skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Is there also a pattern in the times of day? (I don't so much mean the times in commits done by the developer because they can be fake. I'd be more interested in authentic times recorded by GitHub, if any such times are publicly accessible.)

Another thing would be to examine everything ever written by the user for linguistic clues. This might point towards particular native languages or a particular variant of English or towards there being several different authors.
It would be better to have eeprom or some such directly attached as memory. No loading.
But it has human voters, you can't train a model using human voters to vote during iterations, and AI aren't good enough to replace human voters.

Not sure if AI voters even can result in a model smarter than the voting model.
Exactly. I've held large amounts of Bitcoin for years but always been too intimidated by hardware wallets or the fancier security schemes. It takes time to learn and try that stuff to the point of 100% trusting it, and I'd rather be called obtuse than overconfident like this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/s9lgyy/5eth_bounty_...

My solution in the end hinged on a paper recovery phrase, stored in... a bank.
How good is Gemini? Because my experience of Gemini Advanced, is that would be sci-fi by the standards of 2020. Compared to LLM technology available in 2024 is pretty bad.

Even before posting this comment, and just to make sure I have not been hallucinating lately, just shot a simple programming prompt into Claude, ChatGPT4 and Gemini Advanced. While the first two provided a template that worked even on first attempt, after 5 prompts Gemini Advanced can't even get the expected indent of a Python function block correct...
This is extremely suspicious.

It looks like someone may have noticed a unmaintained or lightly maintained project related to various things, and moved to take control of it.

Otherwhere in the discussion here someone mentions the domain details changed; if you have control of the domain you have control of all emails associated with it.
Actually far simpler than a piston engine; the fuel consumption and high production cost was what made them become extinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Turbine_Car
In my social scene are people who worked at Fermilab, whose work helped inform where LHC should focus its search for the Higgs. A PhD EE who has designed chips you use. The list is long.

A lot of my insight into academia (since it’s been almost 30 years since I graduated and left it behind me) is influenced by academics tired of and often disgusted by their peers dishonesty about their work. Theory after theory have more in common with religion; they were made up.

Historians in my social scene say there’s solid historical evidence advanced degrees were invented as a payola scheme between landed gentry and the church; money for BS theology degree the illiterate public could not falsify. Over specialization doesn’t really make net new discovery so much as normalize old ones, but we keep up the role-play of history and anoint geniuses and the like.

Give them resources and prestige to do some math. Grigori Perelman would like a word on what’s required resource wise to do math. Out of touch and arrogant westerners.

Similar trend going on these days where the innumerate serve BS they cannot begin to try to falsify. Just so happens much of it isn’t reproducible anyway, but the can’t argue that or the out of touch egos of a minority of the populace that make up academia would crumple in outrage.

Offense at minor slight is so endemic to human nature, so general an emotion it impacts all of us.

Out of touch and arrogant is applies just a neatly to academics being normal humans and all.
My favorite example of this https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/120541/why-do-people-...
Who would waste money on a PR campaign? Googles fumblings of the last ~5 years speak for themselves.
one of my acquaintance moved from Egypt, where he was head of department for dentistry, to Canada and because Canada requires exams to be completed before being allowed to practice dentistry he drives uber here.

The exams cost a ton and between saving up for the exams, rent, supporting his family and inflation it looks like he will drive uber all his life.

I was very saddened when he told me "I used to be respected back in egypt and now I am getting water bottles thrown at me while driving uber".

He can't go back because he sold everything including his house to move here and his kids are settled here.
> US Attorney Williams: SBF's sentence is a warning to others

Why do they alway say that enforcing the law is a warning? Why isn't it a known fact that if you break these rules you go to prison. Is it that sometimes they let you off the hook and now they're taking the law more seriously?
This seems to be like state machines, aside from

> As new ideas and requirements are discovered, we can forbid certain things from happening by simply adding new b-threads; without having to dig and figure out how earlier-written code works!

Which I'm not really sure is a step up from state machines?
Yeah. just don't go on paternity/maternity leave.
The article is about a much smaller accelerator.

> A muon collider could be much smaller and cheaper than a functionally equivalent proton collider, advocates say. It could fit on the 2750-hectare campus of the United States’s dedicated particle physics lab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), enabling the U.S. to reclaim the lead in the continuing competition for the highest energy collider. Most important, younger physicists say, it might be built sooner than a more conventional competitor, perhaps in as few as 25 years. “If you want you can add 10 years to that, that’s still a lot better than when I’m dead,” Holmes says.
How do they intend to install the super volcano underneath?
>that's a lot of anonymous accounts

Just FYI, krygorin4545@proton.me (the latest message before the upload) was created Tue Mar 26 18:30:02 UTC 2024, about an hour earlier than the message was posted.

