skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They linked to the original story which has a link to the documents showing some of Voyager's features including the "active persona" or fake profiles. The user guide also has some of the other details they mention about mapping out friendships.

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/J9...

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/2021-11/J9...
Ask HN: Isaacson says Musk and Altman “co-found” OpenAI? Accurate?
In Isaacson's bio it states:

"At a small dinner in Palo Alto, [Musk and Altman] decided to co-found a nonprofit artificial-intelligence-research lab, which they named OpenAI." [0]

Is this a journalistically accurate statement? I understand they were important and probably the most active investors and co-chair board members but were they listed as co-founders in any actually paperwork?

[0]https://time.com/6310076/elon-musk-ai-walter-isaacson-biography/
You can't end up in jail for being unaware of one of the drivers you don't use.
Agreed. I would guess that mushrooms in particular might be a helpful option for those self-medicators willing to pursue it. It is not a cure-all, and it doesn't work for everyone that tries it, but it has shown to help people sort of zoom out, reset, and gain a new perspective on their own psychological "baggage".
Decent relative to what? These games include various card games too which in theory are even harder for AIs to beat pros at. I'd be surprised if the other minigame engines are actually decent to a skilled amateur on their hardest difficulty. The AI complexity is also irrelevant to many of these games being playable with a friend in person or online.

The length of the game is also something easily tweaked, just default the board size to 9x9 and offer 13x13 and 19x19.
The generator isn't very accurate. I prompted "a sad bald construction worker" and I got a smiling construction worker wearing a hard hat. Only 1 out of 3 adjectives was implemented.
Stairway to Heaven, a la Wayne's World.
Apple does enough for privacy, but Meta is the real a*hole here
I was waiting for this! Thank you!

Consider some parametrization, like swapping dehyped title (better than orig!), and showing/collapsing summary and comments by default. Ideally via url params for bookmark persistence.
What will definitely help the homelessness problem is turning people into felons, locking them up for a number of the prime years of their lives, and making it much harder to have a viable career with a criminal record.
Fuck me that’s the worst UX I’ve seen in ages
In the US I sometimes see a check box for cutlery but sometimes they ignore it and give it to you anyway.
We conducted crewed spaceflight in the 1960s because of the state of robotics at the time. To continue with crewed spaceflight today with the present state of robotics is honestly pretty crass in terms of the risk put on human lives. Not to mention the additional resource drain having to build and transport life support systems.
That's a fair point, but we really don't know if Rust was added to the company or only to this project. Big companies often use multiple tech stacks anyway.

In my experience the language was never a bottleneck at onboarding new people to the project. It is always the complexity of the project itself, all the non-standard in-house built things that engineers invented over previous X years and often didn't even take time to document properly.

I'd personally prefer a boring / standard solution in a relatively modern tech stack I have to learn from scratch than a pile of cleverness in something I know well (let's say Java). In the former case I can learn it quite quickly from the publicly available materials. In the latter case I need to reverse-engineer all the cleverness.
privacy browsers be all like: https://xkcd.com/927/
There's no "ransom" being held for deleting your data from Threads. The point is that Threads is built on top of Instagram, which means that if you want to delete your data, Threads doesn't have it. Instagram does.
There's not much I can fault with this analysis.

Thanks for your thoughts!
I think this is based on https://replicate.com/fofr/sdxl-emoji

It's SDXL (Stable Diffusion's latest release), fine-tuned on Apple Emoji images.
Softlayer has been IBM Cloud for years now. The SL branding got totally scrubbed in 2018.
That story is about Fur Elise, not Moonlight Sonata. The name, of course, meaning "for Elise," the name of the woman in question.
ZeroAvia Unveils World’s First Compressor for Aviation Fuel Cell Systems
I'm interested any realistic solution to a social problem. Eliminating police departments isn't one of them; it's fantasy virtue-signaling by people who are lucky enough to have never experienced first-hand what happens in societies without law enforcement.
Er, I was confused; of course being over UDP won't make the kind of difference I was thinking since the congestion control is just about when packets are sent. Although I heard a while back that UDP packets can be dropped more quickly during congestion. If that is the case and the congestion isn't too severe (but leading to dropped packets because it is over UDP) then possibly vegas would help.
Because they can. Moving workloads likely too hard.
> ... Although it comes with a collection of its own apps, and they look good, they are functionally a little weak. Music only handles local files, with no streaming support; ...

