skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, well I wouldn't have any component on the secure side have any permanent memory.

PLCs (as used in the Iranian centrifuges) are basically made to re-programmed on the fly. You use them because you didn't want to hire out a team to build a system so it's 1000x cheaper, but it means they are infinitely hackable. They're basically a port 80 web server on your network that openky dumps code into Bash to be run. Having them on any network is extremely dangerous.

If I were to buy a product from a company, I would hope I am paying them good money to at least dedicate some engineering to build a custom device. You know, with circuits and non-networked signed EEPROM. Not ship control code in Bash on port 80.

And at the end of the day, you can't guarantee anything to be unhackable, but practicing defense in depth makes it hard as possible.

But anyway, I think the main issue is that ship companies are not tech companies and don't really have the money to build this. /shrug
A designer's guide to loving the terminal
> $5M to $10M asset lifestyle in the US is probably going to be nicer than the richer European country government welfare lifestyle.

Right, but it's also 0.1% vs 100%.
I believe Harvard destroyed all the nude student photos, would you have insisted they kept those too? I don’t see much value in either.
Popular words are easy sacrificial signals so that people can provide an example of social intent by avoidance if questioned.

It’s annoying right now that we have a doubled dictionary to signal intention, but it is also concerning looking forward… Because at some point the social standard could expect technology to target the concept instead of the word to prove a good faith attempt to avoid interaction with non neutral ideas.
I do enjoy the idea that he'll create a prison super economy based on promissory notes for ramen packets and cigarettes that are tracked in some sort of hand-written block chain kept under their bunk bed and shared between toilet water pipes.

Or maybe he'll just start making yogurt.

https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/yoghurt-mafia-unexp...
Actions have consequences.

Billions of dollars of fraud that took years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees to prove should have a sentence that is a strong deterrent to future crime probabilities.
I'm not sure our statements really connect with each other.
I think the industry's navel-gazing is a huge part of the problem. I don't give a shit about awards or what work wins them and I don't think other people should either. The same way I don't care about the Grammies and their impact on what music I listen to.

Awards are always going to be dominated by things that have nothing to do with the work being voted on.
> helps you keep tabs on your community by analyzing posts and providing sentiment and emotional scores to give you an overall sense of your community for any period of time [...]

> Toxicity can scan both new posts and chat messages and classify them on a toxicity score across a variety of labels

Is that within the defined data processing purposes of all Discourse setups? Does the tool warn admins they might need to update their policies before being able to run this tool, perhaps needing to seek consent (depending on their jurisdiction and ethics)? It sounds somewhat objectionable, trying to guess my mental state from what I write without opt-in

Edit: and apparently it also tries to flag NSFW chat messages, does Discourse have PM chats where this would flag private messages for admins to read or is it only public chats that this bot runs on?

> tagging NSFW image content in posts and chat messages
I still think Neutron Star is one of the best sci-fi books of all time as it is a short story collection that reads like a novel. I liked Ringworld when I was a kid but fell out of love with it slowly over decades, particularly in that the world of the story was much much much smaller than the Ringworld would have been physically. If Pritchett could get almost 50 novels out of the Discworld, Niven should have been able to get 50,000,000 at least out of the Ringworld but Niven really struggled with the sequel novels.
Lol. "My useful life is over," he says. As if there was anything useful about setting up a fraudulent exchange to steal billions of dollars so he could go play animal house with Caroline in his penthouse.
If you don't mind me asking, what's the actual business model here? Are you going to charge for those utilities?
I'm not familiar with the book but this doesn't sound like it pattern matches with any of the poly I've experienced. Going public is a big deal in poly in particular? Since when? What kind of self respecting tech bro group house doesn't have a graph of all the poly on their whiteboard?
Most "SciFi" on the shelves is just setting. Which frankly, is the way it should be. To a certain kind of person reading about how the whatever warp drive works is really interesting, but story-telling is about people.

