skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You hit the nail on the head, but think aside from information being more accessible to analyze/share when it isn’t classified/there isn’t a need to protect sensitive sources and methods, is the benefit vis-a-vis translations.

Finding native speakers of languages like Chinese, Russian, Farsi, etc. who are also eligible/want to have a clearance is a challenge (it’s expensive and self-limiting, since US citizenship is a requirement).

Training people already cleared in those languages takes a ton of time, expensive, and yields linguists with mixed-usefulness (think understanding formal Spanish taught in highschool versus Spanish actually spoken amongst peers/friends). There’s slang, intonations, etc. that non-native speakers have to spend time learning/may misunderstand.

In other words, OSINT has a much larger talent pool that yield arguably/presumably better translations.
I'll throw in a vote for teaching yourself or using free resources and communities. Even if you go down the bootcamp route it is going to take a lot of self motivation and work outside of the bootcamp / afterwards in order to become job ready. Or at least do this to start with to make sure you like it.

I did this myself a few years years ago over lockdown. I had a lot of down time and worked on teaching myself web development full time 5 days a week for about a year. I was then able to land a job at a FAANG company through an apprenticeship scheme that they offer in the UK (I'm not sure if these kinds of schemes are available in the US) where I stayed for a year and a half and I am now working for a startup in a position I found through connections I made at my previous job. At the time I did have other offers for non-apprenticeship roles at other companies so don't let the absence of apprenticeships put you off if they aren't on offer in the US. The job market was definitely better when I was applying for my first job so the process might be more drawn out now. The main resource I used for self teaching was The Odin Project (https://www.theodinproject.com/). I also did a batch at The Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/) which was a great experience in general, especially for getting some hands on time working on projects with other people. I would say be curious, reach out to people who are working on things you find interesting to ask them for a chat and just persevere with the applications as you will definitely get a lot of rejections.

One more thing (might be UK specific as well) but I would check to see if there are any government funded bootcamps you might be able to get a place on. I know multiple people in the UK who got the job center to pay for them to do a bootcamp while they were on universal credit and now work in the industry.
For confused people that read the comments without reading the article first. The sentence before that says:

> Randy Nixon, director of the CIA’s Open Source Enterprise division

Nothing to do with President Richard Nixon.
The headline says "exposed source code". The article says it exposed keys, SSO passwords, and other things that sound much worse than exposing source code.

Some tiny fraction of source code has value as intellectual property, but most of it is probably not valuable or sensitive. Passwords/Keys/PII/Documents on the other hand could be very bad if they got lost.
It's kind of a dick answer, imo.
govts are soo behind the tech curve and everything they do now only decelerates our progress and creates more problems
Python is better for anything complicated. Even though Bash is ubiquitous, it's kind of a pain in the ass, and it's actually not that portable since there is no real "standard library", and everything basically depends on system tools being installed and/or configured in a particular way.
This sounds more like a response to legal action than a technical inability to continue.
Will not be enforceable imo, not sure if it is even constitutional - like it or not, output of AI engines is a type of free-speech. (and no, not that 'AI' has free speech rights, the creators of the AI do)
Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization
quickemu has been great, really convenient for running a performant Windows VM on my Linux laptop.
Very cool! Just a heads up your Google play button just takes me to the apple store
>The government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will develop a uniform framework for assessing safety, as part of the order Biden signed in October.

They probably need to develop an extremely antisocial, psycopathic, malevolent AI to assess other AIs for safety. Its purpose will be to run through thousands of scenarios, using manipulation, threats, and deception to try to extract dangerous information from the other AI. It can then score the responses based on the information it was able to extract. I don't really see any other way to automate this extremely tedious and error prone task. It's interesting though because we will need to concentrate all of the evil in the world into a single AI in order to run these tests.
good luck with that, ESP-IDF + BSEC is one of my go to tests for evaluating LLMs; it's such a niche topic, and complex too, that there is (probably) no training data covering it and all LLMs hallucinate when asked for a solution.
So I've never been to a coding bootcamp, I have no idea what it's like. I strongly suspect the quality of teaching will vary greatly between poor/average/great/excellent ones. Determining if one is good would be a challenge.

One piece of advice I would give, the certificate from a bootcamp is pretty worthless. You want to really prioritize learning as much as possible and engaging as much as possible. Don't feel bad about asking questions, "annoy" the lecturers or whatever. Make sure you understand what they are teaching and try to understand the deeper concepts and not just the surface level "this is how you make a button red".

When I went to university, my attitude was the complete opposite. I did the absolute minimum to get A's and slacked off a lot. I was there for the piece of paper (degree) and learning was secondary. Attitudes have shifted a lot and degrees aren't as highly regarded nowadays(which is good), bootcamp certificates aren't really taken into consideration at all.
The next US moon landing will use SpaceX Starship, which is huge and totally oversized for the purpose of getting two or three people on the moon.

