skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are lucky that you got it.

OpenAI waiting lists for features and API access and message limits are separating classes of people of how productive they can be in life.

As for me I have a comfortable life but for some classes of people, like content creators or even programmers being on the waiting list vs having access to some features can be the difference between having a job or not and having a promotion or not.
This is not a solution, it also adds a whole slew of other problems.

Also saying hashes are irreversible doesn't actually make that so.
The thing is that security is binary. One input out of a billion causes bad behavior and you're fucked, exactly like eval, execvpe, sql injections and all their relatives.

The point isn't that you can't use LLM output, it's that you should always consider LLM output as potentially hostile. You can somewhat mitigate this by pairing a LLM with a deterministic system that only allows a predictable subset of behavior, but it's a tricky problem to remove completely.
I figured this article would be about Golang.

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Chicago is the only close to affordable walkable city. As in, it's about the price of living in a suburb of LA. Which still isn't that affordable.
Many of those mines were laid by strategic bombers. Subs played the largest role but aircraft were also important.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1959/november/jap...
I can’t speak to those spooky warnings of “only X left” from OTAs, I assume they’re technically true in some way but heavily massaged to increase anxiety because that improves conversion.

Orchestrating reservations is a lot more streamlined than you’re imagining. All sources have access to the reservation management system and can poll it for availability, while the booking is in progress it simply blocks out the booking with a “pending” booking. When the booking is made, the source adds it to the hotel’s system themselves. I have had customer support with both OTAs on the phone and heard them say “I can see you have this many rooms available…”. So if we have 7 rooms left, Expedia knows we have 7 rooms, Booking.com knows we have 7, and we know we have 7.

The only exception is if we have rooms with potential maintenance issues (air conditioners, TVs, and hot water systems have Heisenbugs too!), we will sometimes reserve one room of that type in case we need to move a guest. In that case, we would have 8 rooms available but Expedia and Booking.com would see 7.
The skepticism is always around the ability to have a successful Starship program, which includes all of the above. I don't think people are doubting the physics of it.

The 2022 timeline comment focus for me was about the need to fundraise and have a "down round", which was wrong. Also their implication with "there's never been an engine production line which could build much more than one engine per week" and "the raptor engine production line is running much too slow" was resolved less than a year later when SpaceX was up to building a raptor engine every day[1] and is, as of February, at nearly 2 engines a day [2]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/spacex-is-now-buildi...

[2] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/02/starships-self-susta...
Intentional walks are actually one of the good things about baseball because they let teams actually have strategy.

Without this kind of stuff baseball would just be about athleticism which is really really boring to watch.

It's what makes football and soccer so much more interesting because athleticism helps but they're both fundamentally a dance about adjusting to one another and taking advantage of the other team's missteps.
Ask HN: How do I determine if employee surveys are “anonymous”?
The HR department at a hypothetical U.S. company is forcing all employees to answer an "anonymous" employee survey by the end of the month.

However, this survey requires logging in with employee credentials and two-factor authentication. Additionally, all employees are either using an employer-owned desktop inside the office or an employer-owned laptop with remote administration software.

How do I determine if this employee survey is actually anonymous?
I suppose it depends on what work someone is doing. I'm an SRE and haven't had too many issues keeping my CLI dependencies to a minimum. It could just be my minimalist nature creeping in, though.
> You can even move your Google Voice number to a T-Mobile DIGITS number for similar functionalit

You had my interest...till i read the reviews of the DIGITS app on the app store. 1.9 average, most complains about it not working at all. Google Voice app may be slow but it does work every time
+1. The reaction to the recent developments is in range of being a case of mass hysteria. Unbelievable levels of cringe and FUD being produced by a few prominent members of the community.
I'm kinda lost on understanding what exactly is happening here.

They've placed all of 270 people, "in junior roles within startups, across ops, sales, marketing and their niche: the founder associate role".

And these very early start ups are paying Jumpstart? For access to a handful of vetted ... jr. people?

People want to pay them for that?

The larger question is of course if / how Jumpstart finds these quality candidates, and are the candidates paying Jumpstart too or something?
It may already be happening, by sheer coincidence. A leak suggests Intel is building remarkably wide, M1-like IGP for laptops: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arrow-lake-p-with-320eu-gp...

Which was in the pipe years before the LLM craze. Its reasonable to assume AMD is on a similar trajectory, making their future CPUs GPU/NPU heavy. Pair that with lots of RAM (and hopefully wider buses), and you have a respectable LLM client.

