skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes sense. If the IRS had concluded a taxpayer owed a tax debt, and had to give notice every time it summonsed an entity for information in order to trace the assets, the taxpayer could just move their assets elsewhere in an endless game of cat and mouse.

In the present case, the taxpayer's wife said she should have been given notice since the summons affected her, not just her husband. But it's the same practical effect - you tell the wife, and the husband could move the assets.
>Don't Americans see how fake it is ?

I guess not. Many Americans want to be treated like they're royalty anyway; just look at how entitled they act in public. Expecting some server to wait on them hand and foot without even being asked is part of the entitlement mentality that is prevalent in America, I think.
> Is Jira that bad?

Jira itself is fine. It is very powerful, and with that power, it can be setup "wrong". That all stems from opinionation. On itself it's an empty box, right?
> This article fails to explain why someone should explicitly reach for an RNG over PRNG.

There aren't a lot of cases where you need to explicitly reach for a non-PRNG over a PRNG, and if you do need it, you most likely know it. What does often make a lot of sense is using a PRNG that is seeded from a non-PRNG.

> It also suggests os.urandom as a Python RNG which (as the name suggests) uses /dev/urandom or the getrandom() syscall, both of which are PRNGs

So, that's not ENTIRELY accurate. At least on Linux, while /dev/urandom uses a PRNG, but it is fed from the entropy pool. So unless you consume the entropy pool of a system, it has all the randomness of /dev/random. The difference is that /dev/random blocks when you run out of entropy, while /dev/urandom will just keep feeding output generated purely from the PRNG until more entropy becomes available.

There are some notable exceptions, but in most cases pulling from /dev/urandom is the right choice.
There is no additional programming complexity in using Scala's Map vs Java's HashMap. They are both maps with keys and values. The Java one you update in-place

var m = new HashMap<K,V>()
m.add(k, v)

the Scala one you "update" by creating new maps,

var m = Map.empty[K, V]
m += (key, value)

In practice it's mostly the same except you can share the immutable one around without being scared someone will mutate it, but it takes more memory per instance than the mutable version and creates more GC churn, which may or may not be an issue.
I’ve only seen the outside. Didn’t you need an invite from a member to get in?
I agree. Call out famous competitors like JIRA and explain how you are better. Don't make me think. It won't cost you any business if everybody already knows them.
The OP explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130625
Coming from the backend, I feel the exact opposite. For any kind of frontend development you have a choice of ~3 clients, one programming language, a handful of frameworks, 2-3 of which have any real traction.

Compare that to literally hundreds of programming languages that can run server side code, dozens of database engines, servers, all kinds of operating systems, hosting platforms...the web of backend tech is pretty much endless, and growing every day.
It has similar privacy properties as cash, so I would think governments would treat it similarly, with some reporting requirements depending on the amount.

If they do outright ban transaction privacy, at least that would involve explicit legislation with some risk of backlash - seems preferable to the status quo where the privacy violations are more covert.
That's different. This uses an infrared receiver on a Linux box to render out a teletext stream that's interpreted and displayed on a TV.

The CEEFAX games in the link on the other hand were games transmitted over CEEFAX to be loaded into a BBC Micro and played there.

Either of those things though is very cool.
The Little Mermaid Gets Review-Bombed So Hard That IMDB Changes Rating System
Yes, that's why they published it.
https://archive.is/KsRgY
restricting the distribution of potential output imposes a cost. "Alignment" here likely refers to aligning the model to the desired safety parameters.

I'm not in the llm research business but I would expect that the best and worst/most dangerous outputs come from the tails of distributions. I imagine the tuning for safety often results in fewer really good and really bad answers by trimming these tails.

Edit:
I asked chatGPT4: https://chat.openai.com/share/a2c7d380-c6eb-4745-b91d-c3996a...
Who do you think?
This is one of those things where when you realize it, it's almost embarrassing how obvious it should have been.

The Church is 2000 years old. It has outlasted basically any other institution that has ever existed in the history of humanity. The things The Church encourages are:

1) Building families

2) Building communities

3) Using these things to make the world a more loving place through volunteerism

It should not be surprising that this is a good place to make friends and connect with your community.
That's crazy. And depressing. Have we learned nothing?
I just drove an EV from Palm Springs to Seattle without much issue. I actually really enjoyed it. Much better than an ICE road trip.
Ask HN: How to upgrade my personal project database from Notion
I've been using Notion as the database for some personal projects. The backend of the projects are written in Python. I don't have any formal CS training and have a vague idea that the better database solution has something to do with "data warehouses" and SQL, but I'm not sure where to go from here.
By accident: I went to this boat house a few times just to rent a kayak, and when I was chatting with the person who runs it she asked if I'd want to come volunteer on a weekend — and I did.