They could probably easily load up enough supplies and equipment for longer mission durations, depending on fuel requirements and boil off.
Someone making polite conversation with the shopkeeper who politely asked the name of a repeat customer they get along well with in a socially appropriate context.
Yes they do, I’m not aware of any prisons in the US where you have to do the work it’s just it looks good to a parole board.
Years ago I used Gambit Scheme heavily on macOS. Back then I always liked to build it from source. The source repo also has examples that are useful to see how to do common things. I found Gambit was really cool for building little command line utilities, but now I get good mileage from just making small text command line utilities in SBCL, or using LispWorks Pro.
Apple Vision Pro review
Me browsing HN instead of filling out an invoice so I can get paid so I can pay my tax bill before the end of tomorrow haha. Fiine, I'll get back to it after this comment..

> You’ll pay a late filing penalty of £100 if your tax return is up to 3 months late

As ADHD taxes go this one's pretty chill. It's a decent chunk of change sure but compared to the rest of my finances (legacy pre-diagnosis debts I'm still grinding down).. it's on the low end lmao
Did the Battle Against 'Misinformation' Go Too Far?
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman (2019) [video]
Rights are being violated simply by the government accessing the information
Active Directory ACL Visualizer and Explorer
this was the kicker for me. I really can't play the new update. that and the fact that the non-steam version has pretty huge bugs (entirely invisible menus)
They don't want the govt to be able to do that but they also don't want to cut off the money faucet for data brokers.

Personally, I think that if data brokers have it then it is essentially public information. What makes the public information from data brokers different from other public information like your address?
The article says the video is interpolated with AI. Why can’t we strap a GoPro on there and get some high quality 4K video footage?
Definitely congrats to them. I don't hate on Mistral though; their open-source models are extremely capable for their size and parameter count, and Mistral Medium is second only to GPT-4 on the Chatbot Arena (I'm not including Bard, since Bard gives their chatbot access to the internet, whereas the other models are being interacted with solely on the basis of their innate knowledge; that doesn't seem apples-to-apples, and the underlying Gemini Pro model without access to the internet underperforms GPT-4 and Mistral). And Mistral Medium is much cheaper than GPT-4 — around $8/million tokens, whereas GPT-4-Turbo is $30/million tokens. So I'd say Mistral is doing a decent job.

With this kind of regulatory regime I wonder how much of the next wave of AI companies are going to be started abroad... I sort of doubt Mistral is the last one, even though the U.S. has such high talent density.
Hmm, why not? I thought the hashes feature of pip-tools solve this problem
1. Open website.

2. Cool icon. No idea what it means, but digging the brush strokes.

3. Scroll down. Not really sure how this works or if I’d like it.

4. Alright, let’s give it a spin. Click “Get Started”.

5. Immediately get presented with a modal asking me to login and “agree to our Terms and Agreements” (I think you mean “Terms and Conditions”).

6. Close page.

The title says “Show HN”, so why aren’t you showing what your project is? Give people a way to try your idea or at least something that closely represents what it’s like to use it and how it could fit into someone’s daily usage.
You don't deserve the downvotes.

But I disagree, I think they can stop it, at least for a long while, because of the enormous expense that it takes to train and run these models (at least for now). Nobody operating in legal gray or black territory could afford to do this. If they use the force of law to basically block legitimate uses, it will slow progress to a snail's pace.

Meanwhile they'll use the tech to stay way ahead in the cat and mouse game, so when somebody does generate something they can block it/censor it right away before it's able to spread. That will be good enough for their purposes.
And this isn’t Reddit
Dynamical systems definitely don't have to preserve volume!
no the point was that they made around minimum wage, and lived with their mom.

the question the book asked, explictly, was then if they're making minimum wage, why not just get any old crappy job at McD's or as a janator? if you're making minimum, why not get a job where there is no risk of getting shot or sent to jail?
tbf I still don't use autocomplete. It's mostly man pages (or their language specific equivalents) and stackoverflow for me. That said, I don't program anything terribly complex.
One thing I loved but rarely mentioned is systemd-nspawn. You do `docker create --name ubuntu ubuntu:22.04` and then `docker export ubuntu` to create a tar from an arbitrary docker image. Then you extract that to `/var/lib/machines/ubuntu`. Make sure to choose an image with systemd or install systemd in the container. Finally do `machinectl start ubuntu` and `machinectl shell ubuntu` to get inside.

systemd-nspawn is very simple and lightweight and emulates a real Linux machine very well. You can take an arbitrary root partition based on systemd and boot it using systemd-nspawn and it will just work.
You're not wrong, but the implied solution of no data brokers is gonna be a bad thing.