One thing that stuck with me for many years is Joss Whedon saying that the Serenity flies at the speed of the plot. It's more important to understand how people interact in situations than it is to know how fast the ship can go. It can either get there with plenty of time, just in time, or we can't make it - and how that affects the people.
> It's just not as valuable if you pull the trigger all at once.

I mean, it depends on the person pulling the trigger, right? A sociopathic 14 year old from Bogota might not care.
Stole 1% from the pension fund for Ontario's teachers.

Stole unknown amounts of peoples retirement.

Ruined many peoples lives.

How is 50 years too long? The literal largest fraud case in history doesn't even have a life sentence...

We are sending a clear message, grift and steal your way to the top and then get out just in time to retire with all your stolen goods.

You know when he gets out he is gonna go unlock a dead wallet with 100BTC (or some other coin) in it and become an expat.
How long do you think it takes to rehabilitate someone so disconnected from reality and empathy as SBF?

Honestly I think that would take LONGER than 50 years...

I think 25 is on the high end of a reasonable sentence. White collar crime in the US has been a slap on the wrist (if anything!) since Enron. It's time we fix that. People need to see personal consequences for such anti-social and destructive behavior. If you are a CEO, you should be afraid of profiting from the suffering of others.
Interesting. I think TLR-9 stands for toll-like receptor 9. And these toll proteins were originally studied in fruit fly dorsal ventral patterning and also play a role in the innate immune system which we share with insects.

If this study is right (who knows if it will end up being reproducible), then this would be a great example of how evolution recycles existing proteins to "invent" new stuff.

Toll proteins were probably originally involved in body pattern formation, were recycled into a role in innate immunity, and finally in mammals may also play a role in triggering an immune response based DNA damage repair event that plays a role in memory formation.
Yeah, it's becoming more common in my group of SWEs to specifically opt to NOT use VC backed software. Everyone has stories about companies closing shop and projects failing to continue onward.

Why would Dioxus be any different? If VC's cared about tearing down walled gardens of Google and Apple, why not explicitly donate the money instead? Why have strings attached at all?
As a designer, I spend a surprising amount of time in the terminal. I wrote up this short post to showcase some of the things that I use the terminal for in my day to day.

I'm hoping that something here inspires a designer who is looking to become more technical to start to leverage some of the tools available in the command line.
Dank, rad and feist?

What a name!
> The real danger isn't that "too smart" unaligned AI might execute some kind of deliberate plan for taking over the world, it's that there are massive numbers of people so stupid that they will blindly follow the instructions of stochastic parrot bullshit generators.

"They're the same picture".

Imagine someone who wants to rule the world, just asks an AI for such a plan. AI doesn't need to want anything itself, just be given free rein. I'm sure Boris Johnson would have taken this option if it had existed, though I doubt it would have made any difference to the character flaws which were his ultimate downfall.

Even the "paperclip maximiser" scenario is just someone in the business of making paperclips asking an AI for help, and who doesn't look too closely until it's too late.

Myself, I'm… relatively optimistic, in that I think these systems are likely to be fragile to distribution shifts they themselves create, in ways that mean the rest of us can likely stop them from being existential threats if they start down a dangerous path. (This requires that we never figure out how to make them learn from as few examples as humans need, which may be wishful thinking, but for now seems to be an acceptable guess).

For some reason this reminded me of the old joke about the engineer, the physicist, and the mathematician's differing approaches to noticing a fire; I hope humanity doesn't take the mathematician's solution: https://jcdverha.home.xs4all.nl/scijokes/6_2.html
> 10 years is a life sentence, anything more is satisfying bloodlust

Retribution is a valid component of justice. But I’d argue, in the case of a fraudster, incapacitation is of equal concern.
As far as I am concerned, when you steal from me, you robbed me of piece of my life. The time I spend earning that money, instead of being with friends or just pursuing a hobby or just wasting it on HN.

