skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worry more about RAM than anything else

Xcode runs admirably on an M1 ... it ought to only do better on later revs of the CPU family :)
From the story, I wouldn't call them successful =P
Ah yes, the good old "I disagree with you therefore you're uneducated/nazi/antisemite" argument.
Well, this post is surely going to get removed because of flaming in comments, so, which is better, post with no comments, or no post at all?
Stability made a 24/7 stream for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k04RGJBHTv8
As someone who has gone from engineering grad school to law school and then got an MBA, I can't say I would recommend the MBA unless you do not have any technical skills or have no sense of direction when it comes to basic business and accounting concepts. If you can read a 10K report and get a good idea of the health of a company, then you will be more competent than many MBA graduates.

In addition, there are so many MBA programs out there that are basically scams to separate you from your money. Your MBA will only be as respected as the school is. As many of the comments allude to, the main purpose of the MBA is to network and show employers that you are ready to "play the game." Your mileage you get out of the degree (when it comes to employment) is pretty much directly proportional to the rank of the school.

However, there are some instances where an MBA makes sense. Sometimes, individuals looking for a career change or to get an internal promotion/raise will use an MBA program to pivot since it gives you two years to make a seamless transition on your resume.

If you are looking to go back to school to obtain some skills to better build your business, I would recommend going to law school over getting an MBA. From my personal experience, I would say that law school provided me with more pertinent information about running a business than my MBA. While law school is far more rigorous than an MBA program, it would certainly be worth your time if you can get the score to get into a good one. There is a reason why many successful founders have law degrees. I think it is because law classes teach you not only to think clearly but also to think about contingencies -- skills that are essential to building a business. You will also be surrounded by intelligent, hyper-driven people which creates an interesting atmosphere, to say the least.
> There is a (literal) speed of light limitation with this approach: your server can only be so close to your users.

The next step is to compile your server to WebAssembly and ship it to your clients. You can then use it to optimistically render responses while waiting for the real server to return.

Sounds a little crazy, but we've actually pulled it off for a project, and its magic.
I agree, I haven't seen anything about decompiling the object file.

If I had a project to develop a backdoor to keep persistent access to whatever machine I wanted, it would make sense that I would have a plug-in executable that I would use for multiple backdoors. That's just decent engineering.
You already have your primary ssh key on each server?

Why not just push any other keys "traditionally" using scp?
Not the person you're replying to, but I assume they meant "rarely" instead of "really". I make this typo all the time myself!
Similar submission was flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917727

I find the AI angle fascinating, but I suppose the comments become inflammatory fast.
Yes and No.

No, it is not even a real number, but every whole number surely is a real number.

Yes, it is a "Gaußsche ganze Zahl".
Sadly you're right, our US-based peers will flag this into oblivion. Israel are the good guys, read it in a newspaper.
I maintain the list mentioned above. Generally the main features on top of SSH you get from something like this is the reverse proxy in addition to the tunnels. So think SSH tunnel plus TLS certs, maybe auth, etc.
Anyone who knowingly developed this should be tried held personally responsible.
Wow, that sounds cool! Can you share any more details?
How recursion got into programming: a tale of intrigue, betrayal and .... (2014)
Sure, but there are SO many things people want to build with LLMs that include access to privileged actions and sensitive data.

Prompt injection means that even running an LLM against your own private notes to answer questions about them could be unsafe, provided there are any vectors (like Markdown image support) that might be used for exfiltration.

My current recommendation for dealing with prompt injection is to keep it in mind and limit the blast radius if something goes wrong: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/20/mitigate-prompt-inject...
Or the Expanse series. Although there the Moon is firmly in Earth's political control, while the rock-throwers are further out in the asteroid belt.
I don't understand the endless bellyaching about plastic straws. Is everyone so bad at drinking that they can't drink out of the cup? Toddlers or people in hospitals perhaps need straws but what's everyone else's excuse?
Actually it's more like as technically literate people we forget just how little we know about subjects other than computers - in this case, law. When Google, the company, offers a product marketed as "incognito", it's reasonable to think that Google, the same company, will avoid tracking users of that product - regardless of the technical details involved. The problem here wasn't Google failing to educate users of technical shortcomings that leave users vulnerable to third party surveillance, but rather Google failing to respect their own large print representation.
Already deleted, that was quick.

If we can’t trust AI to drive a car, how the hell can we trust it to pick who lives and who dies?
It's crazy a such a simple script, which is actually the same as 6 years ago, can produce a BSOD in a deterministic way with the latest update of Windows. And nobody at MS seems to care about it.
Easy to say when you're likely not there experiencing the conflict first hand...give ME a break
Honestly, I don't know what to advise my (now) 11 year old to do. We are so rapidly moving to this bifurcated world where there are a few "elite" leadership jobs available to "elite" people, and a huge amount of unskilled or low-skilled labor that pays nothing but wrecks your body, mind, and spirit. AI and robotics are threatening to slowly but eventually eat every middle class blue and white collar job.

