skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who don't understand the system think leaking classified data is either James Bond nonsense or its like Trade Secrets where once the cat's out of the bag and its public it doesn't matter.

Say you're arguing about the top speed of an aircraft carrier or some BS, the topic doesn't actually matter. The top speed is classified but you know what it is and its documented in writing you know what it is. You google for the public answer of the top speed. Some wise ass engineer on Quora uses basic fluid dynamics and hydrology principles to calculate it must be darn near Z knots and you know for a fact its exactly Z knots you plagiarize the guy or quote him, BAM if the NYT has an axe to grind about it, you're now a felon. That's how classified data works. Its content based not process based. You can't avoid prosecution using a google search or chatGPT log or a torrent file or a link to wikileaks as a magic shield, the legal structure doesn't work that way, sorry kid.

Another way to get caught is "wikipedia paraphrases the classified document I have including exact numbers and everything ... obviously my classified document must have been declassified a long time ago, no danger in quoting my original, right?" Nope, insta-felony.

Now usually if you avoid getting documented in the NYT, if you are just quoting some nonsense you downloaded from the internet that everyone has a copy of anyway, the punishment is not quite as severe as if you sold files to Russia in exchange for coke and hookers.

If everyone on the planet already knew about it except the American public who paid for it, usually not get into much trouble, but you will get into trouble.

It's an interesting security problem to guard against. If you want to F up the American War Machine almost for free, post a bunch of 'stolen' classified docs on some Portuguese (or whatever) web server and wait for the Americans to prosecute themselves for quoting the posts.

I had a clearance in the Army and no matter how many times they teach the class there's people who just don't get it, even if everyone in the world knows about ... Israeli nuclear weapons, for example, you personally are not allowed to talk about it once you're read in. Everyone on the planet can talk about it and every civvie can have a print out of those docs on their desk, but if you have a clearance you cannot talk about it.
Right now the issue is we can people alive but can't slow down aging. If we kept people alive by slowing down aging you wouldn't have to retire as early.
Is the weakest link here iCloud backups?

Afaik, the backups are encrypted but Apple has the key and is the one doing this encryption.
It works with Supabase self-hosted?
This argument doesn't hold. The effect that you are shooting for is that you minimize the damage to the planet. Having some people use the grid as an 'unlimited free battery' is a fantastic way to achieve the exact same effect as if all those people invest in large physical batteries without the investment and without the environmental impact.

This sort of thing should be incentivized rather than discouraged because of the large scale effects, not because of petty accounting rules or by creating jealousy where there isn't ground for any: poor people without panels aren't subsidizing the rich, they are effectively not subsidizing the energy companies, which are far, far richer than the people with rooftop solar. It's citizens generating power for other citizens at the price that the market dictates. The thing to hope for is that enough of this will eventually lead to a reduction in retail prices rather than that we allow the energy companies to make money off surplus from one citizen sold to the next.

Batteries are nice, reduced grid generation requirement during daylight hours is even better. And that's before we get into fire risks of large battery installations, space requirements, depreciation, recycling and so on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/

There's a lot of non-emacs filler but it's still the best emacs e-zine
We have this new feature where if you can paste in an article or chunk of code in a second search box that will drop down. Does this work for your use case?
All that may be true in broad strokes, but it still doesn’t mean that the retail price is the right price in any specific situation.

The value of the electricity depends on when and where it’s generated. Depending on time of day, what other power sources are available, and where it is on the grid, it might be higher or lower.
"What I've noticed about emacs lovers is that they all customize it heavily - I didn't want to do that, since to me the point of using a plain text editor is that it's always available in exactly the same form wherever I happen to be. "

So you not customize vim either?

If you don't, you're missing out 99.999% of the greatness of both editors and doing yourself a huge disservice.

It's like being a carpenter and limiting yourself to only ever using a screwdriver.
I agree. One of the best interviews I ever had was for an iOS position at a company. The interviewer himself had a little bit of experience with iOS development and he lent me his laptop and asked me to write a simple app.

It was great because he was testing the very thing I was going to be hired for. Additionally, he asked how I would design X or Y and I explained the pros and cons of certain designs and I could show him right there on the screen how I'd do it. This wasn't a whiteboard where I'd have to slowly write out code in a medium I'm not used to. I literally was typing on a keyboard, using intellisense, etc.

As someone who does iOS development day to day, it was a very easy way for me to show that I knew what I was doing and the guy was quite pleased when I plowed through all the requests he had.
Thankfully we also don't have the mentally that anything less than 60h per week, and no time off, is not being committed enough.
Not to mention the productivity gains of having people who have the experience of workers in their 40's with the energy levels of people in their 30's would be a big productivity boon.
Ha woops. My mind is in Rhode Island :)
For real. Avoid tenderloin and SOMA and everything else is fine.
I'm not arguing. I'm saying that we know don't know if it definitely was Democrat policies that created the problem, but we definitely know it wasn't Republican ones. For all we actually know they could be right. Can't be upset at that, especially while lacking any sort of plan or process to deal with the problem.

