skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's already true on forums where answers depend on humans. It's possible that LLMs will make it even more prevalent but they won't have started the phenomenon.
"I hope they can get out from under this and try to find meaning, ideally from repairing the harm they've done."

How exactly would they do this? Have you read the victim impact statements?

Mistakes are errors. Like typing "Rick Heicklen" instead of "Ricki Heicklen".

But intentionally breaking the law in order to profit, is that a "mistake"?

A error in judgment perhaps.

SBF claimed he made "mistakes" but he never admitted guilt and he never apologised for breaking the law. He perjured himself while expecting the audience to believe he was "brilliant", competent and trustworthy to handle other peoples' money.

If what Heicklen calls "smart people" can work for a company with no organizational chart, no board of directors, no CFO, no need to use more than QuickBooks for handling millions of dollars in customer deposits, then perhaps these people are not "smart".

And it would be a "mistake" to believe otherwise. (Heicklen may still be disillusioned.)

We are living in a time when it is not safe to assume that because there is large amounts of money behind something that this something is in fact legitimate.

These people named in the comment all come from privileged backgrounds. Many of the victims of the FTX collapse, the ones who wrote to Judge Kaplan before the trial and the ones who submitted impact statements before sentencing, do not. Call me cynical but I do not forsee any of those named in Heicklen's blog post going to work to serve (cf. exploit) people from non-privileged backgrounds.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
Is it really bad, or is it yet another “kids playing games nowadays” bad?

We just invented new instruments for being lazy. The articles were diluted to meet page quota before. The absurd, idiotic videos for kids didn’t start with AI. Models knew about collapse from the start, they’ll figure out.

IMO, the article is a low-key FUD piece with no goal.
For typescript I've found pgtyped to be my perfect middle ground. I write SQL queries, it auto generate typing for the query and the response.
Chopsticks could also be a codeword for something. Maybe some sort a backdoor into a system somewhere.
The timeline suggests this is a patient hacker. The most patient of which are nation-states because they're not worried about cashflow and think in terms of years.
There are companies that have tried, like Capstone (formerly Capstone Turbine, then Capstone Green Energy). Capstone declared chapter 11 bankruptcy last year (since emerged and continuing under new leadership.)
Man what I wouldn't give for us to be 5 years in the future, where it has turned out that open source AI running on commodity hardware not only exceeds human needs and has led to a massive global quality of life increase, but also does not need as much hardware, leading to a massive divestment in large corporate data centers, including the implosion of Microsoft, Google, and AWS.

I realize that is fairly implausible.

We'd have to really luck out on:

- mobilizing free and open source AI

- gaining 1 or 2 orders of magnitude of improvement in AI energy efficiency

- connecting open source AI to opportunities for improving human quality of life.

It would be foolish to bet on this, but it would be amazing to strive for it. And I seriously hope we can see it!
> I believe the future is 1 bit models - for both training and inference.

1 bit's nothin'. The future is training directly on electronic/photonic circuits.
GPU's aren't really designed for 1 bit math... They don't perform much faster than floating point math.

Whereas a custom ASIC or updated design of GPU could give massive speedups with 1 bit math.
Not just Jia. There are some other accounts of concern with associated activity or short term/bot-is names.
Gnu yes is actually pretty bloated. It's 130 lines of code for something so trivial [1]! ;)

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
22 billion would be a bargain bro :)
I was with you on the generalities, but oh do theoretical physics suffer from math envy when it comes to formalism. Basically since the invention of quantum mechanics, has physics been dominated by “proofs” and “theorems” like the physical world is assumed to be axiomatically defined by Heisenberg’s and Pauli’s principles, and everything else is just maths.
No small part of the stagnation I sense in physics today stems from too deep a faith in the ultimate truth of the mathematical models we call theories. It doesn’t help the fact that we rely on Taylor expansions and perturbation methods for most experimental predictions.
The Higgs hunt and the passivity of the (experimental) physicists in challenging this stupid theory-driven search for new physics is emblematic of this era.
If only math was seen as a modeling language and not somehow truth/consistency itself, physics would be much better off.

(Disgruntled particle physicist, declaring colors)
The reason is often the opposite: you don't want people coming in that door (maybe it's a limited-access building and you don't want to staff security/ID checker at more locations). Sure, you can lock it from the outside, but if people are regularly leaving from that door, randos outside are going to sneak in before the door shuts.
Presumably work on this device began well before the existence of Google Gemini was public knowledge. Either way, this product has no relation to AI or Google, so it doesn't matter.
From 2016, last updated in 2022, so way before the current xz backdoor debacle[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
Isn’t 1bit too low for optimal radix economy (Euler’s number) though?