I wish I could get exactly that on my iPhone.
You can actually see all of the telemetry data Firefox is sending by going to about:telemetry in your browser.
You can also see all of the probes it could be collecting here: https://probes.telemetry.mozilla.org/
Keep in mind that the telemetry that is captured in Firefox goes through a thorough review process, so that it respects user privacy: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Data_Collection
That's an excellent starting guide, nice!
The Magic Mountain
THX Deepnote
You can create some sick beats by clicking and releasing the mouse button in a rhythm
Yeah. A university paper assignment and a 1000 word article for the company blog seem like two totally different things even barring explicit policies. (Though I'd be surprised if a lot of universities didn't have policies by now.)
The problem with "articles" such as the one under discussion is that information veracity is inherently subjective, assuming no true perfect framing of the information (such as is the case with history), and therefore the truth will be under the type of constant debate that breathes life into democratic societies.

To my point and yours, such articles are unlikely to be referencing falsehoods presented by corporate media but instead contrary views.

Which means that the hypothetical "ignoring" curriculum that the authors suggest would devolve into, if not start as, lessons in how to ignore most else but the corporate media view.

Given the dogma that ostensibly serves to reinforce democracy in ideal conditions but has obviously instead enforced oppression in every other environment: that the media is the primary and honest arbiter of truth.
Enough for some, clearly not all, hence this ... visual tour
The initial conjecture is that the US' "Adversaries see [wasteful profligacy] as weakness." We have established that the US seems to spend wildly with muted negative outcomes. To an adversary, should that be seen as a weakness or a strength?

Could things be better in the US if it did not spend the way it does? That is a difficult counterfactual. The well adapted US political system never voluntarily decreases taxes, so a safe assumption is that spending/deficit/debt would be the same.

A significant amount of war funding was spent on the MIC, which employs upper middle income US persons in engineering, logistics, HR. The rest is spent on consumables (also from the US) and bribery, which eventually finds safe harbor by holding large bricks of US $100 bills on the low end or US luxury dwellings on the high end.

In the counterfactual, what would have happened to all those white collar suburbs and Miami penthouses?
> I assume the answer is no: you clearly know it's wrong, and haven't done anything about it yet.

You expect a first year junior grad student (e.g., me before i was inured to it) to blow the whistle on their senior, well respected, famous, advisor? Is this a joke? You think change like this happens bottoms up from the indentured servant^1 class? lol.

> It makes no sense, but people would behave worse without the illusion.

wut. we've taken a large step off the sane road here. democratic/fair/equitable processes are open. full stop. if you want to debate me on this you're gonna have to whip out a whole lot of philosophy, history, data, etc.

^1 do you know how many phd students in the US are foreign nationals on student visas? if you had to pick between majority and minority which one would you pick? hint: you're wrong it's the other one.
They're selling consumer GPUs with huge margins too. The markup on the 40xx series is insane but they're still shipping a ton of units.
The $100B Luxury Complex That’s Sitting Empty and Unfinished
They don't really hide that anymore.

Starting in 2019 or so, they dropped any ability to manage cloud resources using the Softlayer-branded portal and forced everyone into using the IBM Cloud API/Console.
That's absolutely not true. The impoverished communities are the ones most damaged by over policing. Common sense would tell you that if the massive police budgets were invested into bettering the health of those same communities, that crime would go down.
Yep, they do. Currently using them on AWS and pretty happy.
A study of malicious code in PyPI ecosystem
> Quantum search will allow for us to seek out global minima across gigantic parameter sets.

Just like pouring water on the floor will find the global minima on it. Just wait until there is one puddle left. O(1).

I am yet to be convinced quantum computers are real at all and not just some slow convoluted variant of an analogue computer.
Here is the section of title 17 that defines the rights of copyright holders and what terms like “copy” mean in US law. It’s clear as mud but I feel it’s likely that the process of training neural network weights is not going to be held as equivalent to verbatim digital copies. It’s just not the same thing and the law has no clear provision for it, except by analogy to existing human creative processes.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106A

The most closely applicable existing law is that of “derivative works” but those require human authorship, so it’s far from clear that those would apply to AI output either. Ultimately this is going to be hashed out in the courts until some actual laws are written to deal with it.

(IANAL)
What are primary care doctors for? They either just prescribe OTC drugs or refer you to a specialist that you can just schedule yourself. Primary Care usually has a >month waiting list so its not for emergencies. No doctor I have had takes questions without an appointment or even picks up their phone. I just skip them entirely now and go to a specialist if I have a health problem.
Respect for persistence.

For the screenshot thing, are you using the GPT-4 visual understanding? I assume not since it's only available for a few groups.

Looks like an interesting project.

Are you using BLIP-2? I understand if you don't want to give away secrets. Just thought it couldn't hurt to ask.
And you can smelt metal with it as well!

It is likely that it would be cost prohibitive to hookup that much load with that expected profile.
Typerighter uses an extended ruleset but the core is based on the Guardian's publically available style guide: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a
TIL from these comments that many hacker news comments originate from having an axe to grind. Holy shit
> Pro-tip: we'll automatiically pre-pend 'A TOK emoji of a' to your prompt. Try something simple like 'cat' or 'high five'.

