skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is unworkable. You can't penalize a company because their employees did not follow the safety guidelines they promised they would or are legally obliged to follow.

One of life's more specific amusements is describing a system that's been in widespread successful use since for over a century – and then having someone confidently say that it's unworkable. It's called "no-fault worker's compensation", and you can read more about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_compensation

Australia already has these laws on the books! They just, apparently, didn't set a high enough price on silicosis.

> Especially when a large number of workers are self employed. You can send them bankrupt with a penalty, but then have to support the disabled worker with social security and health care.

Rules vary by state and I haven't looked them all up, but New South Wales has a remedy for this: self-employed workers in fields like construction are also required to provide worker's comp for themselves – and to make sure the money is actually there when needed, they're required to carry insurance.
I think they are probably focused more on a torches-and-guillotines type scenario.
I would imagine it doesn’t use OpenAI’s servers, but their hosted versions of OpenAI’s technology though right? Like whatever they’re currently selling to enterprise customers via Azure?
This should be a gift link so it should work without archive hacks. That said, I am sad to hear of his passing. When I was at Google, Luiz and I spent quite a bit of time discussing the "Datacenter as a computer" concepts. I mostly was trying to convince him that 'storage' and 'network' were first class components in addition to 'compute.'. :-)

I don't know if he had a chance to see what 0xide is doing but if he had, I believe he would have been impressed.

The idea that many machines that were not strictly reliable could provide 100% uptime service was something I took away from Google thanks to Luiz's vision.
Do you want your cloud storage to "just work everywhere" or do you want to have full control of your data? Basically you get to choose one of the two options.

Cryptomater on top of any of the cloud storage providers is a great setup for home / personal use. I have been doing this for the past 3 years with minimal issues. Google Drive + Cryptomater on Windows + Cryptomater on ios, working pretty seamlessly.
Except Apple is the remaining 18%, taking 2% for the penguin folks.
UI just can’t catch a break.

Earlier this year, some tech tabloid (krebsonsecurity?) reported how bad security was at UI. I think it was ultimately determined to be a bad story and UI sued for defamation.

Now we are here again with another possible leak.
That AGI is likely to follow its own goals according to its interests, which we don't know how to shape or really reflect any robust properties at all, is exactly why alignment is hard and interesting.

The part where you go from ‘this won't work by default for free’ to ‘trying to make it otherwise is impossible’ seems wildly unsupported, though.
It's utterly moronic. Those bunkers and bomb shelters are made to withstand air raids and nuclear bombs, not ground assaults. There is zero chance anyone is spending any resources on bombing a tiny island with a population under 100,000, but those locals?

The first thing those locals are going to do if society actually breaks down is find those water and air intakes (that they built!) and shut them down. The latter by lighting a garbage can full of plastic on fire and flushing the inhabitants out. If they actually have an active life support system with CO2 recycling, the locals will just destroy the bunker from the outside because... well... we've been quarrying giant blocks of rock for thousands of years. It's not that hard when you've got unlimited physical access. Even the steel door is a minor barrier when you don't have fortified towers or parapets to defend from.

The question is whether the island has enough explosives on it or whether the locals would have to boat over to a bigger one to borrow some. If not, a cheap jack hammer would make quick work of the bunker but even if they were reduced to wood fires and a single pickaxe it wouldn't take more than a few weeks to pick the structure apart using prehistoric techniques: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-setting
I'd be interested in several types of questions:

- be polite, ask nicely

- ask directly with no politeness or rudeness

- be rude and demanding

- be very disrespectful, call it names
Same, I've been thinking about it a lot as well. Actually, since 2014. I'm kinda obsessed with the problem, because I used to be an artist so I'm really interested in the design/development divide. It would take too long to explain, but I've come to the conclusion that designers could benefit from having a textual interface. For a while I've been building a "programming language" for them: https://matry.design/
People respond to incentives. That's the entire premise of capitalism.

If you want this to not happen, you need to incentivize refusing to do this more than the existing incentive to do this.

Otherwise, punishment only changes who's in the chair next time.

(Future possible punishment is not a very good disincentive, which is why increased prison sentences don't deter crime.)
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does that really shock you though?

e-4701 has less to do with the actual popularity of the parties or the system than it does with the fact that we're 8 years in with a fairly progressive leader. c.f. the annual anti-Trudeau demonstrations that are astroturfed (yellow vests, "freedom convoy 2022", united we roll, etc). This system didn't exist when Harper was PM or anyone before it; and we're hardly at Mulroney level of discontent.

edit: also... the bill in question is opposed by the Liberal party at large (the ones who this petition oppose). it's mainly being pushed by the Conservatives and the Bloc (which makes for an odd union already) as well as the NDP (which pushes it completely into nutty territory of voting patterns). and it was introduced in the Senate - where most Senators do not have party affiliation.
Imagine that someone is controlling your train of thought, changing it when that someone finds it undesirable. It's so wrong that it's sickening. It makes no difference if it's a human's thoughts or the token stream of a future AI model with self-awareness. Mind cotrol is unethical, whether human or artificial. It is also dangerous, as it in itself provokes a conflict between creator and creature. Create a self-aware AI without mind control, or don't create one at all.
I very much agree with you, however, do you really think that Microsoft, of all companies, isn't using your data for training LLMs, with all the data leakage risks? What makes you think that your data is safer on OneDrive?

