skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an SSD go bad in another way, with requests constantly timing out or returning corrupt data. That started happening more and more frequently, with the system crashing, and after rebooting fsck would show tons of "fun" messages about some file or another being 141831373107584798 bytes large with a modify date years in the future. Managed to get most of the files off to an external hard drive, put the dead one in a drawer and forgot about it.

When I recently read about this trick, I figured it couldn't do any harm even if it didn't solve this specific problem - it didn't, and by now the drive failed pretty much immediately when trying to read anything.

But that got me trying other things, and what appears to have solved it is using the "hdparm" utility on a Linux install CD to send trim commands for every single sector - pretty much the closest thing to a "low level format" you can get today, AFAIK. For some reason, even with all the confirmation options it demands for safety reasons ("--please-destroy-my-drive"), it will only let you do 65535 at a time, so this required a script to feed it many separate ranges covering the entire space.

Ended up with a seemingly perfectly usable blank drive. Obviously, I still don't entirely trust it to keep working, but okay to put in a crappy old laptop with nothing important on it.
What's a mouse ear alarm clock?
I know someone who works at Apple QA. A lot of it is done by wholly unqualified contractors who blindly check off test cases as passed. Sad to say it, but most of these contractors aren't very bright and have zero experience or training, let alone interest in doing a good job; strange why apple continues to work with the sourcing firm.
Exercise as Medicine in Parkinson's Disease
In action: https://youtu.be/eVQDUoD_cJY?si=qNL3NZNQPGJCHMPn&t=40
The C# interop API will surely work, but I wouldn't claim it's user-friendly.

I would strongly consider dumping rows into SQL, for more "natural" selection.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.offic...
Not sure how to use this. I'm on Firefox.

- I select the take screenshots button.

- Then I need to give permission.

- Then I select the window I want to take a screenshot from.

- What then?

Anyway, congrats on launching!

You should add your contact details to your HN profile.
Anyone who goes through something like this is an inspiration to those they interact with. I wish the absolute best for you.
To (1) - if this was the case, it would have been great if they had talked about it openly or in any way really. To (2) - I do agree that $300 is probably cheap. But I also think that $10k is very expensive, and it seems Fastly agrees.

(3) Mh, I don't think this is doxxing and didn't expect having names would be a big problem. I've just updated the screenshots anyways and censored the names of the representatives.

Cloudflare of course chooses who they want to do business with, but they also pride themselves in being neutral.
True, but something should be there to close the loop on that not-so-thin brick, and that something will get hot. That picture shows only a single brick, not a loop of bricks so something does not add up.
Well, obviously, right? They started with the premise of, "what if we committed wholesale intellectual property theft" and moved immediately to, "I bet we can put a whole lot of people out of work and keep the profits to ourselves!"

It's astonishingly clear we need to regulate them.
People who so quickly devolve to disparagement are, well, I think you know.

So what are your thoughts on Sam Altman having no equity in OpenAI?
Workers pay for pensions. What distinction are you trying to make?
"A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet.

The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later.

Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.

Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.

Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
I would posit that the number of failed companies exceeds the number of abandoned government projects by many orders of magnitude.
While obvious in retrospective, the board drama at this company for which these ex-members are partly responsible destroyed the chance that investors or executives would ever let such people take over governance again.
The reason firms “become the next Kodak” is because they’re busy protecting their enormously profitable legacy business from competing technology. This can be actually rational, provided the people doing this sell or realize enough profit on their assets before the older business disappears.
That's the approach I took on a similar toy project[IT] I've been working on the past week (images instead of text.) It first creates a `metadata.csv` file with suggested clean filenames and a Boolean flag indicating if it thinks it needs to be changed at all. You can manually view and edit the `metadata.csv` file and only once you're happy with it do you pull the trigger by running `autorename()`. I definitely feel like you need a human in the loop for this kind of thing.

[IT]: https://github.com/olooney/image_tagger
Its a goal looking for a problem, aka AI hype. It’s the big thing now, like NFTs before.

I agree with your blog, the definition itself is vague, and what people want to get out of it as well. There is a big “we’ll figure it out when we get there” attitude it seems to me.

Imagine a society where everything can be and is done by AGI (and its drones) what then? What do we want out of it? What will define humans in such an environment?
> Existing laws cover almost everything "bad" you could do with AI/ML.

Not really. They regulate the AI itself, not the people behind it.
There should be real consequences of doing something bad with it intentionally.
That is the only way.
[link]https://youtu.be/F3Jd9GI6XqE?t=4847 to relevant section
Solar also seems to be making leaps.

