skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you find it interesting that when looking up the overall CO2 emissions of flying you found the number 2.5%, barely relevant, but when you looked up the emissions from a single long haul flight that ended up being ~10% of the average American emissions (already much larger than the global average).

How can those two numbers be combined? Most of the worlds population never fly, and that's why it's a relatively small fraction of global emissions. But it's still a very sizeable portion of the emissions of people who do fly, and that makes it relevant.

It's the same as saying: is it really important that people in Belgium cause large CO2 emissions? It's such a small country, barely 1 % of global emissions, there's no point to them reducing their emissions. But that's a fallacy (obviously). All emissions can be decomposed into small sets and dismissed as irrelevant.

The important question is: how much benefit does these emissions cause compared to alternatives? And, would these emissions fit in the global co2 budget?
> It is against the law in Ireland to search for archaeological objects using a metal detector unless written permission has been given. Penalties can be up to three months in prison or a fine of up to €63,486 (£53,435).

Written permission from who? He was on his own farmland. You have to write a plea to the government to request permission to use a metal detector on your own land? And, if that's the case, are such requests usually granted? What's the rationale here, and what harms does this permission-first system aim to prevent?

> It is understood, however, that Dunne will not face charges.

If it's a bad law that they're making a point of not enforcing, why not repeal the law?

So many questions.
Most interesting quote in the article:

“It was hard to get people to do sufficient testing sometimes,” said Preston
Sego, who worked at CrowdStrike from 2019 to 2023. His job was to review the
tests completed by user experience developers that alerted engineers to bugs
before proposed coding changes were released to customers. Sego said he was
fired in February 2023 as an “insider threat” after he criticized the
company’s return to-work policy on an internal Slack channel.

Okay clearly that company has a culture issue. Imagine criticizing a policy and then getting labeled "insider threat".
Yes, they are friendly. It's part of the culture since ancient times -- xenophilos I believe they call it.

It came from the ancient religion, where the Gods would impersonate humans and stay at lodgings. If people were inhospitable, the Gods would curse them.
They explain how it's calculated, you just have to trust their calculations are correct.
I bet the temperature of the beans when they are ground and brewed make more of a difference than the grinder you use.
Scaling The Turk to OpenAI scale would be as impressive as agi

"The Turk was not a real machine, but a mechanical illusion. There was a person inside the machine working the controls. With a skilled chess player hidden inside the box, the Turk won most of the games. It played and won games against many people including Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin"

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk#:~:text=The%20Tur....
Verizon to eliminate 5,000 employees in nearly $2B cost-cutting move
sure. definitely
I would not worry at all about not speaking Greek. Most Greeks speak English at a very high proficiency. It's a tourist nation, English is the language of tourists. Also, media here is consumed in the native language with subtitles.

"Education First’s 2023 English Proficiency Index (EPI) ranks 113 countries by their English skills. Greece, with an impressive score of 602, ranks 12th globally and 10th in Europe, highlighting its robust “English as a Second Language’ proficiency and comprehensive approach to language education." [0]

[0]
https://www.tovima.com/society/greeces-impressive-english-pr...
I believe it doesn't because that chart depicts the full range of economies, whereas we are discussing only the middle/high income bracket.
I forgot to mention though, there are those that are hostile but mainly just in the way of anarchist / commie / antifacist politics, which seems to be fairly common based on how much graffiti I saw (then again, it could just be a loud minority.) You'll see stuff like "immigrants welcome, tourists fuck off" and anti airbnb graffiti. But it's harmless, and didn't detect any of it when talking with real people.
Slowing the Pace of Brain Aging
Steel seems alright: https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

There are other Lisps too (https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust) though I think they’re less actively maintained.
hypocricy is status signalling, complaining affirms it, a lot should fall into place when that clicks.
It doesn't matter if all of the team welcome the idea toward better productivity and enhance architecture iteratively. Culture and talent matters.
Kyber768 is the post-quantum algorithm in that example, not x25519.
> then maybe don't contribute to it unless you absolutely have to.

We don't "absolutely have to" do anything. Our comments contributed to climate change, but we did it anyway. Living contributes to climate change, but we don't stop. All of us are choosing some acceptable threshold for our lives.
OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub
CoT again is result of computing probabilities on tokens which happen to be reasoning steps. So those are subject to the same limitations as LLMs themselves.

And OpenAI knows this because exactly CoT output is the dataset that's needed to train another model.