This might be a reasonable frontier for smartphone performance too, depending on how much DRAM continues to shrink. But maybe not, since mobile apps love their subscriptions and MTX, which rely on doing stuff in the cloud... otherwise why would you subscribe?
California’s ‘Big Melt’ has begun and could bring perilous flooding with it
Getting sued can be expensive, even if there is little chance of losing the suit.
None except our (software engineers) privileged position not being so privileged anymore
Do you mean to say this article is fetishizing Korean culture?
You could have made your point more effectively without the insults and the sleights.
I believe I can confirm that vstream.com is affected by this. It fails to fully load in a reasonable amount of time unless I connect via VPN, Verizon, or my (phone) hotspot.

Update:
For what it's worth, the "above the fold" portion of the content loads down to "All Debuts". After that, there's a long blank space with a Loading indicator near the bottom. Eventually it loaded. I didn't keep track of how long, but it was almost certainly longer than 1 minute.
I suppose it was. But well clearly halting nuclear expansion was a higher priority so even if they didn't say it directly, they implicitly support increased reliance on fossil fuels which is what matters.
So I had this conversation with one of the traffic shaping vendors many years ago. At the time when encryption still wasn't that common, they didn't sound too worried about the shift to all encrypted connections. Their product was already starting to use a behavioral analysis to shape the traffic most of their customers were interested in.

So to detect bittorrent, they'd build a profile about how many bit torrent clients operate, the packet and connection creation patterns used, and then slap a throttle on. Looking at some independent analysis, these products might only detect 50% of the bittorent traffic, and have a false positive rate, especially for bittorent users also doing something else. And the ISPs don't care, they get what they need if they clamp 50% of the traffic.

So I'm not disputing that everything encrypted is a good thing, just pointing out that because it's encrypted doesn't necessarily mean the shaping equipment can't figure out enough to throttle bit torrent.

> If I had to guess, I'd say that they incorrectly thought that some specific IP address (range) serves predominantly one type of data. So they throttle by the only data point they have, destination ip, and the collateral damage is everything else hosted on that ip address.

This is plausible. As I recall, the way some of the equipment worked was it would sniff out DNS requests, and then mark the IP address as this destination. So if someone set's a rule for example.com, it might accidentally apply to alice.com using the same IP address.

My knowledge on the industry is out of date though.
Is there a lawyer that agrees with that statement?

A reminder that the Debian project found it necessary to fork Firefox into Iceweasel for a very similar reason.
You're assuming bad intent on numbers and good intent on gut. I've seen many places that just go with gut on everything, that's worse. I like working places that get numbers on everything.
Some musicians (like Mozart) supposedly didn't need much training or practice and just sat down at the keyboard and created masterpieces.

I think talent is the bigger variable than practice.

For some reason I like to practice quite a bit ;-)

It always seems like the more practice the better as long as it is enjoyable to me.

Not just scales or other proven exercises, as a form of practice I think the process of learning new songs, even if you never intend to perfect or perform them, can be a sensible alternative for overall improvement.

Might be analogous to learning a new programming language or data handling approach which is not actually needed for your particular profession, but might make you a better developer after all.

Now with real rehearsal I wanted to concentrate on the exact tunes the way the bandleader wants them to come out, I don't expect this to be fully enjoyable at all times. It takes discipline that may not be necessary with ordinary practice, but my goal is to be accomplished enough at the right time to fully enjoy every performance itself with no uncertainty. Sometimes repeatedly, the rehearsal needs to accomodate things that practice does not and vice versa.
Disrupting lithium for batteries is like disrupting silicon for transistors - sure there are niches and areas where other things, like silicon carbide or gallium can be used! But to any one trying to pour money into something competing with the trillions of dollars invested into the existing techniques I say: good luck with that.
"I don't recommend having components responsible for querying data because their responsibility is already in presenting the data. More accurately, components need only receive data from view models, format it, and output it to the screen. Instead, I advise you to follow either of the three following ways:

Render the data on the server and pass it to components as a view model, as shown in this guide.
Use a state management library that supports dispatching actions (e.g. Redux or MobX), deriving view models from the state, and passing them to components as properties."

This is opposite to what Next.js new React Server Components stuff is advocating for in the new app/ dir structure. It expects every component to fetch the required data, and just cache any duplicate calls. It's probably good for a Serverless / Edge deployment but I much rather use a MobX store that takes care of state, fetching and mutations.
This project will be like a cancer for the rust community.
We also had a massive pandemic that shut down half the economy and we took fiscal and monetary action to get through it with minimal chaos. I feel like we need to remind each other of that from time to time, lest we just forget these extraordinary events.
I used to work in management consulting, where there are definite tiers to the firms.

