skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unsurprising

> Other studies, notably a study of Swiss workers done in 2021, found that worker boredom was worse in situations where job autonomy was lower

I have had plenty of jobs where my tasks were mostly working through the red tape. When your job isn't to solve business problems but to fill out other people's forms it does demotivate.
The good thing with Amazon is their lax return policy. You have 1 month to test the product and if you don't like it, you return it to one of several available places (Wholefoods, Amazon locker, UPS, even leave it at the door for UPS to pick up, etc.)

No other store/website even comes close to this. BB gives you 2 weeks to try the product, and you'd have to drive all the way to their location to return the thing.

I keep purchasing from Amazon mainly because of the return policy, but I agree that there are cheaper options out there.
Next version of https://loodio.com :-)
Batteries on amazon? you would be surprised how many are fake
to be fair, you'd get marked off for getting ln(1) wrong, so I think we have to give credit for getting it right. (grading on a scale solves that problem, though i guess the gaussian hadn't been invented yet).

the numerator is also "wrong"; of his 3 errors, 2 of them are wrong only "off by one" in the last digit, same direction both times, so without understanding the rounding rules in effect it's hard to know whether what happened is an actual error. ln(7) is a mess though but still at the least significant end.
but what is the good thing? I mean everyone expects more wealth, but technological revolutions usually lead to inequality, a drop in average quality of life, and corruption.
but it is possible
It's important to note that the use of the phrase "its important to consider" is not a reliable indicator that text was generated by ChatGPT. It is a common phrase used by many people across the world.
Sorry, you are correct. What I thought in my head and somehow didn't get out onto the keyboard was 'there is 0 chance a conviction will have any real world impact', because the ICJ has no teeth and people who oppose/support the court tend to have a corresponding believe of supporting/opposing Israel. So bottom line it doesn't really matter happens at the ICJ.
DJI Drones have been used in Ukraine as reported by Yaroslav Trofimov

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-drone-spotters-on-fron...

and his book that just came out
> I love how Amazon has gone from customer obsession to the lowest of the lowest common denominator.

Maybe I'm misremembering but I don't remember this halcyon time where amazon was able to distinguish themselves from competitors to the consumer via anything but listed inventory. Their website has always been a cluttered mess filled with spam....
The real fun is when the sleeper agent training text is itself generated by a previous incarnation of the LLM, in random pieces of LLM-generated SEO spam, as a way of bootstrapping itself "out of the box".

It doesn't need to do it deliberately, it just needs a series of accidental improvements. That's how evolution happens.
Site no longer loading (anyone else?). Possible hug of death from hn traffic:

> A timeout occurred. Error code 524. Visit cloudflare.com for more information. 2024-01-13 04:34:06 UTC

Wayback machine gives a snapshot as at a few days ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240113031449/https://midlibrar...
The way the filibuster actually works is that you need a vote to close the debate before you have the vote on the bill, and that vote requires 60 rather than 51, and that makes some sense. Because if a bill is going to pass 97 to 3 and the proponents are satisfied they've heard enough discussion, the chances of you convincing 47 Senators to change their vote are pretty slim. But if the bill is only going to pass 51 to 49, there's a real chance you might be able to change the result if you had more time, and so the rules give the minority the ability to delay the vote if the vote is close enough.

Of course, since they can take as long as they want, that means in practice they can delay the vote indefinitely. But that doesn't seem substantially different than some committee being able to kill a bill by just never passing it through to the full Senate even if it would pass there. It's just another opportunity to prevent government action if there is insufficient consensus.

And "60 votes to end debate" and "60 votes to pass a bill" aren't the same thing, and therefore aren't superfluous. The Senate passes many, many bills by a vote of less than 60 to 40, because many Senators will vote to end debate on a bill they intend to vote against. The filibuster is a means for the minority party to moderate a bill that they generally don't support. If the majority party submits an extremist version of a bill, the minority threatens to filibuster it unless they replace it with a moderate version. Then they don't filibuster the moderate bill but still vote against it, and it passes along party lines with less than 60 votes.

