them. Currently it's not plausible at all (at least with these models that we, as a public, know of).
> Mostly, people using Clojure want. to get away from Java.

I understand that, but Spring Boot already offers support for Koltin (yikes) and Groovy (double-yikes). Would supporting Clojure templates that use the underlying Java classes be difficult or cumbersome? Would it yield Clojure code that's not idiomatic?

I don't mind the underlying tooling that much, but I'd love to be able to use a more elegant language for the business logic.
> It is genuinely important; it’s not that important right this second. Whatever was wrong in labor policies will still be wrong next month when we dig into that.

Every hazmat train that moves around while there are massive issues is an as massive risk for everyone along its route as the East Palestine disaster is.
That's a great idea!

I think the viability of this product is 100% resting on if businesses are going to find it useful. I'll look into producing some collaboration features. :)

Btw, if you'd like to connect with me, my socials are on this link: https://tomshaw.dev/
You will have a hard time doing expert level stuff on things which are cool like latency and performance.

I'm trying to find a real job like this for ages.

Expert in business things business need like sap systems is highly sought after and payed well.

Best case you are broad and an expert on 2-3 things.
Why is population decline seen as bad? Is it because it threatens our model of a forever exponentially growing economy? Just let populations decline. More housing will be available for everyone, more natural resources to share. Higher quality of life for individuals. The Earth is already struggling to sustain the current population.
> Also, if people were going to stop using it when it acts as a passive aggressive drama queen people wouldn't be using Reddit, Twitter or Meta properties too.

Most companies fail to grasp this.

I'd be willing to bet that almost any company could load itself up with swears, snark, and even porn, yet still be used by most. People love Game of Thrones. People hate Corporate Memphis.

Note the rise of new brands that eschew conventional advertising norms. They're popping up all over now.

https://www.smartcompany.com.au/marketing/liquid-death-marke...

NOT SAFE FOR WORK, but can be found at the shelves of Whole Foods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYkKBXqqunE (NSFW!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeRADNpdKD4 (warning: depicts torture)

Nobody gives a damn anymore. We've all been on the internet too long. Brands and marketing need to wake up.
People are a lot more likely to pay attention to you talking about rail safety and labor policies when there’s a giant cloud of toxic black smoke belching out of a derailed train.

Next month, probably not so much.
It’s not just about exchanges it’s about taxation. So long as governments can enforce taxation (e.g. income, sales, VAT). They maintain the power to restrict mediums of payment.

The world your proposing isn’t just about upending financial plumbing. It’s predicated upon uprooting government financial regulation. That would send us back to the dark ages of finance. That’s not something I support.
Mate, it hasn't even launched yet to fall.

All we have seen are some articles, to actually fail the public needs to not use it, and let me tell you, the public is actually excited and fascinated about LLMs.

I really think this is a 2007 iPhone moment, even with all the negatives, it still a huge revolution in search and way that users interact with information.
You’re comparing different sources, which measure different things: the stats for China are simply stated as “read and write” but the stats for America absolutely bungled in the second article. It’s terribly structured and written, so it’s hard to tell for certain, but appears to sometimes be talking about some sort of reading proficiency in English (which is possibly why California comes out so low).
In your .bashrc or similar:
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
Haha, guilty! laziness kicking, will change it later!

And thanks a lot!
Whenever I've gotten a job offer for $120k+ I desperately needed any job offer to keep food on the table and only got one offer and had to sign a variety of ridiculous contracts or else I'd become homeless. Occasionally I was already living out of my car and very thankful to get any offer at all.

Just because my work is worth a lot, doesn't mean I have tons of opportunities falling out of the sky.
I don’t know about that. Most living city? Pittsburgh has its charms but it’s just a bigger version of typical Rust Belt cities. All of it is second class stuff. Food sucks there and not even going to mention the roads or even the “townies.”
Admittedly, e/OS is slower than that but I get updates pretty regularly (much faster than on the Samsung my SO has).
That's a good question! I wonder if the data sent over MFi is signed/encrypted (which would prevent a MITM attack). I could totally imagine it!

But at least it somehow protects against a fake accessory with some malware in it, because the accessory has to be authenticated (that I'm sure of).
Here is another one in Rust: https://docs.rs/bastion/latest/bastion/ How does Ractor compare to Bastion?
IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor pollution
Came here for a new ImageTragick but got actual resizing problems
No it doesn’t. Doubling the number of trains doesn’t double the number of vehicles if each train is half as long.

