skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://web.archive.org/web/20230430154026/https://www.nytime...
I am not sure it’s not funny. Elon Musk gave ChatGPT $100 million dollars. There are 9 billion people in the world… he could have made everyone a millionaire many times over! (In SHIB.) I feel like that amount of ShibaCoin would be life changing for most people. Yet he wasted it all on a company that became for-profit and sold shares to Microsoft instead.

(And no, before you say it, my math checks out!)
First, you need to ask yourself what you're trying to protect the secret against. Then you can figure out some reasonable mechanism to do it.

There's no single proper way. You can't always go with "maximum" protection for everything, because then you'll be doing multiparty ceremonies all the time and it would be mighty impractical https://www.cloudflare.com/dns/dnssec/root-signing-ceremony/
I'll add that I do end up disabling tests more than I'd like, even for very popular packages. Point taken there.
I believe GPT-4 is able to perform some level of logical reasoning.

Simpler models look very good on the surface, but there are some examples where this starts to break own. Example:

"Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sister?"

The catch here is the man is dead, which is the reason he can't marry. GPT-4 gets this right. Simpler models however can be prompted to perform step-by-step reasoning where they figure out that dead men can't marry, and that a "man's widow" means he's dead, but the model still can't be coaxed into figuring out that he can't marry in the scenario above.

I'm guessing GPT-4 still has similar hangups where it gets stuck and can't get out no matter the coaxing, although I don't have any examples handy. Anyone?

This doesn't mean GPT-4 is a stochastic parrot, just that there are still flaws in its reasoning abilities.
I wouldn’t tell them UNTIL (and maybe not even then) you’ve had time to reflect and decide some things for yourself and what you want to do.
I actually think all three of the things you list as "unintentionally testing for" are extremely important.

Systems often work well for months and don't need touching, then have an incident, or need a new change, etc. You can remember that stuff fairly quickly? Perfect. You can't? I think that's a potential flag, directly related to "able to identify issues in a complex system" and "able to figure out solutions to said problem."

But the other reason why not many candidates do well on that is because there's also just a lot of companies where the day to day work is not-complex problems on not-complex systems (even (especially?) at FAANG where the typical dev is a very tiny piece of the machine). So in that case we have to fall back to made-up approximations for "complex" problems that don't require a ton of extra context.
Great article. Sums up what I've observed over my entire career. Incentives are orthogonal at best to what is actually good for the company, and at times, doing things that actively harm the company can be the way up the ladder. We're worse than bad at measuring and rewarding good performance.
As an example of this kind of rule from a place that currently has them, the basic coverage of California’s implied warranty of habitability are covered on pp 48-50 of this document:

https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/California-Tenants-Guide...
Do you have a GitHub or any software from gagoot we could try?
Ownership, correct. Who gets to the keep the surplus (profits).

Tragically, I biffed. USSR is public (as in the state is the owner) and USA is private (as in you and me).

I wish I could remember where I heard this taxonomy. James C Scott, Richard Wolfe, other? Sorry.

A quick search suggests "USSR is state capitalism" was one of Trotsky's (many) criticisms of the USSR. Wage labor, exploitation, yadda, yadda.
with a sprinkle of QWOP
I agree. Another way to come to this conclusion is that the GPT-4 model is on the order of 1000B parameters, or on the order of a terabyte of data.

That's not a lot of different sentences when you consider the combinatorical explosion.
David Weston was very involved in the TPM decision, and spoke about it here: https://youtu.be/8T6ClX-y2AE

After msft's experiences with Win10, they decided Windows wouldn't become more secure unless they enabled features by default. And the majority of high-impact features depend on a TPM.

I'd argue that home users do need these features in the current security environment. TPMs have been required in new devices since 2016, so people are more likely to have thrown out incompatible devices already (CPU/RAM if not disk)
>...an advertising campaign for the American Civil Liberties Union involving invasions of privacy and the use of technology to control behaviour... ...The campaign was popular enough to remove Ritalin from being used in New Mexico schools

Um, what? And I'm sure that was great for the kids who needed their ADHD treated.
Realistically, UDP/IP is going to be your least complicated and best supported option.