Proton generates PGP key upon creating the account, with the real datetime of the key (but the key does not include the timezone).
That should make it the format of choice for Chief Security Officers.
Do you really need Kubernetes?
On that note, I'd argue KISS is the multi-threaded approach. I'm maintaining a server software that is multi-threaded with plain old blocking I/O and it easily saturates a 10GBit/s link without breaking a sweat on quad-core CPUs from a decade ago.
Don't forget that you could have state actors who are otherwise interested in open source code, and working to actually improve it.

In fact, that'd be the best form of deep cover. It'll be interested to watch as people more knowledgable than I pour over every single commit and change.
It really depends on your personality. If you're used to the niceties of the west, you may be frustrated by many things in Romania. The infrastructure is still behind. If you're more laid back you adapt and learn to enjoy. Being healthy helps a lot.
Isn't that still a "bad actor" even if they are coerced into it?
Isn’t GitHub copilot a behavioral programming tool?
Fascinating. Was it able to do this by constantly writing to persistent storage?
"Writing essays was his way of studying himself" - It is for me... Love to write personal journals... And use my writing skill to write essays on some topics just to understand deeper
Firstly, I'd say a leak is a leak. A leak is not defined as "bad" - it's defined as allocated memory not bring freed. Whether the leak is "bad" or not depends on the context, but doesn't change the definition.

>> A more vague but more useful definition of a memory leak is that if the memory consumption has a net increase over time, and that increase causes one or more problems, it's a leak.

No. Its a problem. Caused by a leak. Your definition falls over for the case where a program is performing the task correctly, but on insufficient hardware (not enough ram) to complete the task.
github already mandates MFA for members of important projects
And, of course, Mazda had been selling LIVC engines for years before the Prius appeared. Like all of Mazda's other weird engines they were expensive, bad, and unreliable.
If you really step back and think about it, this type of behavior is perfectly aligned with any number of well resourced criminal groups and state actors. Two years of contributing in less visible software with the goal of gaining trust and then slowly pushing your broken fix in.

To me that's way more plausible than losing control of your account and the person who compromised it then having someone over a long time insert the backdoor that took a long time to develop and then obfuscate it.

Likely someone at GH is talking to some government agencies right now about the behavior of the private repos of that user and their associated users.
Just because something might have been incorrect 200 years ago does not mean it is not correct now. At some point, the false claims of diminishing returns will turn out to be true. It is foolishness to believe in an infinite supply of wealth from anything, including scientific research.
Sorry, I'm still lost. The GP was talking about all the reasons why their specific child might need to be somewhere other than in class on specific days. What does that have to do with empathy for how hard it is to run a school?
Baby steps. Committing to very long term horizons without sufficiently investing in your ability to uphold the necessary guarantees is challenging. Done poorly, we would either be unable to continue to evolve the platform or end up breaking things accidentally.
Doom in Space (2024)
I think we should seriously consider something like a ts clearance as mandatory for work on core technologies. Many other projects, both open and closed, are probably compromised by foreign agents.
Sometimes you smell an American because someone wanted you to smell an American.

Operating on a target region schedule doesn't seem particularly sophisticated, at least compared to the all the efforts put into this exploit.
I don't think Hassabis is ideal for the job, but this kind of thinking is what caused Google to stumble. Google needs a leader who understands technology and product. Google is not Procter and Gamble; the kind of company a suit can run.
> I suspect in software specifically, there will never be such a reckoning because compared to maintenance, replacement is too easy.

Maybe when it's not important to be bug for bug compatible. For most important software, it kind of is.
Surprised that neither the article or this thread link to https://xkcd.com/570/
> I suppose that you could execute systemd-notify but that's a solution that I would not like.

What I did was to use JNA to call sd_notify() in libsystemd.so.0 (when that library exists), which works but obviously does not avoid using libsystemd. I suppose I could have done all the socket calls into glibc by hand, but doing that single call into libsystemd directly was simpler (and it can be expected to exist whenever systemd is being used).
> The exact same thing you do in this current situation? It depends on what the issue is. Cargo isn't magic.

False. In the current situation, you just release a new shared library that is used system-wide.
HyperMink System-1 is starting to take shape
Plus China does not care about obfuscation. They smash and grab and then deny, deny, deny + counter accuse.
The quality of this list feels greatly diminished by the very first bit about "no systemd?"

