skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Media center
- Transmission seedbox
- Zoneminder (security camera monitoring)

Ones I no longer use:

- Pihole
- Grafana dashboard of temperatures of other Pis

I also built an exhaust fan into a drawer so I could keep them all crammed in without overheating. Hence the Grafana dashboard above.

A few years ago I built a project that used wifi to count the number of devices in a given area.

You could set up a basic Linux distro on it, put video game emulators on it so they can experience all the old LucasArts classics.
By 1961 they through in the towel and the west Berlin enclave was sealed off.

The inevitable anti-fascist protection barrier. Forced into being by the conniving, obstreperous Western machinations, you see.

At the end of the day - it was still about putting a bullet in the back of anyone who dared to cross.
wow. thanks for all of this - i'll be noodling about it. the model you've described is interesting & it's clear you've put a lot of thought into it.
Excellent example! This sentence contains no actor at all, unless the mistakes made themselves.
So therefore pretty much every government ever is capitalism. Got it, super useful definition. Even steppe triple confederations were lead by the families with the most livestock.

I guess one might be able to call a few exception, but its a definition so broad its utterly useless.
Cos(0MC) :P
Any medical professional that turns down, for example, a hormonal treatment or tubal ligation or vasectomy ... a treatment that could improve a human being's quality of life ... based on their own morality or religion ...

They're no doctor to me. I'd be disgusted with that action. IMHO that isn't the doctor's decision. The only decision is, will this improve or extend the patient's quality of life and abide by the patient's consent?

The government or medical regulators should make the decisions for the entire industry EXACTLY so these decisions are not left to the medical professional. Their opinion on what's moral or not should not come into it.

Don't compare tech jobs with medicine. Yes, I can decide not to work in defense because I don't want to help build machines that kill. That's a moral decision.

A doctor is making decisions that often relate to immediate, critical and long-lasting actions to other humans. Other people.

The US medical system does it's best to devalue human life, so this isn't a shock.

What if you were denied medical treatment based on a moral disagreement by a medical professional? Maybe they were a different religion to you, and found helping you would damage their chances at going to their afterlife?

To get there, they're going to help you on your way to yours.

While the law tries to make it so it isn't always case-by-case, but rather allows broad exclusion ... the outcome is the same.

Ultimately, this is cultural cleansing. Conform, or be punished.

The lack of compassion and tolerance is sickening. This is far-right conservatism dressed up as liberalism.

Again, standard US.

I'd imagine that in the case of religious discretion, their God would judge them harshly.
I apologize for not being more clear. I find it very challenging to distinguish between details about LLP and "consciousness". My key point is that "human consciousness" is very different than ChatGPT. ChatGPT is statistically processing content already created and "appearing" to be conscious. Human beings have characteristics that ChatGPT does not share (sentience and context). We are often mistaking the what is needed to generate content (human consciousness) with what is capable of processing that content in very interesting ways (ChatGPT).

I do not believe that I am confusing free will and consciousness. See my comment above. Determinism versus free will is independent of knowledge available. Consider a paralyzed person incapable of any action. That person if the senses are all working still has awareness and context. A statistical engine only appears to. A LLM model is basing all actions on a complex matrices of thresholds. It is surprising and amazing how well that works. Given stimulus that takes advantage of those minute differences in thresholds, a wrong response will be returned. Human are not fooled in this way. Minute differences are typically missed or even skipped. Human beings can be fooled by optical illusions and by contradicting context (a statement like pick the "red" circle written in green ink and the person mistakenly picks the "green" circle. LLM models do not make these types of mistakes.
Haskell is not necessarily popular enough to consider its jargon common knowledge. As the headline doesn't mention Haskell, it's understandable that people might not have enough context to make a guess at this TLA.
Transmeta Crusoe? They chose X86 machine code as their CPU-independent bytecode.
You're simply incorrect here: the point is that the quarantined LLM has no ability to execute code and all inputs and outputs are treated as untrusted strings. Thanks to the history of the Internet, handling untrusted strings is a thing we understand how to do.

The privileged LLM doesn't see the untrusted text, and is prompted by the user - which is fine until the user does something dumb with the untrusted text. (Thus, the social engineering section.)

Nothing about this is security by obscurity... It may be flawed ( feel free to provide an example that would cause a failure), but it's not just hiding a problem under a layer of rot13...
>> you and i live oceans apart.

