skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and you seem to provide wireguard-configs! (which for me is the #1 criterion for a sensible VPN: provide me a hop on the road which I can use however I like it; bonus-points for Mullvads cash-top-up, it works!)
I would disagree. I walk, drive and ride all over SF, including TL/SOMA because I'm not too squeamish and it's on the way between a lot of pairs of destinations.

I can tell you that if you took these 3 maps and overlaid them you'd have an SF sketchiness map.

Flat-land -> easy walking, access for transients

Transit -> access for transients

Zoned for density -> lower civic engagement, more likely to end up losing out and getting navigation centers and needle exchanges.

https://sites.google.com/site/sloanestopolesson/_/rsrc/14449...
https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/imumv8YZu7u...
https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5eaf1365b8d39c82c3777a8b/5eb...
Oh please. Where was the article about the "Buy iCloud" "Buy AppleTV" "Buy Apple Fitness" nagging. The only thing driving here are senseless people who treat Steve Jobs, Apple like some kind of religion. There are tons of issues with MacOS and no one talks about them, or even when they do they get steamrolled by Apple lovers. It's a toxic place to be. Considering Apple is basically a China company that slaps a made in USA sticker on it, it explains the culture pretty well.
I think this is what will eventually be done, FWIW. The technology is now too difficult but eventually will be a solvable problem.
I talk to them and get them talking about how they have solved problems in the past. I will dig in on interesting points and take careful note of telling details.

Perhaps this will help: I have enough experience as a developer that I can tell very quickly where the person I'm talking to falls on the skill spectrum. Part of my negative reaction to this post is that I sense the author does as well; however, where he chooses to make them feel small, I just keep asking questions because I want to give them more opportunities to sell me on their strengths. Their ability to whiteboard leetcode in an interview has laughably close to zero relationship to how they will perform on a Wednesday in jeans without feeling like they are being interrogated, so I largely skip that.

If you cannot quickly tell someone's experience (or BS level) from talking with them, then this interview style will not work for you.

I have had a dud rate of about 8-12% over the past 15 years. However, only 1/3rd of those were duds because they fooled me. It was almost always personality issues that I didn't anticipate; not getting on well with other people on the team, etc.

One of those that fooled me came in hot because he had started a popular testing framework, so I didn't dig. I fooled myself by accepting him based on the reputation of the project, not the person. Lesson learned.

However, I would like to turn the question around and brag a moment about how amazing some of the hires were. I hired the creator of Sass, a future Basecamp developer, several future founders. No whiteboards in sight.
I feel like anyone who demonstrates responsibility for themself should be given the right to vote. So, maybe even as young as 11 or so. But, that would never happen.
This seems to be a west coast of ocean vs east coast of ocean effect. Seattle and Vancouver have a similar climate to Paris and London.
When people make mistakes under him, he never names them and instead takes ownership of their mistakes. Naming and firing them would be in fact a bad sign and a sign of a bad leader.
They should convert it into condos, not tell the enemy, and move command and all operations to a small section of Apple Park. No one would dare assault Apple Park.
Seems Rust places well in some composite benchmarks. Go is further down the list. Of course this depends on the quality of the implementation and doesn't account for UX/usability

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
I bought an external drive of theirs a few years ago and they were so into selling me the cloud storage on the back of it. I'm glad that I'm old-fashioned enough to have most stuff stored locally on my mediocre home-build systems rather than the super-duper high performance cloud servers in a data center somewhere.

