skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 'Russian collusion case' has been thoroughly discredited

No, "collusion" doesn't exist as a crime. It wasn't discredited it just doesn't exist as a criminal thing.

And it turns out that "conspiracy" is something that requires the participants to understand that they're doing something wrong, and Mueller couldn't find any evidence of that. When you're rich and committing white collar crimes then the defense of "I didn't know it was illegal" apparently works, unlike us plebs when we get pulled over by the traffic cops.

There was plenty of evidence of coordination between the Trump campaign, Wikileaks and the Russians. Just none of it was considered crimes by the Muller investigation. Wikileaks was actively lending support to the Trump campaign in order to attempt to get Trump elected and defeat Hillary. So were the Russians. That is on solid factual ground. But Mueller didn't find anything there that the DOJ could charge him over.

It is also pretty clear that Mueller thought that the revelations would be shocking enough that Congress would impeach and remove Trump for what he had done and that "high crimes and misdemeanors" (which really has no legal definition) would cover it, but he didn't expect Congress to abdicate its responsibility in favor of partisan politics.

This is the same President that bragged he could "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody" and get away with it, and that is precisely what the Republican led Congress allowed him to do.
And no emails are even necessary (it can scan all internal systems and repositories instead).
Around the same time, summer of 2010, TechCrunch also reported that Google was making a ChromeOS tablet, which was going to be released in the next few weeks.

I was interning on the team building the first ever touch screen for ChromeOS, in Waterloo, ON. We had barely gotten anything working yet. It was all super early days stuff.

We all laughed at the article and thought nothing more of it.

I think TechCrunch was just basically throwing darts and seeing what hit.
I mostly agree. I started listening from the beginning and loved the deep leanring/CS/physicist/neuroscientist/philosopher guests.

I think he began running out of those people or just wanted to expand. Some of the new format guests are great, but I skip many episodes now, whereas before I enjoyed 99% of them.

Still, at its best it remains one of the most informative and insightful podcasts I know of, largely due to the guest expertise.
I'm just learning about it today from this post, which I found fascinating.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
This is the doomsday scenario again, though.

In a world where we have the technology to go from two lines of prompt in a textbox to a complete app, no questions asked, then the same technology can run the entire company. It's kind of hard to believe transformers models are capable of this, given we are already starting to see diminishing returns, but if that's what you believe they are, then you believe they can effectively do anything. It's the old concept of AI-complete.

If you need to formally specify behavior, at any point in the pipeline, then we're back to square one: you just invented a programming language, and a very bad one at that.

This remains true for any version of a language model, even an hypothetical future LLM that has "solved" natural language. I would not rather write natural language than formal language given the chance.
The compute costs must be extraordinary. As I understand it, inference needs, very roughly, something like 200 GB of RAM and multiple high-end GPUs/vector coprocessors, to give output not much faster than a person can type.

A VM on AWS of that class costs several dollars an hour. If there are 10,000 simultaneous users running inference (a low estimate, surely) then ChatGPT is probably costing Microsoft/OpenAI tens of thousands of dollars per hour, or millions per week?

They have deep pockets for what is some great advertising, I imagine. But this couldn't possibly continue for free indefinitely with how much people are using it.

Does anyone have more details on just what kind of resources GPT-4 needs to run inference?
The official number from the press conference is 3 billion Swiss Franks (CHF).
Yeah, it basically went “oh that’s cool… [want a cookie?]”

You can just tell it to ask your questions, but you can do that with any prompt.
Great except when your employer implements a 90 day shred policy in your mail and says anything you want to save needs to be moved to project folders.
Where is this form? I've not seen it anywhere. Source?

This is what displays when using GPT-4 on ChatGPT Plus.

https://imgur.com/59XT6O9
Didn’t all the plans lead to the conclusion that it was a bad deal for UBS?
I really enjoy Software Unscripted by Richard Feldman.

He interviews well-spoken programmers and skill leaders from a variety of language ecosystems -- and usually the guests share his appreciation for simple, strongly typed, functional and pure functional programming languages (like Elm).

Currently Richard Feldman is building a new language and ecosystem inspired by Elm but for non-browser application domains -- and he often discusses concepts and engineering trade offs as related to the design and implementation choices that are being made while growing this (to me quite exciting) new language.
Allowing people to choose an insecure means of securing their work just is a stochastic downgrade attack.

Think it through.
Musk probably laid off the guys who were aware of it
That's... exactly what he was going for? He wanted this email to have a lasting impact and to make people afraid of ever sharing confidential information. The subject was perfect.
Apple music is lossless from the moment lossless analog signals get imperfectly sampled and chopped into bitly approximations, yes. There must be an alias for the name of that process...

