skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few years ago the company I was working for was going through some rapid growth and communication was not great. So when I needed access to a service after months of back and forth nothing happened so kicked the football up the chain and the director responsible wrote this to the relevant team:

> my understanding is that he needs a higher level of access in Marketo to be able to accomplish this task. Do you know anything about this?

and presto! less than a day later I got access.

It's just how leaders talk.
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-...
Writer.com could make this a lot less harmful by closing the exfiltration vulnerability it's using: they should disallow rendering of Markdown images, or, if they're allowed, make sure that they can only be rendered on domains directly controlled by Writer.com - so not a CSP header for *.cloudfront.net.

There's no current reliable solution to the threat of extra malicious instructions sneaking in via web page summarization etc, so the key thing is to limit the damage that those instructions can do - which means avoiding exposing harmful actions that the language model can carry out and cutting off exfiltration vectors.
One problem with your claims is this is pretty well documented as a uniquely McDonalds franchise problem at this point.

Competing fast-food franchises serve similar frozen dairy products, in a similar staffing environment, without their machines constantly being out of service.

This video covered the situation fairly well IIRC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
Though it's not finished by any means I think the AT Protocol has a really great future potential vs ActivityPub.

ActivityPub is cool, but I think long term it will be a stepping stone to something a little more like the end goals of atproto.
Interesting topic. Ultimately it may just boil down to "size", where the numbers depend on what aspect of a system you're looking at.

For example: a Pentium is much more complex than a 6502. It's a different class too: 32 bit, supporting virtual memory, various operating modes, a much more extensive instruction set, various on-chip caches, etc. Datasheet is a much bigger read.

But ultimately, it's just different # of transistors / mm^2 of silicon, # of pins on the IC package, clockspeed, lines of code needed to write an emulator, size of Verilog / VHDL file(s) to describe it.

If emulator is written in C, all you need is a C compiler in both cases. If hardware description comes as Verilog, software processing that into (for example) an FPGA bitstream would just need different amounts of time & RAM.

In this context, I'd be mostly interested in the size of the 'manual', read: the amount of documentation needed to describe a brains' operation, the size of a program that could emulate such a structure (and of course, what that structure would look like).

I suspect science is rapidly approaching the point where that 'manual' can be written, and 'mini-brain emulators' are just like other apps running on our computing devices.
I think rozab has it right. What executes exfiltration request is the user's browser when rendering the output of the LLM.

It's fine to have an LLM ingest whatever, including both my secrets and data I don't control, as long as the LLM just generates text that I then read. But a markdown renderer is an interpreter, and has net access (to render images). So here the LLM is generating a program that I then run without review. That's unwise.
I think this is a phenomenon we observe when people become parts of machines. The cops, the conductor, a bureaucrat at a paperwork filing office, they all take on this position of neutrality, of deference to the system in which they function. Any autonomy they exercise becomes an unpredictability in the smooth operation of the machine, one which they believe is more good than bad and a worthwhile trade off, so in situations where the answer is not clear, the mechanics of the machine must be maintained. Truly they are cogs in a machine.
I frankly after switching to Debian do not miss Ubuntu/PopOS LTS much.
That's a great catch. 0x54 55 52 4E indeed are T U R N.
You can just go out an buy health insurance in the US, but it is typically a horrible deal. If you have a job odds are your company is putting in thousands of dollars if you go with their plan, get any other plan and you lose all the money. Self employed people do this all the time (generally via the exchanges), as do people who don't work enough hours to get employer health care (the later often get low income subsidies not available to most people).
"Fake" would be a better word. It's easy to convince yourself that you can imagine a tree, but try to inspect it, count leafs on each branch, and you quickly realise that all those leafs are generated on the fly, and what you're really imagining is a very poor sketch of a tree.
I think this is in response to

> Why should my Dog be able to check out the internal StomachContents of another Dog

This seems to be interpreting the purpose of visibility as controlling the access that actual things represented by objects have.
(There could be a non oop-as-real-world-things example here; `UserProfile.equals(UserProfile other)` might access secrets of `UserProfile` that the different actual users are not supposed to see between each other.)

The reason Dog can check the internal details of another Dog is, there's a single file that controls the usage of the fields. If you decide you want to change the semantics of the stomachContents field, you can check all the usages in that file. That's the simple practical reason. The StomachContents thing seems like a confusing analogy, like most that compare OOP to Real World Categorization.
> That's what right to work laws do. They give equal protections to both union and non union employees.

No. Federal law and jurisprudence prohibit making union membership a condition of employment but compel unions to represent non members. So called right to work laws allow non members to withhold payment for the compelled representation.
AITube - Youtube but everything is AI generated
Not in the places that this particular discussion is about.
If you save incriminating documents into an encrypted .ZIP file, the state cannot compel you to provide the password, because the password is in your mind. The contents of the mind cannot be demanded to incriminate self.

