skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we go along with this journalist charade that semi-random strings generated by a language model are "dangerous"?

The article talks as if previously, everything turned up by search engines was 100% true and so people are completely unprepared for dealing with falsehoods on the internet, and as if the chat bot is going to break into your house at night and assault you if you make it angry:

Testers, including journalists, have found the bot can become aggressive, condescending, threatening, committed to political goals, clingy, creepy and a liar.
So, if you're a victim and you don't want to pay ransom

- hire an expert to find out the missing data (timestamp, is it the vulnerable version?, ...), then

- rent a GPU server and keep the fingers crossed.

I've looked for cheap GPU servers yesterday, the cheapest i found was Ultrarender at 200€ per week for a Dual RTX 3080Ti remote workstation. Which is probably overkill, a single RTX 3080Ti can do it in 33 hours or so (assuming the "12 Nvidia GPUs" they mentioned in the article are of similar speed).
I wouldn’t say most—maybe a factor of 2. Getting the embedding is still an API call to an LLM.
> what's a good way to make sure your rolling backups aren't simply backing up malware-encrypted files?

Compute checksums. Also, if storing diffs check out how many files the back-up think changed. All of your photo library getting re-uploaded should be a red flag.
Bears eating elk seems okay to me, partly because it seems like they are born that way and they haven't evolved beyond their basic instinct to eat and survive. It seems that as human beings, we have a higher order skill named empathy. We feel pain and suffering and are able to relate to the pain and suffering of others - even if they are animals.

Once this evolution has happened, is it still right to continue inflicting pain and suffering for ones own benefit?
WebAssembly, Cloudflare-like workers in Python, Ruby
The comments on that article really make me appreciate HN.
> I don't think that's literally true, but irrelevant

What our disingenuous friend is ignoring is that if someone wanted to be rid of a fetus, why on earth would they wait 8 long hard months? Why endure late pregnancy for no reason? It would be easier to end it at 5 months, easier still at 3. And easier before then.

What exactly do you think of Mr Buttigieg 's comments above? He does mention this.

> I support medical necessity as a valid exception to an otherwise general prohibition.

And does the law concur? Are you invoking the Shirley exception? https://issuepedia.org/Shirley_exception/origin

> The question is, do you support the right to non-medically necessary abortions at 8 months, or not?

I think that this is a decision between patient and doctor, and nobody else. My ignorant view is not wanted, yours neither and especially not the law's. if you claim "medical necessity as a valid exception" then you actually don't disagree much.

As I said above: "Patient and doctor should be left to it, as nothing about that decision gets better by getting the law involved as well. Big government is not helpful in this case."
I suppose none of your other computers connect to the internet, otherwise you'd be in a constant state of worry.
> The crypto currency world is hyper focused on stopping this

Can you explain how?

I'm super curious because the whole point of crypto is you can't reverse transactions, and therefore crypto is only ever as secure as computer security generally, and there's nothing crypto can do about computer security generally.

Or are people coming up with some new paradigm here that fixes this somehow?
Yeah - i make do with yabai and skhd. I'm curious how people use the Mac without having to use a touchpad/mouse for everything without third party additions (that in the case of proper desktop management / multiple monitors needs to disable system integrity protection to work...).

Ed: one minor (but somewhat understandable annoyance) is the lack of a free/reserved for users modifier key. Macos with the adoption of bsd uses both command, option and control (even though it uses command for core things like copy/paste). The windows/super key is a blessing on Linux pcs - as it generally can be used for just that - window management).

I know some rebind caps lock as a super (ed2: I mean "hyper", I think) (aka ALL THE MODIFIERS) key on Mac - but that leaves control in the wrong place :/

Maybe there's no RSI in Palo Alto?

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd
I love Kombucha but hate 99% of those you find in stores. They do taste like a circuit board.
for example, "from gustible's planet" by cordwainer smith

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/smithcordwainer-fromgustiblespla...
Yup. Too few people understand that almost all of these companies are solely loan origination and loan servicing.

They are not providing the capital, they are not making money through interest. They have almost no control over the rates they offer you.

They make money when a borrower signs a new loan agreement (origination) and by collecting the payments the borrower owes and passing them along to the real lender (servicing).

If you're wondering why your mortgage company used to keep calling you telling you to refinance (and some still are, even with the higher rates), it's because that's another loan origination for them - another payment. They don't care that you save long term on the interest, they want the payment for closing a new loan.

Same for loan consolidation (ex: consolidate your auto/credit debts!) style pitches. They're ONLY interested in originating a new loan, because that's how they get paid.

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Basically - these guys don't have anything other than you, the borrower.

They're not selling you a loan, they're selling you to real lender, which is almost always the large government backed mortgage lenders (Freddie/Fannie).

This is why they jump to call you, or text you, or harass you. They are out there fishing for new borrowers to make money.
I didn't get passed the pay wall but my question is how do we know this?

