skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at new stories with skepticism is always warranted. As you point out, the original sources provided just that.

Immediately quashing them as "misinformation" is not legitimate in a free society.

That the report was true makes calling it "misinformation" exceedingly naive, at best.
There's a few links down at the bottom of the OP to quite detailed analysis. From there you could join a Discord where discussion is ongoing.
The docs could be better, sure, but where did this idea what "interfaces can never be changed" come from?
> Then you'd look at the scale of the donations it took some of them to vote certain ways for interest groups. Net neutrality was a recent example. Single digit thousands was all it took for some.

Or, they got single digit thousands of donations from interest groups that aligned with their natural voting inclination (or the way party groups or other groups they are concerned with aligning with beyond direct issue-specific donations wanted), and ascribing the donation easily attributable to the position as a significant reason for the vote is wrong.
They could announce it without revealing their detection method. I don't see what the extra indirection buys them.
Given that the server is written in Rust, it is perfect and has no bugs. This must be a cosmic ray that hit a router on the way
Is there something similar for the editors instead of the articles of Wikipedia? I am sure it'd be interesting to see if one can identify communities.
As the father of a son named Daniel, I found this fascinating. Thanks!

I think I agree with the comment in the conclusion that Torah names are used by non-Jews when a Christian comes across the name. But I don't think in this case it's because of the supposed prophecies about Jesus but because the stories about Daniel in the Book of Daniel are memorable. I remember hearing about "Daniel in the Lion's Den" and Daniel sitting in flames in church and in my Children's Bible stories.

But I chose the name for my son not (directly) because of its religious significance but because it's a normal, known name, in both English and Spanish. That is, neither a WASP American or a Mexican will really bat an eye at it. As a Hispanic American, that's something I've appreciated about my own name, Gabriel (and would love a historical deep dive on that name!). I couldn't really find any other names like that.
You basically have a device which can and will be hacked by attackers. One thing to keep in mind is while some malicious code infections are obvious (typically using lots of CPU and/or GPU), others are not because their main purpose is to look for sensitive information and/or spread to other devices.

My main point is using devices which do not receive security updates is not safe. This goes for the iPhone, Android phones, Windows PCs (this is why using Windows 7 on a machine connected to a network is a horrible idea), MacOS, Linux, etc.

No security updates = do not connect the device to ANY network.
> unnecessary deep distrust in law enforcement of any kind.

it's definitely necessary, no one should talk to cops
I just got interested in Mega Man recently - do you recommend a playthrough in order, or is there a best version to play for a good initial experience?
I think OpenAI are running scared of Anthropic (who are moving way faster than they are). The last half dozen things they have said all seem to point to this.

"New model coming soonish" (Sure, so where is it?)

"GPT-4 kind of sucks" (Altman seemed to like it better before Athropic beat it)

"[To Lex Fridman:] We don't want our next model to be shockingly good" (Really ?)

"Microsoft/OpenAI building $100B StarGate supercomputer" (Convenient timing for rumor, after Anthopic's partner Amazon already announced $100B+ plans)

"ChatGPT is free" (Thanks Claude!)
I’ve always had thoughts like that. Like what if we were just some gods classification algorithm and the universe is the data being fed into the algorithm.
Worsening school performance also seems to be correlated with worsening schools. I only really know the issues in the UK but many seem common with other western countries: management by target and metrics, excessive pressure to achieve, demoralised teachers.

correlation does not imply causation, especially likely to be entirely spurious with time series data
I find the example website almost as distracting as a Hollywood ransom note made out of random newspaper clippings. But it's even worse with the continuous variation, as some phrases seem to call out as if the color were emphasis like italics, bold, or underline.

It's got me wondering if zebra-striping background shades as in spreadsheets would be a better compromise. To help some readers with their eyeball "carriage return" without disrupting those of us who visually parse larger blocks of text.
dont keep unhealthy food and snacks at home

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Your home appliances are not connected to a computer network (hopefully)
The title might've been a Fleetwood (the other kind of) Mac reference.

o/~ Wi-Fi's only working when it's rainin'
Players only stutter when they're buff'rin'
Websites, they will page load oh so slooooww
When the rain falls down, you can download
its interesting it would say "Jump Cancel," which i gather wasn't an allowed move from the prompt, but which is an advanced SF/fighting game technique.
Thanks. I never use the slideshow features so I guess I didn't notice.

