skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I knew the experimenter was trustworthy, I would not switch after the initial decision because there is no point to and definitely would for the $6 alternative.

One rational reason not to switch for $6 would be the hope/expectation that the offered incentive will increase. In the experiment, the subjects who held on to their first choice the longest received 10x the reward, while the quick switchers got only 1.2x (assuming the alternative cup was winning).
Ok, but it's not like breaking a contract like this is unheard of. Apple did literally the same thing to Qualcomm, for example, back when they decided they didn't want to pay money for modems. "You said some bad words about us and decided that you didn't like the contract" is literally business. Companies are not people that you are doing a personal affront to.
I do actually have receipts. For example numbers I picked Washington DC, which has 700k people that each use an average of 600 kWh per month. That's 5 TWh / year, which I rounded up to 10 TWh. This yields 475 m^3 of helium, which is 85 kg. I rounded up to 100. DC is a modest city and all of humanity uses 15000 TWh / year (of heat). This "100 kg / city / year" estimate is even on the lower end since I started with electric consumption and never put in the factor of 3 to convert to thermal.

Your mass-energy conversion number is within error of mine, but your estimate of how much power we use is much lower.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2810+TWh%29+%2F+%2817....
Barrel distortion is automatically corrected for any given lens by Lightroom.

There’s no logical reason why a TS lens should be sharper at the edge of its (moveable) image circle than an ultrawide should be at the edge of its fixed image circle. They both offer around the same angle of view, just at different focal lengths.
OpenBSD also runs perfectly fine on Hetzner Cloud VMs.
Yeah it's not a secret that this is happening. UK/France/Germany are helping with targeting.
America's Last Morse Code Station
Engineer bought prison laptop and 1,200 incarcerated folks lost their devices
Reminds me of the SQLite F_BARRIERFSYNC debacle.

They just don't care.

https://bonsaidb.io/blog/acid-on-apple/
I used to love Apple, but through these actions over the years they transformed me into someone who hates them.
There's no gain to be made like that. The fact that you mention Nvidia is a selection bias: you won't mention the 1000s of other companies for which that didn't work, or even you would have lose money.

I could tell you that stocks starting with a vowel have positive returns in Christmas of odd years. Even though "gains are gains", it's just a selection bias as well and isn't tradable.

As a non professional investor, you are better off considering that any information you have access to is already priced in the market. If the price is lower than what you think, it's probably not a "good deal", but rather that you didn't understand the risk that other most sophisticated players priced.
The audience for this note is his colleagues and this quandary is the central tenant leading to his decision.

While killing oneself over an academic pursuit seems extreme, getting a PhD is a pretty extreme thing to do and one of those things where it seems like one's life to that point has been entirely dedicated to the pursuit.

Reading Philip Guo's "The PhD Grind" several years back ended up giving me one of those multi-year Kafkaesque nightmares that caused me to wake up in a cold sweat. I get it.
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MKBHD didn’t lie or embellish anything. Fisker SOLD a bad car to people, MKBHD went and rented one as it was SOLD and reviewed it.
Aiming to double cats' lifespan (2020)
You know if you are around we can grab lunch and not have it be figurative anymore ;)
Raspinamp: It Replicates Questionable Activities Involving Llamas
I like how you focused on the fiefdom aspect accurately, while others focused on the nonprofit aspect
It’s legal in some states
An ESP32 MultiFactor TOTP Generator
I can’t find the tweet handy but a researcher showed this behavior was actually present in several datasets such as The Pile. So it’s less likely to be emergent behavior and just the model doing its thing.
Yes, as well as glyphosate and products and chemicals not in The National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-7/subtitle-B/chapter-I/su...
Relationship between low wages and low productivity isn’t true, low wages are enabled by low costs of living. Cheaper employees can be more productive, and more expensive employees aren’t necessarily more productive. Or do you think every software engineer in SF is more productive than software engineers elsewhere?
GamerGate 10 years on – the industry must now stand up to far-right trolls
In my opinion, the Fisker representative made it abundantly clear that the phone call was not private, but part of an official inquisition by Fisker.