What's the trail of evidence that leads to this conclusion.
There are only a few times when a spun off company can be worth more than an integrated one...

1) When the spinoff might have negative value. Eg. has big liabilities. But you don't need to make it fully independent to gain this benefit - it can be a wholly owned subsidiary.

2) When the spinoff can't get clients or suppliers due to the business of the parent company - eg. the renewable energy division of BP might not have much success getting charitable funding from green charities.

3) Where someone else wants to buy the spinoff for more than market value for strategic reasons. Eg. to have its patents, or to shut down a competing business.

I don't think any of these apply in the case of Youtube.
Yes, quantum computers are good physics research in the same way that ITER can be considered good plasma research. Neither will produce a working product that some people are expecting. I'm not sure that QC will discover the problem before we infer it theoretically due to the many engineering challenges, but it's possible. If any real progress is made in QC, my bet's on boson sampling.
Capture One Pro is AMAZING for photography and managing large catalogs of RAW images. It's great for nondestructive editing and is a killer combo with Luminar/Luminar Neo. Also, I'm not sure why, but stock (no 3rd party plug-ins) Capture One Pro seems to somehow make colors pop a bit more than stock Lightroom
NPM repository flooded with 15,000 phishing packages
average tech companies don't have to worry about costs?
That was also spread from direct contact, mostly through (male to male) sex. There was never any reason to panic, unless we were all planning on having post-COVID orgies.
When you see an economist.com submission on HN, typically the top comment is a morally dubious but ever so helpful archive link to get around the paywall.

In this case: https://archive.ph/SUYp1
Coupons for products or services are considered a form of promotion.
You know what worries me more? The Eurovision expansion! Look, they even took over Australia.
Ukraine suffered more data-wiping malware than anywhere, ever
Depending on your needs, you may be able to get away with using e.g. MicroPython on your ESP. Gets you embedded (light), but obviously not the Rust part.

It's been pretty easy to work with, compared to "normal" embedded work with C that in my experience is a lot of tedious work to learn and set up before you get some momentum and can start focusing on the actual application.
And yet up until a couple years ago at least Netflix served a higher percentage of web traffic. Don't know about now, maybe that changed.

There is only so many hours in the day and so many eyeballs watching, that is your upper bound. Bandwidth like that is not available to mere mortals, you would have to colocate with a lot of ISPs all over the place. Would take years to setup, not really even a question of money.

In the case of Netflix their content library fits inside one such colocated server, which can (or pretty soon will) do 1tb/s. Hundreds of thousands of streams per box are within reach, especially at YouTube potato resolutions.

In the case of Youtube while the long tail is very very long, I bet the most popular content of the week would fit into a similar sort of server.

So the serving portion at least is an endeavor on the order of magnitude of say 1 billion dollars a year.

No idea how to estimate letting anybody upload unlimited amounts of video of unlimited length and transcoding it into a dozen sizes. I think they did that early on to solidify their moat and it seems like a huge waste.
Improving the Developer Experience with the Ruby LSP
> It's the exact same thing in China.

It's really not the same thing.
> hearing an echo

Not gonna lie, I get a little dopamine hit when someone replies to one of my comments here. I don't care if it's a snipe, or nit-picky, any reply will do.
> (I came up with this one): use a little firewall rule that prevents any IDN from resolving. That's a one line UDP rule and it stops cold dead any IDN homograph attack. Basically searching any UDP packet for the "xn--" string.

I couldn't see how to do this in Windows Firewall. Which OS/firewall/rule are you using?
i dont know why this is downvoted, when in fact people with beards will beard

haha
I bet an individual with a static IP could make more money self-publishing than using youtube. I see federation and countless other things that compete with youtube. Access to "free" compute time. Any "free" compute time is likely to be transient and nothing to build a business on.
Leveraging blockchain fund the development of OSS
Apple’s iPhone Passcode Problem: How Thieves Can Take over in Minutes
Warning: Video Link
I do an off-line, off-site backup once a year that never gets overwritten. ZFS snapshots can help here, too, for online stuff, especially if you have monitoring about changeset size.
I agree with you on all counts. I have no problem with a person hunting for meat and consuming it.

That said, most humans will not hunt, just as they will not grow fruits and vegetables to consume. But by outsourcing the hunting (which essentially has led to the industrial farming of meat), everyone who eats such meat is complicit in the cruelty meted out to animals.
Makes me feel like my dreams aren't visual or weird enough.
Starlink to charge users in “limited-capacity” areas $30 more than others
> we have a large number of highly qualified candidates for this role” and with a lot of LinkedIn postings citing 200+ applicants, I believe it.

