skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or how is throwing gold into a Volcano any different from throwing the Earth into the sun, other than one being possible right now and the other maybe possible in the future?

The present day versus the far future is a very important difference, in addition to the several dozen or hundreds of orders of magnitude. Do you not understand how the normal person perceives possibilities in relation to time, or what orders of magnitude are?

Anything that is reasonably possible to do by a single individual right now, circa Sept. 2023, with normal single human adult scale resources, needs to be taken into account by any economic theories. If it's to gain credibility from the HN readerbase over the predominant theory.

If someone spending a few hours of effort could cause a theory to do the equivalent of a divide by zero then it's a dumb theory and close to zero passing readers will take it seriously.
Just a note: Disney owned Hulu makes more per subscriber in its ad supported tier than its premium tier
....aaaah but they do! MyQ premium is $1/mo; $10/yr or $299 lifetime and is required for any external integration outside of the Apple, Amazon, or Google ecosystems.

I'll forgive you if you weren't already aware that Chamberlain traded to a new PE firm shortly before all of this nonsense began to be introduced. IMO The only reason that the product remains subscription-free in any capacity is because that toothpaste had already been squeezed. I assure you, they see a future in subscribing to your garage door, and if you think otherwise, woe to you.
Bun is getting a lot of hype due to all the press, but almost everyone is just echoing Bun's docs and marketing material and lack direct experience using it. I haven't done a deep dive into Bun yet, but I have tried porting a legacy project to it. Hit a lot of issues after a few hours of hacking around. It wouldn't correctly install node modules because of opt-in dependency lifecycles (and maybe other issues?) and then I couldn't use it to execute the existing webpack build without encountering opaque runtime errors.

The promise of Bun seems pretty good, but I think their marketing material is further along than their core projects atm.
I think deno (made by Deno Company) and bun (made by Oven) are in quite similar situations here, both controlled by companies eyeing deployment services of their respective runtimes as the main source of revenue. Node is in the OpenJS Foundation, so it's in a different situation.
That’s not what this person is saying. What they’re saying is that the miner (in this case the same person as the sender) signed a transaction with an insane fee and kept it private. The miner then solved a block. Finally, the miner then includes their transaction in the block because they’re allowed to pick what transactions to include. This would only happen for a “memey” reason because the miner is technically losing out on a transactions worth of fees but it does generate headlines like this which I would say would be worth $1-3.

Not likely what happened in this case but theoretically possible with the technology.
I tried writing an app using WinUI a few months ago and the widgets that it has are decent, but there are some major gaps compared to older Windows UI frameworks and Cocoa. The one that stands out most is its lack of a proper tableview/datagrid (think NSTableView in Cocoa). I know about the community widget but it doesn’t feel right to have to pull in a third party library for something so elementary.

The look and feel is great though, Win11 is a nice step up from 8/10 in that department. So good to have depth, curves, transparency, etc back again.
That's fine with me. I bet your favorite state-scale boogeyman uses all sorts of FOSS software, it's hardly an indictment against open tooling.
Humans, too, would likely be nearly stateless if we took a point-in-time snapshot of them and repeatedly simulated them from that point on various short (4000ms, similar to 4000 tokens) sequences of nerve impulses.

Nevertheless the human would be acting intentionally (for in-distribution impulse patterns) for the brief period of simulation.

Fine-tuning and RLHF seem to impart more intentionality to the pure stateless models, as well; it's not the case that all texts the LLMs were pretrained on were outputs of helpful AI assistants avoiding harmful outputs but the resulting models do in fact behave like AI assistants unless prompted with more out-of-distribution context or intentional jailbreaks.

What word would you use instead of intention for the property that RLHF and fine-tuning create? It's goal oriented behavior with some world-modeling ability in achieving the goal even if it's far from robust. If the LLM is only simulating an AI assistant it seems to me that a larger fraction of its total function is dedicated to simulating the intention of that assistant. Creating a simulator of intentional behavior is, I think, entirely novel.
See also: https://github.com/grantm/no-more-f-s-repo
I'll take bets on GPT4 models being available, free, 6 months from now.

They're not up to ChatGPT yet and GPT4 is worlds beyond

ex. last night I ran ChatGPT and GPT4 on USMLE Step 2, 120 Qs, 60% vs. 85%
I am not able to ascertain via web searching whether or not Mopria (the new universal print driver framework) supports PostScript passthrough or if all our printed text will have the trademark blurry HP PECL look, as if you printed a jpeg just shy of being at a sharp enough enough resolution. With inkjets it doesn’t make a difference but with lasers it is a night and day difference.
Is it truly futile to hope for the occasional technologist to bring rigor to the matter?