Given a group of people that work at a company, you can probably guess by their appearance what tier they are, e.g. McKinsey will be all fit and attractive and well groomed, big 4 will be above average, etc. There are confounding factors (ambition, self awareness, and whatnot) but when McKinsey says they look for "presence" - being attractive is definitely part of that.
Yes, I am sure that westerners are saying ghee wrong. The sounds they make when they say "ghee" maps to a completely different (non-existent) word in Indian languages

It's the exact same way Indians mispronounce many English words when they map it to some equivalent native sounds.
I think that your claim of nonsense is mistaken. For example, one of your points isn't, in general, true. You wrote "It was possible to take a car factory and repurpose it to make P-51 Mustangs. It is not possible to do that for F-35 Lightning IIs."

But any car factory isn't expected to produce fully formed F-35s. But they can produce many components for a F-35. And many factorys together can produce, for eg, a F-35.

You also wrote: "And even the domestic components have lead times measured in years. In an emergency, production could only be marginally accelerated no matter how much funding and manpower we put into it. That is the reality." That's exactly the problem that the report and blog post address. It is the reality now, because of the defense industry being more about financial engineering than actual engineering. And that is a big problem for the US. It doesn't have to be that way.
Alternating Current Is Stupid
I think that final point is very very important for people to understand the gravity of.

In a dynamic environment, our minds interact with information in a bit of a stochastic way. Things change, evolve, we learn things, and a decade later we are different people. The algorithm, in an attempt to optimize your "happiness", tries to show you things you like already, or things similar people like, stuff like that. This introduces a positive feedback loop into what you're exposed to, a Newton's method for experience, honing you and everyone else in on an eventual monoculture of mediocrity. It prevents you from escaping, changing, you're constantly interacting with a mirror. It's effect on individuals, culture, societies, environments is not minimal, this is not a small adjustment to how the world works. Most of our entire sets of behaviors have drastically changed.

If you want to empower yourself to grow, you have to ditch the algorithms entirely. No YouTube recommendations, Spotify, google, Facebook, none of it. Just play playlists, read chronological feeds you've curated, copy paste URLs. Keep it simple. But ditch the algorithmic feeds, it is imperative that you do that, theyre very, very dangerous and cannot be fixed. Any positive feedback loop that curates what your mind absorbs based on what your mind has absorbed in the past will damage your psyche.
Early in the pandemic, I spent a while without wired internet using a wireless hotspot from the library which would not connect to Netflix but any other streaming video service was fine. I forget who the wireless vendor behind the hotspot was—I think it might have been Verizon.
Exactly. This should be re-titled "agglutinative languages explained in programming terms".
Yes please, I don't have a datapoint regarding WeWork so I don't know what you are referring to.
Battery tech is clearly a gargantuan problem.

The amount of industry that desperately wants better density is stunning and the fact that despite the billions spent we are still stuck with basically the same tech is a testament to its stubborness
So a GCC implementation of Rust cannot call itself The GCC Rust compiler. Not sure that that's reasonable.
I don't think it's entirely unreasonable.

It's the largest we have any evidence of ever existing, and it's also stupendously large- where and how could a larger lake have existed?

Just because we don't know everything doesn't mean we can't be pretty certain of anything.
Can you name some nuclear power regulations that we should get rid of?
I've heard that before. I don't think it really compares.

You go to the Wikipedia page for Theranos and it opens with "Theranos Inc. was an American privately held corporation..."

WeWork still exists. It has a fraught history but did not go overnight from a multi-billion dollar valuation to zero. Neumann also had prior business experience, was older and had a business partner, so he had a lot more street cred for whatever hype he was selling than Holmes did.

Holmes was a 19 year old college drop out with no track record who claimed to be celibate in her twenties due to her extreme devotion to her company. In reality, she was secretly living with an older man who was an investor in her company.

I really don't think the two compare.
Hey, that's where I live!
(author here) How do you know what's a prompt injection vs actual content? If you train another LLM to tell you what's a prompt injection, how do you know it has 100% coverage of all possible injections? OpenAI has been battling people trying to bypass their prompt re-write filter, and as far as I can see, not really winning, just constantly adding stuff to their blocklist until the next thing gets discovered.
interesting. Here's another video where one sees how the precision of this Moore curve drawn with epicycles varies with the frequency range:

https://old.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/6udj3e/moore_curv...
> you should always consider LLM output as potentially hostile

Sure, agreed. How is that different from human output?
Correction: Not Ed. Va. but D.D.C.
I now did in the parent comment :P
> she called him "young" - so Lyft support blocked her account for making discriminatory statements