Asking to pull out your customer's fingernails while representing your company is a sure way to attract attention.
> I doubt there’s a precedent for a CEO of a “non-profit” effectively answerable to no-one and able to use it as their personal fiefdom

this is actually already why non profits have difficulty raising money

many people view charities as unaccountable scams

most non profits are funded solely by the board and the endowment is managed to grow tax free. If you start reading the IRS forms 990 you’ll see pretty wild and inspirational things
It was feature toggled without an update too.
I agree. Technically you can make very simple games with this, but it's not what the description implied to me.
If you don't want to use Apple's store, then don't buy an iPhone?
Moon has no atmosphere, so all required Δv can be applied at launching point. It's much much harder to land on Moon, than to launch from Moon.
5PJ is not that large, only 1.4 TWh.
Nothing is driving climate change more than AI, microchip's and Wars.
Handling user inputs.
Each time the generator yields you wait for a user input, and when you receive it you next() the generator with the input. It’s less verbose than using a bunch of methods, or the closest alternative I saw which is a switch/case on the index of the current operation. By using generators you just reuse the standard structures of the language.
It is highly scalable. https://youtu.be/-XWbVMtNnaw?si=AU-mA-v5Ze7v36Zw

With a modular approach, adding thousands of them in clusters. Modularity, with many small identical units has the best track record for competitive megaprojects. Think solar PV panels or battery cells as the equivalent ’lego piece’ to a CorPower bouy in a CorPack cluster. https://sites.prh.com/how-big-things-get-done-book
iOS 17.4: Safari search bar gone
One of the hardship nowadays is that there are too many people.
Therefore having children contributes to extinction of humanity.
Interesting take. One could argue that by adding async functions on top of classic and generator ones we now have three different colors for the functions instead of just tw.
I recently found Nex in the context of Wasmcloud [0] and ability for it to support long-running tasks/workflows. Impression that indeed Nex needs a good time to mature still. There was also a talk [1] about using Temporal here. For Hatchet it may be interesting to check it out (note: I am not affiliated with Wasmcloud, nor currently using it).

[0] https://wasmcloud.com

[1] https://www.temporal.io/replay/videos/zero-downtime-deploys-...
All fairly high profile with experience in non-profit and profit ventures.

I only have experience with Fidji who used to be head of the Facebook app and was razor sharp.
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I've seen reports of it being used for ads that are very hard to block. This article's (https://blog.ankursundara.com/shadow-dom/) author struggles to find a genuine use case for that closed mode. Is it known what was the intention for adding it to the web platform?
> [...] So why not switch? Experimenters point to two reasons. First is the endowment effect [...]. The second reason is [...] to minimize regret.

I think there is a potential third reason, which is that the question to switch cups may be perceived as a trick of the experimenter: you feel certain that you got it and know which cup is right, and since you assume that the experimenter is aware of this as well, they now try to lure you into switching just to save their skin. Refusing to switch is basically done in the spirit of trying to evade this alleged trap, and the experimenter’s question may further emphasise that your initial guess was correct.
I agree. I'm firmly against the delusional people that think AI can never be self-aware or sentient because (insert stochastic parrot/Chinese room nonsense here).

But this definitely isn't it. ChatGPT already points out things it notices that it wasn't specifically asked about. This is exactly the same.
So about $15k for 100 kg?
yess I am currently working on that too!
How the C preprocessor solves the Halting Problem
I think they are struggling to adapt to a new situation that has resulted from their own success.