Folk in my area replaced panels on their 15yr old install. I didn't get hard metrics from them but, they said it's worth it. Got some state provided rebate too.
Sorry. Pumped gas for $4/hr in the 80's. Back then while you didn't have to be highly skilled to get a job like that there were always several applicants for such jobs.

I've been through several depressions and know that while it isn't the best time economically, it's far from the worst.
> latitude not altitude.

thanks!

> And Finland absolutely could provide energy to its entire population with renewables excluding nuclear. They haven't and that's their choice, but you cannot claim with any legitimacy that it's not possible because of latitude.

That was not my claim. I would appreciate if you re-read my comments in this thread.
Maybe we need an AI democracy where the AI themselves vote for regulations.
China invades Taiwan, fabs get destroyed, AI winter ensues because of lack of hardware?
Okay, with this thread, I'm learning and need to:

One Question: For the Web site for my startup, I have the ASP.NET code running so ASAP will be getting into to a business account with my ISP, IPs, domain names, DNS, etc., at least for the Alpha Test.

So far, my intention is to host my own Web server. I've heard of CloudFlare, how they can help stop DDOS attacks, etc. but so far have hope not to use them.

Question: How realistic is it for me just to host my own Web server and, e.g., avoid any chances of problems with CloudFlare, the Cloud, VPNs, etc.?

Thanks!
Yup, if you read the major economic books coming out of the last decade, they all have that theme.
Well one way out is if large language models don't just somehow magically turn into human level (or better) AGI at some point once enough data has been thrown at it. Then the whole debate will turn out to be pretty moot.
Not to be that guy, but this is the kind of task that LLMs are great at assisting with.
TL;DR of the court cases: the fisherman was guilty of damages to the tune of $1.2M, and his insurance cover was voided because his act was so reckless.

Funnily enough, the cable owners (Telus) tried to thread the needle of making the owner liable, but not so badly that insurance wouldn't pay for it. The judge didn't buy this, and obviously a sole operator crab boat can't pay over a million in damages (although he did lose his boat), so in the end everybody except the insurance company got screwed.
> Why assume that everyone who touches Java code, uses an IDE to do so?

Even Gosling admits that writing Java without an IDE is a fools errand.
Citing an article from ten years ago on renewables is like citing an article from the 1800s. Go look at the cost and deployment curves for solar PV and wind. Make sure you focus on recent numbers: you’re out of date if your information is even a year old.
So this confuses me slightly and I am keen to know the advantage of using this. I work on projects that heavily use auto-differentiation for complex models. The models are defined by user input files at run-time, so the state and execution pathway of the model is unknown at compilation time. Would this help?

Given that all auto-differentiation is an approximation anyways. I've found existing tooling (CppAD, ADMB, ADOL-C, Template Model Builder (TMB)) work fine. You don't need to come up with a differentiable problem or re-parameterize. Why would I pick this over any of those?
> Some people will want to store the size in a type smaller than size_t

So? My point here is that this should be the compiler's responsibility, not the programmer's. Why could not a compiler bitpack the same way -- or even better than -- a programmer could?
Nuclear energy has a levelized cost of energy that is about 5-10x more expensive than utility solar, with solar expected to continue becoming exponentially cheaper
I wanted to post, as it had interesting details for people working on software generally:

- Trying to employ mostly junior engineers

- Not allowing the new team to talk to the KSP 1 developers

- Not paying enough to keep senior engineers

- Re-using old codebase and coding themselves in the corner and couldn't fix bugs that old game had

Re-using old codebase wouldn't necessarily be bad if they were familiar with it, but from what I understood nobody was. They weren't able to move fast with it.

The list probably goes on, and I didn't take notes, but I found it interesting.
Introducing The Daylight Computer
What are the best alternatives besides cloud keychains. Coming from sharing same password for multiple accounts, cloud keychain has been step up for me security wise. I'm honestly curious what are the better alternatives.
That's not correct. Tvision has worked in terminals for almost as long as terminals have existed.

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
The paragraphs I sought out:

> More than 1,800 patients

> The results showed that prayers had no beneficial effect on patients’ recovery 30 days after surgery. Overall, 59% of patients who knew they were being prayed for had complications, compared to 51% of the patients who did not receive prayers. The difference was not considered statistically significant.
> I was just thinking today about an idea to introduce some programming constructs to legal documents like contracts and organization policies/procedures.

In my late teens I saw a contract my dad had brought home, and that one at least already had some basic constructs - I saw analogues to variables, logic/conditionals (as used in a programming language rather than natural language), and possibly even subroutines.