(i love DSP, calm down, but i also like lossless English)
Meta is pushing the metaverse aside for AI
My CPU doesn't support TPM 2.0 with fTPM (and the motherboard manufacturer stopped selling TPMs for my motherboard years ago) so I'm sticking with Windows 10. It told me I could upgrade at some point but that was a false positive. Maybe my install is just broken in some way.

However, I do know that I had to manually enable the fTPM functionality on my motherboard and I highly doubt the average consumer is going to enable such features in their BIOS. I don't know when manufacturers started enabling fTPM support by default, but it's definitely not enabled by default in most 7th gen Intel boards and I doubt 8th gen changed much in that sense.
Lex was great until he realized, controversy makes more $$ than education. Very unfortunate.
This is the equivalent to that Simpsons joke in which they install a robotic radio DJ that says "looks like those clowns in congress did it again. What a-bunch of clowns" and the guy getting replaced asks "how does it keep up with the news like that?".

It's a low-effort drive-by statement so generic as to be practically meaningless.
The user does not need to be aware of the threat model.

OPs point was the pin isn’t protecting much at all because it doesn’t really need to. The user isn’t making a risky decision, because if the attacker gets as far as _being able to put the pin in_, the whole thing is toast regardless of guessing the pin or not
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You're rewriting history. When he asked for asylum Assange was only seeking refuge from being questioned on Swedish soil about the rape allegations from 2010. When he was granted asylum however, he breached the bail conditions from the UK and there were indeed two governments after him. But, I repeat, no espionage/computer charges were known until 2018.
They provide the security without compromising convenience (but you do need backup options).
You're making assumptions about me based on your projections. They're wrong.

I don't profit from any weapon sales, and it's the Ukrainians who want to fight. I'm certain especially Western Europe would've been much happier if Ukraine hadn't resisted and Russia could've swallowed them (your preferred option), because it would've meant no annoying break with your main provider of gas and oil.

But here we are, and some people are still claiming that Russia has the right to terrorize its neighbors because hurr durr Red Army strong.
What would you suggest the subject line should have been?
This leak wasn't about violating labor laws. It was a leak about a potential future product which they were no longer considering pursuing. This wasn't sharing something bad being done by the company. It was leaking internal information that simply damaged the company with no societal benefit.
> Stupid comment.

Please don't talk anything like this in future on HN, thanks, regardless of what the other person says. You wrote similar things several other times on this page.
> I wonder if there was anyone about to resign, but held off, to avoid it looking like this was the reason?

It’s an entertaining idea, but also sounds like a genuine possibility
> if Switzerland let Credit Suisse go under, nobody outside Switzerland would put money in Swiss banks any more

Switzerland’s private banks are fine. Problem is CS does a lot of plumbing, in Switzerland and internationally.
curl | sudo bash
TODOs are nicely indexed and collected by major IDE linters/code analyzers. Not sure if these alternatives are.
I was more pointing towards the at all part. I did not say that it can do most things well. But it's not really easy to find things which it cannot do at all. Sure, it might be quite bad on many of them. (But that might just be a matter of time or priority...)
It is just the beginning. It can affect even some ‘Systemically important banks’. Perhaps CS was the unsafest SIB of them all.

They are ‘Too big to fail’ until they fail.
Compute! Magazine for the Commodore 64 had a special input program that did checksums on their input listings, allowing you to type in long lists of numbers accurately and eventually end up with the excellent SpeedScript word processor, among other programs.
Yeah. The head of corporate comms or someone in that chain of command would be very justified in sending something along of the lines of:

This was shared externally from our internal company meeting. I'd like to remind everyone that keeping the information shared in these meetings confidential allows us to be more open with all our employees. etc.

There may be times for the CEO to send the message but, especially at a high visibility company, it's probably inevitable it will become more of a personal thing.
Deposit insurance should be unlimited for accounts yielding less than the 1-year T-bill. Insurance should be provided via the Fed's balance sheet, not a separate fund. Bank employee and director compensation above 4x GDP/capita in any year to be paid in shares, which they are enjoined from selling while employed by the bank and for one year afterward. They can borrow against the shares to buy mansions – I want them to live in mansions – but they will lose them if they need help paying their depositors.

Accounts yielding more than the 1-year T-bill should require labeling as subject to loss.
The way I use the mouse and keyboard makes this already too fast and I find myself in need to slow down how fast I take information in anyway.