The state can install a keylogger if they have a warrant, and the results of the keylogger can be admitted as evidence.
Oh, great! I assumed you meant the officially supported System.Data.SQLite bindings. Do you have a link or is this internal?
It's interesting to see that a thing that doesn't deserve a second look in some places of the world, it's news and generate debate in others :D
Exactly. When you look back 2000 years to Greek and Roman societies they shied away from any nude depictions of the human form. Nudity as we see it in society nowadays has only been around since the invention of Playboy in the 1950s
Show HN: Clap detection – Push code to GitHub by Clapping twice
There is something about surprising interfaces. Having a switch to turn on a light gets quite boring after a while. Turning on a light by clapping twice, on the other hand, has some kind of magic feel to it. I made some software to make clapping interfaces easy in the browser, for micro-controllers and for traditional computers. Please have a look, try it out and annoy your colleges by pushing code to GitHub via double clapping!
From personal experience, this does not work if a cop puts a loaded gun to your head. You will not want to move.
Given all of the parties' (hacked) accounting books, how do you prove that "Foobar service/fee" is actually "illegal kickback"?
I'll counter you. How do you find competent, reliable people that show up to work consistently and work hard for $9.00 an hour?

You're doing the work of your buddies who called in. Your buddies called in because they're 17 and they're dad made them get this job. They hate it! This happens every damn day.
I wouldn't be so sure. Milk, cream, and sugar are relatively expensive ingredients, and labor is very expensive.
Except in the Trump–Raffensperger phone call, we actually have the full recording, whereas in the case of the mcdonalds ice cream machine we only have a short quote selected by the plaintiff. If you read my original comment carefully, you'd see that I'm not dismissing the "smoking gun" outright, just that I'm reserving my judgement until the full document came out. If in the case of the Trump–Raffensperger phone call, the only source I had to go off of was a self-interested source (eg. Biden campaign or partisan media outlet) claiming that Trump said "I want you to find 11,780 votes", I'd be reserving judgement as well.
Very similar experience here. My daughter got a ton of 1:1 time during lockdowns and now speaks a lot more articulately than other kids her age (sometimes even a few years older). I suspect this study is more about how people used the lockdown to either spend more or less time with their kids.
I could see them, but only after turning my brightness up close to the max. I usually have it very low.
> The biggest strength of the fediverse is that every instance operator can make their own decisions on this matter.

If you look at how Spotify applied this strategy to the once-open medium of podcasting and successfully redefined "podcasts" to mean shows on their closed and proprietary platform, this seems unlikely to matter.
Accidentally read this as "Do large companies need all those lawyers?"
Back in the early 2000s, I worked on a product that was the only profit center in a public company. While there were people who worked on overall technical architecture, it was only myself and one front end dev dedicated to the product. Other products that ran in the red had dozens of employees because they were the things that got touted to Wall Street, but we were the very boring thing that kept the company alive.

Back in high school I worked in fast food as a closer. One front end person, one backend person, one manager for dinner rush, late rush, clean up from the day both in the kitchen and the store, some basic prep for the next day (morning shift did main prep), and they kept pushing us to get our times down so that we could walk out the door as soon as the store closed rather than taking any time after closing for our cleanup, etc. Our labor cost per hour was likely around $17. The energy to run the ovens, refrigerators, etc was fairly consistent, while our labor cost for any extra time after closing was a variable cost that ate into their profit margin.

Doesn't matter what industry -- ask a doctor about their workload -- if management can squeeze labor costs, they will.
> Do you think it's holding us back?

Absolutely, the idea that a naked human body is inherently obscene, and that we need to protect people from viewing it, is ridiculous. It's the sign of an immature society whose practices are still based upon ancient superstitions.
Soon enough the only differentiator for videogames will be the marketing budget and brand power, soon some indie games will have AAA graphics and animations but zero sales as the public gets flooded with offers and become numb to new offerings, instead the differentiator would be what games your friends play (e.g. to play online together) and similar social dynamics, and not much the technical aspects; a world where everyone can paint the Mona Lisa makes it less valuable, but DaVinci would still be a solid brand for historical reason, but new painters not so much.
the best analogy is a basis change in a vector space: you can have the same data (the same vector) viewed in different ways if you look at it using different a base. for example, in physics, the numerical value of the coordinates of an object change in different frames of reference

and this is not just an analogy: in the vector space of functions the fourier transform is indeed a basis change (to be more precise, a rotation). and from this arises the fractional fourier transform, which is a halfway change: if the fourier transform is a 180 degrees rotation, a fractional transform is something in between

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Fourier_transform

and this also explains why the fourier transform is the inverse of itself: two 180 degrees rotations gets you to the same place you were before
Pretty cool.
Here's another interesting 404 page: https://blog.javascripttoday.com/notfound :)
I recommend everyone to disable biometrics and I have not used a passcode because of the prior vague legal landscape. Always used a password.

