skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> random factoids

The "random factoids" were verbatim training data though, one of their extractions was >1,000 tokens in length.

> GPT4 never merely regurgitated

I interpreted the claim that it can't "regurgitate training data" to mean that it can't reproduce verbatim a non-trivial amount of its training data. Based on how I've heard the word "regurgitate" used, if I were to rattle off the first page of some book from memory on request I think it would be fair to say I regurgitated it. I'm not trying to diminish how GPT does what it does, and I find what it does to be quite impressive.
> Nov 29: We disclose issue to CTO & Security team with video examples

> Nov 29: Writer responds, asking for more details

> Nov 29: We respond describing the exploit in more detail with screenshots

> Dec 1: We follow up

> Dec 4: We follow up with re-recorded video with voiceover asking about their responsible disclosure policy

> Dec 5: Writer responds “We do not consider this to be a security issue since the real customer accounts do not have access to any website.”

> Dec 5: We explain that paid customer accounts have the same vulnerability, and inform them that we are writing a post about the vulnerability so consumers are aware. No response from the Writer team after this point in time.

Wow, they went to way too much effort when Writer.com clearly doesn't give a shit.

Frankly I can't believe they went to so much trouble. Writer.com - or any competent developer, really - should have understood the problem immediately, even before launching their AI-enabled product. If your AI can parse untrusted content (i.e. web pages) and has access to private data, then you should have tested for this kind of inevitability.
Let's go to https://status.twitter.com to see how it's doing.

Oh, right, then.
When are they going to be consequences for the companies that let these data breaches happen?
I know about OpenWRT and used it for years on various cheap MIPS routers. But back then, the UI did not come with the firmware, you had to install it separately. And it was _very_ basic and there was lots that you still had to do on the command line to get anything done.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that still looks to be largely true. Except that there are multiple to choose from: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/luci/webinterface.overvi... I had a look at a few, and they all seem to be "managing the router"-centric, not "managing your network"-centric.
At U we used a saturated solution of KOH in Isopropanol.
Supabase Read Replicas
It’s lamentable that any of this information still has value to fraudsters. Once it became clear that companies cannot safely control this data, it should have been stripped of any value by having some security token under user control provide the actual payment authorization.
Gave me the chills when I saw them
> that a majority of pharmaceuticals are being produced in countries with lax regulatory controls

The US FDA has an on-site presence in every major exporting country to the US [0]

If I have a line of generic drugs I manufactured in India or China that I want to sell in the US, they will have to be tested by the FDA office in those countries in order to get past customs.

If those companies do not comply or break FDA regulations, they face US level fines and can even see valuations collapse [1]

[0] - https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/office-global-policy-and-strat...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Thing is, for there to be a realistic alternative to CUDA, something needs to become "the only game in town" because people definitely won't add support for ROCm and Mesa and RustiCL and something else; getting support for one non-CUDA thing already is proving to be too difficult, so if the alternatives are fragmented, that makes the situation even worse.
Lego nearly went bankrupt in the early 2000s. Part of the problem is that they had way too many colors of way too many bricks (and way too many patterned bricks). Each unique brick/color/pattern had to be binned/stored separately. So the inventory took up a lot of space, all those warehouses cost $$$.

So Lego re-tooled to reduce the overall number of bricks in inventory. Instead of building bricks in many colors and patterns, they now build bricks in a fewer colors and even fewer patterns.

A big part of what they do to plan for the year is figure out what bricks/colors/patterns will be used. The designers are then told "design sets using these color bricks". If you pay attention, you'll notice that the colors of the Modular City sets change yearly, mainly to keep up with the colors being chosen for the other new Lego sets.

This is why there are so many stickers in the newers sets. Lego can't afford to make every part in a printed pattern -- it's a lot cheaper for them to keep sheets of stickers on the shelf than full bins of printed bricks.

This is where the idea of "frames" comes from -- it's their internal credit system that lets the designers budget for what bricks/colors they really need, and at what expense to the other sets they're making.

The designers likely spend big on special parts for the new Star Wars or Marvel set. As I said before, this comes at the price that the other sets have to be designed using the bricks that are on hand.
Yeah, almost every criminal case law causes it to think you are about to commit the crime itself and instead gives you another boring moral lecture about what an awful human you are.

That and it hallucinates me a bunch of new case cites :D
Can I put a USB printer in the USB port of my router and get network printing? I don't want to use WiFi printing nor want to keep one PC on the network on at all times which HAS to print one page before others on network can print using it.

This Is windows network BTW
Unaffordable housing and (literally) shitty cities are a consequence of a completely different set of policy choices on the West Coast.
You think that you're making a point by implying that what he said was different than what it was?

All that he said is that he's going to enforce existing border law and drill for oil. Two things that are within the scope of "dictatorial" executive power on any mundane day.