It was good to question systemd, but given its performance, transparency, and general ability to mostly stay out of the way, I wouldn't bring it up re: "minimalism," in the way the rest of the list is pretty minimalist.
This looks amazing! Also, I had no idea that tutoring was over $100/hour, but it makes sense, being a specialized skill that's employed on a freelancer basis (meaning half or more time is spent traveling or finding clients).

I've been really frustrated trying to study more advanced math topics (functional analysis, complex analysis, abstract algebra, etc.) that I think are super interesting but are just out of my reach (Tristan Needham's books come to mind). There is the math stackexchange, which is wonderful help from volunteers, but you're not necessarily guaranteed an answer (and definitely not a timely one), sometimes the answers leave out key details ("exercise for the reader"), and I think having videos of worked solutions from tutors will just fill my need better.

I had been thinking that maybe AI would step up here, but I like having human access better.
No one wants an anaemic Tesla either.
Minor documentation change PRs is a well known tactic used to make your GitHub profile look better (especially to potential employers).

He could be doing the same thing for other reasons; nobody really digs into anything very deep so I could see someone handing over co-maintenance to a project based on a decent looking Github graph and some reasonability.
It's not. Neither Ubuntu.
Yeah, but I'm an ex-Brit, so that's not really a good excuse :)

My wife's Belarusian though, and I have been to Belovezhskaya Pushcha and seen these buffalo/bison beasties, so I've got that going for me!
If all you need is power generation, use a nuclear reactor. Time to bring back the Ford Nucleon ! [1]

Comes with daily free health checkup (in form of an X-Ray).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
> I am aware of the concept of total compensation

I'm with you on this. When I'm evaluating an offer, the only part of the total compensation package that I really pay any attention to is salary because the rest is too uncertain.
I unfortunately agree with you. Hence why it's on the backburner.
I'm pretty open minded about this stuff, but I recall reading Robert Monroe (author of several books) tried to prove to himself his OBEs were real by having his wife place an object in a box downstairs without his knowledge and trying to find out what it was.

IIRC he said he invariably got sidetracked between leaving his body and going downstairs, or would be attacked by entities of some kind. He suggested perhaps some kind of subconscious resistance to the experiment.

He listed several times where he claimed to have gained knowledge without trying to while OBE but I wasn't entirely convinced by any of them, so who knows.

The fact he claims to have had hundreds of OBEs and couldn't conclusively prove he could gain knowledge makes me sceptical that he wasn't just in a replica of reality generated by his mind. Anyway, they sound fun/scary/ real to the experiencer.
I half wonder if that's actually some part of their brain which actually wants to be caught.
Hey guys, I sit next to George who is a real driving force in anything he does, including this one. He's letting me have the upvotes for this one but the GitHub project page is: https://github.com/olafurw/opssat-doom/tree/main
I guess it really depends. In all my practice with C pthreads and Java threads, this code always spiraled to unholy messes due to constantly adding to requirements.
I'd say that the "missing" neutrino mass term and the identity of the dark matter particle (quite likely a neutrino) are two of the most interesting problems in physics and I'm afraid that Team LHC's interest in (I think boring) Higgs and Top factories could crowd out investment in the much more interesting area of neutrino physics the way that you say.

The good news is that going down the muon accelerator route you probably need to build a neutrino factory to validate the technology long before you can build those other things.
I think that there is a growing need for more training and education in cybersecurity due to the increasing reliance on digital technologies and the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape... It is a vital part of our life
Santa Barbara's collective memory, sold for kindling
In that last case, a Microsoft vice president told NPR that public experimentation was necessary to work out the problems in a bot. “You have to actually go out and start to test it with customers to find these kind of scenarios,” he said.

What? The scenarios described are so borderline mundane no company would release regular software with this many problems and then say something like that.

Just complete coping trying to keep the AI bubble going and not admit hallucinations make them useless for a whole host of use cases and that it’s an innate problem with the way they function and it’s not going away by scaling them up.
To be fair, it is perfectly normal for a surgeon to cut people with a sharp knife with their permission while in the hospital.

It is kinda sus when they do it at home without consent.
Hey, once you accept cookies, a full 50% of vertical height becomes available for reading.
It's more likely that fuzzing would blow up on new code and they wanted an excuse to remove it.

After all, if it hadn't had a performance regression (someone could submit a PR fixing whatever slowed it down, heh) it still wouldn't be known.
LLVM picking up the wrong libraries from the environment has cost me at least a couple of months over the last decade or so. Maybe twenty instances of customers being broken, ten hours or so in meetings explaining the problem and trying to persuade people that the right thing really is different for the system compiler vs your bespoke thing.

If you think it's better for your product to find unrelated libraries with the same name at runtime, you go for it.