The information is out there, it's stupid easy to correlate and collate it. It's even easier to use that to do something profitable.

Getting rid of data brokers, making them not exist just makes a gray market for the information, one that is just as lucrative and is going to be untaxed and unregulated.

641a was the moment privacy died. We're not getting it back. We need to come up with a better method/idea...
There are multiple problems here, but only one of those problems works for the US people. It's clear to me which problem should be most easily addressed with the highest impact for the effort.

We're talking about the difference in trying to influence arbitrary third parties behaviors and the difference in trying to influence the behavior of your own employees.
It is atrocious. It's worse than exponential.

But it's much better than the prior state of the art which was n^n 2^O(n). [1]

The Quanta article, unfortunately, doesn't bother to report the prior complexity for comparison, despite that that's probably the single most important thing to say in order to support the claim in the article's sub-headline.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming#Exact_al...
Yes, but the ones I mentioned, and many others, were also all off the shelf components. Why was the IBM PC "ultimate" relative to them?
You may be thinking of Polya's result, which lets the walker go anywhere on the grid, so there are more possible states than Poincaré allows. For a discrete system, Poincaré assumes (roughly) that the space of possibilities is finite.
At the risk of hyperbole:

It seems that, as AI becomes the prevalent model for human-computer interaction, requirements like this are not merely stifling to AI (and to the speech, press, and even religious protections that may arise from such interactions), but stifling to general-purpose computing.

Along with increasing "protect the children" sockpuppetry like we have in the bill in the Florida house yesterday - which seem to seek a future in which internet access requires the furnishing of a state ID - actions like this (which you will note did not even come from an additional act of Congress) appear to be rather vulgar measures to prevent technology from empowering anyone who doesn't already have power.
AlphaGo is considered AI and its core component is Monte Carlo Tree Search.
A look back at CNCF, Linux Foundation, and top open source projects' velocity
Let me rephrase what you said in a way that makes it clearer:

The government can do anything that is legal.

I people believe purchasing data is a violation of the 4th amendment and it may not yet be illegal but it should be.
No, it's absolutely is not a HIPAA violation if the patient requests email communication. But it's a common myth.

A patient can consent to receive protected health information over email or other unsecured channels as long as they are informed of the risks and consent anyways. Patients are allowed to communicate about their own health to whoever they want to in whatever manner they want.

For example - the American Academy of Family Physicians has the following to say about it - https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/hipaa_m...

Myth 3: HIPAA prohibits email communication with patients about clinical matters.

Fact: You can send protected health information by email, but you must implement safeguards under the security rule to ensure the information is secure, accessed only by authorized individuals, and not altered, edited, or deleted. The best way to do this is to encrypt your emails; however, patients have the right to request access to their own information via unencrypted email. You may send patient information by unencrypted email if you have advised the patient of the risks and the patient still prefers unencrypted email.
Now do infectious pathogens.
+1 for the Racket on macOS recommendation. It is really easy to make your own local libraries (but different than small local libraries in Common Lisp using Quicklisp) and live nicely on macOS. I wrote a Racket book, which I am still actively adding to that you can read online: https://leanpub.com/racket-ai/read
Doesn’t idle mean something more like C:\> than multitasking billions of instructions per second?
Depends what the indication is, for some kinds of trauma the evidence is that transfusions are what will keep the patient alive, e.g. you're dumping pints on the table and it's likely to be contaminated, you can't salvage and reinfuse. However, for pre-planned surgery the evidence suggests avoiding blood loss where you can is the best practice. Studies have also shown that pre-deposit autologous blood donation before surgery is of uncertain benefit so it tends to be contra-indicated in the UK at least.

Before we understood the risks we used to do transfusions a lot more frequently than we do now and this led to a generation of anaesthetists who would basically treat with blood transfusion at the slightest sign of low blood count. More recent studies have suggested that a lower blood count can be tolerated than was previously realised and that you can often get away with guaranteed pathogen free (and much cheaper) volume expanders. There has also been developments in cell salvage to reinfuse suctioned blood and methods to avoid blood loss in the first place.

Medical practice has also changed to reflect this and the changed evidence base, especially given the relative costs (hospital managers love to save money). Hip and knee replacement surgery used to use blood routinely and were almost always done under general anaesthetic, but given we now want to get patients out within a day or two post surgery we do the surgery under spinal block and minimise blood loss as much as we can.

tldr; We still need transfusions for some things but we should be using them less than we do.
Printing money doesn't increase the amount of money in real terms.
Of course telling yourself that you're a "lazy bastard" is going to take its toll.