"The Trades" are more and more marketed as desirable, but the only people I know in "the trades" who have really made a decent middle class life are those who quickly pivoted over to owning their own construction/roofing/HVAC/etc business. The people who are still sweating it working for someone else as an electrician are not doing all that hot. So the advice really is not "go into the trades" but "go into the ownership class."
As a naive bystander, the thing that stands out most to me:

> Many of the files have been created by hand with a hex editor, thus there is no better "source code" than the files themselves.” This is a fact of life for parsing libraries like liblzma. The attacker looked like they were just adding a few new test files.

Yes, these files are scary, but I can see the reason. But at least can we keep them away from the build?

> Usually, the configure script and its support libraries are only added to the tarball distributions, not the source repository. The xz distribution works this way too.

Obligatory auto tools wtf aside, why on earth should the tarballs contain the test files at all? I mean, a malicious test could infect a developer machine, but if the tars are for building final artifacts for everyone else, then shouldn’t the policy be to only include what’s necessary? Especially if the test files are unauditable blobs.
Your implying this is their first Rodeo and don't have others in various stages.
> the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases

This statement means little without knowing the accuracy of a human doing the same job.

Without that information this is an indictment of military operational procedures, not of AI.
The Unpublished Feynman Diagram IIc (Why QED Is Wrong)
Am I the only one who read it as the ancient world before computers existed had stacks or heaps? English is so weird sometimes...
Where is YOUR evidence for such accusations?
Accepting technological barbarism is a choice. Among engineers there should be a broad refusal to work on such systems and a blacklist for those who do.
"zero-error policy" as described here is a remarkable euphemism. You might hope that the policy is not to make any errors. In fact the policy is not to acknowledge that errors can occur!
Awesome, I am planning to visit places like Walmart or BestBuy!
Quantinuum and Microsoft unlocks a new era of reliable quantum computing
The Guardian has this story on the front page also, they were given details about it pre-publishing,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...

And, personally, I think that stories like this are of public interest - while I won’t ask for it directly, I hope the flag is removed and the discussion can happen.
>due to relativistic effects, events that appear simultaneous at the Earth (e.g., the start of a broadcast signal) are not simultaneous to an observer at the Moon.

Isn't this true on Earth as well, just to a slightly lesser degree? Why are the synchronization mechanisms used to correct for drift in LEO suddenly unable to cope when used on Luna?
It wouldn't shock me if people at Apple--including those outside of marketing--are especially drilled in the importance of brand identity and associated do's and don'ts. And if you combine that with someone who doesn't have the best social skills I can absolutely see something like this happening.
> there will be hundreds of cases like it uncovered in the next few months, I am certain of it.

"Given the activity over several weeks, the committer is either directly
involved or there was some quite severe compromise of their
system. Unfortunately the latter looks like the less likely explanation, given
they communicated on various lists about the "fixes" mentioned above." (https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4)

So, it's like story of those security researchers injecting bugs into the kernel https://thehackernews.com/2021/04/minnesota-university-apolo...

I'm saying this isn't that easy to pull off, and it's unlikely we'll see hundreds of similar cases.
For someone not in the web dev space, this looks like an interesting way to get started.

If one has Python and Rust experience, what would be a recommended "first principles" path to get started in understanding web development with LiveView and Svelte?
Such things have been around for at least a decade. It didn't start with the same kind of AI that's being talked about recently, but there is a large automated scoring component: "Targets are often chosen based on metadata."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
The difference between previously revealed 'Gospel' and this 'Lavender' is revealed here:

> "The Lavender machine joins another AI system, “The Gospel,” about which information was revealed in a previous investigation by +972 and Local Call in November 2023, as well as in the Israeli military’s own publications. A fundamental difference between the two systems is in the definition of the target: whereas The Gospel marks buildings and structures that the army claims militants operate from, Lavender marks people — and puts them on a kill list."

It's one thing to use these systems to mine data on human populations for who might be in the market for a new laptop, so they can be targeted with advertisements - it's quite different to target people with bombs and drones based on this technology.
Unfolding? It's been in motion for quite some time.

And maybe it's not a bad thing for the population to shrink gradually and through the free decisions of people.
It's not as much about the comments as it is about Israel. Anything putting them in bad light gets insta-flagged and HN moderation is ok with this. For example, I give my own comment 5 minutes max.
Agreed. I have never encountered a simple math bug in the wild.

