skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an SWE I do agree somewhat with what you say but this story is not complete. If you look at the attacks on Ukraine and the cybersecurity damage done it was fairly small in the grand scheme of things. Another important thing is that Microsoft helped them to fight back as well, so it was not a terrible investment. Was there any quantifiable risk assessment done to understand the potential damages if Russians carried out similar attacks in the Netherlands?
How long does it take to learn the prerequisites to learn these if you don't already have a CS background?

Reading through the list, I can barely parse half the titles due to acronyms and terms I've never seen before. Would I be able to figure them out along the way? Or is there a body of knowledge this is assuming I should already have?

(This isn't a criticism of the list, or even the idea of presenting such a list without explaining who the target audience is and isn't. I'm genuinely wondering, if I just start at the top, is there any hope I would figure this out, or do I need to start somewhere else entirely?)
There's a key dichotomy here:

While it is technically possible for you to read some GPL'd code, memorize it, and then reproduce it later by accident. That's not how programmers work. What humans remember is not the copyrightable code, but the patentable algorithm. (And there are few algorithms that are simple enough to memorize on a cursory reading, novel enough to be patentable, but not so novel you'll remember it's source)

AI does not work in algorithms. It's a language model. It deals purely in the copyrightable code. (Both figuratively; LLMs are structurally incapable of the high level abstract reasoning required, and literally by way of the training data)
I don't know the particulars of this person, the case, etc to comment on them so I won't. However, I will say that 'classified' has often become a way to hide actions that governments and individuals don't want the public to see instead of hiding things in order to protect the public.

I think countries need laws on the duration of classification that get to the heart of national security vs public interest. I think a core issue is that classified information should come out within the lifetime of people involved with very few exceptions. Additionally, crimes found after declassification should have automatic statute of limitation renewals.

One system that may work could be automatic mandatory release unless renewed at a higher level of classification. Every time material is elevated it should require the highest level of administration to approve renewal. Additionally, when things are declassified they should be publicly advertised in some way so that records requests can find them.

There is a need for classified materials, but there should be a high bar to make them and a low bar to release them in order to avoid the government using them as a shield to hid activities they don't want the public to see.
Then, since I'm reading this in the UK, that's illegal?
And thank you very much for your most welcome comment. It's nice to know one's posts are read but also that some appreciate them. :-)
Presumably the endless run of civil litigations has delayed the criminal cases to date
your brain is a stochastic parrot
I couldn't escape poison oak, so I started eating it
It exists because face is what gets visibly aged on people even if the body isn't easily distinguishable from children. Why is it called "child sexual abuse material" if no child was abused in its creation?

Ad reputational damage - OK, I agree if they distribute it, that's fair. But if they don't distribute and the police finds it only after they take their hard drives?
Everyone in the industry has been copying code from Stack Overflow (and also generally shitting on the concept of IP altogether) for years and nobody cares, but suddenly LLMs come out everybody is a copyright stickler. Give me a break.
Hot take: infrastructure shouldn't be created imperatively; you wind up with fun surprises too often.

Hotter take: devs shouldn't be running infra at all, DevOps was a mistake. Return to specialized roles.
I’ve heard a lot of denialists push the Tonga volcano and resultant water vapor in the stratosphere as evidence that climate change is more complex than we understand.

I always whole heartedly agree that it’s very complex, but we do know introducing novel gases to various parts of the atmosphere is generally chaotic and something to be avoided when we can.
I don’t think it’s rose colored glasses. Google saw the value of forums as a source of information when it bought and indexed Deja News’ usenet archive. A lot of pop and early Internet culture resided there. This was then turned into Google Groups, underfunded, targeted and businesses, and more or less buried.

Independent forums (phpBB, and the like) often came up on searches before this communities moved to Facebook Groups, where they’re mostly set to private due to spammers.

Similarly there was a time when Google indexed tweets more or less live, so you could find information for very recent events. I think Twitter asked for money and so that was the end of this.

Now I think Reddit, and maybe Stack Overflow, are the only things helping Google be anything more than an extremely hostile version of the yellow pages. I fear Reddit might at some point withdraw their content from Google and that’ll be the end of it.
I thought it referred to Western Europe and the Anglosphere exclusively. Central/Eastern Europe wasn't included, especially countries that were part of the soviet bloc. One can talk about them becoming westernized now, but that just emphasizes how they aren't a part of the group, just becoming like it. Also, the US is epitome of western countries. All of it. The good, the bad and the ugly.
"One of my favorite hobbies is to study history’s greatest entrepreneurs. By doing this consistently, you discover patterns:

They were usually running away from something. This is what drives us deep down.

Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, and even J.K. Rowling started their paths driven by the need to change their circumstances or to overcome hardships."