Detecting that failure mode would be an interesting exercise - you could crawl your own address space after startup and try to guess whether the libraries you got are the ones you wanted. Probably implementable.
> It never gets easier, you just go faster.

It's why I never stuck with exercise. It sucks and keeps sucking no matter how long you are doing it.
Some models do, some others do not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2A5ijU3Ivs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCudNSti_Q
I personally feel like these problems can be broken into two types - one where the output is expected/deterministic, and one where creativity is a virtue. Asking Siri what the current temperature is (only 1 correct answer) is an example of the former, but asking chatGPT to write an email is closer to the latter. Tree type algorithms are better when you don't have (millions of english words)^10 for a 10 word response, and where there are multiple "correct" answers.
Netflix has a one year paternity/maternity leave policy, and some people take the full one year.
I think the difference is that you can't ignore an ad when it comes on, because the thing you were watching goes away. Whereas even on the worst websites you can just scroll or click the X and get back to what you were doing.
Voting in Oregon has been exclusively by mail since 2000 without any such abuse materializing.
There’s a moment in the movie R.M.N. where a young Frenchman is in town to “count the bears”. During a town hall, he tries to explain that he’s there to help identify how many bears there are and help protect them.

One local throws a jab back at him: “You kill all the bears in your country and reap the benefits of developing [your land/economy], and then come to ours and tell us to protect nature.”

Fantastic movie, highly recommended. If you do watch it, watch the original version with the burnt in subtitles. The subtitles have different colours to indicate which language is being spoken, and it has a lot of relevance for the movie and context.
That looks exactly like what you'd want to see to disguise the actual request you want, a number of pointless upstream updates in things that are mostly ignored, and then the one you want.
Because Amazon and eBay aren't small independent sites. Those stored payment methods and user trust are quite valuable to both.
That's hard to do when the development of these libraries is so international. Not to mention that it's already so hard to find maintainers for some of these projects. Given that getting a TS clearance is such a long and difficult process, it would almost guarantee more difficulty in finding people to do this thankless job.
Agree, totally... Owning the property means that the business has stability and control over its physical location and it's important
After being acquired by Twitter, the blogs got new life as https://posthaven.com/.
> The students don't advocate any position on Prop 13. It's a popular law, and I'm a betting man, I would bet that the average Californian supports it, so the average student-now-adult does, and indeed, maybe that's why it was so hard for Jones to make a persuasive case. Unambitious students want low taxes more than they wanted better educations - sounds stupid, because it is. Anyway, my agenda is only the surprise at the students being the bad guys.

Thank you. I appreciate your admission that you made a series of unfounded assumptions and then used that to judge people you don't know.
It looks very suspictious. Is there a technical description?

In the explanation in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHCKYJG-tII&t=60s , he claims it's hanging from the upper rail insted of repealing the bottom rail. This makes a lot of sense. But in the test in the other video of "existing rails" https://youtu.be/4m6nJM8DQ4M?t=37s there is no upper rail.

Also, they claim some electronic estabilization system, but no electricity or power source.

And in the first viveo, when he shows a no friction demosntration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHCKYJG-tII&t=149s it slows down so much that they have to cut the take.

And I'd expect a lot of eddy currents, that in some cases are bigger than friction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current#Electromagnetic_b...

This part of the wikipedia article is interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current#Repulsive_effects...

> n a varying magnetic field, the induced currents exhibit diamagnetic-like repulsion effects. A conductive object will experience a repulsion force. This can lift objects against gravity, though with continual power input to replace the energy dissipated by the eddy currents.
That might be why his face is there. Surely that counteracts banner blindness (at least partially)?
It's 6 out of 18 bullets and arguably not all bullets are of equal size in terms of work. The starnix ones seem to be broken out to a more granular level.

I'm not sure it was ever a goal for all software to be written natively for fuchsia. Fuchsia only supports c++ in its sdk, which greatly limits the amount of software which can target it.
PyPI suspends registrations amid malware attack
>A true electric successor to the RX-7 would capture so much attention.

Not entirely sure that would be the case even with a Red Sun label on it.
I don't believe the answer is simply "write more", because that leads in the direction of "rise and grind", not epistemic pursuits.

Rather, I believe in writing as part of a cycle of grasping knowledge from different angles, like the blind men and the elephant parable. It's the same reason why teaching is seen as a way of gaining mastery, or why limitations are seen as a source of creativity. You have to take opportunities to let go of one part of the elephant and grasp another to gain the holistic knowledge.
Okay, so the analogous situation here is that you release a new version of the library, and rebuild. Done.