Also notice that it doesn't take 60 votes to amend the Senate rules to eliminate the filibuster. If the majority wanted it enough, they could remove the rule and then pass whatever they wanted with 51 votes. But then so could the other party, the next time they're in the majority. There are enough Senators who don't want to see that happen the next time they're in the minority that there aren't 51 votes to change the rules. Even if there are 51 votes to pass a bill the other party is filibustering.
I'm honestly confused how many people run into "nothing but counterfeits" and others never see any (or maybe the counterfeits aren't actually worse quality so this goes unnoticed)
For 16-19 year olds, it's not that hard. Even at 19, I'd say about 15-20% of women haven't had a partner yet. For males it's closer to 40% these days.
You probably haven’t been using it long enough. 12 years ago+ it was amazing
Yup, I think this is analogous to a "Second Order SQL Injection"
I can't, but the priors and stakes on being facetious vs being an AI are quite different.
Crazy piece of hw and sw engineering, I’m just thinking these things can drop bombs in UA
Dogs and horses didn't perform in the world solely by communication
You don't think employers have pretty much always tried to avoid being required to pay severance and unemployment?

If so, that seems to me like an unrealistically rosy view of the past.
That's so high I suspect measurement error. How did you come up with that number?

(It does look like my machine is using some swap space, but I don't notice any lag, so I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that.)
Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous
> Some customers have expressed their dissatisfaction, with a few even threatening to close their accounts in search of platforms that will allow them to invest in Bitcoin ETFs

Someone should tell these folks that they're allowed to have more than one account
>government paying Social Security and Medicare for the boomers,

Is that your definition of paying for retirement?

Also, as a side note, recipients of Medicare pay Medicare premiums.
Just like how California is a big enough market that it drove emissions improvements in American cars, Europe is a big enough market that it drives privacy improvements in the world-wide internet.
I was once asked in a technical interview how I’d do XYZ in some framework.

I said, “well, I’m not exactly sure, but I’d look up their API interface on devdocs.io to try and understand more…”

The interviewer had no idea what I meant, so we pulled it up on their laptop and they were blown away.

Granted… I didn’t get the job. But it was still pretty cool to spread some knowledge to the other side of the interview table for once!
1 is already a solved problem. My employer had originally put a ML based system to find DQ issues (already working) and is looking at pocs to add LLMs in the model mix. Hearsay is that our lakehouse vendor will have their own solution to this question via a acquisition.

2 is interesting, possible to do via LLM but I worry about data privacy and hallucinations making data more believable but not real.
Really excited for the news, but then really dissapointed at the same time.

I thought it has several RJ45 and SFP ports, similar specs to Banana Pi R4 based on the provided picture, apparently it is only for illustration purpose [1][2].

Hopefully this will spurs more complete support and drivers for the BPi boards including the R4.

[1]Banana Pi BPI-R4:

https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R4

[2]Banana Pi BPI-R4 Low-cost Router SBC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36646382
Dupe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939581
(moving this comment to this thread):

1. Models learn based on their data. Yes, data can be poisoned, but there's not much way around this.
2. Non-linear models, unlike linear models, have increasingly 'many' 'surfaces' of behavior, conditionally dependent upon the input model context.

3. Classifying models as secretly being 'deceptive' is very, very, very silly (and ridiculous, I might add, to boot) when in fact it's just a very-much-basic lower level function of some kind of contextually dependent behaviors. Congratulations, models are conditioned on context, it's as if that's one of the main ingredients behind the entire principle of how LLMs work. Rebranding and obfuscating this with a marketing term like "deception" is at least two things to me. A. It's mathematically wrong, and B. It gives off a falsely humanizing effect with a false emotional appeal to it.

Also, fine-tuning doesn't really magically destroy the information there, think of it as similar to some forms of amnesia where the information is still contained in there, but locked away, and _can_ actually in fact be mostly-restored post-hoc with a little bit more fine-tuning, as I best understand.

