skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd prefer if it was opt-in, and that users were given instructions for disabling it if they want to during installation.

So you mean an informed opt-out, right?

Thank you for the interesting hands-on experiences and insights regarding Bun. I followed the coverage and posts by Jarred here on HN for quite a while, think since the initial alpha release, but haven't used it.

Will keep your examples for helpful added platform APIs in mind for when I hopefully come around to doing sth with Bun!

It sounds like a great platform for JS scripting as well - I also think that could be a good and easy way to test the waters.

Really, kudos to Bun and Jarred Sumner for living up to the promise he made when the first version was announced!
Passive aggressive accusation.

This style of fake doubt is really not appropriate anywhere.
Your determination of who funds the agency has no relevance to the fake invented conspiracy theory which the post above is spreading.

It's a paper about a study which RAND did. You can click into read the paper and see if the headline fits.

Your fake conspiracy theory so far says - that the government is paying rand to only pretend to do a study. When in fact, the study is just a smokescreen to justify writing a headline to influence people's opinions? What? Why not just read the study and then come back and suggest alternative headlines. If the headline was different, would we still think is a psyop?

> the government seems to want you to think that the alphabet agencies need more money and/or power.

Yeah maybe I guess, but also maybe someone just did a sensible study and titled it appropriately. I think my theory has far more evidence than yours (which is simply: how you felt after reading the page title)
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The OG market map of Data/AI returns for its TENTH year (2,011 logos in total vs 139 back in 2012)

+ 24 themes we're thinking about in 2024, including:

* Is the Modern Data Stack dead?
* Consolidation in data infra
* Checking in on Databricks vs Snowflake
* The Rise of the Modern AI Stack
* Where are we in the AI hype cycle?
* Experiments vs reality: was 2023 a headfake?
* LLM companies: maybe not so commoditized after all?
* What's interesting: AI agents, edge AI
* Is Traditional AI dead?
* Is Generative AI heading towards a plateau?
* Is NVIDIA overvalued?
* Open source AI: too much of a good thing?
* Is AI going to kill SaaS?
* Is AI going to kill venture capital?
India hydropower output records steepest fall in nearly four decades
You might enjoy this blog post which (after a few paragraphs) is about a programming language structured around roots similarly to how Arabic is structured: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/03/31/ed-catmurs-tri...
"They said it does X but really it does X and the superset Y"

In other words, they were correct then?
Another data point, I definitely find Opus better for coding, but not by much. The problems I give them are generally short (<= 100 lines) and well-defined so any advantage Opus has in larger contexts won't be apparent to me. They're also generally novel problems but NOT particularly challenging (anyone with a BS CS should be able to solve them in < 1hr).

I have them working with mostly C++ and Clojure, a bit of Python, and Vimscript every once in a while. Both models are much better at Python and fairly bad at Vimscript. Clojure failure cases are mostly from invented functions and being bad at modifying existing code. I can't pick out a strong pattern in how they fail with C++, but there have been a few times where GPT4 ends up looping between the same couple unworkable solutions (maybe this indicates a poor understanding of prior context?).
It's worth bearing in mind when you do that that the largest integer that is "generally safe" in JSON is 2^53-1, so if you scale by a factor of 10000 you're taking 13-14 more bits off that maximum. That leaves you about 2^40, or about a trillion, before you may start losing precision or seeing systems disagree about the decoded values. Whether that's a problem depends on your domain.
Which Russian tanker? One was hit carrying Russian naphtha, the Marlin Luanda, but it was not owned by Russia. AA claims it was British[0].

What ship attacks happened prior to the 7th?

> "It's worth pointing out that if Ansar Allah succeeded in liberating Palestine, their next action would be to burn down all the mosques"

No, it wouldn't. This is pure conjecture. The Sunni and Shia conflict in Yemen is far more complex than you are trying to make it sound. The Sunni Saudis have been inflicting a famine on Yemen for years. The Sunni Emiratis have been assassinating and conducting terrorism within Yemen. This is important context to leave out.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20240127202900/https://www.bbc.c...
> if there is a location midway between two nearby metros, for example.

And what is the probability of that ...
Oh man, this is one of my favorite lines of all time:

> "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it--"

> "Geostatisticians..."

> "--yes, and she's produced a map showing the radius within which we can send email to be slightly more than 500 miles. There are a number of destinations within that radius that we can't reach, either, or reach sporadically, but we can never email farther than this radius."

I adore when experts use their expertise to analyze real-world things like this and provide ridiculously thorough explanations :-D
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I think this just redefines consciousness to mean "things that are alive." This may be a fine concept, but it is not what people commonly mean by consciousness. I strongly suspect that people who want to extend consciousness to all living things (and beyond) do some from a _moral_ perspective -- they want to connect people to all living things in some moral and spiritual sense. And they want to remove the historical moral hierarchy whereby mankind has placed himself at the top of creation.