I do think it's odd to expect an image viewer to be able to do batch conversion, though. That's what I meant by a read-only image viewer.
I was surprised the first time I learned that Python will actually refuse to compile:

def fibonacci(n):
return n

because it knows that the Fibonacci sequence doesn't work that way. It's a fantastic language.
Late reply, but yes we had a pilot project with Starlink for a couple of locations which showed great results. Unfortunately we couldn’t use it in all cases because of stringent information security requirements; otherwise, nothing but good things to say.
In the southern Midwest and in a few of the arid states, there are areas where flash flooding is a problem. In a heavy rainstorm, the shape of the watershed is such that most of the water shows up at a river or stream bed as a concentrated pulse. That can be particularly dangerous in a seasonal stream bed, because you are more likely to have people in a dry stream bed than a wet one. Of course you also have the problem of people crossing a dry bed and not being able to cross back until the rains stop.

There are some famous videos of people getting caught by flash floods in the Middle East as well. The return of the rains seems to have become a spectator sport and people get too close.
The ones you can run on your own machine tend to be bad - really bad. They hallucinate wildly and fail at all sorts of tasks that the larger hosted ones succeed at.

Totally. I recently asked a locally-run "speed" LLM for the best restaurants in my (major) city, but it spit out restaurants opened by chefs from said city in other cities. It's not a thing you'd want to rely on for important work, but is still quite something.
I wonder how the introduction of Neural Processing Units in processors by Interl and AMD might affect the performance equation.
Its about making as much money as soon as possible so you can cash out and diversify. Its not about making a long term sustainable forum model.
I remember in like 4th grade I stabbed myself in the leg with a pencil on accident and snapped a piece of the "lead" off in my leg.

My brain spiraled for weeks thinking I had essentially poisoned myself and would be dying shortly.

Finally told my parents, who said "okay lets go talk to the doctor" who, very sweetly, told me that little piece of graphite in my leg would cause essentially no harm.

It's still there, a little blue-ish dot under my skin.
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SEOs and digital marketing departments needs this kind of services, especially for a huge number of this queries.
Getting this kind of data for “free” is not so straightforward when Google detects that.
Now I'm chuckling at the image of extremely expensive, perfectly cut, nanometer-scale stones.
> like how one of our skin cells don't understand how the body works

And how surprising would it be if, in one of our skin cells, there would be a life form that, through their scientific advancements, actually understands how the body works :)
> No sign up required means no age verification either.

That is an absurd conclusion to speculatively leap to, and wrong. Typically age-gating laws are written so that it doesn't matter if you have to create an account or not. Porn has always been the most common case for this kind of legislation. Most people don't create accounts to watch porn, and most porn is free without needing to sign up. The jurisdictions that require age verification still apply to porn sites where you don't need to sign up.
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Jump host running a different SSH server implementation or SSH over VPN seems a little more reliable.

There's a lot of solutions now where the host has an agent that reaches out instead of allowing incoming connections which can be useful (assuming you trust that proxy service/software).

One place I worked, we ran our jumphost on GCP with Identity Aware Proxy and on AWS with SSM sessions so had to authenticate to the cloud provider API and the hosts weren't directly listening for connections from the internet. Similar setup to ZeroTier/TailScale+SSH
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ifunc
(confession: i work at cloudflare)

but we just made our first announcements for this week, including:
- d1 (our serverless database) going GA
- hyperdrive (SQL query cache for postgres and mysql) going GA
- and workers analytics engine

if you just moved off google domains, i recommend checking out cloudflare pages, which is cloudflare's product for hosting static and dynamic sites (with gitops, everything else included).
Seems like climate change is a meme which deranges the adopters into thinking this kind of planetary alteration is good.
Turboderp released a custom quantized version of dbrx-base and instruct a few days after the official model landed. https://huggingface.co/turboderp/dbrx-base-exl2

You are right, LLMs weights are fast getting commoditized. As fast as compute is scaling now, I don't think it can continue forever, so the huge advantages big players have is going to get wiped. I'm sure they will always be able to deliver at scale, but a super GPT4 performing model available on your local (or small player type) hardware in the next few years seems more likely than a few big mega-players and mega-models.
Yes exactly and no Internet access.
When I started floating to my wife that our next car should be an EV, she immediately demanded "no Tesla" after the string of reports of full self driving hurling people into concrete barriers and trucks.