If one thinks of Almond Strowger, he nearly single handedly initiated the weeding out a specific form of corruption (corruption of human telephone operators, to redirect economic traffic) for about a 100 years by inventing the automatic telephone exchange and phone numbers.
Buy my land at a premium, I’ll gladly retire early!
On my printer (MFP M479dw), you can trivially log into the web interface and disable wifi direct.
Afaik the HID Global app saves a key in the OS key store (at least on Android) and uses the locally stored key with NFC so you just need network access to enroll a key. Not sure what vendor/app these things use (maybe it's all in house)
I seriously just use the "add 30" button for everything.
It just doesn’t seem relevant to the topic at hand. We’re commenting on an article about the longevity, and someone comes out of the woodworks to share their astonishment that we haven’t not discussed the religious beliefs of the founder. It’s astonishing if that doesn’t seem divisive or bizarre to you, at least just a bit.
It depends on the situation. There are cases when I "expect the exception" - for example anything that touches the network has a tiny chance of failing. I want to know how often this happen, because too many network errors probably means that something is down and needs to be investigated (and we have alerts for this, based on logs). But to be fair I usually just log .exception() in this case anyway (even if I know exactly what the exception will be).
The example doesn't change my mind.

It throws away the flavor of the original text. Why reword the great works of literature into YA-level blandness? Might as well just read the Cliffs Notes at that point. 1984 isn't a particularly challenging work, either, and I think readers do themselves a disfavor if they don't read the original.

Edit: hey I do want to apologize my tone in the first comment though, it was too much. Sorry.
After reading just about everything I can get my hands about this incident, I have to conclude that the narrative that was published was misleading.

I mean Musk still says he talked to Putin, but I think he didn't make a terrible decision in this particular case, as much as I would have loved to see the outcome.
IPP is a lower level thing - I guess those are built on top of it rather than in/with/through it.
I'd suspect it is fairly common for most all religions?

Would be neat to see data on it. I certainly don't like the behavior. Doesn't feel uncommon, though.
That is true. Both deno and bun runtimes are released under MIT license, and might potentially outlive the companies behind them.
Seems like this sort of grave implication shouldn’t be made without some sort of evidence.
After reading this article my next car is going to be a hybrid with no subscriptions. The average car costs a year's income for most people. Charging a customer a subscription fee is nothing short of a perpetual lease. When you buy something it ought to be yours.
It's a crude analogy, but I like to tell people that a spectroscope is more like a highly directional microphone to listen to molecules than it is like any normal camera...
Interesting project! Off the top of my head I guess it would be a larger addition since this is currently using built-in Firefox features for isolation, but recording/caching requests that are made during the initial load in order to "freeze" a website until the user chooses to update would make this more useful.

If you do want to go down that route, using the blocking `webRequest` to record responses and stick them into storage and then re-serve them from the cache would possibly be the best way to go about it. At that point though I'd probably advise seeing if you could get off of `<all_urls>` as a required permission? And I haven't ever played with blocking network requests for websockets, so I'm not sure if they'd require separate handling.

Just a thought. But regardless, thanks for sharing :)
Pedantic note: ‘Address’ should really be a ‘newtype’…
I had a thing happen to me. I'm not telling this anecdote as a solution, just as a shareable thing.

An innate draw to perfectionism becomes the engineer's plauge. The notion that we can approach a quality in our craft compels us, stirs us and drives us, pulls us to an ideal we never quite seem to reach. This plauge promotes paranoia, large egos, self doubt, loathing, fear, complexities and difficulties in our relationships, in our selves.

One day, about 8 years ago, on a trip to The Island of Hawaiʻi, a day tour around the island brought with it a brief stop to see some giant ocean turtles, laying eggs upon the shore. Before we were released from the bus, the tour guide emphatically begged us, striving for a personal connection, to please, please leave the turtles alone. And then, as though I was watching the birth of conceptual inevitability, I watched happy couple after happy couple, smuggling turtle eggs for digital photos. Most were placed back, a few were broken, yolks dripping into the water and rocks and a quick shriek turned to laughter.

I felt free. I felt a freedom from responsibility, as the expanse of the loss of control I have finally came from its spectre and showed me the infinite boundary of what I cannot control. This freedom was not joy. It is not joy. It is the cold comfort of certainty, the icy maw that I cannot escape from with more than a few variables of integers at a time, and to simply allow myself to be the briefest of willful rejections amongst it.

And so that's how I turn off at night. I know that if I disappeared into the static between clouds, this would all go just about as well, or poorly, and that I am not going to save the world if I just push git commits fast enough.
"There are no figures available on how many Salvadorans have taken up Bitcoin."

Doesn't this contradict the headline?
I like to see core.py more than any of those. Things accumulate in util.py because you can’t find them in the standard library. (Right?) So don’t diminish them as misc or helpers.
Yes, because PDFjs and LLMs are exactly the same thing.
So, my heart was pounding and erratic at night, and my blood pressure would spike at random intervals.