Of course, from experience, this does not matter if they do compel you to give up the password by other means (e.g. threatening to harm your family).
I don't have an answer but I appreciate your comment and feel what you describe. Just wanted to say that.
You may be right! Just my experience working there for 4 years at 6 different stores.

This happened all the time at every store I worked at.

BTW Our machine would legit break too. Maybe once a year it would be down for a day.
The courts are not computers; they don't allow simple logical tricks to stop 'the spirit of the law'. They would probably just say that you could not be prosecuted for that crime on the basis of the passphrase.
Again, a coincidence of the technology.

It’s “you can’t be forced to open it because it requires you saying the password,” not “you can’t be forced to open it because it contains important secrets.”

Right, if they can figure out a way to reveal your secrets without forcing you to say something, they’re allowed to do that (with warrant of course).
I don't understand why they restrict the extensions you can install in the first place? Who cares if an extension's UI doesn't work perfectly on mobile?

That they took so long to extend the list confounds me.
Does it? Ref?
> A lot of people overseas

Maybe it depends on which sea you mean, but in my primary school, decades ago, British 'press' was held up as an example of what happens when a nation doesn't take newspapers seriously.
Have been studying the Mamba architecture all week and put together my notes here:

https://blog.oxen.ai/mamba-linear-time-sequence-modeling-wit...

I hadn't found a very satisfying explanation of the paper yet, and still had some questions at the end, but hopefully this can give people a good jumping off point for their understanding!
Displaced workers going into unskilled labor doesn't seem like an idealized "post-AI" situation. If anything, it might be something we should guard against. There's nothing wrong with honest work, but some would probably paint that scenario as dystopian, if you consider that many people think creative and autonomous work are important to human flourishing. If anything, I'd want AI to take over those rote jobs so people can focus on that type of creative work they tend to find more fulfilling.
That is annoyingly pragmatic and not fun at all.
> If you, based on your values, see something as tantamount to murder, why would you let people decide if they can take a life or not

Some people see contraception as tantamount to murder.

It boils down to raw power. Justice White's dissent in Roe referred to the Court's decision as "raw judicial power," but states prohibiting abortion in all circumstances are really exercising raw religion power.
It's kinda interesting but I think a judge might not rule in your favor this because the passphrase itself isn't necessarily your claim of fact as an under-oath testimony. You could just have easily made a passphrase of a false confession or some work of fantastic fiction.
Wow - I like that idea. I'll add it the reboot of Matlock Ive been writing :) Kidding aside - it shows how extremely complicated the modern world has become that some thing like that is even plausible.
IIRC the graphics hardware was dropped in CDNA architectures (MI100, MI200, and MI300). For example, I don't think there are texture units.
Leave work completely finished and fully tested for easier switching to another work the next day.
Use a passphrase of something like "I stole a government-owned pen."

Then you can argue that the passphrase (unlike a PIN, face ID) may incriminate me of a crime and that Fourth Amendment prevents me from doing so.

Same thing with voice-based passphrase.

Of course, I am not a lawyer.
You're far more tactful than I might have been.
> I wonder if there's some issue with the WebP encoder (or the settings) he is using?

He's re-encoding the JPEG compressed images. That is a huge mistake.
Correct. The “have combination in head” is directly analogous to encryption key. But they are allowed to open the safe by other means.
3b1b’s video is excellent, agreed.

But I also want to give a shout out to this video: https://youtu.be/ToMyB5Hk06w?si=yJLDbb82JireH4Q9

It does a really solid job of building the intuition for the way the underlying mathematical machinery works, using ‘inner products’ as its mode of thinking rather than complex analysis - I think it’s a great complement to Grant Sanderson’s explanation and for some people I think it’s probably more useful.
Also fourth amendment covers unreasonable searches.
There's also a Voyager episode where Janeway engages in some prompt engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCybqmKugA

"Computer, display Fairhaven character, Michael Sullivan. [...]

Give him a more complicated personality. More outspoken. More confident. Not so reserved. And make him more curious about the world around him.

Good. Now... Increase the character’s height by three centimeters. Remove the facial hair. No, no, I don’t like that. Put them back. About two days’ growth. Better.

Oh, one more thing. Access his interpersonal subroutines, familial characters. Delete the wife."
You also have to factor in the cost to profit ratio.

What's more profitable?
Kicking out a dozen Big Macs in the same time it takes to make one McFlurry? As an owner, I'm going to focus on where my profits are so that I can maximize those areas that are generating the most profit. Anything with ice cream is a net loss for my profit column so anything I can do to discourage people from increasing those sales which will then cut into my overall profits is just fine with me.

