skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could there be an equivalent of a brain scan for Octopus like animals? Given its in water and all.

You could probably compare his brain activity to normal sleep states.

Edit: turns out a linked article here mentions that

> Where do you put electrodes on an animal that has no shape?” study co-author Marcelo Magnasco, also a neuroscientist at The Rockefeller University, tells New Scientist.
Honest question, in terms of grammar, is JWT token similar to ATM machine? I always feel weird just saying “JWT” and almost always add the “token” part to the end for clarity, is that common?
Agreed, though arguably we're talking about the same mechanisms for failure but behind one layer of safety.. or .. something, not sure how to word it.

Ie lets say the biometrics fail. Well if i want a safe with fast access, maybe i have biometrics on that and it also fails. A child looking for a gun has it in both scenarios, but there is a slight delay between auth failure and weapon access.

It's just a difficult slope of competing priorities. On one hand you want fast access. On the otherhand you want fail-proof child-proof safety. It's really difficult to get both, no matter what the solution.

I'm kinda glad i'm not having kids because i can imagine this is not a fun decision to make. I don't envy those who have to make it.
I think you're joking but I can't quite tell!
> RAS syndrome (where "RAS" stands for "redundant acronym syndrome", making the phrase "RAS syndrome" homological) is the redundant use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym (or other initialism) in conjunction with the abbreviated form.

> Many style guides advise against usage of these redundant acronyms in formal contexts, but they are widely used in colloquial speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
It’s a matter of capacity. ERCOT only has 1220 MW of interconnection capacity across 4 asynchronous links [1]. Compare this to e.g. California ISO which seems to have about 10,000-15,000 MW of synchronous interconnection capacity [2]. Neither is adequate to fully support historic peak demand in the system [3-4], but California has much more flexibility in emergencies.

[1] https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2020/07/30/ERCOT_DC_Tie_Ope...

[2] http://www.caiso.com/Documents/ISOMaximumResourceAdequacyImp...

[3] https://www.caiso.com/documents/californiaisopeakloadhistory...

[4] https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2022/07/20/ERCOT%20Monthly%...
I tried building with LLMs but it has the basic problem that it’s totally wrong 20-50% of the time. That’s very meaningful for most business cases. It does fine when accuracy isn’t important but that’s fairly rare other than writing throwaway content
what op means is that for low traffic or no traffic services, lambda scales to zero where ec2 and rds do not.

scale to zero is very good when zero usage is regularly reached.
middleboxes are free to drop the body of a GET request, and many do
The Impossible Task of Costuming Time Travel
My dad had an unlimited fuel card for a company car, everyone used that car frivolously
I’m kind of exhausted with public policy elites lecturing me about hindsight bias.

Year after year we’re treated to idiotic policy decisions with obvious consequence like invading middle eastern countries for no reason, allowing obviously illegal and harmful market consolidation and mergers, mass delivery of opiates to literally everyone, and so forth.

All the while people who gain massive amounts of power and money from the system tell us we’re just not “serious” when we predict the consequences. We’re told to trust the experts but then the self apointed expert class is not held accountable whatsoever when they come true.

Fuck that, if people want to be entrusted with policy power they should get things right. And if they get it wrong, fine, but let’s hold them accountable and notice who was right the whole time.

A lot of the Covid policy decisions were idiotic and symbolic and wildly inconsistent, and many were based on lies or conflict of interest. It’s fine to notice that this is a problem.
Does this include deliberately sharing an API key, but in a 'not best practices' way?

ie. "Here, just run document.cookie='SID=EB73542386AF235' " Then you'll be logged in as an account that can do what you're trying to do.
My assumption is that this is wrong but I guess I can’t find any evidence that disputes this conclusion. Seems like the AMA doesn’t recommend them or anything. Surprising!
>An appeal to authority is still a fallacy

Which is neither here, nor there. I wasn't making a formal argument, I was stating a fact. Take it or leave it.
I try hard to just say "the JWT". But I also try to only say "ATM"
Nah, not there yet. Just in the "Blockchain" realm for now ;-)
The whole situation was a mess. One of the things Nachio was accused of was inflating the share price by making statements that growth would continue when it didn’t. However, the reason it maybe didn’t is that the CIA blocked the lucrative contracts that Qwest was otherwise eligible for in retaliation for Nachio not going along with their request for illegally wiretapping everyone (he asked for a court order). Suddenly statements that would have been reasonable looked not so. However, he did also engage in insider trading but it’s less clear if that’s again just the CIA keeping an eye on him and helping the prosecutors get him through dual reconstruction (ie yes he did wrong but the government went about figuring that out illegally).