If you want to stop that type of dictatorship, you'll need a time machine to speak with George Washington.

The only thing that will haunt this nation for generations to come is this type of bs that seeks to reframe what you are referring to as sinister.

And it won't stand up to the long memory of the successful antidemocratic effort to completely hobble a democratically elected POTUS while in office, threaten the nation with nine months of murderous riots before an election, distract from that effort by mischaracterizing a three hour riot and imprison its particpants, and then attempt to imprison DT using unprecedented charges because he's again running. Utilizing lots of "dictatorial" open lies and evidence suppression in the attempt.

But go on.

The question that DT answered was filtered down from the Left wing MSM, who is apoplectic at the possibility that they and others will be wrapped up in conspiracy, and worse, charges due to their antidemocratic, and worse, actions since 2016.

They are attempting to insulate themselves from culpability by attempting to make DT deny that he will seek reprisal in exactly the same manner of hostility that he and others have experienced. Lest he be a "dictator". His answer well trolled the brazenly hypocritical attempt.
Ask HN: Should engineering leadership contribute code?
In a couple of different interviews now I have seen a negative response to my interest in being in an engineering leadership role but also contribute code. I think the best leaders lead by doing but it seems like others want people who are aligned into manager or contributor boxes. I am really curious to learn others' experiences and preferences when it comes to this.
It'll never cease to amaze me that people look at photographs like this and think "Uhhmm ackshually, the planes had nothing to do with this, it was <insert nth truther variation here>"

Here's an annotated high-res one that made the rounds on reddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh...
The regulators seem a bit condescending about other countries. Given everything I've heard about US import and food controls the manufacturer may have intentionally chosen the US since they could not anticipate losing the lottery and being properly tested.
Kernighan and Ritchie wrote the 1st edition of their book with ed and troff, didn't they?
Out of curiosity, and without naming names, what is people's typical response and what is the dynamic? Data security is hardly ever convenient, and most often vies for resources with other features or quality improvements, especially in a startup seeking to make its fortune. Can people even imagine breach ramifications without having been previously burnt, or is the main incentive to be able to tout compliance?
Try Claude? I've been through a lot of LLMs and Claude is really the best with larger documents.
I think you could get away with just printing a status page once every few months.
Not to refute or confirm you claim, just for the record there's a "Spiegel KG" (limited partnership or something like that legal entity) that's constituted by journalists and other employees of the company. They have a seat on the board and take (some) part in decisions - altough in practice they will probably be overruled in most cases.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegel-Mitarbeiter_KG
It's part of the great "brick reduction" done in the early 2000s because the number of simultaneous parts was getting too high. So they hand out "chits" called frames to the teams that they can "spend" to get a part in a color that isn't available yet, etc.

The teams can swap and barter frames if they convince another team it would be useful. There was a good description of it in https://unbound.com/books/lego - the Secret Life of Lego Bricks.
any chemists here who could calc if this is cost effective?
I'd love to see the code on how the vector embedding works.
Ha, I bet we're similar age. I haven't heard the term DHTML in so long. Hows AJAX holding up these days? Then long polling aka Comet? Thankfully we've always embraced puns in tech.
No it's not. People are great. The problem is that we are not OK. When can't help ourselves, much less others. A lot of us are sick and don't have help. We are silently succumbing to the suffering of an increasingly dehumanizing environment. Machines should be beside us, to help. Not between us and stop us from fully interact with each other.
Thank you very much for putting the article together
The sunlight incident on a vertical farm is the same as would be incident on a regular farm. Having windows or fiber optics doesn't make up for that, especially because anywhere it would be worth it to have a vertical farm, it would be worth it to have other tall buildings.

In addition, if you are making up this energy with solar power, you've negated the land use advantage.
I wish websites didn't have webps, or the browser could auto convert when downloading
This is a risk with federated protocols regardless of who operates them. OP’s suggestion of personally knowing all of the operators you interact with doesn’t scale. As I’ve said in other discussions: scaling isn’t required. You can intentionally choose to keep your community small, but you have to admit that’s exclusionary. You’re looking for a solution for your in group (since everyone is assumed to know their operator), and that’s never going to scale to a large international audience.

What Google has done with chat and a hundred other products is atrocious, but when it involves federation it’s something any negligent, malicious, or just opinionated operator could do at any time. Mastodon is pretty full of instance blocking drama already.

I hope a federated protocol can survive in a world of asymmetric operators. Email has done … ok. Jabber less so. Here’s hoping mastodon becomes a gold standard.
Kind of silly? Can’t/don’t the three digits get rotated independently of rotating your credit card or account number though?

Also some clearer rules/expectations in place that nobody should ever persist the data on disk?
That is great news. I intend to add support for this to https://mitta.ai.
The most exciting take on this title would be using a battery before it was charged.

