skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you are looking at it the right way. Two years matter if you are a hobbyist or your goal is to compromise the system for some individual gain.

For a nation state actor two years is nothing. Likely the entire attack didn't cost more than a couple of thousand hours of developer time. I would guess it was easily cheaper than 100k in financial terms, that is extremely efficient for an intelligence operation with the upside being access to a large amount of servers.

The method by which he got caught also depended largely upon random chance, some major "if's" needed to happen, the performance reduction was an unfortunate side effect from the perspective of the attacker, really a minor mistake exposed him. Even if he were exposed a couple months later the damage would have been enormous, if that version had become a stable part of any major distro for the next few years hundreds of thousands of machines would have been vulnerable.

There is absolutely no reason to assume that if another attack of this quality happens it will not find it's way into some stable distro.
You sound like someone who's not a musician.

There are ways to 'humanize' music, by use of messing around with rhythms/syncopation, velocity, distortion, etc. Not all of it is intentioned - quite a number of stuff is automated. Yet it feels no less 'human' - you would be a fool to think that human-created music must have "intentions behind every beat and every tone". That's not how it works - as any musician, arranger or composer can attest to.

I suspect that AI music can write music far better than even humans, and more consistently than with AI (visual art), given how music tends to be repetitive and more mathematically consistent in that regard.
@dang Please consider that this is an important and well sourced article regarding military use of AI and machine learning and shouldn't disappear because some users find it upsetting.
AI generated kill lists are sadly inevitable. Had hoped we'd get a few more years before we'd actually see it being deployed. Lots to think about here
What do you do with the pictures? The privacy policy is a bit circular.

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Looks like "no" but a few years ago they launched / tested the "deep space atomic clock" which seems like it'll be the basis for future space-based clocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Atomic_Clock
I think in future, it is possible for homes to have "compute wall" similar to powerwall of tesla. Each home has a wifi router why not a compute wall for their needs.
At least magnetic disks are iops constrained, lower iops loads conceivably allow higher density, or packing different load patterns to the same devices. Say a 8 TB / 100 iops disk reserves 90 iops for a 1 TB a database service, that's 87% of the disk's capacity sitting free but only 10 iops to serve it with. Adding what is effectively an iops tax to discourage frequent reads is one way to make a mixture like this work (or another way to think of it - subtracting an iops discount)

Obviously example above is contrived, but same principle applies to a pool of 1000 disks as it would 1. You also don't escape this issue with regular hot storage either, there is still a (((iops * replication count) / average traffic) / max latency) type problem lurking, which would still necessitate either limiting density or increasing redundancy according to expected IO rate. This is one reason why some S3 alternatives with weaker latency bounds (not naming names, they're great but it's just not the same service) can often be made substantially cheaper, and why at least one of S3's storage classes may be implemented entirely as an accounting trick with no data movement or hardware changes at all
And how do you differentiate between fake journalists and fake aid workers with very little reaction time?

Don't you see this is a very dangerous fantasy to believe that.
I tend to listen to synthwave while coding, as for me it has the right mix of energy + being able to ignore. I have felt my playlists have become a bit stale, and have been looking to add new stuff. Now it feels like this could just generate an infinite "good enough" play list.
I think they meant music that elevates space. Like the auditory equivalent to helium.
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I am picturing a toejam and earl type situation, but that music was way better.
The many recalls and occasional explosions probably aren't doing them any favors reputation-wise either. If they had maintained a reputation for impeccable construction despite Musk, Musk would be less of a factor. But they haven't done that.
>He relished challenging readers' thinking and preconceptions.

Yes, on things like (checks notes) segregation. Huh.
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Thanks! It would be great to have your help.

I think your Rust/wasm goals are a little bit dramatic for the goals we established among ourselves, but by all means start a conversation about it. Good support for compile-to-wasm is probably something that we'd be down to have upstream, though.
Getting recursive functions into ALGOL turns out to have been a controversial move that made for a fun story: https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-...
> I have stated facts, not opinions. Facts can be falsified, opinions cannot. If you list a single statement I've stated that is an opinion, or a false fact please do point it out.

You seem to be under the delusion that if you only state facts and never state your opinion, no one will notice that you're arguing for an opinion.

Yes, you're doing a good job of stating a very small percentage of the facts which supports the opinion that Eugene Debs was a proponent of violence.

You haven't explicitly stated that it is your opinion that Eugene Debs was a proponent of violence, but given you're only accepting facts that supports that opinion, I think it's pretty obvious what your opinion is. Whether you state your opinion or not, it's obvious that you have an opinion, and it's obvious what your opinion is.