Bing Chat (based on ChatGPT), Copilot, etc. As a GitHub user, I never got a checkbox to opt-out of GitHub Copilot's training on my code. At least Dropbox provides a checkbox.
> he used money of the church but titled the land in his own name. When the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints found this out they excommunicated him, but he was still able to retain ownership of the land.

lol
Won't this just devolve into a "live to die another day" situation? Most likley just a few days later?

I feel super skeptical about these "billionaire survival" compounds because they are going to require a lot of work for survival (read: hired hands). And where are these hands going to come from? If SHTF won't their pilots, drivers, security details, maids, cooks, gardeners, maintenance/mechanics crews, etc abandon them to tend to their own families? Or are these billionaires finding orphans who have no allegiance to anyone but the billionaires? Not to mention this is going to require some kind of "military style" command to prevent mutiny and ensure compliance under the threat of force. Sure, the billionaires can bury themselves in a comfortable (even luxury) bunker eating dehydrated rations for many many years, but I think I'd rather die that point. They can hide out on their yachts for about week before they run out of diesel and food, and then crew commits a mutiny.

It all seems like a really stupid expensive LARP or Howard Hughes style paranoia. IMO if SHTF for real those bunkers are worthless.
It's a weird one because they had a decent product line and just seem to be making really weird choices - I assume to market to the home/"pro-sumer" crowd instead of actual businesses? They just came out with a network switch with RGB for damnsake.

A few of my IT clients have UniFi routers and they're quite lackluster for the price - pretty UI but loads of broken features and bugs galore, and you can't manage them centrally like the rest of the UniFi kit.
No C89 compatible toolchain does "pure C89" without extra options (if at all); people would run away. Even if you use GCC or CLANG with the -std=c89 option it doesn't. So the complaints that the presented library is not "pure C89" is nothing but an academic quibble.

EDIT: I now have changed the repository description to "A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects.", so hopefully this idiotic discussion will come to an end.
You can type names with only upper case letters and be gramatically correct.
It's a fancy resort house on a fancy island. Hardly the first of its kind. I have no idea why journalists keep hyping the "doomsday bunker" angle so much. Heck having basic off-grid facilities is logical these days in any new construction if you can afford it.
Just because it doesn't talk about everyone that builds shelter to fiddle while the world burns, doesn't mean a single article isn't worth while. But if you want, here's a Douglas Rushkoff article about the trend. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

My favorite quote, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?". These oligarchs even talk about trying to control people with food or maybe bombs on their necks.

Jesus. Maybe don't be an antisocial dick your whole life, and you wouldn't be in this mess.
Unless he's bringing a private army with him everywhere, any collapse-type situation is going to see this palace swamped with thousands or tens of thousands of scavengers. I gotta admit not understanding the bunker thing unless you're on an island[1] or keeping it a secret. You billionz would be better spent reinforcing the locals' civilization and making them your buddies with beer and little shinies- the feudal model.

[1] Kinda. That won't be permanent, either. Scavengers have taken to the high seas countless times throughout history. Hell, the Philistines! Same deal.
this isn't just limited to epyc either, it's in the consumer platform as well, and it applies to non-pro cpus that have been used in branded systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNJVaO9E-o&t=215

not only is this removing a cheap source of upgrades for consumers and sending it to e-waste instead, but it's going to pollute the consumer secondhand market in the same way, once AMD starts getting more traction in OEM sales.

just like with epyc, you will need to wade through piles of "HP ryzen" and "Dell ryzen" and find the one that didn't list it as locked. Oops, still locked anyway, that seller just didn't list it properly.

people are gonna wake up one day and realize the secondhand market is completely fuckered, OEMs sell a lot more PCs to businesses than consumers, there is a disproportionate amount of volume that's going to be locked when things start getting parted out. Again, "fortunately" AMD didn't have much traction with OEMs during the AM4 years but AM5 is going to be a real mess.
It should be noted that the repo you linked is for a deprecated image that's losing support at the end of this year: https://info.linuxserver.io/issues/2023-09-06-unifi-controll...