Unfortunately no real causality is actually broken.
for anyone curious, this guy uses it all the time to refine gold, it's very interesting work: https://www.youtube.com/@sreetips
That is awesome. I can't wait to see the STL files people make so we can all print them up!

Meanwhile, here is a single mirror illusion STL file and a video showing off how similar illusions work https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1970522 You can play with the STL in 3D and get a bit of an idea of how it works.
Damn, I can't even daydream with aphantasia :/
That’s exactly what we have in the Netherlands — there is a system where you can go to check out, using iDeal.

It gives you a QR code at checkout, which you can scan with a banking app on your phone. It shows on your phone the amount you’re sending, and to whom, with a button to approve or deny.

You can also set it up as a recurring payment in the app and say “authorize this same payment automatically in the future, up to €xyz amount”. Then you can see a list of all of your authorized recurring payments, and cancel or change them any time from the bank app.

It’s a great system!
I am now illusioned!
OLED is overwhelmingly reserved to high-end TVs and phones as well, so I think that point is moot.
Has someone published somewhere the complete official acceptable language list? How many other less controversial and less well known words are there that we are carelessly using today?

In some sense, these companies are ultimately going to be the ones to make that decision just by providing these little helpful suggestions to billions of people.
That is really cool. Lambdas all the way down.

The encoding of binary and ternary was interesting (following from the link at the bottom of the page). It does make me curious why ternary was chosen as the default.
They have a schema, they just don’t want to write it down. So they write it down in code instead of course. Which isn’t fragile at all…!
Show me where ChatGPT4 can solve for a novel allegory.

That type of processing is not within the scope of its capability.

Ask it. Prod it. Try to force it. It'll tell you.

I like Ai. But It's important to be realistic. It can't abstract in a completely creative way from a basis of language with embedded and only-implied meta-patterns, the latter which is the nature of human cognition.

I just tried asking Bing ChatGPT to solve the most rudimentary allegory: presented in a single sentence and with given three solution options. It deflected endlessly, before telling me that it couldn't solve it for the benefit of my self-growth and then signing itself off!

It'll be nice when open source Ai renders these clownish interactions obsolete, but there still isn't evidence that it can begin to mimic the plasticity of human cognition.

What it can do is bs a lot when it hits a dead end.

Ai can match shapes, as a rudimentary part of its ability. That is a start. But what it needs to be able to do is decaode complex narrative as a shape, and then identify the same shape in other narratives and concepts. Thereby making a novel connection born out of abstract thought. Or it even might create a new model (ie: allegory) using the prior undetected pattern. As high IQ humans do, subconsciously and sometimes consciously.
I don't know who these ungrateful people are with the bad taste in their mouths? Starlink is the only game in town for me at this point for broadband: my only other option is DSL from Centurylink at 3Mb/.5Mb - they've had 30 years to improve service here and hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies, and they haven't done it. The nearest T-Mobile signal is about 7 miles away. I for one, am grateful.
I tried to better clarify what I'm saying in [1]. I'm not saying the small number of digits makes it insecure, it's that "moar numbers" is not really adding anything in terms of multi-factor or secrecy. Instead of knowing N digits, you merely need to know N+M digits. It is not changing the nature of the secret.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38655609
Oh yes, with uh websites where you download said re-encodes, there'd always be a few uploads with weird encoding and the author screaming in the comments that it's better and you gotta use the bleeding edge VLC before complaining that it doesn't work.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-mischief-rewrites-the... does a decent job explaining indefinite causal order. Even then, I’m still left scratching my head as to how this works and it sounds like the theory of explaining how classical causality falls out isn’t fleshed out yet & is still a work in progress.
Have we been trending in this direction? Yes, of course. It's not going to happen overnight. Technology has also played a role. The type of technology that wasn't around in the early 1900s.

Have we finally crossed a tipping point, for a number of reasons, and that's manifesting in a number of different ways? Yes, again.

The obvious aside, the major difference now is that the possibility of "the pod" is no longer sci-fi theory, it's becoming real. That means there are actors who are very interested in seeing that happen (and profiting from it). Those actors will use their influence to nudge in that direction. I don't think I need to point out who some of those actors are, but the most obvious one controls a VR goggles company, and a couple of social networks.
I did this with my old Galaxy. Also, because I only use it for auth, I get a full work week of battery life on standby.
Some may, but xfishtank, xplanet and xscreensaver on root window will not.

