skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a working mental model for how electricity works that is useful enough to let me do (some) electrical work, figure out simple electronics circuits, have some sort of understanding of how electrical devices like light switches, light dimmers (of the mechanical and the electronic kinds), motors, batteries etc work, ... All of these are useful skills.

Yet I know for sure I do not understand electricity, as I do not even understand most of the answers given to me when I ask about whether electricity has mass. And, apparently, many people who claim to know about physics don't either, because I get all sorts of answers that contradict each other.

Should I not know what I do know about electricity because my mental model is a simplification? I think your position is needlessly absolutist. I don't think my teachers ever taught me 'junk', just a (useful) simplification/model of reality.
1. Not at all, but the install guide is lengthy, and it's worth to read it first, so that you don't end up in pitfalls. Other than that, I plugged it in, clicked buttons on a website, waited between button clicks, and after 10 minutes, the phone was good to go.

2. Not for me, but this highly depends on the use case. Graphene has good, honest documentation regarding this[0]. Banking is a pain point, because to the phone, GrapheneOS is an unverified third party system. Other than this, I have never seen a single crash, and I even use the YouTube apps with the Play store that it lets you install.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps
This is one of them that I remember from 2016:

https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/dec/02/battle...

I don’t see how even Facebook could have an issue with “telegram” being used commercially, but I wouldn’t be totally surprised if they did.
If I would want to put an image in footer on every page, would it reuse the same resource? How do you do shadows, spam rectangles or attach an image + mask, or maybe you bake that into the image itself? Many pdf tools are so bad at, the result can be even more than x10 in size and I don't even mean saving entire pages as JPEGs
This is the process for the Stadia controller unlocking tool as well.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but the paper is about recovering the unknown hidden dimension of black box LLMs, not copyright.

Personally, it’s a relief to hear "stealing" being used in ML to describe something other than copyright infringement. It would be ironic if we Orwell’d our way out of the current mess by using the word in absurd ways.

But realistically the title is just marketing. One depressing truth about science that every researcher has to face: make your work sound interesting, or else you won’t be able to continue your work due to lack of funding.
/me not a cosmologist.

I think the story is that dark energy is indeed created, in the new emptiness resulting from the expansion of space.

<mumble> I believe it's supposed to be spacetime that expands, not 'space'. But it's beyond me to explain what that even means; as I understand it, spacetime refers to the whole Universe, across all of time. To 'expand' means 'to become larger over time'. But if the thing that's expanding includes time itself, then I'm bewildered.
That's the first thing I thought when I saw he used btrfs. I use btrfs send/receive all the time via SSH and it works great. He could easily have setup SSH server in GRML live session.

There's one caveat though: With btrfs it is not possible to send snapshots recursively, so if he had lots of recursive snapshots (which can happen in Docker/LXD/Incus), it is relatively hard to mirror the same structure in a new disk. I like btrfs, but recursive send/receive is one aspect ZFS is just better.
Irrational people exist in corporate structures too. The eBay death threat plot was completely irrational.
It's only in contention because 1 of the sides has a tonne of money, a hurt ego, and is willing to pay lawyers to argue the sky is red in order to get revenge on his former colleagues. I don't think anyone would seriously claim OpenAI has achieved AGI today.
We're running a lot of CI on our custom runners. The fact that it runs in the OS context is a bit meh. If someone has a good resource on setting up docker on a RPi for a custom runner, please throw it my way.
Useful service and a large problem space. Congrats and all the best. As someone who is a target customer, my 2 cents:

a. If this is a strategic value for my pipeline (and it is), we are going to code it ourselves, only because we can host it inside our fences. Critical customer data and hence.

b. The pricing is way off and is not reflective of the cost or value (for us). Even if it was 1/10th of the prices you charge, it will still be a no-go. At the volumes we have, it makes sense to build this ourselves.

c. SOC2 / ISO27001 - You might want to obtain them asap if you are looking to sell to outsourcing companies or FSG.
Yes, there is some truth to that
My personal opinion is that if companies would get real punishments for all of these goddamn security breaches, and the CTO's head was on the line, you'd see a shift in attitude real quick.
> Microsoft [...] light weight [...]

And interesting choice of words!
I can't imagine a child would develop long-term trust issues based on a parent lying about Santa Claus. If it's a pattern of the parent constantly saying things like "your doggy went to a farm" or "if you swallow gum, it will kill you", then they'll understand that the parent is untrustworthy. Otherwise, a single make-believe story isn't harmless on its own.
> Leave it to HN to spend checks 57% of the toplevel comments debating whether the word "lie" in the term "lie to children" is in fact literally correct.

And it is not and it is hurting the debate and is causing secondary problems like it will hurt the scientific world view in general because they equate actual lies like made up stories created to deceive masses with scientific simplifications.
The Ebay stalking case comes up to mind
Is My SaaS Secure?
So there's a lot on security out there. But running a SaaS, is there a particular vector at risk?