How many lifetimes worth of time were destroyed by his fraud.

It's definitely not high punishment.
The ability to get there is quite common. Not sure how that's relevant?
SBFs dream scenario: With the emergence of ASI which causes an era of super abundance and without a need for economics, everyone forgives the financial crime and SBF goes free.
The pardon power is constitutionally absolute and unreviewable — the president can pardon for any reason, or none. Some people dislike that, but I personally like it, because it acts as an ultimate safety valve on the state’s ability to persecute an individual.
Excellent, consumer protection orgs should do this much more frequently.
Often they are the only ones with standing to sue in these types of cases.
I've seen that argument made several times. EV's are great on land, boats have several options, but for mid to long range air travel biofules have a lot going for them. Unfortunately they need a lot of land.

The underlying numbers seem reasonable with US airlines use ~10 billion gallons of fuel per year while the US produces ~15 billion gallons of ethanol being freed up by the rise in EV's.

Globally things aren't as rosy, but freeing even 1/5 of the land devoted to grazing, alfalfa, and feed corn would go a long way. Reducing US beef consumption would have positive health impacts. So from a policy standpoint shifting the specific subsides seems like a good idea.

Even if we can't get net zero the more we can cut quickly the longer we have to finish the job.
That is a complete middle class mindset. Jail is cool in the hood. I've done a few months for stupid stuff when I was young and it's not that bad.

People risk 10 years for robbing bands for a couple thousand. A guaranteed $10 million would have lines around the block for volunteers in the neighborhood I grew up in.
> nor do they have any way to do so. They both have OBD-II interfaces,

You sure about that, at least if someone has direct access to your car I'm guessing they could very easily clip something on that could control the car under particular conditions.
Not sure if this is still the case, but Amazon.de used to use fulfillment centers in Poland to deliver to Germany. So if you're in Poland and ordering from Amazon.de, your order could very well be delivered from Poland to Poland.
Using an automated AI agent to update its own dependencies
a. Who perceives Japan as backwards?
b. Every Fourth of July we shoot off fireworks to remember the toppling of the institutions of colonization.
The bandwidth of DECT-2020 NR is 80 Mbps. It wouldn't be useful for any of those except for USB2. HDMI is high enough bandwidth that it can't be done over Wifi and needs to use 60GHz radios. What would be useful is light-based networkig, Lifi, which can do Gbps within one room.

One problem with "everything" radio dongles is that different protocols have different requirements. In particular, how they handle errors and latency. Ethernet doesn't retry but could handle latency from low-level or high-level retries. Wifi does retries cause it works better than IP level. HDMI is streaming with errors or latency from errors causing visible artifacts.
That seems completely orthogonal to the point I disagreed with, which was (loosely, sorry) that punishment purely for punishment's sake is a social good.
>To what end?

The US and China go to war, over Taiwan say. This would be part of a general attack on the US, and would include things like the power grid, internet infrastructure, and anything else that can be disabled or turned against us.

Terrorists decide that 9/11 wasn't good enough, and they can do 1000x more damage, death and terror from the comfort of their computers.

Extortionists decide to leverage this capability to extort money from car companies.

More targeted killings would be motivated according to your thought.

This is just the top of my head. I'm sure there are others.
You'll get every time the same card number, with said card being specific to the device. So they will be able to track that the same buyer is doing the purchase, which is what most POS-based analytics are interested in.

Way more important is the (sometimes filtered) dump of everything on your bill that is passed on to various corporations (Nielsen, sometimes direct to suppliers), and how in-store analytics then build data at neighbourhood or per-store level.

