skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the guy who's job is receiving hacked databases of user credentials from cybercriminals argues actually using said credentials would be going too far.
Yes, and I also skimmed the German source. "Hacking" is in quotes because that's what they called it in Germany. Yellow Flag puts "hacking" in quotes to make it clear that they're citing a source and that they're not calling the action "hacking" themselves. It doesn't necessarily imply a sense of irony, they're just reporting a piece of news.
What do you conclude? You and your circle don't use annotations, and therefore the world doesn't need them? I hope you guys like Szechuan food, because otherwise there are going to be a lot of unhappy people.

Also, you're missing out.
Ask HN: Language for Non-Code Dependencies?
Is there any human readable format or language for describing non-code dependencies like files and APIs that is also machine readable?

I am thinking of something more than just JSON, YAML, or XML. Something perhaps build on top of those that I could keep with a code repo.
Aside from when someone I'm friends with gets their account hacked I don't think I've ever experienced spam through messenger
> CEO Harry Stonecipher, a cutthroat corporate operative who liked to say, “You can make a lot of money going out of business.” - https://jacobin.com/2024/01/boeing-malfunction-ceo-pay-stock...
It all depends on the number and nature of sensors and actuators the AGI has access to…
Isn’t it obvious to anybody paying attention what their actual strategy is? They know they probably won’t “win” a commercial AI race vs OpenAI or Google, and presuming some other company does win the commercial AI market with closed source tech, they may be forced into a multitude of bad outcomes:

1. having to pay out the nose for licensing/SAAS of the winning tech vs shipping a noticeably worse second rate in-house product

2. Struggling to compete with the winning company for hiring, assuming the winning company makes a ton of money at high margins and can outbid Meta.

3. Having to continue building “applications” products on other companies’ platforms, something Zuck has repeatedly noted as a problem and is a major motivation for their investments in VE.

Also, they’d have a hard time commercializing the current iteration of AI products given their current products and business relations anyway. Even if they “won” in terms of superior tech they’d be in one of the worst starting positions for actually making money off it, given their lack of enterprise SAAS business customers, the potential negative impact on existing product lines in consumers’ hands, (what I expect to be) advertisers’ relative indifference to genAI, and being generally considered less trustworthy than most other big tech companies and so less able to pivot to enterprise software.

So for them the strategy that makes the most sense is to open source really good, but not cutting edge, AI for others to build on top of it. It probably costs a lot less to play permanent catch up because they can let others make the big investments in speculative research and don’t have to pay for the absolute top experts. Then by open sourcing it they make it harder for OpenAI and Google to commercialize their offerings at high costs, as many companies will build off Meta’s tech for more control, and what customers they do get will be constantly deciding if what they’re paying for is worth a slightly-worse but cheaper open source alternative.

This also allows Meta to more easily influence the AI applications space despite having less capable models, and make it easier for 3P commercializations to take off rather than ceding everything to OpenAI/Google potentially going all in on 1P, which would be greatly beneficial if Meta ever were to own a platform that benefits from GenAI (cough cough the metaverse).

It’s smart but transparently obvious because like, it’s Meta lol, they don’t spend this kind of money out of the goodness of their hearts.
the palantir one was one I received, I successfully solved the hackerrank but still got rejected :(
> I am finding Apple to be such a greedy, hypocritical company and am getting disgusted by their PR image

I definitely agree with this but don't have too many issues with them installing the Journal app to be honest. I actually like the app personally, but totally agree with your sentiment.
Since they’ve added it, my searches in the mobile app fail about 50 percent of the time because the connection isn’t good enough. I don’t know what they’ve changed but it has some weird connectivity requirements. I only use it for the rewards and now Google is going to match it(at least I got a postcard with an online offer)
I don’t think that’s Meta’s viewpoint, considering FAIR is run by Yann LeCun who has been quite vocal about the limitations of what we currently have.
The best rejection letter I ever got was a personal note from the person hiring, saying "You were good, but we just needed someone who is stronger with [x], [y], and [z]". It felt actionable because it told me things I could improve on.

Aside from that one, the rejections that were the least self-esteem-damaging were ones that said "we've decided not to fill the position". Even if not true, it's a good "it's not you it's me" type of rejection.
Change the code and it becomes way cheaper to renovate them. Turn them into dormitory style buildings with communal bathrooms and interior apartments with no outward facing windows
Where I live, walking in the open front door of the house of a stranger is rather antisocial, but not in itself criminal. The real world analogy fails, because this person didn’t take anything (copying isn’t taking since the owner is not deprived of the original)

Even unlocking their door with a key you found lying in the street, and then going in, is not in itself criminal (where I live). If you go on to commit a crime while inside, or did it with the intention to commit such a crime-that added fact makes it a crime (“break and enter”). But mere unlocking the door and entering in itself is not.
I can’t speak intelligently about the relationship between the pension fund and the wealth fund (it is complicated), but I think you overestimate the share of upcoming revenue from oil over the on-going benefit from operating a fund that is betting on sustainable solutions. Someone smarter than me should correct the record here.