Of course a lot of this is just conjecture and we may never know what happened from the government side.
I don't think it makes sense to call ChatGPT hallucinating when it returns wrong facts. Hallucinations imply that the protagonist can distinguish reality from something hallucinated. ChatGPT cannot distinguish facts from fiction.
I agree with you, but also reject that premise that there was such thing as a "war crime" then. There was no Geneva Convention (or TIL Hague convention) at that time, and society was completely different. This is just another part of the idiotic pattern of judging past actions by today's morals (which is most ironic because the kind of people pushing this would have been at the front of the line on enforcing whatever the orthodoxy of their day was).
Do that but with spent nuclear fuel. A few million trees compressed into a barrel.
Only in as much as there's an element of randomness to the way GPT responds to a prompt - so you can re-run effectively the same prompt and get a different result depending on the outcome of several hundred billion floating point calculations with a random seed thrown in.
insufficient
Or that others weren’t doing it but the CIA helped point prosecutors in the right direction using information that is illegal for the government to have.
Sweden has been continously exporting ~1-2 GW to Finland due to the hole OL3 caused in the grid due to the 14 year delay. There's no need for the power anywhere Finland can export it.
A lot of vaccinated folks, perhaps.
Very nice, thank you! Will give it a try.
Seems super unfair indeed.
OpenAI is collecting billions in investments and valuation based on hype that they are doing little to combat.

The lawyer should lose his license for six months. But OpenAI should also face penalties for creating an Attractive Nuisance.
More generally, heaps of old Soviet movies are available in HD (and often subtitled) on Mosfilm YT channel, putting you a yt-dlp away from a movies night.

https://www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng
Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora
[Big Laughter]
Even for that, you'd be surprised:

(1) get oneself into or out of a situation by lying.
"you lied your way on to this voyage by implying you were an experienced crew"

(2) (of a thing) present a false impression.
"the camera cannot lie"
individuals that use ChatGPT losing/being struck off because it generates garbage?
> Russia tried to hack Hillary Clinton’s office five hours after Trump called on Moscow to find her deleted emails

Emails that were deleted in a crime, that should have been public record. so while he may have been soliciting a crime (he didnt, and there were never charges, also, if you knew ANYTHING about trump, you knew he joked when he said that. but regardless), he wanted the truth to come out

> think that they have blackmail info on the RNC that they’re holding back because they have an agreement with the elites in that party.

yeah you think, but you have no evidence, its entirely possible there was nothing there, and we have some evidence to point to that, regardless of how criminal the RNC may have been(and they are for sure every bit as bad as the democrats), in that Trump has talked plenty about how he put great effort to not having any digital copies of important stuff that COULD be hacked, and in addition to that, invest in "cybersecurity"
This explanation is a cause of an expansion of the scope of the show cause order for the lawyer to additional bases for sanctions, as well as its expansion to the other involved lawyer and their firm, so if it was a strategic narrative, it backfired spectacularly already.
Medicine does care about prevention, in fact we have the USPSTF who's sole focus is prevention!

With respects to diet and activity, there is a grade C recommendation to provide counseling to patients without risk factors[0] and grade B for those with risk factors[1]. Both (as with all USPSTF recommendations) have associated evidence summaries and provide rationales for the strength of the recommendations.

[0] https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...

[1] https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recomme...
I'm pretty sure you've solved a mystery I was confused by years ago, back when I was doing tech support.

It wouldn't have mattered much because the router/modem combos in use didn't have a switch for SIP ALG anyway, bit it's good router finally know what could've caused the phantom phone ringing.
https://archive.today/azaZw
> Suffice it to say, it freaked out

And then it put the lotion on its skin?
more realistically, it was israel: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-israel-collusi...

perhaps you recall trump’s first two acts in office — recognizing jerusalem as israel’s capital, and sanctioning russia. curious!
In movies and written fiction, "intelligent" robots, anthropomorphized animals, elves, dwarves and etc can all commit murder when given the attributes of humans.

We don't have real things with all human attributes but we're getting closer and as we get close "needs to be a human" will get thinner as an explanation of what is or isn't human for an act of murder, deception and so-forth.
> Yes, you can. You own the product, you may choose to stop selling it.

"Stop selling it" isn't the same as making everybody "stop experiencing it". A publisher can choose to stop selling more copies, but they can't undo what they've already sold, and they have limited powers to control what people do with the copies they previously bought, and those powers have an expiration date—which may need to be moved closer to the present.
You gotta say why they’re wrong so we can evaluate it.
Joe is gaffe prone, and from the article that I linked to he apparently said the words but misspoke.

I voted for Joe and I like the guy but I've definitely got issues with him. He certainly wasn't my first choice.

