skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LLM's are just very advanced text prediction, and always will be

How do you predict the next word in answering an abstract logic question without being capable of abstract reasoning, though?

In some sense it probably is possible, but this is a gaping flaw in your argument. A sufficiently advanced text prediction process has to encompass the process of abstract reasoning. The text prediction problem is necessarily a superset of the abstract reasoning problem. Ie, in the limit text prediction is fundamentally harder than abstract reasoning.
PS – I don't think it's been posted yet to HN; you should do the honors...
Doesn't match to my experience - its either open slather or properly restricted VDI/Citrix envs.
Sad but true. Same reason Boeing is probably still due for a steady rise.
I Would also like to add:

“Any security product which has a rootkit, remote command and control and egresses data is indistinguishable from malware”.
The girl on the supermarket checkout said she hoped her computer wouldn't be affected. I knowingly laughed and said "you probably don't have on your own computer unless your a bank".

She said, "I installed it before for my cybersecurity course but I think it was just a trial"

Assumptions eh.
Exactly, well said.

Truthfully, it must be practically infeasible to transform security practices of a large company overnight. Most of the time they buy into these products because they're chasing a security certification (ISO 27001, SOC2, etc.), and by just deploying this to their entire fleet they get to sidestep the actually difficult part.

The irony is that at the end of this they're not anymore "secure" than they were before, but since they have the certification, their customers trust that they are. It's security theater 101.
Analysis of a Second Hand Google Mini Search Appliance (2013)
It is ironic that you would speak of a country's values, especially in the context of the USA, where many people that consider each other Americans don't even accept each other's values
Software updates and cyberattacks are, at first glance, categorically different things. The idea that a sufficiently bad update is indistinguishable from a cyber attack is a statement that they're not, in fact, categorically different.

E.g. supply chain attacks have become a hot topic in the last few years. This event suggests that your threat model for supply chain attacks should include catastrophic vendor cockups.
Show HN: Scribbler, a Telegram bot that transcribes and summarizes
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I wrote this bot a few months ago and I decided to try and make it available to everyone. Thanks to the race for better and cheaper models, even offering it for free doesn't break the bank (although I did receive an eye-popping bill back in March).

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They're more difficult to fake.

If the doctor prescribes 10 tablets, the user could be tempted to add a zero and thus get 100 tablets instead of 10. It's more difficult to turn an X into a C.
Strange take.. Mastodon is where alot of the IT discussion happens these days.

The quality vs crap ratio is stellar on mastodon. Not so much on anywhere else.
> ...a paralyzed individual who can only move their eyes since birth...

I don't think such an individual is possible.
Makes sense, numbers added.
> I heard Crowdstrike is "best-in-market"

A friend of mine who used to work for Crowdstrike tells me they're a hot mess internally and it's amazing they haven't had worse problems than this already.
I never had insta. Why would anyone use that.
What's the origin of "water under the bridge"?
https://archive.is/BkECL
To be honest, it's also the quality of migrants that Sweden receives. The migrants joining gangs or getting radicalized in Sweden are primarily ones who arrived as asylum seekers, usually without much language and marketable job market skills, and with conservative cultural background that can be a burden. This is a big contract to the United States, which doesn't receive anywhere near as many refugees (adjusted to its size), and is generally more picky about migrants.

The welfare system doesn't work well with integration either. If all that is available to you are bad jobs due to your lack of job market / language skills, why work if welfare pays almost the same?

I think Sweden does a decent job integrating those migrants who arrive with sufficient skills for the job market. It's the rest that are problematic, and they would probably do better in the US with its lack of welfare state.
I don’t think I’ve ever searched for anything in either of those. I usually google what I want and look for reviews, mostly ending up on Reddit. Then I search for that app on the store.

This is the same with the Play Store and windows store. And physical stores.

Never go into a shop unless you know what you need otherwise you’ll come out with something you don’t need.
Got it, no need to sorry, this is a still cool example :thumbs-up:
It only takes one nuke to make an EMP that can mess up most of the continental USA, that's something which could plausibly be done as a first strike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse

Now I think about it, how is the international law banning nukes in space actually enforced? E.g. if Russia just put one on a satellite and didn't tell anyone, does anyone have any way to notice?
Can I use this to generate PDF invoices from PHP?

I've been searching for a good solution for the past 15 years. Never been happy with the solutions, and my PDFs are always very ugly.
The issue wasn’t using Twitter. It was publicly broadcasting the existence of a security vulnerability.