I currently regularly upgrade packages, and servers, run a firewall (UFW), have SSH only server access, and shortly adding Snort as an IPS and run code analysis on each PR.

But rank order where's the risk and where should the focus be?
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Microsoft also did try to push their closed platform with the windows store (win7 days I think). It is the whole reason Steam OS and Steam Deck exists today. It just didn't catch on.

Nintendo/Sega/Sony did essentially do the same thing in the 90s that Apple does today with cartridges and CDs in their consoles. I guess Microsoft just didn't have enough leverage to push a closed platform (considering previous non-IBM PC platforms were also open) in the 90s (licensed boxed software) or in the 2010s (windows store).
I'm afraid it'll be possible sooner than you think.

I think it's quite telling that it feels like a lot of work spent on productizing AI models is manually crafting in failsafes and exceptions, like that image generator applying forced diversity because there's no images of nonwhite popes or vikings out there, then applying more exceptions to correct for that. Didn't they just disable generating humans altogether at some point?
I think it could be consistent.

In Australia we usually think about undergrad competitiveness in terms of the minimum ATAR rank of last years' admissions, right?

But you could also think about competitiveness in terms of admission fraction.

And I think those two metrics can be consistent if a very popular degree has a disproportionately low fraction of high-ATAR applications.
I wonder if the difference in behavior is because of the companies execs have a different self-image. It's not like Google's and Microsoft's like the EU regulations, they will try to undermine them and lobby against them, but they think of themselves as pragmatic players of a game of profit, so when the rules are in place they adapt and see what angles they can play and what advantages they can extract from the new setup. My idea here is that Apple's execs have drunk the Kool-aid and actually think that they are benevolent overlords who only does what's best for their users, and the profit nothing but their just reward. And when they meet an even more powerful entity that tells them what to do, they hate it but all they can do is lash out in petty ways.
And these authors are hurting science because they equate actual lies like made up stories created to deceive masses with scientific simplifications.
Tony Seale has an excellent series of articles on Knowledge Graphs and AI here: https://experiencestack.co/embrace-complexity-part-1-39483f1...
Oh man I thought this was going to be about super fast networking by somehow connecting the PCI buses of two laptops. Instead it's the opposite, tunneling the NVMe protocol through regular Ethernet. Sort of like iScsi back in the day.

Yeah there are much simpler approaches. I don't bother with container images but can install a new machine from an Ansible playbook in a few minutes. I do then have to copy user files (Borg restore) but that results in a clean new install.
Curious, with ~$0.005 per document, what volumes do you do that pricing becomes a no-go for you?
Back in the 80s the Washington Post ran a long article about whether there was a Confederate conspiracy.
A few tons of superconductors work very well against bullets.
> (photon is a wave, so it waves something)

That sounds suspiciously like postulating the 'ether'. Surely what a photon 'waves' is the electromagnetic field, which is not a medium, and which fills the whole of spacetime. There is no 'end of the medium'.
I really like The Tangled Tree by Quammen, The Song of The Cell by Mukherjee, and Utopia or Oblivion by Fuller. Just some books that are staring at me from my work desk.

Edit: oh and in big history, Earth Transformed by Frankopan does a great job of being grounded, balanced and accessible.
i would also install fail2ban, had i known about this back in 2017 my 33 btc wouldn't have been stolen.
I suggest to not care about this stuff so much. Can you imagine what sorts of people take part in your daily life, preparing your food, adjusting legislation, providing services like driving the bus, serving your request as a clerk, ringing up your items in a shop, designing and creating your clothes, and so on? We are surrounded with all sorts, and being very selective with a very few makes no difference. If you're interested in the system, I suggest to give it a whirl, your life will be richer with the experience.
Interesting way to push the fault at the North Korean labor force doing the "forced labor" and not China who's the one employing them for said forced labor.
Regardless of whether there was foul play or not, it's looking pretty bad for Boeing.

They, or someone else with a stake of protecting the company, killed someone, or they made someone so despaired he saw no other way than to kill himself.
James Joyce Was a Complicated Man
Yes - but I agree with your dog story - kids can't really understand about a death. Its not a lie - its an attempt to explain at the level you were at when you were 3.

Its a different thing to go along with the social convention of tricking the younger generation, and allowing these external conventions to cleave the trust between a parent and child.
Kellog, as in cornflakes?
Thoughts on embedding alternative text metadata into images
No intellectual property protection means you destroy the next generation of scientists.

It's dumbfounding to watch everyone equate piracy with hollywood movies, while the real innovators and scientists get thrown under the bus by theivery.

It is order of magnitudes more difficult to spend 10years studying something when your work can be stolen and reproduced at any moment.

