skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more like nuclear fission, frankly. I don't think the major breakthroughs will be as difficult to achieve, but we'll have a trail of nasty side effects and bad actors that will be left in its wake.

In 2020 I never thought an AI would code for me. And now it turns out, it's pretty good. But AI Slop is pretty much a toxic mess.
why is it that the Biden administration do these right things so freaking slowly? should have been done years ago. Just like allowing Ukraine to do certain things to defend itself.

Anyways, this would be good for consumers, since Shein and Temu products found to contain high levels of toxic chemicals
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/14/s...
My experience with optical drives is similar to ink jet printers. They work once when new then never again.
High Tech, Low Inclusion
My girlfriend owns a model Y and I could write a long list of reasons why they are poorly built and a nightmare to get serviced.
Best selling vehicles of 2023:
1. Ford F series
2. Chevy Silverado
3. Ram Pickup
4. Toyota RAV-4
5. Tesla Model Y
The test you really want is the apples-to-apples comparison between GPT-4o faced with the same CoT and other context annealing that presumably, uh, Q* sorry Strawberry now feeds it (on your dime). This would of course require seeing the tokens you are paying for instead of being threatened with bans for asking about them.

Compared to the difficulty in assembling the data and compute and other resources needed to train something like GPT-4-1106 (which are staggering), training an auxiliary model with a relatively straightforward, differentiable, well-behaved loss on a task like "which CoT framing is better according to human click proxy" is just not at that same scale.
Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for homemade bombs
> I'm not sure how many 4U+ systems are purchased—perhaps some more now that perhaps GPUs cards may be a popular add-on.

Going from what i see at eCycle places, 4U dried up years ago. Everything is either 1 or 2U or massive blade receptacles (10+ U).

We (the home-lab on a budget people) may see a return to 4U now that GPUs are in vogue but i'd bet that the hyper scalers are going to drive that back down to something that'll be 3U with water cooling or so over the longer term.

We may also see similar with storage systems too; it's only a matter of time before SSD gets "close enough" to spinning rust on the $/gig/unit-volume metrics.
Our food is no longer made by people. It is made by companies who make money taking the cheapest ingredients, reconstituting and selling it as 'food'.

I recommend reading this book https://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Processed-People-Science-Behind... (or the audiobook) to learn what makes our 'food' so much worse than 50 years ago.

If you want something more moving, this is good documentary by the same the doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOTBreQaIk
Yes, and we have blue algae alerts on ponds and lakes where I live. Kinda sucks when you go to a lake to swim for your family vacation and you can't because it's toxic.
Except now all the major automakers are making EVs and they are better at making (and servicing) cars than Tesla are.
No one's talking about houses here. I thought that was obvious.

Also rich people get way, way lower interest rates borrowing against their assets than us poors do on HELOCs.
> And that's as far as I'll go with that line of conversation.

Can you point us to somewhere that will fill in the blanks?

I honestly can't tell if your general take on this approach is positive or negative. If it's negative, I'd rather have a heads-up of some kind.
> Milk is preferable, with a splash of water. I use oat milk…

Ah so you are using water with a pinch of salt! /s
My local shop stocks some of these so I decided to give them a try. Trappistes Rochefort 10 is an amazing flavor bomb, a quadrupel (and scores 99 on Beeradvocate [1]) but my favorite is the tripel by Westmalle [2]

[1] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/207/645/

[2] https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/208/646/
I’ve read about the prevalence of chest infections on other long events (Tour de France). I’ve just been searching and can’t find any supporting evidence.

Breathing very hard for hours at a time for days on end would seem to have consequences
The internet is not real life. Vocal Elon haters are out-numbered by people that want a cool looking truck.
Balsamiq. It's a step up from paper and whiteboard. I do the first iteration in it to test out the flow. After that, I switch to Figma for the design system, branding and colors. Then I code.

All the designs are mostly suggestions, I usually don't try to be pixel perfect, just to be consistent visually.
How are 5000 employees costing on average $400k
It's positive. I like it.
Secrets in clear text in environment variables is never a good idea though.
Aider and Openinterpreter have a better UX than using ChatGPT via a website.
I have no love for Tesla and I won't buy one as long as Elon Musk owns it.

But alas I think most major automakers are massively dropping the ball on EVs. I'm particularly disappointed in Toyota and Honda - I really expected better from them.

Where's the Corolla EV or the Civic EV? How about a nice little hatchback? Nope. Everyone's building crossovers, compact SUVs, fuckin' pickup trucks - it's a complete clownshow.
I've worked in these enterprise organizations for a long time. They don't run on common sense, or even what one might consider "business sense". Their existing incentives create bizarre behavior.

