skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I want to do some computation that should not be spied on, I can still program it in BASIC on my Sinclair ZX Spectrum. If it doesn't fit in its measly 48KB of RAM, I'm probably still safe programming it on my Commodore Amiga 500.

Basically, you can only trust things manufactured before "going online" became a thing.
That also makes sense, and has nothing to do with the battle of cannae? Like that seems like a logical tactical decision. Offensive maneuvers are costly for the attacker against well fortified positions, so avoiding them by going around them makes sense as well as using the element of surprise. It also has nothing to do with the 2000 year old battle
I've recently come across an interesting use of AI that I thought the community might find intriguing. You can now use it to gauge your skills with an AI-powered interviewer.

Simply select a practice job from job board and receive your interview results straight to your inbox.

This strikes me as a unique way of leveraging AI technology, and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I think there’s such a thing as plausible deniability here. We didn’t know for certain so we weren’t culpable, but now that it’s public record, we really have to do something about it or risk liability with our customer data.
That was an overstatement, as someone who currently holds and knows many people with clearances.

By the way, do you think a security clearance should be revoked for consuming marijuana?
For Discord, matrix could already be a good alternative.
> but wouldn’t you get much better bang for the buck with high end consumer GPUs from Nvidia

It depends on the workload, but generally for large neural network model tasks, no, while for most other accelerated tasks, yes.

> Is there really no way to partition the workload to run with 16gb memory per card?

With regards to the neural networks in the news, you can partition the workloads. The 8xH100 machines are also partitioned in the same way. Nonetheless the performance is very poor on the consumer cards, because they lack the very high speed interconnect of the H100 that makes partitioning performant. Additionally, the size of the RAM on the H100 is matched to the capabilities of the chip itself - it sits in at the peak of an upside down U of a performance curve - which is why it is not possible to "just" add more RAM to these chips.
There are many well known workarounds for that though since the detection is just an accelerometer.
They're all bad but I'm reasonably certain that any car company not ran by Musk won't respond to public complaints by combing through my data and publishing whatever they find to Twitter and calling me names.
All new cars have cameras, even ones that can see your eyes behind your sun glasses.
> Technically, the OpenJDK project is independent of Oracle, even though they do sponsor and presently lead it. That source is no more Oracle's than the linux kernel is Red Hat's (in both cases, a large contributor with their own copyrights, contributing to an open project with open license).

That's not true. Oracle owns the OpenJDK project much like Google owns Chromium. To contribute to OpenJDK you need to sign a Contributor Agreement granting Oracle shared ownership over your contribution (i.e. you maintain copyright, but Oracle also has copyright); this is standard practice for such open-source projects (like Chromium). On the other hand, while Linux is developed by various for-profit companies, the code is owned by the Linux Foundation. As of now, there is no separate legal entity for OpenJDK. I'm not sure it makes a difference in practice, but if you wanted to be technically correct then that's the situation.

> The Oracle build of the JDK has not always been isomorphic to those produced based on the OpenJDK code,

No. We offer two builds of the OpenJDK JDK, under two different licenses. The open-source one is here: https://jdk.java.net It is an official Oracle build.

The other official Oracle build (called by various names, including Oracle JDK) has a different license, but only diverges from OpenJDK some time after a feature release due to different bugfix backports.

> The strictly-GPLv2-with-classpath-exception-sourced vendor distributions of OpenJDK

Just pointing out that Oracle also distributes the JDK under that very same license (https://jdk.java.net), but we also offer our software through other vendors. It's up to you which website you choose to download our software from.
> Yes technology is neutral (exceptions being ...)

I find it interesting how you contradict yourself in your very first sentence. "Technology is neutral, except when it isn't". To me it means that it is not neutral, doesn't it?
Since you seem to know and I'm having a rough time finding good info, I'd love to put together a mid range 3090 box to mess around with LLMs. Do you have any pointers to a good build list?
> Photoshop also didn't sneaking change terms from what used to be free

Like making it even more free? You are literally free to use the “paid” OracleJDK on its latest LTS release up until the next LTS comes around+1 year.
> > Around the speed of Java and Go in some cases …

> Claiming JS has the same performance as …

"in some cases"
When H3 released, I expected H2 colored art with more pixels, but have been disappointed by the CG-like approach with undersaturated colors.

H2 keeps a hand colored vib.
"If it's technically possible, they're doing it."

