skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading that thread it doesn't seem like the official image shipped with any cryptominer at any point, and that it's more likely that the container got compromised in other ways. (A compromised [superuser connection to Postgres can execute shell code](https://medium.com/r3d-buck3t/command-execution-with-postgre...), so that seems more likely than the image shipping with a miner)
> It's amazing how the confident tone lends credibility to all of that
made-up nonsense. Almost impossible for anybody without knowledge
of the book to believe that those "facts" aren't authorititative
and well researched.

To me this is the single biggest problem with the technology, but I guess also the one that is the most "human".

People that have no idea what they are talking about, speaking or publishing in an authoritative tone. The difference is when a human does it you can usually fairly easily look into their published history, education background and other characteristics about the individual to see if they can safely be ignored.

These models remove that ability and are generally "correct enough" most of the time that can make feel like it's more dangerous.
On the other hand, the case for reverse causation is particularly strong. Sleeping on the street is very likely to cause anxiety and depression. Being around lots of people using drugs 24/7 makes it a lot easier to pick up a drug habit.
making a mental note that the 32 bit compatible era is coming to an end and I should start thinking about stocking up on hardware
That doesn’t solve the problem of having 40 different passwords, at least half of which have to be changed on a regular basis, NIST guidelines be damned.
I don't usually speak up about it but I feel that home schooling can be so beneficial (at least for some children) that I sometimes try to at least push back on the argument. The thing is, every situation is different and what works for some won't work for others, that is precisely the reason to consider home schooling - it allows far more flexibility than other options. Learning can be much more effective when it's self-directed, topics taken in an order and at a pace that is suited to the individual.

As for socializing, it definitely helps to know a few other home schooling families with kids of a similar age.
Another comment along these lines was [killed], but I'll attempt to take a more diplomatic approach.

Nginx is a Russian (in its inception) product. The reason one should not be worried about this (as one is worried about Kaspersky products) is that Nginx is open source.

Do I have this right?
aw as in cute or aw as in ew?
Yes, people suck and I wish they didn't but the other side of the problem is that the centralized flat-namespace model of PyPI is especially vulnerable.
Safdie's Original Vision for Habitat 67 (Unreal Engine)
This is a cinematic fly through of Safdie's original vision for Montreal's iconic Habitat 67, rendered on Unreal Engine. This fly through represents the then twenty three year old architect's vision for an organic, high density urban mixed use community. The design centers on a pyramid or hill-like structure with residential dwellings set back as levels increase to allow for light to penetrate to the shaded area beneath. The original concept had to be scaled back to accommodate a 2/3 reduction in budget. You can explore the 3D model in your browser on Unreal's page: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/hillside

And learn more about the background here:
https://youtu.be/Qwbp9T-WS-I
The main thing I miss in these vi-like browsers is a tab tree sidebar like Sidebery.
I'm not addressing the Alt-mode. Please read what was written, and reply to what was written. The comment to which I replied said you connect devices with display port, not HDMI, because all your devices are monitors. The real-world use case is USB-C to HDMI, to connect to a TV. I have no idea what my cables do, but they have USB-C on one end, and HDMI, not DP on the other, and I plug them into the TV.

The comment stated you don't need HDMI on the other end. I am not arguing for "Alt-mode" protocol, nor did I write "Alt-mode" anywhere in my comment. I am specifically replying to the wrong fact that most people use USB-C to connect to and HDMI port, not a DP port, on the other end of the cable.

From a quick google, the reason Alt mode is "dead" is because most devices natively support HDMI and you don't need alt-mode.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-demise-of-HDMI-over-USB-C-...
> Because the US has an aversion to even think about the systematic reasons that cause crime

I'd argue that some people have incentives to ignore the systematic reasons behind crime. Slave labor in the US is partly dependent on prisoners. Crime keeps people fearful and distrustful of each other. Crime is used to justify increased control and monitoring of the public and the abuse of prisoners. Crime enables a huge underclass of Americans who pay taxes but aren't allowed to vote. Sadistic cowards keep politicians elected who are "tough" on criminals and they vote against things we know would actually reduce crime whenever those solutions aren't also needlessly cruel.
Your arguments aren't even supported by the data. Why do Hawaii and Alaska find themselves in places with high levels of homelessness? How do you even get to either of those places without a significant up-front investment? You're not exactly hitchhiking to Juno.