Store analytics need not know that specifically "WirelessGigabit" bought something, store analytics is more interested in "we have repeated customers with such and such spending and purchases" and "in this zip code we have this kind of population with associated types of buyers" and "This is how much people are buying certain products and when, so that suppliers can plan campaigns and production"
Mainly “Doc”, but I’d pick any of those Smiths over Adams any day. (God it so cringey though when Virgil Sams says something about “our white race” in First Lensman; it’s enough that he’d have to be cast as Black if there was ever a visual adaptation though it seems today that there will never be)
No no, I'm serious. I have friends in banking who had experiences coming under UOKiK scrutiny and they claim that it really has it's shit together. I have no doubt that there is dysfunction in the system, just not when it comes to regulation of this sector apparently.
Are you conflating nonlinear embedding spaces with the physical curvature of the cerebellum? I don't think there's a direct mapping.
Yes, that’s known as the Hutter Prize http://prize.hutter1.net/
Successful in what regard? Stalin ended up dying of natural causes, Russia and Ukraine transformed from a backwards agrarian economy to a despotic industrial economy, the Soviet Army took a good chunk of Europe during WWII, the Soviet Union became a superpower, and during his rule it could be argued that the Soviet bureaucracy was incredibly efficient. I don't actually think we should take Stalin as a role-model for how to run a government (I was being tongue-in-cheek in my above comment) but it is amazing what you can accomplish when you have a total disregard for human rights, all of the levers of the State, a ruthless secret police, and an enormous amount of natural resources.
Global communities have also resulted in precisely the opposite of expectations. They created collections of uniform behavior. I would argue the private moderated communities allow for far greater diversification of ideas.

The reason being is that you can exist in multiple such communities. The individual experiences the diversity and not the community.

It is the premise of an argument I laid out some time ago for why social media has been destructive to diverse views even without the algorithmic manipulations.

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/uniform-thought-machines
On grid cars don't tend to stay that way. My 2013 Ford was built with a 2g modem, a recall replaced that with a 3g modem, and now the 3g modem has no one to talk to. My 2017 Chrysler also has a 3g modem with no one to talk to.

A malicious person could standup a fake 3g network, I guess. But LTE has strong mutual auth, so cars with 4g modems will be very hard to attack once 4g is dead. OTOH, 4g and 5g can more easily coexist: as I understand it, 5g can run with 4g compatible control protocol, with some slots 4g and some 5g depending on the needs of the mobile stations nearby, 2g and 3g needed a block allocated, so once the minimum size block was no longer well utilized, it's a waste of spectrum. This may mean 4g is kept alive a lot longer than 2g/3g.
I've seen people in the cryptography space use airquotes when referring to cryptocurrency to show their contempt for what they see as a scammy riff on their very serious and important work.
There’s no way anyone could accidentally plug in a device of that size. It would be quite a sizable antenna array.

If it was intentional then that’s different.
> OpenAI has taught me that no one gives a shit. Scrape the entire internet if you want, and use the data for whatever you feel like.

Cloudflare gives a shit.

My household had to use our 5G internet for most things for a week or two until our IP reputation recovered.
Mickey 7: People try to colonize an alien planet and the main character's job is to do all the very dangerous tasks. When he dies, his body is cloned and his memories are copied.

It looks like there is a movie in the works called "Mickey 17".
If you're looking for something non-dsytopian, John Carmack had a recommendation recently https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1757428929088872801

> Just finished Theft of Fire by @Devon_Eriksen_, and it was a great read — hard SF by a retired engineer. If his About page resonates at all, you will probably enjoy it: https://devoneriksen.com/about
> If I broke into a person's house and stole $1000, even if I didn't directly hurt that person, I could expect to get several years in prison

Almost definitely not, especially if it was your first crime. It’s pretty unlikely you’d even be caught.

