skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We absolutely do. This is literally what psychological operations [1] are. In the US each branch of the military even has their own distinct psyop divisions with mottos like "Never Seen, Always Heard." Here's [2] a recruitment video from the Army's 4th Psyop Group [3], entitled "Ghosts in the Machine." It's really well done and, more importantly, not at all subtle about what they do.

And now add LLMs into the picture.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(Unit...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4e0NqyYMw

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Psychological_Operations_G...
Excerpt:

> This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
Just be cautious asking a cosmetologist about galaxies and star formation, you may be disappointed in the answers.
Can you give one example of a fact that was entirely made up by an Economist article?
If the people's interests were codified as law, there would be a "poverty" punishment for weathly people doing wrong with their power, where you would be limited to living at the federal poverty limit, you can't say it's cruel or unusual punishment because people live this way every day, just because you had privilege doesn't mean it shouldn't be revoked and that extra wealth used to pay back your victims.
In this case it wans't criminal, just mismanagement, but there's nothing to say you deserve to be a corporate officer, that should be up for revocation too, getting society to shelter you with corporate fictional liability limitations. The fact this is an absurd 'punishment' for misdeeds or crimes tells a lot about who gets to say what laws are.
The general principle is called “chain of custody” [1] and it seems odd that it wasn’t mentioned in the article. Not a lawyer, but it normally doesn’t seem that rigorous? Someone testifies about how the video was recorded and stored, starting from the camera, to show that it’s unlikely to have been tampered with.

So it seems like if it comes from a security camera and you can say how it was recorded then that’s good, but if it’s video found on social media and you don’t know who recorded it then that should count against it.

I think before building anything, it might make sense to see what security cameras already do?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_custody
Thanks, missed that somehow.
Hence the existence of "confidence and supply" agreements where a party agrees to a loose coalition whose only pledge is to support the main party therein by voting for budgets (supply) and against no-confidence motions.
all RO systems I've found have a carbon filters, sediment (paper) filters and perhaps a VOC (carbon) filter. I've never seen a salt-based water softener stage for a home RO system.
Since the flow of deionized water is only 1/10 of total water flow... I think the increase in "waste" concentration is also only about 10% even of the filtered water is perfectly pure. So if you had 400ppm total dissolved solids it would now be *10/9=444ppm. Not much of a concern.
You are failing to consider scarcity.

For example, if the artist is 70 years and someone is thinking about buying the rights to their work, how long after death the work is protected is a big deal.

In this example, if the copyright ended immediately upon the artist's death, then a lot of potential buyers may decide that it is worth it to just wait for the artist to die, and either not make an offer or make a much smaller offer than they would have under the current situation of 70 years after the death of the author.
You're right and the problem is that I can't think of any product from Google for the last 10 years that had the same effect.
You can’t understand the US government without recognizing it as a substrate for inter-factional conflict between different segments of the ruling class. It’s organized crime and gang warfare all the way down.
It's worth remembering that Al Qaeda in Syria (under various other names) was funded and armed by the United States, Britain, Jordan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar according to numerous published reports, and that fighters for the organization were trained at secret CIA/military bases in Jordan and Turkey, and that the CIA operation in Libya in coordination with Qatar (out of Benghazi) funneled Libyan weapons to the organization for use against the Syrian government.

For example:
"Arming Syrian rebels: Where the US went wrong 10 October 2015 BBC"

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33997408

> "Those who supported his approach, the Arms for Rebels group, included then-CIA Director David Petraeus, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and most of the foreign-policy establishment in Washington, both Democrat and Republican."

"Behind the Sudden Death of a $1 Billion Secret C.I.A. War in Syria (2017)"

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syri...

> "...some of the C.I.A.-supplied weapons had ended up in the hands of a rebel group tied to Al Qaeda..."

Seems to be a pattern of behavior dating back to the Cold War, when the CIA decided that supporting violent religious fundamentalists in the Middle East and elsewhere would provide a bulwark against the Godless Communists.
Can The Pentagon Use ChatGPT? OpenAI Won’t Answer.
It’s not like Intel is miles ahead of the competition. Even if you believe that layoffs were necessary, the money should go into R&D unless Intel believes it’s so incompetent that it can’t find a better use for the money.
Deliberately setting up an environment to blackmail people in is definitely not a victimless crime.
Or just trying to do their job. Their whole MO flies in the face of "good faith". Even when telling the truth, its always done so strategically. Like many foreign intelligence agencies, the CIA are the organizational equivalent of a sociopath and should be regarded as such, even by Americans.
This is going to have a huge response with Casio connoisseurs. They took the original design and added heart rate tracking which is MVP what those people want from their watch. Great play.
VecLucene: Vector Search on Top of Lucene
Support different models, OpenAI embedding model and open source models (currently SentenceTransformer). Full Lucene search ability + Vector search.
Anyone thinks this is a useful project?
Sony, Nikon, and Canon already offer this for select "pro" cameras, specifically for law enforcement use.