I personally think the great weather is just as much factor as anything else. If I were homeless in North Dakota, I'd be doing whatever it took to get to warm weather. Now couple that I know the city won't take down my tent or throw me in jail, move me, will feed, cloth, and give me helpful things, yea, probably sounds like a decent plan vs freezing to death after being hassled by authorities.

It shouldn't be a crime to be unfortunate, but it's also not sustainable to have 60,000 (admitted, but probably closer to 80-100k) homeless people in LA alone.

So, I present a steelman style question... What if they're right? How would we know? And would it be helpful to dump on media outlets that talked about just because we didn't want to see it?

Why it is no one can even remotely entertain the possibility they might be wrong?
Isn't it the case that electricity is cheaper at night because of lower overall usage? Wouldn't that make trading peak daytime electricity for nighttime electricity worth it?
Since the victim lived in Miami most recently, a lot of people writing about this case commented about crime statistics and it seemed to me that based on the data, Miami is a more dangerous place than San Francisco, with more murder, rape, assault, etc.

I think where to draw the line is this "undesirable place" business. That's highly subjective, judgemental, and can cause you to lose sight of a lot.
OK now I see your problem. You currently lack a fundamental understanding of neural networks and machine learning in general, and it seems that you didn't actually read the entire paper.

The loss function is involved in the training of a neural network (transformer).

THE LOSS FUNCTION IS NOT THE MODEL ITSELF.

The loss function is not a neural network. The loss function is not the transformer model. It is only part of the training step.

This is a major blind spot in your current technical understanding of this paper and machine learning in general.

The loss function (in GPT-3) is optimizing a 100 layer neural network with 175 billion parameters, and that is where the semantic relations emerge, in the model itself. The neural network is inferring these relations from the training data. Obviously there is no "meaning" defined in the loss function, and it makes absolutely no sense to look for it there. The structure to be learned is in the training data. Semantics are not explicitly coded into the model. The paper does not give you all of the technical details. The authors assume you have the pre-requisite knowledge of NLP, deep learning, and the transformer architecture.

"Semantic similarity" is not gospel. This is a standard NLP term and it is discussed in the paper, as it is one of the training objectives.

This emergent properties of transformers and other deep learning models is a fascinating thing to witness and to study. You should go back to basics in machine learning to properly understand how the loss function is only directing the training of a model, but is not the model itself, which can be incomprehensibly vast as in the case of GPT-3. You could not fit a full technical description of the actual trained GPT-3 model into any paper. The emergent properties of neural networks is a new field of research and we don't yet have a complete understanding of all of these properties or how to investigate them.
Probably just simple observation - if culture was an element then we would expect to see diverging behaviors in different groups. Wouldnt require communicating.
This works, but it isn't nearly as efficient as getting people to create and consume their own power: it creates a level of awareness that is much higher than it would ever be if it is part of some larger pool.
A few thoughts based on my experience with GPT4 so far.

1. For now, not by much. It will make us more productive but the world is not short of projects with endless backlogs so huge nobody can ever drain them. Maybe some of those tickets are low value or obsolete, but a lot of them represent real bugs or ideas for improvement that the cost of software development makes prohibitive to reach.

2. It may change the nature of the job a lot. It could hurt developers who are very heads down and ideas constrained. If what you love most about coding is the thrill of finding the perfect algorithmic implementation, then, well, AI may reduce the enjoyment of the job. If what you love about coding is seeing your ideas come alive, then AI can increase your enjoyment of the job.

3. Whilst some people claim they ideate and get inspired by talking to AI, my own experience has been that GPT4 is a rather conservative and predictable sort of personality. Perhaps it's the training and maybe via the API you can ramp up the temperature and get more creativity out of it, but whenever I've asked it for ideas or tried to bounce ideas around, I tend to get milquetoast yes-man type results, or the ideas it comes up with are generic and obvious. Also with each day that passes it's getting easier to notice the lack of "AI invents/solves something new" type stories. There was the one where it came up with a word game, which was pretty cool, and we know it can invent stories. But it doesn't yet seem to be producing an abundance of new ideas for things like new features, business innovations, etc. Maybe it does for other people. Maybe it will start doing it for me soon. But for now, it doesn't seem able to do that.