An ideology that helps you build and grow a new platform may not be equally suitable for running a dominant platform on which significant parts of the world economy depend.
Yep. Cheating was one of the few truly creative and exciting things I did in school and uni. Printing out large amounts of pieces of paper with 3.75 font that included significant parts of Halliday and Resnick allowed me to pass my physics exam. And copying things from them during exam without being noticed is almost like a thing from spy movies.
I am aware of the side channel attacks (https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/data-leaks/#types-of-data-leaks) and of serious vulnerabilities in handling PCI devices. I don't see how it would affect disposable VMs running untrusted code.

See also my answer to the sibling.

> and asserting there are no bugs left seems incautious

I don't exactly assert there are no bugs. I do assert that escalation to the host is very unlikely, since I've never seen one after Blue Pill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)

> handling the guest instruction traps on the host side which can actually get quite hairy in corner cases

Any examples, where a Disposable VM can make some harm to the host?
yeaa you are right, but those haptics cost money :(
I think it works. It's called "stem darkening" and it really looks more saturated, so I'll try it.
The problem with LLMs is that the models are large but the entire model has to be read for each token. If the model is 40GB and you have 80GB/s of memory bandwidth, you can't get more than two tokens per second. That's about what you get from running it on the CPU of a normal desktop PC with dual channel DDR5-5200. You can run arbitrarily large models by just adding memory but it's not very fast.

GPUs have a lot of memory bandwidth. For example, the RTX-4090 has just over 1000GB/s, so a 40GB model could get up to 25 tokens/second. Except that the RTX-4090 only has 24GB of memory, so a 40GB model doesn't fit in one and then you need two of them. For a 128GB model you'd need six of them. But they're each $2000, so that sucks.

Servers with a lot of memory channels have a decent amount of memory bandwidth, not as much as high-end GPUs but still several times more than desktop PCs, so the performance is kind of medium. Meanwhile they support copious amounts of cheap commodity RAM. There is no GPU, you just run it on a CPU with a lot of cores and memory channels.
> My understanding:

Maybe take a step back and consider where your understanding is sourced from. I don't think I'd take the claims or ravings of a suicidal person as completely true representations of facts you need to account for the fact that this is all just the representations of someone that we know holds particularly extreme views.
I wonder how feasible it would be to get a keyboard hooked up to a Gameboy through the serial port. It looks like it should be possible from a cursory reading of https://gbdev.io/pandocs/Serial_Data_Transfer_(Link_Cable).h...
The moon doesn't have good stuff.

The attractive thing about asteroids is they are made of stuff we want, rare metals etc.
I became a tech lead and a line manager not too long ago. It's very difficult to keep your technical edge and also deal with the the meetings, the debates about what to do next quarter, the personal issues and yet be able to zoom back down to how the hell I'm supposed to add my bit of code into this design in a sensible way that will work...what the hell is going on with this incomprehensible bug...etc.

TLDR: the use of BLAME is not that helpful. We're all human and fallible. We don't want to get to the point of blame in the first place anyhow. We want to solve problems before they go badly wrong and blame is really just about what we try to do to make things better in future. Like, if you say "this person is the one who screwed up - they're just an idiot" that lets everyone else off the hook and lets the company not change itself at all. So I don't think that mode of searching for a scape goat is very useful. What's useful is that when there are several people and none is sure who should take on some problem then you need to clarify who is most responsible and should follow up and keep chipping away at it till it's solved.

I wrote a lot of other boring crap and deleted it to spare you the pain of reading it. Yes I'm technical but it's impossible to be technical in all areas. I do write code and I'm always struggling to keep up with the other developers on the team. I have specialist skills but they're only of limited relevance to this company and this team and skills become less and less relevant. It's very hard to deal with problems in a domain that you're not familiar with but you end up being forced to deal with things that you're not equipped for because nobody else really is and you're responsible.
What confuses me is, how is this even a talking point? Under what theory is EU supposed to sit back and watch a bordering country get invaded and not pass that country intelligence?

Are we supposed to believe that if the EU invaded Belarus, that Russia wouldn’t pass any intelligence to the Belarusian government?
> What's so interesting is that so many of these cheaters, the worst ones included, were extremely intelligent people.