What makes you think people can handle it being 4 times faster? The bottleneck will eventually be your neurotransmitters no?
I worked there at the time and got this email when it went out. It was completely reasonable in context. I assume these days, everyone just knows that you can't openly share something within a tech company without it getting leaked, but that change was just starting to happen in 2010 (at least at FB), and everyone could tell something nice was getting lost. C'est la vie.
> How does the rural folk having high speed internet benefit society?

How does an urban population having high speed internet benefit society? Whatever your answer, that's the benefit for rural folks too.
To be pedantic, this was managed money, not deposited.

You can go to CS and say "Here, I have a million, please buy and sell some shares for me so my children will have two million each", or "here, we sell much in the runup to Christmas but our costs are evenly spread over the year, please manage our spare cash so we'll earn something when we can".
You can use biometrics in the browser app, but you have to run the application and unlock that with biometrics after enabling browser integration in the settings. You also can't use the Windows Store version of the Bitwarden app.

https://bitwarden.com/help/biometrics/
Frequently HN readers will downvote comments that don't bother to explain why the viewer should invest time in reading or watching an unexplained link.
This is logical right?

1. You can access the passwords if you know the PIN.

2. All state is local.

All you need to do is guess the PIN and restore state, and repeat. Any code in Bitwarden to prevent (obscure) you from doing this is just a cat and mouse game.

Perhaps a way around this is to not have all state local. Have the PIN + separate authenticating private key go to their server. You get 3 attempts before you need the full password.
Command line heroes was amazing, I was bummed they ended - but I guess they did cover a lot. (https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes)

I'm also a big fan of Coder Radio (https://coder.show/) Tagline: "taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development" They called the layoffs and salary adjustments happening now back in April 2021

If you want to look at software from a non-coastal US perspective (and don't mind occasional [or in early episodes not-so-occsional] profanity) I like Friday afternoon deploy (https://friday.hirelofty.com/)

I also was to second the Go Time recommendation from another post (https://changelog.com/gotime) - while it is Go focused more often than not, in recent months they've done show on intellectual property, tech horror stories and code maintenance
Generating an Elixir Library with ChatGPT-4 [video]
It being "common knowledge" that 90% of his backstory is fictional and he was actually a pretty low end forger that was frequently caught until he figured lying about the lies he told was a better grift hasn't stopped the tech industry from continuing to fawn all over him as if he's a knowledgeable and inspirational person

e.g

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042279

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15793045
Since RR make submarine nuclear reactors for the UK's fleet already, yes.
What's the best rewrite of GNU Parallel in Rust? That citation thing is so annoying.
So you're defining take-off and landing such that each must also include a period of flying?
Isn't farming (the thing that AFAIK keeps most rural places, well, rural) subsidized in the USA to the similar level that it is in EU?
I have a hunch it’s the other way around these days.
Also helicopters.

There used to be a gentleman who gave the mandatory safety briefing before taking guests from Lundy Island by helicopter (the only travel option in winter months) who would make the point that if one person inflates their vest, the other passengers would lemming-like inflate their vests and then you suddenly find the cabin is filled with 5 or 6 inflated people that have no chance of getting out of the door. He always used to joke that the whistle was to amuse yourself until the coastguard arrived.
Zuck dabbled in a phone platform, saw Microsoft’s $10B+ failure at building the third smartphone ecosystem despite deep pockets and a product that critics liked, and decided he would drop the phone and instead get a head start on the next revolution.

Ten years in, the company has been renamed, numerous variations of hardware and software have been tried, and all the pieces for a platform are theoretically in place. Yet users seem to only show up for occasional fitness and horror games. But Apple is entering the headset market this year, which could be a turning point eventually.

Can Quest 3 be like Windows 3.0? Seems unlikely, but at least it’s interesting to see these giant companies push so hard for a new interaction paradigm.
Most important for who? Basically the winner if the western toolchains support RISC-V will be China.
Good point, I will do a prodigy session soon and love them again!
You lost me when you say AI threatening to take jobs as one of the comparables
>You can invent scenarios in which you "need" gigabit,

If you have to work around slow internet by buying DVD's instead of streaming, pre-downloading movies you want to watch, or calling in to video calls to get reliable audio, I think it's fair to say that you "need" faster internet. Maybe not gigabit, but definitely faster than whatever you have now.
If you want human-scale, then use calories :)
Which is solved everywhere, except US, by showing the end price to the customer and eating/calculating the taxes "under the hood".
He actually did when he says they have too much “social good” to build.
Clearly you have never heard of cost plus contracts.
Yes it is, they babysit the checkouts and step in when needed. Their role is very much different than the role of manning a single non self-checkout. And let's not get into how the roles of the 9 other clerks have changed who are no longer there (spoiler: doing no work there and not getting paid at all).
Pretty scary that our financial system can't take a few weeks of deliberation and the deal needs to rushed during the weekend.

