skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such an interesting use case. Rather can compressing existing information, LLMs "model" it, so they can recreate what they've learned. For all Elon's concerns, these might be a great way of seeding the universe with human knowledge, one planetary colony at a time...
We're in the hype cycle now at the moment, but the capabilities have been taking off for a few years. GPT-3 came out in 2020, and in retrospect, could have been trained several years before that, given that the 175 billion parameters of GPT-3 turned out to be way too many for its level of performance (as discovered by Chinchilla). I agree that there are a lot of refinements that can be made even with the current LLMs, but it's unclear how far LLMs will continue to improve.
The plan I'm advocating for immunise the public against the danger of misinformation through deepfakes, as well as cause a lot of resource to be thrown at the problem as the public would surely be very uncomfortable in such a situation
TBH that would just give Big Tech an edge since their research is more "underground."
This won't quite be true for Safe Rust because it doesn't have Undefined Behaviour. So while it's possible there are bugs, and it's possible those are security bugs, they can't be caused by UB as they would often be in C++. Your program had defined behaviour - it's possible this behaviour wasn't what you intended, but it's what you wrote.

A lot of cases which might invoke UB in C++ will just be a Denial of Service in Rust, as you panic because an unhappy path wasn't catered for properly in your software and most likely your panic handler just terminates the program. That DoS might still be a CVE, but it's probably not the severity you'd have seen for the equivalent C++ bug.
I'm historically a party pooper when it comes to new tech, but LLMs give me that anxious feeling in my gut that the world is about to change drastically. I feel privileged to be alive, and hope I live to see where things get ten, twenty, or thirty years from now.
> Joining the military is not only a physical risk, you are also joining an organization with a pyramidal structure: you may not get that promotion.

It’s not that hard to get
promoted to a level that can get one to a decent early retirement (e7 or o5).

- Be moderately intelligent. Not genius level, just enough to past the various tests in your MOS and rank. If one is on the threshold for not being able to do this intellectually, it will usually be apparent early in one’s career.

- Be fit. Some people get lazy on this point, some get injured, but it’s usually an issue of personal motivation (or lack thereof).

- Minimize fuck ups — drugs, DUIs, run ins with the law, etc. Sometimes these are overlooked, sometimes not. Better not to risk it.

- Make sure to make time to go to all the right “charm schools”. Sounds silly, but sometimes you have to fight for it.

> Maybe it suffers from the same pyramid issue, but it's not obvious to all the kids.

I very much agree with this.

There is a very distinct socio-economic pyramid in the US, and most people don’t really understand what they need to do to move up the ladder.

It’s not as easy as going to an elite school. There is way more to it, and I think that surprises a lot of people when they are middle-aged and realize that they didn’t really understand the rules of the game.
The problem was Intel started the problem by worrying more about their margins; As it stood it cost them close to half a Billion to replace the chips.

(Not at all agreeing with their initial response of 'If you can show it impacts your work we will replace it')

Intel also stood to lose a lot of the P5 got a bad rep at the time. With the Pentium, Intel started getting serious about selling Chipsets. [0] Bad press for the P5 would hurt their chipset sales too now, since at the time there was no 3rd party option [1,2]

It's not like a lot of manufacturers are better. ALi never fixed the Aladdin V Chipset (loved to crash with some AGP cards like the TNT2) or Magik 1 (loved to crash if your DDR sticks had more than 2 or 3 'sides' populated). VIA 686B bus issues causing data corruption (Yes, Creative labs cards were a trigger for this, but I understand there could be others.) Cyrix had the Coma Bug. Early Opterons had an issue with multi-pop+return that could impact the stack pointer.

Buuuuut Intel does seem to have a higher list of documented issues over the years. And as the player with historically the largest margins, you'd expect them to do better.

[0] - If you look at 486 and earlier, more frequently you'd see random 3rd parties like Opti and SiS. only some of whom made it past the Pentium era.

[1] - K5 wasn't until 1996, over a year after Intel agreed to replace everyone's broken parts

[2] - Echoes of history would follow later, when the i820 was released and Intel tried hack after hack to avoid admitting they screwed something up.
Did not vote, but it's because the "and nothing of value was lost" sentiment is trite. People might even agree, but there are more hacker-newsy ways of delivering that message and a better rhetorical delivery might find better reception.
I don't think laughing at people for their concerns is helpful. Especially when you don't seem to be bothered by the possibility that this is a civilization-ending development.

For the record, I don't think it is, personally. But people are terrified, and not taking their fear seriously and dealing with it compassionately is a recipe for serious, and unnecessary disaster.
A fantastic new tech has been developed that can vastly improve the lives of everyone, and your reaction is to slow it down?