I have no interest in the antiquated view that man is the peak of creation. However, extending consciousness to everything seems to be a spiritual act, and quite distinct from determining a scientific definition of consciousness.
South America has the stingerless variety and I’m very jealous.
In no way is the ability to get citizenship via religious conversion comparable to anything in the US, and as far as I am aware, neither in Europe. You are indeed "writing off Gazan journalism" when saying "Hamas-controlled Gaza", which at this point is ludicrous given that Hamas controls literally nothing in Gaza, and certainly didn't control the Al-jazeera reporters, reuters reporters, Washington post reporters, and so on who have been killed by Israeli airstrikes so far. Also pretty weird argument to make when Israel is one of the only "democracies" in the world whose press operates under military censorship laws and has for decades.
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The perfect definition of Europe is if they took part in the Eurovision Song Contest.
> We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Ursula K Le Guin [1]

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My completely unexpert opinion, informed by listening to all the episodes of Darknet Diaries, agrees with this. US intelligence likes to just bully/bribe/blackmail the supply chain. They've got crypto chops, but I don't recall any terribly sophisticated implants like this one (except Stuxnet, which was likely Israel's work funded/assisted by the US). NK isn't terribly sophisticated, and their goal is money, so that doesn't match either. Russia is all over the place in terms of targets/sophistication/etc because of their laws (AFAIK it's legal for any citizen to wage cyberwarfare on anything and everything except domestically), but this feels a bit beyond anything I recall them accomplishing at a state level. Israeli organizations have a long history of highly sophisticated cyberwarfare (Stuxnet, NSO group, etc), and they're good about protecting their access to exploits. That seems to fit the best. That said, saying "Israeli organization" casts a wide net since it's such a boiling hotspot for cybersecurity professionals. Could be the work of the government, could be co-sponsored by the US, or could just be a group of smart people building another NSO group.
Ask HN: What are you doing with your Nest Secure post-sunset?
Google is ending support for their home security system, Nest Secure, in a week. If you have one, what are you doing with it? What is your understanding of how, if at all, the system will work after April 8?

Google has not officially said what will and won't work. My hope is that the system will basically work like it currently does when the internet is down. That is, the base will connect to the sensors, and it will still you when batteries are low.

I have tried contacting support multiple times and some reps have told me the system will continue to operate in this way, and others have said it will be bricked. I happened to be in the Google store on the main campus in MV, and the employee there said it will keep on working (however, he sited 9to5google as his source, which is not exactly promising).

Does anyone else have more info on this? Is there any way that there could be an open source solution to make it work better?

What are people doing with the store credit versus replacement starter kit option?
DN$ ad-supported DNS resolver https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895453
Oh absolutely. It's pretty amazing tbh. I wonder how many people were turned away from positions because they didn't have "SLQ" experience?
>The whole idea of paying people more than they are worth as an economic unit, a key goal of the union movement

No, it wasn't. A company can't survive long paying all its employees more than they're worth. The goal of unions was, at least as far as pay is concerned, only to reduce the margin that was skimmed off of employee value by employers.
>Now the question is about the societal outcomes we expect from the systems people create. Why should we prefer greater inequity and an even more complete loss of the middle class? These things are all being imposed by human-manufactured systems - we can control them.

Control of these systems lies in the capital class not in the working class. They prefer greater inequality, you and I probably don't but you and I have zero agency to do anything at all about how the world works. We lack support and we lack money to advertise our position and garner support relative to the groups empowered and enriched by the status quo.
> [Alpine] just do not link SSH against libsystemd

Arch doesn't either.

In fact, official releases of openssh-portable don't. One has to patch it for that. Debian and Fedora (as well as their downstreams) do apply such a patch [1]. Most other distros don't.

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/openssh/1%3A9.7p1-2/debian/pa...
It's a very underrated side effect of this whole LLM thing: We've created a super compact representation of human knowledge in a form that requires a FAR less complex tech stack to get the information 'out' of in the future.

A year ago, a lot of this information only existed on the internet, and would have been nearly impossible to recover in any cohesive unfragmented form if the lights were to ever go out on our civilization.

Now the problem space has moved simply to "find a single solitary PC that will still boot up", and boom, you have access to everything.

I think we just created our Rosetta stone.
When electric utilities were tightly regulated, utility stocks were rated on the size and consistency of their dividends. PG&E was a great stock to own for a century. The stock price didn't go up fast, but the dividends were paid consistently. That's the steady state of a mature company.