For example, you might think "if a big security exploit happens, the stock price might tank". So if they value the stock price, they'll focus on security, right?. In reality what they do is focus on burying the evidence of security exploits. Because if nobody finds out, the stock price won't tank. Much easier than doing the work of actually securing things. And apparently it's often legal.

And when it's not a bizarre incentive, often people just ignore risks, or even low-level failures, until it's too late. Four-way intersections can pile up accidents for years until a school bus full of kids gets T-boned by a dump truck. We can't expect people to do the right thing even if they notice a problem. Something has to force the right thing.

The only thing I have ever seen force an executive to do the right thing is a law that says they will be held liable if they don't. That's still not a guarantee it will actually happen correctly, course. But they will put pressure on their underlings to at least try to make it happen.

On top of that, I would have standards that they are required to follow, the way building codes specify the standard tolerances, sizes, engineering diagrams, etc that need to be followed and inspected before someone is allowed into the building. This would enforce the quality control (and someone impartial to check it) that was lacking recently.

This will have similar results as building codes - increased bureaucracy, cost, complexity, time... but also, more safety. I think for critical things, we really do need it. Industrial controls, like those used for water, power (nuclear...), gas, etc, need it. Tanker and container ships, trains/subways, airlines, elevators, fire suppressants, military/defense, etc. The few, but very, very important, systems.

If somebody else has better ideas, believe me, I am happy to hear them....
Are you sure its a billion? Helps with estimating the training run
Intel has had the government as a customer for a long time. They even have a division for it (Intel Federal)
It depends on the application. Things like terminal guidance systems for hypersonic intercept run on CPUs like an ancient MIPS R3000/4000. It doesn’t need anything more. If you are trying to do real-time processing and fusion of the F-35 sensor suite or an AEGIS system, it is extremely compute intensive and so they live much closer to the bleeding edge with regular upgrades because there is an almost unlimited appetite for more processing power if available to support capabilities.

You often see a mix of really old and really new. They only use the latest greatest, ASICs, or similar when there is an absolute advantage to be gained by doing so. The old platforms are proven and reliable so no reason to not use them if they do the job and they often do.
Likewise. Engineers do not idle well.
This doesn’t seem to address the original question very well. The question is someone who is unable to find time to fill their social needs between working a remote job and caring for children asking for advice, and the answer is “it was an accident that in person work helped with this at all; you’re just going to have to find time.”
So because macs are not the targets of malware ... we're locking them down tighter than any other system?
The level of disconnect from reality you often see in tech circles is pretty amazing.
> Sometimes makes you wonder how far the human body can adapt

Her, maybe, I don’t believe most of us could approach that feat.
That's cool, but I guess I was specifically looking for something more advanced than basic text-to-speech (which most browsers nowadays have built in and can be achieved in 2 lines of JavaScript[0]). I was specifically looking for high quality natural speech sounding generated audio.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...
They contact you later (weeks or months later). And it’s contacting your phone number to attempt to convince you to unlink it, usually with some sob story or threat. They know the phones are worth way way less if they are blacklisted, so they’ll try all sorts of tricks. Apparently it’ll sometimes get sold and passed down to other scammers who try different tactics.

See this article on what that can look like:

https://www.phonearena.com/news/stolen-iphone-scams-how-to-p...
Block level checksums.
TD launches e-commerce platform aimed to compete with Shopify
This assumes cheap goods are the only goal.
Again I'll say I'm not axiomatically reconstructing the relative values of exploits on different platforms, and observe that this is something you can go research and learn about. No, macOS exploits are not as valuable as iOS exploits.
How does one "brute force simulate a human"? If compute is the limiting factor, then isn't it currently possible to brute force simulate a human, just extremely slowly?
I wanted to share an unexpected experience I had during a yoga class, specifically a class that included pranayama practice, under the guidance of a particular teacher. This wasn’t something I sought out, and it hasn't repeated since, but it left a strong impression.

During the session, I distinctly felt what could be described as the "opening of the third eye." However, the sensation was much more mechanical than subtle, almost as if my forehead was literally opening up. It felt real, but strangely, it wasn’t part of the practice or anything the teacher mentioned. After the session, everything went back to normal; it was just this momentary experience during the practice.

I’ve never come across descriptions of it happening this way in any readings on yoga or meditation. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Google to use digital driver's licenses to verify the age of website users
That’s a long way.

It’s interesting how I feel after a long ride (and I haven’t been much over 100 miles).

Sort of empty for a few days following. Hitting hills or long flights of stairs doesn’t stop me, but my heart rate won’t go up enough to move quickly.

