skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that 1) is a meaningless expectation when you're explicitly running a program that is giving probabilistic outputs.

To 2), my point is exactly that if anything talking about the struggle to get LLMs to do mindless repetitive rule application is not even close to being an argument against LLMs ability to scale to AGI. At most they're an argument for why LLMs will need at least some scaffolding around them. (That does not mean they are certain to be otherwise architecturally enough)

It is useful to step back and look at examples like this, but concluding from it that they say anything about how far they are from being generally intelligent is not. If it does get more people to drop the bizarrely unreasonable intuition that you should expect them to be good at repetitive tasks, that'd be helpful though.
Never underestimate the value of a transformational scapegoat to an executive, or a board ... or shareholders.
Nearly spot on. I indeed was seeing sshd usage via top.

> but the backdoor made each login attempt use a significant amount of CPU time to check whether it was an encrypted request from the attacker

Absurdly enough, the high cpu usage is well before it even tries to figure that out. Due to avoiding "suspicious" strings in both the binary and memory, it has a more expensive string matching routine. Finding all the symbols it from the in-memory symbol tables ends up slow due to that.

That's why even sshd -h (i.e. printing help) is slow when started in the right environment. There's not enough visibility into other things that early during process startup (this happens long before main() is called), so they couldn't check what key is being presented or such. They really "should" have deferred much more of their initialization until after the ed448 check happened.

> (and this particular machine had its sshd open to the Internet because it was a cloud machine being accessed via ssh through the open Internet)

Unfortunately not. It's a machine I have at home, with some port of my public IP redirected to it, as I often need it when not at home. Oddly enough, my threat model did not include getting attacked with something as sophisticated as this, so I thought that was fine (only pubkey, no root).
Yes, typically the base layer is set theory (with ZFC being the "standard" formulation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics
> What makes housing so expensive?

Because people will pay it.
Exactly! Call the CSO at home. That’s their job. If you want the guard to pick up their phone, budget for it.
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How unlikely is it that some major iot device manufacturers outsource the firmware to someone who puts botnets in to start with? Who writes fridge firmware? Does ge or Samsung do that in house? Ovens? Definitely some liability there, but I'm not sure which way that drives it, out or in.
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people are giving 'cancel culture' a bad name, but in our late stage capitalism, where the markets apparently must dominate both democracy and religion, my take is that voting with your wallet is both your duty and the only option you have left. I had to buy a new car recently, and elon musk's persona is the main reason I didn't pick a tesla.
Thus, “The risk of being sued is very different though.”

However, that just circles back to few people asking what their insurance company might think.
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> Cuba is a place with little natural resources and that suffers with a criminal economical blockade.

Right, real scarcity. You can't just wish post-scarcity into being. The USSR also made the same pledge under much the same conditions, all while being in control of most of the world's natural resources. But, still, scarcity prevailed.

> capitalism will not allocate the resources in a way that maximizes human benefit

Where humans are deemed beneficial then capitalism will allocate towards maximizing human benefit. Where humans are not deemed beneficial, you cannot system yourself out of that. Capitalism itself has no thoughts or feelings towards humans, only humans do.

And, indeed, you are quite right that humans by and large hate other humans and will do all kinds of things to "keep them down". The legal system goes to great lengths to ensure that humans cannot be come beneficial. That’s not capitalism, though.
Seems like a tangier Egg cream of NYC fame and lore.
In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the early Plex codebase was a fork of XBMC.
There is also ast grep [0]

0: https://ast-grep.github.io/guide/introduction.html
> Its so easy to put the blame on some amorphous, anonymous abstraction like "Wall Street" because we can feel self-righteous. But things are the way they are because--by and large--we like them that way.

Could it be that the electorate’s power to effect change has become usurped by lobbyists?

No, it is the voters who are wrong.
Sure my comment was probably over-simplified, but I was imagining fines as coming out exclusively of whatever slice of money goes to the beneficiaries of public companies, vs. something that comes out of a bank account or operating expenses.

So any money that _would_ have been paid out to shareholders (bonuses, dividends, buybacks) is what goes to pay the fine, until it is paid. This would dis-incentivize decisions that benefit shareholders at the risk of breaking rules. We all hear about fines being "one day of operating expenses" and so on.. So who cares about getting fined then.

In retrospect I'm sure this isn't that realistic as companies would just do accounting gymnastics to get around this, as many do for other accounting rules.