The root cause was that I moved to a 2000’ higher elevation, and was dehydrated.

Since winter air is lower humidity, I suggest you drink two extra pints of water per day, spread across three-four sittings.

Will it work? Probably not. But, I’d give it an over 10% chance, and it will cost you nothing.
What makes you so certain that deceit is more likely than hubris?
The NSO is less of an issue to me than the fact they are finding exploits Apple isn't (assuming Apple truly isn't aware of these and/or building them in on request) and that Apple has more than enough to budget for. To me, the NSO (as evil as they are) is like a regulator who cuts through a company's "self-regulation" claims and proves that the company they are regulating is either intentionally making their own platform insecure or is at best, negligent to mitigating and being proactive in addressing obvious issues.

Apple could pay all these people and companies way more than they could ever hope to earn on the free world market to simply fuck off. They are notoriously stingy with bug bounties and constantly disillusion those who are helping to ostensibly make their platforms more secure. I view NSO in a similar light to Correllium, whom Apple has tried to shutdown (unsuccessfully).

Its like trying to blame a whistleblower rather than prosecuting the misconduct that comes to light. The energy and blame is misplaced and this lawsuit only distracts from the fact that iMessage is basically the skeleton key to access anything and everything on a modern iPhone, after all this time.
I think that in general, tooling is underrated. In many ways, tooling is more important than the language itself (although some language features are intertwined with the tooling story). And I don’t mean more features, but rather consistency, reproducibility, simplicity, etc.

Great tools have knock on effects. Good dependency managers improve the ecosystem. Fast language servers can enable interactive dev style. And so on…
Delphi was quite good at Windows application development last time I used it, probably 2010. I'd probably stay away if you ever need to maintain it or hire people to use it. There's value in using a popular language with staying power.
Looks alot like Lua!

and thats not a bad thing per se
Computers that use heat instead of electricity could run efficient AI
That's a messed-up claim. I don't even like Musk, but volunteering to help with disaster relief does not obligate one to facilitate retaliatory warfare.

You'd be calling for his head just the same if Starlink fucked up and guided a missile into a refugee camp.
Meta open sourcing these models is actually one of the most important things for freedom of speech and freedom in general on the Internet.

LLMs will at least be a very valuable tool for people to use. Having an LLM that is aligned to their values and their desires instead of to either the values of a corporation or state us vitally important.
Yes. I am sure there'd need to be a heap of other correlates but thats also in the mix, its almost impossible to hide "its the same computer" these days. I would imagine this kind of attack only made sense against High Net Worth outcomes so you probably know your target before you start looking at the data inferential relationships.

I doubt I'd ever have info in my cells which attracted an attacker but if you want to know average Australian household spend by month on health, home and entertainment I'd be selling it cheap!
I use my home printers to print forms and documents and other things in black and white; if I had a color laser it'd be similar.

Photos are printed at walmart, it's way too cheap for the quality to even bother with anything else.
https://archive.ph/Npj1z
This creates the opportunity for an employer to not ‘coordinate’ and thus have an edge in attracting talent
"Works for me" is a bizarre defense of self-driving cars. Regardless, it's not only journalists, though I know they are a favorite punching bags. Lots of normal people are justifiably angry and/or scared of autonomous vehicles.

Statistics is just one piece of the picture, and when statistics can support something in a divided topic, proponents of that thing tend to irrationally tunnel-vision the statistics angle. Bad software is already an unending nightmare that makes life difficult and engenders a lot of bitterness. We see companies prioritize the wrong things all the time. If a car killed my loved one because of software and lobbying and the blind supporters of these companies, I would be insane with fury directed at those responsible, just as I would be with a distracted driver if they caused the accident, if not more so.

People care a lot about agency, and the reason for a person's death matters a lot. To take an extreme example, if autonomous cars result in much fewer road deaths, but the deaths they do cause are due to a robot arm coming out of the dashboard and stabbing the driver to death, people aren't going to accept that, and it would be ridiculous to stubbornly point at the statistics and just insist that humans must not have human feelings.
They don't have to give it away, but if they publish it so that someone can view it, then others who can view it should also make their own copy to do what they want with, e.g. adjust volume, make a recorded copy to work without internet connection, convert file formats, downgrade resolution (if you want to save disk space), time shifting, deleting ads, etc. It isn't the problem that the site doesn't have a download; it is that the computer should have a record button but doesn't.
I really feel like the brother laser printer recommendations should all come with model numbers as not all brother laser printers are created equal. i have a DCP-L2550DW, and i'm not sure i'd recommend it.
But wait, there’s more! You can also get a three-hander with a $50 automatic movement for just $2,400.
> disrupted telegraph lines

As in, started fires.