I want to see somebody try “imbalanced quaternary” -,0,+,2
Well at least you can tell if there’s a party going on in room 106.
Its called a series hybrid, there have been a small number of plug-in hybrids that used that design, they weren't successful in the US and are no longer in the US market. But that may not be anything particular about the technology; I wouldn't generalize from such a small set.
> A paper that appeared in Nature in 2013 put the number of birds killed by cats in North America at somewhere between 1.3 and 4.0 billion birds every year, a total that is mostly driven by unowned cats.32 If this figure were accurate — a big if — it would dwarf the toll of every other direct cause of human-driven bird mortality.

The chart which follows this quote does not include "habitat loss" among the "direct causes" of human-driven bird mortality, which is an odd framing considering its undeniable impact. Humans replace forests and prairies with residences and roads and monoculture crops, then blame cats for why there aren't enough birds around. Sure cats aren't exactly helping the situation but it seems bizarre to lay the blame at their feet like this.
This mailing thread is quoted in the 2022 part on the page on the xz maintainer being pressured to add new maintainers for xz: https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.h...

Seems like the usual story of some lone maintainer maintaining a popular project and losing their time and energy.

The post doesn't spell it out but I wonder if they implied there's a suspicion that the person doing the pressuring there is also another sock puppet of JiaT75 as some scheme of getting access to xz. That would seem particularly cruel; take advantage of a tired maintainer with mental health issues to use their project to smuggle security exploits to the world.

Regardless, be nice to people who are doing "unpaid hobby projects" your work depends on. Reading the thread made me sad.
command-shift-3 in bash comments out the current line and hits enter.
I will start with a quote from the article you link to: "But, in what ways do feelings and emotions improve fitness? An antelope escaping from a lion needs to run quickly and efficiently. Why, from an evolutionary point of view, does it also need to feel the terrible feeling of fear?"

At that point in its life, consciousness might not be much of a help to it, but here's a similar question: when an antelope first sees a pride of lions in the distance, could it be of evolutionary advantage for it to feel anxious? From there, we can step to an even more pertinent question: if an early human or close hominin ancestor contemplated the possibility of a pride of lions moving into their neighborhood, could it have been advantageous for them to feel anxious?

One response that does not seem far-fetched is that it might prompt the individual to think about how to defend against the threat. This would involve considering various scenarios and how they would play out. This is not just a matter of recalling past events, as these are hypothetical scenarios. Istead, it is a matter of synthesizing an imagined scenario from memories - but there is a phenomenal - 'what it is like' - aspect to memories, some combination of recalling the original phenomenal experience itself or the phenomenal experience of how one felt at the time. Any less direct association between what we experience in the world and how we think about it seems both unnecessarily complex and at risk of our imagination becoming completely detached from the world we live in.

I can't prove that this is how it works, but in this view, it is quite plausible that phenomenal consciousness was a key prerequisite for the route by which we acquired our higher mental abilities (including explicit self-awareness and a theory of mind about other people), and is necessary now. You can claim that all these abilities are possible without phenomenal experience, but even if that were so, it does not follow that phenomenal consciousness is evolutionarily impotent, as evolution can only work by small increments, so we do not see, for example, macroscopic organisms with wheels. It is not clear that there is a path to this allegedly superior mind even if it is possible.

Furthermore, if phenomenal consciousness is evolutionarily impotent and suboptimal, how did we get it, and why does it not atrophy (which is the fate of all other biological features once they are no longer advantageous)? Panpsychists want to summarily reject an incomplete hypothesis and substitute one that redefines the whole universe to make consciousness fundamental, while saying literally next to nothing about what that means, what consciousness is, and how it works.

Thanks for the reference by the way; I keep a small collection of these sorts of thing.
So if one of your peers pulls a fire alarm or blasts an air horn in your work place, while you're on a call or engaged in some other highly focused task, the appropriate response is to just shrug and think "I need to be such a highly emotionally controlled person that I can only passively deactivate the alarm, contact an authority who won't even be here before the culprit leaves and just move on with my day"?

Fine, I didn't "scold" this person, I called out a peer for their shitty, antisocial behavior. Or is holding someone accountable even in words for the painful consequences of their decisions unacceptable too?
I think EV weight is a genuine problem, and tbh most people really don't need 300 mile ranges, especially if they can charge at home and/or work.

We need EVs with smaller batteries, and much more ubiquitous charging facilities. And possibly portable range-extender batteries or small ICs for longer trips.
We may go to unducted fans soon. The latest iteration of this concept has two sets of fans, one set of which doesn't rotate.
I think you have a definition for "scolding" outside the mainstream.

You scold someone who has done something wrong and should know better. There need not be any judgment about the person's worth attached.
> “Internment camps” and “concentration camps” are historical synonyms, the latter has subsequently taken on additional negative loading because of euphemistic use of the term for German extermination camps.

This is completely wrong.