PEP/IPX could be an option except IPX support is likely hard to find these days. Anything else is going to need privileged execution, which maybe is fine.

UDP/IP isn't too hard... To do it right, you probably want dhcp or ipv6 router advertisement support, and arp or neighbor discovery protocol. But if you don't want to do it right, you can abuse broadcast packets quite a bit.
If you like this you may want to also have a look at voxraygames by the irrepressible @Aardappel

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlNTKN4HSJQ
Apologies if this is in the books you linked, but there's something I've always been curious about and can't seem to find good resources on anywhere: how do you actually plan and optimize the trajectory of a rocket?

I understand orbital mechanics at a basic level and there are lots of resources out there to get a better understanding of those, but then to put them into practice in Kerbal Space Program, I just kind of drag the sliders and nodes around until the line goes where I want it to. Obviously NASA had nothing like that in the 60s, so I've always wondered how they actually calculated when the launch windows were and so on.
I've been at a company where I really wish there was worker representation on the board, something that isn't a thing in the U.S. even in companies with strong unions, but I very much like the concept. In the particular case where I was the board was appointed mostly by the CEO and didn't represent any kind of oversight or even the barest amount of engagement. There was no meaningful checks and balances, and no one to call executives on BS when they presented to the board.

Especially in the tech industry I think ICs are generally very invested in the overall success of the company. I honestly don't think corporate leadership is selected with any greater alignment than employees. They have a different perspective, which is sometimes good/correct/necessary. But they also are the ones who are most likely to drive a company into the ground.
while yes the wealthy just move their kids to privet schools they have to pay for that out of pocket while still contributing taxes to the public school system which also now doesn't have to pay toward the privetly schooled child.
Or, if you attached the last piece to a concrete wall, how long would it take the machine to break?
I agree. The comparison with Facebook’s TOS just shows that Facebook has put more time into their TOS to obtain the same legal rights without sounding as scary.

That said, the TOS for social media platforms should be explicit and easy to understand with regards to the limits of the platform’s rights and the context under which the content is licensed. This story will probably prompt Bluesky to do exactly that, so not a bad thing overall.
This article misses the mark IMO. It really doesn't seem like the bank was taking on risks that a ton of banks aren't also exposed to just doing normal 'bank stuff'

The banks primarily invest in mortgages, and treasuries, and so a lesser extent business loans. That's about as 'safe' as it gets! If they wanted inflation protection they could invest in, what? Securities? Then they'd be an investment bank. Even if this was legal, then if market went down and there was a run and there would be an article about how the bank should have held bonds and treasuries. If they held cash they wouldn't be a 'bank' anymore and couldn't offer what few services they do.

Banks are exposed to interest rate risk. They borrow short and lend long. Anybody taking a look at their checking account today will see they can get higher yields by moving their money around from their traditional bank to new high yield accounts from e.g. Synchrony and many others.

Based on this I don't see this ending with First Republic.

Now, I am sympathetic to claims of mismanagement, but I don't see it at the bank level. I'm just a amateur here but if I had to point my finger at something that exacerbates these problems its the US government's continued support for long (15yr+) fixed-rate loans. These really appear to be US government creation.

Meanwhile our federal gov is running record peacetime deficits. If interest rates remain high (and its hard to see them coming down very quickly) its going to blow a gaping hole in the federal budget.
Just came to say that this is a wonderful comment, and that people voluntarily playing with/remixing your creation is one sign of great art.
> Julian Assange leaked the DNC emails on behalf of Russian intelligence.

Journalists report on leaks from intelligence all the time, to the point that the "Intelligence sources say"-phrase is becoming a meme of US "news".