This is especially egregious given that A16Z’s DMs are open.
Same, in Rust, just as an exercise to get familiar with GUIs. So I ended implementing it twice, once with `iced`: https://github.com/BogdanOlar/iced-minesweep-rs , and with `egui`: https://github.com/BogdanOlar/egui-minesweep-rs , using the common `minefield-rs` library: https://github.com/BogdanOlar/minefield-rs

It's a really fun exercise, and a good way to practice new skills. Highly recommend it.
So they would rather flee like cowards instead of staying to fix the issues suffering their country. We don't need more cowards in America either.
If you get have privileged escalation vulnerability there are worse things you can do. Just making the system unbootable by destroying the boot sector/EFI partition and overwriting system files. No more rebooting in safe mode and no more deleting a single file to fix the boot.

This would probably be classified as a terrorist attack and frankly it’s just a matter of time until we get one some day. A small dedicated team could pull it off. It’s just so happens that the people with the skills currently either opt for cyber criminality (crypto lockers and such), work for a state actor (think Stuxnet) or play defense in a cyber security firm.
I see a paradox that the null bytes are "not related" to the current situation and yet deleting the file seems to cure the issue. Perhaps the CS official statement that "This is not related to null bytes contained within Channel File 291 or any other Channel File." is poorly worded.

My opinion is that CS is trying to say the null bytes themselves aren't the actual root cause of the issue, but merely a trigger for the actual root cause, which is that CSAgent.sys has a problem where malformed input vectors can cause it to crash. Well designed programs should error out gracefully for foreseeable errors, like corrupted config files.

If we interpret that quoted sentence such that "this" is referring to "the logical error", and that "the logical error" is the error in CSAgent.sys that causes it to crash upon reading a bad channel file, then that statement makes sense.

This is a bit of a stretch, but so far my impression with CS corporate communication regarding this issue has been nothing but abject chaos, so this is totally on-brand for them.
Any anti-malware software will become malware itself. You become the enemy you fight.
I refuse to open twitter while its called x and contains toxic owner.
> The klorps that are gronks could be a wholly distinct subset to the klorps that are floots.

So? It's still the case that "if there is any overlap between floots and klorps," it is "guaranteed, that some floots are klorps." It's tautological.

Unless there's a way to read "overlap" so that it doesn't mean "some of one category are also in the other category, and vice versa"?

Oh, when I said "it's necessarily true" I was refering to this last sentence of the output, not the question posed in the input. Hence we are at cross purposes I think.
On the contrary. I hadn’t used gnome since 2017, and back then it was absolute junk. Upon installing NixOS two weeks ago, I went with the default desktop environment for while, and this was gnome. I thought at first that NixOS had tweaked gnome into being nice, but my colleague assured me that this is how gbome is today.

More mimalistic, drawing inspiration from macOS.

I still have to remove stuff rather than add stuff to get to where I want. But it wasn’t the first thing I removed on a new install.
Why broadcast the tweet publicly instead of sending it as a DM to A16Z then?

It’s obviously not safe to publicly announce the existence of a security vulnerability, and there was no barrier to alerting them privately via the same platform.
loading content is pretty specific step so your solution is more or less valid
I don't do windows either.
Just like this:

--- File: ~/GitRepos/kanot/prelude ---
Another - AECL, developed the Therac-25 radiation machine that delivered far more the expected dose of radiation than wanted due to a software bug.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

No class action lawsuit, just some relatives of dead patients settling out of court.
... unless it is approved by MS. :)
On a shallow level, is trivial; as in “a program is a file with ascii codes, like any other file, is data”

A little deeper, you can think “an obj file are bytes, even called TEXT section, so the same, a program is data”

But in Lisp the parallel comes at a much higher abstraction level. In the sense that you learn “algorithms AND data structures” like 2 different things, and when they conflate, that is the aha moment.

It is interesting when you start to understand that data can affect flow control exactly as code, that you can generate code on the fly as needed, just as data (which is bot really possible in C- in an easy way, at least) and you even can generate code, which generates code, which gene… that runs at the end.

Let me add another thing: probably you have heard “self modifying code is dark, dangerous, not recommended”. Now, if you really embrace the idea that data is code, code is data, then you start to be very cautious with variables. Any change in a variable, is changing code… I think that is the reason why people in functional languages value so much immutable data.
I'm quoting the French governments target of 50% nuclear, down from about 70% today.

You yourself say:

> I expect the nuclear share to drop at 50-60 percent in the future to cover the rest with renewables.

So what bit are you actually disputing or disagreeing with?

The 6 reactors you mention are I assume the ones with a vague uncosted plan due for first delivery of electricity in 2035-40 (if they meet their timetable!)

> I'd like to point out, that the second reactor at Hinkley Point is begin build at a rate 20-30% faster than the first.

20-30% faster than a project that is (currently!) 50% over time estimated and the most recent delay was announced only months ago.

So they're slower than their promised delivery times even after building several and they celebrate that as a success in their press releases to distract from all the bad news.
Isn't that just a reformulation of Hanlon's Razor [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
His reading of Dirk Gently is absolutely the best way to experience it.
seriously, someone should write it up and file an ethics complaint with whatever bar he's a member of.
What time was that?
There aren't even ten nations in the EU with nuclear weapons.
Thinking of (possibly) fake building, was noodling around Google Maps looking for some interesting walks in my area, and found these surprisingly widely spaced groups of buildings:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/K5MMuAdLtZ63hL8Y8?g_st=com.google.ma...

