skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the auto-update functionality from a now-suspect URL. The repo has since been taken down, but here's the suspect file:

https://github.com/dbgsymbol/getsymbol/blob/cb4bdedc1a85c308...
Proposed US Rule for Portable Generators Will Save Thousands of Lives and $1B/Yr
All that would happen much of the time is that people stop writing anything of consequence down, or seek secret channels like the WhatsApp example. NHS employees in the UK as another example admit privately all the time to not recording things in meetings to avoid FoI exposure.

I agree with you in principle, but you are fighting human nature in practice - generally no one wants to look bad in public. I think FoI legislation is important, but in practice the results have often been mixed, and the approach probably needs to be nuanced.
Yeah this would be the way to go. Intelligent, automatic, prioritized, voluntary, per-household (or even per-device) load shedding with no central planning required.
Also being a security researcher doesn't necessarily mean you're any good at securing your own systems. If you can breakout of the quarantine area of the things the researchers know not to trust, you'll commonly find their own systems are insecure as hell.
The issues I raised were pretty concrete, and not merely "this symbol is better than that symbol"
Correct, as usual, everyone interprets that case as 'OMG animals/AI created work is uncopyrightable!1!' but in reality it's just that animals/AIs cannot hold copyright. Whether a human using an AI can copyright the resulting work is still up in the air.
Breaking RLHF “Safety” (And how to fix it?)
Great individual pages, but I'm not convinced the site's great. Not the best possible IA, IMO. Probably a bit of Conway's Law creeping in.
Are you not getting interviews or not getting passed the interviews?
Something you did caused it to happen. Again, what you’re asking for has nothing to do with their project and is not a vulnerability in the slightest. It’s a feature working as intended, you should be focusing on what you did to cause it to happen. You’re also free to not use TWRP it if it doesn’t work for you.
Why only a nominal charge for deliver? Delivery is the most expensive part of the while thing! In particular reliable delivery - unless you intend for the power to shut off every night.
The question is, can you create a global sqlite service that will automatically sync and deliver data in a mesh like service
Wow, this nails down my feelings as well.

I’ve found mentorship, especially code mentorship, to be extremely overrated. I seem to end up in two situations:

* the problem I’ve run across is so far out of my depth that I don’t really know how to explain it. If I did, I’d research what I’m trying to do. A mentor either doesn’t have the time for me or can only provide a surface level explanation.

* the problem is mostly within my skills, but I need to figure out a small component. Asking someone is going to annoy them for it being such a trivial piece.
A name I recognized! He was a sysadmin at SFU many years ago!
Can end-users program two-armed robots? Or are they too stupid?
Gretzky seemed to do just fine with 99...
Feedback on Automatic Prompt Selector
Prompt engineering causing a regression? One prompt works well for some scenarios whereas a different prompt works better for others. So we built a platform where AI dynamically picks the best prompt based on the scenario. We're onboarding early testers so feedback would be highly appreciated
> actually promoting roof top solar.

You mean more than it does by mandating it on all new single- and multi-family dwellings?
I think the Warhol decision is an entirely different kettle of fish. Just take a look at the pieces in question: the Warhol portraits don't really look that different compared to the original photographs.

The benefit that generative AI has is that, when claiming copyright infringement, you need to specify individual works that were infringed. It's not enough to say "this work is an amalgam of these other ten thousand works, and we can't really tell you how."

I could imagine if generative AI gives an identical, word-for-word match for an individual piece of source material it could be in trouble, but that's also the easiest type of thing to prevent from an AI company perspective.

The fact is that existing copyright law just can't really encompass the kinds of societal concerns we have around generative AI.
The curly brace community already has tons of great choices. Let indent people have their mojo.
Yes that is also a problem. The best software is the one which is stable and isolated entirely such that no dependencies change and is also never upgraded. Nothing usually breaks in it. As an owner you buy the entire package hardware + software in its stable form and you can keep it running as long as you want.

With new cars, what I dread the most is scenario where something breaks after an upgrade, especially after car is out of warranty. Would that mean I need to get an expensive repair, or an entirely new car just because my 5yr old hardware isn't compatible with latest software?