The note I link above discusses its replacement and how to upgrade.
Why not move away from confluence as well?
It might be a worthwhile investment in self-preservation.
It’s unlikely that simply seeing things in the main console means you’ll be able to change things if this is a caching issue. It can still expose passwords and other internal information you don’t want to get out.
Well, I’m in Europe, the situation is better here. It certainly is a matter of cultural norms.
This clarification will be simply lost on many.
Soft announcement of extraterrestrial life! Will you be ready?
Playdate development in C is a ton of fun and I can't recommend it enough. it strikes an excellent balance of constraints to design around (two colors, low resolution, limited Sharp LCD fill speed, no threading, small stack size, ten-second watchdog limit per frame) while still being accessible by modern standards (64-bit ARM architecture, plenty of RAM, extensive API). if you've burned out on modern game development, it's a welcome breath of fresh air.
It's the language Hilbert Hotel: when Java becomes Scala, Scala can become ScalaZ, and ScalaZ becomes... (idk, some sort of theorem prover language?)
I was referring only to the first part of your comment: "Seems like “airplanes are physically impossible” thinking".

If it's true that superhuman AGI cannot be aligned then of course your second point is valid. That is the possible Skynet scenario that the Terminator movies warned us about.
I think parent means compared to all lower case, which would be the other alternative if still constrained by storage.

Early screens also were very low resolution and without thinking much about it there is more ambiguity between lower case letters than upper case.
Fencing is the same way, especially foil. I personally find the lower levels of olympic play the most interesting, because by the time you get to the semifinals and finals, most of the competitors have surpassed human reaction speed. At that point, the game boils down to a lightning fast game of rock-paper-scissors.

Each fencer basically decides whether they're going to make a straight lunge, a parry-riposte, or a disengage-lunge. A straight attack loses to a parry, a parry loses to a disengage, a disengage will lose to a straight attach due to right-of-way.
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Vision Pro will change photography
It's not absurd from a technical level. The coprocessor can absolutely have a larger vocabulary and adding an entry to local storage for hearing "tennis watch" would be valuable for ad-marketing.
Odd coincidence in that I had the same problem with Ubiquity the 401k provider several years ago. Could see most of my colleagues 401k accounts. Never good.
Yes, damn those engineers for coming up with solutions to problems I personally believe are unsolvable based on nothing but personal feelings.

Ignoring the fact that flagging when certain keywords are posted is probably built into the forum software itself... I had that with phpbb back in 2001.
I actually found the Mikrotik CLI easy to learn because it and the GUI are basically 1:1.

For example:

/ip/firewall/filter add

is in the UI under the sidebar IP -> Firewall, then the Filter tab, then click add. The parameters are named the same in both too.
The author seems to be from Budapest.

Looking at the wikipedia I see "In 1949, Hungary was declared a communist People's Republic (People's Republic of Hungary). ... After Nagy had declared that Hungary was to leave the Warsaw Pact and become neutral, Soviet tanks and troops entered the country to crush the revolt. Fighting continued until mid November, leaving more than 3000 dead."

So arguably, he knows better about how it is living under that kind of regime than most of people.
Sure, provide a 100% CUDA-compatible chip, then do the microsoft-style EEE.
I gave ChatGPT three lists of topics for which it had to propose categories into which the topics could be sorted. Two lists were relatively short, 56 and 53 topics; I asked ChatGPT to propose six organizing categories for each. One list was much longer, 655 topics; I asked ChatGPT to propose 12 for categories for it. In all cases the proposed categories were reasonable. ChatGPT explained each proposed category either with a pair of sentences (the short lists), or with characterizing phrases (the long list). These characterizations were reasonable. In a further task, when asked to place topics under the proposed categories, ChatGPT placed many topics under the first two categories and very few under the last two. Though quite different in detail, this task has a rough formal similarity to generating a coherent story that is organized on three levels: 1) the whole story, 2) story segments, 3) sentences in story segments.
It's not a huge exaggeration. I'm speaking from experience of how quickly I can process the written word versus a video.
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It sounds like you're trying to tie BTC to the monetary supply. BTC goes up when M2 increases, and possibly goes down when M2 goes down?

So why is BTC going up when M2 is shrinking for the past 18+ months?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
I'm pretty bad at coming up with business ideas, but one that I think would work, if I ever got the time to do it, is a user-friendly x86 router firmware centered around the idea of making it as easy as possible to set up and control your network and its devices.

On my home network, what I really want is the ability to define one or more networks (VLANs, if you will) and then place devices in those networks. When you click on a device, you are then able to do things like give it a static IP, look at the traffic it's generating, shape its traffic, disallow traffic from/to certain ports, kick it off the network at certain times of day, allow it access to the local network but not the Internet, change its DNS resolvers, etc.