Their McFlurry ice cream items were created to compete with Dairy Queens Blizzard items. I'm not sure why they decided they could compete with DQ, but they thought they would siphon some of that market share from them - which I don't think they ever did, but it didn't lose enough money for them to take the item off of their menus.
This question makes me think that you believe the problem is an efficiency that can be solved rather than an intentional choice.

Ive worked at several restaurants as a waiter and food prep staff. The businesses have very thin margins and most costs are fixed except for…labor.

When it’s lunch rush, it feels like every atom of your being is pressed to the limit. Then when that’s done your manager has to come around and start assigning random cleaning and other tasks so people aren’t just hanging around.

When they schedule, they want to just *barely* handle the busiest time or otherwise it’s an inefficiency in the system.

Also to mention, restaurant staff aren’t the most…stable workforce in the world. So even if they do schedule to have some buffer, people will quit and call in sick on a dime.

I know what op is talking about when they say they do the work of 2-3 people and I believe them. The system is designed to squeeze that extra bit out of everyone.

If there was a magic mystery inefficiency they found, that would translate to decreasing staffing per shift, not increased breathing room for the individual workers. (IMHO)
> Pretty much every chip has an RNG which can be as simple as just a single free running oscillator you sample

Every chip may have some sort of noise to sample, but they are nowhere near good sources of entropy.

Entropy is not a binary thing (you either have it or don't), it's a spectrum and entropy gathered on-die is poor entropy.

Look, I concede that my knowledge on this subject is a bit dated, but the last time I checked there were no good sources of entropy on-die for any chip in wide use. All cryptographically secure RNGs depend on a peripheral to grab noise from the environment to mix into the entropy pool.

A free-running oscillator is a very poor source of entropy.
Note: the verdict only applies to those in Utah. Other US states have other rulings. Wait until there is a US Supreme Court ruling that affects the entire nation.

Right now: do not use biometrics (can be legally forced); do not use numeric passcodes. Use alphanumeric password.
Gotta love the insane legal opinions people come to on this site.
> The union/employer relationship is inherently hostile. The whole idea is that unionized employees can threaten production/profits as negotiation leverage.

The boss/employer relationship is inherently hostile. The whole idea is that bosses can threaten employment/wages as negotiation leverage.
All the same to the MBAs at these companies looking to squeeze the last penny out of everything
Do you know anyone who is still using Adblock Plus?
Mucosal boosting enhances vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 in macaques
Inkjet printers merely have DRM. Franchises have way more power; they have legally binding contracts.
In the UK forgetting a password is not a defence.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93...
Yes, that's fair, but it's also a great way to guarantee recurring revenue for a franchisor whose franchisees are obligated to purchase from them
Speaking as a linux user since 2004: it absolutely was not "prohibitively difficult" as shown by every application pre-docker. Beyond that, it's hardly dazzling
Ok but assuming equal software dev (or R&D) expenditures over time, for the first four years after this law takes effect, you will be paying more taxes. You've gone from being able to expense 100%, to only 20% in the first year, then 40%, then 60%, then 80%, then finally 100% again on year five.
Yes, scientific knowledge of metallurgy based on analytical chemistry was fairly well established by the 1880s when the first successful large steel ships were built. It's impossible to produce large volumes of steel with consistent properties on an artisanal basis because the raw materials are inconsistent. Ship designers had also developed sophisticated mathematical techniques for calculating the strength of metal structures, and optimizing for weight and cost. They certainly weren't just riveting pieces of steel together by intuition and hoping it would float.

I do consider those naval designers from the 1880s onward to be true engineers in the modern sense of the word. (At the time, engineers were mostly steam engine operators, so the meaning has changed since then.)

Prior to the 1880s, large ships were generally composite wood and cast iron construction. While there was an aspect of engineering involved it didn't require the same level of theoretical knowledge and design was more artisanal. But that's a gray area.
All the 3d models generated by these AI solutions are very poor (I think I tried every service and project under the sun).
So many imperfections it's merely a base or a tool for a real 3d artist.

That said metahumans don't look much like the subject imho - and scanning with reality scan is a nightmare experience
I get by with what's probably about a mid-tier-power-user level of keyboard shortcut knowledge. 50ish? Counting some Mac special-character chord (like em-dash)?

I can't really think faster than I can mouse, anyway. I forget any shortcut I don't use more-or-less daily.
Do you feel like a different person when you speak a foreign language?
Yeah. The only way vertical farming could make sense would be with crops that usually get much more sunlight than they need. Even then, if it's a crop that allows to use machines with massive throughput in conventional farming - vertical farming would need something similarly cheap, too.
AI will enter meat space long after it replaces knowledge workers