skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good insight into putlers precarious position from successfully brainwashed people living in ru:

Disconnection | A film by Andrey Loshak (Разрыв связи | Фильм Андрея Лошака) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmQs2LbnaE [english subs]

>But since the war started your support of Putin only grew, right?

>>No, I’m still unhappy with him, with his rule. The number of oligarchs grew tremendously, right? Money keeps going somewhere abroad. So now they’ve been arrested there, and we’re happy. Thank God, we don’t get their money but neither will they. We became malicious. When they could’ve developed the country in all these years, right? 20 years they could’ve made a piece of cake out of the country. First 10 years we admired him. He’s giving interviews, we rush to listen, we’re all ears. But these last years we didn’t even want to listen anymore. We think, here we go, he’s going to tell bulls**t again, lie again.

>>Of course, people are unhappy, but the country is in danger, it’s not about thriving, it’s about surviving. We’re gonna support him so that he wins. But we can’t back out anymore, I think, they’ll peck us to death right away.

>We have to fight till victory?

>>Yes, sure.
Ah yes, “easy”.
You can run into similar issues in the JVM if `-Xmx#` is too small. This has to do with the way sbcl’s decided to manage the heap and other implementations won’t have this issue. But, I typically start sbcl with an 8GB heap and basically never run into this when consuming large files.

But, also, once you hit a couple megabytes or so, it’s almost always better IMO to consume a file incrementally rather than all at once.
Blowing stuff up is just another means of communication

Looking at that train derailment incident with the chemical spill and fire that recently took place in Ohio, it seems to me that the established order is rather willing to take the exact type of risk you describe
I found this guidance odd as well. This implies that, in an organization with 500 engineers, 100 (!) of them would be working on infra.

What would those 100 engineers even do? For the longest time, we had ~10 sysadmin and devops staff supporting 300 engineers. Nowadays, everything is run by AWS anyway--there's hardly any real infra to manage.
i'm curious what you think is worthy of humans to do?

often in life i find myself reminding myself that everything is just something to do.

serious question, what do you then distinguish as enlightened pursuits vs not, for lack of a better word.

edit to add: i painted my family's garage in my teens, manually. and i'm thirties now and when i go to my family home i see the painted garage. it never leaves me, the value.
Not sure your point...if I lost 20% of my salary I'm gonna find a way to make more money which may include changing employer. If you don't mind parting with a 20% loss every year, I'll let you know where to venmo me some money.
Nothing but it's interesting that while Netflix is pushing forwards to replace their staff with AI generated content, they're also pushing closer to a world where a large part of their value add is obsolete.
It sounds feasible to detect cases of low temperature output, as the text output this way sounds very generic (like an average of all content seen near the prompt's latent space).

However once you prompt the LLM with a higher temperature, or tell it to roleplay as someone with elaborate personas, or suggest to use certain linguistic styles, or train it on example text... then it becomes much harder.

I imagine pathological cases of formulaic word use, sentence/paragraph structure will only be detectable in longer form text. After all text is already pretty low-resolution, not much for adversarial models to work with.
Maybe I'm confusing this one with the other balloon earlier this month? I could swear one of them was that high.
Yeah, for Emacs users I'm sure Clojure is great. For the other 99% of us who use VS Code or IntelliJ or something else entirely, it really isn't. Though IntelliJ + Cursive I'd say is probably the best, it still pales in comparison to say Rust or TypeScript support in editors.
what is this thread lmao
Ironic analogy given that we still don't really have AI-driven cars replacing drivers yet...
More importantly, $8 includes an identity check
LIving in this capitalism that we are in has warped us as humans. People no longer do good shit, they figure out some grift that optimises some crap in such a way that makes them rich and uses marketing to make it seem like it benefits people. How long must this shit go on.

Where are the good things at? Where did we die?
They better be ready, because next guy is definitely going to launch 10x balloons for a grand total of “next to nothing”!
This has been the case in Spain for a few years now, and it's been credited with saving lives: https://www.supportinspain.info/organisations/016-domestic-a...
Shouldn't there be a difference between "verified" and "paid"? If bad actors can just pay to have a "verified" account, then it's completely meaningless, isn't it?

Either they truly verify (which is probably hard) and I can pay to be verified, or they don't, and it's completely useless because nobody should trust the verification...
It's a writing tool.

It can summarise (covert freeform text to json etc), it can expand (convert these bullet points in to content) and it can transpose (rewrite this python as java).

It's a starting prompt for fiction and a research time saver for non fiction. It's a multipurpose tool. Functionally it's also a UI if you write it as hardcoded reply formats.
QUOTE makes so many things trivial that are straight up ugly in other languages.
The F-22 costs more than $50,000 per flying hour to operate. The USAF flew the F-22 for approximately 28,000 hours in FY2021; but that $1.4bn expense is less than 1% of their annual budget.

