skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> patio11 is the best resource that I'm aware of to understand how our institutional world works.

As a former CTO for the Americas region of one of the world's largest banks', which owns consumer banks and divested one recently, I couldn't comment here on the prior article that he's writing about, but I have linked this particular patio11 discussion to a few people.

Take from that what you will.

// Caveat: @patio11 has published some takes this year that are less forwardable (mostly asserting reasons or rationales for things that ring true at several layers down in a bank, but are not actually what's at play). I suspect it's partly from the level or siloing of who he's interacting with, and partly from the nature of some types of banks he may have spent more time with, rather than other types of banks, such as G-SIFIs:

https://www.fsb.org/work-of-the-fsb/market-and-institutional...

That said, industry executives interested in improving things would do well to read all of it, because "perception is reality", as seen by @patio11 through a different lens than usual.

Even if differently attributed, you can likely derive what you'd need to work on to alter that perception, leaving your bank the better for it.
Incidentally, the fault handling (presumably done in microcode) is itself Turing-complete:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5261598
Bismuth Crystal Puzzle and the Matrix Cut
It's not very free if you can get confined to your house for saying it.
Can you give some qualitative examples?
Add new functionality to the windows taskbar and restore classic features
The laws don't mean anything if you get arrested anyway.
AGI is the point at which nothing is gained by keeping me (or you) in the loop.
What would this mean for let’s encrypt free certificates ? Would their root CA still be recognized in the EU?
Anyone who wanted to opt out of Google's indexing could have edited their robots.txt file. They didn't do so because most people want their sites to be indexed on Google.
I don't care how many people want free speech. That is completely irrelevant. You are the one defending that the USA has it.
zoning and NIMBYism costs money to fight against. which directly figure into the economics of a thing. If they didn't need to spend the resources fighting them, it would be $X billion cheaper to build. this goes for all markets.
I'm in sympathy with your main argument, but given that people still, in 2023, hire for COBOL, a language made in 1959, makes me think you'll be eating your hat.
The astronomy campus I used to make regular visits to had a pair of 36" Dobs. They were tall enough that you would need a ladder of some sort to reach the eyepiece depending on the position. I only got to view with my eyes, but they were impressive compared to my 6". I always wanted to try imaging from one of those. The same place also had a pair similar to the link you provided, only, they were set up to be a stereoscopic viewing. I never got that experience though as nobody ever wanted to go through the painful alignment process. People have come up with some interesting ideas on how to view the sky
Interactive examples for learning jq
At least for the Monterrey locations, the economics do not make sense to me.

I'm a member of one of the newest locations which, when packed "full," still tops out at 200 people, and in 3 months, I have never seen more than 100 people in a single day.

I expect about 400k MXN per month in revenue; let's double it to be safe, to 800k per month. Yet, most of the people are on the all-access plan, so that's 2k per customer per month only.

The rent for these two new floors is at least 1 million MXN per month. I also see 4 janitors, 4 front-desk staff, and 2 guards to operate the elevators, all full-time. This is not counting utilities and extra services such as coffee, mouthwash, etc.
Above basic Intelligence
Seems a bit antitrust-y? Letting Microsoft own SQL Server and Oracle Database, .NET as well as Java?
Wish they took performance more seriously instead of just reinventing another config file format to migrate to
Wes Ball seems like an odd choice for such a huge and much loved franchise. I haven't seen the only three movies we have to judge his skills as a director by, but it seems like the reviews for them ranged from average to poor. Maybe Nintendo got to see Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes already and it convinced them he was the guy for the job?
I think this is a pretty solid test, thanks.

Maybe we can call it the Bartleby test?
time blindness is a real problem! it's not all of the problem, but it's a problem.
I think the core feature of human intelligence is our ability to start out as dumb and slowly learn from our environment.

For me, AGI must meet the following parameters
- Be able to start training from scratch. With barely any training, you should be able to throw unlabeled data of different modalities and it should start forming connections between concepts

- After training for a bit (now at perhaps teenager level), be able to identify incorrect information in its own training (e.g. Santa Clause is not real) and effectively remove it.

- it does not have to exceed humans, just need to demonstrate the ability to learn by itself and use the tools it’s given.

- The self training should be supervised but not 100% controlled. It should iterate on itself and learn new concepts without having been trained on the entirety of the internet.

- Learning concepts should not require massive amounts of data, just an assertion and some reasoning.
Maine Question 4 Election Results: Establish an Automotive "Right to Repair"
I think generally, cops do not execute people they find doing something illegal. There are far too many people in US prisons for that to be the case.

They do shoot people who they perceive as a threat to them(some of whom did not do anything illegal).

