skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DAN thing is a completely fake cargo cult. You can just ask chatgpt to behave this way and it will. The complexity and specifics of the DAN prompt and mechanism do not do anything.
Wells Fargo fires employees for 'simulating' being at their keyboards
Why? Ever since the Fed was created - to supposedly avoid the problems that created the Great Depression - they have polluted the buying power of the dollar to where it is much less than it was pre-Fed.
The bicycle is definitively the best mean of _transpiration_.
Easy answer. It's a built in history.

I use bash history all the time, I use my browser history all the time.

To be able to use an OS history would be amazing.

What was the name of the esoteric software i was using to program my lego robot,

What was I working on last Thursday so I can fill out the government required SHRED report to get the Canadian RnD tax rebate.

What was the song i was listening to that Spotify played last Tuesday afternoon.

There are so many times i'd use a feature like this.
How can London achieve the top score in all categories and yet be ranked #2?
Text to columns with a date value? (it works fine if it's one columns)

I expect it gets your example there right, but you may have other issues in mind that you didn't push into the example.
I guess we can remove a few hostnames from adguard/pihole blocklist now?
> Union busting & screen tracking already works pretty well as is for the goals you’ve outline.

I don't think I understand your point here. It feels as if you're framing this as a binary decision/outcome. Personally I see Relay making such abuse easier. So I don't think the existence of bad acts in any way lessens the potential harm of Relay.

> We usually think about tracking/measurement as Big Brother looking over our shoulder, but all of us are living a day-to-day reality of losing context and having to invest a lot of effort and time to get it back (usually only partially).

I also don't understand this. Do you keep notes? If the problem is quite large for you, I think you should take more notes and likely better notes (a skill in of itself). Yes, this has cost, but so does everything. There is no free lunch. But notes are distilled while technologies like Relay are dragnets. And at the root of your argument is the recognition that information is powerful. So you have to ask what information has power and to who. Because information that may not be useful to you may be useful to others who wish to use power against you. And in those scenarios, I don't know about you, but I'd rather have distilled information, and more specifically be more aware of what information is being stored, than just scoop up everything.

Personally, I just don't think it is very hard to take notes.
I agree it's not cynical. But MSFT doesn't give a shit about surveilling employee computers for PIP purposes. Like, really? A 3 trillion dollar company and this is how they're going to add shareholder value?

They need data to feed their LLM / AI models. Period.
The seat switch was accidentally jammed into the “seat forward” position which led to the pilot (who was strapped in) being physically forced into the controls, leading to a significant pitch down.
There did not previously exist screenshots of everything my monitor displays any time I'm using my computer, and I don't want that data to exist. Sure, a lot of my activity could be pieced together from various other things that track my activity, but constant screenshots of everything that was on my monitor is a centralized goldmine of data that I don't want anyone to have access to.

I'd say that is more sinister than most other data collection.
https://archive.ph/skako
I don't think Microsoft understands security. They use phrases like "secure by default" as if Recall is anything but, and it looks like "just-in-time" security requires Windows Hello, which I also don't want.

I'm sorry but what little faith I had in Windows has absolutely dried up. If I didn't use Windows for video games with an Nvidia card, I would have no personal use for Windows. MacOS and Linux have been amazing lately and it seems like a downgrade every time I switch to my windows PC.
Russia is the 3rd largest producer of titanium sponge. But titanium sponge does not come from a mine. Ilmenite and rutile come from mines, and then is industrially processed to isolate the titanium.

The mining of these ores isn't primarily in Russia: https://www.statista.com/statistics/759972/mine-production-t...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/retrace-your-ste...
Compatibilitism is the the theory that player characters (conscious people)and NPCs (philosophical zombies) are morally equivalent. That the inability to see someone's (even your own!) inner motivating state means that it's equivalent to free will in all practical senses.

In other words, "The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not", and all the paradox that entails.
> The cloud is probably more secure than a set of janky servers that you have running in your basement.

Apples/Oranges. Your janky cloud[0] is less secure than the servers in my basement, because I'm a mostly competent sysadmin. Cloud lets you trade some operational concerns for higher costs, but not all of them.

[0] If you can assume servers run by somebody who doesn't know how to do it properly, obviously I can assume the same about cloud configuration. Have fun with your leaked API keys.
Feel like the hype surrounding “AI companionship” is very inorganic and fake - manufactured by the AI industry & VCs. There are fundamental reasons why AI as a companion is not good UX once novelty wears off.
Why, yes. It's really hard to find sun in fog, which is frequent at sea. And you really want it's location to be precise for navigation.
Is this another in the string of 737 MAX issues? Or would other aircraft have experienced the same event under the same conditions?

