skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential - from the article referenced by the article:

> The pilot owes his preservation to the intrepid gallentry of these three men, who, while aline to the risks they ran, performed the rescue without hesitation for personal safety.

Aline means (according to a brief search): a cut of garment consisting basically of two A-shaped panels for the front and back, designed to give increasing fullness toward the hemline.

Is this a typo/transcription error or some out of date usage I'm unable to find a definition for?

If it's a typo of aligned, it makes sense but that's a strange (to me phrasing).
> You don’t need proper cognition to identify that the answer is not stored in source data

That's the original argument.

> Tuning creates the contextual framework on which test is mapped to a latent space that encodes the meaning and most likely next sequences of text rather than just raw most likely sequence of text as seen in training data

That's different than understanding, or knowing. The encoded meaning is not accessible to the LLM, but the human it's presented to. An LLM cannot know about things it has or has not stored in source data, because it is not actually informed by the information processed. You do need proper cognition to know if information is in source data, because reasoning about information strictly requires interpretation and understanding intent, otherwise it's just data.
Drug possession is not a capital offence in India. And despite the suffering and squalor, you still don't see mentally unwell drug addicts in Mumbai.

Also, that's quite a climbdown from your original statement.
I would hardly classify UTM as piracy or porn. It would be nice if I could run Linux on my $1000+ iPad or iPhone without jailbreaking the device.
I understand your questions about tablets in particular. That's kind of my bad - I should have provided a little more context. There's a move in US prisons to take away access to paper books and just give all prisoners tablets (which can be centrally administered)[1]. The high cost for accessing these devices is concerning in the context of traditional mediums of information being taken away.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90249550/can-screen-time-replace...
How might this matter? A obvious one: Given a production bucket, it’s now possible to find development buckets for that same org, which is not expected behavior IMO.
But Ultra 1.0 is available to compare against, right?
Nothing. But you probably don't see one located in Europe, because they would need to allow strikes, there is good level of minimum wage protection in general and strong privacy laws. It is harder to stalk the toilet breaks for employees.
Thanks for sharing this! The demo is very neat and it's great to see other companies also prioritizing security and compliance.
Add churches and a lot of other non-profits to that list. I think all these institutions deserve a close look as to how the money is spent and whether they deserve tax breaks. When I lived in Northern VA I met quite a few non-profit higher ups that made huge salaries and did absolutely nothing for the public good.
I'd also like to see pricing info available.
I have some small sympathy with Google here.

* Google wants Gemini to not only create pictures of white people, even though it was probably trained on a dataset where white people were heavily overrepresented, at least compared to the world population.

* Google wants Gemini to, like, not endorse racism.

Unfortunately, while humans can at least try to distinguish between "picture of a multiracial couple" and "picture of a multiracial Viking"; or between "right wing views" and "actual fascism"; that is probably much harder for AI. Because in AI it's all continuous, right? Underneath, there's no binary which could represent "is racist vs isn't"; there's just a continuous "how racist is X" where Republicans in general are a bit racist and Trump is more racist and Hitler is very racist. So then, when you tell it "don't endorse Der Stürmer" it will also, a little bit, not endorse the New York Post. When you tell it "create multiracial couples" it will inevitably, a bit, create multiracial Kings of England.

I dunno, I don't understand LLMs, is this a plausible explanation for what's going on?
Yeah, not clear what Woz really expected it to be used for. Apparently the only thing he used it for himself was a later Apple BASIC renumber utility!

Memory and ROM space was so valuable back then, that I wonder if in retrospect he thought that was 300 bytes (size of SWEET16 interpreter) of ROM space wisely used ?!
Not all speech in Canada is protected, and never has been. Even in the US, there are (albeit far more narrow) carve-outs for "harmful" speech (best not yell "fire" in a movie theatre or "bomb" in an airport).

Nobody has been or ever will be jailed for talking about the FLQ crisis and internet searches for pictures of tanks on Canadian streets aren't banned from search engines, but I guess people can go off on their China and USSR comparisons.
Hippies where just loaded people cosplaying as beggars.
> Of course, being rich makes it easier to have the earlier education and CV necessary to get admitted, but that issue is unrelated

Not to mention you're far more likely to be considered a legacy student, which gives you a huge leg up.
What a joke. This is how the US has solved this problem.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761567080988676256.html
We have investor pressure to use specific cloud providers. This is the Healthcare version of Walmart not letting their partners use AWS. Due to their (Amazon, Google) vertical integration slowly moving in on healthcare turf, many healthcare partners/payers/investors are adding contractual pressure to exit AWS or GCP and move to Azure specifically. Wondering how your cloud support in general looks. Your previews are all AWS-centric
It seems clear Google wouldn't have released it yet if it hadn't been forced to by OpenAI releasing theirs.