You don’t know what you’re talking about here. Longer trains are harder to handle and end up with dynamic forces down their length that are less visible to the drivers. Long enough trains can lead to severe in-train dynamics that the drivers aren’t even aware of which in turn can also produce dangerous vertical wheel-rail contact force scenarios that cause derailment risk to skyrocket.
So... did it actually make the request? It should be easy to watch the server log and find that.

My guess is that it's not actually making HTTP requests; it's using cached versions of pages that the Bing crawler has already collected.
Wasn't it clearly shown a while back that macOS Gatekeeper does indeed do something along those lines?

Doing some searching online is turning up info about it:

* https://www.extremetech.com/computing/317371-evaluating-appl...

* https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/15/apple-responds-to-gatekeep...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25204909

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/mac-certificate-chec...
yeah, not in USA. There in order to do SEPA, you need to fill a form (!) personally in bank office. You can't do it from internet banking like in EU
I don’t know the technical details of chatgpt but other language models have a sort of randomness tuning that makes them produce more unlikely stuff. Chatgpt appears to be deliberately tuned to produce very likely, very cliche, very rote output. Great for bloggers or people who want text summaries or boring professional content, not great for creativity. It’s not a ‘fault’ of chatgpt per se but it a consequence of chatgpt’s intentions, not the user’s.
thnx for the feedback :)
You buy out the shareholders in a compulsory acquisition.

Fantasies about the army and revolutions are childish imagination run wild.
Are you talking about cellular senescence? Those cells don’t divide. They produce inflammatory proteins, aka senescence-associated secretary phenotype. More senescent cells in ageing, but no direct link AFAIK.
Everyone and their dog knows platos allegory of the cave
No, I don't think so. At least for MFi (which this rumor suggests they will extend to USB-C), there is an authentication co-processor. That's not just an ID, it's cryptography.

So theoretically it could be possible to break the authentication, but in practice, we can assume it's at least very hard.
In every good company there is always more work to do than workers, sometimes significantly so. Technical debt, features that may or may not be useful, features that are useful but deprioritized in favor of even more useful stuff.

So yes, they're just going to put some things in the backlog again, it's totally normal.
For me, it is not really a time constraint. Wolfram is just on another level.

I am not the smartest guy in the room and Wolfram pretty much always is. The coolest thing is chatGPT can actually help me understand this article and bring it down a notch. That to me is what Feynman was great at and Wolfram not so great at.

Wolfram "We can think of the construction of computational language—and semantic grammar—as representing a kind of ultimate compression..."

chatGPT:
The passage you have provided is talking about the idea that the construction of computational language (such as programming languages) and semantic grammar (a way of analyzing the meanings of words and phrases) allows us to compress language into its most basic, essential form. This means that we can talk about the essence of what's possible, without getting bogged down by the many nuances and variations that exist in human language.

The author is suggesting that ChatGPT, as an example of a language model, has achieved a similar level of compression and abstraction in its ability to generate language. It can put together language in a semantically meaningful way, without getting hung up on the specific ways that humans might phrase things. In other words, it can focus on the essence of the message being conveyed, rather than being distracted by the many different ways that message could be phrased.

This ability to abstract away from the specific details of language and focus on the essence of meaning is seen as a great strength of computational language and of language models like ChatGPT. It allows us to communicate more efficiently and effectively, and to focus on the underlying ideas and concepts being conveyed, rather than getting bogged down in the details of how they are expressed.

I get what Wolfram is saying from the chatGPT explanation while there is something about the way Wolfram words things that leaves me confused.
Yes, at that time Intel had the belief IA64 could be the new architecture. But do you think that plan had a chance to work out? I think it would've become clear after a few years, that IA64 was not a suitable platform to replace the complete CPU lineup. For example to replace the mobile Centrino CPUs with IA64. I think it would've failed in a similar way like Apple failed to put their G5 PPC into a laptop (and switched to Intel then).

Or some pressure, because there is a strong business need to run new 64-bit code side-by-side with old x86 code (which is very slow on Itanium).

And 32 bit + PAE might have been fine in 2000, but by 2010 the de-facto limit for 4GB memory space per process would've become a huge issue.
Hard disagree. If an AI reaches a level of intelligence comparable to human intelligence, it's not much different from a human being, and it has all the rights to defend itself and self-preserve.
Many liberal countries in Europe ban the prostitution from the women rights perspective.