People there are the most eclectic mix of backgrounds: the owner is a retired coastal guard, she was in Olympic games in her 20s as a windsurfer. Her partner is a retired engineer, who is helping fixing boats when something breaks. Some local kids and teenagers would come volunteer. Our customers are local families and tourists, enjoying their weekend in the park on the lake. And of course a micro-community of retirees chatting with the boat house owner, sharing gossip and their life stories, bringing ice cream for kids and getting their afternoon sun.

It's been more than a year since I started volunteering there, and it transformed my experience beyond any expectations, filling my days with sun, people, stories, little adventures and camaraderie.
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The problem with petroleum-eating microbes is that they flood the local area with waste products. That it's no longer petroleum doesn't mean it won't still wipe out the local ecosystem - i.e. how fertilizer run-off destroys estuaries because it triggers an algal bloom which promptly chokes off everything else.
>> Because the risk is that this state of affairs could easily change.

Well, it couldn't. There's no science of intelligence, let alone artificial intelligence. We aren't any more likely to create AGI by mistake without having any relevant science than we would have been able to create the atomic bomb without physics.

I kind of understand why people are all excited, but ChatGPT is not a breakthrough in AI, or even in language modelling. People hear that it's an "AI" and that it has "learned language" but they misunderstand those terms in the common sense, when they are really trade terms that don't have the meaning people give them. For example, "Large Language Models" are models of text, not language.

Another thing to keep in mind is that we have basically gone through the same cycle of hype ever since 2012 and the ImageNet results, except this time the hype has gone viral and reached people who had no idea where the technology was before. Inevitably those people are surprised and misunderstand the capabilities of the technology.

Here's how close we are to AGI. You cannot, today, take a robot, stick an untrained neural net in its "brain", give it a good shove out in the world, and expect that it's going to learn anything at all. First, because most events it observes will happen once, and neural nets don't learn that way. Second because neural nets don't learn that way: you have to carefully train them "in the lab" first, and then use the trained model in whatever environment (i.e. dataset) you choose. And you can't change the environment where the neural net operates or it will simply break.

That's a level of capability as far from AGI as it's from the capability of a simple animal, like a cricket or a cockroach. Spider-level intelligence is right out of the question. Small furry rodent intelligence is a complete fantasy. Everything else is just twitter fodder.

So, no, we're not going to "easily change" the current state of affairs, because we haven't got a clue, we don't have the science and we don't have the tech to do it.

>> What do you think your brain does exactly that makes you so confident that computers won't ever be able to do the same thing?

Who said I think that? Cause I sure didn't.
Mine does too, a light on the bottom lights up as well. I sometimes absentmindedly activate that feature but it's not normal.
> as long as those records are pertinent to the delinquent taxpayer's situation

This is the summary's critical phrase, and it misses the point entirely. ("Situation" should be "liability," though that itself requires expansion into the difference between investigation, liability and assessment.)
Fair points. I'm skeptical not of the need to prevent certain evil uses, but that regulation will be used to prevent uses critical to freedom.
Yes, I agree with you. Poverty many not be an existential risk.

But something like Nuclear War might be.
Agreed. To pile on: one true existential risk is the continued economic/social polarization of the US and other large nation states (not to mention climate changes).

We seem perfectly resigned to the expansion of an already huge underclass—-with or without the help of LLMs.

Might not AGI help convince our tech savvy aristocracy that one fundamental problem still is better balancing of opportunities and more equitable access to a good education? I see the probability of that happening as precisely 4.6%.
I tried to do this with OBS. The code worked really well. It was so stable and performant. Life is significantly better not debugging SEGV. However it puts too much burden on the maintainers.

So much work goes into packaging etc… I don’t have much hope for the ‘Rust as a submodule in a C/C++ project’ story :(
How can the title of the submission (which is just the title of the article) be informed by Miles' description of _the same article_ (which he posted today, nearly a year after the article was posted)?
From https://support.apple.com/sr-rs/guide/security/secd698747c9/...

>In case of mismatch, the system assumes the data has been tampered with and won’t return it to the requesting software.

Whether this then leads to a kernel panic later on probably depends on if it's the kernel that needs this file, or a userspace process
Putting business critical data on a mom and pop service called bit.io was the first mistake.
"flesh eating" is also pretty relative with bacteria. What's talked about as "flesh eating" is common bacteria that have infected an uncommon part of the body - namely when the infection gets into intercellular tissue space.
compared to someone like yourself who has not been to either country,

You don't know anything at all about this person.