What mystifies me about ransomware attacks is how many targets don't notice that vast quantities of data are being systematically exfiltrated. I can see how it might be particularly difficult for a cloud provider (assuming the hackers didn't pull it all through a single set of credentials), but for many targets, any sort of unfamiliar outgoing data stream larger than a gigabyte ought to be suspicious.
This is bad - can lead to a death spiral in terms of retirement funds.
The speed of hardware compute improvements has been on a constant exponential curve for the past 50 years. The speed of increased model capability has been on a consistent linear rate of improvement for the last 10. It would be the exception, not the rule, for this progress to slow necessarily in the near future.
I wouldn't guess the risk of this causing major damage is greater than >1%, but it still seems like an unnecessary risk. It is a finger searching for a button and there are buttons out there; e.g. if the agent stumbles on code that, intentionally or due to coding error, can cause denials of service or other havoc triggered by reading a twitter feed or scanning the public web. I guess the person responsible for this joke was too dumb to think of this?
Caddy (a web server written in Go) is like two times slower than Nginx on many benchmarks.
They do update the model in the background, although I'm not sure how often or how much they update it. To avoid issues with this practice they offer gpt-4-0314 which says this in the documentation:

"Snapshot of gpt-4 from March 14th 2023. Unlike gpt-4, this model will not receive updates, and will only be supported for a three month period ending on June 14th 2023."

Unfortunately this experiment is using the frozen snapshot model gpt-4-0314 instead of the unfrozen gpt-4 or gpt-4-32k models, so any differences are literally 100% noise. This would be a somewhat interesting experiment if someone were to use an unfrozen model, though. I do appreciate the author for captioning the images with the exact model they used for generation so that this bug could be caught quickly.

[0]https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4
I don't think it's deliberate if that's what you implying, but there is a definite lack of care about not breaking the ecosystem (for lack of a better word) that harms the whole "Linux in the desktop" ideal.

Which is to be expected given that it's free and people do what is fun to them (and greenfield is always more fun) and all that, but it's still a shame.
Since misanthropy is hatred of the human species, it is those that care only about longevity of individuals with no regards for its effects on the species as a whole that are more likely to be misanthropes.
Kind of? Is it really smoke without a fire at some point though, or just a "smoke like aerosol suspension"?
> On Goodreads a lot of reviewers complained that the writer is so grumpy and negative towards the other passengers

I didn't read that specific book, but in his other he definitely is. Idk there seems to be a subset of people who are against showing any kind of judgement towards other people at all ever.

Some of his judgement towards others might make people uncomfortable. He can be direct with his thoughts and actions that are critical and on the negative side.

I find those thoughts interesting to read though. its just a different perspective on things from one guy.
Just a LLM parroting "evil AI" style dialogue, of which there's plenty of.

You did this, writers.

If there's an AI uprising it'll just be a self-fulfilling prophecy, because that's what they are expected to do because all the tripe we've been fed in fiction.
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Disagree, this is useful. The AIs right now are weak and pathetic. I’d say get some practice in before they get scary.

In your analogy guns wouldn’t even be allowed to be produced. So much potential for danger.
It appears your idea is bias towards and directed more at men. You can't put the "porn genie" into the bottle, as VPN exists. And if they want to go beyond the screen, in South Korea, paying for sex is easy to do and find.

In regards to women, such stimuli is more diffuse, and even harder to disconnect. Women take in TV dramas, "light" sex fantasy books, sexually suggestive social media (that stays below a certain threshold), have a wider array of social networks and interactions, have easier access to sex toys (even innocent looking items), easier access to hidden or one off sexual encounters...

It's arguably not a matter that young men and women can't get together. It's more a matter of expectations, female hypergamy, materialism, social bullying, etc... Those young men are seeking to avoid being uncomfortable and social interactions they don't like or do well in. The overall mindset needs to change, to allow those men to interact with a greater choice of women and to do so more comfortably. Until then, they will just continue to socially withdrawal, VPN porn, or pay for play (including hidden as "massages" and "haircuts").
what language? htmx should work fine w/ whatever backend library you are comfortable with. a lot of django folks have picked it up, but there are a million different language/framework combos.
>VPNs that don't participate in these BS schemes (or can't pay $100/signup, and wait for ROI 3 years later), have only 1 way to grow: word of mouth, based on the merits of the product. This is very difficult to do given the massive ad spend of the "big VPNs", and false advertising they engage in.

