skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once a technology has been developed and made available it can be used by any number of governments and corporations to do... whatever the fuck they want. You may have the resources to say "no" but they have the resources to get millions of people to give an enthusiastic "yes". Most people will do whatever marketing campaigns and figures of authority tell them they can do. Hold a radiating box by your brain a few hours a day and have it sit next to your crotch the rest of the time? Sure. Take 3-plus shots of a vaccine developed with new technology and in record time? Of course. Get into a metal tube and soar through the skies like an absolute lunatic? You're the boss!

In some cases, like nuclear proliferation, a concerted effort by powerful actors can slow the spread of certain technologies. Otherwise, your "no" will amount to about as much as the anti-vaxxers.
Wow. Try studying all of human history, especially the past century. There's many thousands of books, as a starter. Look at the history of disarmament and why it's done by tyrannies. Do you imagine for one nanosecond that North Koreans outside of the government own guns, to take one solid example?
Oh I thought you can operate a Linux box after deleting the sudo binary. I was confused to see the author trying to "sudo systemctl daemon-reload"

In really this is just systemd running root and spawn a managed child process `sshd` and allows a unix socket connection with a shell tty attached to it.

All this seems like overcomplecated engineering? Can we just simply spawn child shell from a root process instead? How about we give it alias and call it.... wait for it ... sudo ?
Because a poorly implemented chatbot using someone else's LLM API is comparable to what you can accomplish with 10^n rounds of inference in a clever way. Computers are useless without error correction, LLMs may be as well. That's not to say that LLMs will form their own goals, but that people in control of them will be welding dangerously capable agents.
Common sense is more valuable (in the real sense, not just money) than a diploma.

And, the GPT revolution is making traditional education even less important than before.

“Hate all you want, but I'm smart, I'm so smart, and I'm in school. These guys are out here making money all these ways, and I'm spending mine to be smart. You know why? Because when I die, buddy, know what's gonna keep me warm? That's right, those degrees.” - Kanye West
I think those are still considered "integration" tests in the traditional way of thinking. The problem is that a lot of applications don't do much other than interact with external resources, to the point where isolated unit tests are rare or only cover non-critical code, while just about any substantive test is an "integration" test.
That is sort of my point. I think "repeatable read" is a fools gold. You think you wont need to do locking, but it is too easy to make incorrect assumptions about what guarantees "repeatable read" provides and you can make very subtle mistakes which leads to rare, extremely hard to diagnose correctness issues.

Repeatable read type of setups also make it much easier to accidentally create much longer running transactions, and long running transactions/too many concurrent open transactions/etc can create really unexpected, very hard to resolve performance issues in the long run for any database.
Sure, but that's not really the point of my comment. The author suggested this helps reproducibility in some way, and I'm trying to understand how this is supposed to help, when on its face, it can only hurt.
You can't do it that quickly. You have to look at the charts, set up the airplane, brief the other pilot(s) about the approach and landing, etc.

You can have mayday fuel situations where attempting to divert is more risky. But in this case they had plenty of time to prepare to divert to Oakland.
Your kid will be grown up in less than 20 years, not 100. But even still, in 100 years, will there be 4x as many people? Will humanity be consuming 10x the energy that we do today? Will we have computers that are a million times faster?

The point is, exponential progress is incredible, but at some point it ceases to be exponential. And the progress of the last 100 years was fueled by a exponential population growth and exponential energy usage. We're already at +1.5C because of that; how hot will it be when your kid is grown up?
Quantum Foundations
Mp3 players are one of those categories of products that have been totally destroyed by cheap Chinese manufacturing.

The decent players like the Sansa Clip disappeared, and all the non-color-video-screen ones with long batteries are horrid cheap things that can't play songs in order, advertise ogg support but can't actually play it, can't handle random song metadata and silently drop such songs, bug out randomly, etc.

This looks cool despite the price... I don't commute or go out much any more so my uses are more limited, but I'm thinking of getting one anyway.
Show HN: Rhapsody in Blue – Animated Graph [video]
https://github.com/AdmTal/music-graphs
Maybe a bit more like walking into a multiplex to discover there’s only one screen and that they’ve locked the doors behind you for the next few hours, but yes.
Hamas's Cheap, Makeshift Drones Are Outsmarting Israel's High-Tech Military
archive/paywall: https://archive.ph/5Qgxo
Interestingly, quite a bit of video decode isn't as parallelizable as you might think and isn't a great fit for GPUs. For instance the initial Huffman decoding of the stream is essentially an intrinsically sequential process.
More here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702859
Yes, even experts make mistakes.
I don't. I turned off location tracking long ago.
The choice we're talking about is between:

1. Bail to Microsoft. Your salary is matched but your equity (in whatever OpenAI entity) is forfeit. You have to move to Washington potentially, and definitely have to deal with job switching stress. If you're lucky, you will get the same corporate RSU grant that the Office team got for shipping on time.

