skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ineffective? Try engaging in sanctioned trade or trade with sanctioned people or entities and see how fast you end up on the list of sanctioned people or entities. Getting your name removed may take decades.
Well, perhaps Australia should stop threatening non-Australian websites that don’t comply with AUS law.
You forget that, at that time, OpenAI pushed SoTA LLMs massively forward by scaling them up ~3-4 orders of magnitude when others didn't think that would work or weren't willing to spend the money. But not just that. Following their example, Google and nVidia also attempted to scale up transformers but without really managing to push the SoTA.

So, I agree instead with meowface, and think it could even have been a 5+ year delay rather than 2 or 3. If you look at breakthroughs rather than incremental improvements, 5 years is not a long timescale. (And if OpenAI hadn't have made their breakthroughs, production of the highest-end GPUs/TPUs would be nowhere near where it is today.)

(I'm not attempting to justify OpenAI's structure or behaviour, just want to comment on one point.)
For reference, the term comes from Lisp’s INTERN. [1]

[1] http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_intern.htm
> ^-- All that seems to go against your assertion that you just have to "not track them", if you have to build out a system for everyone to access all data you hold about them, rectify it, delete it, verbally or in writing, without delay.

If you don't track people's data, that "system" becomes an automated email reply with "we don't have any data about you".

But if you deal with individuals, probably you do want to collect at least some data that would be subject to the GDPR protections, and it is definitely easier to forget all about it.
I sure haven’t
Wow, what ever that website is doing manages to completely and utterly break my gpu rendering in a way I haven't seen a site do in over a decade. It just paints the text over whatever was there last, including other windows above my browser.
Reddit founders created alts and posted with them to give the impression of a thriving community back in the beginning. Now that could all be automated. Bluesky will probably be the last "authentic" social media site, and even then, it's initial gain was from name recognition of the people starting it. From now on out ask yourself if you are joining a real community or something astroturfed.
Nah it’s just AI SRE agents all the way down.
Activists fighting an autocratic regime use a large social media site to recruit, coordinate and publish so they can reach the broadest number of people possible.

The billionaire owner of the site supports the strongman leader and provides IP addresses for those who post wrongthink on his platform.

Now the regime can link social media activity of anonymous activists to their real IP addresses, devices and locations.
Disenshittify or die How hackers can seize the means of computation – Doctorow [video]
Why would the threshold be set at assault? It can simply be a battle of preferences and all all parties can use whichever framing devices they want to ensure their will is executed.
Even then, most of these coding tools aren't even close to automating meaningful coding tasks in practice, and while that doesn't mean they can't in the future, it's a long ways off!

Not related to your main point, but I've introduced Github Copilot to my teams, and, surprisingly, two of our strongest developers reached out to me independently, and told me it's been a huge boost to their productivity, one in refactoring legacy code, and another in writing some non-trivial components. I thought the primary use would be as a crutch for less capable developers, so I was surprised by this.

As a middle-manager whose day job previously robbed me of the opportunity to write code, I've used ChatGPT 4o to write complex log queries on legacy systems that would have been nearly impossible for me to do otherwise (and would have taken a lot of effort from my teams) and to turn out small (but meaningful) tasks, including learning Android dev from scratch to unblock another group and other worthwhile things that keep my team from being distracted and able to deliver.

I guess there's a "no true Scotsman" fallacy hiding there, about what constitutes "meaningful coding tasks in practice", but to me, investing in these tools has been money well spent.
That's pretty much the definition of compression
As in, a cluck?

But can it both say the word cluck, and make a clicking sound?
LinkedIn, like GitHub and (to a degree) OpenAI are under Microsoft’s umbrella.
I recently wrote about using a native Swift toolchain for Android: https://skip.tools/blog/native-swift-on-android-1/
1. This is going away one way or another.

2. My focus was deliberately very generalized to focus on the way the US benefits itself by pushing others down on a global level. We could drill down on a country by country basis and find ways in which the US can benefit the country and ways in which it benefits at the expense of said country. If you take the entire world population as a whole you can make the argument that it is a net negative and that maybe a stable multi-polar world might have different results. I don't follow Indian geopolitics as closely as others but sure the US Navy's efforts to patrol the oceans to benefit their main trading partners in Europe and Asia also helps to benefit countries such as India and Pakistan by helping secure trade but also secure a stable source of fuel and food (which is starting to slowly break down now) while at the same time, their clear efforts in deposing democratically elected Imran Kahn because he started to shift away from the US is a net negative to Pakistan's future.
Do you mean why the individual file names aren't quoted?