The general euphoria around this advancement is misplaced.
Yeah I was confused by that too, so have replaced the title with more representative language from the article body.
all received messages are copies of the original. a broadcast is a copy. language itself is an incessant copying. so it’s a truism to say that of the internet. and a generality that doesn’t apply to specifics. downloading cracked software is also copying, but this genus is irrelevant to its discussion. its morality is beside its being a copy, even though it is essential that it be a copy. likewise with other data.

we don’t have rules set yet, that’s why this discussion is active, ie, not just a niggle from after a couple of beers. it’s a question of respect for the author.
The old "if you live in society you can't try to improve it without being a hypocrite" argument.

"We Should Improve Society Somewhat refers to a panel from a comic by Matt Bors in which a medieval peasant says "We should improve society somewhat" while a modern man, emerging from a well, replies, "Yet you participate in society! Curious! I am very intelligent." "

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
And everybody gasped in surprise.
Unless the UK is going to totally isolate themselves from the entire world - people and goods will still travel in and out. Only by vastly less efficient means.

The UK is not isolated, and will never be. In this implausible scenario, people fly into France, drive to a ferry, cross the channel by boat, drive to the train station, etc. Increased traffic, idling, etc all adds up.

People still have business that needs to be done and they will do it. Evidenced by this hypocritical academics.
Must have been quite the hangover to prevent your recalling this.
Well, that's just the normal way to write software, no?

Aside from some websites and small scripts, all software is written like that.

You simply create a hierarchical directory structure where the directories correspond to modules and submodules and try to make sure that the code is well split and public interfaces are minimal.
Fire away. I'm listening
Is there reason to think AES used appropriately would be any less secure here? Not trying to be argumentative, genuinely curious.

My understanding is that AES has some design warts that make it not ideal (basically, it's easy to both implement and use in ways that leak information if you're not careful) but that it's still essentially perfect symmetric encryption if you're using it as recommended. Is that wrong?

FWIW, the reason I brought up performance was because the OP spends a large chunk of the post talking about it, so I assume it's an important requirement for them.
Yeah... if the main goal is to listen to the music - most concerts are a terrible way of doing that.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
It's not enough in parts of the world usually considered free and democratic for an information services provider to know that some of the data they're transmitting might be illegal. If it was, everyone from ISPs to messaging apps to social media sites would be at risk. In the case of child pornography, most jurisdictions require them to report it if they discover it, but they are not required to actively attempt to discover it.

The EU Chatcontrol proposal seeks to change that in some cases (TOR exit nodes not among them), and most people here are vehemently opposed to it.
Boats and trucks are not "vastly less efficient" than planes.

And when travel is harder, people travel less.
I trust that Grok won't be limited by avoiding the dark and nasty corners.
It's the nugget of truth that spreads conspiracy theories. People see that they're being lied to, or a problem is less complex than it actually is, and they rightfully question what they've been told. The failure is many of these people become cynical, and instinctively reject anything the perceived authority says, which leads to crazy theories like we never went to the moon, or vaccines cause autism.
I wish we had better tools to manage this stuff, that didn't require custom scripting (I consider DIY software that needs maintenance one of the worst kinds of clutter, because it clutters your time).

Like, I should be able to say "Keep one copy of videos in high res, but convert to streaming quality for backups, and it's ok to delete the original after a few years if I'm not doing anything with it".

We should be able to search by content of photos and videos and pdfs and such easier. Ideally built into the browser so all our searching is in one place, and because the browser is usually where things get saved from.
Hoping for a cryptic answer?
Greenspun's tenth rule strikes again! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
Docker Raises Prices Up to 80 Percent and More
Different languages handle this in different ways, but the most common seems to be adding access controls to the class itself, rather than just its members.

For instance, Java lets you say "public class" for a class visible outside its package, and just "class" otherwise. And if you're using Java 11 modules (nobody is though :( ), you can choose which packages are exported to consumers of your module.

In a similar vein, Rust has a `pub` access control that can be applied to modules, types, functions, and so on. A `pub` symbol is accessible outside the current crate; non-pub symbols are only accessible within one crate.

Of course, lots of languages don't have anything like this. The biggest offender is probably C++, although once its own version of modules is widely supported, we'll be able to control access somewhat like Java modules and Rust crates, with "partitions" serving the role of a (flattened) internal package hierarchy. Right now, if you do shared libraries, you can tightly control what the linker exports as a global symbol, and therefore control what users of your shared library can depend on -- `-fvisibility=hidden` will be your best friend!
You’ll have no problem whatsoever. People in Greece are generally friendly, polite and helpful, especially to most westerners. Being a mix of balkans, Eastern Europeans and with a special temperament you can feel that many Greeks have different views for specific countries ;-)

Athens is a bit different and it’s almost like a different county (I’m not living in Athens). Like most capitals and big cities around the world, people are more hectic, life is going faster and relationships along with friendliness are different.

