skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Docker (and containers in general) adds namespacing, but not security, for applications. If anything, docker can add MORE attack vectors.

No one should use containers primarily for security ever.
Maybe we write very different kinds of scripts. For my startup, such a "script" might be:

1. An hourly itemized invoicing batch job for incremental usage-based billing, that pulls billable users from an ERP DB, grabs their usage with a complex Snowflake query (= where our structured access logs get piped), then does a CQRS reduction over the credit-and-spend state from each user's existing invoice line-items for the month, to turn the discovered usage into new line-items to insert back into the same ERP DB.

2. A Twilio customer-service IVR webhook backend, that uses local speech-processing models to recognize keywords so you don't have to punch numbers.

3. An image/SVG/video thumbnailer that gets called when a new source asset (from a web-scraping agent) is dropped into one bucket; and which writes the thumbnail for said asset out into another bucket. (For the SVG use-case especially, this requires spinning up an entire headless Chrome context per image, mostly in order to get the fonts looking right. We actually handle that part of the pipeline with serverless containers, not serverless functions, because it needs a custom runtime environment.)

#1 is an example of a low-utilization "script" where we just don't want to pay for the infra required to run it when it's not running, since when it is running it "wants" better-than-cheapest resourcing to finish in a reasonable time (which, if you were deploying it to a VM, would mean paying for a more expensive VM, to sit mostly idle.) We do have a k8s cluster — and this was originally a CronJob resource on that, which made sense at first — but this is an example of a "grows over time" workload, and we're trying to avoid using k8s for those sort of workloads, because k8s expects workloads to have fixed resource quotas per pod, and can't cope well with growing workloads without a lot of node-pool finessing.

#2 and #3 are high-utilization (one in CPU and RAM, one in requiring a GPU with VRAM) "scripts", where only one or two concurrent executions of these would fit on a $4/mo DO droplet; and where ten or twenty of these on a more vertically-scaled VM or machine would start to strain the network throughput of even a 2.5Gbps link. Many cheap-ish machines, each with their resourcing (including their own network bandwidth), all instantaneously reserved and released at one machine per request is a perfect match for the demand profile of these use-cases.
Orb: Write WebAssembly with Elixir
This is amazing

It evokes the feeling of nothingness

All of the shapes are “empty”, in the sense that there is no real closed-loop outer edge that contains them

But I perceive them as sort of self-contained objects

Thank you for sharing this, very cool
Yeah seems like it, I can’t install any app through TF
I'm personally a lot more than a prediction engine, don't worry about me.

For those who do believe they are simply fleshy token predictors, is there a moral reason that other (sentient) humans can't kill -9 them like a LLaMa3 process?
They did mention that someone was apprehended and punished under the law by 3 AM on the first day the law came into effect. Maybe it’s a case of starting with the most egregious and noncontroversial cases and considering broader approaches from there.
We delete and/or redact things for users who ask us to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
), we take care of such requests every day, and we treat every user the same. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40732867 in this thread.

Edit: also, here's the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949343. It's a more complete explanation than I have time to give right now, and nothing has changed since then.
Also interesting: https://www.uiua.org/

Concateniative APL-like (with Unicode symbols but with pragmatic input method)
Also it's possible that human intelligence already reached the most general degree of intelligence, since we can deal with every concept that could be generated, unless there are concepts that are uncompressible and require more memory and processing than our brains could support. In such case being "superintelligent" can be achieved by adding other computational tools. Our pocket calculators make us smarter, but there is no "higher truth" a calculator could let us reach.
Lichess 5 is better than the vast majority of chess players
> why are we talking about things like this?

> this is such a transparent attention grab (and, by extension, money grab by being overvalued by investors and shareholders)

Ilya believes transformers can be enough to achieve superintelligence (if inefficiently). He is concerned that companies like OpenAI are going to succeed at doing it without investing in safety, and they're going to unleash a demon in the process.

I don't really believe either of those things. I find arguments that autoregressive approaches lack certain critical features [1] to be compelling. But if there's a bunch of investors caught up in the hype machine ready to dump money on your favorite pet concept, and you have a high visibility position in one of the companies at the front of the hype machine, wouldn't you want to accept that money to work relatively unconstrained on that problem?