But that association is an artifact of culture, and something we can change. Should change.
The artistry involved is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9E77WZGCpQ
I wonder if in the future there will be some kind of demand for artisinal/hand-crafted/organic code written by someone using "their own mind". Maybe then all these anti-AI devs can corner the market.

To me it's just feels a really dumb hill to die on. Copilot has definitely removed a lot of the tedious work in my day to day.
Agree. They failed to capitalize on their existing brand awareness. All it would have taken was a coordinated, concentrated, 3-4 week GTM motion leading up to product availability.
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not
Thanks for the hint, We'll fix that!
You noticed the conceptual integrity of the systems, as described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month.

From Chapter 4:

> "I will contend that conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. It is better to have a system omit certain anomalous features and improvements, but to reflect one set of design ideas, than to have one that contains many good but independent and uncoordinated ideas."

> "Because ease of use is the purpose, this ratio of function to conceptual complexity is the ultimate test of system design. Neither function alone nor simplicity alone defines a good design. This point is widely misunderstood."

> "All my own experience convinces me, and I have tried to show, that the conceptual integrity of a system determines its ease of use. Good features and ideas that do not integrate with a system's basic concepts are best left out. If there appear many such important but incompatible ideas, one scraps the whole system and starts again on an integrated system with different basic concepts."
How about VW deliberately cheating emissions tests with their fuel injector code?

You can be notably bad without being the worst.
No surprise at all. UBI would be a great fit for China.
There are algorithms called ant colony optimization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori.... They are modeled after this ant colony behavior. As others have mentioned, these are good at finding local optima, like tabu search or simulated annealing, or genetic algorithms. This is good enough for most business purposes, such as the 'couch production' case from the article and other business cases. However it is not the same as finding 'a general solution'. Sapolsky compares us being bad at finding 'a general solution' with ants capable of finding a local optimum. I find this a bit misleading.
Nice little app.

A UX enhancement could be to add a wizard like steps so the user knows where they stand in the flow. You can also allow the user to navigate forward or back in the wizard.

It would also be nice if you can choose the time with the dates.
Nice! I built the same thing to learn chinese[0], it even has the in-context word lookup!

I have a feature request: if I don't have a pinyin IME installed, it's very hard to use - it would be nice to have an in-browser one!

[0]: https://github.com/statusfailed/gptlingo
There's nothing particularly special about the Alexa or Google home, it's all software controlled. Phones and computers also have microphones and we have to trust them too. And phones/computers have a lot more software vendors involved.
The article says this about the NSA:

> It’s completely capable of engaging in domestic surveillance. And, indeed, it often does! So why would it need to purchase something it can obtain (more legitimately[?]) from its own dragnets and risk having part of its collection techniques exposed?

I don’t think the NSA needs to worry about adversaries learning the technique of exchanging money for information. Hacking the data brokers would cause more potential exposure of proprietary techniques.
Interesting.

Technically, P40 is rated at an impressive 347.1GB/sec memory bandwidth, and 4060, at a slightly lower 272GB/sec. For bandwidth-limited workloads, the P40 still wins.

The 4090 is about 3-4x that, but as you point out, is not cost-competitive.

What do you use to fit 9x P40 cards in one machine, supply them with 2-3kW of power, and keep them cooled? Best I've found are older rackmount servers, and the ones I was looking at stoped short of that.
I laughed when Fox news said Taylor Swift was a "psyop" because it was absurd. Then a few weeks later her deepfakes go all over twitter and the government is cracking down on AI.

Sure its a conspiracy theory, but I do think the government is trying to manipulate public opinion around this space and gain control of it.
Read the articles linked:
"the labor exploitation in American prisons goes far beyond even what the Constitution allows."
And then we have about 90% of working sw devs quit tomorrow - it sounds great but people are not going to leave when they know the next place is basically the exact same.
MessageBird now Bird and moving into payments?
there are more rumours going around which im trying to validate.
We were against bonzaibuddy and other "helpful" extensions installed against our will back then too.
Ha! Snow Crash comes to mind. Wonder if we see outsourcing to information curating freelancers, before or after the agencies are getting privatized.
There is also an excellent book about Erdos for adults:

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Loved-Only-Numbers/dp/0786884...
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> The internal vector intrinsics don't perform bounds checks.

VECTOR_ACCESS_OOB_CHECK controls some bounds checks performed by ByteVector.rearrange and similar methods. With these bounds checks enabled, ByteVector.rearrange costs ~40x more than pshufb rather than only ~30x more.

This comment of mine is pedantic and silly. Of course I agree there aren't any bounds checks on the memory addresses you access if you are using the intrinsics that don't access memory.
It's because capitalism isn't about competition or free market? It's about extracting rent on capital, hence the name?