And it would probably impose an undue burden on auditing to make sure money is put in the right buckets etc...
The -fno-omit-frame-pointer bit is separate from the slowdown. -fno-omit-frame-pointer lead to valgrind warnings, but no perceptible slowdown in most (including this) cases.
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Greptile (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer
US companies? I'm with you, no! Foreign companies, absolutley. Even the suspicion of malicious abuse should be enough to ban a foreign company. Foreign persons and entities have no rights in the US and our government owes them as much explanation as they give us when they ban US companies on a whim.
Those aren't an equivalent solution at all. A NAS is for storage of lots of data, even the biggest options from the companies you mentioned wouldn't provide as much data as I have on my NAS. If I were to host the data in a real solution for larger amounts of data such as with Backblaze I'd have to pay nearly $1000/year.

There are multiple different tiers of data that I keep: on device, encrypted snapshots, cloud, and NAS. There is differing amounts of money and effort I'm willing to spend depending on the type of data, but no one solutions is sufficient for everything.
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I hate everything about how chats are organized in teams.
From the chat announcements from meetings I didn’t join.
Meeting chats mixed with my individual chats.
Channel chats where you’re often accidentally starting a new thread.
Why meeting chat in chat window but not channel threads?
Ugh, tell me about it. I'm in the process of closing one and have been for 1.5 years now. I think we're close, but who knows. I certainly don't
> This is compounded by the process being automated being the 'idealised' one - not taking into account the exceptions and variations.

On the contrary, generally tools such as Workday support a generally ideal workflow, but buyers spend years "integrating" aka devolving that workflow to mimic the manual toil of before the tool, including often unnecessary exceptions and variations.

The end result is often strictly worse, as the flow did not improve and now there are even more human (error prone) steps and more technical parts to break.
> remember that Supreme Court ruling

Corporate personhood is a centuries-old legal concept [1], finding first mention at the Supreme Court in the 19th century.

> then Boeing should be held criminally liable

They were charged in 2021, and entered into a deferred-prosecution agreement after paying a $2.5bn fine [2]. It appears the DoJ is already looking into the Alaska Airlines blow-out [3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/justice-department-ope...
If you are looking for something like this try:

- https://shop.elenco.com/consumers/brands/snap-circuits.html

- https://upperstory.com/spintronics/
CNN? Really, HN? Just announced 3 days ago: "Ford Delays Upcoming EV Three-Row SUV Until 2027, Prioritizes Hybrids". Who putting the brakes on producing BEVs? It's the OEMs. And why? Well, just throw a 7KwH battery in your gas-powered car and get the $7500 federal tax credit at point of sale... they can't make BEVs profitably at scale (outside of Tesla and BYD), so just keep pushing out the goal...
>Isn't the whole point of the cloud is simplicity?

Maybe for a few cloud offerings, but not for cloud in general. I think the point of the cloud is that businesses can exchange employees for services, and shift some of the maintenance responsibility.

No service is for the people who actually interact with it. It's for the ones that pay for it.
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Everybody keeps mentioning BYD and how many cars they sell. In my corner of Europe I have not seen one BYD car. I see a ton of Teslas and more every day and people who have them tend to rave about them.

BYD is not (or barely?) in Europe, not in the US. How are they some huge factor?
BTW, follow the sun is getting more complicated. Lots of large contracts in the US (and almost anything adjacent to the gov’t or their contractors) require US-only data storage and access now. I’ve worked with enterprise customers who were adamant that none of their data can leave the US under any circumstances, including having a subcontractor in London provide support.
Based on the pattern and other words that aren't capitalized like "vision" in "apple vision OS", I would guess it's as simple as "author used speech to text and apple is a word that is common in the English language and isn't usually a proper noun so isn't capitalized automatically."
Do you make all your purchasing decisions based on the company's CEO? What if you don't know his or her stance to know whether it aligns with your values... what then? Better not to know?
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Whether anyone thinks it's a "good thing" or not is kind of irrelevant.

You're free to try and build regular deterministic software that can do the things GPT-4 or Midjourney can.

Hint: Some of the greatest minds tried this way for decades and failed. It's so bad that we abandoned GOFAI for NNs in NLP long before the emergence of the likes of GPT. We use Connectist Neural Networks today because they work not because it was our first choice.