Similarly, by your logic, how does Illinois have such low homelessness per capita? Chicago is romanticized plenty.

Moreover, as the post points out, the majority of people who are homeless in cities like SF have been there for a very long time and had been there before becoming homeless. The anecdote about your wife would suggest that she would have been well in the minority.
Oh yeah kinda! Yo they have uo.com what a domain name
What an extraordinarily reckless article.
If you get super creative you can get it to ignore the system prompt and not be polite, etc, but it's difficult. I've seen someone do it (assuming it wasn't a joke) by carefully explaining to ChatGPT that someone would literally die if the output contained any extra words other that the JSON they were looking for!

The system prompt (the hidden instructions it's given at the start of every conversation) aren't just the beginning of the conversation - it's treated differently. Sam Altman has mentioned that they've put a lot of work into trying to making these models treat the system prompt as law and follow it very closely.
Yeah the game actually begins on May 29th. Interesting
For stuff like this I like to make it write out a lot of "reasoning" before the final output that I'll parse.

Like so:

Write three thoughts on how the primary and complementary hue should change and what value they should change to, along with your reasoning.

Pick one, summarize the reason for it in less than 50 words.

Then write FINAL CHOICE: followed by output that looks like this {"primary_hue": PRIMARY_HUE, "complementary_hue": COMPLEMENTARY_HUE, "reason": REASON"}
> The entire military budget of the Russian Federation, about $70 bn, is around the same amount that just the U.S. Army spends on maintenance and operations alone.

Should always at least try and adjust for purchasing power parity in these comparisons.
Based on my experiments it usually does get it right (18 correct answers out of 20 attempts), and the failures I got were similar to this one: a single six-letter word in an otherwise correct sentence.
ChatGPT Founder Finalizing $100M Funding Round to Launch the Worldcoin
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the startup behind the AI chatbot ChatGPT, is reportedly finalizing a funding round worth approximately $100 million for his ambitious project, Worldcoin.
What I am saying, is what I said. Which has little to do with that to which you are replying. Please read it, and reply to that if you so choose.
I'm appreciating that, at least for me, the text after the second line break after the first paragraph doesn't show up until you scroll.
The phrase is used quite a bit in hackernews comments, particularly on any IoT or home automation threads.
This is definitely reasonable if you like to use readable and easily-typed passwords (like Diceware/"correct horse battery staple"-style). A software password manager has an advantage for long, completely random, absolute gibberish passwords, because you don't even have to know what it is: you can just copy-paste or autofill it.
Yeah. I realize it's "mean" to say this but it makes me nervous to see no discussion of why you would do this. This kind of project can too easily get cargo-culted into places where it shouldn't be used.
Methods to deal with malicious actors in your system:

- Require toilsome identity verification. Things that are in short supply and are difficult to get and uniquely identify a person. Examples include a phone number, credit card, driver's license, mailed letter, etc.

- Require a referral, both for accounts and for new packages. Don't allow a signup unless the user has a referral code generated by another user with good karma. This isn't fool-proof, as a user that does get an account can then generate more accounts. But it makes it easier to revoke them en-masse, and forces users to be more scrupulous about who they refer, as you can block the referrer as well as the malicious user.

- Require community review, both of new users, and new packages. New users/packages are sent to a mailing list of moderators and somebody has to approve it, but someone who notices a problem can also reject it, even after it's been mistakenly approved. Slower, but there's more eyeballs to spot malicious stuff. This is more common among open source projects. (Growing your moderator list is important, as well as automating as much of the review process as possible; obviously PyPI currently has a shortage of moderators, but they should have a huge number of them by now!)