Having unforgeable signatures on every image-capture device just in case some output file could be submitted as evidence in a civil case would be a privacy and safety _nightmare_, OTOH.
“My agency” infighting by largely ex-officers based on actions where the leadership of the involved agency were on the same page highlighted because it relates to a issue raised in a court case is... A very different thing than a civil war.
Isn't one of the primary reasons for the FBI counterintelligence? I was under the impression that their other general-purpose law enforcement functions were secondary.
and then an *** appears and publishes everything on discord to the game boys
Realizing that a business has more responsibilities than just satisfying the shareholders is incredibly important. I honestly just listed it as an example, there might be better books. I only had brief look at this particular one, since I got the impression that most of it's content is common sense here in Europe...
This recently via DataMachina substack:

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2023/05/04/langchain-mini.html
Step 1: steal an excavator (this is surprisingly easy)

Step 2: dig up the road at midnight

Just 'cause it's in the ground doesn't mean it's not worth stealing...
Closed source. I can't see the point of publishing anything innovative if it is just going to be vacuumed up by some giant corporation and sold back out to users at $10 a month.
Imagine a meteor made of ice. A nuclear bomb bombards the surface with immense radiation, vaporizing huge swaths of the surface. This superheated steam explodes off the surface of the meteor, and the meteor itself moves the opposite direction.
Sounds like a pitch, but it's more of where to get the goods at a reasonable price than a deep, vertical supply chain intent on creating an inkjet economy.

If you (US-based) want some residential/commercial RO membranes or water softeners for a reasonable price, I've had these at all the homes and apartments of family and self for 20 years.

Retail channel: https://wateranywhere.com

Commercial channel: https://www.appliedmembranes.com

My mom's house in Texas had the following freighted together:

- Whole house filtration (3x 20" big blue + 2 bypass valves)

- Water softener of sufficient grain reduction capacity - uses rock salt for cation exchange sodium for calcium in the presence of the catalyst bed. Creates water that's nicer to bathe and wash with, but it's probably not potable and can't be used to water plants.

- RO - 100 GPD - 3x 10" filters + RO membrane + UV + 1 post filter + permeate pump (reduces waste and transfers pressure from waste to feed). It's a PITA to run the tubing to refrigerator, sink, and wherever else you want it, but it's a one time thing. I used oversized tubing 3/8 ID to increase flow rate and reduce loss over a long run.

Initial cost is about $4k. Ongoing cost is about $40-50/year for whole house filtration and $60-80/year for RO depending on water quality. The RO and whole house filter setup should be sanitized every 6 months using appropriate supplies and methods.

Great care and research has to be taken choosing effective whole-house filter and RO filter cartridges to trap potential contaminants. At a minimum, the water should be sampled and tested by a lab and the local health department. There are specialized filters for heavy metals, chloramines, nitrates, and such. Here are some: https://wateranywhere.com/filters-and-housings/kx-extruded-c...

Mom's RO setup produces water <2 ppm at a resistance of 1 MΩ/cm. It won't be as good elsewhere without sufficient pressure and if the water has higher ppm of dissolved solids.

Bottom line: Never drink US tap water. Flint, MI isn't an aberration. (My mom's extended family lost several members due to cancer from polluted water at a house they shared around Durango, Colorado in the 4 corners area.)
Did anyone actually read the article or is everyone just upvoting this because of the title? It says nothing about the CIA covering up an involvement in 9/11, and talks about covering up intelligence blunders.
I don't follow.

The "pressurized accumulator" I'm referring to is just a water storage tank in the form of a bladder inside an air-pressurized steel vessel. A smaller version of the tank you find next to practically any well-pump to conserve pump cycling/wear and tear/smooth pressure spikes... Its participation in this system post-membrane is wasting water, not conserving it.

It's included from the factory just so nobody has to wait for filtered water to pass the membrane at time of use, instead experiencing an instant powerful jet of water out of the filtered water faucet.
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What’s the point? That you can’t fire people if you pay a divident?
Start a Technical Reading Group
Software developers gave themselves the title of engineer, not licensing bodies
The burden is on whichever side is attempting to introduce a piece of evidence.