No thank you.

Rather than being afraid of change, embrace it and work to take the opportunity to make improvements for as many people as possible as fast as possible.
"The FED does not loan money."

This is quite wrong.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/discountrate.h...
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/standing-overn...
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bank-term-fund...

In addition, the Fed also borrows money.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/overnight-reve...
Correction, about $40K per American (or about $37K if we subtract cash on hand for businesses, per another post downthread). Still about 9 (or 8) times the median.
In terms of influence, it's disappointing that the author neglected to mention the considerable online fandom around the show during its original run. A television show with a genuine series-long narrative arc screamed out for debate over cryptic hints and plot twists, which all found their home within a handful of usenet groups.

And the definitive online reference to the show, The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, is still there, unchanged since the mid 90s: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/
> square this circle with the first amendment

It's authorizing the President to ban certain classes of transactions. Not behavior let alone speech.
While it'd take many hours to figure out how to make some random FOSS code to do what I want if what I want is anything particularly interesting, finding out where to comment out the code that eg phones home, or makes annoying noises, and then sharing that patch with everybody else is much easier and more realistic. Sure, it doesn't entirely remove the power of the developers and particularly the people who control the official releases page, but it feels like a real, meaningful check on their power. It becomes even more meaningful if you're not just some rando but maybe the "user" in question is an org who can actually devote resources to maintain changes to some FOSS code, saving you from having to enter into some sort of partnership with the developer.
With Guix making custom changes it's trivial.
Name any other industry where neither transparent pricing exists nor government socialization exists.

The health insurance industry is quietly and uniquely one of the darkest markets in the world.
It's available on the high seas.. 1080p 188GB for all 5 seasons
I actually like Plasma a lot as well out of the Linux desktop environments, it feels like the only one that actually cares about design and UX. It's a shame that GNOME is the 'default' Linux DE and often the only one with real support from distros.
I mean technically they are. Other nations with more advanced abilities also seem able to freely attempt to prevent them from doing so though.
I don't know why, but I could see this as a youtube comedy sketch.
i mean to learn all the details it'd prob take the equivalent work of doing a phd + research fellowship or two. but i have the qualifications you cite and I'm doing the fast.ai courses to get a working knowledge of things and that seems to take 4-8 weeks depending on your pace
I may look into that, especially now that I've upgraded to a platform where I have both dedicated and integrated graphics. My current worries are:

- I have a VR headset, how much work and how functional is it to use under a VM? I heard you'd have to passthrough the entire USB controller which is.. not great

- Anticheat still isnt happy about VMs right? That would cut a couple games I'm currently into

- How annoying is it to share files? Affinity Photo/Designer not running well in Wine/Proton is one of my blockers to move to Linux, and even if I virtualized I fear it might be incredibly tedious to use because of them being in a VM (unless modern KVM/Vbox/VMWare has flawless copy/paste sync etc)
I will take someone nice and incompetent every day of the week over a competent jerk.

The competent jerks destroy team morale, make good people leave, and paralyze junior employees and those lacking self-confidence. They may be good at their job, but they make others worse.

Incompetent nice people, as long as they are not so incompetent to be a liability can at least contribute to a strong team culture and make good competent people want to show up.

Of course, ideally, everyone is somewhere in that top right quadrant, but in my experience on large enough teams you usually have at least one not so nice person on the team and one or two not so competent people on the team.
> ... nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us... loss of control of our civilization...

I don't think these concerns are very likely, but I find them considerably easier to imagine than a VC-funded company voluntarily surrendering market advantage.
So not only shouldn’t healthcare be a market good (moral argument), but healthcare profiteers are actively distorting the market and are not taking seriously efforts to provide a modicum of information to participants in this so-called market.
I have long wanted to build a combination of: Bandcamp, GitHub, and Steam for musicians.

Basically, a platform for musicians to produce music (and associated videos, artworks, etc), managing their assets securely, sharing and collaborating; then engagement with fans, promotion, merch, and touring support; and finally a simple platform for sales (streaming, downloads, and physical good) where the store takes a reasonable fee, but the bulk of the revenue goes to the creator.

I was kinda hoping Bandcamp would evolve in this direction, but I think that's not likely now.
Is anyone even trying to develop an AGI by the way? I mean a language model is neat, may even pick up some emergent features, but in the end it has no real identity. It's basically a memoryless computer doing improv where it tries to pick continue a conversation someone else had.
Mac's are nice. As for Windows the best version IMO was NT 3.5.1 which is a different flavor beast than Mac/Win95 but did it's job exceedingly well, with the one exception of the nested MDI (multiple-document-interface) windows like in Program Manager. Fortunately I rarely opened more than one document per app.
yes noted luddites like yoshua bengio and steve wozniak and elon musk...
> There are no school shootings yet here there's almost one a day it seems.