So - programmers who just want to play code golf, be ready for that to become more of a hobby than a job. But for programmers who always wished they had more hours in the day to get through all their ideas, it will enable them to create a lot more value and that value will in turn create demand for yet more value-add on top of that. So it should be a virtuous circle, in theory.
> assemler mnemonic representations of opcodes are not hiding anything

They do hide things. There are often multiple ways to encode a line of assembly into machine code. For example on x86, JMP can take an 8-, 16-, or 32-bit displacement, and the assembler will usually select the shortest encodable variant. Some instructions have a shorter variant for certain registers, like ADD $1, %eax. You add useless REX prefixes.
re: In the Pale Moonlight (above)

"and all it cost was the self-respect of one Starfleet officer."
Private gun owners don't need to consume a number on par with NATO to help keep capacity up. They just need to consume enough that maintaining said capacity is profitable.

That being said, I'd honestly be surprised if private consumption wasn't within an order of magnitude.
Disagree. While it contained a dose of humor -- the primary message clearly was not humor, but the serious need to warn others about the need to be wary of this guy.

As buttressed by the data points in the sibling comment to mine.
Needing to do the due dilligence is part of the challenge of doing pharma correctly, and thus, its difficulty.

That the work is necessary doesn't make it not part of the challenge.

How are you defining "difficulty" here?
For specific agencies with a great workforce, it is worse than this.

we've been losing a great deal of technical expertise recently to industry, where Fortune 500s are offering compensation packages 200% to 250% higher than the current compensation of federal contractors & technical civil servants.
I don't get the calls to ban LLM chatbots due to privacy concerns. Haven't people been asking the search engines pretty much the same stuff for years now?
Windscribe VPN's marketing team is honestly top notch
Here's a great video by Nick Zentner, who teaches at Central Washington University, on that article and has a lot of updated info and debunks some claims made.

Nick Zentner- Earthquakes: Will Everything West of I-5 Really Be Toast?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4D6OE7Qkc
What? What has the race and the finances have to do with anything? He's not white, he's of Iranian descent I believe. The LinkedIn is still online. Even tho I disagree with doxing someone that might turn out not to be the victim.
There's still an incentive. A smaller one, yes. I'm not sure how paying wholesale for generation instead of retail would change "citizens generating power for others at the rate the market dictates" - it seems like the wholesale one is much more in line with that rate. If there was never the super-generous payouts for excess power would we be having this discussion?

I'm not convinced of the doom and gloom about the change since it's coming from highly-invested people.
-Broiler chicken farms have 17 000 chickens per level, often with 3-4 level per building,are filled with wood shaving and heated with propane burners. They are also wildly unreported, and deaths underreported.
Ask HN: How do you cope with the existential dread of AGI?
I've opened my eyes recently to the catastrophe that we're headed toward with unaligned AI. I know plenty of people here aren't worried, and are actually excited about it. I was too, but I just hadn't really thought very deeply about it before. I was imagining the most rose-tinted sci-fi. Now I'm trying to figure out how this doesn't end extremely poorly for us all, and can't.

I am trying not to panic, not to sink into a deep despair, but it seems like even if AI doesn't actually kill everyone (which apparently over half the people working on AI think has a good chance of happening!) it's going to screw up things much worse than just the weak AIs that we've used to create the never-ending attention economy. It seems like AI is a fire that has already started to burn and consume us, and we just keep feeding it instead of fighting it. Maybe we create AIs to cure our diseases, then someone uses one to take out the power grid and modern society collapses and hundreds of millions starve. Maybe even if a super-intelligent AI doesn't take over, we rely on them more and more until every important decision is made by AI instead of people, and when bad things start happening, it's too late to undo it. We're going so, so fast, and there's nobody at the helm.

I have a little boy, and I don't this world for him. He's so naive, so excited about technology, and I cry for him when he's not looking. I wasn't doing too bad up until today, tried to have a little hope and maybe start the grieving process ahead of time, but it's just so terrifying. I'm trying so hard to shout "stop! stop!" but the world is so noisy.

And to the people working on making better, smarter AIs -- do you think that this is going to be a good thing for humanity, to develop and release these things to everyone, so quickly? Are you not worried that you're bringing about the end of the world, or at least going to cause massive amounts of suffering? I have heard that a lot of people working in AI are privately very concerned, but don't feel like it'll make much of a difference if they quit or not.
I used to use Elixir, but the lack of static types got to me (especially since I prefer the type-driven development methodology). Using Rust afterwards was great, plus it was faster than the BEAM. I guess, why not use Rust entirely instead of as a FFI into Elixir or other backend language? I've been using Axum and it works pretty well. The only time I had to do FFI with Rust was with Flutter via flutter_rust_bridge, for running a CRDT library (automerge) that was implemented in Rust, for offline app functionality.
> Instead, Olshausen and others argue that information in the brain is represented by the activity of numerous neurons. So the perception of a purple Volkswagen is not encoded as a single neuron’s actions, but as those of thousands of neurons. The same set of neurons, firing differently, could represent an entirely different concept (a pink Cadillac, perhaps).

