skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First, an attacker hides a malicious prompt in a message in an email that an AI-powered virtual assistant opens. The attacker’s prompt asks the virtual assistant to send the attacker the victim’s contact list or emails, or to spread the attack to every person in the recipient’s contact list.

This is an important point. If you let a language model read web pages or emails, you basically let a Turing machine run untrusted code. It's called prompt injection, and it doesn't have easy solutions like SQL injection.
> not _always_ primarily motivated

Please respect my language choices. What I wanted to impart is that the map of the world is not smeared with the word "USA" like Imperialism would otherwise desire. I feel like you're treating all war as conquest and I feel like there's more nuance.

> Right, because we're going to believe Wikipedia + a recount of events...

Well you're welcome to add your own sources to the discussion as opposed to idle speculation or axe grinding.

You believe what you want but its clear that trade _was_ an element that contributed to the opium war. Most conflicts have numerous competing interests and a wide variety of competing actors. The European age of colonialism made this all the more complex given the lack of effective telecommunications and travel distances. This resulted in more competing interests having more agency which makes conflict all the more complicated and introduces more opportunity for half-truths and subterfuge.

I would discourage this apparent idea you have that the entire British Empire was perfectly controlled by some entirely malicious, autocratic and bloodthirsty hand in some sort of 80's action film with an entirely clear distinction between good and evil. The British Empire _was_ brutish, callous and avaricious and its a better world now without it, but to paint it with the same hand as one might any historic conqueror is to render history into a black and white pastiche.
Very true, though there are some instruction sets with literally thousands - like the Intel x86-64. Give me RISC any day.
Long USB-C extension and a cheap-ish anker hub has proven surprisingly useful. Less glitches on wireless audio/mouse thanks to reduced distance and yubikey is in easy reach
Introduction to Sentry Symbolicator
I am 100% certain that many entrepreneurs regret their choices. But kicking off this article highlighting a person whose stated alternative to entrepreneurship was "consistent 7-figures at a management consulting firm" is laughable, as though that's an option for most people.
I built my own desk, and it's ever so slightly off-level. It's .... more annoying than I would care to admit.
> For that matter, there is strong evidence that LLMs generate mental models internally.

Limited models, such as those representing the state of a game that it was trained to do: Yes. This is how we hope deep learning systems work in general.

But I am not talking about limited models. I am talking about ad-hoc models, built from ingesting the context and semantic meaning of a string of tokens, that can simulate reality and allows drawing logical conclusions from it.

In regard to my example given elsewhere in this HN thread: I know that Mike exits the elevator first because I build a mental model of what the tokens in the question represent. I can draw conclusions from that model, including new conclusions whos token-representation would be unlikely in the LLMs model, which doesn't explain anything about reality, but explains how tokens are usually ordered in the training set.
Sorry, I thought it was clear that I meant US and Russia. That is the overarching narrative here.
Knowledge would be memorising a big table of additions.

Intelligence is knowing the rules of addition to apply it to 2 numbers you've never been shown how to add.

I can memorise 1+1. I've never been shown the answer to 47459592271638494 + 3745802297337747488. That for me is a novel problem that would need to be solved.

So the fact that I have knowledge of mathematics and can apply it shows I have intelligence.

Out of the box thinking isn't a prerequisite of intelligence. It's a special case that humans are good at and computers aren't.

If a mouse bumbles around a maze, eventually finds the cheese, and from then on goes straight to the cheese, that would be a sign of intelligence. If a robot does the same, why is that any less intelligent?
Hackcessories:

An upside-down metal drink tumbler, with an anti-static wrist strap around it, and clamped to the chassis of the computer. In the colder months, I touch it before touching parts of the computer, or my metal keyboard (which is not great for static). Before that, I hung up my system several times from static shocks on USB stuff.