It's their job.
MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says
I don’t think I agree with this, as someone in the world of security clearances. It would probably just end up being something you need to explain and mitigate when it comes to your next reevaluation.
Centralizing everything into app stores benefits our corporate overlords more than anyone else. It gets even worse when every approved app has to depend on the platform's API. The privacy and security issues still exist, but now developers and users have to pay to for an untrusted app.

Web apps don't have any of those problems.
> I'm sure plenty of them would happily move to a different area

Sure, but not different areas that actually have housing available. That would mean moving to Kansas which they're not willing to do.

> If you have no income apart from what's given to you

What's stopping them from getting a job?
Acktshually, negging would be a tad bit more subtle than that. It is a form of backhanded compliment.

I imagine a negging Tesla car would say something like "it's so cool to see a person who has so little to lose they don't care whether they live or die" when you take your eyes off road and/or hands off wheel.
It mostly just means that don't expect them to provide you any support for that use case. It isn't all that uncommon for smaller studios to just cluster together a couple of computers with 3-4 high end gaming GPUs each as a fairly powerful rendering farm for instance.
The intelligence agency enjoyed a supremely underserved SURGE in popularity during the Trump era because they were seen as an enemy of Trump.

Let's all get back to reality now. They LIE and influence US politics to preserve their operations (not political, it's self-preservation).

If you see something like "100 former intelligence agents sign letter saying ..." then run, RUN!
Yeah - in the US, the majority of places where people grow up aren't very suitable for a healthy life; they're designed for car-dependent consumerism.
Fascinating. Looks like the cost per game is $0.00028, or about $1 per 3,500 games.
> newspaper readers lose interest before you run out of documents

So.. what's your case here? It would be so expensive to host and publish the documents that they would be unable to recoup their investment based upon lack of interest?

> hardly anyone knows who Cavium are, let alone your average Washington Post reader.

Oh.. I don't know.. maybe that's because no one has reported on it and explained why it would be important?

There's a lot of circular reasoning present to create excuses for an entity that really doesn't need or deserve it.
> Next gen weapons are going to make F-35 stealth irrelevant in a handful of years.

The Ukrainian war is being fought with T-55 tanks, originally produced in 1948. I think you're overestimating the speed of progress in practice. New weapons take time to mass, decades to gain relevance.

F35 making earlier weapons obsolete is a big enough deal on its own. All weapons discussed in this thread so far are basically irrelevant. Of course new weapons will come eventually, but its generally better to negate the current stockpile of weapons around the world (and force our enemies to research/build new weapons) rather than sending 40 year old A10s out there and pretending that we don't have any better tech ourselves.
You know there are other ways to have a video and send it to people than YouTube, right? You can just email a link from dropbox or gdrive, or an attachment, or send a WhatsApp/Telegram/etc. message, send a letter with a USB drive, etc.
I am not sure why you keep calling France "Germany :)

The two organizations in France who specialize in this are the ministry of health and education.

For health we have incompatible backend systems for a start.

Then there was a large project to digitalize the patient files. Millions of euros flew in, an atrocity was born, nobody used it.

After a few years, a brand new project was recreated, millions flew in and another abomination was born. I asked today at the pharmacy if I can use the digitalized version of my prescription (read: a picture I zm invited to take from within the app) and after a moment of reflection to understand what I was asking for they said absolutely not and that the app is crap, completely useless for health. My MD said the same.

I am waiting for the next project and will try to get it, I have a raspberry pi I do not use.

Education. We have platforms for regions that brings exactly nothing (nobody know what it is for) and in this you have an unrelated application with the actual information from school. It comes from a private company which is comfortably installed in the ministry so they provide the same shitty application every year.
The "platform" I mentioned earlier was announced as collaborative and whatnot, yet it crashed on the first day of COVID lockout despite not providing any functionality, but blocking everything else.

Ah, our taxes system traditionally crashes the day before the deadline.

Ah, our gov't decided to digitalize our identity papers. 10 years after other countries in Europe (I saw the Polish system which is great). But wait! You expected that you could actually use this to identify yourself? Hahahahahah... Sorry. It is explitely stated that the app will not be used for identification purposes. So what the fuck is it expected to be used for?

I am angry because despite my utter love for my country, anything related to digitalization is run by complete idiots who have no idea about what a computer is.

I would love to be proven wrong by an application that works so that my patriotism can revive.
Wheel Squeal (What Causes Squealing While Steering)
"diverse" is the key here and I doubt most understand what it really means..
> model is more overfit to a certain result

From their communications, a massive amount of effort was put into making sure the model followed the system prompt. One might claim "overfit as a feature".
In the "bump up" version you could remove both the checked_add branches and replace them with a single check at the end, making the amount of branches the same.