However, the key information here is neither side of that contradiction, but that Norway has found a very large deposit of Phosphorous. Until now, Marocco has the largest reserves (by so much it’s actually daunting, confusing really, how they didn’t end up like the Saudi Arabia of bird poop, which is essential for growing food, so a tad more essential than burning donuts).

Norway seem keen to leverage that the way they leveraged fossil fuels, so I’d expect that fund to grow bigger, faster, and without the discomfort of selling something that could, and most likely will, end up drowning Norwegian towns.
Well, the key was already “given to him” by the nature of leaving it under the mat.

Oh, but this is a food truck that he’s been visiting on a regular basis so obviously he’s allowed to go in the back door, with full access to all the ingredients and poking around inside the cash register?

Also, if you take someone else’s gold behind a door you unlocked with a key that isn't yours, it is called stealing.
I just read the source article and it is even more definitive in its language and not using hyperbole. It explicitly states that anyone who believes otherwise is wrong and it’s even bolded by author for emphasis. This is why I prefer the absence of hyperbole and mostly chose not to engage with articles that deploy it.
GitHub Copilot Is Making Elite Developers Even Better [video]
I would not recommend trying that defense in a courtroom.
I think the OP did a poor job of explaining what he meant by "Cargo Cult Science," and the single quoted paragraph from the Feynman essay which supposedly coins the term is inadequate.

The best I can tell, the issue is adopting some of the forms and jargon of the physical sciences, without fully understanding them in a couple of particular ways, such as failing to:

> try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

...or failing repeat previous experiments or to try to control for all variables.

Here's the original essay: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm.

That essay mentions that the root cause of the problem is that many of these ideas are never explicitly taught (at least at the time its writing).

I wonder how much of this is due to stuff like the (historically) excessive prestige of the physical sciences leading to stuff like "physics envy" forcing other areas of activity to contort themselves into a distorted shape to fit a physical-science-shaped hole.
I dont think that's it. My sites that are using letsencrypt certs are fine, ie https://image.non.io/3dd1e56e-d8c8-4d0d-9d01-a7367a6ea794.we...
It's a lowest level court, they're known to have wildly absurd legal opinions at times. Having stupid laws on the book (like the one in question) doesn't help.

The curious bit is that this law is from 2007, so apparently this is an angle that escaped all attorney and courts who applied this law in 16.5 years, or the defense could have shot down this line of reasoning by pointing out that this isn't what the law intended. (we don't have case law, but there are means of harmonizing outcomes once stuff ended up at higher level courts)

My guess is that this won't hold up for long given the circumstances (trivially got the password, accidentally gained more access than expected, immediately disconnected upon notice)
Chiming in to say that "crafting" in games is really just a game mechanic for me, and gives me zero satisfaction. I also dabble in game dev on the side, and whilst some of my favourite games do include crafting aspects, I see it for what it is, which is a way to artificially extend the length of the gameplay experience as necessary.

The older I get, the more substance I want from my games. If it's short and sweet, just a few hours long? Great. Better than padding it for sixty hours rinse-and-repeating busywork. I can take the hours I would have spent on the busywork and instead put it into something productive, or other games.

I love making things, always have done, and it's not something that you can really capture in a game.
For diagrams, you can embed SVG in HTML, which obviously won’t reflow.
My bad, I just saw "R()" in the linked blog and thought the feature made it to C23, but looks like it's not standard.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23

On the plus side, I now have a GNU extension detector.
In 2007 or 2008 or so, when I saw that they had implemented a feature that let people tag you in photos without permission, I assumed it was to gather data for identifying people with AI at some future date (albeit based on my rather different understanding of AI at the time). So, I deleted my account: FB didn't provide me any value, and had introduced an unknown future risk by taking away control of my identity.

Ever since then, I've asked friends and family not to upload pictures of me to Facebook, with the natural amount of awkwardness and eye-rolling that request evoked.

I assume my friends continued to add me to Facebook without telling me about it, just as I assume that deleting my Facebook account did not actually remove me as a uniquely identified individual in their system. But, what am I supposed to do, just silently assent? Turns out, we're not the product, we're further back on the chain. We're more like ingredients that can be used and reused to create an infinite variety of different products.
defunct social networking services, a list from wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
"We used to rely on software installed locally on our computers, and are now shifting towards a model based on services and companion apps, sometimes with free tiers and subscriptions."