That doesn't mean they get 200 highly qualified candidates ;)

In my experience, before you would get 150 applicants and not a single one qualified for the job (could actually program or have any relevant experience). Now you get 3 qualified ones and 200 applicants.
They are the best producer of chemical products in the world. I may be mistaken, but I think they're the ones that make the liquid crystals in LCDs (its some German company anyway).
Don't save just up to 1 week old snapshots. Also save a 2 week old, 3 week old and 1 month old one.
Modding Elden Ring is flirting with ban evasion. IMO it's more of a product of a dedicated fanbase than one of supportive developers.
I wonder how much their hackers stole using bank wires? Surely they are doing both.
Preferentially giving YouTube access to ressources is indeed an anti-competitive action. That’s part of the vertical restraint kind.

YT isn’t a monopoly however. It might be dominant depending of how you define the markets but it does have competitors.
Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean, Chrono Trigger, Seiken Densetsu 3 (recently very well remade for PS as Trials of Mana) and plenty of other Super Famicom/SNES games of that era still hold up very well.

Closer to now, I recently dusted off Radiata Stories (2005) and it is just as great as I remembered it.
This made my day. The public exercise of good judgement is so infrequent but very much delightful to behold.
FWIW personally I detected your sarcasm but I replied knowing that the security risk would fly over people's heads here.
Ruby is for fun: self-study course from beginner to advanced (2022)
This is the central problem with investment capitalism, as distinguished from what I'd call industrial capitalism. Once you put the shareholder associations in the driver's seat, and eliminate most input from the people who work for the corporation, you always find the company trending towards monopolistic behavior, eventually leading to poor-quality products with various safety issues, because that's a way of reducing costs once you have a captive market. With Google and Apple, ownership is somewhat diffuse but the top tiers are the usual suspects: Vanguard, Blackrock, FMR, State Street, Berkshire-Hathaway, etc.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/holders/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/holders/

The only real solution is to give the employees of the corporation the degree of power when it comes to selecting the executive cohort as the shareholders of the corporation have - i.e. a 1 : 1 ratio. Germany does this to some extent.

The other option is more radical - eliminate the shareholder system of devolved liability entirely, and only allow the people who work within a corporation to own shares in that corporation. (Note that the traditional communist-socialist approach would be to simply replace the shareholders with a governmental central committee while keeping the structure essentially the same.)
Do I understand correctly that no actual fusion took place? This just heated the plasma using an external power source as a test.
No, it's a good point and I'd like to know as well.
Ofc being biodegradable means it will sooner find it's way into some photosynthesis and recapture that carbon.
Not exactly. Say for example you’re in a situation where an executive has to approve the budget of an engineering project they are not able to understand. A summary would do no good, because it would be incomprehensible to them.

In other words, an executive summary is the summary for a non-expert stakeholder. In practice you use this to tell the executive what you want them to think.
Would be cool if it could delve more into occult topics as there's usually a higher learning curve in that area.
>receive answers from a variety of religions all that the same time

well you're not though, you're receiving answers from just GPT3.

I would also point out that "a religion" is not a cohesive thing. Down to the level of individuals: Dorothy Day and Gustavo Gutiérrez aren't going to give you the same answers.
Most situations where an airliner returns to the airport don't involve any sort of crash landing, and don't have a significantly higher risk than normal of igniting fuel in the tanks.

To use the 787 Dreamliner[0] as an example, the maximum landing weight is around 120,000 pounds less than the maximum take-off weight. Even a 737 [1] has to fly an hour or so to burn off enough fuel for landing (assuming it is fully loaded to begin with), or dump it into the air if it's urgent.

[0] https://modernairliners.com/boeing-787-dreamliner/boeing-787...

[1] https://modernairliners.com/boeing-737/boeing-737-specificat...
Serious question: Why?
how did you train it?
I see a similar problem in our organisation. Have worked in FAANG too before and I feel this problem often comes up and but not worth time of anyone to solve it.
Eh. Using spare CPU capacity is not really anticompetitive behavior. That’s just an efficient enterprise. Something like Google favoring YouTube in search and suppressing their competitors would be actual anticompetitive behavior.
Sure, they scaled it in the same way we're able to build bigger and more effective rockets than 50 years ago. We'll never travel faster than light though, because the speed of light is known to be the limit. I'm saying there will be some ultimate limit to coherence as well, but quantum mechanics is incomplete as a model of reality so we just don't see that in the math yet.
The title is free
Consumers don’t read privacy policies so they shouldn’t be a major part of this. Something more akin to the nutrition label example they use is needed.
A common complaint about the series is that it's dragged out. I don't mind this. I'm one of the few people who have patience for drawn out plots.
Funnily enough, I was challenged to a formal duel when I last visited Paris in 2020
I suppose the responses are generated from foundational and adjacent texts and as such present an idealized version of “thinking” on a particular topic. But a few casual tests suggests that theory and common practice are wildly divergent. Then again, I guess we could have predicted that.
Are greenhouse emissions lower when fermenting some sweet tea, versus extracting oil from the earth, refining it, converting that into plastic, then forming that plastic into the shape you want?