That's why it's reasonable to say it's "effectively" still in dev, even when it's not technically. Otherwise there was no need to use the word "effectively" at all.
I don't know, but literally every other LLM seems to have no problem saying that Hitler is worse. It's only Gemini that struggles. Why?
My TL;DR is that we should be prepared for major disasters. I would love it if my tax dollars paid for:

- stockpiles of food and medicine

- various shelters

- excess local manufacturing capacity

- transparent, public, reviewable plans for different contingencies

- subsidized making normal consumer devices more robust (e.g. repairable, RF-hard, etc. -- anything which can be done at reasonable cost)

- training and coordinating responders, including something like the National Guard or territorial defense forces, but more general in scope.

- making sure we can produce everything we need to survive locally (food, medicine, and the infrastructure to support those)

... and so on.

It's hard to predict the next disaster, but we should be ready.
If you place any sort of security assumptions on AWS account IDs into your threat model, you're effectively directly introducing a security vulnerability. If you're not then why include it into your security threat model to begin with? I believe that is their point.

Since AWS does not, and has never, treated that information as secret, then there is absolutely no reason to consider it sensitive because there is no security guarantees with how AWS handles those IDs (as this article demonstrates).

Thus, either you're including them into your threat model as sensitive and thus immediately opening up yourself to vulnerabilities (bad security), or you're not including them at all (and thus not treating them as sensitive/secret/whatever). The argument the parent had (and that I agree with) is that you should do the latter unless AWS provides a means to work with those IDs securely (it won't because they're not secrets).
Language models can only write ransom notes
LLMs don't have an internal representation of "facts", they generate text based entirely on the conversation history. If it's properly tuned it will remain consistent with facts it's stated earlier in the conversation, but this is just a feature of the training data demonstrating this type of consistency, the model itself doesn't understand that something being "true" means it's true for all time. In practice the conversation sequence strongly determines the model's internal state, so you need to preserve the entire conversation history if you're trying to demonstrate some particular model outcome.
Maybe change the API so that GPT can express uncertainty (make it a ternary value or even a confidence percentage), and then check the “uncertain” cases manually.
Ok let’s play!

We play this game 1000 times.

33% of the time you pick the car and I show you a goat. You switch and lose 100% of the time.

66% of the time you pick a goat and I don’t show you a goat. Assuming you don’t switch because you believe this means you have an equal odd on your current door, you lose 100% of the time.

Congrats. You have lost every single round.
Most of our core desktop computer infrastructure was never designed with 24/7 high speed internet access in mind and it shows. I remember MS Office macros being a frequent source of security vulnerabilities as well.
Also worth reading on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_empires
Unfortunately this is extremely dangerous as this opens the door to mis-labeling attacks by politicians pushing agendas and looking to censor talk against them.
I thought the zero page lived in ordinary ram. It was more efficient to access than the rest of ram, just because the instruction encodings were designed such that you could refer to 0 page addresses directly. To reach arbitrary 16-bit addresses, I believe you had to use the HL registers or similar. This style of design was common on memory starved machines of the era, including the PDP-8 which predated most of the 8-bitters.
https://fontreviewjournal.com/feed/ ?
Essentially, no correlation
Not fair. He has been doing his part, and demonstrably so. It's up to the public whether to act on this knowledge.

Would you have preferred they start screaming at the top of his lungs that they're all going to die?
archive.is is known not to work with Cloudflare DNS (google it for details).
Probably less than you'd think. Levy is delivering a punchy oneliner here; what the Transit Costs Project research indicates is that what's often missing in countries with high construction costs isn't so much bureaucrats as it is in-house engineering and technical program management resources. A lot of the design and program management work they do needs to be done by someone, but in countries with high construction costs this work mostly tends to be done either by consultants or by the contractors themselves, and that leads to misaligned incentives.

They do get into these things a little bit later in the interview, but the surprisingly simple conclusion is that when an organization is buying something, the people working out the deal need to understand what it is they're buying, or the organization gets ripped off. It sounds simple to the point of being silly when I put it like that, but it's actually true. And this should feel familiar to a lot of people in tech; how many times have you had to use or implement some very stupid system that got purchased because of buzzwords or because the people deciding what to use aren't the people using the system? (Education is particularly plagued by these problems.) What the Transit Costs Project finds is that this is a thing in public works as well: if your civil service has insufficient in-house technical expertise in its field, or if it doesn't trust its own technical expertise, that tends to make costs go up. It's far from the only contributing factor, but it's an important one.

When cost overruns for these types of projects can routinely be measured in billions of dollars, I think it's not that hard to justify hiring a few dozen civil engineers to keep things under control. The "big" civil service Levy talks about doesn't necessarily need to be big in terms of team size, but it needs to have weight.
It does sound like a weasel word, like "assault weapon".
I'd say some of the post-reunion (?) Swans material is a lot more consistently abrasive/uncomfortable.