You can't open CNN or MSNBC without seeing some FBI or CIA head telling you what they want you to think.

Why something is being leaked is relevant, but it shouldn't be a reason to ignore the truth or attack the journalist.
Honest question - what minerals can you get from water that aren't available in the food we eat?
New proposals would let governments seize domain names
Related:

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626532 - Jan 2021 (112 comments)

Britney Spear's Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872658 - Jan 2016 (31 comments)
This is the key sentence in the summary and it is f'ing clever:

> Since endogenous biomarkers such as shed proteins or nucleic acids can be limited by either their abundance or stability in circulation, engineered ‘synthetic biomarkers’ are in development that leverage the biochemistry of the diseased microenvironment to amplify the production of analytes with improved signal-to-noise ratios
True for our minds too I think ;)
That’s incredibly kind of you, thank you. I think I am really the lucky one.
You're proposing a false dichotomy where the only two options are private landlords and no rental properties whatsoever. There are so many alternate systems of providing housing to people, including social housing, non-profit rental housing, housing cooperatives, building cooperatives, cohousing, intentional communities, community land trusts, communes, land value taxes, etc.

Also, being a landlord isn't a job. Owning property isn't a job. Property management can be a job, but the typical landlord is barely lifting a finger to do much of that.
> It is important to stop the introduction of these chemicals and microplastics into our environment.

This is an unreasonable, although noble, goal. The petrochemical industry is simply too embedded to be meaningfully regulated in the ways that it should be. They have had de facto nation state powers for decades, or, in the case of Saudi Arabia/Aramco, are state actors themselves.
Unfortunately, the EPA, and modern science has no proactive models to predict toxicity.

By the time disclosure occurs, studies are completed, you're 5 to 10 years into mass production. And a ban then gets another 5 years and manufacturing just needs to rotate a few molecules and those studies are now irrelevant.

Until we have a predictive model of toxicity, there's no real ability to do anything but in decadal scales.
You’re welcome, and I hope you have a ton of fun!
At my last company we were selling into the NHS which was traditionally very conservative with browsers (they were one of the last users of IE6). But even they're on Chrome these days.
I didn't say I felt good about it. But I don't feel bad about it either. I do what I'm asked to do, just nothing more.

As far as pride goes, what I do I do well, or at least to the best of my ability. I don't sabotage anything. Based on reviews of my work and absent any criticism, my employer seems to feel they are getting what they are paying for.
I'll be honest here and tell that anyway, if outside crunch week i get more than 25-28 hours of productive work, i'm either workin on something highly interesting or lyig (im supposed to work 35hours btw).

I'll be even more honest, looking back at what i've produced as a junior, if i spent my weeks working 10 hours and refining another ten, doing nothing the remaining 15 to 25, i would have produced four time as much, and be a mid-level devops in less than a year.
Do you support weighted similarly search? I.e. when I have several embeddings and need to put a weight factor in front of the cosine similarity when I’m performing a query?

Faiss seems like an excellent choice. How do you get the vectors into it from the database? Or are they stored separately? I’m currently using pgvector and it’s not GPU optimized. But the advantage is that it enjoys the same levels of data protection as the rest of the database.

Actually, are there any vector similarity search query sample? I see the feature extractor, but can’t seem to find any similarity search samples.
If this becomes commercially available I will be very curious to see what effect it has upon obesity levels.
Made something similar that outputs 12V/24V to use an inverter for 220V appliances. Which also allows generic USBC adapterw for the car to work, which do a much wider range of voltages than just 20V (with the ducurrent limitation of max 100W/5A).

Mostly have been using it to charge Lipos for RC (cars and drones) on the go.
Its creative license.

He's illustrating how a description of the Antichrist from over 100 years ago so neatly describes modern man's deity.

You clearly understood the parallel, for you felt manipulated. His manipulation is not only intentional, it is admitted by the author!
"Not being rewarded with money seems to be the common theme here, but financial incentives are tricky to get correct"

Giving pay raises which exceed inflation for someone who meets expectations (in anonymous peer reviews) is tricky?