We're talking about a $400K missile so much, why?
It's not about thought and engineering. If it was actually useful to do that, the military would've had no problem developing a solution like that. In fact, air to air missiles are infinitely more complex and engineered than any grappling balloon could ever be.

It's just that it makes no sense to build something that is completely useless, for a scenario that won't happen.
Multiple groups, and some people are always out of the loop depending on which groups they're in.

It's imperfect, but it works well enough
That is only the case if the consumption rate is fixed. If the rate of consumption is adjusted in a feedback loop based on queue depth and/or latency then clearly you can keep your queues in a balance of being neither empty nor infinite.
> turning a $8 subscription into a culture war artifact

"Culture war artifact" is not a real term. I've never had what looks like a reasonable combination of three words come up with zero hits in a search engine.

What happened is that Musk decided to charge for identity verification instead of granting it to favored media people, and other people already involved in a culture war where Musk plays the villain added that to their long list of incomprehensible grievances.
ECP brakes are generally per train and freight car or car block. Any single car or block installed with them likely wouldn't haven't made a difference, but more probably, in an environment with lax adherence to (or even avoidance of) safety technology guidelines, there is no guarantee that an ECP braking system would have been operably configured and maintained.

In the condition this train was at, whether they were equipped or not is irrelevant, because they'd more than likely just have been expensive decorations.
I thought he bought it to prove what a moron and a jerk he is. Maybe that's just a side effect :)
I think Gary Bernhardt's corresponding Boundaries conference talk [1] is quite good, particularly because of how pragmatic he is in introducing the topic.

I have been thinking about and trying to work with this paradigm for a few years now. To be honest, it's been a struggle. Partly because it requires unlearning some habits and partly because there's limited opportunity to practice in my $DAYJOB where I'm working in codebases heavily invested in other paradigms.

I've seen and read many, many videos, blog posts, etc. on this topic. Everyone loves to introduce the concept with a contrived example and then stop there. What I would love to see more of are complete examples for everything from simple to complex applications.

I think there's potentially a lot of value in thinking this way (or at least taking as much from it as you can), but it's hard to learn and then to teach others without more examples to draw on.

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
Musk said they would comply with the laws of each country how is this inconsistent with that statement?
The threat of industrial action is a great motivator for employers. Unionising your workplace makes that threat possible.
Major power outage, caused by PG&E fire, affects 50K, shuts down Oakland Airport
Awesome throwback! That site is essentially unchanged since I discovered it like 22 years ago. I would read through that site all the time before I could drive and go out “urban exploring” on my own. I always wanted to see copies of the physical zine, may have to see if I can make that happen now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11751267
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979642
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30046432
IIRC,Primos was written in FORTRAN (with language extensions including the ability to pass a statement number as a parameter, allowing longjmp() like behavior).

Multics (as noted above) was written in PL/I.
> One reason is locale-dependent format strings which are loaded from resource files.

Aren't those usually resolved to string literals by preprocessor such that the compiler still could emit a warning?
They didn't recover the object...so they wouldn't be able to answer either way. I'm surprised they couldn't do a visual inspection and say yep...it's a pico balloon. And if it was, I'm pretty impressed a missile can hone in on something like that.
How do we recognize that an AI has become much more 'conscious' than a very very smart chimpanzee, so that it should get the 'sapient right'?

The premise is off. We do that when it’s clear that it/they can take responsibilities that come with these rights. It’s not a blessing, it’s a contract. Chimps and dolphins couldn’t care less. Some individuals too, but we tolerate it because… reasons.
It’s not only uninteresting- it’s wrong. Linear costs of bad decisions can kill a business in so many ways.
I’ve seen some screenshots of ai ads already. They are usually somewhat horrying, like the person will be smiling, but you start to notice their mouths are open too large and they have too many teeth and lack eyelids, and the people in the background are even more distorted and nightmareish.
I don't think people are seriously doing self-hosting for practical reasons - it's more for the fun and pride of setting something up yourself.
Agreed. Either they get it right (and then congrats, the Facebook account is now a passport), or they don't, and it's completely meaningless because it still means "well don't trust it though".
I don't know what you mean by "opting in". The credit reporting agencies keep track of you without your consent by providing services to other companies and agencies.

Have you ever had a bank account? Gotten a credit card? A mortgage? Missed a student loan payment?