The world is broken and ctrl c, ctrl v broke it.

Don't expect einstein level scientists and their downstream products that started the computer revolution... you killed the protections needed for the people that made it, cause you wanted movies for free.

It's insanity.
Dark energy may be the energy of vacuum itself, that's why it's constant. And no, energy conservation does not apply in this case. There is a good blog article on precisely this question by Sean Carroll: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-...
With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up?
Weight isn't mass; weight is the force acting on something due to gravity. Gravity effects light, albeit only by a little, so in this sense light has a small but nonzero weight.
https://archive.is/raAce
> Mojo should be viewed as an attack on the Python ecosystem due to it being a superset

A superset of pure .py code, not the numpy, cython, ctypes and stuff.

But once you get "superset" of CPython's C bindings, congratulations, you get GIL.
Lucky you. I just got iterate answers like "it's just the way it is" and "oh it's too advanced and you wouldn't understand it".

Pardon my language, but seriously fuck those teachers. If it's too advanced then at least let me come to the conclusion myself and have something to look forward too.
You think people living in those regions in the article can just go inside to solve their problem?
God, no. The United States can’t possibly put that genie back the bottle, but it can cement the incumbents’ status as government backed monopolies in the next era of computing. That’s what all this doomer nonsense is really about.
> why is a key icon for 'copy'?

Because that copies the password. The icons next to it copy either the username or the TOTP if configured.
The problem is the grading is trash. In some sub-reddits the grading is literally inversely proportional to the quality of the content. In others its inversely proportional to traditional grammar rules. In some places it's highly correlated with misogyny. Like how often do you want your LLM to slowly transition it's response to a question into the Fresh Prince of Bel Air meme?[1]

Compare it to other forms of content - news sources and journals which are extremely well curated, digitized books - a massive back catalogue of well edited and well structured data, Wikipedia - extremely high quality.

I would put it this way, training an LLM on reddit is like teaching a child to play piano entirely by exposing them to freeform jazz.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bel-air-fresh-prince
This makes it even worse.

I am locked into platforms, completely at mercy of corporations that can completely fuck me over (see for example when Google decided that you violated some ToS and locks your account), and that happens for a device that that had "essential and quasi-essential apps". Hell, right now I wouldn't even be able to pay for electricity if Google looked at me the wrong way.

It's precisely on that device that I want interoperability, open platforms, etc.
I grapple with this because on the one hand, at some level you must abstract away the most fundamental concepts. It's overwhelming otherwise.

But on the other, these "lies to children" sometimes never gets corrected and you end up with an education system that produces adults with very incorrect models of the world.

We can "Lie to Children" but I think it's very important to emphasize that they are explicitly being lied to because the Truth (or the model that is closer/closest to the truth without overwhelming most anyone) requires knowledge of concepts they haven't learned yet. And at every step change in knowledge, they are updated about how "true" their "lie" is.
[Naive question warning]

What if the cosmological constant (from which, if I understand correctly, the Hubble constant is derived) is not constant? Could a changing comological "constant" explain the discrepancy between the various methods of calculating the Hubble constant?

From Wikipedia [0]: The cosmological constant "was revived and reinterpreted as the energy density of space, or vacuum energy, that arises in quantum mechanics. It is closely associated with the concept of dark energy."

Do vacuum energy and dark energy have to be constant?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant
volumes:
- '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'

The good old docker security nightmare. That thing has essentially root access to your machine. Just so you know.

You might want to move to Podman (which can be executed in rootless mode) so that you can also run podman-in-podman without much hassle (it's officially supported afaik).
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What's better with these solutions than simply using NextCloud if it requires installing apps on each clients?
> If going to Mars is worth doing, it's worth doing at scale

This has too much chicken-egg problem built into it.
>most important research problem in history

That has to be some extremely narrowed version of all research that has happened (or will happen?)
That's physically impossible. You can't observe something that's beyond your "light cone", as any galaxy "moving" (it's not really moving, it's the space that's getting expanding) faster than light would be. What you're referring to is the fact that we can confidently predict that galaxies at the edge of the observable universe, which we currently see moving away from us really fast, but as they were in the distant past due to their light taking billions of years to arrive at us, are currently, if we could actually see them where they are right now (again: we can't), "moving" faster than light away from us.

Once a galaxy has moved beyond or "light cone", it's lost forever: you won't see it again even if you try moving towards it at light speed for all eternity.
OMG, I love this SOoooo much.
Reminds me of a 90s era onion skin animation program I've been trying to find forever.

SAVED
This is the correct way to approach the answer to when and how to achieve AGI. Otherwise please present here your Engineer Specification for defining AGI...

On a timeframe for achieving AGI: https://youtu.be/cEg8cOx7UZk?t=1658
> There are a lot of assumptions going on here. One of them is that superintelligent AI will arise. We have no reason to believe this will happen in our lifetimes. I posit that we are about as close to superintelligent AI as James Watt was to nuclear fusion.