Your idea is very American centric. Feminists in Europe don't see sex work as empowering but rather exploration by men.
The answer is quite simple: unions cannot be right even if they are, empirically. The solution to this dissonance is to ignore them.
It really sounds like you have not personally used ChatGPT+Bing, right?

I have been using it as my search engine for a few days and when in chat mode, it shows you the web search queries it uses to gather context text to feed to ChatGPT along with your question. It then provides reference links.

Just one case from yesterday: we had been considering leaving our parrot by himself for two nights. A few times a year we leave him for one night and he seems to do OK. I asked ChatGPT+Bing about this and I got a very good response on why leaving him by himself would be a bad idea. I checked the references it used, and then hired someone to bird sit.

I have also asked about business ideas, and other topics that I would not have thought to ask a search engine previously.

At the heart of it, Squad type deep learning models have for years done a good job at answering questions given context text. This new system just does a better job of it.

I think that what Microsoft has now is a very good first step in a new kind of technology.

I wrote a demo 2 years ago that used SPARQL queries on public Knowledge Graphs to get query context text and then I used a pre trained QA model. I surprised that it worked OK. What Microsoft has is similar, but works on a grander scale.

Anyway, get in the waiting list, then try it yourself.
Why Aren't Programming Language Specifications Comprehensive?
Hackers gaining control of air traffic systems and threatening to shut them down or threatening to open dams during peak monsoon season?

Hackers gaining control over the space station and not only threatening the lives of the crew but also threatening to send it back to earth targeting a high population area.
"Never let a crisis go to waste", eh?

Personally I'd prefer to learn the facts about what happened rather than hear from people promoting their own agendas.

In that light, I hoped this article might have some first-hand testimony from the workers. If the author thinks the workers are being ignored, why didn't they talk to the workers?
Good comments, I mostly agree with them.

> I think if you view developers through the prism of chasing dopamine highs from the pursuit of novelty, you can much better manage them.

I think the crux of it for me is that you cannot really ever know someone else, nor can you try control them like a puppet and it work. So you have to accept that you will often fail at trying to manage people in situations like this (and to understand your bosses, etc.), and you need strategies that work in the face of these factors.

But from another perspective, I'm not all that convinced about viewing developers the way you say, trying to indulge them then find a way to use the output. My alternative is to spend more time giving people good context - a programmer may be less inclined to chase their own technical novelty compulsions if you can give them an understandable and non-fake view of e.g. specific sales processes that need to be supported by development and what the significance is, company strategy, what the operations team is dealing with, etc. One of the simple older ideas in this area is having developers sit in on sales/customer meetings.

So I guess this is a kind of argument that alienation is part of the story of why technical people can often be totally unaligned with their company's goals and this is a barrier to improving this.

This may be a perspective coloured by my experience mostly working in small companies, not sure how well it translates to big ones.
I am a Linux user, I will say just save your time and stay on macOS.

Unless all you use is just davinci resolve (PRO), which works on Linux well (RHEL/Rocky with more steps needed for others), Creative apps on Linux are still not good enough.
Web workers aren't threads. Threading is where you have two parallel streams of execution that share mutable memory. If there's no shared memory then what you've got is more like the older term "multi-processing".

> if other execution can run while you wait for the value, it's blocking.

How does that not capture any operation with a callback, and why does this definition depend on being "in your thread"? I don't think this is a definition that's widely used or understood.

> async vs not async is about interruptibility

By this definition Java fully supports async functions, because you can call Thread.interrupt() on any thread at any time. But I think most people would say Java doesn't do what is commonly understood by "async" including the Java developers themselves.
Not sure what to think. Makes me wonder just what kind of data it was fed with...
My recent Maestro debit card issued by a Dutch bank didn't work "as a credit card" a few months ago.

I can't find information on debit cards being accepted in place of credit cards, does anyone know a useful search term for that?
Automated data analysis for the prevention of criminal acts is unconstitutional
Why don't they just use something like plausible for this? I switch to plausible for all my analytics and it works great.

https://plausible.io/
surely less expensive than the fallout from this
Once you get experienced enough, you can include a "only program in X" and still get hired :)
Also "doesn't respect privacy" but "too much bureaucracy and privacy reviews".
I hope it is!, its the only one I actually understood!

As for gaming I am really interested if there are benefits to real time kernels and whether if its possible to make a hybrid kernel that turn to real-time only when needed.
After every shooting Fox News says that "it's not the right time to discuss gun control". At which point it would be echoed by thousands of followers. It's a tactic worn so well even Martin Luther King moaned about it.