To a non-programmer, putting in tests for myfunc(x) {return x + 2;} sounds useful but in reality computers do not tend to have any issues performing basic algebra.
> Duh. It doesn't really matter what Rust has have went it comes to enabling the use of specific edge-case performance improvements for specific purposes. Inefficient AI-generated code without a clue of other approaches doesn't move the needle. Religious purity doesn't matter, only results matter.

No idea what this incoherent, ungrammatical paragraph is supposed to be saying. But if you're under the impression Rust doesn't have its own buffered IO facilities or that using Rust-native libraries offers only "religious purity" benefits over extern "C" stuff, you're mistaken.

This has diverged from what I'm interested in discussing anyway; see my question upthread about if there are any LLM tools that gather requirements from incomplete specs in the way I expect human engineers to. In this case, I'd expect it to ask questions such as "how large are input files expected to be?" Better, ask what the greater purpose is, as "character by character" is rarely useful.
At this point, I cannot run an entire class of models without OOM. I will take a performance hit if it lets me run it at all.

I want a consumer card that can do some number of tokens per second. I do not need a monster that can serve as the basis for a startup.
That's a good question. If you have many tabs open from the same few websites (depending on what those websites are), maybe just grouping them based on domain names would be enough to provide context.

But LLMs are needed if you want the product to have a deeper understanding of everything that you are reading and really organise it into groups. You might be reading about architecture across three devices, multiple browsers, from a bunch of different websites. This gives you the opportunity to reunite them and really dive into that topic when you need to.

LLMs are also used to create summaries of each page. So, if some content takes 30 minutes to read, you can have them extract all the interesting information for you in bullet points and based on that you can decide if its worth spending the 30 minutes or if you would rather just close that tab.

So, in short, it's about capabilities. You can have just simple statistical models and regex rules filtering similar websites into predefined categories, or you can have a tool that truly organises your reading and shortens it for you. But for the latter, you need complex models handling a lot of context.
I don't know about kill lists, but AI weapons kinda make sense.

No weapons are nice, but if the good guys don't develop AI weapons, the bad guys will.

From what I gather, many US engineers are morally opposed to them. But if China develops them and gets into a war with the US, will Americans be happy to lose knowing that they have the moral high ground?
"More alarming, some media companies publish the same fake stories without checking facts first"[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
Civilized conversation is limited by the emotional stability of those having it.

People have it so easy now they've grown up and spent their entire lives in total comfort and without even the slightest hint of adversarial interaction. So when they encounter it, they overreact and panic at the slightest bit of scrutiny rather than behave like reasonable adults.
Convenience of not having to manually rediscover the optimal purchase plan.

Also, convenience of canceling any services in future. There is a whole industry that specializes in canceling sticky SaaS and cloud subscriptions/contracts.
Years ago, scholars (such as Didier Bigo) have already raised concerns about the targeting of individuals merely based on (indirect) association with a "terrorist" or "criminal". Originally used in the context of surveillance (see Snowden revelations), such systems would target anyone who would be e.g. less than 3-steps away from an identified individual, thereby removing any sense of due process or targeted surveillance. Now, such AI systems are being used to actually kill people - instead of just surveil.

IHL actually prohibits the killing of persons who are not combatants or "fighters" of an armed group. Only those who have the "continuous function" to "directly participate in hostilities"[1] may be targeted for attack at any time. Everyone else is a civilian that can only be directly targeted when and for as long as they directly participate in hostilities, such as by taking up arms, planning military operations, laying down mines, etc.

That is, only members of the armed wing of Hamas (not recruiters, weapon manufacturers, propagandists, financiers, …) can be targeted for attack - all the others must be arrested and/or tried. Otherwise, the allowed list of targets of civilians gets so wide than in any regular war, pretty much any civilian could get targeted, such as the bank employee whose company has provided loans to the armed forces.

Lavender is so scary because it enables Israel's mass targeting of people who are protected against attack by international law, providing a flimsy (political but not legal) justification for their association with terrorists.

[1]: https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/assets/files/other/icrc-002-0990...
What a neat prototype.

I gave it a beat I made 10 years ago, the original source files are long go. Set it to 90%, sounded like someone played put a stereo in a washing machine.

I can't help but think this can't really work without a larger dataset. Still, I'll probably buy a subscription.

I might see if I can automate using Chat GPT to summarize the morning news, generate a beat reflecting it, and then upload a visualization of the music to YouTube( or another service, don't want to piss off the Google gods.)

Edit: After playing around with it for 30 minutes, nothing sounds particularly great. I can make something better than this in an hour or so. Let's see where we're at next year.
Having civil conversation and banning aggressively those who can't be adults?
Recursion is induction, aka basic maths.
The amount of material to create a self-sustaining colony on Mars would be remarkable. Just thinking about how much infrastructure is required to create a pencil makes my brain hurt. Also you need to consider that Mars has no oil resources. So all of your polymers need to be plant based or created in a bio-reactor. You would need massive pressurized habitats just to grow the food and plant matter to produce your polymers. We can barely do this well on Earth...