Instead of general ranting I would like to learn who exactly goes bust if we allow the uncertainty for a few weeks? Is it more than just a gift to shareholders and market speculators?
> That, to me, is hedonistic pleasure

Many people (including me) do not take any pleasure in eating. In fact it is a chore. If I had to conform to a vegan diet I would literally not get enough nutrients for lack of motivation.

Your own perspective is not the only perspective.
Container movement has been erratic since 2020. I would look deeper before inferring causes for piles of them. (Once you actually get evidence of piles of them, because it seems you don't have that yet.)

There are many people that track actual goods. It's better than looking for a proxy.
Just writing down here as a memoir looking back at this news in 10 years, as we look back now on the fall of Lehman in 2008 - we can say that “we were there…”
My experience is that tiny text is the style. I'm much more likely to have to scale something up than down. I can't remember the last time I scaled something down, but I scale things up every day. (I also liked the size choices of the OP... honestly wouldn't have minded slightly bigger).
UBS cant decide on that. The swiss goverment has to, and apparently it decided to make it more secure, because the market did not trust it's previous safety net.
My line is drawn at bona fide business concerns. Sharing details about an upcoming product is a hard no in my book, unless that product is illegal to the point that whistleblower protections would apply. But this response where Zuck is flipping out (and sent everybody an email with the heart-stopping subject line of "please resign")? It's borderline, in my mind -- I wouldn't share it, personally, but it doesn't seem particularly wrong that it was shared.
Your first point is not really up to the AI, but a legal question, right?

And about the other points, just wait a bit. They don't sound actually so unrealistic to me, maybe in the next 20 years.

About the second point, I think there is already an industry specializing on this.
I always assumed it is a front for actual spy agencies? (the same as Google, MS and probably even Apple, to be fair)
No one wants to use fent , it's the product of the war on drugs

https://youtu.be/V9xJ3abNdnI
Including the crowdfunding campaign which as of now is about 1200 shy of its goal
Hahaha that part got me too. What a hopeful BS headline
What is a PUCK?
See also: http://n-gate.com/
Yeah imagine the anticompetitive laws in marketing and the free will questions we'll ask then? Something like Burger king suing mcdonalds for showing you a bicmac and releasing dopamine x1000 times not because it's weird (-er than today's ads) but because mcdonalds did it first.
Hahah, of course I went against my dad’s advice. No I’m wondering if it was the right move.
Why is it good that we have benefits that only apply to a subclass of people?
But why would anyone bother with using AI to generate human readable code if the AI can generate the final desired behavior directly, either on-the-fly or as executable machine code?
Sometimes both!!
Facebooks internal auditing of employee data access is world class. Not sure about what it was in 2010.

And your remark about performance metrics is irrelevant to the question of, who accessed this sensitive company data?
"protein shake fast" is not a fast. It is a calorie restriction diet. Probably the worst kind you can imagine.

I lost 60 pounds once, then regained it back and then some. I lost it again but the second time I made it my mission to understand what I do and make it stick. It seems to be working.

It is better to get healthy to loose weight that loose weight to get healthy. With healthy habits and healthy food your body will naturally shed unnecessary weight over time.

The second time I lost weight, for good, I focused on building good eating habits. Learning new healthier recipes (to displace unhealthy food). Running every day. Intermittent fasting rather than restricting calories. Building metabolic flexibility so my body is good at living off of its fat stores.

I was loosing up to 15 pounds a month for three months straight while not feeling hungry.
I don't know.

Corporate leaks are pretty serious, and maintaining a culture of no leaks is a CEO-level priority.

Handling these at the CEO level feels far more appropriate and effective than delegating it to a security specialist nobody's heard of before and whose e-mail will mostly just be ignored.

I don't see "insecure loser" at all, I see a CEO acting correctly to nip a problem in the bud.

Except for the "please resign" subject line which is a bit hyperbolic.
This is nothing new. These exist in Germany since at least 1985, and can be pretty high. Source: Climbed on them. Never fell.
Next-generation high-performance, distributed data integration framework
I don’t know, I’m pretty dubious that the problems of the future are grossly aided by faster input. I feel like I think better when I write than when I type, I find that really hard to ignore.
technically, 3B CHF qualifies as "over 2B USD".