skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but also the person allegedly used a school computer to research his crime:

> Police wrote in charging documents that Darien had accessed the school’s network on multiple occasions in December and January searching for OpenAI tools, and used “Large Language Models” that practice “deep learning, which involves pulling in vast amounts of data from various sources on the internet, can recognize text inputted by the user, and produce conversational results.” They also connected Darien to an email account that had distributed the recording.

One of our best defenses against crime is that criminals are often kind of dumb. Tyler Cowen makes the same point this morning regarding airport security: "a lot of criminals are simply some mix of stupid and incompetent or poor on execution" (https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/04/wh...).
You know Brazil isn't just a jungle, right?
What does "audit trail" mean in this case?

It sounds like some product feature that for some reason was optional, and had not been turned on.

Wouldn't the base system of functionality that is always on (not optional) capture information like payments and transfers, including what they're for and who authorized them?

What more information does this optional "audit trail" provide?
It also requires a lack of commitments and a modest amount of disposable income.
I bet humans are pretty good at this too.
I'm going to need another intelligence to read the full text.

"U.S. IaaS providers and foreign resellers of U.S. IaaS products must exercise reasonable due diligence to ascertain the true identity of any customer or beneficial owner of an Account who claims to be a U.S. person."

So at a minimum, everyone's identity is verified by IaaS provider. If you claim to be a non-U.S. person, additional information is collected.

They mention looking at comments from a previous proposal in 2021, "Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities"
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/24/2021-20...

Who counts as IaaS besides Amazon, Azure, and GCS?
Capabilities are not the same thing as effects. A drone represents different capabilities at different price points, but the net result observed on the battlefield are not all that different that past infantry engagements. If enemy infantry knows your position, they can today reach out and kill you at similar ranges as they did in wars past. The how has changed, not the what.
I don't care about the source code of anything Amazon runs. The source code doesn't get me 11 9's. That's what people are paying for.

Why is the community better off without this option?
LDB: Large Language Model Debugger via Verifying Runtime Execution Step by Step
Touché, current gramps.
The article notes

> The algorithm could generally tell what a person’s political orientation was with a high degree of accuracy, even when that person’s identity was “decorrelated with age, gender, and ethnicity,” researchers write.

But the whole thing is looking at photos - how do you decorrelate a photo from age, gender, ethnicity, or weight?
I think new games are high commitment too. You could happily enjoy an hour of Fallout 2 or Baldur's Gate 2, but you need many hours for a satisfactory session of Fallout 3 or Baldur's Gate 3. Today's games seem more designed for streamers than players; people who do it as a full time job and require 500 hours of gameplay.
> People want native applications

When? You think the average consumer wants to download a facebook app on their laptop? To be negged with updates vs just visiting the site?

I buy that the HN crowd wants native apps.
Read shell scripts. Install shellcheck. Try things try things try things try things.
you're starting at the wrong end.

What problem are you trying to solve? Start there, and choose the terminal as a tool of choice.

You will find learning much easier if there is a clear goal to complete using it.
Trains? She's being indoctrinated to public transport socialism and won't buy a Ford F350.
If you look at the study itself, the accuracy was pretty poor. They hype it up, but it was only marginally better than random (a correlation of r=.13).

So, pretty much bullshit.
I have up Dota 2 the day my son was born. Probably one of the best decisions of my life .. ! I probably have more hours in Dota 1 than 2, but these thoughts could drive me crazy.

(more for practical reasons at the time, suddenly I just couldn't devote 30-60+ minutes at a time to a game, because babies scream at all the hours and anything I could do to help my wife out was the least I could do!)

> I'm very excited about STS 2.

citybuilder folk are meant to be all about Manor Lords this week! :)
Perhaps not the best turn of phrase, since alcohol is illegal in Iran. However, they can make their own cheese just fine.
Wow, what layer of abstraction do you have that allows for that?
Even with typical IaC, Terraform, it's going to be a rewrite.
If you're leveraging anything beyond load balancers, compute, and containers I don't see how that approaches zero. Some of the services could end up with you having to build/run your own to get any equivalence.
Open source means the developers release the source code willingly and encourage other people to use it. Minecraft is not now and never has been open source.
Interesting that this conversation started with comparisons to the printing press, comic books, and D&D, and has progressed to comparisons to World War 2. Of course, panic about World Wars is certainly what I was referring to originally...
Not only this, but non-human social animals like whales and apes show locally unique and persistent technologies and adaptations that are usually called culture by the people studying them, all without writing.