Ensuring expectation meeting employees pay stays in line with market rates--when the company knows the market rate because they are hiring new employees--is tricky?

Even if one argues it is not possible to accurately measure performance (or to get honest reviews from peers), punishing everyone because some employees may be underperforming is clearly not the solution (it will only serve to demotivate or drive away previously motivated and happy employees).

And to be clear, reasonable pay raises is not a solution to all of the problems the article is talking about, but it's a simple place to start.
In healthier workplace cultures, this kind of don't-give-a-shit behavior is socially stigmatized, while behaving like someone who wants to do things right is socially rewarded. It's easy to forget, but not all incentives are measured in dollars.

I'm not trying to go full Confucius here, but people who do better work than they have to shouldn't be made to feel like chumps by the people around them. They should get respect, so they feel good for doing good things.
Marketing will take care of that.
If GPT-4 has 10 terabytes (10^13) of stored memories, how long are the sentences it has stored if there are 100 (10^2) different words to choose from?

Wouldn't that be a table of sentences less than 7 words long?

100^7 = (10^2)^7 = 10^14
Too many choices on the initial setup.
This expectation that the US (amongst others) will step in to fix this is weird.

I'm not American, but the history of US-led interventions isn't great, and I think it's reasonable that the US doesn't really want to be involved in yet another 3rd world (in the original sense) country that's eating itself.
I hope your skepticism is appropriately language-specific. For example auto-vectorization of FORTRAN code has a long, successful history (the Cray 1, and X/Y-MP were basically FORTRAN machines) due to its memory model and vector affordances.

With C, C++, Rust and other such languages of course it's very difficult.
100% agree with everything. Now what can we do so political leaders and others who hold power also think this way? The biggest problem is people overlooking the mistakes of leaders and reelecting the same people.
Reminds me of Ken Silverman's old projects.
Ah yes, I've worked before with developers that believed that processes didn't matter. They produced amazing value, or so they thought. Except that...

Half of what they did was never committed into git, because a software versioning process is for dummies. And the other half could only be found in a random feature branch, because they didn't need any review process, their code was always faultless.

Whatever was running in production did not match any state of the repository, because CI/CD processes only get in the way.

The documentation never matched their code because documentation is only for people that don't know what they're doing, and we shouldn't hire such people anyway.

Not saying that's you. But that is the type of person you appear to me when you proudly proclaim that processes have no value.
I am a chump. I've SEEN passwords in plaintext and I even tried to remove it by figuring out how to remove it from git histories.

Heck, for one of those where it was not possible to get rid of plaintext due to the architecture, I even wrote some code to compare hashes instead of password so at least the attacker would need a rainbow table to crack it. Didn't bother salting it, since there's only one user effectively.

But meh.

Life of a chump, ain't getting no promotion and got the lowest possible bonus last year. It's better to be a chump cos I can feel better about myself
I think the idea is there's a curve where the less business friendly the unions are willing to negotiate at, the more likely businesses outsource. And there's some point where so many of the businesses have outsourced everything we basically don't have the infrastructure for it any longer or hiring is scarce.
The Holy Grail of POSIX-portable shell scripts is irrelevant these days. Just use bash which is the default on most *nix systems.
It's my understanding that AAA was supposed to be the successor to ECS, but business problems forced the creation of AGA, a stop-gap (so they thought) successor since ECS was rapidly becoming too out-of-date to compete with PCs.

