skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the scenario in question. Your average person with a smartphone, who is not so technically inclined, downloads a game of some sort. The game upon first launch pops up a dialog which says "to provide you with the best experience, we need to clean up temporary files on your device, when prompted by the dialog (screenshot of system dialog), please press 'OK'." The user is then presented with the relatively scary system dialog which says "Allow this app to use system debugging features?", which they have seen 100 times and never understood, decides that this time they will press 'OK'. The game then proceeds to send all of their photos to a malicious actor for whatever purposes.

The average person simply isn't cognizant of the dire security and privacy consequences of many of the things that they do when interacting with a computer.

Note that I am NOT advocated for the removal of ADB. As an Android developer, I once used adb on a daily basis. I also love the idea of using adb to ftp my filesystem to my local machine for the sake of backups and whatever other useful purposes. In the case of the FireTV, I believe that if the device is put into developer mode, ADB can still be accessed over a USB cable. I think this great, and necessary for development and other use cases.

The point here is about making a system less likely to cause incomprehensible harm to the average person. Android and iOS were an opportunity to rethink the security model of computing (for computers that most people carry with them and use every few minutes), and I think that's great.
This may be pendantry but containers aren't sandboxes, they are namespaces.

It is pid remapping etc.. and any other features that even approximate a sandbox are from secomp, apparmor, /proc masking etc...

Namespaces not being jails or sandboxes is an important concept.
Yes. It looks like they introduce infinities and then run into the halting problem for infinities. That may not be helpful.

The place where this argument gets into trouble is where it says "we define hallucination in a formal world where all we care about is a computable ground truth function f on S."
This demands a reliable, computable predicate for truth. That alone is probably not possible.

If, however, we are willing to accept a ground truth function with outputs

- True
- False
- Unknown
- Resource limit exceeded

that problem can be avoided. Now the goal is manageable - return True or False only when those results are valid, and try to reduce the fraction of useful queries for which Unknown and Resource Limit Exceeded are returned.

The same problem comes up in program verification systems, and has been dealt with in the same way for decades. Sometimes, deciding if something is true is too much work.
You are right that playing with AI image generation models is really good for building intuition about AI models in general, even if they seem superficially different. It's kind of like surveying a battlefield from the air.
https://austral-lang.org/
None of this changed suddenly in the 70's though. Homeostasis worked just fine until then.
This thought has crossed my mind. Different generation may experience things differently and the subjective experience of any individual cannot capture all pros and cons. That being said, I don't think rich people (eg Billie) can actually capture why something is good or not in the context of "normal" people given how disconnected they are - i may be wrong.
The value is showing that one has reached that destination by overcoming obstacles and having sufficient skill to get there. Removing the need for skill and overcoming obstacles makes reaching the destination pointless.
> Before the phaseout started, nuclear contributed more than 20% to electricity generation.

That's true, but also quite meaningless. Before the nuclear phaseout started, renewables contributed less than 7% to electricity generation, now it's over 56%, so it more than compensates for the missing nuclear generations. Furthermore, replacing coal with nuclear is not easily done, since most coal plants also generate heat, whereas none of the nuclear plants did.

> Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history and it was really incredibly poor decision making to start shutting down nuclear power plants while still burning coal.

None of the remaining reactors had usable fuel left, even just acquiring new fuel would already take 12 or more months (besides, all of the remaining reactors were already several years overdue on safety inspections). The decision to phase out nuclear power has been made well in advance of those 12 months: originally in 2002, partially pushed back in 2010, then finalised in 2011, and again pushed back (by 3.5 months) in 2022. The poor decision making is not phasing out nuclear power, the poor decision making is not also phasing out coal and pushing renewables from at least 2011 onwards.
The thing is, if you answer "I don't know" based on statistics, you end up creating a sliding scale of sorts. You get some measure of an increase in safety, but the model is less useful.

Currently,we have models that make stuff up when they don't know the answer. On the other end, we'd have a model that's refuses to answer any question that's not common knowledge. It'll be safe (though it can never be completely safe), but essentially useless.

I suspect it'll be impossible to make a completely trustworthy and useful model unless it somehow has a concept of it's own knowledge. And can you have a concept of one's knowledge if you lack a concept of self?
> Are you saying that LLMs can't learn to discriminate between which questions they should answer "I don't know" vs which questions they should try to provide an accurate answer?

No, I am saying that they are specific trained to do that, and that the results seen in practice on common real-world LLMs reflect the bias of the specific training they are given for providing concrete answers.

> Sure, there will be an error rate, but surely you can train an LLM to minimize it?

Giving some answer to a question that cannot be infallibly solved analytically is not necessarily an error. In fact, I would argue that providing useful answers in situations like that is among the motivating use cases for AI.