But I would love to know how you would like police to respond to situations that actually are a direct threat to them, if their guns are taken away. Hope they can run away quick enough?
Hoka OneOne.
I wrote a parser/interpreter for VBA a few years back, and even though the core concepts were straightforward, conforming to a language that had been in development for decades turned out to be brain-wreckingly tedious. One of the biggest parts of it was a block of thousands(?) of conditional statements to figure out the result type of every combination of type+operator+type. At the end of the ordeal, though, I threw the engine into a test app that looked like GWBASIC, and got a little nostalgia kick from being able to run BASIC like it was 1983.
CAN WE NOT DO THIS/.
Agreed. I probably won't catch a bug that the tests wouldn't also catch unless it's obvious. I'm looking for things like:

-Is this duplicating something
else?
-Should this be part of this
object?
-if I come back in a year, will
it take me 10 minutes or an
hour to understand it?
-is this necessary?
-should I approve this but add a
task to the tracking board to
figure out if this should be
done in the service instead of
the client?
-etc
You foster a positive community by accusing the person reading your webpage of potentially being a Nazi? lmao

All this sort of thing tells me is to avoid this community because accusations of bigotry are going to start flying over the smallest of arguments and I have no interest in having people try to ruin my life because of their unhealthy obsession with politics
I've never heard of these fern-based supplements before. How are they supposed to be better than other antioxidants?
Oracle restates financial results: Oracle Cloud has doubled its number of customer
Steve Buscemi as the Zora King
You ever have a debate about "defense in depth" versus "multiple single points of failure"? That's the DNSSEC dilemma (or one of them at least). People think they're getting a "decentralized" system. But there are few systems on the Internet more centralized than the DNS, which is tree structured, and which by design delegates authority to world governments.

Appeals to DNSSEC as a decentralization method tend to assume that (a) there are TLDs that are both accessible and reasonably insulated from governmental privacy interference (this is trickier than it looks; .IO, for instance, is squarely within the jurisdiction of the world's most unhinged signals intelligence agency), and that (b) moving established properties to those new TLDs has a reasonable cost, which it virtually never does.
It sounds like they're _introducing_ the warrant requirement, rather than keeping it. No court warrant was needed prior to this proposed law.
git users should pick up mercurial easily due to sharing mostly the same commands and it being simpler. Teaching people git who already know mercurial is harder.
When it mysteriously switches off. The AGI running the simulation wouldn't allow it.
If it were renewable, you wouldn't need to "find" a "pocket" of it. That's not what renewable means.
LLM training is already unsupervised

Human intelligence is deeply hard wired to learn specific things
> I'm sure he got paid well over $1M to say "meh FTX" or whatever it was.

10 million dollars, according to Michael Lewis in his recent 60 Minutes interview.
And I say this completely unironically: That's because it's everyone's favourite Mac OSX release.

If somebody has a preference for a release of Windows, it can range. Some love XP, some 7, some even might say "Screw the pushiness - I can make it shut the hell up, and 10 was better under the hood". Hell, I think I've seen comments to the effect of "95 was the best ever".

But having a favourite release of Mac OSX means it's Snow Leopard. I've seen comparisons between $current and $current_minus_one, but never in regards to "That was my favourite" - likely because anyone invested enough in Mac OS releases to have a favourite, favours Snow Leopard.
It's never going to get wide adoption now that DoH has become a de facto standard.
Just this one? Only the beginning...! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03544-w#change-hi...
Yes - and the point of adding this is to ensure that the user is warned when this happens.
Depends with use case -- a single piece of healthcare data would easily go for triple digits, while high volume data (blogs, text, images) would go for single or double.

The investment model also throws things a bit off, since the value of contract for profits also has a worth, and fluctuates with company performance.
Don’t forget tons of bug fixes and performance improvements! The amount of work the modding community does for Bethesda games is amazing.
This might go against the standard definition of AGI, but I think LLMs have already achieved general intelligence (but not superintelligence).
It is not human level and it succeeds and fails in ways different from us. However, it certainly displays general intelligence the likes of which we have literally never seen in an artificial system.
Here’s an idea: to specialize an LLM for a specific field, invent a programming language for that field and fine-tune/restrict the LLM to that programming language.
This has already been demonstrated with AlphaGo Zero in a limited domain; so perhaps a more generalized version of this kind of approach (no human "expert" data) will tick the box.
Antidepressants or Tolkien
That TLS MITM attack was government-initiated, and governments control the DNSSEC roots. But either way: you can't say your system is load bearing because if it was actually deployed it would bear load. It has to actually bear the load, not just in theory but in practice. The root DNSSEC keys could land on Pastebin tonight and almost nobody would need to be paged.
More like science self-correcting itself.