Might well be totally mundane, but it sure seems odd to me with my complete lack of knowledge about civil engineering.
They're using low income South Asians to clean up, it's modern slavery. Also people will stick the cigarette butts in every nook and cranny available.
Walkman arrived late to my place, and I don’t remember that it did too much of “what it was like”. Just teens walking with headphones.

What actually did it was hands-free. A guy walking, talking and flailing hands to no one was somewhat crazy and even scary to people unaware of technology.

Also, some people still get surprised when you use Siri right in front of them (not because it’s bad, they just never thought about it).
Ctrl+T does transpose-characters (and Alt+T transpose-words) in Emacs. I assume it's not a coincidencce, I see tcsh has `bindkey -e` / `-v` for Emacs/VI bindings. Same keys work in bash too (and anything else that uses readline) and fish too (independent editing implementation).
Updates to Firefox for Android Navigation
I noticed some examples from anthropic's golden-gate-claude paper had responses starting with <scratchpad> for the inverse effect. Suppressing the output to the end of the paragraph would be an easy post processing operation.

It's probably better to have implicitly closed tags rather than requiring a close tag. It would be quite easy for a LLM to miss a close tag and be off in a dreamland.

Possibly addressing comments to the user or itself might allow for considering multiple streams of thought simultaneously. IRC logs would be decent training data for it to figure out many voice multi-conversations (maybe)
“Not cyberattack”. How about friendly fire.
It's just too fast and loose. It is apparent and it says it on the tin. It was designed as a scripting language. Exactly the same holds for JS which is much worse.

I have no idea why these languages are considered "easy". I find them a pain to use for anything larger than a couple hundred lines of code.
It's a good fairy tale. But, actually, Europe offers far more choices.
It's a shame that Khan has gotten less diverse in subjects. They used to have medicine and bio stuff among others, but now it's mostly maths. The maths lectures and exercises are still great, but even those seem limited (still no discrete maths last time I looked).
Personally I think it's less about accepting others, and more about the fact European economy sucks, has rigid job markets, and lacks entrepreneurial spirit. Historically people left Europe to the US, because that's where you could improve your life through hard work. Those Chinese-Americans improved their life by founding successful businesses, which doesn't seem to happen so much over here.

Obviously the US being a land of immigrants with most commonly spoken language in the world helps a lot too. The fact Europe isn't like the US doesn't make it xenophobic. Compared to pretty much anything except the US, it's still among the most accepting towards people of different cultures.
What is schizo content
I thought we were discussing total wealth and not wealth for some portion of the population, at the cost of somebody else's wealth (computed holistically, not just money but also health and overall wellbeing). By this logic, stealing increases wealth of the thief.
Argentino here. I think Venezuela is going through the same issues. We had A LOT of Venezuelan immigrants in Arg and Chile and they said the same thing you're saying: that people leaving were the "brave, smart, willing to work people" and the ones remaining were the scum.

Can I ask you what are the reasons you decide to stay?
And we're back to you wanting all RVV implementors to make the same performance vs size/cost trade-offs when the whole point of it is that different implementors have the freedom to make the trade-offs that make sense for their target markets -- and you have the freedom to buy them or not buy them, depending on whether they fit your needs. There is not a single vendor who has to address all markets and use-cases, there will be dozens of them, all using a common ISA and all (sensibly witten) software will run everywhere, at varying levels of performance and cost.
This is a pretty brief 'analysis'. The poster traces back one stack frame in assembler, it basically amounts to just reading out a stack dump from gdb. It's a good starting point I guess.
After this I imagine there will be an option "do you want updates immediately, or updates when released - n, or n+2, n+6, n+24, n+48 hrs?"

Given the choice I bet there's going to be surprisingly large number of orgs go "we'll take n+24hrs thanks"
Big news.
I didn't get the connection to the parent post: how and why it reminded you of 2020.
Well, one can turn X into XX or XXX...
And handwritten prescriptions have become rare where I live, these days.
I‘m the developer of BetterSnapTool and have also discovered & reported this to Apple about 3 weeks ago on July 2. They are investigating and keep deleting (some of) the fake reviews, but I have no idea who is responsible for them or what they want to achieve.
> GDC air-gapped appliance consists of a chassis that holds three blades and a switch. Customers must provide their own laptop to use as an admin workstation for installing the software and performing upgrades.

It's borderline criminal that they don't include a picture of this thing. Let's see this thing!
Say that to the Pol Pot Vietnamese. Or the Maoist in China. Or the Francoist in Spain.
I've never liked default constructors when it produces something that is not representable without executing code. D does not have default constructors. What one does is specify the statically initialized field values (or leave the fields to be set to their statically initialized value). I.e. it has a default initializer.