The plain truth of the matter is that all the General Real-World Intelligences we know, whether human, animal or now even silicon work this way, with a "probabilistic UI". In fact, the idea that it can work any other way has succeeded only in the realm of fiction and it wasn't for a lack of trying.
all canvas are tainted, it's the chemistry of the team that decides what will become of it
Isn’t that already an option in Italy with the SRL Semplificata and initial capital starting at 1€?
For anyone out there about to try Vegemite on toast for the first time: the secret is to only apply a VERY THIN layer.

The first time I tried it, I gooped it on like jam. Don't do that!

I learned this from my Aussie friend.
BYD is indeed struggling in Europe but their low cost options sell supremely well in other markets.
> Anecdotally, sleep seems to be the number one factor that influences my productivity. More so than diet, exercise, or even mental health.

These are far from independent variables though.
US Army Corps of Engineers Tentative Timeline to Reopen Fort McHenry Channel
> Management are the lords and everyone else are the expendable peasants

Boards are the lords. Management without a board seat are the bourgeoisie; Boeing engineers, too. To the degree we have peasants in modern America, it’s in agriculture and retail, not at Boeing.
we are past state of emergency as we have already done damages to the climate that might take centuries to fix and we aren't doing anything.

As for the original question, do you think women would have gain right of vote had they not caused major disruption? The history is filled of many examples of human rights that have change only after massive protests and disruptions.

The psychopaths aren't the protesters, they are the one who are dismissing sharp changes in our way of life as solutions as they are indirectly causing more suffering, deaths and annoyance, which a temporary blocked highway is negligible in contrast.

We block roads all the time, sometimes for things much more futile in the grand scheme of things. Like today I had to reroute because main road I was using was blocked for the organization of a triathlon. And I am not stupidly calling triathletes leftists radical psychopaths because I lost 45 minutes and a lot of sweat as a consequence.
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Meta will label AI content to help prevent deepfakes on Facebook and Instagram
Disappearing scrollbars on the desktop is the bane of my existence. Gnome is unusable to me for this reason (it can be worked around but it doesn't always work and I don't want to fight my OS).
Good?

Even South Park covered it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc1_AY7mufM
If lzma isn't loaded as part of sshd, the path from an lzma backdoor to sshd get a hell of a lot more circuitous and/or easier to catch. You'd pretty much need to modify the sshd binary while compressing a package build, or do something like that to the compiler, to then modify sshd components while compiling.
We use the client-side sqlite as part of making the app work locally and offline, so it wouldn’t make sense.

The materialized view isn’t a huge perf problem for now, and I expect we’d switch to using triggers or similar without too much difficulty.
> Would you be willing to drive slower to save lives?

No. Because people still died when the speed limit was 55. Why then didn't we lower the speed limit to 45? Heck, we could stop people from dying altogether by simply banning driving!

So why didn't we do that?
I've found Kodi still occasionally useful as yet-another-media-box attached to the TV. Kodi stands out by having a consumer-friendly software package - capable of supporting older video game emulation and having the most jitter-tolerant IPTV streaming client.

I still switch over to Kodi-running-on-a-Raspberry-Pi-3 when a guest comes over and starts reminiscing about video games from their childhood or just wants to kill some time, or when the family wants to watch sports on TV -- we've watched the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and Thanksgiving-day games, year after year, on this little Raspberry Pi. Roku's app will just give up when the HDHomerun IPTV signal hiccups, but Kodi will keep going and give you the classic screen-tear / dropped i-frame mess for a sec and then catch back up. Admittedly, the video / audio will get out of sync after an hour or two, sometimes requiring us to drop and re-open the stream. But for me, Kodi is Ol' Reliable, as opposed to whatever the Roku decided to do this year.
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In Brazil notaries get a cut of real estate deed transfers, and the position was hereditary until the 1990s.
Maybe it’s different on Mac, maybe I’m biased, but I’ve been using docker since it was a small project and I’ve never felt that enterprise cruft.

It saved me from the Rube Goldberg esque pile of bash scripts and puppeteer configs of the 00s.

Funny how perception changes.
I made a similar tool with the same name a couple of years ago :D https://github.com/frabert/ClangQL
> Could it be that the electorate’s power to effect change has become usurped by lobbyists?