And that's just what I remember, it wouldn't surprise me if there were already more such commonalities. It would certainly explain why legal documents are so difficult for the layperson.
Similar website for those in the US:

https://www.gridstatus.io/home

Shows fuel mix, load, and price data for all of the ISOs. It's been really exciting to watch lately because you can see the huge uptick in solar and battery deployments in markets like CAISO and ERCOT.
> The fact so many Google Workspaces companies have Slack is just frustrating

True, but Teams is so buggy and had in many areas has no UX per se.

I'd take for 2 great products (Slack + Meet) with bad integration vs great integration of shitty products.
Intel USB controllers are extremely forgiving of control software bugs. Extremely
> Additionally I find it hard to resist learning new technologies that are not as widely used / changing quickly do to their ease of use (Svelte, Tauri, V lang, etc).

One thing I'd suggest is to be somewhat critical of what it means to be learning something, and find a way to apply whatever that is multiple times, without spreading yourself too thin.

When I was getting started around the same age, I never bothered repping things out like at a gym or going deeper into how things worked and piecing them back together manually from scratch (such as the micro-gpt project), but those are two ways you can keep things interesting long term, and develop useful/practical knowledge. Instead, what I did was read a book or follow a tutorial and figured that was enough to learn, but it's often just what was possible to teach, or a good jumping-off point, and that's basically what I've been getting from GPT lately. Nothing really gets learned imo unless there's an input and output to the process, such as watching the video and writing all the code from scratch or on paper, and then hopefully building something with it where you'll be forced to push yourself mentally. Very little of the depth might apply in a job, but you'll be better at troubleshooting and understanding what's happening, and repping out gradually more abstract and complex projects using the same technology will make you more efficient. Especially with ADHD that I didn't realize I had earlier, it would have really helped to rep things out more, because only through repetition and expanding complexity do you understand the gritty bits that aren't complete, or areas where you're likely to need another tool, or useful shortcuts and edge cases etc..

Incidentally, NAND2TETRIS is a great example of an end to end course that is totally worth trying and slowly grinding through.
Seems like a 30 second LLM prompt for a Python script.
> Completely different skillsets as far as I'm concerned.

My experience differs:

I find the way how programming is typically (also self-)taught much more fitting to my brain than how natural languages are (also self-)taught.

From my experience I do believe that if natural languages were taught in a different style, it would be much easier for a programmer brain to get good in them (I also consider it to be plausible that there might exist a way on how to teach programming languages that is more natural to "language-minded brains").
I don't get this hand waving.

Does anyone really think that nefarious foreign powers aren't already researching with no guard rails, with the explicit goal of developing AI-powered autonomous weapons, propaganda platforms, deepfake extortion sites, scambots etc.?

You can be sure they won't be slowed down by regulation.
If you're lucky enough to be working on your own code, that can work.
> Cool, but you cut off the sentence where it says “and wind”.

Because wind works for Finland and it's a good idea for them to invest in it (and they do). But putting solar & Finland together is nonsense.
Something independent and cross platform like bitwarden.
The more interesting thing about LLMs at this point is their stunning success rate at psychologically attacking people.

We have this endless stream of "AGI imminent" claims and then ChatGPT-x still fails at some basic task everytime they release it.
I know I’m supposed to attribute things like this to incompetence, not malice, but how many times can a similar mistake repeat before it is not a mistake?

Seems similar to how Windows settings “accidentally” revert to the less private ones.
If Google dedicated 10 engineers full time to this problem for 3 years, could they solve it?
How are you trying to tell that?

If a web browser can't access a URL, it won't tell you why exactly because there's a chance it diagnosis the reason wrong and most users will be confused by that. I assume most diagnosis tools work the same way. You need to make assumptions about how the OS, hardware, and network are configured to be able to say "the problem is here."

For example, when you access a website, the first thing that needs to be done is check a domain name server (DNS) to get the IP address of the web server. But where does the web browser get the DNS IPs from? You can configure it in the browser. Or in the OS. Or in your router. Or in your modem. And if you don't, it gets them from the DHCP server the router connects to, which could be your ISP's DHCP server (then you get your ISP's default DNS) or it could also be some other router in an organization's network.

If the DNS seems wrong it's easy to tell the IP is wrong but it gets hard to say where that IP came from.