This is a perfectly reasonable response if nobody is trying to build it.

Given people are trying to build it, what's the expected value from ignoring the problem? E($Damage_i) = P(BadOutcome_i) * $Damage_i.

$Damage can be huge (there are many possible bad outcomes of varying severity and probability, hence the subscript), which means that at the very least we should try to get a good estimate for P(…) so we know which problems are most important. In addition to it being bad to ignore real problems, it is also bad to do a Pascal's Mugging on ourselves just because we accidentally slipped a few decimal points in our initial best-guess, especially as we have finite capacity ourselves to solve problems.

Finally, let's assume you're right, that we're centuries off at least, and that all the superintelligent narrow that AI we've already got some examples of involve things that can't be replicated in any areas that pose any threat. How long would it take to solve alignment? Is that also centuries off? We've been trying to align each other since laws were written like 𒌷𒅗𒄀𒈾 at least, and the only reason I'm not giving an even older example is that this is the oldest known written form to have survived, not that we weren't doing it before then.

> The other assumption is that wealth and power are distributed according to intelligence. This is obviously false, wealth and power are largely distributed according to who you or your father plays golf with. As long as AIs don't play golf and don't have fathers, we are quite safe.

Nepotism helps, but… huh, TIL that nobody knows who was the grandfather of one of the world's most famous dictators.

Cronyism is a viable alternative for a lot of power-seekers.
> on Linux the maximum pipe buffer size is 64kB

Note that you can increase pipe buffer, I think default maximum size is usually around 1MB. A bit tricky to do from command line, one possible implementation being https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/328364
Can you please file a bug in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core&comp..., and fill in some of the information in the template? Thanks!
> Learn golang

Having to "if err != nil" every single function call is a big put off - imagine having to "try catch" everything in a language like C#!
If I were a large Boeing shareholder I could protect my stock value and give Boeing cover at the same time since they would be legitimately innocent of his "suicide".

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052116/top-3-...
I love the design of the INTELE-TYPE. It's a shame they are no longer made.
That notion is ridiculous. Finding something radically new is every scientist's dream. Look at how Einstein is perceived, who arguably found one of the most radically new theories. Nobody thought he looked stupid or lost tenure. No one goes into science hoping to simply confirm what everybody already thought was true.
Dude, I have lived next to russia most of my life, when I was born, my country was occupied by russians as soviet union.

I can see russian propaganda from far away.

If you would stop and think what a "peace deal" with a vicious-murderous aggressor means then you would not spew such bullshit. russia started the war, killed hundreds of thousands of people already and you call for Ukrainians to surrender under "peace deal" so they would be tortured and enslaved under russian occupation.

Also you could look into history to see whether there are any "peace deals" with russia that have held and not been just a pause for more aggression and atrocities.
This reminds me of something I read nearly ten years ago and have tried finding since - I'm hoping somewhere here can help.

It was an article or paper about analogies being dangerous in the sciences and leading to misconceptions, even among the learned. As best as I can remember, there was an example of graduate students in physics, at either Cambridge or Oxford, who overwhelmingly had an inaccurate view of concepts in physics based on toy explanations and Nova specials etc.
Not an insult but a fact. You know when „someone is wrong on the Internet“…
Anything moving horizontally, I guess?

(admittedly that's not what tsm's post implied, but still...)
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Obligatory link to the Bret Devereaux article on the Sparta myth https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
5 times this website popped "subscribe to my newsletter". 2 times as full screen annoying pop up and 3 times in between paragraphs. If this crap is not direct evidence of "internet dying" idk what is
You're right. #notallwebstandards
Call me back when the US prison population is full of corporate executives.
no, it doesn't behave like aquefaba.
Cool idea, I could definitely use this. However, it seems to be very slow.

Couldn't it be done directly in the web browser using WebAssembly?

Not fan of the big Vinlo watermark either.
15 is quite correct, definitely not horrible, so don't worry too much about that. It's not a rating, more a way to compare how browsers and hardware improve over time.

The scale goes up to 140 so that there's some space for software improvements as well as future hardware.
It is amazing how much of basic science is rooted in simple geometry.
OP is running one or more DNS servers, and wants to have "vanity" nameservers for their domain (e.g. ns1/ns2.example.com for example.com, rather than ns1/ns2.theirhostingprovider.net). This is generally inadvisable, but it's their prerogative.

Eh, since when is having in-bailiwick name servers not advisable? Is it stated in some BCP or draft? In-bailiwick servers and glue records have been standard practice as long as DNS existed.
That's true even without power at room temperature. :P
Before HN I hadn't even heard of any such things (as a European), and I stayed in 3 Airbnb's last month alone.