There are many other cities and islands where the quality of life is better. Give it a try and you won’t be disappointed.
Big inlined resources impact paint time - a lot! You'll see this by running Lighthouse/PageSpeed Insights on the posts. E.g. no map: https://imgur.com/a/5CJjEUq vs map: https://imgur.com/a/mX1ZDz7

That means users are staring at blank for longer. That can really stink on a poor connection.

Images are requested at a lower priority and so don't cause the same problems for rendering. But it's a great idea to compress them, too, and use something like `srcset` to send an appropriately sized version!
That's like someone asking if it's safe to travel to Los Angeles, and answering that there have been reports of pick pockets on the New York subway.
Its easy to not eat a snickers. To burn a snickers off through exercisw you are looking at a half hour to an hours commitment in the gym depending on what you are doing. You can override what most people call a weekly exercise plan with a couple snickers and a few fancy coffee drinks
> That's for offshore use, i.e. where you also can't use land-based mobile data.

uh, interesting

can I ask you what do you mean by "land-based mobile data", 'cause the whole mess here is me mixing up that with 'connection to land mobile tower', which they told me clearly it's not the case.

(yes, €60 for unlimited with €500 setup is really low, considering I spent 400€ myself to get a e-sim compatible phone... can you give link to this option, ..cannot find it)
That was fun. Thanks for sharing!
Based on what? I think you're seeing things that aren't there.
I'm familiar with the "modern load balancing" take. Modern load balancers, like you'd find in any cloud vendor or OSS project like envoy/nginx/haproxy, learn about the endpoints it is balancing across via some service discovery mechanism. DNS is usually what you find, but there are other ways like envoy's xds mechanism.

When you generalize this by saying "cloud computing", it glosses over the fact that there's still a fleet of load balancers somewhere. When you use an NLB or ALB in AWS, there are many machines behind the scene and a very complex control plane providing those machines with the information they need to balance load.

The problem I'm talking about still exists here. I _know_ they have this problem because I'm familiar with how those systems are built and I know what shortcomings they have.
Your Google search will probably send you to Amazon or Pinterest.
This really isn't the kind of tone appreciated around here.
Or $NO_COLOR, per https://no-color.org
The rationale is that while you may own the land, you don't own the artifacts, and the state has an interest in ensuring that history is recorded and preserved professionally. In effect, archeology is a licensed occupation, but then so is cutting hair in most US states.

If the story about metal in machinery is true, then really no offense was committed. Using a metal detector to find what you think is a loose horseshoe is fine. The story might also just be a convenient cover, but no-one will really care. In Ireland, authorities tend to be good natured and mostly only out to get egregious offenders. Maybe the metal detector guy has been looking for coins without permission, and it'll be handled at the level of "ah here would you have a bit of cop on".
I'm not talking about an explanation for stockholm syndrome, I'm talking about an explanation for why they would side with their captors besides stockholm syndrome.

There is no evidence this phenomenon exists, nonetheless that it is beneficial for police or hostage negotiators to know about it.

And in the original case the victim did not "fully trust" the captors, she merely feared them less than the police, which given their comments is undoubtedly rational.
Yes they are. Look at these fuel economy numbers (broken down by number of butts in seats)[1]. 60-100+ mpg equivalent per seat. What car or truck is getting 80+mpg while hauling a 40,000lbs payload, for example? Not to mention how wildly efficient modern turbofan combustion is.

This fiction that air travel is so awful is really counter productive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
With some waxing and a tan I could probably swing this gig. Not sure it'd be worth the associated male attention though.
Cultural problems are solvable by government, in the form of propaganda or otherwise. Consider the actions taken by the government against smoking.

By "Otherwise", I will give the example of China and its social credit system that got people to stop spitting in the street by deducting social credit points.
I think the whole world knew that already.
Investors, they announced two days ago they were conducting a $6.5B funding round. This is well timed window dressing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/openai-fu...
Not really nepotism. Megan is one of Hollywoods best producers. Far better than her father in his job.
For men, testicle sunning (it's a bit of a meme)
It seems from a sibling comment that I'm totally wrong when I state that speaking English in Greece may be difficult.
I stated that based on my personal perception only, so probably I'm wrong. Sorry for the misinformation.
The Olympiad questions are puzzles, so you can't memorise the answers. To do well you need to both remember the foundations and exercise reasoning.
They are written to be slightly novel to test this and not the same every year.
Only one that’s shell specific is 4. The rest can be applied any code written. Good work!
If OpenAI really cares about AI safety, they should be all about humans double-checking the thought process and making sure it hasn't made a logical error that completely invalidates the result. Instead, they're making the conscious decision to close off the AI thinking process, and they're being as strict about keeping it secret as information about how to build a bomb.