You can do this to get a matrix wallpaper, this will work with many xscreensaver "utilities"

/usr/libexec/xscreensaver/xmatrix --root

where this is on your distro may be different.
It's rarely discussed because it's impossible to have an open-minded discussion about climate change.
> Break Causality

Well, they're no use if they run out before you even use them! Maybe
causality operates at a different voltage?
Seems to me that when you turn it into data, it pretty much all becomes "something you know." If a credit card required biometric authentication to make credit card transactions and a vendor stored my biometric signature in a database along with my credit card number, it would be no more or less secure than a 3 digit number.

There are better ways to handle it. Policy is a good interim step to mitigate damage before they're implemented.
well, that's with the 1000% profit on Nvidias monopoly.
Better URL:

https://journalofillusion.net/index.php/joi/article/view/983...
I joined my current company just months before they started to cut down small QA team we had then. QA Automation was supposed to be the answer. 1.5 years forward - product quality dropped, automation for the client side application barely exists and even those parts that is covered by it prone to bugs.

I tried to draw attention to the fact that at least some manual QA is needed, but even after obvious fail (some people lost their job) managers are adamant. Automation, 'special bug-hunting projects', 'we should concentrate on code quality' lectures, all-hands testing - anything, instead of very obvious solution to get QA team back. Development time is up, regression is often, communication became harder.

The only QA who still works in the company (now in a different role) became invaluable, because he is one of the very few people who deeply understands the product as a whole and knows all the services we work with.

I can't think of another example of so very obvious mistake and solution to it, that's being ignored so relentless.
33 Databases and streaming platforms managed in one K8s Operator
lead is a dollar a pound. the cheapest cinnamon powder I can find is 7 dollars a pound.
Nonogram
Congratulations! I was an early Vagrant user, it helped immensely, thank you!
it's also worth noting that even on the same platform, compiling with CGO enabled creates a dynamic link against `glibc`, which creates a dependency on having the matching version in your deployment target.

We ran into this recently as our CI system is running a newer OS than we currently deploy to - and disabling CGO was an easy way to sidestep this requirement
It's stored conceptually and I don't need to recall it visually to copy it to paper.
Why do you even want to put a human on mars? What would you have them do that you can’t do with a probe or robot?. Its extremely risky to put people in space with our present technology. Even if nothing goes “wrong” they are dealing with microgravity and radiation. We aren’t adapted for it at all.
Arguably, interactive editing with "ed" is an obsolete skill that went out with 110baud mechanical teletypes.

However, having a basic idea of "sed" is a goldmine for super-quick command line pipeline kinds of tricks. Even in this day and age.
New Mexico Spaceport Leaves Economic Dreams Grounded
> which are also black and white and have a huge gradient background

That's the entire point of this article. Rather than picking a dozen different kinds of images at random, it considers the problem within the very specific context of actual photographs, made by actual professional photographers, with specific (yet not uncommon) artistic/stylistic choices.

It's like showing why an audio codec sucks for cellos. Yes, there is going to be a hundred other things you may want to record (like a podcast, a rock band, etc), and most of them will not be cellos, but still that doesn't change the fact that the codec sucks for cellos.
Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?
> manufacturer may have intentionally chosen the US since they could not anticipate losing the lottery and being properly tested

In an EU vs US showdown, a manufacturer will sell the "inferior" product to US, but US and EU product safety regulations are miles beyond other large markets (China, India, Brazil, Russia, ASEAN, etc).

Manufacturers will absolutely create different SKUs of the exact same brand for different export markets. Try out P&G products in Thailand versus the US for example. Or the Indian Cough Syrup scandal where Indian companies exported cough syrups that wouldn't pass Indian regulatory muster to Africa, Central Asia, and poorer parts of India
Yeah I have to work that out every time
Embeddings aren't objective, their point of view is some kind of complicated aggregate of the training data, which is itself (as of now) mostly human written text.

I'd honestly love to see AI fending off the eternal winter on message boards.

Is question redundant and basic? Direct user to a specialized AI that can explain the topic well and save the regulars from having to have the same discussion as two days ago.

But it is certainly the case that stronger machine text understanding can be used for censorship and oppression. As pretty much all powerful, general tools can be used for nefarious purposes. But it can also be used for a wide range of great purposes as well.
Great article. The book Database Internals looks amazing. Are there any other such books that deep dive into internals?
Making third party types compatible with Pydantic
Simple walkthrough for making third party Python types fully compatible with Pydantic for validation, serialization, and schema generation.
Reminds me of the classic "Ed, man! !man ed"

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Don't have a specific answer for you but:

10 person startup. $2M raise. PE firm. Smells a lot like aquihire where existing investors got back some money and that's it.

Note that even if the purchase price was more than $2m, it's possible that investors took all of it. Typically the liquidation preference is 3-5x.

And it the common shares got paid, it's all or nothing AFAIK. I've never heard anything different, but I haven't seen enough.

Regardless, generally speaking, an acquirer - especially a PE firm - would never take any legal risk in a transaction like this.