From the federal rules of evidence:

> (a) In General. To satisfy the requirement of authenticating or identifying an item of evidence, the proponent must produce evidence sufficient to support a finding that the item is what the proponent claims it is.

https://www.rulesofevidence.org/article-ix/rule-901/

Specific to recordings

> An original writing, recording, or photograph is required in order to prove its content unless these rules or a federal statute provides otherwise.

https://www.rulesofevidence.org/article-x/rule-1002/

Unfortunately, the rules of evidence are pretty vague about what is actually required to prove that a video is admitable as evidence; but the burden to do so is absolutely on the party introducing it.
Wrote up some challenges and experience on starting a reading group!
Python does have plenty of metaprogramming capabilities, they just are more complex to use than a macro system. One simple, but highly limited system is metaclasses. Similarly weak but existing features include creating classes at runtime, and adding new methods to classes at runtime. A far more powerful system is compiling source to AST, which can then be manipulated, and finally compiled to bytecode. This allows arbitrary metaprogramming, but is certainly fairly complex.

One could even use it to implement a macro-like system by coding up a new finder that uses a new SourceFileLoader subclass that overrides the (accidentally undocumented!?) `source_to_code` method. In there, one can compile to ast, transform the ast, and then compile the ast to bytecode. (The method was documented back in 3.4 by way of being documented on a ancestor abstract base class, but that documented ancestor was changed to be static in 3.5, leaving this method seemingly accidentally undocumented.)

For the transform the AST step, one might look for apparent function calls to special macro functions, and instead call those macro methods as AST time passing in the AST of its arguments, receiving back as AST that you place in the tree replacing the function call. There is some trickiness here. For example, it is much easier if the macros are defined in another module so that they can already be compiled, and thus available while importing a module that uses them.

It should also be possible to handle macros defined in the same file by stripping out non-macro function definitions, and non-imports from top level statements, compiling that, and then using the result while processing the whole (unstripped) AST, and then finally compiling the result.

Of course such a system is significantly more complicated than with a lisp, but it is still possible. Its load time performance is also not likely to be especially wonderful, but python is not exactly a performance powerhouse.
Absolutely—it seems what he really wants is to go from his past lucrative gig (training AI) to his new lucrative gig (developing AI alignment tech?).
It would be unsurprising to discover that M. Yglesias attracted the attention of a twitter cluster that holds a fairly specific niche view very strongly and lots of that cluster piled in to the thread in question.

This is not, after all, a particularly rare event on the platform in general.
Yes, celebrities don't count as human
Companies certainly have to make money, the more the better, and your description is not technically wrong, and yet short-circuits.

Nobody in any productive and creative activity has dollar signs in their eyes. It's about building, creating, optimizing, allocating and yes, also removing. At least some part is long-term (certainly longer than the reporting interval of a "quarter"), and positive contributions compound. Alternatively you can just withdraw, and eat the seeds now - stock market and executive bonus agreements would reward that, and that's the mentality that cannot create.

The sense is that those formerly exciting companies are a little lame right now, and maybe lack the right visionary leadership? Why does the new AI boom not create excitement for Intel, to make chips for AI or to use AI to make chips or w/e. The sentiment is a disappointment in the tech sector that had been good for so long.
> Is there a serious competitor to Google Search? Like, not a distant competitor like Bing that poses some hypothetical future threat, but like, a present threat to Google Search that they battle against daily.

Bing is what Google battles against daily. Bing is such a competitive threat that when reports came out three weeks ago that Samsung products might switch to Bing as a default, Google's stock dropped 4% [1]. Google has been innovating its search furiously over years and years because competition is just a click away -- knowledge cards, snippets, massive machine learning under the hood. Google pays Apple something like $8-12 billion a year to maintain its default. Google wouldn't do that if it didn't see Bing as a present threat.

> Likewise for the major other properties - Gmail? YouTube?

Microsoft Outlook? TikTok? Gigantic competitors. More businesses pay for Outlook than do for Gmail. And TikTok is crushing YouTube among teens [2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/alphabet-falls-report-sam...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/tiktok-is-crushing-youtube...
Really, the question here is "do you build a general-purpose solution or one customized to your use case?"

I'm not sure where things are these days on the design spectrum, but I think there's still a bias towards "reusable code" and "abstraction."

But why? If it's code for your MVP, the future is uncertain, and time is more important. Are you really going to reuse this? You're probably going to rewrite it in chunks. Design it for that.

One thing to watch out for in a "shared" architecture is update hell...in the sense that you have so many dependencies that you're basically forced to update everything all at once because of the way you've structured things. That's a fucking nightmare, especially if the various parts have different update latencies. Your app needs approval from the app store, so if it shares something with the back end you literally need to trigger your backend update when app approval occurs. And you have to ensure all your clients update at the same, time, which is unlikely.
Would it be a good candidate for modelling flows w.r.t economics? For instance, country 1 has currency pinned to country 2, import/exports, etc.
How long ago? I've been running it for 15+ years across many instances ... have had hardly an issue in that time
Thanks man! Tell me what you think
Corporations in Germany have governing boards with equal representation for shareholders and employees. It's a much better system and should be adopted by the US, i.e. encoded legally.
First, I love Always Sunny, so this is amazing. Second, could I get some perspectives on this:

> While senior engineers are individual contributors; the best engineers’ best work is rarely code.