The term concentration camp was invented in the Second Boer War. It described a tactic of war used by the English against to Boers and native Africans. Because Boers and Africans did not have centralized cities and lived off the land rather than having industrialized farming the developed tactics of disrupting the supply lines didn't work on them. The supply lines were too horizontal.

So first they burned and salted the land so that Boers and Africans could no longer subsist. Then they forced the people whose lives they destroyed into what they called concentration camps.

~50k people died in these concentration camps essentially every 3rd person that went in.

The forcible population transfer at gunpoint is what differentiates concentration camps from internment camps which were used by the Spanish in Cuba in the Ten Years War.

Unlike the English who simply treated humans like cattle and forced them to move the Spanish evicted Cubans and killed those who did not comply after 10 days. The US took the English route for the Japanese, while using the Spanish name to differentiate themselves from Nazis who also ran concentration camps.

Likewise it's really funny to say that GULAGs were genocidal while US internment wasn't, because literally there's less intent (in the Western legalistic sense) of genocide in the GULAG case. GULAGs were equal opportunity in terms of ethnicity. Japanese internment wasn't. GULAGs were a problem because the USSR got addicted to slave labor relations that it recreated from a previous era, the USA of all countries has no real standing to criticize it on those grounds because the US still does this to this day, which is why the old Sovietologists were grasping at straws to ideologically differentiate between two similar systems. The big 4 western theories of the function of GULAGs (Solzhetsyn, Consquest, Applebaum and Bauer) literally do not include ethnic cleansing. That's a neologism.

There's no point in continuing the discussion since you literally do not even know the history of what you're talking about.

Edit: To make it crystal clear.

The difference between the GULAG system and the Soviet population transfers and the US internment and deportations that gives more creedence to US commiting ethnic cleansing is the ethnic composition of the material benefactors of those actions and their victims.

The people who were victims in the US were targetted minorities who were disposessed of their wealth by their fellow white citizens.

The people who were victims in the USSR were not targeted minorities, and the benefactors were not an ethnic majority whose main benefit was taking their victim's property.
Don't do it. Unless you've foundn a specific niche, competing in a software house space will be a race to lowest price and you will often lose to Eastern Europe/India software houses.

If you really want to do it, consider building a product. Often times, devs in SH need to be placed on a bench while waiting for a new project to land/start.
Tool Time was an interesting chapter in my life, but not as lucrative as one might think.
Exactly what I was trying to get at, thanks!
Customer service at one of my banks has an official policy of sending me a verification code via email that I then read to them over the phone, and that's not even close to the most "wrong" 2FA implementation I've ever seen. Somehow that institution knows what a YubiKey is, but several major banks don't.
those pipe usages are quite suspicious

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...

pipeing into this shell script which now uses "eval"

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-n...

i guess this will be revisited and removed soon
Something about this I found surprising is that Linux distros are pulling and packaging pre-built binaries from upstream projects. I'd have expected them to build from source.
This guy's interactions seem weird but it might just be because of the non-native english or a strange attitude, or he's very good at covering his track e.g. found a cpython issue where he got reprimanded for serially opening issues: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/115195#issuecomment...

But clicking around he seems to mostly be interacting with interest around these bits e.g. https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95341#issuecomment-... or pinging the entire python team to link to the PR... of a core python developer: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95341#issuecomment-...

If I saw that on a $dayjob project I'd pit him as an innocuous pain in the ass (overly excited, noisy, dickriding).

Here's a PR from 2020 where he recommends / requests the addition of SCRAM to an SMTP client: https://github.com/marlam/msmtp/issues/36 which is basically the same thing as the PR you found. The linked documents seem genuine, and SCRAM is an actual challenge/response authentication method for a variety of protocols (in this case mostly SMTP, IMAP, and XMPP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salted_Challenge_Response_Auth...

Although, and that's a bit creepy, he shows up in the edition history for the SCRAM page, the edit mostly seem innocent though he does plug his "state of play" github repository.
Xz: Disable ifunc to fix Issue 60259
Spotify doesn’t do either well. It’s getting to the point where I’m considering dropping my family Spotify plan.

By contrast, Apple Music just works.
I've fixed a few systems by simplifying their schemas. Over-engineering at the database level can lead to a lot of issues beyond just performance. The extra complexity causes a lot of overhead with technical debt, lots of ceremony around changes, etc. Performance issues are usually a good indicator of a team that is a bit out of their depth. Usually goes hand in hand with over engineered data models being mapped 1 to 1 to a table structure.
> if I'm interviewing and get a better offer, I'm probably gonna leave.

If I could get the same amount of money from my current job I would probably stay unless I'm sure I would love the other job more. Because when money is a constant, it's either do I want to keep doing what I'm good at, or jump into something possibly different (and riskier).
You might enjoy Three Books of Occult Philosophy and The Kybalion.