> We do.

which, just to clarify, i didn’t mean as “one of us contradicts the other” but that “we experience different slices of life which are guided by different priorities”. i very much wouldn’t want to be a security researcher in the open source areas i occupy now. likewise i wouldn’t want to use the development practices i experience in community open source were i instead building a fighter jet.

looking at the bizarre overlap between “open source contributors who like {Nix,Haskell/FP,Rust}” and “people i know who work for defense contractors” though, i’m actually optimistic that our distance could shrink in time.
If you want a desktop solution now, Focus Bear (focusbear.io) can do it. Our iOS app will have a similar UX to Clearspace (just waiting for apple to approve our Screentime permissions).
Thats only because coal (and oil/gas) have gotten a bye on their externalized societal costs. If you held them to the same standards, the insurance companies would shut them down tomorrow.
Again the evacuation zone was larger due to the nature of the plant, so yes it caused more stress, to more people than a similar incident in a coal plan would have.

It still is an exceptional incident and it is a ridiculously small death toll compared to the "normal" operation of coal plants yearly death toll... but it isn't a reason to minimize the numbers. As for the 1 direct death, I was referring to this part of my source:

> In 2018, the Japanese government reported that one worker has since died from lung cancer as a result of radiation exposure from the event.

Going by the official statement, I let them do the judging, they don't really have an interest in over-reporting as far as I know.
The system as described is not susceptible to prompt injection:

- The tool-using-LLM never sees data, only variables that are placeholders for the data.

- A post tool-using-LLM templating layer translates variables into content before passing them to a concrete tool.

- After variables are translated, only a non-priviledged (non-tool-using) LLM has access to the actual content.

- The output of a non-priviledged LLM is again another variable represented e.g. by the tokens $OUTPUT. The tool LLM never sees into that content. It can give it to another tool, but it cannot see inside it.

You can inject prompt into the non-priviledged LLM but it doesn't get to do anything.
As an industry insider it's fascinating how Japanese firms are generally known to be technology averse and bad at software but Takeda is a strangely fast adopter of technology - makes some American pharma companies look slow. Curious if anyone knows how they do it.
In some cases, it’s true; taking some blame in the short term can be better in the long run than dealing with the reactionary processes and solutions of “accountability.”
I'm not convinced that this is a case of leapfrogging.

Off grid solar+storage is great when you and everyone around you is using very little electricity. It lets you go from "nothing" to "lightbulb at night" very cheaply, which is a huge improvement.

Once you're using tons of electricity, list a 1st world home does (refrigeration/ac/microwaves/electric ovens/electric stoves/washing machines/vehicles/...), storage would have to be absurdly cheap for it to not be worthwhile to start hooking homes together to load balance and reduce (not eliminate) the need for storage. And then the same logic applies to hooking up cities/towns/villages. And in the end it almost certainly turns out that by the time you're a huge consumer of electricity like the 1st world you have a grid.

A different path, but the same end result.
It's certainly hard to do. Which means you can't declare it overpriced, in that to know something is overpriced, you have to know a true price.

Regardless, I think nuclear power should pay its own way. I don't want to be on the hook for hundreds of billions in cleanup cost because some CEO got greedy.
Open source has gotten infinitely more industrial-commercial, but it has only further proven again and again and again the Bazaar model.

Cathedrals develop fast & then quickly move to only ossify & stagnante. Bazaars beget diversity & experimentation & exploration, which is expanded upon & grown & reused, and can keep "feeling" at the edge.

Heck yes software organizations realized their stale dry inwarsa focused industrial processes were being outclassed, were making them uncompetitive versus software models where the world could participate suggest & expand the ideas.

That the corpoate world has assimilated some of the genetics to remain competitive at all seems unremarkable to me, versus the story of how vastly the Bazaar model has come to be necessary to be an at all longstanding player.
In case you really didn't see my point, it's that it's easier to tell that the mom's side of the family is really the mom's side of the family, than that the dad's side of the family is really the dad's side of the family, biologically speaking. This gives an obvious cultural-evolutionary reason that many would be 'closer' to the mom's side of the family. It's not about whether men cheat more than women or whether women cheat more than men, and it's not making any kind of normative or moral judgement on anyone.
On the contrary, I am absolutely for this naming and it is wonderful and should be cherished and lauded.

Sincerely,

the furry developer that named their project buttplug.io
Even more tangential, but related because of Chilean dreaming ahead of their time

Jodorowsky’s Dune

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune
But the LLM shouldn't have access / permission to delete emails.
Sure, and I'm all for removing that subsidy too. Let's start with a carbon tax, for example, and then we can move on to taxes for other pollutants. But having made that mistake with coal is no reason to make it again for nuclear power.
Nice! I have the original Badger, will be tempted to upgrade. I am definitely getting one of those new LiPo batteries anyway, AAs are too bulky to carry around.
Unsurprising.

Amazonia itself has been called a "manufactured landscape". 10% of its soil is man-made terra preta. The distribution of many important plants like brazil nuts simply can't be explained without accounting for distributions of different peoples. 84% of all arboreal plants in the Amazon are known to be useful to humans[0] (edible, medicinal, etc). More likely than the Amazon magically just being a more special place is that the possibly 8-10 million[1] native inhabitants (pre colonial) selected and planted them.