Most the 90s stuff to me sounds more like... gothy post-punky vibes?
> It feels very, very hard to be faster than 2.5 hours with a plane to go pretty much anywhere

Unless you are already at the airport, transferring.
idk about that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

this is one of the fastest growing populations in the US, and they are notoriously pacifistic, to the point of forbidding mustaches because they are associated with the military

> During the French and Indian War, the Hochstetler Massacre occurred: Local tribes attacked the Jacob Hochstetler homestead in the Northkill settlement on September 19, 1757. The sons of the family took their weapons but father Jacob did not allow them to shoot due to the Anabaptist doctrine of nonresistance.[10] Jacob Sr.'s wife, Anna (Lorentz) Hochstetler, a daughter (name unknown) and Jacob Jr. were killed by the Native Americans. Jacob Sr. and sons Joseph and Christian were taken captive. Jacob escaped after about eight months, but the boys were held for several years.[150] When freed, both of these sons joined the church and one of them became a minister
> Now, money is fungible so, just like with lottery revenues that are devoted to "education spending" in some states, it could be the case that it won't in fact increase net spending for the designated purpose, since what would have been spent on this purpose will end up being redirected.

The projected revenues from this are way larger than what's currently being spent on that purpose, so in that sense, there's no risk of "redirection" - if the projected revenues come to pass (which is likely, as a tax on an endowment is pretty easy to forecast) then it will result in an increase in funding for that purpose.
Correlation of bucket ownership isn't a security issue at all. I never used that word in my posts, and the author of this article also never suggested that it was. That's the point--there are other considerations that AWS does not care about, but your business does. Your cloud deployment needs to be designed such that the account IDs do not leak information that your business doesn't want to be revealed. You don't get the non-secretness for "free"--you have to think about it and be careful on how you isolate things into accounts. As far as I can tell, we agree on all of this and have just suffered some misunderstanding in this thread.
It's a slippery slope though, because the corrosive effect of the attention economy trying to skew social platform interactions to their benefit.

Some platforms are less aggressive about it, some more, but they all control their own levers of power and to some degree abuse them.

E.g. Facebook Marketplace being locked into an identity in the rest of their ecosystem

So absolutely, use efficient tools to do more, but also be aware of the opinions and intent of those tools, and what they're trying to do to you.
As I understand it, the challenge in building is in adapting the plan to site specifics, or adapting the site to the plan. In China and other top-down planning regimes, they will adapt the site to the plan. If the station or school plan requires that a historic neighborhood be impacted to use the plan unchanged, farewell to historic buildings. Here we adapt the plan to fit within the space, or whatever, but that quickly eliminates the cost savings, as now each station or school is slightly unique.

This also shows up in residential and other smaller projects. Look at the historic aerial photos of Levittown, NY and PA, which created the notion of the suburb:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=levitown&iax=images&ia=imag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levittown

The original landscape is completely eliminated, all original trees are gone, it's been scraped clean. Most developments near major cities are infill or replacement, and they adapt their plans to the site. There are still greenfield builds happening in exurban areas, but in existing metro areas, everything is bespoke.
Point is that some Canadian provinces had a literal curfew and any discussion of it was absolutely shut down.
I feel like any tender that doesn't feature an aircraft designed and made by an American company (preferably in the US) is going to fail on that quality alone.

Generally speaking, if you can, you should source items vital to your national defense/foreign policy from domestic sources. The problem emerges when there's only one domestic source and it exists for the sole purpose of delivering value to shareholders by any means necessary, with no real accountability.
(Rereads the article.)

You're right. The problem is stated multiple times in the article. As is usual, most of the statements do not address knowledge. But Marilyn's own statement did. However she did not address motivation.

Monty himself claims that his motivation varied depending on his mood. The actual game had more complications. And his statement about the real game was, "My only advice is, if you can get me to offer you $5,000 not to open the door, take the money and go home."

You can find the article I got that quote from at https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/21/us/behind-monty-hall-s-do....
Authy doesn't give you a way to export. You have to use this:

https://github.com/token2/authy-migration

Then add each one to whatever service you're migrating to
But there’s a reason people advise against security by obscurity: the obscurity can go away at any time and once it does it’s unrecoverable.

So sure, maybe pat yourself on the back today that on top of your other measures, no one outside your org and AWS knows your Account ID. But if it gets out at some point, those other measures should be foiling your pentesters on their own. In fact, to better test that this is the case, you should probably give the pentesters your account ID so you can be informed regarding your security in this scenario.
Gopher and Gemini communities with cheap Atom netbooks or Pentium III-IV/athlon era machines.

At least the DIY spirit it's there.
Good point, dev is a bad word. "beta" or "early access" might have been a better term.