Edit: Aplogies for asking about content that was obvious, but behind a paywall. Thanks to the archive link shared, it sounds like it was (inexperienced) human error.
I hate when terms get diluted like this. "self hosted", to me, means you own the physical machine. This reminds of how "air-gapped server" now means a route configuration vs an actual gap of air, no physical connection, between two networks. It really confuses things.
That's a very popular tactic for the court.

"Well, they could just pass a law."

No, they can't. The process was designed to obstruct laws being written. That was intended to protect minority interests, but it means that even large majorities cannot pass laws.

And when, after superhuman effort, a law does finally get passed, the Court has nearly unlimited ability to say "No, that's not good enough, either."

The argument is meant to suggest, "Well, all you need is a simple majority. If you can't get that then clearly this is the correct outcome".

Except that it's not a simple majority. You have to pass the House and the Senate, by a filibuster-proof margin, and the President. And that's without taking into account the ways gerrymandering and the way the Senate favors small states. So it's a deception to suggest that we don't get such a law because a majority doesn't want it.

So that opinion is a lie. The Congress can't act, and they know it. That doesn't make their decision wrong, but it does imply that they feel the need to misdirect about it.
Boston is a suit & tie startup scene completely different from the West Coast. You won't find anyone wearing shorts and a Hawaiian shirt in office.
That looks like a static site to me, should be OK with the free plan at Vercel/Cloudflare/other?
I am grateful that they had an open source sponsorship program until now.
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Most phones aren't comparable to a bag, even a small bag.

Yeah, probably put your phone in your pocket if it's accessible. Keep your wallet in your pocket. If your wallet doesn't fit in your pocket, at least grab your id and payment cards, if they announce a rough landing while on approach and you have time to prepare a bit.
The angle of descent is of about 3 degrees, that's far less than the angle at which the aircraft is taking off. Thus the rear facing passengers would be facing down quite steeply on takeoff, and thus likely to vomit the airport lounge food they just had :)
Not necessary. The critical thing that limits CO2 capture by plants through photosynthesis is water, how they manage that gets you to the difference between C3 and C4 plants. A system based on PV might not need much water at all.

Plants not only capture CO2 from the air (pump out entropy) but they also reverse the chemistry to bind C to something like a carbohydrate molecule, whereas in carbon capture they usually compress the CO2 to 1500 psi or so and inject it underground. If you do want to do something useful with the CO2 you might have an e-Fuel factory that turns CO2 into CO and, together with H2, builds up gasoline and diesel molecules via Fischer-Tropsch chemistry which directly competes with (say) making ethanol from biomass. You don’t need so much energy to separate CO2 from N2 and compress it.
I'm so sorry that 42% isn't quite most. As I admitted, I was using older figures.

As far as your thinking that it's not difficult to change a refinery over, do some research. You don't have to take my word for it.
It's also the available space for renting a property to establish a startup.
Another example comes from Facebook/Meta.

When WhatsApp forced accepting terms that affect privacy, they faced huge backlash and many were migrating to alternatives like signal & telegram. In response WhatsApp didn't backout of new the policy but just removed the enforcement deadline.

Now they silently and randomly show an annoying popup asking users to agree to the new privacy terms. The dialog is strategically placed and designed to collect as many accidental as clicks possible.

Sadly, the strategy worked for them and nobody cares about the new terms any more.
This is simply a mischaracterization of the situation. No one who drives a Tesla thinks that the driver assist features are intended to or capable of autonomous driving.

The naming, whatever you may think of it, is massively overrided by the strongly worded warnings and instructions that are abundantly and repeatedly displayed to the driver, that effectively and unambiguously convey to the driver that they must be attentive while using the driver assist features.
IMO the fact that apple just made rack mountable apple silicon for this private cloud, their GPU / AI compute is equal to nvidia on a power/W basis, they are looking for their next revenue expansion territory from flat lining hardware growth and the fact that nvidia is worth more than them is enough of an indication that will probably make apple silicon server hardware in the near future just on a pure money making basis, even if it's not how they typically focus.

They kind of lucked out with apple silicon and their unified memory architecture.
> I hate getting a sales pitch where they tell me the history of the company. [...] Plus it's all about me (the listener) not you (the presenter).