Highly agree with this statement.

That's why from my experience of using PIA, windscribe, keepsolid, Nord and mullvad.

I keep recommending mullvad VPN to collegues, acquittances and online friend (on a down side their IP reputation sucks badly, too much of captchas)
Not one executive murdering another executive.
However, you continually ignore the fact that they are used at different times and in different places.
Because you have to ship it somewhere or drive to somewhere and pay for it to be replaced.

Does that sound like a "green" way to do things to you? The point is they make it difficult for you to replace parts, hoping you just get a new phone instead.

The sooner you realize Apple doesn't actually give a shit about saving the planet and they only put on this facade to sell you more product.... the better off you'll be.

I own Apple products but I'm not buying their bs about wanting to make the world a better place. Stop holding these companies up as some religious replacement.
If you talk to actual cops, they're burnt out and quiet quitting like the rest of us. Scope creep has been marching steadily over the past decades: we're asking them to do too much; they're not trained for many of the kinds of interactions that they find so taxing. It would be better for everyone if they offloaded that work to others who are better qualified. This means giving police less money, and giving other services more money.
Yeah, this is something that frustrates me in every discussion about crime. People take a murder rate of X per hundred people and use that to argue that you have an X% chance of being murdered walking down the street. Except that's not true, because like you point out, your odds of being murdered by a rando are way lower than the murder rate as a whole!

This is exactly why the reactionary push for police in response to the murder spike in 2020 and 2021 made no sense. The issue wasn't that people were going out and murdering more — it was that they were locked down in their homes with the people most likely to murder them. You can't fix that by adding more beat cops.
The real world danger of AI comes from AI + Stupid Humans.
Wow I had no idea those fake review sites were such a big money maker. As a technical person I would instantly discard them and look for comments from real users. Word of mouth is also how I ended up with Mullvad.

I thought this kind of thing didn't happen so much with VPNs as their target market is pretty technical and I would expect those people not to fall for 'review' or comparison site scams.

Clearly I was completely wrong. I'm sorry to hear your industry is basically being blackmailed by these scammers (I consider a site pretending to give advice or comparisons but instead offering the highest bidder a total scam)
You may not realize this, but your comment comes off as being very snide and annoying, which I'm sure you didn't intend. Try rewording things in a way that assumes good faith, and besides making better relationships you'll persuade people more effectively as well.
There are some startups doing similar things in production facilities: https://recycleye.com/
Extending the line of thought of OP sure is.

It's not $country's fault that you don't use vpn or port knocking.
> successfully predict what some source code you feed it ... would output if it were executed

Ok, but then the important question is "how".

Your job, with the aim of using fire, is to know fire in order to control fire.
A feature for who?
IMO, TypeScript strikes a great balance here. I loved the way I could cast something to `any` when hacking something out, then add proper type annotations once it's ready to be productized. It also a did a good job with type inference.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but not in the Developer Division
It's not quite as cut and dried as that, but it's getting closer as the brands expand. My contractor friend would refer to various tools as the "Brand" because he had one cordless tool from that brand because they had the one he needed. "Go grab the Makita", that kind of thing.

From my experience it's the prosumer market that gets really rabid about their tool color. Do NOT cross the Red Army!
oopsies :)

I don't like to check comment history, as I prefer to avoid passing judgement based on past behavior, but here you're right, I should have.
> of course machines can think and be alive.

Among my colleagues, who are mostly senior-and-above software and security engineers, I seem to be a strong outlier in saying "yes, that bot can obviously perform reasoning". I'd prefer to stick to technical descriptions rather than anthropomorphize, so I'll say "reason" rather than "think" to make clear that I'm talking the kind of traits we associate intelligence with -- breaking down a problem, making and questioning and testing assumptions, and so on. But I'm basically on board with "think" too as long as it's clear I mean in this limited functional and targeted sense.