2. Stay at OpenAI. You don't have to move or have the stress of starting a new job. Maybe it implodes and you have to take your very-marketable skills elsewhere. Maybe it all works out and your equity is worth millions.

I know which I would pick.
Ever since Gemini's demonstration, I've assumed that all the promotional cases Google present are greatly exaggerated, especially since they don't offer trials.
Ok we can both agree tho that AWS isn’t the platform leading LLM innovation. That said I’m not disputing that AWS will make money with Bedrock and enterprise contracts
Who makes the decision on office layout? Like specifically, what is the name of the role in a company that does this?

Further, has anyone talked to one of these persons before on changing the office layout to a developer-friendly design?

I've really wanted to do this but I'm not sure who in my company I would talk to about it.
An underground delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs
The only thing that competes is the redirecting when you log into any health portal.
“What Is LLMOps?” https://www.databricks.com/glossary/llmops
> how about a co-op neighborhood LLM rack?

It'll work about as well as those "wire your neighborhood for Internet as a collective" movements of the 1990s.

In fact, you'll need those to deal with latency issues, if my experience with consumer ISP quality is any indication.
Are you saying you don't need those because your compute is in the cloud? Who's operating those VMs? Who's hardening the OS images?

What about software licensing? Whatever license is required to run a software on-prem is probably exactly the same to run it on an EC2 instance. Running in the cloud doesn't suddenly absolve you from having to pay licenses for the software. That would be piracy.

This particular EC2 instance costs 2.5k/month. The MacBook in question costs what, 2x that? 3x? Let's exagerate and say it's 5x, so US$12.5k once. That machine is likely to last years in operation. Are you saying all those years at 2.5k/month for each instance is not enough to pay a team to operate them?

Note that I'm not against doing things in the cloud. Many times, perhaps even most of the time, it's the right decision. That doesn't mean it's always the right one.
Suggest to her that she voices an anti-Israeli genocide position and see how she reacts to the trucks driving around with her face on them after she's doxxed. That'll make her feel better about your fear of the left.
Most (? I assume?) software engineers have a degree anyway though, that's not an additional cost.

CEng is more of a burden of time and bothering with the admin than it is a financial cost, compared to the degree you already have anyway. (It used to be my plan, but nobody cares, so I stopped bothering to progress towards it. Regret it in a way, since I think it was a good personal goal even if nobody else cares.)
Sometimes it’s easier to bribe then to break
Which I got anyway and think most people who want to be in software should get. I've interacted with enough bootcamp grads that I'm suspicious of attempts to short-circuit the four year program.

(To be clear, my program was a proper Software Engineering program with overwhelmingly practical courses, and that's the kind of program I'd expect to be required for a license system. It sounds like a lot of what is available at most schools is theory-centric CS run out of the Math department, which I suspect is why there's such a strong sense among some that a degree is useless for software.)
I thought so too, but it turns out the load bearing typography is also missing in the blog itself. What do HN rules say in this case?
That's exactly what they're saying.

> it could have been bad if it was an external ip with a machine setup by a phisherman

I.e. one of the IPs for microsoft.com belongs to $phisher, which means they control (a subset of the traffic going to) the domain. They can't add CNAME records for certificate validation, but LetsEncrypt for example offers HTTP-based validation.

Not sure how Microsoft sets up their certificate pinning, it might not be quite that easy.
Simulation is often already done. Except it’s done offline and then replayed in the game over and over.
Nvidia has pretty epic margins in the datacenter space, so some of it will be that. Epic because their software advantage in AI lets them charge a premium, so why bother competing for the absolute cheapest $/FLOPS contract.

More generally LLM training is weird because its a supercomputing workload being executed by Silicon Valley devs. So they want to use open source frameworks, find answers on stack overflow, use cloud providers etc. And it's new enough that random PHD's can invent stuff like Flash Attention without being employed by Nvidia.

Normal supercomputer users dont care about any of that.
Good luck with counting on people to have shame and a moral compass (esp the wealthy). There's a ton of bigots on X (Twitter) who just love beating their chest showing they're a bigger biggot than the next. It's the generation of F* you, I've got mine, and not all of us are like that, but too many definitely are.
> major airliner crash at JFK caused (partly) by poor communication between pilots and ATC

IMHO that doesn't accurately represent the NTSB's conclusions. They didn't cite ATC as a cause at all, only as a secondary contributing factor (along with the weather):

>> The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the
>> probable cause of this accident was the failure of the flightcrew to
>> adequately manage the airplane's fuel load, and their failure to
>> communicate an emergency fuel situation to air traffic control
>> before fuel exhaustion occurred.