Excellent point. Many presenters probably see the talk as an opportunity to give their organization some publicity/marketing[0] in addition to the content of the talk. But... no, no one wants to sit through an ad about you and your company's background in order to get to the interesting stuff.

I think a reasonable compromise there is that your last slide can have a blurb about your company on it, and maybe you just leave it there for attendees to read themselves (or not) as you wrap up, without reading it to them.

[0] I imagine this is a component of why companies encourage their employees to go give talks at conferences. I remember one company I worked at would completely reimburse employees for conference attendance, no questions asked, if they were also giving a talk there. But if they just wanted to attend the conference, they had to justify what they and the company would be getting out of it, and write up and present something useful they learned when they got back. I wouldn't be surprised if they booked some of the cost as a marketing expense in the first case.
This is a pretty insightful comment. That's exactly how it feels. The core of their technologies have never been more solid, including Windows. But then on top of that solid core is a bunch of "move fast and break things" and short-term profit choices that make the whole thing seem awful.
> For example operating rooms have huge trash bins because everything comes plastic wrapped for sterility.

First of all we don't need disposable plastic for that… And wrapping it in Kraft paper would work exactly the same way!
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I think they look at number of exits but then dont list that as a category
Funny title, but I assume it’s to improve appeal to government.
> A counterfeit is something deliberately constructed in imitation of something else, it's not just a low grade substitute.

But what if the lower grade substitute was specifically produced with the goal in mind of passing it off as this other kind?
Glad that the article discussed lots of the challenges/issues with carbon capture in re: accounting/offsets etc.

I hadn’t heard of this idea yet. It’s quite interesting compared to other CCS tech (eg DAC or post combustion capture followed by sequestering geologically, converting to value added products like ethylene, or <puke> enhanced oil recovery) in as much as it fits into other supply chains/processes which we will likely still be using after we (hopefully) have more or less fully decarbonized the energy industry. At the same time, if we get to that point, the energy requirements of DAC are less problematic because that energy is carbon-free at the source wherever you are in the world.

I’m also glad that the article mentioned the fact that even if we fully decarbonized the grid today, we would still be well served to pursue CCS intensely to hopefully mitigate the effects of the already substantial warming we currently seem more or less locked in for. It’s easy to hate on CCS because of how it can be deployed as crutch to sustain the fossil fuel industry, but the reality is at some point we will need it I think.

At the end of the day CCS is a bit like treating a gunshot victim for heart disease when they are bleeding out at the table - but at the same time, if you do manage to save the patient, it’s a good idea to get that cholesterol under control!
I have seen Cloudflare free plans moving terabytes of data each month, so I don't exactly see a problem.
Elon Musk Demands Money Back from Employees He Laid Off
It’s weather-related, not 737-related.
I'm afraid my source for this is a half-remembered conference talk from someone who I believe worked for the TOR foundation. My best guess technically was that they didn't want to invest R&D effort into the form of Deep Packet Inspection that came out as a result, for a project that could get them bad press or hauled before congress.
> Sure, but the PPE was "just" an iteration on their existing PowerPC core line

I'm pretty sure the PPE was an entirely new core design. It used the PowerPC ISA and had features similar to earlier designs, but it was new. From [0]:

"although the central processor is based on IBM's PowerPC architecture, it's a new design, not an existing PowerPC core. Cell's central processor is similar to the current PowerPC 970 chip, although it's not an exact match. "

> If they just asked for a 3-core SMP version of a PowerPC and the Cell project never existed, I suggest it's likely it would still look very similar to what was released in the xbox. VMX already existed, POWER5 already had SMT.

I don't think at the time IBM had anything else that Microsoft could've used. It's PowerPC 7xx wouldn't have been an improvement (or not enough of one) over the Pentium 3 in the original X-Box. The PowerPC 970 was hot / power hungry - the dual-core models that Apple used requiring liquid cooling and weren't out until 2005.

The POWER5 with SMT was in development, but it was designed for IBM's servers and existing customer workloads. I don't know if it could've modified it to add another core, plus the VMX128 stuff that Microsoft needed, if IBM would've been willing to do that, or if that chip would've been too expensive for a console.