And I'm not even saying it's a bad thing that you have an opinion: I have an opinion too. Everyone has opinions. Bias is unavoidable. My only objection is that it's absurd that you're trying to present yourself as having no bias.

> [Trump tweets encouraging peace]

> So is Trump now very firmly a believer in peaceful protest?

If those Tweets were the only things in evidence, I'd be happy to say that Trump is firmly a believer in peaceful protest. Those Tweets aren't the only things in evidence, though[1].

> Or is it now somehow different because it's somebody you have a negative view of saying such things, and not somebody you have a positive view of saying such things?

It's somehow different because there's more evidence than just those tweets[1]. If there's more evidence that Debs was a proponent of violence, I'd be happy to consider it, but so far all you've presented is that he was proximal to violence.

Believe it or not, I'm actually not 100% convinced that Trump was involved in the January 6 attacks--simply because I am aware there's a lot of evidence I haven't looked at. It hardly matters--there's plenty of other reasons to think he's a horrible human being--but I'd prefer not to form opinions when I know I haven't looked at most of the evidence.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/23/1145209559/jan-6-committee-fi...
I recently had to have a non-technical person send me a very large file, and encountered this. There really is no good universal way to do this, even here in 2024! File is too big for E-mail, ftp is too big a technical hurdle for the guy. Dropbox requires accounts and sharing and all sorts of access shit for him to figure out. I ended up enabling WebDAV on an existing web server I have admin access to, and luckily he's on MacOS which makes it relatively straightforward to write a file to WebDAV. If he were on Windows I have no idea what I'd ask him to do, since I tried for 20 minutes to figure out how to actually connect to a WebDAV folder in read-write mode and Microsoft thwarted me at every turn.

It's pretty shocking that we don't have a dead-simple cross-platform "send a file to someone over the Internet" solution that doesn't involve cloud servers and accounts and downloading apps.
I really liked the Art of Computer Programming with regards to this subject.

While seemingly obsolete, there are a ton of pre-heap / pre-stack algorithms for dynamically changing arrays or other data structures.

The book also builds up to garbage collection and how to implements Lisp-lists. The kind of encyclopedic knowledge you'd expect from Knuth.

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One of my favorites is how to have two Arrays dynamically take up one space.

Have one array grow normally from location#0, and the second array grow backwards from location#End.

Now both arrays take up the statically allocated space efficiently sharing.

This can be extended to an arbitrary number of arrays, but at that point you might as well use Malloc and Realloc. Or at least, the techniques therein are really close to a malloc-like routine IMO.
There is a distinction between "the technology would never be useful" and "we are in a bubble that will burst." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter for many examples of the latter with regard to various incarnations of "AI."
Should have the ability to turn off comments for these.
Didn't Netscape bundle in a mail client before Opera did?
That's fair, in a game as crazy hard and complicated as self-driving, I shouldn't have implied it's a lock, I don't think anything is a lock when that much cutting-edge technology, complicated institutional incentives, regulators, and a topic guaranteed to interest the public all come together.

I meant to say "I've ridden in Waymo vehicles, a number of times, in non-trivial situations, and it was flawless, so while I'm sure there's a long tail of crazy hard scenarios, it can drive you to and from a restaurant in heavy traffic that involves getting on something that sure looked big enough to be a freeway, getting back off it without trouble, and parking better than any human I know".

How much they spent to get there, and if they're ever seeing that back? I wouldn't know where to begin estimating that. I'm basically sure from first-hand experience that Waymo can do the vast majority of the driving I've ever needed. Maybe it can't cope with insane weather or something, but most people can't really either.

Do the economics ultimately make sense? Dunno.
Who can throw rocks better, a tribe with a giant pile of boulders at the bottom of a valley, or a single man with a pile of fist-sized stones at the top of a mountain?
Exactly. Per discussion in the link, the safe versions are 5.2.x and earlier. So, Debian 11 (oldstable) is not affected as it runs 5.2.5, but Debian 12 (stable) could have some other backdoor from the same author.
You can avoid prompt injection by simply not using LLMs as autonomous agents where the output of the model is critical for security. That sounds like a horrible idea anyways. A language model is the wrong interface between untrusted people and sensitive data
The new political excuse for genocide: wasn't me, the AI did it.
NASA is an Independent Agency[1], which basically means they are a part of the Executive Branch but not part of the White House.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
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It’s slightly more complicated a.) looks like male b.) lives here c.) send unguided munition if less than 15 or 100 other non targets depending upon value of target.
I don't think that's true. OpenAI today opened up ChatGPT to all users, without even the need to login [0]. They are fighting for dominance and firs-mover advantage, and are maybe beginning to feel the heat of the competition.