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As someone with very limited electrical experience, the more magic switch story instantly went "the second terminal of the switch is probably grounded to the switch casing" when they explained it only had one connected terminal.

This is a very common thing in older automotive electronics, for example.
Humans are not perfectly vigilant
https://archive.ph/gl8FJ
I've always thought it would be better to produce something like methanol. The chemistry is similar, but methanol is not gaseous (at typical temperatures). That makes it much easier to handle.
Close enough; they're banning one specific application of GMO foods while the Euro bans are more sweeping. The research that prompted this ban is talking about injecting DNA into plants which makes the plants produce a vaccine. That is a genetically modified food if ever there was one.

> The project’s goals, made possible by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, are threefold: showing that DNA containing the mRNA vaccines can be successfully delivered into the part of plant cells where it will replicate, demonstrating the plants can produce enough mRNA to rival a traditional shot, and finally, determining the right dosage...

So what's my point? I'm not opposed to GMO food at all, I'm just pointing out that the origin of the law sets the tone for the discussion. If the law is European, the discussion will be about how the lawmakers are enlightened, but if the law comes from America, particularly a red state, then the conversation will be decidedly negative.
Maybe they weren't all sockpuppets. Here Jigar Kumar was nitpicking Jia Tan's changes:

https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00556.h...

That was not necessary to gain trust. Writing style is different, too. Later when Jia gained commit access he reminds him to merge it.
Maybe I'm just hanging out in the wrong places but right now it feels like everyone is making stupid, stupid security mistakes all the time. If AI is the main buzzword, infosec is #2 right now.
Checks calendar… good one! I hope..

Good reminder why not to collect and keep personal data you don’t need
Is that the DIA? I'm of the understanding that because the DIA reports to the Secretary of Defense, and is a combat support agency, that it is pretty tied to administration goals. An example of serving administration goals and political appointees in a way that erodes trust would be Rumsfeld's DoD asking for novel prisoner interrogation techniques. DIA staff were involved in proposing/developing and then implementing "enhanced interrogation" at Guantanamo and Bagram.

I want a non-political intelligence agency, or as close to it as possible. I think it structurally cannot be within or reporting to the executive branch.
Something like this does exist, production systems rarely use greedy search but have more holistic search algorithms.

An example is Beam Search:https://www.width.ai/post/what-is-beam-search

Essentially we keep a window of probabilities of predicted tokens to improve the final quality of output.
The short release period gives off "For a limited time only!" vibes, a scummy way to entice people to buy something now because they might not be able to later. It's also unclear that the notes even add value, they're described as "raw unfiltered chapter-by-chapter notes". Are they just random thoughts? Are they a better version of the chapters they line up with? Are they a companion to the book (the notes elaborating on the parts this author found to be too brief)? Are they responses to the contents? You don't know, until you spend more than the cost of the not-actually-bloated book that they cover.

> There's value in distilling information from a bloated book down to its useful ideas.

Yes, but it's not clear at all that this $25 limited-time-only set of notes actually does that, and they cost more than a book that is decidedly not bloated (it's 100 pages, 33 chapters, and each chapter is quite short).
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ironically the API is available most everywhere, and it has an ok-ish web interface (they're really heavy on prompt engineering it seems though)
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UBI means everyone is poor and on welfare. I don’t see why this is the ideal solution everyone points to. I guess better than everyone jobless and no net whatsoever, but I wouldn’t call it something to strive for.
> Adding an additional dependency (of say a port-knocking library) doesn't look great in that regard, if the dependency can be hijacked to add remote code execution capabilities.

Port knocking infrastructure can be minimal, knowing nothing but addresses knocking. It can also be completely outside the protected service on a gateway.

Indeed, it can even be no-code, e.g. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-conf...

> OpenSSH should be extremely simple and easy to understand, such that every proposal and change could be easily scrutinized.

But OpenSSH intrinsically is going to have a much larger attack surface.

> then a small codebase can go most of the way to mathematically provable security (bonus points for formal verification).

It's worth noting this would not have helped against this attack:

* It was against another dependency, not openssh

* The actual vulnerability didn't occur in the code you'd inspect as part of verification processes today. (I don't think anyone is formally verifying build process).
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"I sometimes worry about some of their actions, or rumors of their actions."

Don't you think that you got 9/11 because of their actions?
[dupe] (thanks to Cory's weird permalink scheme)

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896696
The temperature setting is used to select how rare of a next token is possible. If set to 0 the. The top of the likely list is chosen, if set greater than 0 then some lower probability tokens may be chosen.
It can only hallucinate if your i2i noise level is high enough, if you're adding enough noise that the latent is basically filling in giant swaths of noise areas then of course its going to make up new stuff, thats not hallucinations as much as you asking the AI to draw that entire area as something new.