I don't really believe that this is causing harm, however. GenAI is still so new, and Gemini in particular, that I don't think anybody is genuinely basing their political opinions off its output. If this product had achieved the cultural legacy of ex. Wikipedia I would understand the concern
What is the "right" way to access your media library from anywhere and share it with anyone?
It's very funny to see the brains of all the Americans who are unaware of freedom of expression laws in other Western countries entirely melt whenever headlines like these show up.

I can assure you, this is not China or the USSR. Our press, elections, and democratic institutions are free. Nobody is getting or will be thrown in jail for expressing their political opinions, unless it's calling for the death of a group of people or bodily harm to a protected class.
Should You Use ChatGPT for Medical Advice?
A Vision Check-Up for Language Models
Any training on internet data beyond 2022 is gonna lead to this. ChatGPT output is sprawled everywhere on the internet.
IT planning business? I'm pretty sure that virtually all laptops at hacker conferences are privately owned and not provided by an employer. Hackers want a good laptop for personal use or freelancing. That's why most hackers choose among Frameworks, Thinkpads and MacBooks.
>It is funny to note that “Punk is Dead” came out in 1977, but all the action in the article WRT punk is happening in the 90’s and beyond

Well, the 90s "punk" revival was just diggist up the corpse of 1976 punk and taking to the bank. Even dead, if that's possible.

And in line, as you note, with the author's own comments about re-purposing and re-hashing culture in a tamer and more commercial way.

>Anyway, I’m not sure who the “blue hair & pronouns” (as the author puts it) crowd is. If it is actually queer and trans people, I don’t think their motivation was ever to be counter-culture really: they are just intrinsically attracted to or identifying with the opposite gender, and would like to be mistreated less frequently for it.

It is the millions of "I'm not like the other girls" boys and girls knee-deep in whatever this era's mass produced youth culture (and "counter-culture") is. They kind of peopl who in 1990 would be into Vanilla Ice and in 1992 into Gangsta Rap. Actual LGBTQ people are a tiny percentage of those groups (though many more just claim to be non-binary or some such, they way hipsters claimed to love vinyl and fair trade).
https://archive.ph/iNlsQ
Personal body armor, plate armor anyway, had utility very much into the smoothbore era, proof against pistol at any range and most long-barrel weapons outside of what would be considered today quite short range - 50m or so. Since the fit between ball and barrel was looser - to accommodate greater rate of fire - there was a huge amount of energy loss from gases going around the ball. Also can't disregard the relatively poorer accuracy of a ball ping-ponging down the barrel before it exits.

Gunpowder weapons in the earliest of early Modern conflicts, pre-1550 or so, one gets the feeling that their dominant utility in turning a battle was "scaring the hell out of horses". Battlefield archaeology, sites from the late 100 Years War to 30 Years War, if you died from violence on the field, the most likely cause was "a horse fell on you". Also, more substantially I suspect, the morale effect. Nothing in the late medieval world was as loud as cannon. Not thunder, not anything. It's hard for us to imagine. It must have been terrifying. I suspect the closest contemporary experience is being hunted by UAS as a foot soldier.

Rifled muzzleloaders had a lot more energy, sealing the barrel. They also fixed the accuracy problem, as the projectile had to be swaged down the length of the barrel, engraving the rifling on the projectile as it went, but they had terrible rates of fire. It took work to push that lead into those little grooves.

With improved methods for loading rifle barrel weapons - like the 1772 Ferguson rifle and the Minie ball, two different solutions to the same problem - and conical projectiles like the 1836 Greener bullet, personal armor was having a more and more difficult time keeping its integrity. Furthermore, near-penetrations were just as if not more devastating than an unarmored hit, with dreadful spalling on the backside of the plate. Rifled barrels were also becoming more easily produced en masse, with the Bessemer/Siemens processes and Maudslay's lathe improvements.

Parallelling all of this, and probably of greater importance, is the growth of the conscript army post-1800. Firearms are very cheap, relative to other missile weapons. Conscripts too. Put those together and . .

By the era of smokeless powders, the jig was definitely up, apart from exceptionally specialized personal armors we saw occasionally in WW1, like the Brewster body shield or Sappenpanzer. Conscripts were too cheap, and offensive weapons too powerful. We'd have to wait for composite technology to catch up - and for the return of the full-time, non-conscript volunteer military - before we saw personal armor on the field again.
> we're no longer bound by labour intensive solutions.

You're committing the same kind of error as the Malthusians. They assume conditions, technology, and accessible resources are fixed. You assume that the labor to be done is fixed.

By your reasoning, the invention of the dishwasher should have led to a permanent increase of unemployment, putting all the dishwashers out of work. But that didn't happen. Instead, it created an industry, a supply chain, a whole market around the dishwasher. Labor-saving tech creates new forms of labor, but you won't notice that if you assume a fixed state of the world and focus only on the immediate effects of a technology.