(Whether or not the answers current LLMs provide in these cases are useful is another question, but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.)
That 57k would provide a huge runway for people to get their footing. Say 5 months of expenses, where they can maintain their address, phone, shower regularly, have a safe place to keep food, etc.

Once you lose your residence, those things snowball. How do you apply for a job without a permanent mailing address? Where do you keep your nice interview clothes? How can you be contacted when your phone was stolen from your locker at the shelter for the second time that month?
heat rises and cold falls, so the cold air will stay in the subway system. there is no real need for doors/etc at the entrances as long as you're going down.

the subways themselves put off a substantial amount of heat (from friction, motor loss, etc - all inefficiency eventually becomes heat) and for example in london they have problems with heat buildup in the tube system. so air-conditioning the platforms is generally desirable and probably necessary (especially in a more equatorial climate than england).
> But I don't understand where the sentiment that native=better comes from.

OCD.
My room mate has one, so …technically.
Peary took an iron meteorite from Greenland to the chagrin of the local Inuit who had been using it for knives. Whacking it with a rock in -40 temperatures might have been the mechanism.

The meteorite is now in a New York museum.
Interesting. Could FFmpeg’s AAC en/decoder not be used? There’s an explicit flag necessary to include libfdk-aac when compiling FFmpeg and it makes the resulting binary not able to be shared.

However, without that flag, FFmpeg still has (their own? VideoLAN’s?) an AAC en/decoder that works fine.
Virtually all of this is false in the US.
Any reason they didn't use the debian apt source repositories instead of git? I tend to try and use deb-src whenever possible, to stay as close to Debian truth as possible.
Misleading title

Small plastic can slide down, that's why you can find it in the 300 year layer.
This isn't glyph shaping, it's text layout.
In the case of the college professor and the dean, who is being the reasonable one?
I don't really feel the need to specify which powerful people that have extensive financial interests in exploiting nations are or are not particularly loyal to one nation in particular, but I guess you could go with "rootless cosmopolitan elites", "smirking merchants", or even just "The Illuminati".

If you're referring to a specific, discrete group of people, you could just name them instead of using a laundry list of questionable adjectives. But that wouldn't imply a global cabal, and so you couldn't oh so subtly and inconspicuously point fingers at an ethnic and religious minority.
Is it a theoretical distinction of "we can't get to 0%, but we can virtually trivialize it by reducing its frequency down to to 1x10^-8%" type of scenario? Or is it something that requires an external layer of control?
In theory, but not all written off, old assets are a good idea. Especially if the new one generates a lot more revenue than the old one.

Just one thing, depreciation is all about cost accounting and has exactly zero to do with cash flow.
Definitely the pre-emptive type of multitasking!

True multitasking it is not!

And my brain gets distracted by what it wants to think about, not what it should be doing or paying attention to.

So don’t count on me for sustained wide field threat detection

We will need a Highly Sensitive Person in our party for that. Rolls plus 12 for general context alertness!

The Highly Sensitive Person in my life sometimes gets upset when they realize I am not aware of what is going on around me while working or reading. Their reaction is like I was driving with my eyes closed, it really concerns them.
> On the ground, money laundering looks a lot like embezzlement

Thank you, this is exactly the sort of mental rubric that made a lot of things click!

And it makes me even more suspicious of that car wash that offers a very expensive "premium" wash package whose differences from the mid-grade package are stuff like vacuuming and hand-rubbed wax that probably consume little to no additional inputs. Hmmm. Hmmmmmmm.
Why building AI-powered agents is so challenging. For now
> Ferrari does not allow modifications of their cars

That's a blanket statement, and wrong. Ferrari doesn't allow unlicensed modifications of their cars.

You are able to customize many vehicles to your liking. And just like you can choose the options before sale, you're free to replace one official part with another official part after sale as well.

From what I can tell, this is limited to rims, tires, brakes, seats, passenger display, and other similar configuration options, though.
Not OP, but the less I encounter of Lous "I should be allowed to beat my kids" Rossmann, the better I've become.

Rossmann is the RMS of the right to repair movement. A lot of ideas that align with the overall goal but a terrible figurehead because he has a fairly myopic view of right-to-repair scene at this point, coupled with some Yikes opinions outside of it. He has actively held back some RtR folks simply because of his crass comments about women & minorities, but also because he doesn't think the issue extends to some things (like dishwashers, which he's said a few times on stream are "simple shit nobody needs boardview for").