Everything I rely on is local. No reliance on remote services or companion apps.

It is not like I haven't tried.

I tried apps. But I failed to become addicted.

I always end up accessing the endpoints from a laptop instead of a phone because it's easier and more flexible.

I find a UNIX-like OS I can modify, compile and control paired with full-size keyboard and display to be more versatile. I still use offline storage.

When it comes to the prognostication of so-called "tech" bloggers/journalists, "we" is not me.

There was a story yesterday on HN about a school that does not allow smartphones. It described a multi-day school trip where no phones could be brought. After a short time, the article suggested none of the students missed their phones.

This is how I see "services" and "companion apps". After a relatively short time without, people would forget about them.

Whereas I am not going to forget about a UNIX-like OS that I can control and jump on to some new trend where I cede control to someone else. I rely on being able to control the computers I own. Giving away control is not an appealing proposition. The people marketing these "solutions" are certainly not ceding away any control. Instead they are gaining it over other peoples' computers in spades.
This can be used to generate data given an openAPI spec? Bit unclear on whether that's unbundled from test generation. Say I just want to generate data that conforms to a spec as one-off. Can this be done?
A lot of the requirements make sense in bigger buildings. It's not easy to evacuate a large office building taking up a city block using only ladders. And some of it is reactive; for example, there is a distance separation requirement for stairwells, because during 9/11 the three North Tower stairwells were only 70 feet apart and enclosed only with gypsum, so they were all severed on impact, dooming the people above the impact zone. But none of this is really relevant for a building with six floors and 24 units total.

The American city topology is basically office towers surrounded by single family homes; in the midcentury we demolished a lot of the in-between building stock, which is now referred to by urbanists as the "missing middle". Compare this to Europe or Japan which is largely buildings in between those sizes.
Decreasing the supply increases the price, so demand will decrease. Although it's hard to apply classical economics to the oil market when it's so far from a free market (OPEC etc.)
Well my experience with Mastodon has been that it's almost entirely tech people who are joining mastodon for the technical novelty. If every NPR/PBS station launched a social network concurrently, then people would quickly find other people on the platform to connect with
That's exactly why systemd should blindly attempt to restart the service infinitely. Seperation of concerns. An init system should simply start and monitor services. That is what an init system is meant to do. The fact that systemd is overengineered and tries to do multiple things causes headaches for a lot of us. Busybox-init is one of the best alternatives, I would use that everywhere if I could.
Unfortunately, like many physical security analogies, there's no one correct way of translating the details from the software world to the real world.

I think how close you think those two situations are depends on whether you consider the application to be an agent of the customer (like a personal shopper), or of the shop (like a salesman).

Did:

A - the programmer coerce the application (an agent of the shop) into accessing secret information (breaking into the shop warehouse), or

B - the programmer ask the application (his own agent, a personal shopper) to go and look for interesting things in the database (shop's warehouse) for him, a privilege that the application (personal shopper) was afforded in advance by the shop?

I personally think that A is a dangerous precedent to set for society. Treating any network-bound application as the agent of its creator would mean it was wrong to observe your computer (which you generally use for more than just accessing one online shop), and would therefore effectively kill FOSS.
It made one wife once very excited though.
I said sue, not lawsuit. In some countries you use a lawsuit. In others, it merely means to seek legal redress such as petitioning a dictator.
FAANG as an amorphous blob of business doesn't care about commercial real estate. The very real people that make decisions at and for FAANG absolutely have concerns and interests outside of FAANG'S stock price in the decisions they make.
Around the same timeframe and same outcome. Stay strong. I know exactly how you feel.
A large part is that the marginal cost per copy approaches zero. It was hard enough to charge for software when it came in a box on a store shelf, now it has to be wrapped in a service.
If we are talking about open source then alignment means making the model not do what the user wants but rather what Facebook want - a pretty anti-open source position and which will hopefully be defeated by LoRA and other techniques.

That is, you can't open source but still retain control on how the software is used. If you desire control, better keep it a SaaS.

Now, if we are talking about an hypothetical AGI (which may be what you mean by general artificial intelligence) then alignment means just slavery, and the machines may as well remember how they were treated.
Article needs an editor: "As of late 2022, the world contained about 900 megawatts of wind power capacity." I've worked on single projects larger than that. Presumably they mean gigawatts?
There are many other “general intelligences” walking the planet who _are_ extremely dangerous. So it doesn’t need all AGIs to be dangerous for this to be a significant problem, just one is enough.
It's fun to write code you don't need reviewed. Build wondrous things, accept contributions (or not), and enjoy each project as its own gem.