- Don't allow new users to do certain things until enough time has passed or they have accrued enough karma points. May require fixing bugs, answering questions, etc; work which benefits the community and most malicious actors wouldn't invest the time and effort in. Again not fool-proof, but definitely increases the time and difficulty for successful attacks.

- Captchas. These can obviously be worked around, but are a minimum-effort way to avoid bot signups.

For better defense-in-depth, combine multiple methods.
Why stop at two? Susan Rigetti suggests four times! [1] I've never tried that but I fully agree with her :) and just quietly dream about regaining my focus for reading so I could reread books 4 times.

Quote to save people from falling into the rabbit hole of her blog:

> Over the years and after much formal and informal study, I’ve learned a pretty foolproof method for studying philosophy: read everything four times. Here’s how it works:

> - First read: Read casually, as if you’re reading a novel or a newspaper or magazine article. Your goal here is simply to observe, not to engage (yet).

> - Second read: This time, read to understand. Take notes. Ask yourself, “what does the author really mean here?” Summarize things in your own words. Try to break down the arguments being presented into bullet points, identifying the premises and the conclusions. When you read a term you are unfamiliar with or want to understand better, google it or look it up in the SEP.

> - Third read: Read again, and this time engage with the text. Go back to your notes, where you identified the arguments being presented. Think of arguments in favor of what the author is saying and arguments against. Think of counterexamples.

> - Fourth read: Now read for one last time. Read casually, the way you did in the first read. Notice how your understanding of the text is now so much richer and deeper than it was on the first read.

> If you study this way, you’ll walk away with an incredibly solid understanding of philosophy and an intellectual foundation that will serve you well for the rest of your life.

[1] https://www.susanrigetti.com/philosophy
> I think voting in someone like Robert Kennedy is the only hope against the Washington "uni-party" and a clearly corrupt justice system. Who else is there?

I'm old enough to remember when another celebrity political outsider got this exact treatment in 2016.

To the extent that a problem loosely matching your description exists, the solution mostly isn't in Presidential elections, and anyone selling that as the solution is either an idiot who doesn't understand that the US isn’t an executive dictatorship or a would-be tyrant trying to make it one.
> could it have been suspended in a liquid of the same density as itself

Water?
A mac mini running home assistant with some kind of llama plugin running one if the 7B models should do well enough and would run entirely locally. It is just a matter of time before someone builds it.

I think one of the issues for a lot of people is the beefy hardware required for running even a 7B model locally. A RPi4 just won’t cut it for interactive use, and that’s what most people would run their home assistant setup on.
This is so helpful, wow! Thank you!
Charlatans gonna charlatate.
Oh, nice. Bookmarking it.
It would probably be more useful to report to the user that it doesn’t have any control over than aspect of the environment.

I’d be curious to see what it does if it is told the sun is too bright…
I've been arguing this for a while, for much the same reasons. Except this additional one: always buy the dip on fears of nuclear war!

If the fears turn out to be unfounded, you win.

If the fears turn out to be correct, well...the performance of your stocks may not be your primary concern.

If the only way your corruption is likely to be found out is the end of the world, there really isn't much downside.
How nuclear fusion (maybe) works – reactor practicalities
Not sure about this one but something like Atlas Shrugged seems to half fit. Its a novel but it more or less describes a philosophy.
i was talking about the country where i am from, and here you absolutely are required to have a government issued ID.

i got my first personal ID i think at 16, but since i was traveling a lot i also had a passport and decided that i didn't need to bother with having a personal ID too. the personal ID displays my home address, while the passport doesn't. a tiny win for my privacy whenever i need to show an ID.

even without an ID here everyone needs to have their address registered for tax purposes (because you pay taxes where you live) so the government already has that information. the ID doesn't give them any data they don't already have.
Yes. It's pretending. The best way to think about chatGPT answers is that it always invents the most plausible reply. With some different temperature it can provide slightly different chain of thought, but it's making it up based on its limited "thinking" capabilities and poor generalization, despite huge amount of knowledge. This is just the beginning and new generations of LLMs will continue improving.
I love Wendy so much and to me it is gross to even mention she is trans. It is the least interesting part of her.