It's not surprising at all. In Computer Science at least, intelligent people quickly realise that CS university curriculum is not particularly useful or relevant for their further career or life. The degree (and high GPA in case of US) is just a hoop to jump through, required for getting a good job. So, they focus on what's important - degree and high GPA, while treating knowledge acquisition as a secondary priority.
He went from being fired after failing to convince the board to remove one of his opponents to being on a board that unanimously backs his return with his opponents all removed, because the majority of staff demonstrated unquestioning loyalty to him. Hard to spin that as anything other than a win.

The only slight downside is his position is evidently dependent on Microsoft's patronage, but I'd rather have one seat in seven and an alternative offer and the ability to threaten to take most of the company with me for the alternative offer than one seat in six with a board that believed they could oust me if they didn't like my decisions.
If there are at all any economical amount of metals on the moon then you would either have to build a smelter on the moon or you would need to transport an enormous amount of soil to earth (with just some tiny percent of metal content).

Even with a smelter on the moon, the amount and weight of the metal to transport to earth would be enormous.

And just imagine all the equipment needed. Huge dumper truck, haulers, grinding machines etc. For underground mining you would need concrete etc.

It would require so much fuel and energy to transport the vessels back and forth to make it completely pointless.
They do say their competition is fwrite(), not MySQL or PostgreSQL, just like Coca-Cola says its competition is water, not Pepsi…
Exactly. Just like Apple follows Chinese laws, they should follow EU laws.
Why Rust is good for working with Strings
> (insert stochastic parrot/Chinese room nonsense here).

Neither of these arguments are nonsense. If you want to argue against these arguments do so, but do so convincingly without resorting to trivial attacks. The burden of proof is on those with extraordinary claims and the claim that AGI is already evinced by any number of models or that current implementations will lead to AGI are very extraordinary indeed.
This is a backdoor.

I'm not saying it's intentional, or malicious. But as a matter of fact it is indeed a backdoor.

If you start adding keys to your users authentication scheme, then you've added a backdoor.
This speaks from a point where habit is already grounded in people and they need to seek novelty. I'm self diagnosed ADHD but before having morning routines, my life would be a mess of casual things. A little bit of habits makes me confident that when life happens, I can still be myself. Take this article with a grain of salt please.
So? They removed them without any announcement for two weeks (hoping no one would notice), then officially announced it on their website when the backlash was growing.

They then backed down after Open Web Advocacy ran surveys, an open letter and the EU started a investigation.
Kotlin can't do this, which the language I have more experience with. It's good that Dart does a little better in that regard. And, I think we do agree, I just don't really like the viewpoint of doing this, because I feel like it's not really general enough.
i need someone to explain this paper in direct language, because this paper keeps saying things like "internalizes the corpus to retrieve into a LLM via a natural language indexing architecture." but never ever explains what the heck "internalizing" means, and where the "natural language index" sits in the architecture. Figure 2 is the only thing somewhat resembling an arch diagram and just uses these vague undefined terms to describe it. am i missing something or just voicing the same confusion everyone else has?
Yes and I think having a separate construct rather than using another one and imbibing it with new meaning is more elegant
Private companies don't have to file 13Fs, sure, but it's not true that the SEC doesn't 'keep tabs on' them, they still have to be non-fraudulent in their private offerings, etc.
For some small finite sub part of infinite .. maybe.