[0] https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1774848681981710821
Mongo didn't move away from the AGPL to keep SaaS providers from capturing value from the project, they did it so that they could capture more for themselves.
I use an $80 refurbished B&W HP laser printer... pretty happy with it
But, using your own frame of reference, you now need to convert to and fro on each cross-access. I don't really see the advantage. Notably, there is no such thing as an ontological second, it's an abstract measurement unit (loosely) bound to the rotation and revolution of the Earth. Moreover, there is no provision for such a cross-reference of basic progression of time in any Date/Time system currently available. Wouldn't be adding a constant coefficient easier? (Notably, we have modified basic constants several times, already.)
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It would redefine the meter too since the speed of light is defined as a constant and the meter derives from it.
Everyone has a price
No, we've already pre-paid for this insurance claim by paying higher prices for goods so that the shipper could be insured. The insurance company doesn't get to claim that they were unprepared for this. What have they been doing with the insurance premiums for the last however many years?
The way I've understood it is that everything which can 'move' in spacetime has to have a momentum vector with constant magnitude C (when expressed in the right units, C = 1)

The faster you 'move' through space, the more you have to 'borrow' from the time component of the vector to maintain a magnitude of C

That means your 'position in time' moves slower; and so for people who aren't moving as fast through space as you are, they appear to 'experience more time'
Fat Tails Are Weird
Microsoft and Open AI Plot $100B AI Supercomputer Called "Stargate"
The goal of that being?
One is that in an open floor plan, you may not have time to find the nearest actual doorway.

I would also imagine that the strength of any given doorway would depend on if the wall it was in is load bearing. A non load bearing wall is going to get crushed to bits once an actual load falls on it.

I do think the advice is geared towards traditional furniture and not today’s IKEA particleboard crap.
That's very much up in the air with generative AI output. The US Copyright Office has claimed so far that there's just no copyright in model output, though that's far from settled one way or the other. If there is copyright, who owns it would be yet another question.

Sound is even a little trickier than other domains: the composition of a song and its embodiment in a specific recording have separate copyrights. Do both necessarily get treated the same?
Briar can send files over Bluetooth.
It's more about being able to have a civilized conversation in some topics.
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I'm currently, again, trying to get into k8s, not because I like it, but because apparently it's required to know nowadays, so I have to waste time on acquiring this useless knowledge, despite knowing better.

But I'm not interested in DevOps.

I'm motivated by creating something, I like to create.

I like both frontend and backend, but leaning on backend.
I'm not the person you want for super complicated arithmetic challenges.

I'm the webapp/site guy who likes getting things done.

Big picture > devil in the details
HN exists for us to comment on articles. The majority of comments are from folks who didn't even read the article (and that's fine).

Turning off comments makes as much sense as just posting the heading and no link or attribution.
And it will honestly be a good thing for me too.

It will just become like Pinterest for angry people.
But there's no example of any price fixing type of there (or maybe it's just not presented here). Of course prices go up once people know you want the land.

Also, most of the land Disney bought was not good land, but rather swampy or underutilized. I wonder why these tech billionaires don't buy cheaper land in a more rural area instead of focusing on the Bay area. I believe Bill Gates is one of the main holders of land in the US. Perhaps they could buy some from him? Dealing with a single person would be ideal.
That's generally referred to as a Prisoner's Dilemma situation, where locally the incentives are to do something that makes it worse for everyone. The SlateStarCodex author generalized the concept into Moloch:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Had a minor panic; I got to a final stage of an interview for a company called "Lavender AI". They were doing email automation stuff, but seeing the noun "Lavender" and "AI" in combination with "bombing" made me think that they might have been part of something horrible.

ETA:

I wonder if this is going to ruin their SEO...it might be worth a rebrand.
I think that's probably right too. I think it's also important to remember right now most of us are not really artists trying to tell our stories, move people, call to people, whatever, with our art. Most people playing with this stuff right now are techheads faffing around with cool new toys. In the future, I don't know how I'll feel but I suspect when I just want audible distraction, I'll be fine with an infinite loop of AI generated inoffensive tropical house. That won't be the same as seeking out or discovering something a human made, and I don't know I'll care about the tools they used to make it, I'll still be interested to learn why they made it, how they made it, etc.

I went to art school in the early 2000s, lived the second wave of analogue to digital change in the motion picture industry. I was somewhat worried about AI in art, these days I'm changing my mind, I think it will be fine/good and will push the meaning of art even further, that's always good. now I'm excited. Humans will always have emotions. Artists will always art. Humans will always seek out other humans emotions thru art.
Yeah, because they need to spell out what they're trying to have you infer.
There was an article on HN last week discussing theoretical proof that scaling has a hard limit: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-chain-of-thought-reasonin...