What is a "TOK emoji"?
This certainly explains why Camtek got a surge of orders for their Eaglet-AP inspection machine for advanced packaging just in the last couple of months.
https://www.camtek.com/news-and-events/camtek-receives-order...
Founders
It’s interesting for several reasons at least:

- It shows “corner cases” in our own human languages where meaning is not clear even when a sentence is grammatically correct. (This possibility is perhaps more obvious to tech people, but a surprise to many)

- It shows how understanding a sentence is so different from reading. When, with some aid, one finally can read the buffalo sentence and understand it, it’s amazing to realize how it “clicks”. As technothrasher said, this is interesting to those understanding how the brain works.

- As others noted, reveals how much of human language is about defaults and convention, and NOT about parsing based in grammar. This was something that had to be learned; early thinkers sometimes assumed that the brain was just a parser.

- For hackers, it’s interesting to find ways to “break” a human language while playing by the rules (grammar).
The emoji interest me. I start almost everything I post on Mastodon with an emoji. I used to look these up in emojipedia but my iPad has a lot of memory pressure and I'll loose what I'm working on in my YOShInOn window if I switch between two many tabs so now I have a dropdown list of all the emoji I've actually used and only need to cut-n-paste something that isn't in the list.

Early on I thought the emoji would be associated with a clean classification (say a ringed planet for astronomy) but I found I wasn't really doing that (I used two people holding hands for a post about a possible companion for a black hole) From the very beginning I thought about making something that automatically suggests an emoji but I've yet to do anything about it: the existing models I have would treat it as a many-shot problem based on emoji I've used before but I've also thought about making something trained on definitions or plain text descriptions of the emoji and related concepts.
Not today, anyway. Otherwise we'd still have jailbreaks, which were zero-day exploits used knowingly and non-maliciously.

Apple hired at least a few of the best jailbreakers.
For me it’s less readable/pleasant due to too strong contrasts, line-height, font-size.

Also, as a result, need more scrolling.
X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
That's a pretty neat way of making a "blog post". Reveal.js I guess?
no disagree - it is a turf war in a time of decline for the higher education crowd. This is directly confrontational -- a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Yeah my browser and my terminal always share a 60/40 split on a basic 1080p monitor at work. I actually hate having it take full width now. Everything is condensed and is less strain on my eyes.
China, like Russia, has lost the reputation of "rational actor" in its policy making. Current leadership is sacrificing everything in name of "stability" aka party selfpreservation. Usa tolerated unacceptable economic behavior from a WTO member for too long. Cadres had an opportunity to start to "play fair" like a developed nation but squandered it in name of face, short term profits and ethnonationalism showing the world their ambitions . Wall Street, Big Corps and Neoliberals delayed any sensible reaction to chinese Hostility as long they could but with the covid fuckup they lost most "grounds" for appeasement. Economic actors, like textile industries were delocalizing for a few years now due to factor like high cost of labour and uneasiness in doing business (fines, bribes, power outages, tariffs, power tripping bureaucrats, etc...). Not to mention the likehood of Ip theft (aka forced partnerships with local businesses) or blackmail risk you put yourself in doing business in china. The juice aint worth the squeeze now in china
How does a founder not know that they are hiring?
I don’t know if you’ve used a neobank, but you’re underestimating the value of really fancy website. Interacting with traditional bank apps and websites is painful. Simple, which shut down, was a phenomenal service that made it a joy to bank with.
Threads or the site?
That's just tech-speak. To the end user these are two separate apps. And Meta definitely has a way of telling which bits of data came from Threads and which from Instragram. They just chose not to make it easy for the user to delete only Threads data.
As an aside, anyone know what makes pages like these not wheel-scroll? Page shows 2 scrollbars.
Threads isn't banned in the EU.

The rumour is that Threads couldn't launch in the EU due to upcoming Digital Markets App. Which is also a good thing: https://ia.net/topics/unraveling-the-digital-markets-act
Fin – A Language for Embedded Systems
Hi all,

I've been working away at this idea for almost a decade now (off and on) and I think I have solutions to the majority of problems.

I'm about to invest a lot of time into fin and thought now would be a good time for a sanity check :)

Interesting things about fin:

- focuses on resource constrained embedded systems (no heap or garbage collector required).

- fin is like a modern C++ that is much simpler, way safer, and already has superb tooling (IDE, debugger, refactoring...).

- transpiles to high quality human readable C99 so we can use it with any microcontroller.

- has incredible testing/simulation capabilities (python like).

- familiar C/C++ syntax (be productive day 1).

- ...

https://github.com/fin-language/fin

Thanks for your interest and ideas!
You don't need consent to film
someone in a public space. It's done as a courtesy, not a legal requirement.

My computer is not a public space and the software that is installed on it, and when, and the IP address used to do so, are private information. Exfiltrating that data without consent is a violation of my right to privacy, full stop. Nothing that is said, no notice that is provided, can change that.