When I got my very first credit report, which I was entitled to by law, the reporting agencies asked me to very information they already had about my life and financial history dating back to my early teenage years.
I mean we can just hand RUAG some money instead of blowing up a rocket.
I feel like there may be more Emacs Lisp being written recently than other Lisps and prose about Lisp combined.
> It does though?, PVC is manufactured using this chemical and rail is an efficient means of transporting it,

I agree that it addresses the utility of PVC. I wrote: "It addresses the industrial applications of the chemical." But the article never makes the claim that rail is an efficient means of transporting it. It also never answers why the chemical cannot be made on-site.
And with heat strips, a heat pump unit can continue to provide heating even below -20. Heat strips do make the heat pump more expensive, but I would wager they're less expensive than having a separate furnace.
Scaling of models is a very researched area, and currently all the experiments show that scaling doesn't really get diminishing returns - that was checked in GPT-2 "era" with model sizes from very small up to GPT-2, and reconfirmed with GPT-3 and then with newer models. As far as we can see, scaling does not result in diminishing returns; and while it's certainly possible that we eventually encounter diminishing returns, it is not reasonable to presume that we actually will any time soon (as we have literally zero evidence for that and at least some evidence to the contrary), and even if we will, there's currently no reason to assume that the eventual breaking point is somewhere at "GPT-5" and not "GPT-15" or "GPT-55".
> I use it all the time to help me think through a problem and then implement it in something brain dead like rust so the average programmer can follow along.

Is Rust brain dead language anyone can follow along? Did you mean python?

> From the outside my code bases look 0% lisp, from the inside they are 100% lisp with build artifacts in other languages.

Can you expand on that? You generate code of other language than lisp in lisp?
Watson won jeopardy by being an expert system with hand coded knowledge (their NLP parser was written in Prolog) and sophisticated QA text search. It wasn't a pure unsupervised/semi supervised deep learning model so it didn't generalize well to other domains like medicine despite it being hyped as a ML trailblazer.
If you find you're angry about a large government wasting half a million dollars, then you'll be really angry when you find out how much it actually wastes.

And then when you find out that government waste is a fraction of the waste in private enterprises, well, you probably won't be angry about that at all.

Because the personality that rages at public waste never seems to be all that concerned with the much greater level of private waste.
> This design has many nice side effects.

Hahaha...great choice of words for an article on functional programming =)
Coz it's either that, Seymour Hersh or exploding trains and the last two are kind of awkward.
Zero Hedge is an even less reliable source of information than the narrator in the blog’s favorite book (or, more likely, movie).
I wonder what dialect of Lisp is the most widely deployed and most widely written. Maybe Clojure, or Emacs Lisp?
I think the 5[arr] deserves more love.

// traditional syntax:
boxes[products[myorder.product].box].weight
// index[array]:
myorder.product[products].box[boxes].weight
No he’s right and this is brought up here all the time. There are large swathes of America where people don’t have neighbors for miles (sometimes tens of miles) while there are comparatively few places in Europe that meet this definition.
It’s going to be an ecosystem of intelligence, just like it already is today. The notion of “an intelligence” is going to go away.

The singularity is real and AGI is here —but it isn’t like some runaway single agent that self improves and takes over the world. Just wait till it all starts talking to each other, training each other, using each other, all in convergence with humans. It’s very real. And very weird.
Maybe, but at least the verification seemed meaningful. And it feels like a meaningful verification doesn't generalise well: it's easy to pick a few people (arbitrarily) and truly verify them. But verifying millions of people... that's hard, unless you don't truly verify (in which case it's meaningless).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
Since 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_account#History
All the main scenarios for detecting generating text that I can imagine do have to assume that the LLM isn't "cooperative" but actually is specifically designed (or fine-tuned) to avoid detection.
> deploying AI tools to help our engineers be more productive

Interested in how that turns out. I seriously doubt that it will make the work environment any more pleasant.

That said, the salaries at Meta are pretty crazy. I guess folks are willing to put up with a lot to make that kind of dosh.

Of course, if, as has been speculated, this is a full-court press by all the top tech companies to push down salaries, then even the thought of "sticking with it for the great money" might not matter, anymore.

Soooo glad to be out of the rodent rally.
"Come on guy" is "rude and personal"? A "swipe"? Shit. I bumped that down about three levels of rudeness before posting. That's my max.

And people were pointing out tptacek's errors in understanding. How is that rude or personal to state?

Tptacek wouldn't take any of it in, or respond to any of the points made. Instead he threw around actually rude and personal attacks.

> The active ingredient there is "I see".

I'm not "passionate" about tptacek, or HN, or yourself.

However, in your "years of moderation", you've seen plenty of people take issue with tptacek's habit of twisting of people's comments. I know you have. It's a regular sight.