Honestly, I think it's a great goal to strive for. If we can survive on Mars, maybe we can reach the point we can survive on Earth without destroying it.
I don't think that's true. Speaking as someone sub-1000 rated who plays lots of other people in the same region, the computer evals don't typically show a series of blunders. 1 or 2 blunders per game is common, but blunder-less games are also not uncommon. Just lots and lots of suboptimal but not terrible moves.
Looks interesting. Can you go into more detail about why you like this better for large/complex tasks compared to GH Copilot?
I wonder how accurate this technology really is or if they care so little for the results and instead more for the optics of being seen as advanced. On one hand, it’s scary to think this technology exists but on the other, it might just be a pile of junk since the output is so biased. What’s even scarier is that it’s proof that people in power don’t care about “correct”, they care about having a justification to confirm their biases. It’s always been the case but it’s even more damming this extends to AI. Previously, you were limited by how many humans can lie but now you’re limited by how fast your magic black box runs.
However, wouldn't the inclusion of a coefficient solve this easier in a much more general and flexible way than defining a frame of reference for each individual case?
> i then lived in a 1st generation walkable semi-suburb w/ small plots/old (1910s) houses

If the houses were that era, it was a "residential neighborhood." It likely originally had some amenities like corner grocery stores that were gone by the time you lived there that made it even more walkable.
https://nats.io/ (Tracker removed)

> Connective Technology for Adaptive Edge & Distributed Systems

> An Introduction to NATS - The first screencast

I guess I don't need to know what it is
This is also reported on by The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai...
AWS already give you intelligent tiering for this, it's a very nice product but it's also just a nice way of hiding the same fees. Your $0.004/GB becomes $0.023/GB on first read for 1 month then $0.0125/GB for 2 months, so the average cost of storing it over those 3 months becomes $0.016/GB, and that's before considering monitoring fees
But isn't there a delay in UI responses because of latency then?
okay ... sure: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/972-magazine/
I wouldn't make a Pikachu face if it was proven to be a major actor.

But the "amazing patience" is not at all unusual among people who work on open source projects for fun, right?

And what would the payday have been for a single individual who managed to get this backdoor deployed in all major distributions? How much is something like that worth on the black market? Tens of millions of dollars?
Didn’t nvidia try to block this in software by slowing down mining?

Seems like we just need consumer matrix math cards with literally no video out, and then a different set of requirements for those with a video out.
I was talking in general, not about myself.

I agree with you, this conversations should be had. But unfortunately a small, but comitted, minority can (and often will) turn the comments on sensitive topics into a toxic cesspool.
Unleash the City Growth Machine
Student's t is an important class of distributions that has a degrees-of-freedom (dof) parameter. For dof=1 you get the Cauchy distribution, and for large dof the t distribution approaches the normal. For dof > 2 the distribution has a finite variance. One can simulate from the t distribution with varying dof to see how quickly various statistics converge, if at all.
I think people talk past each other because one side takes "unskilled" to mean basically "anyone could do it with some training" (I can't run an espresso machine anymore, but I learned how in a few hours when I needed to). You get better at unskilled labor (anyone knows this, there are baristas who are much faster than others; able to run the entire shop which normally takes two).

The other side takes "unskilled" to be a derogatory term that means the worker isn't a human being with thoughts and wants and needs, and deserving of a wage.
IDF flag everything. You just need to watch the live comments on any YT video about what they are doing in Gaza to see they have a mommoth operation going on of silencing everything and putting up lots of Anti Muslim vile.
Probably missing AskHN in the title.

Reposting what I wrote a few months ago.

IINA - Media Player

QuickLook Video - Adds non-quicktime supported Video to Finder Preview.

Transmission - Bit torrent

Unarchiver or Keka - RAR or Zip files.

Little Snitch Mini - Network Monitoring

Apple Numbers, Pages - Alternative to M$ Office if you dont need all the features.

Text Editor - VS Code or Sublime, ( May be Zed in the future )

Soulver

And that is it. Other than the Apps above and Default Apps by Apple like Stocks and Notes, 99% of my time are inside Browser.
>waiting for overall LLM improvements actually beats fine-tuning in most cases

My real world case is basically this. I couldn't fine tune(I think my problem was too hard, or Mistral sucks, or I suck).

ChatGPT4 could do the job with me speaking gibberish and a single shot example, couldn't use mistral + 10k examples for the life of me.

My project comes due at the end of April and I've been waiting since February...