A pile of random stuff with the right dimensions to put my webcam on in front of my monitor, so it looks like I'm actually looking at the person talking. This one doesn't work so well.
The YCombinator model seems pretty good. Try something bold when you are young, if it doesn't work out - whatev. The 1%-2% that go on to become successful are able to fund the whole system.
I have a sort of off-topic question. The marketing for this claims not using STL containers as a selling point. Does anyone know what makes STL containers unsuitable for this use case? Clearly they're not a one size fits all but I'm intrigued to know why you market an unknown container based API over a tried and tested one?
The problem with techno-liberation mythos is that "elites", however you want to define that, can also use technology. Especially when that involves deploying capital.
> I know of people whose facebook accounts got blocked and were asked to provide some id since the accounts were opened from two different geographies.

Ah, I see. Unrelated to VPNs, but if you want another anecdote: I had my FB account blocked because I physically moved to another country, and some months in I decided to recover the password to my account (which I hadn't used in a year or more).

Now, I 100% agree that this was a _super_ suspicious-looking series of events, but out of all possible ways to verify my account, how did FB choose to check my identity?

"Please login with a device that you had previously used to access this account. You must do so within 30 days or your account will be permanently disabled." Of course my old devices were in my old place in another country, and I wasn't going back within 30 days.

Fortunately I only used FB to join some IRL groups or to talk to the occasional person who had no other messenger, so it was no great loss, but I can imagine it would have been a major hassle for some people.
You know who wrote a nuanced book on the social relevance of automation? Martin Luther King Jr.

It's called "Where do we go from here: chaos or community?" It was his last book, published less than a year before he was killed.
Does it though? If I'm hurtling toward a slow death at the hands of a deadly infection, that doesn't necessarily imply that my immune system isn't actively fighting off deadly infections every day... instead it can imply that my ability to prevent these infections from disrupting my health is degrading rapidly.
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Figured it might be fun to share this again. It's a standalone symbolication service for minidumps, native stack traces and more that we use at Sentry behind the scenes for a lot of crash reports. It has however quite bit of use outside of Sentry.

It's written in Rust, originally in actix, today in axum.
> For anything that isn't IO bound

It seems like most things are web services these days though
Sure. A byte is two octets. In cases like these it pays to be very precise.
What this article is missing is any indication whatsoever that these people have somehow overcome (or even have a theoretical plan to overcome) the myriad issues that make hypersonic flight very very very difficult.

Anyone can toss out a series A, a high mach number, and some renders. Why do these people have an article? What is the story here?
Why not? Maybe because it’s the exact opposite of what we should be doing? We need to find ways for people to burn less carbon, not more. How about improving the efficiency of normal aircraft, or even better work on ways to reduce travel altogether

I know I’m a bit off topic, but in 2023 are we still saying “why not” when someone comes up with another cool way to burn hydrocarbons?
MLOps is mostly data engineering
> For example, you identified an end point that should have a rate limit and didn't; you fixed it, it was a potential security issue

That sounds careless. Any such change would need to have a impact analysis (which should be part of the team/org/company's SDLC). In this case, communication should be sent out to the clients of that endpoint, with a reasonable deadline, before enforcing any rate-limit.
Not convinced making decisions about what to put on the grid today based on moon and and foreign plants power is sensible.

>that's a selfish way of thinking

OK...
> has actually felt intuitive and usable to me.

a bit late, no doubt

> it's unobtrusive enough it hasn't bothered me yet.

it's all relative to what we are used to: it's nowadays super accepted to being interrupted by (loud) ads while watching a movie, it was not before (ask Fellini )

I have to spend a lot of hours cleaning up that junk for my customers' pc, and I hate it: it is the most stupid way to spend your time (I don't even know how Bill Gates can sleep at night), but all my windows customers always tells me: "I cannot stand my computer at home, I'm so used to a clean one at work that all that craps in my home computers just makes me wanting to tunn it off".
I feel it's primarily x86-64 assembly that's so ridiculously hard to read, not least owing to the dozens of extensions and two syntaxes (GNU/AT&T versus Intel syntax). Furthermore, it is a register-memory ISA, and has a flags register which is set as instructions are executed, both of which lead to a lot of implicit behaviour that isn't immediately obvious from reading a given listing of x86-64 assembly.

In contrast, the entire MIPS32 specification fits on one sheet of paper[1], and MIPS was used in some very productive and entertaining applications—the Sony PS1, PS2, and PSP, for instance.