But you appear to be a True Believer and there's no point in furthering this discussion because you mind is made up and that's that.
those 150 cloud experts have a serious conflict of interest wrt cloud complexity.

those 250 developers are likely entrapped by the cloud experts.

this is fine, and is a rich market that should be served.

regardless, perceived complexity or generated complexity are not the same as actual complexity. all of these complexities are real, some are optional.
I mean ultimately the answer is yes. People look at COVID and say it's not a big deal, but I look at it and say that we're lucky it wasn't something far worse. We're not at all prepared if we have something like a Black Death 2.0 and ultimately your ability to function as an individual depends on society's ability to actually function. Even the half-assed measures we took against COVID helped prevent our hospital systems from completely collapsing which would've led to far more deaths.

The fact that people don't see this means they've grown too comfortable with modern society and how far we've become in preventing disease spread. Maybe it'll take a Black Death 2.0 for people to understand this.
unless you control every hop between client and server, GET bodies can be arbitrarily dropped, and can't be relied upon
EDIT it would be ~$500 through linode + wasabi. I was thinking of included bandwidth, but if you just pay overages it's cheaper.
I can also see why people like it when getting an "unplanned" appointment takes weeks and you have to do telephonic battle with a Combat Receptionist daily at 8am until you get a slot.
I've always thought it would be an interesting twist on the upvote mechanism to allow users to "spend" their karma. So if I receive three upvotes, I can spend three upvotes by either upvoting three stories once, or upvoting one story three times.
"True but misleading."

Telling people information in a manner that leads people into take the wrong conclusion from it -- "they're useless stop going to them" is really dumb.

You can say damn near anything citing only true information along the way.
> But for modern passports they use Extended Access Control which requires up to date terminal certificates to access the data (you have to update them in the range of days

Passports don't know the current time and thus can't tell whether the presented certificate is within its validity range (as in a malicious attacker could feed an expired certificate as well as a fake "current time" value to make it appear valid), so why are those certificates short-lived?
elite culture churns downward over a few generations. an intellectual exercise becomes a discourse, becomes a practice, becomes a culture
Wild speculation is a combination of one insurance company offering it and it becoming a relatively low cost competitive bullet point on one hand.

On the other hand, insurers probably have better actuarial data because of annual checkups and can better align their profit margins with fees. Thus reducing their own reinsurance fees.
That seems way more realistic.
The salaries in the original article are not common at all for software development positions in Europe as far as I know ...
> Unleashing the US workforce at that price point is a good way to ensure that no country that isn't already highly-developed will become highly-developed in our lifetimes.

I find it hard to believe that I’m reading this sentence correctly. Are you suggesting that hurting the US working class while moving an increasingly greater percentage of profits into the hands of the globalist class is actually a good and virtuous thing?
It doesn't really matter.

This always bugs me about how people judge politicians and other public figures not by what they've actually done, but some ideal of what is in their "heart of hearts" and their intentions and argue that they've just been constrained by the system they were in or whatever.

Or when judging the actions of nations, people often give all kinds of excuses based on intentions gone wrong (apparently forgetting that whole "road to hell is paved with good intentions" bit).

Intentions don't really matter. Our interface to everyone else is their external actions, that's what you've got to judge them on.

Just say that GPT/LLMs will lie, gaslight and bullshit. It doesn't matter that they don't have an intention to do that, it is just what they do. Worrying about intentions just clouds your judgement.
What problem did you solve with ASP ? I'd like to learn more on them , but I struggle with what problem to start with.
"Personal PIN Identification Number" is my favourite example.
Ironically enough this sounds exactly like how bing was justifying its gas lighting before it got lobotomised.
>I tolerate the spook-adjacent types in my field who parrot absurd official lines and slogans about russian interference because being seen to align with it is just how they are trying to survive

I present to you a real, still-active Russian troll account.

https://twitter.com/blackintheempir

How do I know it's a troll account? Take a look at this: https://twitter.com/reshetz/status/1662112840554098688

Just like "There is no panic in Balakliya", there are occasionally moments when whole networks of these accounts tweet clearly scripted messages all at the same time which kind of gives the game away.

https://twitter.com/JoniPyysalo/status/1567799462751309826/p...

It's quite interesting to read, honestly. They have a decent pulse on what narratives are effective, but present it in such an consistently hamfisted and exaggerated form that it makes it just a bit too obvious if you're taking in more than one or two tweets. But it's twitter, most people don't do that.

We can argue about how effective this kind of stuff is, but that it's happening is pretty indisputable. You can say it's just a lie that everyone pretends to believe, but the documents leaked by Teixeira talk about this stuff in detail too.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/russians-boasted-tha...

This document for example says that the Russian Main Scientific Computing Research Center internally reports that only 1% of their social media bot accounts get shut down.