My little pet idea is open source machines that take in veggies and rice and beans on one side and spit out hot healthy meals on the other side, as a form of mutual aid to offer payment optional meals in cities, like an automated form of the work the Sikhs do [2]. If someone wanted to pay me loads of money to do so, I'd have a lot to say about how revolutionary it is going to be.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lHFUR-yD6I

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdoJroKUwu0

EDIT: To be clear I’m not saying it’s a fools errand. Current approaches to AI have economic value of some sort. Even if we don’t see AGI any time soon there’s money to be made. Ilya clearly knows a lot about how these systems are built. Seems worth going independent to try his own approach and maybe someone can turn a profit off this work even without AGI. Tho this is not without tradeoffs and reasonable people can disagree on the value of additional investment in this space.
It was dumb of Perplexity to specifically say that they follow robots.txt, and then not respect it immediately after. I doubt it was a consciously malicious decision as it wouldn't make any sense to try and get some good will from that commitment and then expect nobody to notice that you weren't actually doing that. I expect that they simply forgot they even made that promise. That's still a problem though. Too many companies sloppily make pledges because they think it will make them look good only to immediately stop caring about the pledge right after they say it.

While it was definitely wrong of them to commit to it and renege, I don't really think robots.txt should be expected to be respected for a live web scraping use case. I think performing a web request immediately after a user requests it is much more similar to a proxy service than it is to an indexing service like search engines. Should archive.is also be expected to respect robots.txt as well, even though it's directly performing a scrape on the user's behalf? How is live scraping materially different than a proxy or a CDN? robots.txt was created in the context of crawlers scraping content on a batch schedule as opposed to a real time on the fly schedule.

Live request services could even leverage the end user's machine to perform the requests directly and then provide the data to them instead of doing the scrape on their behalf, so I feel as though the directly responsible invoker of the data being taken off their sites is more the user than the service that's acting as a proxy.

The current media order is definitely at risk and it's something we need to find solutions to protect in some way to prevent reporting from dying in this paradigm shift. Trying to push against the entirety of AI progress is not going to work and this is really just screaming into the void over technicalities. Even if live scrape powered AI services were banned, the same service would just move to the end user with apps that will perform the requests directly on the user's device. I don't think anyone outside of the industry cares about the technical nuances of how AI services visit websites for the user. There's a bigger problem at play here regarding the future of high quality media, and it needs to be addressed directly.
Are you claiming Ilya Sutskever is a grifter?
Which states defunded their police departments?
When you’re transporting a patient from cardiac theatre to ICU down a long corridor which allows space for a bed and additional equipment (pumps, cardiac assist devices, nitric oxide dispensers) and not much else, it is super annoying (maybe dangerous) to have to negotiate a pass with a robot. I guess you can prewarn the hospital to clear the path, but pneumatic tubes work well and once installed seem very low cost to use/maintain.
Nothing ever happens. World war 3 will not happen in our lifetimes.
Those are good points, but I'm not sure the article is crystal on the details and anyway if a little exaggeration can net the police a big gain, this would invite public suspicion as, for example, in Menifee, Arkansas [1].

See generally https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/freq...

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-arkansas-town-banned-fro...
One problem with ideas like this is that the academia is a meritocracy (or at least it attempts to be), and a meritocracy needs merits that can be assessed in a timely fashion. If people need publications for jobs, promotions, and grants and proper peer review takes too long, they will create a parallel track of publications with lower standards. Over time, the parallel track will become dominant.

That already happened in CS, which inherited slow and thorough journals from mathematics. Because peer review was taking too long, people elevated abstracts in conference proceedings to the status of papers. The idea was that you submitted an extended abstract to a conference with limited peer review. After receiving feedback, you would write the actual paper and submit it to a journal for proper peer review. But because the work was already published in conference proceedings, people often didn't bother with the full paper.

In some countries, administrators resisted this and only considered journal papers real publications. Those administrators were universally reviled by the CS community. Over time, most of them budged and started accepting conference papers as merits. And so CS became a field with lower than average standards for peer review.
Yes just like the car and electric grid.
Einstein’s theories of Special and General Relativity and his explanation of the photoelectric effect are well grounded in experimental science. At this point, they count as proven as far as we can call anything true. Chomsky’s UG doesn’t rise to quite that level, but is very well-grounded in experimental science. The field of linguistics has an extraordinarily high degree of rigor, both in theory and experiment, and Chomsky’s theories have tons of experimental data backing them up.
Sounds like you've driven in the only part of Germany where people behave. My experience is it's as bad as everywhere else in neighboring countries with the tiny difference that the lanes are a bit wider than in most places. I usually don't drive in the left lanes and I still get the impression people want to check what I'm transporting in the back all the time.
Since when do suburban subdivision developers build public parks and schools? I have never heard of a single family housing development that did that. They may build roads and then turn over the more expensive long-term maintenance over to the town.