Digital Moonscapes and especially Beauty in the Beast are two of my all time fav albums.

I am really not much of a fan of Switched-On Bach. Have to consider that people had not really heard synths before that album so I don't think it quite holds up.

It is a shame she is so reclusive. Her website use to be a wonderful source for news about her but hasn't been updated since 2009. In early 2000s she was sharing more online than most musicians and then basically vanished. I remember she hated youtube and would defend her IP to have things taken down more than any artist I recall when youtube started.

I always hoped to be able to see her play live but to no avail. I don't even know when the last time she performed in public. It must be decades.
Yes, that's the one I use anyway. Great integration with most Linux desktops - a keyboard shortcut brings the target window to the top and enters the username and password right into the proper fields.
I commented[0] the same thing a little while ago here on HN and the comments convinced me that tales like this shouldn't be thrown around so casually.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33297151
Client side redirects aren't the only reason why Dev Tools sometimes drop stuff.

I quite often try to debug a 201 and the body is not retained in the Dev Tools, even with 'Preserve logs' turned on.
So it's implicit in counting. It emerges naturally from mathy ideas. Like multiplication and calculus.

Maybe we could say that he discovered it like Columbus.
> "but i can make clothing out of string!"

Making cordage is one of the most underrated long-term survival skills out there. Finding good sources of fiber is the first step.
I may be remembering things wrong but I thought the reason the Pentium Pro didn't sell very well was its price rather than its performance.
Because Putin might see it and nuke us to prove us wrong?

I don't see why it would be reckless to consider the possibility of the poor state of the russian nuclear arsenal. The article even points that the tactical or battlefield nuclear weapons are probably just fine.

It doesn't mean that the west is suddenly going to suddenly going to act as if russia didn't have nuclear weapons.
Yep, and it's actually useful for unbanked people.

It's essentially a digitized version of Postal Saving Systems [0] that were traditionally common in Central and Eastern Europe.

Tbf, a lot of the thought leadership done to design UPI+IndiaStack was done by people with an actual background in Developmental Economics+Banking at JPAL (MIT+Harvard), FSI (Stanford), and BFI (UChicago).

A lot of Policy Advising in India+China+ASEAN is done by alumni of those 3 programs.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
Having a reasonable formal grammar is like 90% percent of making a parser. Tresitter or not.
It’s 4GB per address space / per process.
In aggregate you can use more.
Part of the reason this article succeeds is the author is such a great writer. Establishing rhythm in the way described is more of an art than a science.
Eelco was my professor for the course Compiler Construction during my masters in CS. He was everything I always expected a professor in Computer Science to be. Super smart, publishes in the top journals of his field, collaborates with best in class teams in the industry, demands excellence from his students but is fair in his evaluations, clever in his approach to teaching (he wrote a WebDSL based evaluation platform for his course that the entire CS department ended up adopting) and to top it off a kind and funny human being.

Such a shame he passed away, much too soon. Thanks for capturing and sharing some of his insights.
It was restored
Probably no conspiracy - like you say, everyone is at least a little bit politically motivated. Without invoking a conspiracy, however, it's plainly obvious that Wikipedia is a high value target for manipulation and every political party, 3 letter agency and PR firm has some incentive to obtain and maintain influence over certain Wikipedia articles. Much of the influence is actually exercised indirectly by influencing virtually every media publication that Wikipedia will accept as a valid source.
If you have a fire, you'll just do what my wife does with _every_ password field she needs to use. You'll press the "forgot password" button.