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, yes.
are you saying it's just gpt3 and you only add a prompt for the religion?
https://www.retrogames.cz/play_579-NES.php?language=EN
The US mass produced warheads and icbms like they were candy canes. The unit costs for NK are probably higher, though maybe not dramatically so with newer tech to help.
I can see that. For me personally about a year~ish ago Plasma Wayland reached the point where it's good enough for me to use as a daily driver...

...though I do lament the loss of Desktop Cube.

Of course, coming from Awesome I am often annoyed at how Plasma doesn't have per-screen (X11 monitor, if I'm not mistaken) tags and per-X11-display workspaces don't really work that well.
At least based on GDP, Russia's economy would not have added much to EU's economy:

USA GDP 2021: 23315 Billion USD
EU GDP 2021: 17177 Billion USD (~10x Russia)
Russia GDP 2021: 1775 Billion USD

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/gdp?continent=worl...
We have really reached "peak content".
One time while working at Google, someone sent me an email linking to a video file related to our work. Before I could watch the video, I had to watch an ad of a unicorn pooping and then a man eating it. I was quite repulsed and livid about it.
I store two weeks of daily snapshots, and then 12 months of monthly snapshots. It gives me a year of pretty good coverage for only about 2x the cost of just two weeks of backups.
I know I'm in minority and that this view is not empathetic one, but I really like that ransomware is around.

More secure data storage at companies where otherwise it would be just silently stolen and sold. More backups. Even some incentive to research security of encryption methods.

We won't get more secure systems without some proper incentives.
I didn't say "you are acting like a fanboy", I said "some vocal minorities are fanboying" and suggested that they should not do it.
Grappling a knife wielding man is a wildly unreasonable ask of police officers.
In my opinion, no. Practically speaking it's binding, and the judge's decision is legally binding, but the arbitration itself is not _legally_ binding in that subsequent judges in many jurisdictions can choose to ignore the arbiter with zero repercussions in law or precedent.
There are 1.2 billion Hindus for example
Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
Another smartphone supports satellite connectivity as mobile space race heats up
To be fair, I think less technical users would think that Firefox was either broken or incapable of basic functionality (leaving a bad impression either way) if search suggestions weren’t on by default. It probably wouldn’t hurt for the default search engine to be something else though, I think most people are used to changing that.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, “up to 11% of the eligible voting population.”

Is your position that it’s alright if we just disenfranchise a few people?
If you don't mind the lack of polish I've been using Jami for secure communication and even file sharing and I've gotten a couple lay people set up and running without much trouble. Set up is pretty easy. They don't even need you to give them an email address, but it's different. It's not going to look or act like Signal.

What I loved about Signal on mobile was how it handled both encrypted messaging and plain old SMS/MMS in the same app and I don't have a real alternative for that.
I'm no fan of Trump, but that clip with the Germans laughing is quite a time capsule.
The domain MarcusAureli.us is available.. just saying.. ask.marcusaureli.us has a certain something..
I ended up getting the extended battery that hangs over the back a little bit. It was a new in 2018. I have not looked since.
Whom to Follow – Find New Fediverse Accounts
100% real and true

source: I was one of the people slain in the duels
But we'd just be replacing loud and annoying delivery vans with loud and annoying delivery drones. If anything, flying delivery drones would be more annoying, given that they're buzzing around at greater heights, right outside the window of your mid-rise apartment building. You'd also see a lot more drones, since they're only carrying one package at a time and returning to their depot for each new one. By comparison, a single delivery truck carries up to a couple hundred, depending on their size.

If we ever get to the point where delivery drones might become common place, people are going to lose their freaking minds once they hear the noise. It'll make the normal NIMBYism that pops up every time someone wants to build something in a city to decry the inconvenience of it look positively benign.
Who is this 'we'?

I'm quite certain a large fraction of the HN userbase still believes that people can do independent business without being forced along one direction or another.
Governmental regulatory agencies are largely captured by the likes of Google and Apple, and if not completely captured there's a very large influence that prevents regulators from taking any actions that would actually threaten profits of monopolistic corporations. There has been a little push back recently, in terms of preventing more mergers and a push towards breaking up conglomerates, but not without a lot of political resistance:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/on-lina-khan-derangement-...
The biggest risk with North Korea is seeing the state of the country, and underestimating the regime itself.
China is a far more crucial market for them for a wide variety of reasons.

They have virtually no operations in the UK. If the PR impact will cost them more than ditching the UK, they will ditch the UK.
Visual of Consumer Price Inflation, by Type of Good or Service (2000-2022)
I am surprised it is that low. Given that the satellites have a wide input area, a few whales in NYC who want to burn dollar bills to spite the cable company could compete with people in the Catskills who have no real alternative.