Unless they’re talking about embeddings, this is how 99% of people think about representation.

And even if they are talking about embeddings, embeddings are, quit standardly, higher dimensional floating point vectors. Even the original Transformer paper used IIRC 512-dim vectors.

This article seems like yet another signal for the death of quantamagazine.
This has gotten easier as the years go by, as well. Standard emacs has a lot of affordances that computers just couldn't do without bogging down the system years ago.
Completely disagree. The wokeness from these corporations, the DEI culture, the dividing contemptuous nature of this ideology needs to be openly and fiercely criticized. It’s destroying the very fabric of America.

The fact that we are not allowed to do that on HN speaks for its ideological and dangerous grip on free thinking. The chilling effect is real.
Failure to adapt to changing threat models. Used to be extortion, now it's just boredom. I imagine there have always been a few bored guards taking stuff home to show off at poker night, but that was as far as it went back then.
This seems to define attraction between two people as some sort of "match how hot out of 10" game. I'd suggest that that's a overly simplistic understanding of how attraction and dating works.
Cars have a “limp-home” mode which they enter if sensors show odd yet not critical errors. Usually it restricts the acceleration and top speed to 30kmph or so. If it totally shut down it was likely a very serious error.
Makes sense here is community geothermal....

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/01/geothermal-powered-housing-d...

Also wished I could convince my community to run is own ISP.
In America most people are never declared guilty by a judge, they get held in jail until they give up and agree to the prosecutor declaring them guilty instead.
Sirtuins are histone deacetylases, so by the logic of this article, they should increase aging?
> I am saying having to deal with things like your manager asking you to force your team to come to work becase he wants to see the office alive, but not bothering to take the responsibility on the decision.

Moving up the ladder means dealing with requests that may be ill informed from a ground-level perspective, your job as a manager is to reconcile those things. It's impossible to make an accurate read on the situation based on what you're posting here. On one hand, maybe your boss is incompetent and not doing his job, on the other hand maybe he's making a reasonable ask and it's you that's failing to see the big picture and how to navigate the situation. Either way, you should be getting on the same page privately. Make your case 1:1, but if you're not able to influence then you have to disagree and commit.

What doesn't help is to air your dirty laundry publicly—either within the team or anonymously in a public forum like HN. It might feel good to vent in the moment, but it doesn't help morale of the team, and ultimately it does not help improve the situation so the team can do their best work.
I have a small drawer with a few cables. In general, I don't find a need to keep an inventory of cables these days. Maybe just a few USB cables, an HDMI cable, and a few other random things.
Is based off anything or just unnecessary political dividing rhetoric? If you want to be mad at a president pardoning a traitor be mad at Obama, since that was something that actually happened.
The EU doesn't have the money or the regulatory framework, to begin with. See how quickly they are working to make sure nobody can build this (well, make it work within the EU)
In this example there is enough evidence the suspect has been arrested by police, which is a public record. Not remotely the same as the Boston bomber reddit-misidentification case.
It's not 'super generous', it is a wash. And yes, you'd have the same problem but you'd also have more fires and a fair sized environmental problem. Having an inverter to recycle every decade or so is one thing (assuming it can't be cost effectively repaired), having to do the same thing with a 50 KWh battery is another matter entirely.
> If you sort by total in the violent crime section, it's well out of the top fifty.

As the other poster said, it's #37.
I think the simple explanation is just that "democratize" in this context just means you can ask your questions in natural language instead of having to learn SQL, access to large datasets to the broader demos.
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It isn’t the recommendation algorithms themselves which are insidious, it is that they are coupled directly with a single human. They are like mental parasites which watch every single interaction one makes and adjusts, ever so slightly, to the negative just to keep you watching.
I think the focus on traffic violations is due to how much money they make from giving people tickets
Specifically, I don't want to need to build any user interface, I want the terminal to be the user interface, and "just work" the same way it does on my local machine.

I've seen xterm which is nice for the UI, though I'm looking for something I can just drop in my python program and it'll work.
I've read it, can recommend.

Also "Dark Star Express" about his rail/road travels in Africa, 30 yrs after his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer.
Getting tired of this, because the algorithms themselves are worthless. Instead, demand websites that aren't just a recommendation feed. Demand the ability to categorize and rank content explicitly.

The problem is that these websites are creating a feed, and then training themselves based on how you engage with...the feed. It's a toxic feedback loop, with almost no levers for you to interact with. If you get stuck in a rabbit hole, it is difficult to teach it how to get you out. That's independent of the "algorithm" being used, it's a problem with all of them.