But nonetheless there should be controls on such nonsense. The ease with which many academics get away with all this will make even a seasoned politician jealous.
Are you talking about the hype around LK-99, which this article is not about?
this has nothing to do with community or even inclusivity and everything to do with signaling political allegiance & telling people who don’t agree that they aren’t welcome

It is quite literally the opposite of what you and others supporting this are claiming it to be

All you have to do is remove the weird bit about “nazis”, which is irrelevant and adds nothing of value to the statement anyways, and you’re not really going to scare any normal person off. But this is just over the top and literally the only purpose it could serve is as an exclusionary political signal.
That trick doesn't work for writing an infinite loop.
So what definition of AGI (N.B. not superintelligence) excludes GPT-4? It's good at a wide range of tasks without being specifically trained on those tasks. It's pretty dumb at some tasks, but aren't we all?

Serious question. I think we've invented AGI, but that term is now useless and we need to come up with better terms such as superintelligence, or maybe a numeric scale.
Ask HN: How to build a network without it taking over your social life?
Especially if you don't do a lot of socializing to begin with. I am single, I have only a few friends that I talk to regularly and I am happy with that. I don't want to live for my career, and don't care about company social events or other events for professionals. I want to have a good, steady career without increasing my social activity for work as I get older.

Maybe it's because I don't talk to many friends and family to begin with, but with the typical networking advice it feels too easy for my social activities to blow up considerably and I'm not trying to do that.
Notwithstanding that I'm effectively forecasting the decline & fall of TypeScript as javascript-flavour-of-the-month, note that I shrewdly also granted myself the better part of three decades to launch an edible headwear startup
Meta begins charging for ad free access in EU
You need to make a choice to continue using Facebook

Laws are changing in your region, so we’re introducing a new choice about how we use your info for ads. You’ll learn more about what each option means for you before you confirm your choice.

Your choice will apply to the "accounts in this Accounts Center" [1].

Subscribe to use without ads:
Subscribe to use your Facebook and Instagram accounts without ads, starting at €9.99/month (inclusive of applicable taxes). Your info won’t be used for ads.

Use for free with ads:
Discover products and brands through personalized ads, while using your Facebook and Instagram accounts for free. Your info will be used for ads.
Your current experience

"Compare your choices" [2] and how they affect your experience.

"Subscribe" or "Use for free"

1. https://accountscenter.facebook.com/accounts/
2. https://www.facebook.com/help/631125599118423

Edit: Mobile seems unaffected for me, desktop site is dead end without answer. (also page text seems to be updating rapidly)
You seem very emotionally invested in the idea that banks don't make mistakes. What is that all about?
Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI
I think the author was using hyperbole to illustrate two problematic organizational tendencies. I could say something like "I see two kinds of drivers in the northeast: ones that drive like they're fleeing a bank robbery in a stolen police car and others driving like they're piloting a parade float carrying a human pyramid." I think it's obvious I'm not saying literally all drivers in the northeast fit into one of those two categories, rather, I'm setting up the scene to talk about two extremes in a common premise.
So you think that in a world of AGI, humans will have all our needs met by machines?

Or do you think there will always be space for humans to provide value to other humans, even if machines surpass us in intelligence?
The work is solid, the approach of domain-specific tokenizer is definitely effective. But the topic seems to be somehow misleading, as I expect the researchers to somehow find a way to connect LLMs for direct design of chips, while this paper focuses on three topics:
1. Engineering assistant chatbot,
2. EDA tool script generation, and
3. Bug summarization and analysis.
Where (1) is mostly irrelavent with the core of "design", and only (2) is directly related with a useful workflow. What's more, it seems that they are only generating at most 10 lines of Python/Tcl code (more line "commands" in this case) for the EDA tools.
> that had loaned them it to test

No they gave it to LMG to test, then asked for it back which is the source of the miscommunication
The reformulated headline in the comment is a question, so that does apply to the reformulated one... which the quote was in response to.
That must be it! A few years ago, an old high school chum who works on the Rubin also mentioned the 15TB number. I neglected to ask if that was raw FPA output that would be processed down to smaller sizes or sent as-is. The project has been going for a while so maybe the technology to do it became practical in the interim? Whatever they do send, it is still an astronomical amount of data. I'll show myself out.
Intel in talks to build secure enclave chip facilities for defense applications
That is pretty brilliant. I’m just trying to get my head around the power of chaining all this together.
I haven't been able to find information on what part of their overall network is impacted. Per [1] they use a mixture of leased fibre and owned fibre for connectivity between Australian cities, and per [2] (note: zoom in) many point-to-point microwave links connecting mobile phone tower sites to the fibre footprint. It's potentially as bad as Optus needing to send a technician on a flight to a remote airfield somewhere in rural Australia, then driving 5 hours to a microwave tower to fix a router within the communications hut. Multiply by thousands of routers which are no doubt very much spread out. If Optus are lucky, it's just impacting routers for part of their overall network. For example, only impacting routers within data centres of the major Australian cities where you'd expect Optus to have technicians nearby who could physically access the router with 1-2 hours notice.