Culture is certainly less enduring and more fragile without writing, but as long as knowledge can be transmitted from old to young by some means other than genetic encoding, it is also inevitable.
Opsberry.ai: AIOps automation for IT operational workflows
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It seems that most of the world (population- and GDP-wise) is drifting towards authoritarian rule with immutable Dear Leader. Russia, then Turkey, then China, India is arguably getting there too. You're placing Iran in the same bucket. Maghreb countries? Middle East? Central Asia?

As far as dictatorships go, Iran actually has some political life.

That would eventually make your position untenable.
Trying to have a rational, data driven discussion with these people is like playing a game of chess with a pigeon. They'll topple all the pieces, shit on the board and then claim victory.
I gave up a long time ago.
I answered all of your questions directly.
I just realized how scary this is.

I've been pretty concerned about Microsoft since their quality is low and their customer service is AOL tier.

My kid loves minecraft, I've made some cool worlds, my wife is/was into it. I have realized that everything ends, and I think Minecraft is going to end before and of us 3. It has got to be Greed at this point? Minecraft becomes p2p or similar.

I'm really hoping the FOSS variants can catch up before its too late.
How much longer before IaaS platforms require their customers to also have similar KYC policies in their ToS to be able to shift liability downward in case anything goes down?
The way I've heard it phrased is "Non-fiction teaches us about the world, fiction teaches us about ourselves."
For alternatives, there's always Vintage Story and Minetest. I consider the former a better Minecraft anyways.
AI for non-deterministic results. Other machinery/low code for deterministic results. It's a feature not a bug.
The Rarest Mandarin Syllables
looks like those are local variables
Please keep on blogging like you do withoutboats, your articles are a gem that I learn something new from every time.

Due to the work of you and others I do have hope it will all be better in future.

That said, might be my low standards due to many scars from my c++ background, but I’m already plenty happy with what we have today, so the fact that it will get even better in the next years is like cherry on the cake for me.
The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction by William Shotts.

In my own learning I found this to be the single greatest resource for getting to know the terminal. It has the perfect balance of overview/detail, allowing you to cover an immense amount of ground while feeling like you have a grasp on what's going on when you do something. From there you can then consult reference material as needed.
I think it's the latter. We may well have some subsystems that work like LLMs or other current AIs, but the overall system of a human mind seems to work in a fundamentally different way, as it's able to make good creative choices (such as the next word to say) without looking at lots of options.

Consider a chess engine that plays at grandmaster level, i.e. a human grandmaster can sometimes beat it. Even though it's not the best chess engine in the world, it simulates billions of possible scenarios to decide each move. Yet the grandmaster can still beat it sometimes, even though he clearly isn't thinking about billions of possible scenarios. (On the question of whether human brains may in fact unconsciously process billions of possibilities when deciding a chess move, using some neurological process we haven't discovered, I've heard David Deutsch argue this would be thermodynamically impossible as it would require far more energy than the brain consumes.) So the human grandmaster's brain must be doing something else that we don't understand. I think a similar comparison applies with how an LLM and a human choose the next word to say. An LLM has to run a giant statistical search for candidates. Humans seem to be doing something else.
The article explicitly corrected for age, and several other factors to try to expressly focus on facial features.
Your question is effectively answerable as 'no' if you want to limit it to exactly google like market positions, because they haven't existed before. I was answering with examples of market leaders that fell due to bad top-down decisions.
Simple example: Android has a airplane mode toggle in the notification tray, iPhone does not. No surprise that once I put my elderly family on iPhones all problems of accidently enabling airplane mode magically went away.
Skunk Works is such a fantastic book. Would recommend to all engineers.
I'm not in favor of this rule, but it seems to me you are conflating several issues into one without showing the effect of the rule. Can you explain how the rule that would be implemented causes these effects? I do not see the connection here.
Show HN: I made a programmable computer from NAND gates
I am proud to present my solo hobby project NAND. This year-long undertaking follows the completed Nand to Tetris course, but ported to the web with its own runtime, user interface, and IDE. Using the "Load example program" selector, you can try out some programs I wrote on NAND's emulated hardware such as 2048, a genetic algorithm, and a manual stack overflow to corrupt the screen.

Check out NAND at https://nand.arhan.sh

Additionally, I've authored an extensive writeup about the project. Read about it on the GitHub repository's readme.
Using a completely unprotected communication medium channelled via US located servers is a reason to monitor it.