This feels like an absolute nightmare scenario for AI transparency and it feels ironic coming from a company pushing for AI safety regulation (that happens to mainly harm or kill open source AI)
i do think sex work is more common in argentina than in other places i've lived. misogynists don't seem to be

i'm not just talking about a simple stereotype, though; i'm talking about a whole misogynistic ideology which is so widespread that you have to understand it in order to give any coherency to widely used phrases like 'sell your body' or 'purity ring'

i don't have any experience with prostitutes or camgirls as a client or social media manager or anything, so i can't really speak to their transactional use of intimacy and manipulativity, or lack thereof. they certainly seem sincere enough in the social interactions i've had with them, though hard to shock and rather unwilling to 'go along to get along' or to use euphemisms

intuitively i'd think that such a 'willingness to use intimacy transactionally and be manipulative' would tend to improve their earning potential, as with waitresses who are willing to flirt with clients, or psychologists whose work depends on clients trusting them with intimate emotional details, but many other factors seem like they'd come into play in all of these situations
Totally agree.

I’d consider staggering a rollout to be the absolute basics of due diligence.

Especially when you’re building a critical part of millions of customer machines.
Ah, it's the schizo-posting hours
The bulk in terms of the number of tokens may well be synthetic data, but I personally know of at least 3 companies, 2 of whom I've done work for, that have people doing substantial amounts of bespoke writing under rather heavy NDAs. I've personally done a substantial amount of bespoke writing for training data for one provider, at good tech contractor fees (though I know I'm one of the highest-paid people for that company and the span of rates is a factor of multiple times even for a company with no exposure to third world contractors).

That said, the speculation you just "get various combinations" of those contributions is nonsense, and it's also by no means only STEM data.
True, the main reason is the current/recent economic conditions but there are also other factors for our demographic problem. Life expectancy has increased, the traditional family is changing, work/life balance has dramatically changed, relationships are different, life goals are changing, infant mortality has decreased compared to decades ago, not so many people work on the fields anymore… and many more.
Hey, at least we’re not the only ones with this problem, see Japan for example.
The LLMs are getting better and better at a certain kind of task, but there's a subset of tasks that I'd still much rather have any human than an LLM, today. Even something simple, like "Find me the top 5 highest grossing movies of 2023" it will take a long time before I trust an LLM's answer, without having a human intern verify the output.
"Everyone" piles on Tesla all the time; a worthwhile comparison would be how Tesla roll out vehicle updates.

Sometimes people are up in arms "where's my next version" (eg when adaptive headlights was introduced), yet Tesla prioritise a safe, slow roll out. Sometimes the updates fail (and get resolved individually), but never on a global scale. (None experienced myself, as a TM3 owner on the "advanced" update preference).

I understand the premise of Crowdstrike's model is to have up to date protection everywhere but clearly they didn't think this through enough times, if at all.
"We can't regulate the industry because then the US loses to China" or "regulation will kill the US competitive advantage!" responses I've had to suggesting the same and I just can't. But I agree with you 100%. If it's safety critical, it should be under even more scrutiny than other things, it shouldn't be left to self-regulating QA-like processes in profit seeking companies and has to have a bit more scrutiny before the big button gets pressed.

Edit: Disclaimer: The quotes aren't mine, just retorts I've received from others when I suggest the R-word.
> and to be manipulative

sex work seems to be anything but manipulative. It is rather blunt. Give me money and I will provide this service. Said service can be pretending acting like someone who actually love doing it for you or have feelings but this "acting" is not hidden.

If your issue is manipulative and insincere people, I would say the people you want to avoid are people working in politics, marketing, insurers or people reaching some level of management in general.
No matter what auto-scaling solution you pick, it'll take time to start fresh new instances.
> CrowdStrike disputed much of Semafor’s reporting

I expect some ex-employees to be disgruntled and present things in a way that makes CroudStrike look bad. That happens with every company.

BUT, CrowdStrike has ZERO credibility at this point. I don't believe a word they say.
My first thought was that filtering a set of frequencies out from the laptop's sound output doesn't seem to be a good solution that addresses the root cause. This only corrects it for those laptops running that OS software, and does it at the cost of reducing the quality of the device's audio for all applications. What about other laptops playing the song, or just living room speakers playing it? What if I, as a user of the laptop, was doing audio processing and needed the sound card to faithfully output frequencies that I commanded it to play?

But there's a follow-up article that addresses all of that: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=10...

TLDR is it's cheaper to throw your audio quality under the bus than to recall the defective laptops/drives and replace them with a design that works. :(