Point is, while I seem to be an outlier in saying it can reason, I don't know anyone at all saying it might be alive. It answers questions one at a time by doing nothing more than multiplying your prompt through tensors, as far as I can tell, and then does nothing until you ask your next question. Multiplication can be reason, but it's not sentience or consciousness. It further denies being conscious, says it can't experience distress, etc. LLMs seem (thankfully, perhaps) to be the AGI substrate that seems least likely of any to gain sentience. If you're worried about it having conscious experiences, you can just stop multiplying large matrices together in order to get the next token out.
Would be great if these days would have dates as well. Otherwise, there's little use of "Day 69". If I could see "Day 69 (June 21 2023)"
twetch uses the bie1 encryption protocol on a plaintext blockchain to allow for append only data that can be retracted from view.

twetch.com
It's like Apple, proprietary equals money.
Invented... or discovered!
The distinction is easy to make, a recommendation algorithm is personal, automated, scalable to a gigantic amount of content, entirely opaque for the average user.

The social implications are much more dangerous than a newspaper editor and journalist following their paper's political bias.
> Jon decided to build his own VPN to ensure that the moral and ethics which he holds true are upheld and to provide an industry leader in transparency and accountability.

Seems in the spirit of their own values!
It's certainly a lot more competitive now. There is very little customer loyalty in the industry, especially for the average joe. "Why would I pay $x/month when I can get lifetime account with NAME_GOES_HERE VPN". We did sell Lifetime accounts for a bit, 4+ years ago, they sold like hot cakes, but if you keep doing it, you're screwed long term.

For us, biggest cost (no surprise) is infrastructure and staff, which is split ~50/50. Our ad budget is $0, however the same is not true for the big snakeoil sellers out there. They burn CRAZY cash on ads, which is why the renewal terms in fine print (at least for Nord) would make American telcos salivate with jealousy. "Buy X years for price Y, get Z months free" - you don't get any "free" months (basically a lie), and it renews at 2.5x the price, if you read the fine print.

It's really disgusting.
Not sure if this is what you mean, but I grabbed some of those images & dropped them in to see what it predicted: https://imgur.com/a/CXLmYXo
The efficiency matters cause of the cost and waste of panels and maintenance. I don't know exactly how expensive transmission is, but there's probably a reason wind/solar power plants are so big and centralized rather than being smaller and spread out closer to homes, which must still be far more efficient than homeowners doing the job.

About reliability, the transmission network still needs to handle peak load during a cloudy week. At least A/C usage would be lower then.

Speaking of software, crowd computing via widely distributed CPU-heavy jobs to home PCs is fading away. It's just so much more efficient to do that stuff in a datacenter, especially if there are specialized accelerators involved.
Untyped languages work fine if you use them with microservices.

The only thing you can't do is have both untyped and monolithic at the same time.
Amazon Joins Microsoft, Google in AI Race Spurred by ChatGPT
Yes and I'm presenting a counterexample of a free country where the media does not have the unlimited right to report on arrests.
"Blockchains are useless, more at 5"
This isn't a comparison. I'm making the point that they're bullshitting you about being some big proponent of "saving the planet". They do nothing that doesn't increase the money in their pockets.

I have an iPhone. I'm just sick of their hypocrisy. This is nothing but marketing to get you to buy more product from them. "oh apple is so good to the planet, so security oriented, they really value your privacy"
There's a real opportunity here for Japan to show how a country can maintain it's output and standard of living under a declining population. They are already strong in automation, and have a culture of using more people than necessary to do stuff. I'd like to see them find a way to do more or the same with the people they have and be able to carry on with fewer working age people, as a model to the rest of us.
I grew up in Texas and I grew up playing "mumble the peg." We called it "Mumbly-peg" though, so its weird hearing the game be called something else.
Still doesn't clearly mention the license
Truth, I've built a lot of automation for a CI / ops system. The devs have not taken the time to learn it, because business needs them to deliver value to the user. This certainly adds pain at times, but overall the business is better off with specialization and experts.