What’s wrong with multi-unit buildings that have private amenities? Do you let people into your yard to use your swing set and pool? Aren’t there a lot of single family home communities not have private HOA amenities too?

Once again a higher standard is being applied to multi-family homes because of how much Americans are conditioned to hate them. Anything a multi-family building does is sinful but the God-fearing single family home’s private amenities are sacred freedom-loving private property.
Based on the icon and some of the links, it looks to be connected somehow to PuppyLinux. Anyone know what the link is?

PuppyLinux was my first distro, it was great fun to be able to boot directly from a flash drive. IIRC persistence was implemented by just writing to a file which could be located anywhere, even on a Windows system. It was a great way to get familiar without committing.
Not that I'm a fan of cars in general, but I 100% agree with everything you've said here, there's no good reason for the absurdly low speed limits on major freeways, especially since the average speed of traffic is often 20mph over, making it actively unsafe to do the speed limit. Though I will say some of the potholes we've got on 880 are unsafe at any speed.
The smartest programmers I've known have also been good at math and music alongside code.

Because I am not of their caliber, I play no instruments.
Maybe they want to start lenient and make it stricter later.
(2018) discussion at the time (214 points, 138 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058991
Haha, I can’t tell if you are mocking me for taking a back-handed swipe at Chomsky’s politics.
Renaming accounts, redacting posts, etc. are all things that we do for users in general. We make no distinction between "high-ranking" users and others.

We take care of these requests every day and have bent over backwards (e.g. spending hours writing code) to help people individually in cases where their needs were unusually complex. I can tell you for sure that whether the person is high- or low-status in $whoever's eyes has nothing to do with this. Often I don't even know who the person is.

Our approach boils down to this: we don't want anyone to get in trouble from anything they posted to HN. It doesn't matter who the "anyone" is. Countless times I've deleted posts, redacted personal data and/or randomized usernames for accounts that had long been abusing and trolling HN. I don't rub their nose in it—I just pretend not to have noticed. You'd be surprised how polite and thankful people become when they need something.

I'm not surprised to see accounts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40732721 being scurrilously silly, but you've been around here long enough to know better.

Edit: here's the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949343. It's a more complete explanation than I have time to give right now, and nothing has changed since then.
> Doing 110 kpm in a 50s zone is willingly putting people's life at risk

If 50 km/h limit is appropriate for a given road. I would expect speed limits to be reasonable in AT but if an organization which sets speed limits can profit from fines and forfeiture it creates an incentive to set the limit as low as possible.

In Russia I've seen a road going around the city (but formally still in the city) with the speed limit 60 km/h. With a central reservation and a large distance between traffic lights 80-90 km/h would be reasonable but guess police wanted to profit from fines. May be the speed limit has been increased eventually, don't know.
I’ve seen rotis sold in grocery stores and they look almost nothing like you’d typically get in the actual country they’re imported from. I wonder if the plastic is added on to appeal to our sensibilities?
Likewise, i'm baffled by intelligent people [in such denial] still making the reductionist argument about token prediction being a banal ability. It's not. It's not very different than how our intelligence manifest.
I’m not the OP, and I genuinely don’t like how we’re slowly entering the “no text in internet is real” realm, but I’ll take a stab at your question.

If you made an LLM to pretend to have a specific personality (e.g. assume you are a religious person and you’re going to make a comment in this thread) rather than “generic catch-all LLM”, they can pretty much do that. Part of Reddit is just automated PR LLMs fighting each other, making comments and suggesting products or viewpoints, deciding on which comment to reply and etc. You just chain bunch of responses together with pre-determined questions like “given this complete thread, do you think it would look organic if we responded with a plug to a product to this comment?”.

It’s also not that hard to generate these type of “personalities”, since you can use a generic one to suggest you a new one that would be different from your other agents.

There are also Discord communities that share tips and tricks for making such automated interactions look more real.
Product expertise for early-stage founders
Pretty sure easy refers to USING the distro after it's installed, not while building a custom distro yourself, or whatever this is.
Actually defunding the police turned out to be something that didn't happen, at least from the democrats (who are still blamed for it). The main defunding was from the republican leadership in the house who insisted on reducing the budget or multiple federal law enforcement agencies, such as FBI and ATF. The republicans defunded the police.

But the effective outcome of all the sound and fury is that police enforcement seems way way down. I can't understand why they allow so many drivers to go around with expired license plates and worse (no plates, hand written plates, etc). They just don't stop them any more. There was a claim that laws about safe pursuit were a reason to not stop them, then they reversed the laws, still happening). I'm very ticked about it.
It’s a unit test framework though, not a suite of containerization software and services. Maintained mostly by one person for years.
> It'd be nice knowing right of the bat if the email I sign up with (https://www.radius.to/users/sign_up) will be shared with other users or not.