Quick example: https://godbolt.org/z/rdv4qnrs8.

*edited to update the example, realized I messed up the comparison logic.
https://www.graalvm.org/latest/security-guide/polyglot-sandb... looks very interesting though enterprise (not open source I assume?) only and maybe only for executing javascript? Or do I misunderstand, or is there other sandboxing support?
I suspect we'd increase population to match production capacity. Just like every other time we've had an increase in effective resource production, we just increase consumption to match.
Antarctica, Ayers Rock, the Amazon rainforest, etc.
I don't remember the provenance of the quip, but somewhere at a def con or a hope, I heard, "The point of cryptography is to force the government to torture you."
Microsoft's gaming chief on Playstation 5 (2020)
What kind of people ? Your average person can't do squat if targeted by a state actor anyway (except complaining to their own state about it, and let them sort it out).

It's another thing when it comes to resisting surveillance capitalism :

https://web.archive.org/web/20180919021829/https://www.alexr...

It's completely disproportionate that Hollywood is making people lose control of their own computers because they are worried about copyright infringement !!

That a boycott of Intel and Ryzen CPUs, "Trusted" Platform Modules, and Windows (8+) also probably makes the job of NSA/CIA/FBI harder (because they have likely backdoored them) is just a bonus.

(Of course there's also a potential failure mode that some much more hostile actors might get their hands on some of these backdoors, but it doesn't seem worth worrying about it until we get a high profile example of that happening ?)

Of course if you have the responsibility of, say, protecting your non-US company from industrial espionage, the situation is very different.
The truth versus abuse trade off is fascinating.
Teleport vs. Pomerium
Would you replace OpenSSH?
> But now I'm thinking: Is it better that the US is spying on me in Europe, vs. having EU governments do it? I feel like I'd be somewhat more safe from the US, compared to if my own government decides to spy on me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

> In recent years, documents of the FVEY have shown that they are intentionally spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other, although the FVEYs countries claim that all intelligence sharing was done legally, according to the domestic law of the respective nations.

So in practice, it's entirely irrelevant: your data will end up Hoovered up by someone, coated with a veneer of legality, and provided back to your government to act on (or not).

Don't be too interesting to your government, I guess?
> The artist shall utilise the bank notes to visually reproduce a specific artwork

More amusing if the artist burnt the money and used the ashes to create an artwork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...

" K Foundation Burn A Million Quid....... compiles stills from the film, accounts of events and viewer reactions, and an image of the brick that was manufactured from the fire's ashes. A film consisting of a static three-minute shot of the brick, "This Brick", was shown at London's Barbican Centre prior to Drummond and Cauty's [The K Foundation] performance as 2K in the same year."
If it works for 99,999 seconds for every second it fails, then I should expect it to fail before 30 hours of use. That's abysmal.
So, I don't generally dig Taylor Swift - I'm a middle-aged dude - but there's something to be said here for her hands-on approach.

The article can make fun of the "Shake It Off" chorus, but the meaning of a song is rarely found in the chorus itself, the meaning is found in the verse. In this case, the verses are effectively about how she does a whole lot of things all by herself - songwriting, singing, dancing - that other pop stars don't, and she doesn't get credit for working through the whole package.

It's not a joke - compared with most other pop acts, which are largely corporate creations, Taylor Swift seems to be actively trying to take control to make sure that her music, videos, tours, the whole deal, is her creation. That's in no way average these days.

You don't have to like it, but it's real hard to criticize someone who is clearly trying to keep control as an author and, at the same time, clearly moves so many people. I'm not a fan, but shit, I admire it.
They probably do. Elon's other company apparently has a global map view of every starlink tereminal and it's exact location that he watches. Why anyone would trust a product of his beats me...
There's a bogus argument about GCT scores in this article:

> In Joint Force Quarterly, Matthew F. Cancian showed the long-term trend in intelligence among Marine officers. Comparing the absolute scores on the General Classification Test (GCT), new Marine officers started a long-term downward trend in intellectual capability starting around 1980. Of concern, “two-thirds of the new officers commissioned in 2014 would be in the bottom one-third of the class of 1980; 41 percent of new officers in 2014 would not have qualified to be officers by the standards held at the time of World War II.” Though data for the other services is not available, Cancian suspects that a similar trend has occurred in them as well.