Specifically:

> To study how the parallel structure of transformers might limit their capabilities, the pair considered the case where transformers didn’t feed their output back into their input — instead, their first output would have to be the final answer. They proved that the transformers in this theoretical framework couldn’t solve any computational problems that lie outside a specific complexity class. And many math problems, including relatively simple ones like solving linear equations, are thought to lie outside this class.

> But no matter how a prompt is phrased, as long as it causes a language model to output step-by-step solutions, the model can in principle reuse the results of intermediate steps on subsequent passes through the transformer. That could provide a way to evade the limits of parallel computation... They quantified how that extra computational power depends on the number of intermediate steps a transformer is allowed to use before it must spit out a final answer. In general, researchers expect the appropriate number of intermediate steps for solving any problem to depend on the size of the input to the problem. ...Indeed, Merrill and Sabharwal proved that chain of thought only really begins to help when the number of intermediate steps grows in proportion to the size of the input, and many problems require the number of intermediate steps to grow much larger still.

So there’s a large space of O(n) and O(constant) problems that LLMs seem to scale very well on, but if they need O(n^2) examples in their training data to learn how to solve O(n^2) problems (even with prompt engineering!) then that’s a hard limit.

ETA: there’s also good (IMO irrefutable) evidence that AI researchers have deluded themselves about the scalability of LLMs because of motivated statistical reasoning: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.15004

In fact it seems to me that “LLMs scale well” means “LLMs can solve O(n) problems if you give them O(n) examples in their training data,” which is actually not very interesting. The interesting thing is that the internet + Moore’s law allows us to build (and compute on) O(n) training data for an enormous variety of problems.
It's been a number of years since I worked on it. I can try to answer your questions. The calls were nearly entirely INCR calls against keys that were typically around 150 bytes long and app logic was based on the return values. I believe each node took up around 20GB of memory when saturated. Redis uses a single CPU, so core count shouldn't matter, no? I'm not entirely sure what our NIC situation was, but it was tuned to handle gigabit traffic.
They tend to remove posts causing flame in comments
Plenty of us are capable of having civilized conversation on these topics.

If you can't, you should be banned. The problem will work itself out over time.
Farming? Where does this myth come from? Farmers hate DST. The cows want to be milked according to the sun, not to a clock.

https://agamerica.com/blog/myth-vs-fact-daylight-saving-time...
Continuously throw enough plot twists and general stimulation at people and they'll never have the time to consider whether they're living in a simulation.
Short version? With a pile of XML docs, Asciidoc's DocBook XML backend represented the "Legacy Tail" or Lenny Effect (Lenny Tail?) that gave us some insurance we'd have a stable format. We didn't see that in the Markdown ecosystem - we would have had to pick and choose Markdown variants and extensions, anyway - and the ReStructuredText ecosystem had no such tail and too many Python/Sphinx dependencies (corporate infosec had a real chip on its shoulder about Python).

There was a lot of nights and weekends spent prototyping and wrestling with various old aero/milspec formats, but at the end of the day we came out with a publications format that could do more than the original could, on common tooling, where everyone who wanted to could contribute. I put it in the "win" column.
The visible difference between answers that are broadly plausible and reliably exactly correct is going to be relatively small, probably only distinguishable by experts in a field. But the economic value and technological progress in achieving that leap will be colossal.
Isn't he done with videos now?
I totally embrace the idea that these farmers should be able to tell some Bay Area billionaires to fuck off and "disrupt" their plans.

> Im also in favor of apartment blocks in atherton for what its worth. We should do both.

Again: first bulldoze Atherton and build 20-story Chinese-style apartment blocks there, then move on to the rest of the Bay Area. When it all looks like this (https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/building-apartment-...), then maybe I'll reconsider.
Anyone know if there's a ComfyUI style interface or similar for the audio models?
Or in the words of Shaggy…

“Saw you blowing up the children…”

“It wasn’t me.”
No, los alamos chess is los alamos chess. No one refers to it as just chess. The furthest someone might go would be chess with or without castling. There’s pai gow poker and Texas holdem poker and they’re referred to as such because they’re games with different rules. I don’t particularly care to die on this sudoku hill but it bothers me enough to say something.
Sure. Could have been a rogue jerk. But even then maybe it's not a coincidence that the rogue jerk is from Apple specifically.
Is it a local/regional ISP? Do you have a static IP with them?

Either of those can factor-into relative accuracy of geolocating your public IP
First crypto then AI, I wish GPUs were left alone for gaming.
my current favourite bit of japanese: 関係ない(kankeinai)

"this is superfluous: its connection with what we are talking about has a weight ~0"
A small, highly sensitive gravimeter that can operate stably at room temperature