I want a car which is reliable enough (including the software) to run as long as I want to keep it even if it's decades. May be keeping cars for decades is about to become a distant reality
This might run into conflict with nuanced tastes, e.g. I would be a miserable gamer if this is how games are recommended to me because I actually really don't like very shiny new triple a shit. Spiritfarer changed my life and made me weep ugly tears multiple times in a way God of War never did, but I don't think most people would enjoy the gentle and tender approach it has towards its subject matter. [In Spiritfarer, you are a boat captain who picks up and hosts dead spirits until they ask you to take them to the gate where they are gone forever; in the meantime they share their lives with you and mull over death with you. Your only task is to care for these people until they are ready to go.]
So, you believe their nuclear weapons don't work?
Apple tumbles, drags Wall Street lower as fears grow over China iPhone curbs
This is harder than folks give credit. Folks want to leverage their own solar power for cheap, clean power; but they still want the availability of the grid for those moments when the sun isn't shining and the batteries are dry. The grid is expensive, and these folks are trying to avoid paying their share because the pricing scheme assumes that availability is highly correlated with actual usage.

The more self reliance individual customers have, the harder it is for generation plants to stay profitable. Break equilibrium stuff by adding more solar and seeing how it gets sustainably fixed might not be a terrible idea, but it is hard.

I don't know anything about the specifics of CA.
This guy was clearly crazy, made suicide and bomb threats, and was stopped before. There was also little to no real chance he'd make it; this isn't like swimming the English Channel, and even then those attempting it had boats & support.

The imploded submersible guy was well known in the industry to be cutting corners and playing fast and loose, but had done successful dives in the past, and had a boat there to support him. Playing fast and loose in a sub will eventually get you killed -- and it did -- but there was at least something of a track record.
they also link to this repository: https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds
LLM inference takes up some scarce GPU time and many people are trying to use free entrypoints to build services instead of the intended paid APIs, so I understand why those services want to put limits on usage.

Programming playgrounds however are freely available for pretty much every mildly popular language, and these days many toolchains can even be compiled and run with JS or WASM so one could just serve some static files to host it. This is definitely more suspicious than what OpenAI and other ML companies are doing.
Musk cut internet to Ukraine’s military as it was attacking Russian fleet
WSJ College Rankings
The story with the Cloud is that everything is distributed. The facts on the ground are that everything is more consolidated than it has ever been, mostly into 3 companies, and dozens of datacenters each.

I don't think the Internet has been this small in that respect since the early 90's.
Bun v1
Rooftop solar doesn’t need to pay for a grid.

Residential generation is 0.06$/kwh. Residential storage is 0.20$/kwh.

My power from the utility is 0.53$/kwh.

If you look at power price increases in CA, you get a pretty good ROI today going solar+battery. But amortized battery prices are going to drop by 75% in the next 5 years (e.g. lifecycle improvement + cost reductions). If you have the capital, it’s going to be a no brained to go residential solar provided you are allowed to disconnect from the grid.
Ok, well, found some disclaimers in the docs now:

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/basics/#python-integrat...

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/roadmap.html
It might be thin and light enough for you but I’m guessing it could be thinner or lighter

Can they really provide a whole dedicated GPU, the extra circuitry on the motherboard to support it, a whole other cooling system, more powerful power delivery and the battery size to compensate all without costing any extra money or weight?
You only present users with the bare number of options to establish the ranking. "Was your most recent purchase better or worse than purchase B? Was it better or worse than purchase F?" If the software keeps an up to date ranking, you don't have to ask more than a handful of questions to accurately assess where the new entry goes.

If an entry causes a logical fallacy, that is an opportunity to represent the data in a different order and see if the user changes their ranking. This will actually help to keep the data fresh. And you can retain "fuzzy" rankings in certain areas without threat to the accuracy of the overall database.

If you want to have a multivariable structure, users could rank more than facet at once. So for a car, you could compare if a Honda Civic is better or worse than a Toyota Corolla on handling, comfort, features, etc. Combine this with non-subjective data (price, 0-60, etc) and users can choose if they want an aggregate ranking or weighted based on their criteria.
It's not just possible, it's actually done in practice.

You pay a lower rate and allow the utilities to shut off your power during peak demand. Usually people will have two meters - a regular one at full price, and a lower priced one that's connected only to heat pumps.

It's marketed as "let us control your thermostat for lower electric rates".
I can understand why openai requires phone number.
With how much resources they spend on each prompt, they want to limit abuse of their systems. Also ChatGpt is not available in many countries and a phone number is reliable enough test of location.
I am myself in one of these countries, but I also care about my privacy, so I use services that use chatGPT indirectly instead: https://you.com with disposable email and https://phind.com
I don't feel like you understand the point I'm trying to make when I suggest a world filled with exact copies of yourself. I do this only to suggest that even in this ideal, like-minded case, conflict will arise, i.e. two yous will not be able to come to a consensus on who is morally at fault given a circumstance.