Doing that every day for 1/3 of a year is phenomenal.
Phone SE 4 could drop before Apple's full AI rollout in 2025
Drives are sealed anyway. Humidity maybe. Dust can’t really get in. Power or bad batch of drives.
Do you think after another gen or two you could take it through a car wash?
Wafers come in batch sizes of a FOUP, these are the little sealed boxes you see the robots on the tracks moving around a semiconductor factory. One might only need one wafer of chips or less for a project, those other unused wafers go in storage after some testing. When the military needs spare parts, those wafers can be brought out of storage and diced and packaged (if we will even still do that in the future).

This technique is already done for things with long operational lifetimes. It would be nice if we made a distributed (geographically) wafer bank so that we will have a long supply of semiconductors, esp after a civilization scale catastrophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOUP
This is not strictly accurate. ZFS records checksums of the records of data that make up the file storage. If you want an end to end file-level checksum (like a SHA-256 digest of the contents of the file) you still need to layer that on top. Which is not to say it's bad, and it's certainly something I rely on a lot, but it's not quite the same!
Microsoft Sentinel seems like a pretty unlikely candidate for SIEM to crash every machine it’s receiving data from.
> But it obviously reduces the reward for stealing devices, which probably reduces crime?

It doesn't reduce crime, it just shifts it to easier targets.

Instead of figuring out why people commit crimes and making society work better to eliminate those reasons, we just shift the burden around and make things objectively worse for everyone.

I get that this is a super hard problem, one that likely can't ever be 100% solved, and Apple isn't responsible for it, but it frustrates me that everything is about controlling symptoms, never about curing the disease.
There are three things that already exist and address these kinds of concerns (I've removed some, but not all, color commentary, this is somewhat effective but definitely not 100%):

Data Rights - Every acquisitions contract includes data rights. The specific data varies by contract. For things like an LRU, the data rights may include schematics. This is, in theory, enough information to recreate the device but may leave out certain key proprietary pieces. Like if a 1980s era LRU had an M68k, no schematics from Motorola will be included. But the architecture is known so recreation is technically feasible. The schematics also offer a foundation for producing a like-product replacing the obsolete components, though a project like that can take years.

ICD - Interface Control Document. The device itself becomes a blackbox. Instead a description is provided, along with other requirements and spec documents, on how it behaves. The good ICDs are really enough to start a clean room project without ever needing to crack open the to-be-replaced devices. Unfortunately the good ones are rare, they often stop getting updated at some point and modern ICDs are shit compared to the documentation from last century.

COTS - DOD (and the US gov't in general) has had a major 30+ year push to go COTS as much as possible. Obviously this doesn't work for everything, but go back to that M68k example. There's no reason to ask for a custom chip when a COTS one will do. Same for other parts of major systems. Computer motherboards can be COTS (or very near) even if the chassis is bespoke to make it form and fit suitable for its intended environment. COTS, in theory, also makes it possible to do incremental refreshes more easily. Like replace that computer hardware in the custom chassis every 5 years, it's not trivial but it's a small jump and updating software components in such "short" (by DOD standards) increments is hardly onerous. In practice, updates may not happen for 20+ years which is a more substantial undertaking.

These, and other things that are supposed to be done in acquisitions, largely resolve the "What will we do in 20 years when the supplier has gone under" questions.
This 1000%
Agreed with all of this. Composition over inheritance. The other consequence of turning one of these not-actually-modular monoliths into microservices is they bring the same bad behavior with them tightly coupled services where any failure in the chain cascades throughout. It takes a LOT of work and effort to build microservices that aren't a fragile mess. How many companies going full steam ahead on microservices don't have another team dedicated to trying to bring the system down just to ensure the resiliency (http://principlesofchaos.org/)? And you have to ask what you're actually doing this work for. Because everyone here knows you can scale the shit out of a monolith just by throwing some more hardware at it and hardware is cheap. I think this is because the real problem microservices are trying to solve is how to do software development with thousands of developers contributing to related code bases without productivity grinding to a halt.

Sure at the very high end of scalability being able to isolate computationally intensive portions of the code might make sense to spin off into its own service justifying decomposing the monolith a bit. But very rarely do scalability and performance requirement necessitate full blown microservice adoption. Craigslist is an example of a company with so few developers and such a restricted feature set that they likely would never have to move to microservices because the handful of developers they have can all grok the system as a whole. Regardless of how many users they had to scale up to support.
Maybe chill out on criticizing the reaction of someone involved in such a traumatic scenario where they’re not treated well by any side. It’s not what the article is about and it’s pretty gross.
everything else isn't. the dust can get into power supplies and cause irregularities.
The venn diagram of users who don't want the government to access their data and crowdstrike customers is two circles in different galaxies.
Third party parts exist for tons of Apple devices. Usually of varying (typically poor, especially with batteries) quality. You can get OLED screens (actually oled!) that are replacements even. They pretty much will all give you the “unable to validate authentic component” message when paired with an iPhone … but that’s kind of working as intended there.
They have a page exactly for this, first hit on Google for “delete sell iPhone” https://support.apple.com/en-us/109511
Instead of banning users they really should use a rate limit feature for whatever they consider "malicious" queries. Not only is it clearly buggy and not reviewed by a human but the trend of not explaining what the user did wrong or can and can't ask is such a deeply terrible fad.
Trajectory is planned such that the ballistic trajectory minimizes the probability it will hit land. So it is relatively safe even if the engines and abort system fails.