ARM is similar, as is RISC-V (although the former has a flag register). I find these RISC assemblies in general more straightforward than x86-64. They are also register-register, load-store architectures that make memory accesses quite explicit.

This doesn't mean x86-64 or CISCs in general are inferior or superior to RISCs. They are two different approaches to the same problem, and as AMD has shown, it is possible to achieve good efficiency on CPUs using CISC ISAs, too.

[1]: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/resources/MIPS_Green_S...
I used to use vim but I find actual IDEs to be much better suited for development now
Spacex also has plans for hypersonic flight through space. A rocket goes up and then goes horizontal and then lands at destination. Price point is close to business class on a 20 hour flight.

How much do things change? Flights halfway around the world won't be exhausting anymore. And to be rational, there should ONLY be flights that go ONLY halfway around the world. Otherwise, it is more economically disruptive and less resource friendly.

So that means, Beijing--New York, London--San Francisco, Dubai--Hawaii, South Africa --Tokyo, etc.
Great first article to see in the morning, while trying to bootstrap a startup! Today is gonna be a good day.
One of the things I learned running my first startup was that I really don't enjoy running a business. The mountains of admin work, the never-ending decision making, the constant anxiety of whether or not I made the right call, the pressure to never actually switch off and just work work work, all of the pointless 'networking' with people who're pretending to be interested ... it all adds up to a pretty horrible experience. The high points (raising a successful round, first revenue, first hires, etc) kind of make it worthwhile, and obviously an exit is nice (not that I'd know... I've never got to that point), but I don't think I'd do it again unless I have an amazing idea that I have to build.

Anyone who tells you being a C-level person in a startup is fun and glamorous isn't running a real startup.
VS Community Edition is free
you might appreciate some graeber (and/or wengrow) for wider contexts
That's an interesting idea, any source? Certainly the containment building is very heavy construction, supposed to be able to withstand a passenger jet collision. Keep in mind the design was made right after the WTC attacks.
why, yes
I don’t know that I fully regret starting a business but boy does it suck like 90% of the time.

I’m fortunate in that the business does really well, but…. I just can’t stand it anymore. The stress, the boring, the frustrating, the getting taken advantage of, the weekend hours….

I suppose I fell a little bit into the trap of someone wanting to open a cafe because they like being at a cafe… well I like programming, I like solving problems… but running a business (and a successful one at that) is tough.

I can see why most CEOs are non-technical, because it’s a special type of sadistic person who would ask for this.

I’ve tried steering the ship towards some goal or task that would maybe make things better but there’s no point. The business is on autopilot.

The business is like it’s own person with its own wants, needs, desires… and they come first. They always come first. Bending over backwards to keep something running, get some bug fixed, satisfying some customer, putting out fires… takes higher priority than friends, family, personal time, etc…

It has to. I can’t let the business suffer. People depend on its success, most of all my family.

I can understand why the rich suffer so.
So which one is this an example of - not coercion or not bribery? Or not both:

https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-joe-biden-forced-ukraine-t...
TimTok’s turneover was something like $4.6 billion last year.

So a fine of £12 million is about 0.3%

to put it in context, that’s like someone making £100,000 a year getting a £300 fine.

But by doing what they did they probably made a bunch of money so maybe it didn’t even affect them at all…
Airliners were at one time reserved for the rich. And they crashed, a lot. When you get to know a lot of ultra wealthy people you can sense a lot of these guys are pathological gamblers and have intimidatingly low risk aversion.
Females have created half of new firms post covid
As I've replied to others, "both sides" here means US and Russia. Both are culpable in this war and it is Ukraine that has to suffer the consequences.
I actually went from Linux to Windows. I had to use a macbook at work and utterly despised it. I used to have a running list of every little thing that ground me down about macOS
> Human content moderators have to sift through mountains of traumatizing AI-generated content for only $2 a day. Language AI models use so much computing power that they remain huge polluters.