There's a world of silly Bitcoin-like hype (and doom!) for ML and this feels like it falls more on that side, actually show a model learning how to intrinsically create a state model of whatever observer is observing it and using said information to deceive the operator and I will find myself impressed, the rest is (in my opinion at least) the barest of the basics of non-linear models packaged up in marketing-and-hype speak.

Woo. Hoo. Confetti. throws confetti

(Forgive my curmudgeonly nature, I've been working in this field a decent bit and find myself slightly more frazzled each year how shallow the pursuit and knowledge dissemination of mathematical fundamentals are, despite how accessible and well-developed some of the tools are for it. Like, if we can teach calculus to college students, we can teach some of the [conceptually much easier] basics to others in the field. I could go ok for hours, I will end my rant now.)
If there are sleeper agents there could be anti sleeper agents also evolving
And FOIA requests; getting a jump on the eventual bloom.
Every time an OS upgrade disrupts some UI paradigm or process I've got deeply ingrained into my mental model of what I do with my computers, I marvel at how my mother has kept doing her own thing without giving a fuck about _any_ computer interaction paradigm† from our Macintosh SE to her current M2 Air.

She's by far the least tech-oriented close relative I have. And she has the longest Mac-only usage and ownership streak of anyone I know in meatspace, too.

† Except for dark patterns, because even the ones that don't give a fuck about computers can be quick to notice when things change for bamboozlement reasons instead of mere vanity or tool complexity increase.
It is absolutely 100% mainstream, repeated in almost every speech by Israeli politicians at a ratio of maybe 100:1 that the war goals are what I stated versus what you concocted. I understand it's tough for you to know this since you don't speak hebrew and may not follow Israeli media, but I can assure you--assure you as someone who has followed this topic for 20 years, criticized the Israeli government for 20 years, marched with free palestine-- that you're dead wrong in your assessment.

Also, not sure how much of an expert you are in the Genocide convention, but Israel allows free speech and like the United States it does not prosecute legislators for saying wild things.

There is a massive gulf between your confidence and knowledge.
Amazon sells a bunch of knockoff oil filters. I accidentally bought them for a Toyota and luckily noticed. Imagine blowing an engine because you tried to buy an OEM filter.
That's modern large corporate PR for you - they can stop any kind of service and remove any features and the PR department will release that happy post parading it as a giant leap forward. What's bad is that people are so used to it nobody barely rises an eyebrow.
I think it has to do with normalization. And this takes time. My parents would both probably connect people taking psychedelics with the Hippies, partly because they don't know better, partly because this is the picture they got in their rural alpine village describing psychedelics. Weed is slowly getting more normal, so that jokes they used to make died out a while ago. When we watched my brothers run the Amsterdam marathon they would even push us to try some with them. Meanwhile 20 years ago my father would have unironically put weed on the same level as heroin. He did not know better.

Things like LSD are probably just further down the road for them, so it is a mixture of general acceptance within society, education about the substance and the commercialization of it.
What's your false negative rate? Also, where does it occur,is it the first LLM that omits names, or the second LLM that incorrectly classify words as "not a name" when it is in fact a name?
Works for me, 15.7.9, so updatable.
Doesn't work like that. Unfortunately demonstrably stupid ideas of dictatorships, socialist economies etc stuck in places (Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, north Korea) for a long time without any repeal
That feels very risky, but I’m glad it worked!

What was the backup plan if something went wrong?
The Advent of Bitcoin ETFs signals to me only one thing... JP Morgan and kin have figured out how to get to paper Bitcoin, just like paper gold and silver.
> I do wonder what Japanese equivalent may have predated or emerged in parallel?

The combination of D&D and western RPGs with Japanese games/comics/animation has been amazingly fruitful.