Valid argument. I didn't plan on getting FSD anyway, but it shows they're willing to put the lives of their customers at risk.
> too small ourselves to fully grasp the complexity

Size has nothing do with ability to understand things, so this doesn't make sense.
> 2. The XZ library injects its own versions of functions in openssl that verify RSA signatures

Specifically how did the xz library patch/hook/inject into the openssl functions that verify RSA signatures?
the lava lamp bit reminds me of this episode, which actually did influence my perspective

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ricks_Must_Be_Crazy

> In the episode, Rick and Morty go inside Rick's microverse car battery, an entire verse that generates electricity to power Rick's car, unbeknown to the citizens of the microverse. Zeep Xanflorp, a scientist in the microverse, creates his own microverse, thus stopping the flow of energy to Rick's car.
I find bayesrulesbook.com to be the best book on bayesian statistics, it's free online html version. Excellent examples, using stan.
Discussed recently: [0] (138 points, 9 hours ago, 255 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891882
Just gotta say that both things can be true.

Investment banks can find it worth less than it was from a return on stock financial view,

and millions of users can find it a fantastic messaging portal,

and individual people may not like aspects of the portal.

"was once one of the largest social sites" - I feel that X is still one of the largest social sites wordlwide and especially in the US.. Priori Data has them in the top 12 of the world at 600 million users 6 days ago.

(https://prioridata.com/data/social-media-usage/ )
> I don’t suppose this will lead the us govt to invest heavily in the open source projects behind SSH?

The cynic in me wants to know, what makes you think Jia Tan wasn't one of their "investments"?
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There's a simple fix for that.

sudo wget -O /usr/bin/ape https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin/ape-$(uname -m).elf
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/ape
sudo sh -c "echo ':APE:M::MZqFpD::/usr/bin/ape:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"
sudo sh -c "echo ':APE-jart:M::jartsr::/usr/bin/ape:' >/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register"

https://github.com/mozilla-ocho/llamafile/?tab=readme-ov-fil...
Like I said, this is a global phenomenon that is not restricted to NA or even just the West, all of East Asia is seeing the same thing. Noah Smith wrote about it this year.

I have seen zero evidence to suggest that schools are worsening everywhere.

> management by target and metrics, excessive pressure to achieve

That is not new.

edit: Haidt recently had a word responding to critics tangentially related to this -- https://twitter.com/JonHaidt/status/1774571680511508601
I guess you have to watch the 20 minute video massive eye roll

But skimming the video to places where there might actually be signal, there is at least one live npm example where there is a call to an external url and then a pipe to sh. This is pretty clearly malicious yet tools like Snyk and Dependabot list it as clean.

Might be worth someone running through the video to pull out the examples given so people benefit from this.
I think they're conflating two types of attacks here.

One is throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks (uploading malicious packages to registries)

And the other is a coordinated and long term attack where someone builds trust in an existing tool or package then inserts a backdoor with that trust.
Yes, more or less. To quote another commenter in another thread, " an open definition of what a computer is, is too inclusive and uninteresting if you want to talk about the history of actual computers".
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> It would take at least 400 dedicated rocket launches a year, for ten years... The project would weigh in at 550,000 tons: at its lightest.

That's quite the scale.

> The solar sail model, to its credit, is capable of being dismantled if things go wrong.