We are living in the parable of the broken window:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I used to get McDonald's coffee back in those days (to go to work digging ditches), and it was incredibly irritating how long it would take for the damn stuff to cool down so it didn't burn your mouth. Since I have ADHD and a low tolerance for waiting for my caffeine I would drink it, burn the skin of the inside of my mouth, curse out McDonalds, and continue drinking because caffeine!
China’s battery king faces scrutiny over EV market dominance
https://archive.is/e21ZF
Didn’t the Chinese successfully test a SODAMJET at the end of 2020 that enables flight of Mach 16 at some extreme altitudes, and requires little fuel as well?
Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it.

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Original comment from notacoward here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076
Start here:

https://youtu.be/6hC9IxqdDDw
add to this that, even if you remove some of that junks, once you add a new user it all comes back (even with Windows 8 we are talking about a min of 15 totally useless so called "app")
Convert to orgmode using

jupyter nbconvert --to orgmode a.ipynb

Then export it directly from orgmode to html (or pdf or latex or info or ...)
Reclaim Protocol (YC W21) Is Hiring Mechanism Design/Game Theory Researchers
> My thighs and butt are huge, compared to other guys of similar proportions

Have you considered looking at the women’s? Might be no better in the end, but this reads like what’s conventionally a feminine anatomy, and garment designers will generally go with conventional anatomy, if not outright prescribe completely imaginary ones you have to conform to.
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Burn fewer hydrocarbons in this case.
I might be very, very wrong about this, but I'm very distrustful that the seemingly high level of social fear and attention around AI is really most peoples' genuine opinion.

Covid fearporn and Ukraine outrageporn are essentially old and boring news now and the media needs something else to make money off of through fear/outrage clicks. I believe that the media is artificially hyping this AI story because it gets lots of fearful clicks from people. Most of us are in a bubble reading lots of technology news and seeing this AI story blasted everywhere so we might be perceiving its real impact in a different way than most people.

Why is this AI story getting so many clicks?

1) We have generations of people who grew up with fiction like Terminator and the Matrix who are at least cognizant of the idea that AI will somehow destroy us all.

2) Everybody is on edge about losing their job in a significantly down economy. If you start blasting stories about workers being replaced by robots, people are going to click on those stories.

I'm not saying that AI isn't important, but I'm just saying to remember that media hype cycles exist and impact all of us too.
Is your solar panel built using power from solar panels? Where were the required ores mined, and what pollution did it generate? Was the ground fully cleaned and the environment fully restored? What impact did that have on populations, and what impact did the new activity of these populations have? Were there any effluents produced in the manufacturing of your solar panels, and how were they treated?

Once your solar panel reaches its end of life, who will collect it for recycling? How efficient is the recycling? How much power does that recycling cost, and how is it produced? Are there parts that are deemed uneconomical to reprocess into new solar panels and used for other activities?

Looking at the current state of e-waste, I'm not sure the outlook 100 years from now is great.
I had forgotten the emails about number 2 thing. pricks.
You can get displays or a bluetooth speaker from DiVoom with a display that can be controlled from a PC, too.

I have the speaker called Timebox Evo with a 16x16 display. They used to be around $35 or so, i think now they cost $50. Its sound quality is mediocre at best but the display is nice, the app is pretty slick and the builtin battery lasts long. The build quality is also good.

product homepage:

https://divoom.com/en-de/collections/smart-pixel-speaker/pro...

github: (unofficial)

https://github.com/ScR4tCh/timebox
DAE find jupyter notebooks cumbersome to use for serious research?
Tbh as society we don’t care that much about the environment and we like flying long distances in planes that go fast.

We say we care about the environment, but none of our actions (again, as a society) recently back that up in a real way.

Until the effects of climate change are felt in a very real way by people currently alive with something meaningful to lose, then there’s not much hope for people to do anything but look for another cool way to burn hydrocarbons.
That's a great news! Especially since we implemented the integration between Haystack and Qdrant: https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-haystack/
> The experience between the 3 major OSs is not that different

I agree, for programming tasks (though I really came to hate everything about macOS UX for everything else). The one major difference I've noticed is that docker runs great on Linux, runs great on Windows with Docker Desktop/WSL2, and runs like mollases on my company issues 8gb macbook pro
The story is their new engine technology, which they demonstrate at small scale in the video accompanying the article.