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA19...
> A lot of people expect a stateful firewall blocking incoming connections on their local network.

Totally! That's why that's the default setting for almost every router out there.

> Applying the same NAT system that is used for IPv4 to IPv6 is probably the best way to get this layer of security.

No? The default firewall rules will work just fine.

> So maybe keeping the stateful firewall by default is the best option.

Agreed. That's why routers ship with fully-closed firewalls for both IPv4 and IPv6. Incoming connections need firewall exceptions, either manually or through UPnP depending on how you've configured your network.

In fact, because of NAT issues like NAT slipstreaming, an IPv6 firewall is even more closed off than any IPv4 firewall that needs to let through FTP(S), SIP, and many other protocols depending on both sides of the connection using IPv4 as designed.
and that's why you use secret managers like infisical
Getting into the weeds, but I don't agree with this construal of what propositional content is or can be. (There is no single definition of "proposition" which has wide acceptance and specifies your condition here.) There is no similar way to assess truth outside of formalized mathematics, but the encoding of mathematical statements (think Gödel numbers) comes to mind; I don't think that the ability of the machine to understand propositions is necessary in order to make the propositions propositional; the system of ChatGPT is designed in order to return propositional content (albeit not ex nihilo, but according to the principles of its design) and this could be considered analogous to the encoding of arithmetical symbolic notation into an formally-described system. The difference is just that we happen to have a formal description of how some arithmetic systems operate, which we don't (and I would say can't) have for English. Mild throwback to my university days studying all of this!
>His earlier films (Ivan and Rublev) I could not watch at all.

Those also require a familiarity and understanding of the relevant culture of those places.
> The engineers I know whose job it is to implement LLM features are much more skeptical about the near future than the engineers who are interested in the topic but lack hands-on experience.

Isn't that always the case?
We can hope to start to actually rely on such models once they start learning not only in the language domain, but also in the epistemic domain. True vs false, known vs unknown, precise vs vague, agreement vs contradiction vs unrelated, things like that.

Achieving that is going to be a serious technical, and also philosophical, challenge for humans.

Today's LLM are a literary device. They say what sounds plausible in the universe of texts they were fed. What they say technically isn't even wrong, because they have no notion of truth, or any notion of a world beyond the words. Their output should be judged accordingly.
Thanks for finding this.

Unlimited rarely is.

Looks like backblaze (other post below) has a free bandwidth and cheap storage solution
Genuine question: why have these models all been trained to sound so confident? Is it not possible to have rewarded models that announced their own ignorance? Or is even that question belying an "intelligence" view of these models that isn't accurate?
...when?

If you're otherwise healthy you're not visiting the doctor at all. So where are these checking and screenings happening for adults?
Great, I’ll try it out.
Generally, yes; for example, routine colonoscopies are not practiced in many developed countries, and it doesn't necessarily translate into any difference in overall health outcomes. One recent study is described here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/health/colonoscopy-cancer-dea... . One explanation is that such cancers are slow-growing and tend to be discovered late in life, so treating them doesn't actually help much, and any benefits are offset by potential harms of the procedure itself, the risk of false positives, etc.

Similarly, while hypertension is a problem, there is scant evidence that routine treatment of it is beneficial. The drugs have health risks: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

There is value in targeted screening and education, but annual checkups for otherwise healthy people aren't necessarily the way to do it. Not to mention, many of these checkups are perfunctory.

A lot of the gains in life expectancy have little to do with advanced diagnostics and treatments. Sanitation, hygiene, antibiotics, and increased standards of living do a lot of the heavy lifting here. And when the needle moves in the other direction, the causes tend to be mundane too - e.g., opioid abuse in the US.
There isn't one because the law is not a programming language.

Believing otherwise is a common misconception amongst engineers, but representing law as such is (as I have said in this forum before) a leading cause of disappointment, frustration, bickering, anger, conflict, and vexatiously long and mostly unenforceable contracts.

Observance of law is fundamentally about alignment with principles, not blindly following a set of rules. The latter debility is more properly associated with the administration of law, especially at its most mediocre and ritualistic.
Currently on front page

Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091954 (26 comments)
> insurers probably have better actuarial data

Imagine you are an insurer and advise free annual checkups. Some of your patients don't bother. Those patients have a higher mortality. You conclude the annual checkup is good.

But you might be deceiving yourself - the kind of people to ignore health advice about getting an annual checkup might also be the kind of people to ignore the health advice on the back of a cigarette packet...
It's not investing. The city has gotten worse in spite of a larger budget over time. The waste and corruption need a way to be corrected and budgets need to be managed; there's no incentive if bailouts have a well established path. If you want more of something, subsidize it.
I thought that was making fun of how difficult to implement anything at Google.