Aside from technical non-code tasks, like diagrams, knowledge sharing, etc., presumably code is the reason an engineer is hired. I understand there are leadership responsibilities as you get more experience within an organization, however it seems common for organizations to push engineers towards more and more admin and business related tasks as they gain seniority. Is this common across all or most industries? I'm wondering what is the underlying incentive for companies to do this, is it the perception that younger people should do most of the contributions?

I studied computer science because I love coding and not even a decade into my career it feels I'm supposed to do something completely different I didn't train for and personally I strongly dislike. I kept moving towards more and more technical companies, but it seems there is no escape from this in the software industry.
What if we just accept that we are the stepping stone to greater intelligence that won't burn down the planet.
Searching my old rants about AMP, they seem to swing from low/negative votes to higher vote counts around 2018.
Kodak had already become an accounting control fraud by that time. It's just that the absolutely insane profit margins on film masked the utterly corrupt senior leadership. It wasn't digital that killed them, it was corruption.
When i was 15 people over 25 were old
10C of warming means the death of almost everyone you know. Nobody has a clue how AGI will "wipe out all of humanity" or even if it will want to, other than sci-fi proposals that also throw in killer nanobots and other MacGuffins.
Oh man, there have been many times when the American navy and air force would probably have rather declared war on each other than the enemy.

Government entities have budgets, and people will always fight over resources. Even to the point that the mission is like 2nd or 5th priority.
Hi Ofek,

I am a contributor who works on the Google Cloud Storage FUSE CSI Driver project. The project is partially inspired by your CSI implementation. Thank you so much for the contribution to the Kubernetes community. However, I would like to clarify a few things regarding your post.

The Cloud Storage FUSE CSI Driver project does not have “in large part copied code” from your implementation. The initial commit you referred to in the post was based on a fork of another open source project: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gcp-filestore-csi-driver. If you compare the Google Cloud Storage FUSE CSI Driver repo with the Google Cloud Filestore CSI Driver repo, you will notice the obvious similarities, in terms of the code structure, the Dockerfile, the usage of Kustomize, and the way the CSI is implemented. Moreover, the design of the Google Cloud Storage FUSE CSI Driver included a proxy server, and then evolved to a sidecar container mode, which are all significantly different from your implementation.

As for the Dockerfile annotations you pointed out in the initial commit, I did follow the pattern in your repo because I thought it was the standard way to declare the copyright. However, it didn't take me too long to realize that the Dockerfile annotations are not required, so I removed them.

Thank you again for your contribution to the open source community. I have included your project link on the readme page. I take the copyright very seriously, so please feel free to directly create issues or PRs on the Cloud Storage FUSE CSI Driver GitHub project page if I missed any other copyright information.
No they are not all created by ClosedAI, ie. GPT-J and GPT-NeoX was created by EleutherAI.

If LLM is pizza then GPT is ie. thin crust pizza.

ps. it's funny how quickly they went from open ai research to prosecuting project for using gpt acronym while pumping money and doing exclusive deals with mega corp - the very thing they were suppose to protect us from.
Lizzy burned a lot of people, including a non-trivial number of the kinds of folks who post on HN.

But the best way to ensure a topic dies is to ignore it. Which is what we should be doing to Liz Holmes.
> Haven't read this case closely but it sounds to me like the attorneys said "it's possible these are deep fakes" and not "these are deepfakes." The former seems like a reasonable argument to make, but according to the judge, a flawed one.

IANAL, but this sounds appropriate to me? Couldn't all forms evidence be hit with various types of "this might be fake" claims? So I think it's fair that the court assert that you must claim "this is fake", then be willing to battle it out with the opposing side. Otherwise it's not a defense, it's just empty words, isn't it?
Does "my file" have more information than a cleared drive?
> In my experience, the biggest issue with TCP is that it assumes that the traffic is a single continuous byte stream, whereas the majority of applications send messages.

TCP and IP used to be one thing, and they split off TCP in what we now call Layer 4 (where UDP, and others, also exist). So they did think ahead in separating things to a certain extent.

The fact that we have a whole bunch of middle-boxes that don't allow DCCP, SCTP, etc, is hardly the fault of Cerf et al.
I would counter that this suggests the management team believes layoffs will be beneficial to management.

What is beneficial to management may or may not actually be in the best interest of shareholders (and neither incentive necessarily aligns with the interests of either customers or employees).
Now it's just "Dunkin"