To name a few, modern physics, chemistry, and psychology are rooted in alchemy and astrology.

A major problem is that people accept the literal interpretations of those practices to either discount or credit them. Ironically, this stems from the self-imprisonment in material existence, the bonds of which occult studies seek to cut.
I'm sure user-defined structs can benefit from combining information from multiple functions, but saying that what you get today is “basically none” is a bit of an overstatement. Also, the special (and important!) case of operating system ABI structs is great, and that information propagates throughout function calls.
This is a great summary. A huge loss, especially in the public arena, where the combination of vast expertise, academic authority, and the courage to speak truth to power is too rare.

He was also a gifted communicator - both his lectures and books were not just filled with insight, but compelling to watch or read, in stark contrast to much academic work.
“2 min or 45”

IME any vm operation via portal takes at least 15 minutes. Stop/start/restart/redeploy. It’s so consistent it feels like they just slept for 14 minutes then do the thing.
The last paragraph is one of those commonly-believed things which did not, in fact, happen. https://going-medieval.com/2023/05/16/on-cats/
If the facility has any need to control access, they need to be more aggressive than just one way doors, since fire-code compliant one-way doors are trivially defeated with a doorstop.
The San Ti need information from Earth as part of their plan to relocate there. At light speed, this would take 4.5 years to arrive. Without an FTL link to earth, they will be arriving "blind" (or with only the information that Ye and Evans might have passed along after 1967).
I'm literally waiting for it, have been for quite a while. Small cars have numerous benefits over just being sporty. An electric, or even a hybrid 86/BRZ or miata would be great, but can't be compared to the mini or fiat, and while tesla might be fast, it's huge. Even with a price increase these could be more affordable than a lot of sports cars. The 86/BRZ has been a huge seller too.
And done well, it need not be land bound or even earth bound.
> In hindsight, this does not "look good to me"

Heh
Not so much the past few weeks, but I was getting a lot of them before the Texas primary. And I expect it to pick up again as we get closer to the US elections.

My tactic is similar to that of a poster below. I respond back with “ I don't vote for candidates who text spam me. Die in a fire.” and block the number.
Other people have already mentioned the distinction between turbojets (what you’re describing) and turbofan engines, but I think there’s another inaccuracy:

> They produce very little power, just enough to power the Auxiliary Power Unit (that manages the plane electronics, air-conditioning etc.).

The APU is a completely separate gas turbine that doesn’t rely on the main engines. As a consequence, the APU on an airplane will also have its own exhaust.

> If you want to use a gas turbine for producing power, you will set it up such that most of the energy goes into the work generated, rather than the exhaust, so it would be a cooler, slower exhaust, similar to an IC-engine.

Yes, obviously. At the same time, I was under the impression that turboprops and turboshafts on airplanes and helicopters still produced enough jet exhaust to represent a safety hazard, and in those applications you would also expect that most of the energy would go into the work generated rather than the exhaust. So is it just that this residential generator is even more efficient than the main engine of a heavy-lift helicopter? Is it because it’s a less powerful machine in the first place? I could continue to speculate about this but I don’t actually know.
It will soon. I think I have to sort it out before April 4. My passwords are already >20 random characters, so I wasn't going to do it until they told me to.
I've degoogled quite well, the only real google services I continue to voluntarily use are YouTube and Maps. Although I don't use YouTube itself, I mostly interact with it through third party apps (i.e SmartTube or Invidious) and with Maps... well... nothing comes close. I wish there was a decent competitor to Google Maps but there isn't. I tried using Apple Maps but it lacks all of the crowdsourced information that Google has access to.
I’m not sure how this would solve the hard problem. Could you please elaborate on that?
If it looks like a regular door, people will open it. If it is not a regular door, it should not look like one.
Evolutionary algorithms made you, didn’t they?
Isn't it a Miller cycle engine, not Atkinson? Miller cycle exploits variable valve timing to make the compression stroke effectively shorter than the expansion stroke (but reduces the amount of air being compressed, reducing power); Atkinson has some funky extra joints in the rod or crankshaft, I think.

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_cycle

However, these modern Miller cycle engines are being called Atkinson or Atkinson-Miller cycle for some reason.
> Is there even a reason for an emergency exit to not be treated as a regular, auxiliary exit?

Absolutely, ex:

1. When that exit may be used as an entrance to a prohibited or fee-only area. Someone inside opens the latch for people waiting outside, either intentionally or accidentally, allowing them to enter without being noticed.

2. To supplement other things which may trigger an alarm, or for situations that can't be detected in a simple standard automated way. (E.g. violence, unusual chemical spill, wild animal.) It also means you don't need to plant as many alarm-panels around the place which panicked people are unlikely to use on their way out anyway.