>> Contributing to the accident was the flightcrew's failure to use
>> an airline operational control dispatch system to assist them during
>> the international flight into a high-density airport in poor weather.

>> Also contributing to the accident was inadequate traffic flow
>> management by the FAA and the lack of standardized understandable
>> terminology for pilots and controllers for minimum and emergency fuel
>> states.

>> The Safety Board also determines that windshear, crew fatigue and
>> stress were factors that led to the unsuccessful completion of the
>> first approach and thus contributed to the accident.
I hope this happens. We must have open source computer chip designs.

Backdoors such as Intel Management Engine are unacceptable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I don't want to spoil it, but it doesn't exactly take place on Earth.
The top music school in the world is Curtis in most musicians' opinions. I'm sure you can find some ranking site that puts Juilliard at the top, and it is definitely in the top 10 (many people put it at #2), but Curtis has by far the best reputation and the most competitive audition process. Colburn (on the west coast) is often also considered up there with Curtis depending on the instrument.

Juilliard is probably the top drama school in the world, however. Also, Manhattan School of Music may be the best jazz school.

Finally, what "listings" are you referring to? I have never seen a good listing of classical music performances anywhere I have lived, including New York, that wasn't essentially word-of-mouth.
The supermarket mugshot I find most objectionable. I have no issue with general security cameras in store, but when placed 40cm from my face in the checkout screen, it's creepy.

No indication of who is watching, recording status or face-scanning. In Australia it's common for no traditional checkouts to be available, meaning self-checkout is the only option and buying groceries requires submitting to the supermarket mugshot.
Nouveau supports va-api on Nvidia. Nouveau is not supported by Nvidia of course.
Is there a reason we don't have parallelizable video formats?
If Android is perceived as a place where normal people get fleeced, then the logical recommendation for non tech literate people will be “get an iphone”
https://www.flysfo.com/sites/default/files/assets/investor/F...
You’re lightly changing the topic here, I think. I brought up regulation as one type of situation where someone makes estimates about the future societal impact about technology. Setting aside the big libertarian rant for a sec, I’d like to go back to original question. Be it an individual, researcher, lab, corporation, or regulatory agency: do you believe that when developing a new technology it is both possible and prudent to assess its future social impacts, and continue or discontinue development accordingly? Or do you believe that it is always the best idea to continue development regardless of estimated impacts?
It's mostly a mock of the Noble. The user's last N comments have been effectively spam in my eyes.
> I saw that the elderly had power - not the wealthy.

Multiple groups can have varying amounts of power. In this case, I am using the fact that one group is getting a better benefit than another group as proof that the group getting the better benefit has power. Why else would they have it, and why else would those that do not have go without?

> The reason the poor recieve less is because it's not single payer and is funded by other taxes. The general population (voters) feels that the vare minimum is all they deserve (for better or worse, that's how it is).

This is my point. Voters skew older, and providing healthcare to the poor at least equivalent to Medicare is not a priority.

> Again, there is a Medicare tax because it is a non-means-tested single payer system.

This is incorrect. Medicare premiums get more and more means tested every year.

https://www.ncpssm.org/documents/medicare-policy-papers/medi...

Even Social Security is means tested, look up bend points in the benefit formula.

And at the end of the day, all taxes are fungible. Government received money and pays money for benefits. Who gets how much is a political exercise.
NASA Streams Cat Video from Deep, Deep Space
Totally feel you on this.

I skipped IRC but I was all over Direct Connect and attended hub LAN parties.

I loved digg, but that ended.

I was on facebook for 3 months when it came out before deciding it was toxic trash and deleting it.

I had a twitter but never understood it, never used it, seemed toxic too so deleted that.

Reddit became a hub of underhanded advertising and bad faith arguments by toxic actors, not to mention the restrictions that were applied to make it corporate friendly so that went in the bin too.

Like you, HN is one of the last places I visit, and discord is still scratching my Direct Connect itch with a few technology focused servers and people on the otherside of the world I've never met that I call friends.

The people in real life that I am close with can be found either in Signal, Telegram or over plain old SMS.

Recently my partners friend was visiting and she was on Tiktok the entire time. Sometimes spending time in her room on Tiktok rather than hanging out. She complained about Israels bombing runs, but had zero knowledge of the Oct 7 atrocities.