Similarly like RMS, he's made comments (like the one I alluded to before) where he has explained (while very drunk on a live stream) that he has some beliefs that don't... always align well with the status quo in terms of basic human decency.
Hmmm. I think women are interested in sex as much as men are. Same goes for porn. It's something that's hardwired into every living thing.
What's SETH in this context? I googled to no avail.
>Remain to be seen whether complete supply chain is possible for semiconductors

Also should be noted PRC is only party projected to train enough talent for entirely indigenous semi supply chain. Everyone else is projected to be short 10s-100s thousand talent by end of decade. The real threat to west is if billions in global south move to cheap as dirt PRC hardware on harmonyOS.
[1] says, in the abstract:

> It was determined that the bottom 80% of men (in terms of attractiveness) are competing for the bottom 22% of women and the top 78% of women are competing for the top 20% of men.

This fails one of my heuristics for valid statistics: things that don’t deserve to be exactly equal are exactly equal.

We're supposed to believe that the women can be partitioned into groups A (bottom 22%) and B (top 78%). (I'll assume that this is well defined for the sake of argument.) And this study showed that the bottom 80% of men are competing for group A and that group B is competing for the top 20% of men? That is, group B is competing for exactly the set of men that, themselves, arent' competing for group A? That's a remarkable claim!
Hey :)

That's a good idea for the backend - thank you!

And yes, I should have used the used a separate HCL file for the nomad_job - aside from being cleaner, it would have also avoided some horrific JSON encode that I had to use for an environment variable (think: `env { blah = eplace("\"", "\\\"", jsonencode(local.something))`), since I could just pass the jsonencode value straight to the value of the parameter, rather than getting Terraform to convert it to a string for the template.
> the other side of this is that uneducated women cant reliably date up anymore

That's not the case? If you are young and attractive woman, you'll have no problem dating up for the most part.
Hallucinations are an interesting problem - in both humans and statistical models. If we asked an average person 500 years ago how the universe works, they would have confidently told you the earth is flat and it rests on a giant turtle (or something like that). And that there are very specific creatures - angels and demons who meddle in human affairs. And a whole a lot more which has no grounding in reality.

How did we manage to reduce that type of hallucination?
I find this post very highly accurate in my personal experience (minus the "do it on a Saturday" part). And this is in a company whose departees often tend to eventually return precisely because it's actually not among the "horrible companies". Neither would I consider it "bleak and depressing", unless you actually believed those falsehoods.

I would like to also highlight this article by Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/04/11/the-development-ab... (It's concerned with the everything else in a company, but it applies equally to the senior vs junior responsibilities imo).

If you are under the impression that "writing good code" is the be-all-end-all of being a software engineer, and that being a senior means you get to enjoy it more, then you're probably working in a company that is really good at maintaining this part of the abstraction layer.

That's because the more senior you get, the more you inevitably get to be part of the system that allows more junior devs to keep their mind on writing good code. That means dealing with the meetings, timelines, uncertainties, bug triage, maintenance, documentation, compliance and customer/expectation management. So they don't have to.
I doubt it, what makes Swift, just like Objective-C, it is the frameworks and IDE tooling.

GNUStep went nowhere.
Technology could have brought down labor when it comes to education and health care. Yet these keep growing in price and administrators are added. So maybe in the future we're all just doing admin jobs
Read more of computer.rip. It's all in this style.
Better off just learning theory. Much like how I don't need to know how to smelt steel in order to fabricate with it. Soon I won't need to know how to code to get apps made to do what I want/need.
Would any changes to the tag get pulled with `docker build --pull`?
I totally agree with you, but I'm deeply amused that you didn't define the term yourself!

This is a pet peeve of mine, for real, especially with PR releases that sometimes hit the top of HN. Sometimes you'll see a post about "Updates from Widgetizer" and then it just talks about the features, assuming everyone already knows what Widgetizer is. It's kind of crazy. The writers are missing out on a lot of conversion by not doing a "by the way, ADB is the Amazon Debug Bridge, a tool that lets you..." and then people go "Wow, I didn't know that existed," and go investigate.
I rarely if ever use handwritten notes as a reference tool, I take handwritten notes because the act of taking the note helps me remember the material.

If the material is something I particularly need to remember, I can shift it to an actual reference document which contains all the most essential details.
This kind of thing is why I’ve only ever used Debian as a server distro until the Raspberry Pi started “fixing” various aspects of it… My Linux laptops ran Ubuntu for a solid decade until Fedora 36 turned me around (and I’ve been happy since).

But the key thing is that Debian tends to lag on user amenites (hardware, drivers, codecs, etc.) to a point where one wonders if they actually use the distro on modern hardware...
X vs. Twitter: App Binary Comparison
Two things jump out immediately:

- a bayesian mixed model is just what I would have used here, great choice and a good sign for power

- the effect sizes are definitely very small. I would not overstate the story here.

That said, I also don't believe that facebook is the primary story here, because other findings all suggest tiny effect sizes (see the famous emotional contagion experiment) and because we don't have a clear, convincing theoretical model IMO. There are just so many intra-individual confounders that would need to be included, including some that have dynamic, self-reinforcing effects.