Millions of people experience this_ are driven by change, try to overcome hardships. The fact they are not named along Elon Musk doesn't make them unsuccessful. The fact named ones has reached that status is not "only" due to OP reasons. Is such a reductionist thinking that feels naive.
The Earth radiates away solar energy, it's only here for a (figurative) moment.

Human activities that convert other energy into heat don't particularly impact this process, the amount of energy from the sun is much larger.
I doubt there will be a technology that can reliably exclude unsolicited or commercial email. How will the system know, what's unsolicited or unwanted? It can make a guess and that's what the big ones do. But it won't get better than this. I don't think there will ever be an alternative where this could be opposed.

As for unsolicited, this is already taken on by the GDPR and if you're a company that wants to sell their stuff in the EU, you pretty much have no choice than to adhere to these laws.
If that's the case, then OpenAI might very well be the new Netscape or Blackberry (RIM).
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Glacial-Interglacial Cycles [pdf]
Yes this is a bit of a pain. You don't have to ship AppX to the MS Store but it helps.

If anyone else is looking for help with this, my company makes a product [1] for distributing desktop apps that understands Electron and can package apps using AppX/MSIX and upload them to the store for you. It handles all the details including things like icons, generating the manifest, signing it and it can do all that from Linux as well which is nice if you want to deploy from CI. It's free for open source projects.

[1] https://hydraulic.dev/
It’s “Open” as in “open Pandora’s box”, not “open source”. Always has been.
It does help in a specific case: where I need to write a very obvious but repeated/time consuming self-contained component.

I do know how to write it, but I don't want to write boilerplate stuff again and again, and I want to manage time efficiently. That's when I use, say, ChatGPT to create a React component that is circular and has a click handler (just an example).

I know how to do it, I know how it works, I just want to do it faster.

And I can verify that it works by simply using the component and seeing it works.

Though this is React and frontend. I would probably not blindly do the same for a database connected entity deletion endpoint at a backend.
Use your extra time to apply to more places the roi is higher. Get feedback from interviews than focus on those areas. What you think you need might be different than what the market thinks
I use it for things I want but don't care enough to learn. I recently wanted to present a bunch of labeled pngs as an HTML overview in a certain order, after grabbing them from a webservice with REST. Took me maybe twenty minutes with Opus, including prettying it up with css. I could have done it myself, sure, but not nearly that quickly.
I wasn't aware of security issues and I'm currently using this proxy manager, do you have a good alternative?
I changed my title to “OpenAI Certified Professional” and 10 recruiters have already reached out!
Probably because the first Boeing whistleblower died by suicide and the second Boeing whistleblower died due to a stroke secondary to a respiratory infection. The idea that either of these were murders is a stupid conspiracy theory with no supporting evidence, and it deserves to be heavily downvoted.
That would require the ability to recognize and reward excellence, which you don’t see very often. Instead, they tend to go out of their way to try to make everyone feel replaceable and temporary.
If you can build a Dyson sphere it should be trivial to maintain a few extra planets worth of natural environment, or even life seed some new worlds.
Back and forth degrades quality. Try resetting more frequently. And make sure you're using a frontier model, ie. GPT-4, Opus, Gemini etc.
Palmer Luckey Wants Startups to Remake the US Military
https://archive.ph/VrZ1Z
> reliability far exceeds the Raspberry Pis

In which ways? Most commenters say the exact opposite, that cheap N100 mini PCs are less reliable than Raspberry Pis.

I'm just now trying to decide which way to go. Raspberry Pi 5 is definitely much much more interesting from the nerdy point of view, but would cost about the same as some cheap N100, for half the power. Though half the electricity usage too.
I'm actually more sympathetic than, I suspect, most people here to the argument that judicial integrity requires a certain curtailing of press freedom while the case is in progress. I wouldn't want it for my country, and I think it's a bad idea, but I can at least understand the motivation and if someone laid out a principled defense of it, I'd give them a chance to win me over.

But the asymmetry of the UK case makes this completely indefensible, even giving that intellectual charity to prior restraint. The British tabloids get to scream in huge fonts on their front pages that this person is a murderer, but anyone trying to make a case the other way gets muzzled and threatened with prison time? No, no fucking way. Either muzzle all the press related to this case or none of it.
Unfortunate more people didn't see this.
On the main sequence, yeah.

But white dwarfs -- which are technically stellar remnants -- are indefinitely stable. They just keep cooling. It's surmised that they'll still be quite a lot warmer than the universe's background temperature in 10^15 years.

This has yet to be observed, but red dwarf stars, when they reach the end of their lifespan, should contract and become white dwarfs. It's said that our sun will also eventually end up as a white dwarf.