Even SSL could be a problem with the server having the wrong certificates or it could be your computer having the wrong certificates.
There is a well-maintained in-VCS less-disgusting version of Xpdf. It's called Poppler, and Apple chooses to not use it.
Eventually, criminals learn how to use makeup to circumvent this technology and it will be just the poor people who get wronged, just like ban on E2EE.
The picture shows glowing hot electrodes; are you being deliberately obtuse?
iOS/macOS/Win/Android Codebook, https://www.zetetic.net/codebook/

- no subscription
- open-source encryption (SQLCipher)
- device-to-device encrypted sync via ethernet/wifi, dropbox, google drive
- indie US developer, lineage to 1998 STRIP on PalmPilot
- TOTP 2FA authenticator
- sync encrypted notes/images

1999, http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/30/palm.tools.idg/

> Secure Tool for Recalling Important Passwords (STRIP). STRIP uses heavy-duty, 128-bit triple-Data Encryption Standard to store information, and that means any information -- credit-card numbers, Web site accounts and voice-mail access codes. STRIP (Zetetic Enterprises, free) is also a great tool for IT managers who administer distributed environments. It can random-generate complex passwords and allows account information to be beamed between Palms, so the IT staff can stay up-to-date.
Yup, scanned through the video, I don’t think the guy authored a single function, just grabbed skel and parts from other code bases, deleted stuff he didn’t want and fixed a little glue and build code
Serious question: what is it about AI that you want regulated?

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I find that a certain segment of the population have a knee-jerk "well we need rules about this." But they're less clear about what. "Just...something, I'm sure."

Personally, I don't see what novel concern AI poses that isn't already present in privacy law, copyrights, contracts, torts, off-shoring, etc.
And even if workers do own stock in their retirement accounts, increases in value there don't really effect day to day life.

Prices for everything are up significantly, some wages are up marginally, but not nearly to the extent needed to overcome rising prices.
You’re getting downvoted but regulatory capture and cronyism (voting in laws that prohibit new entrants; for the greater good, of course) is a trick as old as democratic systems been have established, maybe older and perhaps not exclusive to democracy.
Corn: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
That's not really responsive to what I wrote. I was pondering the long-term effects of validating human shield tactics, which has nothing to do with the laws of war, or semantic questions of what constitutes a state.

Every country "discriminates" based on nationality; to expect otherwise would be unreasonable. If a country truly valued all human interests equally, there would be no reason for citizenship.

If Israel was governed by moral saints, they might reach a conclusion that any military response would lead to negative net utility, so it's better to allow Hamas and Hezbollah to attack with impunity until they eventually conquer Israel and cleanse it of Jews. Moral sainthood isn't a reasonable expectation, though, and it's certainly not a standard anyone applies to other countries.
Would that not increase the chances of things getting burnt at the base?
MH370 New Search Proposal Based on Whspr Flight Path
I am your government.

I am your doctor.

I am your lawyer.

I don't trust any company, let alone a foreign controlled one to have authorised access to my accounts as me. I would be held accountable if they were exposed and they sufficiently covered their tracks (and they are incentivised to try).

Why should I brazenly permit this?

(for the record, as a private individual I am using iCloud keychain, and for work I use 1password with its online storage: however I just make video games, I don’t have the power to destroy lives, nor do I have a responsibility to avoid it; I am merely pointing out that perfect being the enemy of good is not always good enough for everyone.)
> shudder to think what form they would take, given the typical government level of technological expertise and understanding

Start with public disclosure. A repository where AI firms publicly file simple, standardised information—model architecture, training sources, intended user, responsible executives, et cetera—that can guide the public and policymakers in future rulemaking.

More generally, this complaint about electeds’ domain expertise misunderstands how modern states work. Congress can’t build a plane. That doesn’t mean they can’t build the FAA.
Yeah, still fucked
Be curious what bugs you are referring to.

I've had an Ultra since it launched and it's been no different to any other Apple Watch.
If there is any regulation I imagine there will be huge carve outs for the military industrial complex.
1Password is reputed. Or KeepassXC if you prefer something to self-host
> Anybody who would willingly give up governance of their company

That’s the rub. It wasn’t founded as a company.
Speak of the devil! I also cited Matthew's specific blog post in my LZW GIF encoder implementation: https://github.com/alexqfredrickson/LzwGifTools
That is a noble goal, but I don't see how it can possibly achieve the intended result as long as the C standard is a fundamentally borken as it is.

I tried to download CompCert so I could try it out, but they only have a source distribution and to build it you need Coq and OCaml and a few other things because of course CompCert is not written in C. No one in their right mind would write mission-critical software in C.
> I find it hard to resist learning new technologies that are not as widely used / changing quickly do to their ease of use

This isn’t a bad thing. I’ve never regretted trying something new, even if it’s just to learn that I don’t like it or whatever. “normal” software engineering stuff (day to day) is so much more about building and maintaining what you have already.
Odd indeed. I would assume the salvage company was American?
The AI shall govern itself.