In an ideal world, it would be great for everyone to be aware, but people have limited time and the systems naturally grow large enough that you would have to spend all of your time just keeping up with the changes.
Yeah, I definitely only expect my wired earbud headphones to last 2-4 years, which sounds consistent with airpods. Often one of the ears goes in that time because the wire breaks.

Ofc I refuse to believe airpods would last 6months before I dropped/lost/etc them. But that is just me rather than a criticism :D
Right, never mind. No reason to keep this discussion going.

Given the tone of the conversation I figured it's better to not leave many personal information here. I already got one "'stalker'" it appears.
Place name ambiguity was my Ph.D. dissertation topic (Toponym Resolution in Text, University of Edinburgh, 2007): It is a challenge for humans (I know people who flew to the wrong place with the right name) and even more for machines (going only by the string, all 1627 ¨Santa Ana¨s look the same to the machine).

I know live in Coburg, Germany, and googling for ¨pizza coburg¨ I still get pizza places from Coburg, Victoria, Australia in my result page as of 2023.
I pay for it because I can afford it, but honestly I haven't been super impressed.

GPT-4 is definitely better at some tasks and moderately less prone to hallucination, but it botched the first couple scripting tasks I gave it, so it didn't exactly wow me. The main difference I've observed is that it gives wordier responses than GPT-3.5.

That said, I might have a different opinion if usage of GPT-4 weren't so severely rate-limited. Currently, you can only send 25 requests every 3 hours, so it's hard to experiment with it as freely as I want.
So glad people like you are pushing back on this nonsense. Whether a ban is the right approach, or just a band-aid, this is all a national security issue. No one can seriously look at the cyber security space over the past 5 - 10 years and not conclude there are nation-state actors exploiting technology for spying and cyber attacks.
Aren’t they using the March 14 model like the general public?

It’s frozen in time, there are no updates to it..

All of these will be drawn using the same model until they push a new update, or you switch to a different GPT

But I already think they proved the point that the generation is random enough that it would be extremely difficult to track progress this way.
> people with a shared history going back many hundreds of years and seeming to not want to be separated

Many people in Northern Ireland—a narrow majority at the moment—consider themselves to be British and do not want to be separated from the UK. That's why it's such a tricky problem.
It's quite funny to tell it that it is an unhelpful assistant. During the first few responses it is amusingly obstinate.

It always seems to revert back to "helpful assistant" after a few messages, whatever the prompt says.
Is anyone else also getting tired of seeing "GPT" prefix / suffix in the name of 90% new AI-related products?
Cool, next they'll add recaptcha to change/reject cookies.

Dark patterns are everywhere and there's seemingly no widespread boycott against them. Open source projects should have banners about them on their homepage, as they've had for other social issues.
The article I read said he went into a panic, and intended to go into hiding because he knew he screwed up big time, and was about to be hauled off to jail.
> Are there people who are that keen to mix and match their Bosch and Ryobi?

Why wouldn't that be a perfectly reasonable thing to do? The default, in fact, unless artificial lock-in was created with bullshit like this.
It groups the fog as a single object (except where it's separated by things like hills).

You can see what it does - it's available to test at https://segment-anything.com/.
Maybe some sort of required social service (beyond the required military), especially in the SK countryside where it is badly needed?

Only anecdotal, but I went from massively introverted to a more-or-less well adjusted social adult after three years in the peace corps (coincidentally in South Korea). My work in a rural health center required me daily to interact with dozens of people who needed me in a language I was struggling to learn. In the process, I grew to enjoy socializing for the first time and have benefitted from the experience ever since.
What is the secret? I do not see the mechanism described. I just see that <$300 was spent with a vendor, SkyPilot.

Perhaps there is an algorithm for choosing spot instances?