Pushing "terrorists" to better secured means of communication is no way helpful to the US.
Use :has() to scope CSS
No. With a court order, FISA always allowed surveillance of "agents of foreign powers", even if they were US citizens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla....
Could you perhaps (at a cost) burn magnet links for each torrent into the Ethereum blockchain? This would enable any node to mount and scan the ledger in a way that would be challenging to prevent, considering the financial incentives for the network to persist. Someone else is operating the decentralized, durable storage system for you.

It's a hard problem to solve, see SciHub, Libgen, Anna's Archive, etc.
https://ifaketextmessage.com/K7dQ/
Skimming the regulations, this does not seem right. All IAAS providers (which is everyone who allows customers to run custom code, so it includes any web host like Dreamhost) to verify the identity of foreigners who open an account. This would seemingly entail the service provider needing to verify everyone's identity, in order to figure out who is a foreigner and who is not.

In other words, if you want to run your own Wordpress, or Mastodon node, or your own custom CMS web site or group chat or IRC or bitcoin node, you would need to reveal your identity to the hosting service that you want. This does seem quite bad and could obviously be used to identify political dissidents.

On top of that, the IAAS must report to the US Commerce department about foreigners who are using services to train large AI models.
Have you tried using the Determinate Systems installer? This (supposedly) helps to not break everything on system updates. As far as I can tell, it works.
If nothing else, MemoryDB demonstrates that Valkey could be extended with much richer durability/HA guarantees.
No definitely not, I fully agree with you and others there. Just was a bit surprised by how many of you were there. But that’s okay. Days where we learn are rich days. The richest of them all.
Sanctions may be a very weak measure when it comes to inciting revolutions. But in general, yes, sanctions against non-military goods do work to change the minds of greedy leaderships if they can be tailored to remove a sufficient part of their income. However, that is not always the case, e.g. in Iran it is rather a measure of the "we are doing as much as we can, more than sternly worded letters, less than violence or war".
For example: CAN-SPAM. If I want to send emails to a list, I have to burn $90 of my scarce dollars every year just for a PO box for the address at the bottom on the off chance someone sends a letter to unsubscribe. Unless I want to put my home address in every email, which I don't, and no one should. Unsubscribe links and highly effective spam filters were already completely standard when the law was passed in 2003. It doesn't matter if the email you send doesn't actually require it because every mailing list provider requires it.
You, sir, are an idiot. Keep playing victim, though; I'm sure that'll work out for you.
last.fm is still around, although I don't use it for recommendations.

I've recently enjoyed using RYM to find music. Start with an artist/album I like, click on the genre, and try out the top-rated artists/albums.

It's a manual version of the flowchart, you're right that it'd be neat to automate that. I haven't even tried using RYM tags, but they'd probably be useful input, too.
California has too much solar power
Thanks for spelling out your points, and I agree on some while disagreeing on others.

However, I in no way, nor ever would, say or act like he is literally Hitler. I’m not sure where you got such an extreme comparison from my comments about calling him out for unrealistic & hyperbolic statements.

I think at this point we can agree to disagree and see what the future holds for both Tesla and Elon
I prefer to keep most of my homebrew stuff (especially casks) in a nix-managed Brewfile with some logic about when to run/update.
COCONut: Modernizing Coco Segmentation
We’ll, in those olden days, pitchforks came out an inappropriate times fairly often, sometimes literally
The Dunning-Kruger effect is auto-correlation. From the article:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

> The irony is that the situation is actually reversed. In their seminal paper, Dunning and Kruger are the ones broadcasting their (statistical) incompetence by conflating autocorrelation for a psychological effect. In this light, the paper’s title may still be appropriate. It’s just that it was the authors (not the test subjects) who were ‘unskilled and unaware of it’.
My brother in law has a model year 2014 Model S still on the road for daily driving. What's the difference?

I've been using EV exclusively since 2022, including long road trips. EV can't totally replace ICE, but nor can ICE totally replace EV. I can't run an ICE car in a closed environment without poisoning myself to death for instance. But exact replication was never the point.

In addition to great supplements and town cars, they're also great cars. If I can help it, I'll never own another ICE vehicle again.
I'm stil wondering if it's real. It looks real. Do they have a follow up with more technical information?

If you reduce the speed, print in a spiral, and tolerate a lot of noise, it seams possible. (Specialy if you use two spirals, one with the music and another that changes the width so the other spiral has the correct shape.)