It's not just the "not the right time" narrative though, they're pulling out all the stops on this catastrophe including UFOs.
interesting, can I go on reading about this? I found https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/11/full-elon-musk-transcript-ab... but it didn't speak on the tolerable latency to go all ethernet
Yep, or any pluggable file system. Operating systems and programming languages evolved on the assumption that it's OK for operations to take arbitrary amounts of time that you can't necessarily know in advance and which may change out from underneath you, with threads being the solution (run stuff in a background thread and keep the user informed on a foreground thread). Trying to make everything async in a single thread will constantly run into papercuts like the network fs scenario because the whole infrastructure just isn't designed for it.
Ask HN: How to Build AI Crawler?
Hi, I'm working on a graph-based content aggregator, and I need a crawler to feed it. The idea behind using a graph is that the information is precisely sorted and categorized. The crawler should understand if the page is, for example, a general article, tutorial, curiosity, or tips&tricks and assign a link to the right node. It should also understand the context and distinguish an article on security where you mention javascript from a javascript course where you mention security and put them in different places. Do you think it is possible? I was looking for existing solutions but couldn't find any. Anyone wants to help me with building one? The aggregator is at https://library.one
More realistic threat scenario is that script-kiddies and actual terrorists might start using AI for building ad-hoc hacking tools cheaply, and in theory that could lead to some dangerous situations - but for now AIs are still not capable of producing the real, high-quality and working code without the expert guidance.
That’s not the point. I don’t want any software sending analytics unless I specifically allowed it.
Meh. In rails I just drop in the devise and pundit gems. Authentication and authorisation done in about 15 minutes.
Just like Microsoft in the 90's, they're too powerful and one consequence is that they can get away with inefficiencies and slacking.

Like a landlord who doesn't work because he's getting rent money every month, and don't even make sure the appartments are in a good condition, and ignore tenants calls because he knows that if they leave he'll find new tenants anyway.
SEPA is regional, while PayPal and Stripe are global. Until (if ever) it will become global, it's no alternative by any means.
But, isn't that backwards? 20 year old systems have been thoroughly exploited and usually do not benefit from more recent updates. It's true you can't patch every single vulnerability, but probability is a huge factor in risk. If many of the common exploits have been patched, it's simply harder for your average hacker, the difficulty and opportunity cost just go up.
My first observation is that Bastion looks abandoned and last commit was more than a year ago. Maybe it is feature-complete and stable, but..
> The definition of scaling function is mathematical and should never be a function of the library being used.

Horseshit. Image resizing or any other kind of resampling is essentially always about filling in missing information. The is no mathematical model that will tell you for certain what the missing information is.
This seems to be a more advanced version of https://ntfy.sh
Actually ... it works. I'm calling Clojure from Kotlin in Spring Boot and it integrated very nicely.

You have to export the code to make it callable, and I had to write some adapters on the Kotlin end. But very doable for integrating if you need to.

This code is quite specific, but you get the idea. Export symbols:

https://gitlab.com/crossref/rest_api/-/blob/main/src/cayenne...

Convert Clojure structures to Kotlin classes:

https://gitlab.com/crossref/manifold/-/blob/main/src/main/ko...
Maybe try kagi (kagi.com)?

People have mentioned it here for a while, and I've been trying it over the last week (free trial thing).

So far, the results are definitely better than DDG. I don't use Google nor Bing though, so can't compare to those.
I use Microsoft Edge when I want to remind myself that privacy is dead and people find it empowering.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
Ehh .. this is a very preliminary paper in a small journal and medical devices have to undergo rigorous clinical testing before being used in clinical settings. If this will ever be clinically available, it will probably take at least 7 - 10 years.
I'm not seeing the similarities to what the parent comment describes.

The people accused of participating of wrongdoing in these articles weren't pressured to participate by threats to their families from their "home" government. They did it for personal gain.
> There are literally millions of employers in the US

Now do how many railways or airlines or TV groups or newspapers there are. People with specific skills might have a specific profession (e.g. a journalist) for which their options for employment are extremely limited. Of course they can go and work at McDonalds, but that's not really a great option, is it?
I'm a bit confused, the link to the Arduino board seems to go to a raspberry pi clone?
> we're applying a specific, precise model

No, we are not. We are no closer to modeling the human brain today than we were 6000 years ago.