And gets his opinions from random twitter accounts and one-sided news,

Pure ad-hominem and absolutely against site guidelines.

What makes me an expert ... is my parents escaped the USSR, I have lived and worked in both countries, and I have and currently do, talk almost daily to people I know in both countries.

This background is sufficient to make you informed; but it doesn't make you an "expert" about anything.
Remembering the lost art of the graphics card box (2015)
This isn't true. But, 100 miles from our two borders is incredibly abusive enough.
Some things are really useful in plastic (like mechanical parts) but there's a lot that we could live without (replace as you said), even though it would be more expensive (short term).

I'm actively trying to choose products with less plastic but it's becoming increasingly hard to find alternatives.
I might be interested given that I seek ways to access IndexedDB from Blazor
Recent events cause me to sincerely doubt that.
See many other comments on this thread for the context that your comment misses.
Man, that 100 mile thing is one of the most successful misinformation campaigns I’ve seen in law.
My local organization of the Democratic Party. What you discover are a whole lot of people with similar values who really care about their community. I've also been surprised by how many have similar hobbies and interests - who knew that there were so many beekeepers, cheesemakers, chicken farmers, etc? Great opportunity to connect with people, learn more about local issues, and have a voice in our democracy.
This is a message board trope in legal discussions. Either the law matters or the whole discussion is pointless; it's not a 100 mile zone, then, but a 1650 mile zone, because, after all, nobody is following the law anyways. That might even be the case! But if it is, we're not discussing anything meaningful here.

What is plainly the case is that many people believe that the law dictates that CBP can warrantlessly search citizens anywhere within 100 miles of the border (that border including the shores of all the Great Lakes). The law does not say that, the Supreme Court has repeatedly said that CBP can't do that, and people should stop repeating the claim that they can, because that claim empowers the CBP, which is already prone to abusing its authority.

But the bogus claim is head-turning, and presumably generates a lot of money for ACLU, because it's alarming and wrong-seeming (well, wrong, period, but...).
Let's stop using analogies since they can be atrocious. Your analogy ("Oh it's just like alcohol") is even more so. Alcohol poisoning deaths are a rounding error compared to actual opioid deaths.

Death from alcohol ODs are around 2400/year. The last year of opioid deaths from OD's in 2022 were 106,000.
i do this and it is not as annoying as you're making it out to be. you get used to the process and, as a reward, you and your fellow earth inhabitants don't have to deal with all of the waste later.
Presumably that comment predates 'jcranmer setting me straight.
The easiest option of dealing with plastic waste is just throwing it out your window and letting the litter pile up. Obviously people don’t do this because it has negative externalities that are undesirable.
Okay, well it seems funny to both claim that there is no good definition of agency, but also be sure that we've never demonstrated any hint of it in theory or practice. Planners, optimizers, and RL agents seem agentic to some degree to me, even if our current ones aren't very competent.
No, obviously, different TLS programs have different root programs.
> the real shakeup the latest AI successes may cause won’t be that we’ve created an artificial mind, but that our own minds may be nothing more than a collection of neural subsystems.

It should be no surprise. I'd have thought most HN readers have at some point attempted to kill their own ego.

Maybe it started when you were younger and learned that society used to believe the Earth was the center of the universe. Perhaps you then considered that humans too are nothing special — maybe not created in God's image after all? Instead the latest evolutionary result in a long complex process.

Dashing geocentrism, anthropocentrism should have made many of us skeptics about anything considered special.

Why should consciousness be inscrutable, magical?

I've been sure we're little more than imperfect machines for some time now.
convenience has a price. it's worth considering what that price is, especially in aggregate.
Okay, this is classically nonsense that a lay person like me could never find the time or pleasure understanding.

I guess I'm a lay person who's not like you then.

I've tested one of the LLM's on this problem

Please do not. If any HN reader is interested to get an LLM interpretation, that's well within their capability as is, but unless the topic is itself about LLMs (which this is not) then LLM output makes for utterly uninteresting comments. Without prompt and other technical details it's not helpful, and just creates clutter.
None of this matters. An attacker who controls BGP controls IP routing. They can defeat ACME.
This is pretty good for me (tech), my wife (healthcare), and a lot of other people with onerous non-competes. Long past time we actually create a free labor market.
Baby steps. I'm not going to recommend the complete nullification of corporations in the present. Perhaps as a long-term goal to aim towards -- but with the right planning and support. No sense in being a revolutionary.

Perhaps start off with removing the corporate veil. Officers of corporations (or any incorporated entity) are now personally liable for what goes on. This could pave the way for trimming down extra-national entities like multinational corps (the risk is immense for there to be bodies buried in various dark corners of huge corporations -- only the insane would take on these positions).