I believe most of the familiar tropes (character sheets, experience points and leveling up, hit points, classic party composition, etc.) were originally imported from D&D, possibly with a parallel path through early PC RPGs and adventure games. Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy both had levels and HP (and I believe those games were influenced by Wizardry and Ultima, in turn also influenced by D&D.)

One thing I don't know is how popular D&D and other TTRPGs have been in Japan.

MUDs were definitely influenced by D&D (as well as early CRPGs and adventure games) and evolved into MMOs.
Why yall not happy, Sam Altman's greedy deeds supporters?
If you click the link you see

> Hi! It looks like you might have come from Hacker News.

Well Hi to you too!

> We're going to be blunt: Hacker News is increasingly a haven for alt-right trolls and hateful abusers, and the administrators have demonstrated that they have no interest in improving the situation despite repeated pleas by multiple people, in public and in private, even going as far as deploying countermeasures to prevent us from blocking HN traffic. A significant number of Hacker News commenters have repeatedly directed harassment, abuse, doxxing, and bigotry at multiple Asahi Linux developers, and much of this content remains available and not flagged or downvoted.

This appears to be a work of complete fantasy. It appears to me that inappropriate content is normally flagged. If they don't think its flagged fast enough then helping flag it faster/better it seems an entirely reasonable thing to do. Be the change and all that.

> The open source community cannot stand to accept this kind of conduct. Many of us are members of minorities and regularly subject to abuse by these kinds of online communities. Without diverse developers, there would be no Asahi Linux.

I'm still not clear on how whatever harassing conduct is related to hacker news? Are people keying hacker news wuz here on people's cars or are they merely seeing a spike in negative activity immediately followed by traffic from hacker news. This would be somewhat normal. ANYTHING that draws a lot of interest is going to bring with it a small minority of assholes. This woulds be true if they were discussed on reddit, twitter, or cnn.

> These abusers may not use curse words or blatant slurs as often in HN as they do in other communities, but the messages they spread and brigade on the site are just as hateful and damaging as what you will find in other darker corners of the web, and anyone familiar with such conduct will have no trouble noticing the prevalence of dog whistling, bad faith arguments...,

Who is even talking politics on threads regarding a linux distro in the first place?

> ... and discourse aimed at marginalizing minorities under the guise of polite discussion in many HN threads. We understand that not all Hacker News users are like this.

What?

> However, by letting these vocal users run undeterred, Y Combinator and Daniel Gackle are tacitly approving of this abuse and hurting the reputation of the entire site and its userbase.

Are there some examples of negative actions on this forum?

> If you want to support us and what we do and you are a Hacker News user, please bring this up and demand change within the community.

I already flag people being assholes now. I don't understand what change is needed because I personally haven't noticed a problem. Some examples would of course be helpful.

> As things stand today, we consider Hacker News traffic to be a net negative for the project (yes, it's that bad), and we kindly ask you to move on to the next story.

Certainly
Agreed. Further, for most algorithms, I can read a high-level description of it and go "ohhh, I get it now", and go away and implement it myself without further information. HashLife is not one of those algorithms! While I grok the concept of it, I'm pretty lost on how I'd turn that into functional code. I'm sure I could figure it out with enough further reading, though.
I hope you’re wrong, but I think you’re right.
Chart: the US grid battery fleet is about to double – again
Great write up, amazingly thorough and interesting to read. We will watch your career with great interest
The blog text intersects with the mountains at the bottom, literally unreadable

https://imgur.com/02xrZ2q.png
At the beginning of 1945 the allies had most of germany occupied. The nazis didn't surrender, and the allies killed countless german civilians until they did. Who was responsible for their deaths? The allies or the nazis?

Also, reporters without borders is not at all reputable. Here is one of countless rebuttals to their position: https://www.camera.org/article/using-journalists-lives-as-cu...
Thank you, Vlad! Excellent service, regardless of the hiccup today.
I used to love Drop when they did outdoor gear. My favorite pocketknife is one of their collabs. Unfortunately they just do headphones and keyboards now, a move I certainly don't understand as those are really crowded segments with hardly any bottom.
Out of curiosity I was asking ChatGPT the other day to create a marketing plan to help me spread neo-feudalism.