Commodore never resolved its business problems and the rest is history.
Pledge for special podcast series dispelling the myth of Elon Musk’s genius
right now microsoft has had minetest removed from the google play store for a month using groundless copyright accusations
Moreover the tradeoffs that would come with an actual meaningful reduction in, say, microplastics, are drastic QOL downgrades that many people would not accept, forever chemicals be damned.
If you are on Linux, this is a known issue, I think you need Gnome Keyring installed (on any DE) to avoid this behavior.
Thanks for sharing. Baraka is one of my favorite movies and one the the very few Bluray disks I actually own. It was one of the last movies to be shot entirely in 70mm[0]. At the time Ebert declared it the finest video disk ever made[1]. There was a recent 8K reissue of Baraka, but I have not seen it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_70_mm_films

[1] https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1941
If you already assume bash, then you don’t need the “-v” option to the “test” builtin; just do

if [ "${foo+some_string}" = "" ]; then
echo "foo is unset"
fi

or, in your case:

if test "${2+x}" = "" # i.e. if $2 is not set
The word "thousands" is entirely irrelevant.

And I already made clear, of course there can be a whistleblower on somebody you like, if that person broke the law. People aren't above the law, end of story. So why are you asking for examples? Examples don't matter. It's a principle that applies no matter which side of the political aisle you're on.
When the lie is one of no consequence and it is given disproportionate reaction, I think lesser of the person who is spending their time on it.

That's just how it is with me. I think it's probably the common view.
Plus one for this. It was easier to get people to mail me computer books from Europe than to buy them in 1990s rural Oregon.
> Is your claim that both systems led to extreme wealth concentration?

Yes.

> The argument is that democracy ALWAYS leads to tyranny and collapse.

Rather than Plato's mob rule criticism, I'm using the more contemporary capitalism-vs-democracy (winner-takes-all) food fight.

The tension in USA, at least, has always been wealth vs democracy. The "liberal" in the traditional "liberal democracy" was a reference to our economic system of free enterprise. The aspiration was to balance winner-takes-all with will-of-the-people. Basically the formulation of modern Nordic "democratic socialism".
"perl or python". Don't forget Ruby.
In Israel, where a lot of drinking water is sourced by reverse osmosis, it appears that the lack of magnesium in drinking water may have increased heart disease:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...

There are of course many magnesium rich foods but the lack of magnesium in water could make a difference at the margins.
For most people who aren't independently wealthy, it takes steady income to keep a life going. So how would ideas about a side project help you do that? What makes you think ideas are worth money? Is there anyone else you know who has sold similar ideas in this manner? Are you a famous physicist or politician? I'm asking hard questions not out of meanness but out of genuine concern to get to a more stable track forward.

If one has under-treated conditions like OCD or manic depression, I've seen people with unhealthy fixations on ideas be their own worst enemies and sabotage their life situations. People who lived in vans but failed to get medication and floated in the in-between and on the margins. I've been there. There's no reward for misery and it's difficult to climb out of it. Wash windows, sell t-shirt, mow lawns.. all things that can be done with minimum of resources for immediate cash. Go on craigslist and offer technical services for an hourly rate.

It's not enough to want. One has to sustain themselves, be relentlessly resourceful, do and build something people need, and collect money in one stable way before changing to another. Stability first. It's like an investment portfolio: you wouldn't throw your parent's life savings into a random NFT. Maybe $5 as a test, but that's it.
That reminds me one of the rules of cycling: "it never gets easier, you just go faster"

Web dev is way easier now, if all you're trying to do is the same stuff we tried to do in the early 2000s. All the stuff that makes it harder is because we can do some much more now.
I first watched this film back at a time when sustainability was not discussed widely as an emerging crisis. It resonated deeply yet it was somehow disconnected from the day-to-day struggle of living a life.

As the years passed and more and more we have come around to see the dead-ends of our ways, that original disconnect has been finally resolved: the movie was just way ahead of its time.
I hope I never have to be the one to read those scripts.
This thread. >.<

The kinetic energy in an accident between two vehicles is their relative speed, not their absolute speed.

If you are doing 80 mph and hit a truck doing 70 mph, there's not 80 mph * vehicle mass worth of impact energy.

And that's not even breaking things into directional vectors and calculating the fraction of velocity in the direction of impact.