What this means in practice is one never is presented with an uninitialized or partially initialized struct. A non-default constructor gets handed a default initialized struct to start with. This makes for more reliable software. (Double initialization can be removed by the optimizer.)

Why D doesn't have default constructors gets brought up now and then, as it is an unusual choice.
Seems Just like the letter -y at the end of a or Spanish (or English?) word is a glorified i, to make it more legible

Ley, rey, etc.
If that’s all it takes an attacker, you’re doing AWS wrong.
Reference counting is a form of GC. Saying Swift, or Perl, are not GC’ed would be misleading.

In Rust, reference counting is opt-in for individual objects. It is a necessity for any powerful, low-level language to be able to implement any high-level feature.

You can, after all, also implement reference counting in C.

To avoid GC, you need a language where it’s opt-in. For example C++ or Zig, but not OCaml.
> when media still reported "an incident." The difference is wild.

The difference is that the media goes to some lengths to make sure the footage they're showing is actually real. Every day on Twitter I see people posting alleged war footage from different conflict zones of the world, and in a non trivial, sometimes majority of cases it turns out the footage is either fake or from some unrelated conflict, or years old but presented as new. The person pointing that out usually has a tenth of the interactions than the original poster.

Twitter is neither providing analysis or news but simply the media equivalent of pornography.
The way I understand it, the policy the users can configure are about "agent versions". I don't think there's a setting for "content versions" you can toggle.
> by claiming that Israel represents all Jews

That is not what I said; this is a strawman. I said, 'Jewish people deserve sovereignty over their ancestral homeland' (i.e. Zionism). This is completely orthogonal to 'Israel represents all Jewish people'.

That being said...

> It is as crackpot as saying Switzerland, Austria and Germany all represent all Germans.

I don't think that's crackpot at all. What's wrong with an ethnic state representing its people's and diaspora's interests? Why do you think countries today issue their citizens with passports? Why do some countries give even non-citizens a fast-track path to citizenship or at least an indefinite multiple-entry visa, provided they're of a certain ethnicity?

A plurality of countries today are ethnic states, by the way, including essentially every European state. I am very happy to say that the German-speaking part of Switzerland, Austria, and Germany absolutely represent Germans as a whole.

As an addendum: printed on the inside front cover of my A1 German textbook was a map of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Make of that what you will.
Isn't any formal "proof" or "reasoning" that shows that something cannot be AGI inherently flawed, because we have a hard time formally describing what AGI is anyway.

Like your argument: embodiment is missing in LLMs, but is it needed for AGI? Nobody knows.

I feel we first have to do a better job defining the basics of intelligence, we can then define what it means to be an AGI, and only then can we prove that something is, or is not, AGI.

It seems that we skipped step 1 because its too hard, and jumped straight to step 3.
If OP was interested in their fridge working more efficiently, they probably wouldn't have become so invested in being able to leave the door open for so long without being warned about it.
> This wasn't a code update, just a configuration update

Configuration is data, data is code.
Disqus [comments] hasn't worked with STP for months.

Neither Mozilla, nor Disqus itself cares.
Not at all. Walter is the "boss", Andrei left as a leader in May 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpTAtiboIDs&t=3049s
They absolutely do not, certainly not "often". In many cases mediocre corporate developers who have taken over a project demand more deference in purely technical matters (which they do not understand) and remove opposition.

They then close down all communication channels so the real victim (i.e., the person that was removed) cannot tell the truth.

Then they engage in vague accusations that there was some other issue that cannot be mentioned in order to "protect a fictional aggrieved party".

Which is criminal libel.
Does not ransomware already have a much less invasive solution in the form of offline backups?
Some people like to solve problems that don't exist and then try to convince the rest of us that the problem did exist so we can pat them on the back. Generally the only time the fridge would need to be open longer than a minute is if you're cleaning it or adding new groceries and rearranging things, but in those situations it's trivial to press the alarm off button.
"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack"

Who says that?

Probably a wise lawmaker.

Who's law is this?

Leigh's Law?

Sounds right to me :)
Is this one of those chatgpt comments?
But in Debian that can be achieved with properly configured unattended-upgrades as well.
> On average, the "sane" choice is to go for the cheapest option, or turn a blind eye to the child labor, etc.

People choose option with maximum utility and it's never as simple as "cheapest" (see iPhones, "vegan cars" etc etc)

> Macron tried to tax fuel more and there were widespread protests

Many people would support the government making green choices. They are not the kinds of people who would go about ransacking streets. Most affected are probably farmers. Also, European taxes on fuel are already bigger than generally in the world, democracy is OK

> if you try to be ethical, you get voted out of office

Remember we are talking about China right?