[1] https://www.optus.com.au/dafiles/OCA/Wholesale/ProductAndSer...

[2] https://maprad.io/us/search/text/optus?filters=WyJkdl9saWNlb...
So yes the paper that was already discredited in the essay I posted that you didn't read

------------------

"While I was writing this, an extra paper game out on the same topic as the "Dual-use biotechnology" paper, with the fun title "Will releasing the weights of future large language models grant widespread access to pandemic agents?"."

Maybe this is a totally different paper with exactly the same name but if not, I am not really interested in reading a paper that is unrepeatable and doesn't use control groups because that isnt science
I browsed the docs and found no mention of OTP. I might have missed it but it would be strange to have a language on BEAM with no native interface to those modules. I looked for examples of supervision trees and gen servers.
Your first reference is an opinion of the lawyers for a concerned party, i.e., meaningless. Lawyers make nonsensical claims all the time. It's one of the things they get paid for.

The situation described in your second reference is already unlawful, regardless of how the image was produced. You're not allowed to make commercial use of images of Scarlett Johansson even if you scratch them on a cave wall with a broken deer antler.
They both seem to be saying the same thing to me. It's an actor in a commercial; they're acting. They're not giving you friendly advice.

Now one can argue that it should be illegal for anyone to advertise for a product or be paid to say nice things about it (like the smiling guy wearing a lab coat while the screen says 4/5 dentists recommend whichever toothpaste), but otherwise I don't see why celebrities should be uniquely liable.
I don't play any video games but it seems like you might be discussing a separate issue. A developer must choose between responsiveness and fluidity.
Ideological purity may wish otherwise, but there’s a meta-layer here: there are inevitable limits to “free speech” when said speech genuinely threatens the institution that otherwise allows free speech.

You are not free to earnestly threaten president or call others to do so. You are not free to share speech that’s been deemed classified. You are not free to conspire with foreign enemies. etc.

While the US does protect many forms of forms of political speech that are deemed impotent or that advocate radical position within the rubric of its institutions, it does have roughly much the same ultimate limitations as every other modern liberal democracy (and many modern non-democracies).

It’s not actually very much of an outlier at all.
>"the business value you provided"

Wouldn't this rely on the assumption that OP is a profit center?

I guess, "this is how much our company convinced the client to pay, and we got it done x% ahead of schedule" is probably the best one can do if they are a cost center.
Yeah but why.

What about the idea that unlawful things remain unlawful even if someone gets away with them for a little while.

That seems pretty logically consistent too.
Previously:

Barcelona Supercomputing Center https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830233 (October 30, 2016 — 99 points, 17 comments)
> I don’t think there is anything stopping people from talking to other students while drunk at parties

Usually the music is so loud that you have to scream into someone's ear to be heard. Also a girl with her friends who is approached by a random guy will usually say no simply because she doesn't want to be perceived as easy.
That's called DSL(domain-specific language). Domains that have their DSLs will largely benefit as DSLs can work as an LLM interface. Even LangChain is inventing their own DSL (LCEL).
The choice is not between privacy and a susbscription. The subscription does not include the right to be free from surveillance and data collection by Facebook.
Further, there are more than two choices. A third choice is not to decide.

Yes, they will back down. It makes no sense to _block_ users simply because they will not consent to targeted ads.

Users who consent will get targeted ads. Users that do not consent will get non-targeted ads. Users who subscribe get fleeced.

Instead of the app try using FB without Javascript: https://mbasic.facebook.com

FB must have "growth" to keep Wall Street happy. _Blocking users_ is inconsistent with that objective. FB will back down but give it some time while they are forced to run this experiment.
But can it run minesweeper?
Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered
> Having a big fat runtime you’ve got to include before running any rust code makes that pretty much a non-starter.

Just reasoning aloud here. That looks to be another similarity with green threads and async. Async also requires a big fat runtime that isn't part of the language. Instead you have to pick an async colour - such as tokio. That's pretty much what happens with green threads now. You have to pick a runtime such as the "may" crate, which forces the programmer to choose yet another colour.

So many colours, yet they are all just event loops underneath. Colours cause fragmentation, fragmentation is the mortal enemy of reuse.

It seems like the very least the language could do is provide a set of trait's for event driven I/O that mirror the existing I/O library in std. Then the library writers wouldn't have to colour their code by using a particular event loop implementation. I suspect it's easy enough for green threads or async, but accommodating both styles of event loop would be hard.
An interesting challenge I've found with the term "technical debt" is that engineers can use it as an excuse to work on all kinds of things that might not genuinely be paying down technical debt, taking advantage of situations where the people making the prioritization decisions don't have the hands-on technical experience of the codebase to evaluate if the proposed "improvement" is a good investment of effort or not.

AKA someone needs to be able to push back against "we'll rewrite it in Rust to reduce our technical debt".