Great suggestion - I'll add that to the sign-up form!

> Best of luck, just like u/skrebbel mentioned below I do wish this takes off.

Thanks!
Mostly holding on still. Apple just bumped the hype a little more and gave it a few more months despite MSFT’s inherent ability to shaft everything they touch.

I moved about 50% of my capital back into ETFs though before WWDC in case they dumped a turd on the table.
Under no circumstances should you try meditation! DO NO DO IT! That's an order.
I think the main point is that from a human intelligence perspective chess is easy mode. Clearly defined, etc.

Think of politics or general social interactions for actual hard mode problems.
It transcends the training data, I get the usage intended but it certainly is ripe for misinterpretation
Is it really the freeway that's the problem?
They go fast down residential streets, or driving while texting, and eating. I've literally seen someone reading a book while driving before.
> Not that I'm a fan of cars in general

I, too, prefer socialist trains over the individuated, elitist inefficiency of cars. https://youtu.be/9-Jy-yBboCM
The argument that brains are just token prediction machines is basically the same as saying “the brain is just a computer”. It’s like, well, yes in the same way that a B-21 Raider is an airplane as well as a Cessna. That doesn’t mean that they are anywhere close to each other in terms of performance. They incorporate some similar basic elements but when you zoom out they’re clearly very different things.
Is this a fast TSP solver?
At one point, I was able to do 3-dimensional vector calculus on electromagnetic fields. Now, I'm not sure I could do even a basic derivative.

Use it or lose it.
> I don't think LLMs are particularly dangerous

“Everyone” who works in deep AI tech seems to constantly talk about the dangers. Either they’re aggrandizing themselves and their work, or they’re playing into sci-fi fear for attention or there is something the rest of us aren’t seeing.

I’m personally very skeptical there is any real dangers today. If I’m wrong, I’d love to see evidence. Are foundation models before fine tuning outputting horrific messages about destroying humanity?

To me, the biggest dangers come from a human listening to a hallucination and doing something dangerous, like unsafe food preparation or avoiding medical treatments. This seems distinct from a malicious LLM super intelligence.
Yeah, same here, can’t install any apps from testflight. Current status: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
> Modern cars can actually read speed limit signs

Mine only tells me and often picks up the signs for wet weather (reduced to 90kph) and sometimes from the parallel road which usually is either 50 or 80.

Sounds like a bad idea (though limiting to the countries max is reasonable and safe).
Please open-source it if the project dies. Thanks!

I'd say that the biggest threat is not getting enough traction/funding. Marketing could help to increase the user base.
Well, yes. I won't commit suicide though, since it is an evolutionarily developed trait to keep living and reproducing since only the ones with that trait survive in the first place.
no. someone with decades of experience bringing silicon to market maybe, but still no one would change their supply chain for ease of use. there's nothing easy in IC design, for good reason, and the industry learned to deal with it. what the industry values the most is reliability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism
The best hardware option currently is StereoPi: https://stereopi.com

But the software has a ways to go, it seems. I wonder if a potential CM5 would be able to stream the two video feeds better than the CM4.
> '“It felt like the right thing to do here,” Caceres told WIRED at the time. “If they don’t see we have teeth, it’s just going to keep coming.”'

Ask yourself. Do 'hackers' talk like this or military/government employees?

Also ask yourself, is WIRED a 'hacker' friendly magazine or a government affiliated state media?

Some top WIRED offerings

'Former FBI Agent Explains How to Read Body Language...'

'Former CIA Chief of Disguise Breaks Down 30 Spy Scenes From...'

Not to mention reddit and reddit AMAs been used by government agencies to push an agenda.
CISA Advisory on Motorola Solutions ALPR Vulnerabilities
It's not just about the source. Frameworks are leaky abstractions by design, they intentionally expose their internals.

In Django, for example, you are supposed to know what kind of queries it generates. It is documented how queries are generated (an exposed internal).

You have to open it to configure it:

DATABASES = {
"default": {
"ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql",
}
}

And by doing so, you have to acknowledge (in this case) that postgres becomes a known component of the "insides" (even though you are supposed to only interact with the ORM).

A black box doesn't need this kind of stuff. It would have an embedded database instead. Like a plane black box would have its own batteries instead of relying on the plane power supply.

This is all good, I'm all in favor of good clear boundaries between components. The existence of a boundary does not make it a black box though.

That's why I would prefer using the term "encapsulation" when describing the advantages of having an abstraction.