To those saying "but Iceland is tiny" and "there are 400k-person communities in the US with no history of school shootings", here are the stats for countries with the most school shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018)[1]:

United States — 288
Mexico — 8
South Africa — 6
Nigeria & Pakistan — 4
Afghanistan — 3
Brazil, Canada, France — 2
Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1

Calculating per-capita numbers is left as an exercise for the reader.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-sh...
Ugh, Straight White Men, they’re just awful.
This is a key example of the paradox of tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance)

Saying we should tolerate the influence of a totalitarian state over a major communication platform (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/21/more-americ...) in the name of the First Amendment and democratic values is setting up our democracy to be weakened and fragmented even more than it already is.

We already know that domestically-controlled networks like Facebook directly contributed to electing a demagogue President who tried to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. We'd be morons to accept the same thing but under the influence of an autocratic country which has clear intentions to erode American influence and power.
Tell that to scientists and pharma losing billions because of Excel bugs on parsing cell items and renaming genomics.
macOS keeps a permanent 'important' notification in Settings if you don't setup iCloud. I see it every week when I use the iMac in the theater I help out at.
A win in small claims court doesn't create any case law.
Google is killing most of Fitbit’s social features today
Hanlon’s razor? Really? Across multiple actors each with motivation and means to act maliciously?

Riiiiiight…
They already have nukes. If a dirt poor country like North Korea can develop them then so can pretty much everyone else.
https://moz.geek.nz/mozbike/ride/carry/index.html

I didn't collect photos of the real experiments, those were mostly "grab a scrap bike, hack it about, (try to) ride it, bin it and try again. But if you wander the mozbike site there's a few of those. https://moz.geek.nz/mozbike/see/misc/2001/index.html has the "MBB FWD recumbent" that's just a cheap chair welded to a BMX frame :)
Redhat have something else to sell besides the Os and don't for that.

Not a Redhat user BTW.
So is Apple's
https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html
It's "legit" insofar as "it's gets you a string that you can enter into windows and will activate". I doubt it would satisfy any legal requirements, although to be fair a home user probably wouldn't be very concerned about that.
Little. I took it to be illustrative of how widespread electric cars were (2.5 times more common in the EU than the USA).
I’m curious about nix in macOS. I’ll Kagi / chatgpt it in a bit, I’m sick of brew. But was hoping to hear your experiences as well (assuming you’re not a generative AI). I run a nixos home server so am familiar, just not with using it for macOS.
This may well be... And I don't mean to argue over it, but it's just so hard to imagine, having been through this myself, and it's never been very hard, given how stable the JVM has generally been. It's not like I'm asking to upgrade from Python 2 to 3.
Large numbers of those kind of mags can be found on the internet archive.
I have not prettied mine up (would take PRs if any volunteers!) but here's my equivalent repo of reading materials in case it helps https://github.com/sw-yx/ai-notes/tree/main#top-ai-reads
OpenAI's monster is too dangerous to be in peoples hands unless people pay $20pm to use it
Bicyclists Deserve the Right to Free Movement
They do a good job of it, for whatever that's worth. At least when Microsoft open-sources something it's usually by accident, Apple's choices are... painfully deliberate.
emulated!? The simulation is the actual you.
Bu…bu…but we can’t have “big government”!!! Imagine the horrors!
The poster is the author and wrote both titles, he also expresses that conclusion later in the post.

That rule is a bad rule IMHO as I often end up violating the rule of posting to the original source because frequently scientific papers don’t have a title meaningful to the layman but instead post a link to some trade publication that summarizes the article and has a headline that might make the article get a few views.
Can't put the booger back in the nose
Boo fucking hoo?

I've worked within the health insurance industry (workers' comp, specifically); I know what a shitshow it is. As a fairly green programmer, I was tasked with creating a flat file export from our IBM mainframe's database for a new/changed regulatory requirement, and within just a few weeks (including a bunch of time spent waiting for return files from overnight batches), my export complied with the stated spec better than the agency's own files did.

But the health insurance industry makes absolutely jaw-dropping profits. The only reasons they can't harmonize their systems and produce something at least resembling standard outputs are because it would cost them slightly (on their scales) more money than just continuing to do what they're doing now, and because the higher-ups are (as with many industries) chronically unwilling to commit to one particular standard if it will make it even a little bit harder for them to change their minds whenever they want.
And even then, unfortunately, this was after the analogous "fuzz test" had already failed horrifically. (Not making a dark joke ... I'm pointing out that even the Nobel laureate wasn't allocated and focused in time to prevent the problem, which furthers your argument).
> If we wanted to we can always pull the plug

Crazy that we had a computer virus that was able to cause $38 billion in damage when all we needed to do was pull the plug
Other countries manage to successfully wrangle healthcare billing & coding such that they can apply, to good effect, outright price controls on various procedures. See, for example, Japan.