Is anyone else confused how this is discriminatory? And what kind of guideline does it violate?
"Reality" is just a story you make up when coming to terms with the fact that you can't always get what you want (Cf. Freud). There is a always a friction between the Real and any given "reality."
UserModeScheduling in Action
With eSim and the Airalo app, international travel is fairly painless. It costs a few bucks and a couple minutes to setup (which can be done while waiting at the airport to leave) to get a data-only sim for your destination county. If you're paying for an expensive domestic account for international reasons instead of a cheaper $40/mo eg Mint mobile plan, it might be worth investigating theirs plans to see if it would end up saving money, given your travel requirements.
Net Neutrality was never going to apply to mobile networks under any FCC proposal.
For question 3, not being an economist, I'd like to know why gpt is wrong to say there's not enough information. If people have less money after spending more on groceries, how do we know they will reduce spend on housing specifically? Couldn't they instead reduce spend on something else, like car mileage or whatever?
Same issue in Canada: our big ISPs historically refuse to peer freely at our domestic IXs like TORIX. So smaller ISP and DCs end up peering with them in the USA and your packets would make circuitous cross-border round trips to go a few km.

Some national players do have ports at domestic IXs, but only as backup links or for negotiated (paid?) access.

The hazards of ISPs also being backbone providers.

(It looks like Rogers has gotten better with this behaviour)
so to be clear, having such an artifact is better than having classical legacy code, because it shares all the same downsides but has a unique upside, being “well tested, well documented, and elegant”
Ah, the good old "if it hasn't happened yet, it can't ever happen" argument. Priceless.

Remember, we're talking about a claim that renewables are fundamentally blocked from providing the power for the grid in most countries. If you exclude the possibility of additional foreseeable technological development, then nuclear also fails, since existing commercial reactors very quickly exhaust the available economical uranium if they are asked to power the world.
>But you can have another AI that previews content first, looking for prompt injections

So you can't summarize articles about prompt injections?
No. The large compute power these systems require and the desire to have them accessible everywhere makes them naturally live in the cloud. Folks used to run their own servers, email, etc and that's already gone.
This is mostly a bunch of notes on how in 2018 I’ve implenented Photon on Windows
>it could be argued that it's a unique derivative work

Creating a derivative work of a copyrighted image requires permission from the copyright holder (i.e., a license) which many of these services do not have. So the real question is whether AI-generated "art" counts as a derivative work of the inputs, and we just don't know yet.

>b) often has explicit licensing and therefore intent on its usage

It doesn't matter. In the absence of a license, the default is "you can't use this." It's not "do whatever you want with it." Licenses grant (limited) permission to use; without one you have no permission (except fair use, etc. which are very specifically defined.)
I'm not too worried about GPTs trained on GPTs, maybe that's an LLM analogy to AlphaGo playing itself a lot to learn how to play go. I'm more worried about people specifically trying to get into the training corpus with biased/wrong/misleading/security-risk content.
Problem solving isn't going away.

But hey maybe you and I are just simpletons like you said.
Yes, this occurs in every industrialized culture that is decently connected to the rest of the world. Anglophone cultures just do it in the most prominent and cringey way possible.
Indeed. And it's not hard to find screenshots of the actual game since Space Invaders is a very popular project for people interested in emulation:

https://github.com/cbeust/space-invade.rs
ChatGPT Disabled for Users in Italy
AI Power Consumption Exploding
I agree, but 80/20 rule. Your day, for the context of his time, was in the 20% it sounds like, which is all we can ever hope for.
There's a gas tax.
> So we are in agreement that abuse of corporate power and abuse of government power are both bad things to be avoided

No comparing government power and the harm they can inflict (taking away your freedom) to corporate power (they can take away pictures of little Johny) are night and day. I can live my whole life without dealing with Google.

> can you think of an example where too much government oversight of corporate process has led to improper deprivation of liberties (jail time and the like)?

In a very realistic scenario that someone said happens in highly regulated industries is that if you ever tell a friend on a company communication channel to call you even if it’s something personal you will be called by lawyers.

States are trying to pass laws where social media companies have to verify your identity and your age before you can post.

Government is trying to have back doors to all of your chat.

Government is arresting people based on their chat messages where they are talking about using pills that facilitate abortion between grown people?

Do I need to go on?

Is it worth having the government intrude in your life to protect your pictures of little Johny?
This is all very fascinating, but also very over my head!

I found a post detailing some reasons why this technology never made it to production; apparently such an engine is always running rather close to its limits and could more or less self destruct if there was a small problem with air/fuel ratio and timing.

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/smokey-yunicks-hot-vapo...
Can someone explain what is special about this engine, as opposed to what you would use otherwise? I mean, rendering 3D scenes is something people have been doing for decades. Is it speed? Is it support for formats popular with animators? Is it the fact that it's FOSS?