I really enjoy not being Algoritmically Assimilated like I see and hear many people are. Touching grass is good for us.
It's like all trends. Think about fashion. Something new stands out because it's novel. Then it's everywhere because people are seeking it out first to be contrarian or seeking an edge, and then to feel safe. Then something new stands out, and it all repeats.
I hate red turn signals because I often confuse it with brake lights if I can only see half a vehicle. This leads to premature and sudden braking for cars that follow. I think it should be required that turn signals be amber. I only see it on American cars. I kid you not, I complain about this everyday in the US while driving.
I think they (or someone else) eventually will, willingly or not. We’re kindof in the phase of figuring this out anyway. Collectively that is
To my understanding, yes. If you have broad select queries across all the rows, that would slow things down quite a bit.
It's actually no longer experimental as of the Gitea 1.21.0 release. (It was released in Gitea 1.19.0 as experimental pending some hardening and additional features that they wanted to add, which have now been completed.) It is still under active development, but is a lot more mature now.

Like you, I have been using it since it was experimental, and it has been very nice.

My only complaint with Gitea Actions was that it required Docker specifically, not other OCI-compatible runtimes, but they recently added support for rootless Podman, so even that is no longer a complaint.
Ilya Sutskever on AI Mental Models – Hearing AI Voices – Visualizing Neural Nets [video]
Well I wrote the whole thing with an Aussie accent. "Beaut" was just the first giveaway. :-)
There was no correction in your post, it is same as what I said.
You have been misinformed by people with a tenancy to change history to fit their political whims, but there was never a right of secession under the constitution and New York had to remove the one that they wanted to add.

"Compacts must be reciprocal, this principle would not in such a case be preserved. The Constitution requires an adoption in toto, and for ever."

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-00...

Madison also called this out.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch3s14.h...

In typical modern language;

A _Federation_ is a union of _partially_ self-governing provinces, it is not a _conFederation_ or a union of sovereign states.

But even our original government before the constitution was titled "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union"

Those who push the Pseudo-historical Lost Cause ideology and deny slavery was the principal cause of the secession, often use the 'states rights' dog whistle, but there never was a right for secession for anything like a perceived risk to chattel slavery.

Sure there are lots of arguments of where one could argue where the boundaries in powers should exist, but the fact that secession is not mentioned in the constitution or in the various state charters simply disproves the common claims by the Lost Cause ideologists.
I wouldn’t be shocked if it was totally about US carmakers being cheap. Amber turn signals are safer.
Exhaustivity checking.
I think it was Fred Brooks, in the classic The Mythical Man Month (all the back in 1975), who noted the importance of not interrupting programmers' trains of thought. One of the general recommendations was to turn off phone ringers, for example. If it takes 15 minutes to get back into a concentration groove, being bothered 4 times an hour is a guarantee of destroyed productiveness or quality or both.
It may have been easier in the past, but most things aren't as obvious as music or fashion. Many trends often start out literally underground. How would you have found out kids were playing dungeons and dragons in their basement?
I have a Mac, an iPad, Airpods, and a Pixel phone. I tried an iPhone for a few months thinking it would make life easier, but I hated it so much I bought a Pixel at full price just to switch back.

I wish the iPhones weren't so crippled, but I guess that's what most users love about them? Shrug.
There is one horrible typo in this article. It should read ‘TikTok’s opaque “Fork You” recommendation system’. It’s as if someone believes TikTok isn’t the Chinese militaries way of winning the war by melting hearts and minds .
> According to TikTok’s year-end report, the most popular videos in the U.S.

Maybe better to wait for an independent actor to verify that (if thats even possible). It would not be in tiktoks best interests for instance to have in that list, people reading out Osama Bin Ladens letter and exclaiming him to be correct.
Open up what? If they write a rule that doesn’t specify technical details, it seems like the already existing functionality to send and receive SMS messages from the iMessage app would be sufficient.
Hurricane Larry dumped 100k microplastics per sq. meter per day
One of the issues you'll have to deal with is getting the data out. It's been less than 30 years since zip discs were available yet it is hard to find a drive and the drivers for modern computers. If you have a zip disc, you will have to work at getting your data out.

Given how easily hardware gets outdated, I would guess that a book-like apparatus made of plastic with the data pressed rather than written and a place to put it so that it's protected from the elements and whatever might damage it. It is your best bet now. Better yet, harden glass with the data etched into it.
The key bit of information missing here and from all these replies is that Lufthansa’s no SFO night time VFR policy was a reaction to and SFO and NorCal notice requiring this limitation from inbound international carriers after a few incidents but the requirement of how to implement this was ambiguous and Lufthansa is complying as best they can
Also worthwhile is their home page: https://jsfuck.com/
Anyone can get pneumonia and it's useful for telling if you need urgent medical care. That's no gimmick.
What are webex and element?
click click click -- "it's done, boss."

Microsoft's mindnumbingly dense ClickOps culture strikes again.

at a serious org this would have involved at least some level of oversight or intervention
Largely because a lot of compression is contextual to the data around it. That makes most decompression a poor fit for parallelism.

The primary choices are space savings and power efficiency. Dedicated hardware and serial decoding/encoding often win out as a result.
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