(Can it be 3D printed over a rotating platform? Is is easier? Is it cheating?)
I wonder how suitable this is for wildfires if it relies on LIDAR. This is far from my area of expertise, though.
This totally depends on what is collected, if the requirements are some form of national id submission, ie. licenses or passports, then it opens all handlers up to tremendous abuse possibilities. Or at the very least paints a big sign on their backs that they handle mass quantities of offical government forms of biometric id, something I think would do much more harm than good in the long run as each company would need to be bulletproof to avoid.
Can Touchless Tech Create "Equitable" Gaming?
Show HN: A collection of open-source agentic GitHub workflows
Apart from maybe Github CoPilot, none of the LLM-based developer tools out there made it into my daily workflows. So I've decided to make my own.
Sure thing! Third party apps yes (see: palmdb.net), but obviously not typical 3rd party services (no Spotify, etc.).

I mostly use a few models of Handspring Visor, typically grayscale, so not even the latest OS. Visor Edge for something as thin and sleek as a modern phone. Visor Neo if I want expandability (similar to pg6-7 in the Ars article). There's a fun module that adds both more memory and a vibrate motor for alarms, but I'll swap that out for a camera or mp3 module at times. Charge or swap batteries once or twice a month.

Common tasks:

* Notes, To Dos, Contacts, Calendar (excellent stock calendar, per @j45 above)

* Alarms & Reminders (stock + Diddlebug, which lets you draw/write notes w/ a timer)

* Offline browsing (Plucker can crawl pages and sync them)

* Weather (note: cached on sync because my Palm doesn't have wifi)

* Calorie tracking

* Games (we have a Wordle port!)

* Longform writing - I have a foldable keyboard and usually use plaintext, but there are word processing apps that save to HTML if you want. I also often write on an Alphasmart Neo, which can IR beam back and forth with the Palm and PC.

* Personal project tracking/flows

* Photos (technically video too, but only have 8MB memory for everything)

I have newer PDAs too that can natively handle things like voice recording, cameras, video playback, etc., but I really like the grayscale ones. A late Clié like a VZ90 or some of the others in this thread will have more bells and whistles (even OLED!).

Note also that all of the above is a more manual process than modern phones (and more manual today than it was then, because Outlook supported Palms in 2002 unlike now). If you use Google Calendar I think you can still sync, but if there's an important work meeting that I want in my pocket in addition to the laptop--I do the little ritual of adding it myself.
There are definitely going to be people taking a bet on the Intel foundry, but Intel has tried this before and it has worked badly.
HumanEval Benchmark: 95.1 @ GPT-3.5

I wonder if it can be combined with projects like SWE-Agent to build powerful yet opensource coding agents.

- https://paperswithcode.com/sota/code-generation-on-humaneval

- https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent
In my experience, the cost has significantly dropped, it's just that back then they were even more absurdly ridiculous
Not all wine and cheese is imported.
+ lack of imported wine or cheese should --eventually-- boost the appearance of local alternatives
+ lack of foreign video games? I don't think it's a cornerstone of the economy the way foodstuffs are. Will a local-grown alternative appear? Maybe; that depends on the local priorities and capabilities.
What concrete needs can there be for a flamethrower? That isn't going to backfire (hah) badly.
What are flame throwers for? Apart from the obvious people killing purpose.
I think this is about preventing sanctioned countries or individuals using US technology we don't want them to have access too (like China not having modern GPUs). That goal seems reasonable though there's always a fear that the law is way broader than the high level intent. Why would it be "an absolute nightmare" if it's so easy to migrate?
The problem is how you define your “target”. In Israeli Lavender program it seems they are killing people for belonging to the same Whatsapp group as someone identified as a terrorist. And that's because Israel has a long time policy of “punishing” family members of “terrorists” (the term includes both legit terrorists but also people who are just political opponents).
They expressly look at the predictive power of BMI in Study 4

> How does the predictive power of the lower face size and BMI compare with the predictive power of the facial recognition algorithm estimated in Study 1? Would the VGGFace2-based model trained in Study 1 perform better if it was supplemented with explicit measures of lower face size and BMI? To answer these questions, we trained a series of regression models predicting political orientation (while controlling for age and gender) and used leave-one-out cross-validation to estimate prediction performance.

> The predictive power of the lower face size equaled r(434) = .11; p = .02; 95% CI [.01, .20]. BMI’s predictive power was insignificant r(272) = .06; p = .36; 95% CI [−.06, .18]. Combining the VGGFace2-based predictions (estimated in Study 1) with BMI, lower face size, and with both these variables did not improve prediction performance. The highest performance was afforded by combining VGGFace2 predictions with lower face size. Yet, this model’s performance, r(434) = .21; p < .001; 95% CI [.12, .30], was no higher than the performance of the VGGFace2 predictions alone, r(434) = .22; see Study 1.