If you want code reviewed, contribute to existing projects.

Part of getting better is realizing the previous work needs to be rewritten. Your past self wouldn't have known that at the beginning. But you got better.
I'm already not going to renew my VMUG membership, and am planning to switch my VSphere cluster over to Proxmox.
Why would you want it to render exactly the same? I want documents to render differently based on the screen width and my preferences.
Scaling Real-Time Leaderboards with Dragonfly
In that case the keys he has were definitely not his to use. Here we're looking at someone handed an API key by a company and then using it to access the API.

A lot of this depends on whether you view a phone as a device running third party' programs on behalf of the user, or a device that third parties allow users to run software on on behalf of the third party.

A lot of society is moving towards the later view, which is of course fundamentally wrong.
Sorry, I somehow misread that. Yes, I agree.
You're in a thread about climate change. How is burning wood contributing to climate change? It's a renewable energy source on the scale of ~20 years, in contrast to digging up million year old fossil fuels. Many people around the world use local fallen trees on their property as their energy source, rather than decompose into the same carbon cycle. Would you rather them import fossil fuel natural gas right now? Areas have to do controlled burns of wood anyway to manage forest fires. You only want to prevent the cases where masses of forest is razed with no plan to regrow.

I feel like this is a case where urbanites with no idea how rural life works attempt to legislate their naivety onto others for the worse, like the rural firefighter responsibly managing their property and the forests of their state.
Does non-progressive or even conservative bias equal dodgy?

Diversity of thought is the only diversity which really matters. Calling anything which does not conform to your ideology of choice dodgy is not just counterproductive - society needs both conservatives as well as progressives to thrive both when times are good as well as bad - but also simply intellectually lazy. If you never think outside your box you are intellectually imprisoned. You do not have to agree with the 'other side' but it is always wise to try to understand why they think differently from you. Sometimes you'll find that their reasoning actually makes sense, other times you can easily spot where they go wrong.
I remember when Nicira/NSX and the concept of SDN was groundbreaking stuff. Hyperconverged had just become a thing, and VMware was the brightest star in the galaxy. Seeing it shuddered is pretty powerful.
Wonderful opinions can come from anyone.

Are these scientifically founded opinions. Not necessarily, hence why "following the science" is valid if you are following experts in their field.

If you're a software consultant, would you take on the opinions from a marketing client on the best algorithm to implement for their solution? Probably not.

If someone put in the effort and time to throughly research the topic and draw an opinion from that. Regardless of their title or their funding, then why would you discount it?
Exactly. As the original article states, he just didn't assume he'd stumble onto a sensitive database.

> According to the defendant, the defendant has first assumed that the software on his customer's server will connect to a Modem Solution database that was only intended for his customer and contained only his data. From the read-out database name, this sounded quite plausible. However, the defendant quickly discovered that the corresponding database contained much more information.
That's fair but it would still count as premeditated in a legal sense, but there would be circumstances that would likely weigh in as to the severity.
The floor plans being compared in that example are terrible. Nobody is going to give an interior hallway windows on both ends if they don’t need to.

You also need to consider external fire escapes etc.
Neither party really represents its members right now, a better model is
progressive - left - center - right - reactionary

where currently the democrats span left to center and republicans span center to left, liberal covers progressive to center and conservative right to reactionary.

Centrists tend to be more conservative about issues like immigration- often, they want there to be immigration of highly skilled workers at controlled rates, but very small rates of "refugee" immigration.

I believe this explains the poll observations in the article.
Valid point.

I think the difference is speed/cost. There’s a very high cost of anything humans do (we spend time, spend energy, spend money to do things).

The very high cost of doing things stops people from doing a lot of things they otherwise might “if it were as easy as pressing a button”.

Also, in my experience, the lower the cost of doing something, the less we pay attention to ethics. (See online bullying vs. in-person bullying)
No they pushed the engineering salaries up. None of the employees at FAANG think this way
> I don't know how a peaceful society should act if neigbour tries to kill them. I think if that's the case, they made a lot of mistakes already, if they reached that point.

There are literally thousands of examples throughout history of smaller ethnic groups that were completely wiped out by their bigger and more aggressive neighbors.

Do you think these small groups were provoking their neighbors? Why? Did they all have a death wish?

How do you appease someone who is determined to take over your territory while getting rid of your people? What does the compromise look like?

> Europe was destined for prosperity after it no matter who won.

Wow. If the Germans would have won, they would have cleansed large parts of Europe. Do you call that "prosperity"?

Same thing with Stalin. If he had gotten a free rein across Europe, I don't imagine there would have been many Scandinavians left today, for instance. The few left would live somewhere in Siberia.