You can see the trajectory here and how they thread it through the Caribbean islands & Cuba.

https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2023/11/new-starship-launch...
I'd be fine with a 100% tax on drop shippers. Scourge of e-commerce.

They've actually driven me near completely off of Amazon. I normally don't even bother to look up products there anymore but rather go to a retailer I trust to have at least minimal supervision over their inventory.
Does dust matter for SSD drives?
That rate isn’t that impressive in isolation, but in a 12 hour day, drink refills, toilet breaks, food etc will add up, so the average moving speed would be considerably higher for sure.

Doing a long ride is one thing, doing it 108 times in a row is quite another.
Get involved in local politics, Jerry! It's a satisfying way to impact your local community, and they almost always can use some help.
Why would it do either of these things? It would kill the black market for stolen apple parts, but otherwise it shouldn’t impact anything else. Assuming you can “unpair” iCloud on dead phones (which you can do already, to my knowledge), then salvaging isn’t a problem.
This article was very educational. I did not know that Martin Luther King Sr. was such a prominent person, and the connection of the King family with Berlin. Thank you for posting it.
I'd personally like to see phones and their parts be usable at some point again after being reported lost/stolen... Maybe something like 16 months after the fact? That way they have a chance at a second life and not just going to landfill. If a thief knows the phone is useless for more than a year it makes it a much less valuable item.
Even with their current capabilities, these AI systems will dramatically improve productivity. We could have a 20-year AI 'winter' with no new advancements, and they'd still be a big deal.

The thing is that it will take years to integrate them into existing domains and workflows. Honestly I think the most relevant comparison is the rise of desktop computers themselves. Suddenly paper-based processes had to become electronic and in some cases that took 40 years.
If Maciej is burnt out then I wonder why he hasn't hired someone to do support for him?
"Greenblatt" shown with 42% in the bar chart is GPT-4o with a strategy: https://substack.com/@ryangreenblatt/p-145731248

So, how well might o1 do with Greenblatt's strategy?
Americans in the majority prefer pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers. Ford entirely quit making sedans and hatchbacks a few years ago, at least for North America.
> AI is far more akin to nuclear fusion where each step along the way will require major scientific breakthroughs. And where it's not clear how to get this grand AGI end-game.

We have AI now. We've had it for ages. We just stop using that term for things once we've gotten them working.

We also already have artificial entities that are smarter and more capable than a lone human, and have for a long time. Bureaucracy and writing are incredibly powerful technologies, especially when combined.
It sounds like the only difference between makyo and what you've experienced is whether you think it's 'real' or not...but I don't have a whole lot of detail to go on here, either. I'm not judging the 'realness', I'm just saying that two similar methods are producing similar results. At least subjectively.
How is Anthropic accomplishing this despite (seemingly) arriving later?What advantage do they have?
Do you know how many RF signals would be interrupted by a 1ms broadcast every second that covers every possible spectrum? A hint: most of them. Many protocols rely on exclusive access to the spectrum, and couldn’t possibly be synchronized well enough to have a constant 1ms pulse interrupt them.
Do Deficits Cause Inflation? A High Frequency Narrative Approach [pdf]
Same with me but I chose to switch to the yearly subscription. I basically got ignored just the same.

I use Raindrop.io for now.

Maciej is aware of the outrage, if you can call it that. He seems rather hostile to those angry customers.

My hunch is that he got bored with Pinboard and plans to ignore it until it dies. Or breaks and then he does the minimum viable to get it duct taped again.

I personally like Maciej but just telling it like it is.
Regarding point 1, you should `exit 2` on bad usage, not 1, because it is widely considered that error code 2 is a USAGE error.
Filtering issue also prevents shared database multi-tenant setups, which is a blocker by itself for many.

I would love to not having to run another service for vector search, but it's just not there yet.
This seems to be the source: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...
> It runs as root

A lot of system applications on a standard Linux machine run as root or run with rootful permissions. This problem is solved by sandboxing, confining permissions and further hardening.

> requires sudo to use

Yes. However, this is a security plus and not a disadvantage.

> turns off all system firewalls

This statement makes no sense.

> has no way of doing security updates for containers.

I don't know what you mean by this.