I'm familiar with this issue in detail. Until the late 90s, GCT scores were a metric used by the Marine Corps for officer MOS assignments, which happen for ground officers during the Basic School, the 6-month infantry leadership course that all USMC officers go to as the foundation of their training (pilots get airframe assignments after flight school). After the late 90s, they stopped using GCT scores as a factor in MOS assignment, but they still kept making officers take the test for poorly articulated reasons. When I took the GCT at TBS in 2006, it was at 7am on a Friday after we had been in the field with little sleep since that Monday; I had gone to bed at around 2am that morning because weapons turn-in had taken forever at the armory. We were told immediately before taking the test that it was only going to be used for data tracking purposes and that we should take it seriously because of the "bragging rights" that came with a high score.

If you take away the incentives to do well on a test and schedule it at a time that is going to ensure subpar performance in all test-takers, it shouldn't be a surprise that people do worse on it than they did in the past when it directly affected their career prospects.

All in all, the article strikes me as more of the same alarmist drivel that has been par for the course in military-related op-eds since Jesus was a lance corporal.
The last public analysis was done in 2010 by RIPE and APNIC. At the time, 1.1.1.0/24 was 100 to 200Mb/s of traffic, most of it being audio traffic. In March, when Cloudflare announced 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24, ~10Gbps of unsolicited background traffic appeared on our interfaces.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g...
Would using two RTX 3090s instead of the A40 have been an option?
a lot of people die all the time, they just become more relevant to you with time.
According to NASA, abiotic production of O2 at Earth like levels is plausible. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/215/oxygen-on-exoplanets-is...

Our understanding of astrochemestry is still limited enough, that we cannot say with confidence that a given signature requires a biotic process to produce.
If the model didn’t change, why would the hallucinations change?
Conveniently you missed this part (I guess it was not an accident):

Brand: [singing…] I'd like to apologise for the terrible attacks, Andrew Sachs, I would like to show contrition to the max, Andrew Sachs. I would like to create world peace, between the yellow, white and blacks, Andrew Sachs, Andrew Sachs. I said something I didn't have oughta, like I had sex with your granddaughter. But it was consensual and she wasn't menstrual, it was consensual lovely sex. It was full of respect I sent her a text, I've asked her to marry me, Andrew Sachs …

So not only did he call up an old man saying he had sex with his grand-daughter, he made a gag about her not being on her period and it being consensual.

Why are you trying to defend this incredibly gross and nasty person?
If Tesla really believes it "really will function autonomously" then they shouldn't have a problem assuming liability. Further, if it needs to be supervised, then it's not autonomous, is it?

Congratulations on being so accepting of being sold a bill of goods, though.
I have a common western given name, but pronunciation varies wildly across Europe (where the name's common) based on the language's phonetics. It's perfectly fine.
> Hindi is spelled phonetically in English

This isn’t the case. I have a formal background in linguistics and have a vague familiarity with the Indic branch of the Indo-European languages in general, and I still occasionally screw up in pronouncing Hindi (or other Indian languages’) words that are written in informal Latin transliteration. Most notably, whether the sound written <a> denotes [ə] or [aː] is often ambiguous.
So how would street 2, door 14 be correctly written in Vienna?
Neither do Linux distros
I'm looking forward to someone explaining to me why Chinese telecom equipment should continue to be off limits. Is the problem that we are afraid of possible Chinese backdoors, or that Chinese telecom equipment isn't backdoored by the NSA?

An interesting question I'd like answered: Are the TPM 2.0 modules that Microsoft is requiring for Windows 11 installs similarly backdoored?

https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-...

I think it's a safe assumption that all American microprocessors have backdoors.

What does this mean for OpSec? If I am a dissident (or garden-variety cyber criminal), how do I evade my online activities being tracked by a sufficiently determined team at the NSA? We've known (or have assumed to know) for years that CPUs produced by AMD, Intel, and Apple have backdoors. If my machine lacks any personally identifying information, only interacts through the internet through a network device that uses a VPN and encrypted tunneling, then I should be fine in spite of CPU/OS backdoors. However, using a VPN with encrypted tunneling doesn't seem to be enough if my router also has a backdoor, and the data or encryption keys can be intercepted and tied to the personal information I've given my ISP.

Where do we go from here? Do I need a Loongson-based PC and a Chinese router on top of an encrypted VPN? Obviously we have to assume that these are all backdoored as well, but that shouldn't matter as my activities don't likely won't make me a target of the PRC.
A revenue share or a price hike could have sufficed. Not this weird junk
Well, JS is paired with a single-threaded execution model, so you only have concurrency to worry about. C#, Java has proper multithreading as well, that gives another dimension to the problem.
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Who's the real estate mogul?
I'm a few days late but I just remembered about a tool called Machinations that can be used to design/simulate game economies: https://machinations.io