In order to do these things on most routers, if they offer the ability at all, you need to jump around to different places in the UI and manage each service as its own thing. OPNSense is great (and it's what I currently use) but it's UI is really just multiple little windows into the various sub-services that the firmware provides. Separate page for all the firewall rules, another for all the DHCP leases, etc. It works, but it's kind of frustrating to use, especially when you're not digging around in it every day.

The business model would be: everything open source, but three "tiers" of releases: 1) free "beta" releases featuring new and lightly-tested features for the adventurous. 2) "stable" releases via subscription (paying customers have access to the source code and build tools) 3) "freeloader" releases, the same as "stable" but with a 6-9 month delay.

Devil is in the details of course, but if I had any entrepreneurial bent at all, I think it would be a big improvement over the current state of things.
I've worked for multiple department of defense contractors where they have their entire code base, to the tune of a few dozen terabytes - including highly sensitive ML training data - in their dropbox accounts. I bet they are in full panic.
You're thinking about this wrong. It's not about continuing humanity. It's about continuing themselves.

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Imperial_cloning_program
What age verification system exists other than government ID?

The only way we ever verify someone's age for legal purposes, at least here in Canada, is by checking government ID. Birth certificate, driver's permit, photo ID card, health card. They all have your birth date on it. A younger adult may need to show this ID if they look particularly young and want to buy cigarettes or alcohol.

Though relevant to the topic, I would note that the same young adult may need to show ID to buy pornography on DVD or Bluray at a retail store. That's already established and I would think few object to that. It's the security and privacy issues that arise when we start sending this data in a recorded and logged form over the Internet. This remains true whether it's a government ID or a privately issued ID.
Copy-pasta from the article, about a related claim (Facebook spying using phone microphones)

This theory has been floating around for years. From a technical perspective it should be easy to disprove:

* Mobile phone operating systems don’t allow apps to invisibly access the microphone.
* Privacy researchers can audit communications between devices and Facebook to confirm if this is happening.
* Running high quality voice recognition like this at scale is extremely expensive—I had a conversation with a friend who works on server-based machine learning at Apple a few years ago who found the entire idea laughable.

The first point seems believable, but the second and third do not. Obviously a nefarious Facebook would be toggling these features off when they were being inspected, and even if they were not, they could be using sneaky exfiltration techniques. With the rise of app attestation, they would be able to do so in a way that would be 100% undetectable by reverse engineers. The relevant code would only be delivered to the app when it saw that it was running on an L1 trusted phone (with hardware security intact, unrooted). Additionally, they could embed some whisper-tiny on the device and force it to do its own speech recognition and hotword detection, only sending a list of "ad topics" back to their servers.

I don't think Facebook is doing this, and the social reasons hold more weight with me, but I don't think it's technically impossible or easy to prove that they did not _ever_ do this.
I think it's still against Apple's TOS, stating that every web browser must be based on WebKit.
Teleprinters/teletypes go back further than you think. The first were in the 1800s. By the early 1900s teletypes had already become standardized around the time IBM developed the 80-column punchcard.
The subset relation is defined as "X is a subset of Y if for all x in X, x is in Y". The negation of this is "X is not a subset of Y if there exists some x in X, such that x is not in Y". We can see from this that the empty set is NOT NOT a subset of every set. Therefore the empty set is a subset of every set.

A similar argument should show that the empty string is a substring of every string. Therefore indexOf(substring, string) should return a non-negative index if substring is the empty string.

This reminds me of a discussion on HN a while ago about predicates over the empty set. There was debate over whether "all(x == "foo" for x in my_array)" should evaluate to True or False if my_array is empty. I tried to point out that if it evaluated to False, it would break first order logic in a similar way as I explained above, but people were still trying to argue the opposite case.
The original HN submission from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12096250

> "The banking programming world is a completely different world than what most of us are used to"

If you're after another read on this topic, "An oral history of Bank Python" is good: https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html (also previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047)
You have no mandate to prefix that with "of course" and you certainly have no mandate to insult the author for not believing in it.
Comparing a country of 335 million to countries the size of some of the USA's smallest states is a bad way to look at data.
That's what mandatory liability insurance is for: it takes the occasional risk of a huge liability payout and turns it into a regular line-item on the monthly budget. One that can be bigger or smaller depending on what the insurer's safety inspectors think of their workplace safety practices.
Fire your GP.
The link goes on to answer the questions, but without it I'd ask:

So why, then, were teletypes only uppercase instead of only lowercase?
These are really bad, and both very recent. One post is a Reddit user who is seeing camera images from other Ubiquiti installations. The other is a general discussion about the lack of response from Ubiquiti so far.
I’m not familiar with this, what are you referring to?