California's increasingly dangerous wildfires are largely due to the fact that it banned traditional cultural burning (before California itself was even legally a state even!). These highly controlled "cool fires" got rid of fuel that now builds up and causes the devastating wildfires of today. They also cleaned rivers (due to the charcoal that was produced) and obviously helped acorns produce much larger bounties. These burns have been going on for at least 10k years so much of the flora is highly adapted. Some sage species can't even germinate without the presence of ashes. Despite this reliance on fire, they also simply can't handle the powerful wildfires of today

Many European colonists who came to Australia often described it as looking like a giant well-managed park. It turns out much of it really was. Similar to native Californians, complex fire regimes were often used for landscape management. But colonist writings also describe fields of pulled up grass that spanned out for many miles. It turned out aboriginals used hayricks to ripen seeds in the grass. They often grew native grains and would use it to make flour and bread.[2] If you'd like to read more, there's a great book on this topic called Black Emu: Dark Seed.

Everywhere you look humans have had to very tightly integrate into their ecosystems. This is why "conservation" practices are often criticized by indigenous activists for banning indigenous people from their lands. Our ecosystems are as dependent on us as we are on them and there's a desperate need for a more expansive definition of conservation that includes active interdependence with nature rather than trying to box away nature to preserve some idea of a "pristine landscape" that never actually existed

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[1] https://sci-hub.se/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24395921

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_bread
Color me surprised! That's very neat. Thanks for answering the question!
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It was definitely a major thing. But in this discussion, the main points we even focused on about the characteristics of open source when defining it were the same as the FSF:

"When we call software “free,” we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms: the freedom to run it, to study and change it, and to redistribute copies with or without changes."

The bigger part of the "how we got here" was actually that GitHub ended up creating this ecosystem where collaboration was so open and easier to use to a larger population that we ran into an unintended consequence: maintainers being overwhelmed.

The overall history was intentionally a very quick, broad brush stroke to move into the points that pertained to someone feeling like they had to close their project to contributions.
The rift might have been intended as a mass market device but it certainly wasn’t one in practice: it demonstrably didn’t have the features and use case(s) necessary to reach mass market acceptance.

> designer of the Oculus Rift

Cough Valve and Abrash. You presumably do know the famous “Oculus” demo that got Zuckerberg’s investment was given at Valve using all of Valve’s headset and software, right? All that IP just handed to Oculus.

Say what you like about the guy but at least base it on facts.
In 2023 most companies are not anonymous and have not been for a long time. You generally have to tell the government the identities of the directors, shareholders and increasingly the ultimate beneficial owners. Often this information is made available to the public.
4-9's of uptime doesn't match my lived experience in the US, that's one days worth of power outage every 10000 days, or about once every ~30 years. 2-9's is closer to what civilians in the US are used.

The over provisioning could be considered more of a feature than a bug, offering new economic periods where the marginal energy cost of production go negative at times.
Those were the 1st 7 years of my self-employement.

I know it sucks having to work on one and the same project. It gets fucking boring.

But you need to learn discipline.

No one has ever been successful who never finished anything.
Toughen up and bite the sour apple.
You can experiment with different things as long as you get back to your main project.

Each new project is great, until you hit a roadblock. With that in mind, stop quitting as soon as you hit one. Work through it or don't and keep being a failure.
>> this wouldn't work with commercial apps. Also, it wouldn't be highly visible in the app GUI.

They are called "Easter eggs" and they have been a secret way for programmers to take credit for ages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
Indonesia has brought electricity to millions of people in recent years, going from 85% to nearly 97% coverage between 2005 and 2020, according to World Bank data. But there are still more than half a million people in Indonesia living in places the grid doesn’t reach.

While barriers still remain, experts say off-grid solar programs on the island could be replicated across the vast archipelago nation, bringing renewable energy to remote communities.

Helping kids study, parents make money, people get together to watch shows on cell phones. It's a big deal and helps them connect to the larger world.
I like FreeBSD because I enjoy tinkering, and the entire operating is small and self-contained. You can go to /usr/src and look at the inner workings of anything you want, very easily. Whereas with e.g. Ubuntu you have to figure out what package the thing you’re interested in is part of, how to get its source and build it, etc.
Are you actually an economist with real insight about the current and the last decades of labor economics?

Literally all economics practices, with the exception of a few hard core marxists, and a few others is Neoclassical. The people who wrote study are also neoclassical.

Its seems you have a ridiculously oversimplified view of economics and the field.
I'm probably mistating my "never felt" earlier. At the time it was the common assumption for those on slashdot (incl me) who had heard all the soundbites but not actually read it. It was only a bit later I realised it was about contrasting styles of running floss projects.