In 1859, telegraph lines were the only wiring anywhere in the world.

If it hit today, it would be a colossal disaster. Maybe shutting off electrical power world wide for a few days, if it was anticipated.
I don't really understand the purpose here, given that literature is significantly aesthetic by nature. Can't students just read contemporary, accessible books if they want something easier?
Made me think of GigaPets and how they're still around!

https://gigapets.com/
Deno in my view was promising web.

They actively fought against being Node at all for a long time, & differentiated themselves in being much much less, no package.json at all. Only recently has Deno gotten deep Node intercompatibility, after years of trying to leave that shit behind & finally giving in to the needs to be part of the vast npm externality.

The general principle has & still is evident. It's not totally picture perfect rosy - there's lots of pieces missing - but Deno's http serving for example uses standard w3c Request Response objects used by Fetch & Service Worker. https://deno.land/api@v1.36.4?s=Deno.serveHttp

But more so, things like typescript & formatting come out of the box & are crazy fast/just work.
yes suspend/resume, dont know about suspend to disk, not sure its done it, but i suspend/resume it ALL the time. its an ideapad flex 5. 14ALC05.

I simply installed debian, and everything works perfect
One under-advertised unique feature of Bun is that it supports proper tail calls, thanks to the JavascriptCore runtime.

Both Node and Deno, using V8, do not support those so some (functional) algos are harder to express there.
"Tesla Inc.’s Dojo supercomputer may add as much as $500 billion to the company’s market value through faster adoption of robotaxis and network services, according to Morgan Stanley."

They said they would have millions of robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020. Almost 3 years later and they aren't even testing them despite SF allowing Waymo and Cruise to test their robotaxis on the streets.

They don't even have FSD for their cars despite multiple claims they would have it years ago.

Seems like Elon Musk's anti-lidar stance isn't working out well for him.
unlikely you need to meet people to get infected I work in very small firm of 6-7 people and live in a city where the spread was effectively controlled and rapidly vaccinated unlike most countries though it is not impossible. I am not a very social person hence the lack of sunlight.
Does this use something like asymmetric keys so door can verify a key came from the issuing system or is there still some online/network portion?

Assuming it does use asymmetric keys to prevent someone from creating counterfeit access cards, there would still be a window (if the network is unavailable) where the old key would continue to work until a new key is scanned the first time on the door lock?
My mid-1990's employer had a solution for the installer dilema.

All of our VB programs, com objects and assets were loaded into a MS SQL database table. When our generic launcher program started it would query the database, figure out what app the customer had purchased and downloaded the necessary objects (if the cache was stale). If we accidentally uploaded a bad version, a rollback to a previous version only took a few administrative clicks.

A good part of my job was to make sure that the companies domain structure and network settings were sensible.

No disagreement about how the web is still easier/cheaper to administer from a centralized point.
I was typing "visual programming fails because of collaboration", as in testing, code reviewing etc, but then graphic designers can collaborate on projects so I don't exactly know.
And Starlink is helping Ukraine a lot to mount their defense.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/europe/ukraine-starlink-not-a...
Work on the letter pairs. Have algorithms, do what works for you.
For more context it turns out Hew made some interesting carvings on the wall while in the tower [0]

OP you can check out the national archives list of resources here [1], there is a section on tracing a person by name.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2...

[1] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/...
Of course the model has no intention. But it should be able to infer the user's intention by looking at the context of its prompts
Last I interacted with Microsoft they were quite generous here. They have special pricing for non-profits and they definitely have a whole different structural thing for schools
On Windows 10 with IE and Edge removed I ran into a situation where Windows update stopped working. The only fix I could find was to install Edge then try the updates again, which worked.
log.exception is also usually bad when you are re-raising the exception. That often results in same stacktrace logged multiple times in a row which can be confusing or at least annoyingly verbose.

But it can be helpful to log an error message (without stacktrace) to give context that is available only in this frame before letting the exception propagate to whoever ultimately handles and logs it.
Bought a used HP M203dw off Craigslist for IIRC $80. Using it from a mix of Macs, iPads and iPhones. It’s been fantastic.
‘You Wanted to Know Where the Towers Had Gone’
It's much more akin to distributing a freeware-for-noncommercial-use executable, which nobody ever confuses for being "open source". They're providing the output of their training pipeline but no way to reproduce the build yourself.

Surely there's a better term for it, "open weights" or something?
North Korea uses linux.
It leaves frontend tooling in a great place. All these features like built-in test runners, typescript/jsx support, faster iteration loop are quite convenient. There is still work to do for both runtimes in getting a high level of support for all the front-end frameworks, but there is good progress.