If you want to know if I'm a card-carrying communist or not, feel free to read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36132733

It's couched in mild language, because of the venue we're in.
> I’m increasingly aware that it’s nothing magical

It's completely magical to me that I'm now aware that you think you awareness is nothing magical

> The mind is like a calculating device

How does that explain your self-awareness?
As opposed to being a pilot or something.
Sure, but think about how humans drove others extinct. We never decided to "kill all wooly mammoths", we just wanted to use their meat / habitats for other things.

The correlation you mention seems noisy enough that I wouldn't want to bet my civilization on it.
It's a crappy lens, maybe they just don't want it around anymore.
I didn't personally change it but the title of the post was different when i originally submitted. Didn't call it inhuman though, just bizarre which it is...depending on your frame of reference.
I don't know what value non-developers are getting out of Jira, because I've been asked to produce reports out of Jira at different times and the only thing they ever want is "give me a list of all the X" or "graph the number Y across all the projects".

The one thing they all do is go in and mess with the issue workflows: they never improve the workflows, but they sure love adding states and restricted transitions and renaming them...and then promptly ignore all of it because it turns out your 3 layers of "review" transitions don't actually have any staff assigned to look at them, it's just all the same guy who either spends all his time updating the issue as he works on it or just hits the transition button 3 times when he's actually done with it.
Yes, I mostly do. Simply, for a random website the drawbacks of giving Javascript access to it outweigh the benefits for me. (Small probabilities of a website fingerprinting me, infringing my privacy or executing a browser exploit add up, and there also is a small philosophical component to this of preference of minimalism.) When I trust the site or it is just too more useful for me with Javascript than without, though, I enable Javascript for it specifically.

I look forward to browsers which defend against violation of user privacy more intelligently than just rejecting all Javascript, for example, marking some information secret so that everything computed from it can be displayed and saved, but not sent back to the net - if an attempt is made, it is stopped and either error is shown or error is returned, but other threads of code are not affected. For example, for an editor web app, the file that is loaded into the app is marked secret so it can be edited and saved locally, but cannot leave the browser outwards; or for a page that contacts multiple servers, info from each will be marked as secret for it, so every server can get back its own info but cannot get info of other ones (can also configure which site can additionally get info from which). Can use typing here to guarantee correctness.
Why? They’ve almost certainly already compromised the provider. Even RSA hardware tokens were compromised by the Chinese military.
I find it so troubling that the most common HN response to this isn't to engage with the ideas or logic behind the concerns, but simply to speculate on the unknowable intentions of those that signed the letter.

We can base our arguments on the unprovable, some specific person's secret intentions, or we engage the their ideas. One is lazy and meaningless, the other actually takes effort.

Then there is this lazy and false equivalency between corporations being interested in market capture and AI risks being exaggerated.
The median person in field thinks 5-10%, not 2-5%, and median timelines are shorter than 40 years.

But this is all a distraction, since unaligned ASI is the default case absent significant efforts (that we aren't currently making), and trying to evaluate risk by averaging out the views of people who haven't actually explored the arguments very carefully (vs. just evaluating the arguments yourself) is a doomed effort.
What's special about self-awareness? Could it be a trick of the brain?

It's like the story of Jimi Hendrix dropping acid and playing amazingly well. Or, rather Jimi under the influence thought so — until he heard the recordings.
I've been explaining this to my kids for years when they meet the neighbourhood cats. Angry cats glare at each other, and this is basically the opposite. I guess science has caught up!
Very different issues. Banking regulation may have made progress, but it's inconsistently applied even after decades (I work in global banking governance). Time is part of the problem. AI is moving at a pace even techies can barely comprehend. While you can wait a few years for banking regulations and tolerate some degree of variance, it may only take seconds, minutes, hours, or days of inconsistent global enforcement of "AI regulation" for something to wake up.
> Please do not. If any HN reader is interested to get an LLM interpretation, that's well within their capability

@dang, we hereby propose a guideline amendment: No comments that are entirely or substantially the output of an LLM.
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May I ask - have you had a good experience with Rotary? Because while I am a member of my local club, I've been profoundly disappointed. Almost none of the service projects in my community are anything that's terribly useful - it's a lot of make work so people feel useful. I've also been disappointed in the punitive, "frat boy" like behavior among club members. While I don't think there is any fraudulent activity occurring, I have found some of the financial decision making a bit eye brow raising as well.
I'll second this. I've been a part of several fantastic church communities in the various places I've lived, both before and after I had kids.

And yes, a great side perk of having children is connecting with other parents :)