White dwarfs are superlatively stable, long-lived, and quite hot. And there are already quite a lot of them. If you're going to build a Dyson sphere/swarm, they're a very good choice. Though red dwarfs aren't bad...
That's cool, didn't know it.
Unfortunately I already applied to literally all of them
I don't think they have any desire to control what you see, because you're not going to be on the jury in her next trial.
Today I used it to convert a non-trivial function from Julia to R because I wanted to use a certain R package for a project.
Oh I’m reading this website (and subscribed) since lots of years. It’s very interesting and used for cyclists like me! Love it.
One important thing to remember: Belgium requires the sign off of three medical doctors intimitaly familiar with the case, and they must assert that all courses of treatment have been exhausted, that the patient is incurable, and that the patient is suffering from "unbearable pain", and crucially: that the patient is sound enough of mind to make the request.

Making the request itself is grounds for significant psychological involvement. Doctors are opening themselves up for lawsuits for manslaughter if the conditions are not met (see the Tine Nys case[1]).

All this to say: it's not just a matter of making the request twice and wham bam thank you ma'am.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51103687
Yes, it runs NixOS and I am too cowardly to bother changing that any time soon. It's got everything on a giant ZFS array and most distros have poor ZFS support.
None of those are good ideas from a ceo perspective because they all erode the competitive moat and make it less profitable. They are great ideas for consumers and society as a whole though. Society as a whole is not the ceos problem though, ceos pr(blem is make vsluation go up at a fast enough rate; your ideas would make valuation go down.
The secret sauce is simple: low cost ETFs that track the S&P 500 index. Regular, automatic investments. Go to sleep. Wake up 30/40/50 years later. You will be rich. Warren Buffet supports this idea for retail investors.
Should we also shut down the internet backbone because people are committing crimes with it? At this point they really have no excuse, we know the internet is used for illegal activity, yet they still continue to route packets.

Should we jail Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman because their work is used to encrypt illegal data? They wrote the paper. They published it. It's impossible to turn that system off, and as you said, that's not a defense.
Reddit shows up in searches now. In a decade though? You used to be able to browse Facebook and Twitter without an account but not anymore
> I will say that 'classified' has often become a way to hide actions that governments and individuals don't want the public to see instead of hiding things in order to protect the public.

You can probably rationalize anything as "protecting the public" with the magic phrases "national security" (no exposing shady government operations), "ensuring order and stability" (no political protests) and "ensuring innovation and prosperity" (no resisting anything the private sector wants to do).
Goes to show how much money is being poured into this stuff.
Three big possibilities:

1. Interstellar travel: people don't realize just how large the energy budgets are to get to even the nearest stars, even with pure matter-to-energy conversion. This is, of course, the theoretical upper limit of efficiency but we have nothing remotely close to it. Chemical rockets are complete nonstarter becasue of the mass of the fuel makes the entire thing nonviable, even in a theoretical sense, beyond a travel time of hundreds of thousands of years. Even then you need energy to survive so it's unclear if you have enough.

So what do you do? Well, if you can reach interstellar speeds without using fuel you've solved so many problems. How do you do that? You focus energy from the Sun onto effectively a solar sail. You still need to slow down at the other end but you get some of this for "free" with resistance from the interstellar medium.

2. Computers. Our ability to utilize extra computing power shouldn't be underestimated. One possibility is virtual worlds. One estimate I've seen is that you need about 10^15 operations/second to simulate a human brain. A Matrioshka Brain (basically a Dyson Swarm that's essentially a giant computer) gets to (IIRC) ~10^80 operations/second. AIs that are basically people could live an entire virtual existence.

3. Weapons. Basically, if you have a Dyson Swarm you could sterilize the galaxy in about 100,000 years if you wanted to with a so-called Nicoll-Dyson Beam. Or use relativistic kill missiles taht are just basically lumps of metal or rock at near light speed.
Show HN: Paws – sendmail/maildir interface to Slack
It doesn't even take $100/mo like the other commenter says. It takes about $10/mo to have a website that would be completely capable of displaying "art" to however many people you can convince to look at it. It's simple too.

It's just that the network effect of megacorp social media means you won't actually get many random arbitrary visitors and you won't have a way to monetize easily.