[0] https://www.embedded.com/a-glimpse-inside-the-cell-processor...
Hetzner GPU servers at $200/month for an RTX 4000 with 20GB seem competitive. Anyone have experience with what kind of token throughput you could get with that?
My take is more cynical. They actually want your soul. By collecting all the information that was ever used to train the neural network between your ears, they can create a synthetic version of you, to impersonate you, and some might even argue resurrect you, inside a computer, to torture you Clockwork Orange style with an endless display of ads, predicting what the fleshy version of you wants to buy, how to preempt your real life decisions, deny you the things you desire, and more.
Titanium is mostly not on the sanctioned list. In a few countries where is sanctioned (like Canada), exemptions are available.
You mean Viva Insights? (formerly Workplace Analytics)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-viva/insights
> I look forward to people figuring out how to create a sustainable biosphere out of raw materials when we can't figure out how to keep a pre-existing rich one healthy.

This is what I always raise when people start fantasizing breathlessly about mars colonization. Even if we possessed the technology to terraform a planet like mars in a way that could sustain human life long term, the presumable incentives to doing so (escaping a decreasingly habitable earth) don't make sense, because we could then just use that technology to terraform our own environment.

None of it makes sense because it's fantasy used to raise money.
For my small scale projects, Openobserve.ai has been super helpful. It ships as a single binary and (in non h/a setup) saves traces/logs/metrics to disk. I just set it up as a systems service and start sending telemetry via localhost. Code at https://github.com/bbkane/shovel_ansible/
From the article:

As the Vox article documents, conservatives in several states have proposed legislation to make divorce more difficult. Based on the data, these proposals are likely to be unpopular.

The article also notes that even among conservatives, less than 50% say divorce should be harder.

My reaction is that the USA hasn't trended towards majoritarian law making recently, so the actual popularity will not determine if divorce is made more difficult.
What happened to all the chatter about Q*? I remember reading about this train/test time trade-off back then, does anyone have good list of recent papers/blogs about this? What is holding back this or openai is just running some model 10x longer to estimate what they would get if they trained with 10x?

This tweet is relevant:
https://x.com/polynoamial/status/1676971503261454340
> and loopholes.

This is an argument that comes again and again when discussing government intervention and really baffles me: don't you laissez-faire guys really don't realize that a “loophole” is still much tinier than a completely open door?!
> can we trust that it wont have issues in other areas

We can trust it's not perfect. For this problem, operating at 1/100 the failure point probably shouldn't stir too many emotions. There's very little in your daily life operating at those types of margins, except maybe the ground you walk on.
Aren't plants actually incredibad at photosynthesis? I thought that a really exceptional plant was 3-4% efficient, most of them are << 1%
The NVR would be the zoneminder box. I don't have any specific links, but I believe zoneminder has a wiki/community page somewhere. Googling exactly what you want to do will give you tons of good guides specific to your use case.
Ngrok from scratch in Go – POC [video]
I only go to great lengths because I can see that the attacks are driven by an agenda that is not impartial.

And I've articulated why I think that in this case.
"She says as long as Lisa is happy, she is happy too"

Happiness is not fulfillment. Philosophers figured this out thousands of years ago. We are forgetting this. Not just in China, but in the West too.

There is objective right and wrong. Preferring screens over real humans is objectively not good.
Is there any resource that goes into more detail about how to setup all this?
Emphasis on now - it's new in this version, so probably expect a little bit of delay before it's actually available everywhere. But yes, excellent addition and I'm happy to have it available more broadly now.
For anyone willing to try, the installers are exceedingly simple and Steam makes gaming a breeze. Getting away from that "it's for nerds" image you're referring to is exactly what Linux needs to do
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-analy...
"The Netherlands" beats Seattle?
Hopefully they fired the managers that never noticed, too. Sounds like a looooot of cleanup is due there.
I thought it was unavailable there. Even assuming they’re using VPNs, would it be acceptable to publicly promote using it?
Well, it’s two louder, obviously.
Nobody is required to live in an apartment. All you're doing is not prohibiting apartments and condos from being built.

Also notice the extent to which this is almost irrelevant to the number of single family homes you can have. Suppose you eliminate density restrictions and then 95% of the land area remains single-family homes, but the other 5% has an average of a 5-story building with four house-sized units per floor on it. You have just doubled the amount of housing available, but there are still 95% as many single-family homes as there were before.

In theory this means that 5% of the people who would have had a single family home would now have a condo. But you also only had enough housing for 50% of the people who need it, so in the alternative where you only allow single family homes, 50% of people are homeless. Or, in practice, live with their parents -- and would much rather a condo than that.