The complaints are generally about issues quite a few steps above "Come on guy." Twisting people's words, personal attacks, wilful ignorance, etc.

So I'm left with the same question as before - what's your relationship exactly? Because it's pretty off-putting to see such bias. It makes me wonder.
Mitsubishi now has a HyperHeat+ unit that goes down to even lower temperatures than before, and that's before you add the heat strips for auxiliary resistant electric heating. Watch Matt Risinger's "Build Show" channel on YouTube for recent announcements from the International Builders Show 2023 on this.
I would imagine your IT / SecOps folks would not be excited about that data being sent off the device.

This is a concern, but not as much as you would think, because we are going to limit what we are going to send back to the server. Also, we have a dedicated team that will do a audit of the security/privacy implications because any company application goes live.

I am not a developer, but infact part of IT security team. And this is the reason, why I had not gone ahead with any development, despite having this idea for more than a year, because I don't have a proper solution.

* blacksmith_tb 10 minutes ago | parent | context | on: Local-First Web Development

Hmm, I would think browser sandboxing is going to make that hard. If you have local admin rights, you might be able to make a shell script to grep through the logfiles and generate an html page as its output, which you could open in the browser? I would imagine your IT / SecOps folks would not be excited about that data being sent off the device.*

There are two problems to it, which I see. I want my usecase to be solved for managed as well as BYOD devices. And these BYOD devices are managed by the IT teams of different partners we work with. And they have their own security softwares and restrictions. Firstly, we cannot convince them to install a desktop application in their company managed machine. Secondly, a desktop application has a high probability of getting blocked compared to a web-app.

Also, a web-app is in general a better user experience when compared to a desktop app, in this scenario. Because it is easier for the user to launch and use.

I know I am asking for too much. But I have not lost hope that somewhere out there, there might be a solution.

I am open to ideas.
> It is therefore not a trustworthy source of information.

I do agree. It's a research project and has severe limitations. This is why I am curious what it does well. One of these things appears to be recipes. If it tells me to put avocado in my pancakes I am (still) skeptical enough not to do that.
If the inherent nature of bacon creation or trade caused a pandemic, and there was no reasonable way to mitigate it, it should be banned. If it can be mitigated, it should be! Why has this not happened in China?

I know we Americans love our bacon but a good leader would do the right thing. There are plenty of other foods to eat. Added benefit is that a lot of them are a helluva lot more healthy than pig fat.

You do offer a compelling counterpoint to my argument, however. Maybe the CCP think they can't ever ban wet markets, exotic meat, etc. Either due to concerns with implementation, or with popular anger over it, or both.

I'm not convinced though. They are very ambitious with their social engineering. They "successfully" (genocide is always a terrible tragedy) interned millions of ethnic minorities, crushing their culture and religion, raping women, sterilizing people, forcing people to think of themselves as "Chinese" above all else, or at least pretend like they do.

I wouldn't underestimate their propensity for heavy-handed state action. The ruling class certainly think highly of their of their own ability to influence events. Banning large wet markets like the one in Wuhan doesn't seem difficult when you consider the scope of their other "achievements". And also, their legitimate achievements.

They don't have to fully ban the trade. They just have to make it more difficult. We're talking about a society that required regular COVID testing for citizens to be citizens, or even leave their apartments. The fact that they did basically nothing is glaring in my eyes.
They can both be true, and they are. It’s easier than ever to eat healthy, but thanks to the same abundance, it’s also easier than ever to eat too much, and most Americans choose the latter.
We weren't talking about those two standards alone and you haven't brought them up as examples either. All i have learned from you is you use strawman arguments.

Ok, what part of U2F requires users to remember a secret? I have seen passwordless accounts you can take over simply by controlling a yubikey. I hate it when people seem to argue with me but argue against strawmans they're inventing. I agree, discourse here can't happen.
>i'm curious what you think is worthy of humans to do?

whatever it is, it ain't making websites.

>what do you then distinguish as enlightened pursuits

painting your garage is getting pretty close to it I think.
The point is if users are truly anonymous, you can't be selectively available as you can't discriminate. It's either entirely available or unavailable.
12 yo me thought BraveNet was so cool. This was a total blast from the past, thanks!
> This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people prefer arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities, and that they look at a simple identity verification service that accepts anyone who is willing to show their papers and pay with absolute contempt.

No, they think arbitrary credential grants by unelected authorities that attempted to verify people were who they said they were represented a more useful verification service than one which initially made anyone who was willing to pay $8 a "verified" account in the name of a famous person and still doesn't actually check identity.

This is where I pretend to be shocked that a certain class of people will insist a clusterfuck of such epic proportions they had to suspend it for a month after launch was actually a genius move.