You can see an example config file at the bottom of that link you attached - agreed we should probably make it more obvious
Followed by Ginni Rometty who continued the trend through to 2020. She was named the runner up worst CEO of 2014 by The Motley Fool:

• https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/12/13/the-worst-...

And was responsible for "22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline between 2012 and the summer of 2017":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Rometty#Industry_recepti...

Not a place of growth for anything other than financial engineering. :(
Marked where? With the assigning authority of the IP address which has been granted the legal right to manage the IP space (a common good)? Or in the database of some arbitrary company?
I'm sure there are "thin end of the wedge" arguments that could be made here but that's poor soil on which to plant a war.

No one (in this thread) said anything about "plant[ing] a war". But (restricted to this particular issue), if there was one side looking for "soil on which to plan a war" -- it would have to be all of those currently involved in or supporting the expansion of the settlements (in any form, to any degree), of course.

Is there an alternative view that better supports a belief of Israel trying to take it all away from Palestinians?

Perhaps not literally all of it, but there are many indications that a plan is underway to annex at least very large chunks of (if not all of) the West Bank.

Here's just a start:

Israel’s leaked plan for annexing the West Bank, explained - https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/israels-leaked-plan-for-annex...

NYT: Israeli Official Describes Secret Government Bid to Cement Control of West Bank - https://archive.md/DQ1N3

As of 2019, 42 percent want to annex all or some of the West Bank, 28 are opposed, and 30 percent prefer to keep their heads in the sand, according to Haaretz:

A 2019 Haaretz poll investigated support for annexation among Israelis. According to the survey, 30% did not know, 28% of Israelis opposed any annexation and 15% supported annexing Area C alone. 27% wanted to annex the entire West Bank including 16% who opposed granting political rights to Palestinians and 11% who favored granting political rights.

So even back then -- a rough plurality in favor of some degree of large-scale annexation (if we ignore the 30 percent who claim not to have an opinion), and of those, some 2/3 in favor of full annexation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Israeli_annexation_of...
I’ve never heard of any Australian authorities making legal demands of US state and local governments.

I don’t necessarily agree with various official Australian attempts to impose Australian law on foreign non-government websites, but I don’t see how that is relevant to whether US governmental websites permit access from Australia
Wish there was training or finetuning code, as finetuning voices seems like a key requirement for any commercial use.
Not bad for 3 days training, voice output quality needs some work, it will be interesting to see what effect more training will have.
> Is that why the US sent tens of billions of dollars just in the past year to them?

Not sure what "that" you're referring to, but broadly, yes. Israel is an ally about whom most Americans have a favourable view [1]. (It's a non-issue for most likely voters [2]. Foreign policy pretty much always is.)

Not sending arms would mean contemplating, in increasing order of severity: Israel losing the war and confidence in America; Israel defecting to another benefactor; and Israel ceasing to exist because America pulled support. These are problems for the U.S. geostrategically, given it weakens our position in the Middle East but also with allies in Asia. (An ally who abandons you halfway through a war is worse than useless.) The latter two would probably tank an administration.

If you're saying that our volume of aid is evidence Israel needs them, note that Israel is still--by and large--using precision weapons. If we cut them off from those they'd do what Russia has been doing.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/611375/americans-views-israel-p...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/09/09/issues-and-t...
High Agency: what is it, why is it important and how to cultivate it?
$15 is expensive? Just wait until you find out how much a professional design font costs!
I think the reason to sunset the project is actually near the top.

> I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.

It's information about language usage by humans. We know the rate at which generated text has increased after 2021. How do we filter this to only have data from humans?

The bottom is just lamenting what's happening in the field (which is pretty much what everyone that's been doing anything with NLP research is also complaining about behind closed doors).
> It provides a channel for operatives to exfiltrate data out of non-NATO countries very easily.

I'm not convinced this is the case. For example China's gfw has been very effective at blocking TOR traffic, and any TOR connection in other countries is like announcing to the government that you are suspicious.
My opinion - it is fully intended to invoke terror and destabilise the target community. Thus it is a terrorist act whether or not it falls under the rules of engagement of the perpetrator.
As sleazy as its founder Reid Hoffman https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/tech-billionair...
This feels like it could be related to the Iran IP address thing.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41585249

Original article: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/8...
I know next to nothing about .net, but this seems like the classic “you’re holding it wrong” excuse to me. If there’s a way to call an api the wrong way and the right way, and both appear to work, large number of developers will implement the insecure api. Why can’t the incorrect api be removed? I understand there’s pressure to support old client code but vulnerabilities should trump backwards compatibility.
Evolution has had the last ~360 million years for us to evolve enzymes to digest cellulose. And yet we can't.