So if you just care about art and not about monetizing you're art there's no problem. Should be good. If your goal is only money then, yes, you have to stick to the marketplaces.
Isn’t it kinda dangerous to observe a civilization that has figured out how to know it has been observed and then instantly wormhole their way to us?
I really hope all of this warming stops so that everyone can stop worrying and things can go back to normal.
Lots of companies try and impose things on their employees which a judge would obviously rule to be unlawful. Sometimes they just don’t think through it carefully; other times, it’s a calculated decision that few employees will care enough to actually get the issue in front of a judge in the first place. Especially relevant for something like a non disclosure agreement, where no judge is likely to have the opportunity to declare it unenforceable unless the company tries to enforce it on someone who fights back.
i solved this by putting an optical mouse on a 12 inch wall clock (laid flat under my desk). the second hand moves the mouse a little bit once a minute.
That’s why we change the government every x years, so they can blame it all on their predecessors.
Like Missingno. in Pokémon
This is how Flutter for web implements accessibility. It's been a while since I checked, but last time I tried using a Flutter app on the web with a screen reader, there were problems. I don't remember specifics.
We do it by reading a thread of such insightful comments that our third eyes are instantly opened.
> The crypto mixer, on the other hand, has no real use case except money laundering

Is that true though? What if I am in a country which disapproves of $activity that is legal in most of the world but not in my country. I might simply want anonymity in my Bitcoin transactions.
Your last paragraph reminds me of RSS vs Atom.

Replaced a complete mess with a little less complete mess. Nobody calls it Atom feeds as well, leading many people to still offer RSS despite it being the worse protocol.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the .js. THANK YOU!!
Why would the ability to modify HTML matter at all? Most users don't even know what HTML is, much less how to open the dev console.
Is it the position of DARPA that we should all choose Rust specifically?

I highly doubt it, because there are a lot of defense systems for which there is no Rust compiler. But anyway.

I am in charge of large C codebase that is nowhere close to the defense space and would love to move it all to memory safe languages. This is proving to be extraordinarily difficult; every time we try every arsehole with an opinion comes out of the woodwork and it devolves into a clown show of empire building. Without a clear consensus, leadership won’t accept a move. So myself and teammates are still writing new code in C.

My one big accomplishment is convincing leadership that standards of care are coming and that we need to be out in front of them. But that’s still some far off thing that doesn’t warrant immediate action :/
Even without explicit clauses, it's likely they feared the loss of a (perceived) great man would impact their equity -- regardless of his character. Sadly there is too much faith in these Jobs-esque 'great' men to drive innovation. It's a social illness IMO.
It's very hard to argue that a story like this is really getting in the way of the integrity of the legal system.

I don't know whether the problem is that the judge doesn't have the discretion to lift reporting restrictions in this case, or that the judge is failing to exercise that discretion.

But it's very silly that there was a window after the original case where reporting was allowed (and therefore a great was deal written based on the decision that she was guilty, with as much prejudice to a future jury as you like), and then they closed the window again ahead of the new case.
> doesn't seem to allow to rerun the provisioning config on an already existing machine

In theory, a generic existing machine could have been compromised by malware, in which case the configuration may not match the previously provisioned version.

With OS launch integrity to guarantee absence of tampering, and prove that current=expected config+binaries, it could be feasible to rerun provisioning config.
Large Language Models Show Human-Like Social Desirability Biases
Chuck Norris ghostwrote those papers while on a motorcycle tour of Brazil.
EDIT: I had replied into two subthreads, linking detailed response in parallel reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399800
I switched my home lab to nomad, which I find much easier to wrangle, but we’ll see what happens with the IBM acquisition.
It depends what kind of UI you want.

To just get a functional website, the backend frameworks are just way more productive than having to mess around with a frontend/backend solution, so rails, django, elixir, etc all excel, are cohesive, have tons of support and libraries to cover different needs, etc, and generally not too difficult to learn.

Though personally I found rails' magical 'convention over config' to be an abysmal hindrance to learning how things actually work - for example many examples show code, without showing where in the filesystem the code should go - you're expected to know the convention already, and things like i18n translation 'paths' can be confusing, and fail silently.
Hmmmm which innocent people and whose national safety?

The way I recall leaks from the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, the leaks typically depicted the U.S. killing or torturing innocent people. Sure, it's plausible they might have made some soldiers less safe.

But innocence is not so cut and dry. You can't only look from one perspective and see the whole picture.
However, if these documents' contents put the nation in shame then it's going to stick regardless of the verdict.
Looks like I used the wrong term there, sorry. I was referring to Cede & Co, and in the moment assumed they could be considered a clearing house. It is technically called a certificate depository, sorry for the confusion there.

Cede & Co technically owns most of the stock certificates today [1]. If I buy a share of stock I end up actually owning an IOU for a stock certificate.

You can actually confirm this yourself if you own any stock. Call the broker that manages your account and ask who's name is on the stock certificate. It definitely isn't your name. You'll likely get confused or unclear answers, but if you're persistent enough you will indeed find that the certificate is almost certainly in the name of Cede & Co and there is no certificate in your name, likely no share identifier assigned to you either. You just own the promise to a share, which ultimately isn't a problem unless something massive breaks (at which point we have problems anyway).

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