Consider merging onto a highway. At some point you merge ahead of a car, and at some point you merge behind a car. There is some epsilon around around this point where you lack the perfect behaviour to make the objectively correct decision due to limited human processing capacity. Suppose an accident occurs, then subjectively both yous feel you did the moral thing. Is someone at fault, yes, the person who was within epsilon wrong. Pragmatically you may say no one was at fault, accidents happen. At which point the question becomes how big is an acceptable epsilon. And so on and so on, more questions upon questions. Which need to have answers, which provoke disagreement. Which is why I say you are right in a vacuum, but we don't exist in a vacuum.

A criticism of my argument would be that reality does not work that way and that everything is deterministic, and then we're back to desiring a machine that we can build that will say yes and no and right and wrong. If that machine can exist, we don't have it yet, and if we did I promise at least one person will say it's broken.

If you must, find one thing that is broken in your life, and try and devote your energies to fixing it for the next generation. If the ideas you are promoting are that, so be it. But this road is very long and very difficult and the majority are like me, too lazy, and mostly just coping. A quicker buck is made selling snake oil and using that wealth to buy leisure and hire lawyers. Morals be damned.
Now we know: John McCarthy used (x)emacs. Clearly an important revelation in the ongoing browser wars.
/s (and not to minimize how genuinely interesting this is)
The trick with IO was basically putting a monotonically increasing counter in it. Binds increment the counter creating the implicit ordering dependency needed for the compiler to "sequence" the actions as expected.

It's supposed to be some elegant design handed down from an all-knowing creator I guess, but it's a useful hack in practice.
Conductors tend to follow a certain interpretation of a composer's music. If I like the way Leonard Bernstein or Michael Tilson Thomas conducts a Mahler symphony, I'm likely to want all of Mahler's symphonies as recorded by one or the other (or, heaven help me, both), not one conducted by Leonard Slatkin (tho he's really good as well) and another one from Fritz Reiner.

Though I'd make an exception if I could find the Mahler's 2nd conducted by Eugene Ormandy I grew up with in the late 1960s, though...
I agree, but all the incentives are aligned with making sensational attributions:

- Attackers don't want to get identified, so they won't help

- Defenders, or their bosses, don't want to admit they got owned by a "skid"

- Researchers want to pad their resumes with Serious work, not random skid nonsense

- Media wants sensational stories
The problem with unrestricted spot pricing is that it's easy to end up with a surprise bill due to circumstances beyond your knowledge or control. E.g. the heating system fails in the apartment complex next door, so everyone plugs in space heaters. Your bill goes up also due to the increased demand. They can get insurance to cover this sort of eventuality -- can you?

I know two ways to fix this. First, obviously, you didn't say "unrestricted". There are various ways to restrict spot pricing to alleviate these issues, e.g. guarantee each home a particular amount at a fixed rate, and overages are at spot rates. Second, the "knowledge" angle can be attacked -- if you know that's happened, you can turn down your thermostat.
It's an interesting question. I'm just assuming the cost-per-space-removed under this regime is far greater than the lost-revenue-per-space-removed that they would have otherwise suffered, but that's just based on the fact that the deal is known to be especially bad for the city. It stands to reason that they would have gotten screwed on this point as well, but that's just a guess on my part.
> Therefore, what we call subjective experience is evidence for the existence of what we experience, but until we can empirically show that there is a difference between what we experience and what reality is, the only thing we can say is that it exists.

The division is between our third-person descriptions of reality in science, and our first-person "experience". You can't logically derive a first-person perspective only from third-person facts. That's what's at the heart of the hard problem. The eliminativist simply says that the first-person facts are a cognitive illusion, and so we really only have third-person facts, and the panpsychist says all third-person facts have an accompanying first-person component most of which we can't access.
Mom, I'm on TV !
Such a treat to see this!

I only played Ricochet Robots once, and it was when a colleague who was a board game buff brought it for a regular after-hours board game night in one of the conference rooms. This was ages ago.

We were all developpers, and the first thought so many of us had after the rules were explained was that it would be a lot of fun to code up a solver.

So glad that someone worked it out, what a pleasure to read!
It's kind of interesting that there's no mention of this on Wikipedia and your comment is downvoted, there's been a lot of media coverage of gematria in q-anon. Even if it's a misuse of gematria (which it probably is), it's one of the main things people will commonly use the word for these days. Many will have heard of this use and not know about the ancient traditions.
Yeah, the other side of the debate has legitimate points about free riders. This article dismisses them mostly by calling them names like "investor owned".
one thing most people don't realise is how much park and woodland london has.
If 'cyberarms' are as potent as you think they are, then how come Russian cyberarms haven't done much damage to Ukraine?
London has a surprising history and love for its trees, more so than I've seen in other cities I've lived in. This means you can find a lot of fun listicles that provide history and fun facts for trees located around the city.