You could just as well say "by entering this building you consent to be murdered". It illustrates the point similarly: a lack of objection is not affirmative consent.
FAA has closed the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy mishap investigation
Wow this is fun.
Just curious, what is something we do on the ISS that actually needs a human hand vs a remotely operated or programmed one? Aside from perhaps studies on the effects of space flight on human health.
There are far more eyes on firefox and it's hardened forks, then on a random/obscure piece of software (sorry, I have no idea what exact malware you're referencing).
> Here we define and quantify these opportunity food losses as the food loss associated with consuming resource-intensive animal-based items instead of plant-based alternatives which are nutritionally comparable, e.g., in terms of protein content. We consider replacements that minimize cropland use for each of the main US animal-based food categories.

I'll start worrying about this after we've stopped using a large fraction of food crops to make biofuels, and still have a problem.
Xi-style communism is just capitalism with strong state police authority though, what do you mean? This is basically explicit in party doctrine at this point.
He left the company and rejoined as CEO yesterday.
It was correct when I just looked at it, and you still read it, though. Eventual correction works and is less important than getting the news out.

Any-way - the fact that they have a system that seeks to improve the copy and direct it towards their style guide is something to be celebrated when most of the news about, erm, the news, is how AI is replacing actual writers.
Absolutely! And I'm one of them :) Check out the Shogi Harbor community[1] and their Discord[2]. There's a lot of discussion there and they're very friendly.

[1] http://shogi.pl/
[2] https://disboard.org/server/653255438904590372
Yeah, makes sense. Parts of it resonated with me, but it's also a bit too rude.
thank you for your comment. Will do so!
A Teen Celebrity in 1804
To be fair, when I made my post I had to go through 3 pages of threads to verify there was indeed, at that moment, very little discussion about NSO, and mostly discussion about remedies and how bad apple is handling imessage. But I'm glad that enough other people seem to care. :)
It's funny they ask me to subscribe to their newsletter using my email in the end without any explanation on how they're going to use it :)
The real problem is working with postgres’ “each connection is a process” model. Pgbouncer puts an evented pool in front of postgres to deal with this. Apps that are aggressive with DB will not benefit from having an evented pool in front. However, web apps (think rails) will have connections checked out even if they don’t need them. Pgbouncer helps here. If your app recycles DB connections when not in use, that leads to connection thrashing and higher latency, which pgbouncer can help with. But you’re right that at some point, the DB is the bottleneck. For most people, it’s the number of connections, because postgres makes a process for each connection.
Contextual discussion from a couple days ago:

Flexport CEO resigns a year after joining logistics company (150 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37410812
I'd agree lot of people have good skills to know what to ignore. Like knowing to go through a persons post history to get context on the kind of beliefs held that correlate with saying:

>It is becoming impossible to maintain the fake illusion of consensus by the corporate media
Interesting. Always thought it was meant to be "serks". That makes sense though.
I think it's unfair to compare Facebook actively screwing us to Apple not adopting your proposed metric on their product and passively allowing a very popular app in their app store.

Not a huge fan of Apple, but they aren't Facebook.
The constraint is less often the database in reality then in theory. Expecially when you consider many large scale applications are doing complex things. A normal request trace might only spend 30% or 40% of its time in the DB call. When you consider that a single postgres database can clear 200k QPS, you start to get to a world where you have thousands of hosts. If you tried to tune the in application connection pool to suit the various scale of deployments you would quickly find that having a proxy is both simpler and safer.

I would confidently state that most large scale applications have run into the situation where they have scale up their application worker fleet, and then crashed their database with too many connections. Coordinating the size of the worker connection pool in a world where we have elastic application workers is enough of a task that deploying a proxy is really the simplest and best solution
A lot of people in this thread seem to be missing the cultural context: the Chinese king Yu the Great is traditionally credited with building canals (mentioned in the first paragraph of the paper).

> In China, the tale of the legendary Great Yu’s heroic taming of floods and the subsequent founding of the Xia Dynasty continues to dominate mainstream scholarly narrative on the formation of China’s first state, albeit with great controversy. The importance of state-organized hydraulic projects and elites’ control of water to the evolution of Bronze Age and early imperial societies is also emphasized in recent archaeological studies of water.
The point is that your Threads account is your Instagram account. They're not separate.
I suggest that we work to bring about a world where policing is unneccessary, even unthinkable. I refuse to accept the premise that we must consider any individual event in isolation -- we are all connected and all of our struggles our connected.

For this to work we have to start by taking a sober look at the history of the concentration of power under capitalism, and how the use of force by the police has repeatedly and systematically kept the masses under control.

We have to analyze the true root causes of crime, and work to eliminate those forces. It is not only immorral, but simply impractical, to make any attempt to address broad social unrest solely at the point where symptoms arise.
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