Severity of the punishment has extremely diminishing returns on discouraging future crimes. The only other impetus for a longer sentence is if you think the defendant is likely to commit more crimes when released. Besides that, longer sentences are hard to justify.
> still allows him to make a life, but severely limits the similar path he used to defraud people

Do you remember the trial? The man can’t follow rules. You would be wasting the court every microsecond because Sam decides he doesn’t understand what two properties or renting technically means.
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Maybe mention in the title this is for js only
There is a more than 0% chance we will re-elect a man that has shown that he does not mind partaking in incredibly corrupt business practices out in the open. We don't even know if they would pardon themselves for crimes and has argued that they should have full immunity to do anything, including harming his adversaries. This person would not need an excuse to do anything.
I genuinely recommend considering AMD options. I went with a 7900 XTX because it has the most VRAM for any $1000 card (24 GB). NVIDIA cards at that price point are only 16 GB. Ollama and other inference software works on ROCm, generally with at most setting an environment variable now. I've even run Ollama on my Steam Deck with GPU inferencing :)
I think they must be unfamiliar with the federal judicial system which is almost always on the conservative side of sentencing unless there were some extremely extenuating circumstances. There were none here, this was straight up greed and grift on Sam's part.
If you've read the article, the LLM hallucinations aren't due to the model not knowing the information but a function that choose to remember the wrong thing.
Spot on. This is what Durable Functions does on Azure and it's brilliant for implementing complicated business processes and handling multiple events in one flow, in a resilient way where the logic is easy to follow.

One catch is that you're going to have to version your code if your workflows/orchestrations run for days, or if there's no windows without running workflows. And there's no built-in support for this, so expect to duplicate your entire workflow for new versions, so the old one can run to the end with the old code.
I propose the Bankman-Fried number: how many people you personally know who got rekt in the crypto crash of November 2022.
how many of those hires already had clearances and/or military experience?

you've got an active TS/SCI and we'll get you onboarded next week.

and if you don't... it'll be at least 6 months. and that's assuming people aren't too upset about ties to China, a polyamorous lifestyle, or how much weed you smoked.

FAANGs did a lot of stupid interview BS, whiteboarding and leet-code nonsense, but I got an offer letter a couple weeks after, or a rejection, and a start date a month later.
> Needs a beefier CPU and more memory

The MCU is $0.21 at quantity on Alibaba. Make it a whole $0.50 and they'd really have something. Kind of a shame.
> "take it or leave it" up front

I have also encountered this - salary negotiation with HR/recruiter at first contact. This was before any interviews or coding tests, at a point when I only had the vague job posting as a guide for the role. There seemed to be two filters: a remoteness/WFH/RTO test; and a low-ball salary bludgeon.

As Groucho Marx almost said, I'm very glad I don't work for a company like that :)
They've never made any sense to me, but neither do my country's sentence lengths. Ours seem too light, whereas the US's seem extreme.

I guess I'm really not sure what value there is to locking up someone like this for 25 years when in a sane system/society there should be far better options.
GitHub – gptscript-AI/gptscript: Natural Language Programming
I am pretty interested, but can I not use TS/JS for the UI if I want to?
Biden can also pardon him on his way out.
"Wow jeez! 'Only' ten years! That's not so bad, I think I could live with that, now I think I'm gonna go pull a huge scam! But damn, if he would have got 20 or 25 years, then I'd have to reconsider my carefully thought out decision to commit fraud" -- Nobody, Ever.

To most people, just the act of losing everything you have, losing your ability to provide for your family or yourself. Losing your reputation, your career and future career opportunities, is enough to deter them. Whether a crime will give you 10 years or 20 years, most people consider that to be so long, that it's more or less all the same. It feels like an eternity, and it feels like your life is over. So if they are going to take a risk, or make a stupid decision, then they are going to do it regardless. Not because they accept the risk, but because nobody ever believes they are ever going to get caught. They consider that as "my life is over anyway". And usually, it is. That's not the point of prison. If you are ever going to let people out, why not focus on making sure they don't come back. Punishing people by throwing them in cages with worse people, absolutely does not work. (note: I am speaking mostly about non-violent crimes, which make up 72% of the federal system)
Someone told me once that Beofang uses the open source DSD (digital speech decoder) package in their scanners/radios. Can anyone confirm this?