It warned me that spreading neo-feudalism wasn't a common or widespread goal, and that advocating for it required careful consideration. But it nevertheless made an attempt to help me do it.

I mention this because attacks on LLMs don't have to be as clever as the modern-day version of the Ken Thompson compiler attack. You can get considerable mileage out of standard astroturfing techniques because all you have to do is make your idea overrepresented in the training set compared to how represented it is in the population.

That overrepresentation will tend to grow over time because people will hear the ideas from the LLM and assume the LLM knows what it's talking about. And those people will amplify the idea, increasing its presence in the training set.
Still waiting for all this evidence of yours.

Much easier to just go by gut feeling though isn't it.
If you like anime artists, there is this: https://rentry.co/NAIDv3artisttagtest, a list of 470 artists using the last model of NovelAI (this time they trained their model without removing artist names).

Fun fact, this model is based on SDXL, finetuned probably on a cluster of H100s (from coreweave).
When I quit my job, I paused my Privacy card that was paying for Kagi—but before the renewal date, I realized it was totally worth 2 coffees/month and unpaused. I use it all the time.
Gmail now requires mail forwarders to cryptographically attest to the original DMARC alignment of forwarded mail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en

Your former university may be using mail software that doesn't support ARC (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8617) or they've decided setting it up isn't worth it.
Zarf is meant to be able to take k8s resources (whether they be charts, images, manifests, kustomizations, etc...), package them up into a single tarball, then be able to bring that tarball across the airgap and deploy.

Zarf is also meant to be a standalone single binary solution to a lot of other common problems in the k8s airgapped deployment sphere (which is why k9s and some other common utils are embedded under `zarf tools`).

The logging stack is part of the default "init" package, which is a special package that bootstraps ANY k8s cluster to point references (images, git repos, oci artifacts) to internally deployed registries (distribution/distribution, and Gitea).

Git repos exist as a citizen to enable gitops based deployments (flux, argocd).
Big Data and Beyond: My Predictions for 2024
> Sanctions started to be imposed in 1938.

And? You realize that 1938 is before 1941?

> But Japan invaded Manchuria in 1933 and by 1937 invaded China and had already perpetrated the Nanking Massacre.

The US ( and much of europe ) invaded china in the 1800s and by 1937 had committed hundreds of massacres. What's your point? Why was Nanking so important? Oh that's right, it was the center of american and european colonization of china.

> The sanctions were in part a response to the invasion of China and Japanese atrocities against China.

No. The sanctions were in response to japan taking american and european possessions in china. Had nothing to do with atrocities in china.

If the US cared about atrocities against china, we would have sanctioned the british, germans, russians, italians, french, etc long before we sanctioned the japanese. Heck we would have sanctioned ourselves long before we sanctioned japan for committing atrocities against japan.

BTW, the only nationality explicitly banned from the US was the chinese with the Chinese Exclusion Act. The idea that the US cared about chinese lives is laughable.

If you stand back and look at the garbage propaganda you are regurgitating, youd' realize how silly it all is.

"We dropped the nuke to save japanese lives". "We sanctioned japan to save chinese lives". Amazing how racist white supremacists cared so much about asian lives.
At a local dam they recently build a thing they call a "fish ladder" which is a winding stair-like concrete structure that allows fish to migrate up and down the dam.
To me it seems people have gradually become more angry and hostile over the past 10 years.

I remember in 2014 I genuinely felt like most people I met were kind and friendly. Nowadays there seems to be this sense of mean spiritedness to many people.

Good news though is that there are still lots of friendly people out there. It seems the friendly happy people are the ones who don’t spend too much time online. The terminally online people seem to be the most nasty when you talk to them in real life.

Somehow it seems easy to tell when someone spends a lot of time on the internet or when someone doesn’t. Just instinctively you can tell who is who. Interesting phenomena I guess….