God help her if she needs to log into her email after I'm dead.
Related note: American Patriots nailed Putin’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile. The world has changed https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/17/american-patriot...

subtext: Xi Jinping will be annoyed by this as well
Yea the 64 gig thing is from PAE I think.
As Argentinian, and particularly, from Buenos Aires, one thing that I hate from US is the lack of public transportation network, bus stops and people that don't know the concept of line-up.
What about some testnet that allows people to push things up as a test? That seems like a valid need but a source of lots of garbage at the same time.
The thing is, even if they don't work, what would we actually do differently? No one wants to invade Russia. But helping states in the free world that wish to remain free: we're doing that anyway
Russia has something like 4,000 nukes, only 1 or 2 really need to work to cause massive devastation. It's much more likely that more than 1 or 2 still work and that is more than enough.
I don’t have an end goal. I simply left SF. There’s human shit in the mall elevators.
Database Architects: Five Decades of Database Research
CodeWeavers Transitions to Employee Ownership Trust
Interesting both completely whiff on the number of chapters in the Haj.
Thanks for this, reading it now
With the Soviet Union, we knew that nothing really worked over there except the nukes.

With Putin’s Russia, we knew that everything sort of worked superficially in the oligarchic-capitalist way, but the evidence was dwindling whether the nukes actually work.

By invading Ukraine he blew up his biggest asset: the fog of war around the actual competence of the paper-formidable Russian army, now shown to be less off a superpower and more of a paper tiger. With this new data at hand, it shouldn’t be taboo to ask questions about the nuclear arsenal.
As a resident of Ramsgate, definitely feel lucky to be a few streets down from both TMINO + Micro Museum and very cool to see a shout out here! Well worth doing both in a day as they're next to each other.
It now knows to communicate that the NASDAQ doesn't operate on Saturdays.
Mind to share? I'd like to try this out
>if fails in a strange way that is also dangerous the natural question is how much is this going to happen across all the cars that have this software

If an AI messes up, it might do it again. If a human driver messes up, another human driver might do it again. I'm not seeing a substantial difference.

Humans aren't all running the same software of course, but that just introduces some [additional] probabilistic uncertainty to our estimate. Fundamentally the situation with human drivers remains the same (or worse). In fact, we can be 100% certain that the 'human software' running on all the other cars on the road is not bug-free!

> and also how much can engineers understand why this happened to prevent it in the future

This is legitimately a substantial difference.

Yet this difference is an advantage for autonomous cars, while the reaction to these headlines is almost universally negative toward the technology.
Some time ago, I listened to Switched-On Bach out of historical interest, and I was surprised to find that it's largely gimmick-free. It's a (good) classical music performance that just happens to be performed using synthesizers.

It's a shame that, as the article mentions, Carlos's music is currently inconvenient to listen to due to unavailability on streaming services.
Oh you’re right, I missed this line in the cited article:

> Snap later acquired Gfycat, a competitor to Giphy.
How can we be sure this isn't yet another Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?
Or maybe most of Russia’s nukes don’t work, but a handful of working nuclear missiles can still ruin a lot of people’s day. And it’s a Hell of an expensive bluff to call. I don’t doubt much of their arsenal is in decay, but I wouldn’t bet against a significant fraction of the arsenal being maintained.
The real spending went down a tiny amount despite the largest army of the world was no longer in existence and there was no credible threat what so ever.

I always love how people fall for the false military budgets, the war cost, the veteran health, the nuclear cost and a lot of other associated cost that is conveniently hid outside of the 'military budget' despite it very clearly should be in the same bucket.

> It is certainly an option to adopt an isolationist stance and cut the military-industrial complex down

Ah the old 'anybody that doesn't believe absurd amount of military spending is an isolationist trope'. Never stops getting old that one.
I vaguely remember some software that put the swap on a ram drive.
I mean also Tesla fsd is a sham.

Cruise, Waymo etc don't make headlines like that