I absolutely don't believe this complexity is inherent in the problem space, because it very much looks like it is not. I'd believe that one or more actors in our healthcare system really like for it to be this way, though.
GPT-4 might be close to the best we'll get on the general LLM model front for a while since they trained on a huge chunk of web text. Next real advances will probably be in tuning them for specific applications in medicine, law, accounting, marketing, coding and etc.

As someone running a one man company I can't wait for the cost of accounting, legal and copywriting to approach 0. Cost of shipping products will also go down 10-20x. As a fun experiment I asked ChatGPT to write me a terraform and k8s script to deploy a django app on GCP and it was able to do what would have taken me a few days in under a minute, including CICD. I then asked it to write code to compress a pytorch model and export it for iOS with coreml, and not only did it do 90% of that but also wrote the Swift code to load the model and do inference with it.

EDIT: For example in medicine I recommend checking out this lecture that's actually live now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gArDvIFCzh4
Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA
Special coverage as in, doors are excluded from the insurance with the rental I got :D
LOL. I read the headline, and shook my head, figuring that there was only one site where that might have been published.

I was right.
China has banned nearly all US social networks already so is this really surprising given the current status quo?
Funny to see someone call for wide scale cooperation to stop training LLMs but can't seem to get people to cooperate on the embargo.
A lot of malware comes from piracy, not from vulns. If people used FDroid instead of downloading pirate APK's from shaddy sites...
Naive at best! US has been actively pushing Ukraine against any kind of negotiations. It is not about security here it is about geopolitical power dynamic in EU.
bigoted take
>Read twice and referred to the Committee on

I'm so cynical, I bet even that is a lie.

Diving in, the list of "foreign adversaries" is amusing. China and Russia have to be on there. Iran and North Korea I guess. Cuba and specifically a Maduro led Venezuela are a stretch.

What this bill actually seems to do is allow the Secretary of Commerce to review any communication technology, including both apps and hardware, used by a million Americans, and then suggest the president punish it if it poses an "unacceptable risk" of stealing IP, damaging infrastructure, interfering with elections, extorts a person in power, or just "otherwise poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety of United States persons."

Then it discusses what penalties the President can enact, which are banning the thing, confiscating their assets, and confiscating their collected data (and code? not 100% on this.)

Next, how to designate a communication device needing review or foreign adversary, basically someone high up says so. Then how to remove a foreign adversary, which seems much more difficult though it may just have more possible methods.

The rest seems to deal with the minutia of enforcement. I also can't be bothered to read this once, let alone twice, but it also means I'm not quite sure what investigative powers the Secretary of Commerce has without getting a warrant.

So it's called a bill to ban TikTok, but it seems to give the government a fairly clear path to banning any foreign communication technology widely used. The adversary part doesn't even seem necessary, the only time the foreign adversary comes up is if they are undermining the democratic process. Which means Russia can't interfere in elections, Israel and Saudi Arabia can.
The path from Permanent Resident to Citizen in Canada is pretty straightforward in my eyes and most Permanent Residents eventually do become Citizens [0].
Given that there are many pathways available for people to immigrate to Canada and Canada also looking to increase immigration in the coming years I am not sure what you mean by "not friendly or welcoming".
Are you referring to the fact that there is a selection process in place and not everyone may qualify due to it?

[0]: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/98...
I don't think they're even OEM keys (ie. the "system builder" ones that newegg sells). They're probably a combination of academic/bizspark/msdn/volume licenses that aren't permitted for everyday use.
Ubuntu Cinnamon Becomes an Official Flavor for Ubuntu 23.04
Do you have a reference for point 2?
Looked at the Apple one. Parts of it seem really childish.

I can figure out iPhony is an iPhone, but I'm not certain what iBad and iMonster are supposed to reference. I could dig into the source references and try to figure out WTF they're trying to convey, but that shouldn't be necessary.

Things like this hinder their credibility.
It's jan 2032 if you get IOT Enterprise LTSC.
I do this anyway, as it simply works better for me on GNU/Linux. Weirdly, I've found audio configuration and performance to be more reliable through my _web browser_ than the Zoom desktop client.

Additionally, and this may just be my rather old laptop, I've had my whole system freeze when trying to load the Zoom client. Even if that's a fixed problem now, using the web version makes me worry less. The #1 thing I need my meeting solution to be is dependable.