For example, [Great Trees of London](https://londonist.com/london/maps/great-trees-of-london-map) has a collection I'd actually enjoy walking around, and coupling with other sites in the area.

Especially in the heat the difference trees make is incredible. Moving from a tree-lined street to an open one is horrible when walking around the place.
This was done in Texas. You could get power at pass thru rate. The freeze came and griddy, a pass thru supplier begged everyone to switch because the rates would explode due to market demand pricing. Those who didnt switch got charged thousands because it's straight pass thru pricing.

Some who knew how this worked just turned off their breakers or switched to generators. Those who refused complained to the state, and then of course the rest is history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griddy
Github stars are also complete bullshit that can be gamed itself.
and it is explicitly the coast guard's job to enforce EEZ rules. one of their primary roles.
Yes. Remember that not only security researchers but also developers in general are extra juicy targets because of e.g. their AWS credentials that sometimes aren't kept as secure as they need to be. Heck, even if you're doing proper SSO with 2FA the tokens can be stolen and data proxied/exfiltrated.

At best they can be used for coin mining (running up a huge bill), at worst for stealing private customer data (and then selling/ransomwaring it).
Yes. But this is just a weighted aggregate of subjective reviews.

A 7/10 from Gamespot is useless data because they give 7/10 to everything.
Great idea. Add categories: is A a better Comedy than B? Romance? Mystery? Action?

Is Schindler's List a better Comedy than Gone With the Wind?

Is Schindler's List a better Romance than Gone With the Wind?

Is Schindler's List a better Documentary than Gone With the Wind?
It's not clear to me that only a vector DB should be used for RAG.
Vector DBs give you stochastic responses.

For customer chatbots, it seems that structured data - from an operational database or a feature store adds more value. If the user asks about an order they made or a product they have a question about, you use the user-id (when logged in) to retrieve all info about what the user bought recently - the LLM will figure out what the prompt is referring to.

Reference:

https://www.hopsworks.ai/dictionary/retrieval-augmented-llm
Oh I see I didn't notice the additional links popping up on hover. Oof, that's not great.
If it matters I didn't mean to direct my comment at you personally (obviously, as I don't know you), but instead it was meant to target the generic security person who says that he/she has gotten in the "vicinity" of such state-sponsored attacks.

Back to the subject at hand, and taking a more general view, trusting a big Pentagon-contractor [1] (and not only) such as Alphabet on the subject of other countries' cyber-attacks against the US (and its Western allies) is just futile.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentagon-awards-9-bln-clo...
Definitely a case here for an eminent domain seizure of SpaceX from Musk. Particularly given how it owes its existence to defense department funding.
I generally don't like social media, but Letterboxd is an excellent alternative to review aggregators, as you can find individuals with similar tastes to yourself. I've found many films I've greatly enjoyed via my Letterboxd network that I would not have otherwise.
I don't follow, don't encryption and compression algorithms carry out a very specific steps that isn't likely to show up accidentally by happenstance?

(e.g. it'd be hard to accidentally invent Rijndael with nothing but next best token predictions, but might be possible to duplicate someone's code for inverting a binary tree or encrypting a file)
Yeah, I highly dislike working with python, everything is special syntax or different for no reason. In addition to what you mentioned:

* try catch is different keywords from virtually all other languages.

* walrus tusks, the general order in list comprehensions generally where bindings come after expression

* typing is awful, unsound in a lot of cases, there’s a ton of special non straightforward plugins in mypy. This is partially better in pyright but not considerably.

* package management is silly. Poetry is like a poor imitation of npm. Venvs are a pain in the butt.

… all of this for a pretty slow language.
Yeah, and then I can buy some insurance / hedges against the spot prices of electricity, day trade my air conditioner, and complete the financialization of my life.
Still not available for Mac with Intel chips unfortunately
> LLaMA, with up to 65B params, opened against Meta's wishes

They sure didn't try very hard to secure it. I wonder if it was their strategy all along.
Hey thanks for commenting here. I think many people in hn don't realize that Foss projects maintained and managed by a company are used to further a commercial goal otherwise ardunio would go under and then it doesn't matter the state of the Foss stuff. If in the future for whatever reason the sentiment for the Foss portion changes the community can always fork it, or continue development. That's the beauty of open source software.

I'm also biased since I'm building a vc backed product as well.

Super stoked to see how your professional and enterprise offerings turn out. Do you have a public roadmap anywhere?