To the degree voters get apathetic or distracted by culture war issues, sure. When the electorate gives a shit about something, electeds listen. Most issues simply don’t rise to that level. Case in point: Boeing; nobody is going to beat their competitor by promising to be tougher on Boeing.
Is there any mathematics field that views mathematical objects as patterns of multiple numbers and considers order as a fundamental property? ex, 4 isnt just "4" but is either 1,1,1,1 or 3,1 or 1,3 or 2(a), 2(b) or 2(b), 2(a)? These all represent real life abstractions and I feel a lot of detail is lost when we only think about the structure of an object as its total count, and not its composition/order.
Synology DSM and apps are closed source. It’s a Taiwanese company, and I wonder to what extent it can be trusted?

Anyone has information on the security of DSM? Like, is it compliant for use in sensitive departments?
> I personally don't care about an individual's personal political opinions. What bothers me is when those opinions start to interfere with business operations. That goes for individual contributors as well as executives.

Elon Musk is neither a mere individual contributor or a mere executive. He is one of the major shareholders and CEO of Texla, and he uses his Tesla position to further his political and personal goals.

Elon Musk used his Tesla stock to buy Twitter and turn it into the primary hate speech platform in the world, for example. As long as Elon Musk remains the CEO and a major shareholders of Tesla, buying a Tesla car is voting with your wallet to support Elon Musk's personal and political agenda. It's high time we stop pretending there is no causality between the two.
I started with AWS pretty early.

Networking was drop dead simple. Basically I think all my instances got an 10.x.x.x IP address. You had a basic firewall (security groups nowadays) but that was it.

Let's say you had another account for a separate project or a client with another account.

You could literally connect to their instance via private IP.

All your own resources and all theirs were in this same 10.x.x.x address space which seemed to be globally reachable inside AWS.

The layers of config to go across account now between different orgs is wild by comparison.
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> The standard model seems fine without vacuum energy > 0

This a bit confusing due the vacuum energy being a part of standard model.

> Are you aware of any experiment that suggests it, beyond the apparent acceleration of the expansion of the universe?

Yes. Heisenberg uncertainty, the BCS theory of superconductivity, the Higgs field. Also, the paper you linked provides a few.

>> However, to my knowledge no one has shown that source theory or another S-matrix based approach can provide a complete description of QED to all orders.

Quantization of electrodynamics.

>> In QCD confinement would seem to present an insuperable challenge to an S-matrix based approach, since quarks and gluons do not appear in the physical S-matrix.

Quantum chromodynamics.

But ultimately, the paper you linked is uninterested in showing that the vacuum energy is 0, and rather is intended to show that from their formulation the Casimir effect is able to be explained away without a vacuum state > 0 under certain conditions. This important distinction is central to the paper.

>> Even if one could argue away quantum zero point contributions to the vacuum energy, the problem of spontaneous symmetry breaking remains: condensates that carry energy appear at many energy scales in the Standard Model.

That said I’m skeptical of their methods. Since you are clearly an advocate for this paper, can you explain the crux of the paper, namely:

>> Casimir forces can be calculated without reference to the vacuum and, like any other dynamical effect in QED, vanish as α → 0.

What is even meant by allowing the fine structure constant to go to 0?

Because the stability of the standard model requires it to be constant.

And how a model that allows such a thing is a better representation of what is “real“.

Because the conclusion gets a bit wishy washy as it moves from the rigor of its maths to philosophy. (“real” vs “unreal”)

>> Still, no known phenomenon, including the Casimir effect, demonstrates that zero point energies are “real”.

In that regard I think the author would agree with my gp that rather than worry about “real”ness, to look at vacuum state as a consequence of the model we use to describe what we collectively accept as “real”.
Are you a programmer? Would you accept having most of your money, retirement, possessions, and wealth taken away if it is discovered you made a mistake and there's a serious big in your code?

I'm not talking about just criminal negligence, I'm taking about honest mistakes too. If you want to be ultra rich, more than 20 million, then you have to be competent enough to not make big mistakes. For everyone else, they get to keep their retirement, etc. That's why I said 20 million.

And I'm thinking about more than punishment. It's about compensation. A CEO should be compensated for making good long term decisions, and if it turns out they have not make good decisions, they should retroactively lose compensation, but not be left in ruin over honest mistakes.

As for criminal cases, apply criminal penalties, which are beyond what I was suggesting.
I like it as long as it doesn't fork-bomb me for querying the wrong thing