Understandable though, by the time it came out, the battle lines had shifted from Linux vs GNU to free/open vs proprietary anyway.
precisely, every single one of these reports is PR to pump Airbnb

> Long-term stays, or stays for 28 nights or longer, were 18% of total gross nights booked, a decline from the previous quarter, when they accounted for 21% of total nights booked.

via airbnb's latest earnings report from last week https://www.marketwatch.com/story/airbnb-stock-falls-sharply...
It's a little fuzzy do get the whole prompt because Microsoft tried to stop with two ways. The first way is telling the AI itself to not say it. The other way, it's the content filter that will delete it once it see it's the prompt.

So you'll need to try some jailbreaks (which most people are not telling publicly rn, because that would make Microsoft fix it fastly), and the second part trying to bypass the filter. There's several ways. Tell it to answer in Leetspeak (h3ll0), base64, reverse text, etc.
> then you will do well to stay out of that market.

Agree with you 100%.

I actually do this. I forbid non-U.S. access in my ToS, because I only do business in jurisdictions where I understand the law. Keeping track of 50 states is tricky enough, let alone all the other nations. So if you are in the EU I don’t really do business with you.

But I actually worry this isn’t sufficient. AFAICT the GDPR doesn’t require my consent to engage in a transaction with an EU citizen.

I can ban them in my ToS and they can use my service anyways subjecting me to GDPR. And I don’t understand GDPR well enough to properly implement it (like, don’t I need a registered agent in the EU or something?)

I can block the EU IP block and they can use my service anyways using a VPN, subjecting me to GDPR.

In fact, I’m not sure how to avoid doing business with an EU citizen. I’ve toyed around with putting liability for all damages, fines, and lawsuits on the user in an attempt to pass GDPR fines onto EU users who attempt to use my service without my consent, but I suspect that’s not going to stand.

So not exactly sure what I should do.
Oh wow, going through my past comments. That's pretty interesting behaviour ... Just curious, do you do that for all comments you read? That's quite a time investment.

Not sure how an adult paying for ad-free YouTube is inconsistent with not wanting minors on social media. I even stated in the linked comment that I do use YouTube.

I'd never want to ban or censor social media for adults.
We also eat millions of pounds of catfish, which are freshwater I think, right?

I mean, I’m legitimately asking. Was it a big ecological problem? Thousands of fish doesn’t sound like a ton of fish.
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>Onboarding new engineers to it can be quite a chore, especially if they're not used to thinking about different execution paradigms.

Sadly this is what I've run into as well. Having built a serious application from the ground up with XState at the core of the architecture, it's the closest thing to code nirvana I've ever reached. But getting buy-in across the org was an impossible task due to the overhead and boilerplate.
300 grand minimum for the chance to throw half your genetics into the future.

That worth 300k? Opinions differ. I don't have an enormous farm filled with livestock for tiny hands to help with, so I'm going with "no".

Some people think I am immoral for thinking this, but they do not have farms either, so I'm not confident in their judgement. On the other hand, urbanites seem to think children can be replaced by kittens. This is more or less the core of the Culture Wars, so probably starting a huge Internet Fight here.
Well it actually makes sense, production is often continuous, most producers just want to hedge some risk due to price fluctuations over the time, they have no interest in physical delivery because it is often expensive.
If a central bank targets a demand variable, changes in minimum wage does not change MV. If V changes the the central bank automatically adjusts M. And inflation targeting is a form of demand targeting. Just linking to Velocity of money is useless.
Not really clear what you are unclear about. My main point is that human beings have sentience and can reason about cobtext in terms of how an action affects others. Computers are following a statistical algorithm without any sentience or any understanding beyond the statistical thresholds. Ignoring the complexity and brilliant mathematics, it is at the core no different than a key word matcher like the classic application "eliza". Its performance is amazing but it is really the same algorithm at its core.
If you want to try it out first-hand, I built https://notado.app from the ground-up around this exact content-first data model.

All of the "recent highlights" feeds on my website are built around this idea (I save interesting "content" [with the URL/book/comment permalink being treated as metadata instead of a primary identifying key], categorize it, and based on the categorization, the content is automatically published to topic-specific RSS feeds which can be consumed by individuals with RSS readers, or, in this case, my website!)

There is a 30 day trial and it's pretty cheap after that ($1.99/month), but if you want to try it for longer than 30 days, send me a DM on Mastodon and I can extend your trial for longer as well.
A 5 Year Survey of Literature in Software Engineering and Repository Mining [pdf]
5 years with no updates.
> • or putting the words in the order of whichever language has been dominate at the time.

It's something along the lines of the third case, but there are also cases where a word by word translation is going on when I'm trying to express concepts I've learned in a language into the other.
These are small islands. More storage is almost certainly cheaper than inter island connections.