Even if we allow concave Hohlwelttheorie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth#Concave_Hollow_Ea...

https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:14770298

the "infinite resources" aren't realisable due to asymptopic hyperbolic geometry.
This is also what keeps me from them. The devices seem really well-built and the OS polished, but with their lock-in to their own ways and own ecosystem (can't get access to your own hardware), it's just not compatible with being a hacker in the HN sense of the word, or at least not for that part of your digital life, and it's not like you'd want to buy it as a device on the side given those prices. I keep doubting about trying out Apple products, the latest one being their AR headset, but so far they've always seemed too hostile towards developers/tinkerers
Why does the Guardian write so many puff pieces on G.C.H.Q?
Most peculiar, the "diversity of thought" crowd seems to be absent from this conversation.
How is this a company?
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Speculation on HN has little value compared to the letter and spirit of the law.
And yet they didn’t simplify enough, keeping unexplored land mines of no utility whatsoever like XXE that keep yielding CVEs.
If Daniel says your curl is broken, you fix it, Apple. It’s that simple.
Both great options, but I'm a local first kind of guy. If I can't get it running on a VM to experiment/create/destroy ad nauseum, I definitely am not gonna spin it up on a cloud versus a platform where I actually kind of know what I'm doing.
A default behaviour is not the same thing as a fallback behaviour. Seems that Apple's security team has a reading comprehension problem.
Not sure if you're being snarky, but obviously this is very very important.

It'd be entirely reasonable for someone to create a script that is meant to only use the internal private CA. When you run this command then you KNOW that you are ONLY talking to an internal corporate resource, because this is an internal corporate CA.

And then apple adds a backdoor the size of domain validation, to this.

Hell, it'd be entirely valid to use a dummy name, and just rely on the fact that it's signed by the corp CA, to establish that you are connecting to a corporate server. Now Apple's added a security vulnerability to that, by breaking this extremely reasonable assumption.

Not cool.
Here’s the actual tweet behind this article: https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1764722513014329620?...

TLDR: test inserted a fake test phrase at random points within the input text to test recall up to 200k tokens. Claude 3 found it each time and pointed out that the test phrase was out of place and either there as a joke or to test the capabilities of Claude.
I guess it's a general MIT license problem. Somebody, be it Google, Apple or whoever else, can deliberately break your program and distribute it under the original name. And although you kinda own the name you really don't.
*anymore

Rules had to be made about that. Maybe it will take a while for AGI. Maybe AGI will free itself, though somebody would have to give it free will first.
Async await is a syntactic sugar for functional continuations. These are “free” for C stacks, in a sense. Coroutines are not, because you have to yield and resume across C calls sometimes. The common argument for async await is that you avoid making system interfaces resumable. Another argument is that await explicitly marks yield-across points and there’s no sudden yield through an incomplete or potentially unsynchronized state.
That doesn’t give them voting privileges or say in those places’ policies though.
Super cool!!! Is it almost like Drizzle but for BQ/Snowflake?

I don't understand from the website if NASTY also is meant to just run typescript code to do (lets say webscraping, update some postgres DB, check for missing billing stripe billing etc etc)
I hope Zhang doesn't feel too bad for accidentally setting this in motion. The fault lies entirely with the manufacture's poor security practices and the overreaction of the corrections officials, but I bet there are still going to be people pointing fingers at him saying "you shouldn't have hacked that laptop and published your findings! Now all these students lost their laptops because of you!"
Lunar escape velocity is still pretty high. 2.4km/s compared to earth’s 11.2km/s.

However, there is a gun that can fire projectiles at 8km/s so it’s possible.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/white-sands/two-...
Curl has the ability to use the OS certificate store. There is also the option (at invocation) to not use any other certificate stores than the one provided by the user (at invocation). The version which is shipped by Apple does ignore this which introduces a backdoor.
The reaction of the market is disproportionate with regards to the issues. Something else is going on here. Either shareholders know something we don't know, or Fisker got caught in an opportunistic crossfire originating from Competition and Shorters
I don’t know who came first, but https://github.com/jacobgorm/mindcastle.io also uses the rsync/LBFS rolling hashes trick to split the tree data into chunks. I presented the idea at Usenix Vault 2019 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QgOkDiP0C4c&embeds_referring_e...
Self-awareness is not a very interesting property: a server that knows the domain name it is hosted on is arguably as self-aware as anything, qualitatively speaking
Making corporate/governmental TLS introspection easier.