Still, great to have more robust work here.

[edit] PS: just to throw a methodological nitpick out: Some bayesians are going to have a heart attack while reading "the uncertainty cutoff of 97.5% for posterior probabilities".
Warren Buffett's Letter to Berkshire Shareholders [pdf]
The issue, I believe, is more around the AAC patents and less around the actual library.
From the article:

"This is a slightly unusual situation, as the fdk-aac library is licensed under what even the GNU project acknowledges is a free software license. However, this license explicitly does not grant any patent rights."

Here, in the US at the very least, this would seem to be less of a problem given De Forest Radio, 273 U.S. 236 (1927):

"Any language used by the owner of the patent, or any conduct on his part exhibited to another from which that other may properly infer that the owner consents to his use of the patent in making or using it, or selling it, upon which the other acts, constitutes a license and a defense to an action for a tort."

And logically this case makes sense. If I've granted you all these copyrights (MIT and BSD), just to surprise you/someone with a patent suit, that seems not equitable. Large companies are more comfortable with Apache 2 given it's explicit patent grant, but I wouldn't be surprised if users of certain Rust software (which is often MIT + Apache 2 licensed) had more expansive patent rights under the MIT license, given how narrow the rights granted by the Apache 2 are.

However, here, the facts are not as stated in the article. The FDK license does not just "explicitly not grant", as the article notes, it puts you on notice that you must obtain a patent license. That is not like the MIT license. The MIT license is silent re: a patent license.
https://api.marginalia.nu/ :-)

Demo key is always under siege though.
SSD have very good bandwidth, in excessive of 10 GB/s.

The bottleneck is often at the CPU. For a 10Ghz CPU, it can spend 1 cycle to process 1 byte. That’s the scale we’re at now.

https://www.tomshardware.com/features/ssd-benchmarks-hierarc...
AFAIU, typically LangChain will use the underlying (Ollama’s in this case) SDK, and prefers using the native configuration types and options, so support for whatever advanced features could be added!
That is absolutely not a fiction. You can make a big impact with all the things i mentioned and many more. Now it will obviously not change the thing overnight and the result will depend on how hard you work, what area you choose and a bit of luck i guess. But if you persist there will be results.

By changing a few things in your own behaviour and taking pride in it you can improve your own life. Not consuming so much actually improves a lot of other areas in your own life like physical and mental health, finances etc.

By working on things in your local area, raising awareness, getting involved with local government(at your town) you can make a difference with a few hours per week. Or be imaginative, do some research, get interested in some specific area and then try to apply it around you.

These are the easiest things you can do. And then you can do more, if you are ambitious. What you are describing is a viewpoint of somebody either lazy, resigned, or not really interested in these things.
And if one feels like using a Rust like type system, there is enough to chose from between Kotlin, Scala, F#, and even Haskell dialects.
I think this post is about how it is easy to find "a" if you have the value alpha=frac(sqrt(a)). Someone somewhere on twitter was using this for a crypto idea but no link was provided to the post or documentation.
How long till we stop calling it a "disorder"?
> Bluetooth headphones that require the AAC codec cannot be used

Isn't SBC support mandatory for Bluetooth audio devices?
This particular parasite infection is oddly specific to another oddly specific behavioral trait. This is either a very well done research or it’s a sham.
I think I got most of the jargon, but what is a “binned location”?
We've been trying to figure out cobalt supply for a long time and the DRC is still 70% of the worlds supply

https://www.cobaltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/P...
Come on! Reorganization to cut fossil fuel by 5% year on is doable and hits the 2 degrees target, and no one dies. The deaths are on the side of doing nothing to the status quo and letting the world burn.
I thought about this and wanted to ask if other people who had similar thoughts.

I think that web is broken and needs to be fixed.

To buy something I need to part with some information that is useful only for the process of buying something (name, adress, credit card etc). After the goods change hands the company needs a part of this for their accounting and taxes. All my info should be anonymous and encrypted.

But this is not the case. Companies keep my info uencrypted because its easy to do and leak it when someone breaks in. This happens again and again.

I should own all my data and store it locally and only send it to a website if I want to buy something. Profiles stores should not be used.

So we need standards for how to store information and who is supposed to store what and how.

So your comment about cyber security made me think that its pointless, as we are trying to put out fires instead of fix a broken design which allows the fires to start in the first place.
Current glibc unwinds the shadow stack if it is active: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/x86...

It makes longjmp useless for coroutine switching, although it does not result in other effects of stack unwinding (such as invoking C++ destructors).

On Windows, longjmp really unwinds the stack (and maybe this is something influenced by VMS): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/refe... “In Microsoft C++ code on Windows, longjmp uses the same stack-unwinding semantics as exception-handling code. It's safe to use in the same places that C++ exceptions can be raised.”
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