I'm sensing a potential issue here...
First human case of avian flu in Texas
i've been a paid consumer of chatgpt - 4 for a while and i've been recently using gemini more and more, its free and while not as good as gpt-4, it is good enough where paying for gpt-4 doesn't seem worth it anymore.
Agreed, I find lots of these "what is the universe?" questions fall apart, due to the fact that humans aren't great at figuring out what we don't know. Just a thousand years ago, our smartest minds had a very different idea of what "space" was, how our solar system behaved, and even the shape of our planet, but it made sense to them at the time with the technology they had, so it's hard to mock them.

For us to theorize that which we cannot hope to ever understand makes us no different.
Same, but that's probably going to change as soon as appliance manufacturers succeed in forcing me to start buying "smart" appliances.
It matters very much when it comes to perspective. The posters point is spot on so unless you have some counter you should just delete yours.
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It seems most of these companies are increasingly using synthetic data (use one generation of LLM to generate specific types of training data for the next) rather than just looking for more/better human generated data.
compare "Why are we not all called Smith?" https://books.google.ch/books?id=wUdtVHBr-OQC&pg=PA413&lpg=P...
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39889517
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> He contends that the universe is just too perfectly perfect to be an accident.

If it wasn't maybe he would'nt be here to ask the question.
I've had a half-dozen appliance failures that required support in the past 10 years. Funny enough, most of them were made by a large korean conglomerate that also makes phones.
You interpret this article as saying this is good?
Seattle turned a creosote saturated lakefront area into a city park. And then had to shut it down within a year, scrape all the topsoil off to a deeper depth and replace it.

There are actual creosote superfund sites in Puget Sound, from railroad tie manufacture. For some reason the gasworks weren’t one, even though they are a point source of the stuff.
When loading liblzma, it patches the ELF GOT (global offset table) with the address of the malicious code. In case it's loaded before libcrypto, it registers a symbol audit handler (a glibc-specific feature, IIUC) to get notified when libcrypto's symbols are resolved so it can defer patching the GOT.
Yes and no?

3dw is 3(dw) is dw dw dw

d3w is d(3w) is d(w w w)

So the number is doing basically the same thing in both cases.

(this is not a criticism of your mental model, jusst me musing)
would it be sufficient to monitor the symbols called by ltrace, somehow?
What is meant by “whole” when used in “whole food”?
Am I right in saying some Apple hardware is now a brick

Not the ones I use.

I use a 2008 iPhone 3 (15 years old) as an iPod daily with no problems, and a launch day iPad (2010 - 14 years ago) for reading e-mail with no problems. Plus a couple of shuffles I listen to in bed.

All sync with the latest version of macOS and Apple's Music program with no problems.
I think the codes follow the pattern 1111110xxxxxxx. 1111110 is the header, and xxxxxxx is the data. The program rotates the bit string until the first seven bits match the header. This always produces the same data because there isn't a 14-bit string that can be rotated in multiple ways to have 1111110 as the header but different data.
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Boltzmann brain:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (1x08) actually had an episode on this:

https://screenrant.com/strange-new-worlds-boltsman-brain-sta...
Exploring versions of the Postgres logical replication protocol
What seems to be great for developers is that "... Databricks can show how the model was built, step-by-step, as a process for other enterprises to follow and fine tune."
what? Can you do 100G, let alone 400G? Then how does this metaphor transfer? The fact is if you pull up to a Rivian charger you can charge at equivalent or better speeds than EA or Tesla, respectively. The small number of sites is of irrelevance to you if there is a location midway between two nearby metros, for example.
Unfortunately, the name breaks up info: "foc u, mon!"
I don't think any of them force you to have an Apple ID.

There are millions of bricked Apple devices out there though because they are iCloud locked. If someone loses their iPhone or donates it or sells it without removing their Apple ID, then it is literally impossible right now on newer devices to break into them. The parts can't be sold as they all have IDs burned into their ICs that stop them being reused.

A friend last year who owned a bar gave me a huge box of lost iPhones for which the owners could not be found/reached. I could only get into one of them. Rest were expensive doorstops.
> The thing about port knocking is that if you're on a host where you don't have the ability to port-knock, then you're not able to connect.

Then you attach a device that can have port knocking to that unsupported host. Also, I remember it was called port punching not knocking.