> Mostly onside the body, before ingestion occurs.

This is an obviously silly statement. Of course cellulose can be ingested in various ways, including extremely small particles.
If you're not against supporting Apple, their laptops always seem to have the most longevity. I am still running my M1 with 8G of RAM and it out performs the latest "top of the line" Windows laptops my work are handing out.

Prior to this one I had a MacBook Pro for about 7 years and before that one the black plastic MacBooks from 2007.

So three laptops for the better part of 20 years.
The font used in the text of the linked piece is different (significantly worse) from the one in the picture at the top.
Signed xml alone is a wildly confusing idea, as the signatures get embedded as elements in the document being signed. There’s a wild set of rules on how to make xml canonical, sign, add the signature, etc. It’s nontrivial.
IANAL so only guessing here, and not even particularly educated guessing, but I suspect the LLM trainers' legal team will use the same set of defences/excuses/ignorance-because-their-client-can-afford-the-legal-fees-going-forward-and-the-other-side-can't that are being used against cases based on copyright & licensing issues.
> Java isn't known to nanny the users of apps developed in it's language.
> It's never even tried IMO.

I think anyone who's run into java keystore / cert problems would beg to differ.

> Sure, but that isn't the threat model. I described the threat model above,
> which is closer to "I don't trust a company famous for trying to nanny not to
> try to nanny if using their preferred developer frameworks, while I kind of
> trust they won't for a legacy API they barely pay attention to".

Sorry, this just makes no sense to me. You have a threat model that thinks Apple is a malicious actor and will interfere with the implementation of DNS resolution in higher level APIs because they "nanny" their users and developers. But you equally think they won't bother to do such nannying at a the lower levels because they "barely pay attention to [those legacy APIs].

But we're talking about the same apple that implemented SIP which locks out even root (and by extension sudo) from being able to make changes to "system" directories like `/bin`, and necessitated things like homebrew having to migrate their entire deployment hierarchy from `/usr/local/` to `/opt/homebrew/`. The same Apple who replaced init scripts in BSD with their own proprietary `launchd`. The same Apple who swapped `bash` for `zsh` to avoid GPL3 licensing stuff. The same Apple that last OS update changed what signals were sent when doing illegal memory access, breaking a mess of java/docker things in the process. This is the Apple you think would impose hidden DNS interception and replacement at the swift library level but wouldn't bother to either change libc too or point getaddrinfo() at their own internal interceptor.

You are of course free to have whatever threat model you like, but surely you can see why other people find it a little inconsistent?
Oh, I completely agree with using tools like this. For example, the latest models are very good at being passed a description of a problem and its inputs, expected outputs, and some sample test cases, and then generating a very diverse set of additional cases that likely account for some edge cases you might have missed. Hugely productive for things like that.

However, these same coding assistants lack so much! For example, I can't have a CSV co-located in my directory as a jupyter notebook file, then start prompting+coding without having also done a call to df.head to get those results burned into the notebook file. The CSV is sitting right there! These tools should be able to detect that kind of context, but they can't right now. That's the sort of thing I mean when we have a long way to go.
wait until someone takes that url as theirs
Aah pls pardon the calumny! (I enjoyed the few times when you were somewhat explicit about taking a choice cut of the truth, presumably encouraged by diluted ethanol)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28178181
Anecdotally, many American universities and academic journal sites still use Shibboleth. Thus, in the United States, SAML is far from dead, whether we like it or not.
We'll see, but I think --- without claiming that anything we know right now is dispositive --- that this is going to net out as an attack that overwhelmingly impacted military personnel, for the simple reason that they were the ones who needed the pagers; so much so that the highest death toll from the attack thus far appears to be QF fighters in eastern Syria.
Essentially, there's data loss from audio -> text. Sometimes that loss is unimportant, but sometimes it meaningfully improves output quality.

However, there are some other potential fringe benefits here: improving the latency of replies, improving speaker diarization, and reacting to pauses better for conversations.
What a Harris Presidency Could Mean to A.I. Policy
You were by definition not targeted. You are collateral damage.
that's my experience
What if that industrial sector is managed by Hezbollah and you are responsible for making it run smoothly? They more or less run everything in south Lebanon so I imagine that includes key infrastructure like electricity, water, and telecoms. Staffers in those sectors might or might not be in Hezbollah themselves, but one has to assume a lot of the management is. I don't know about private industry.
FWIW this is part of the promise of AIOps of the 2010s and it's still only barely starting to happen. I'm glad it has, but there's so, so far to go here.
Beware the trade-offs of interning affecting GC behavior. Now you can’t have a stack-allocation optimization, for example.
We will soon face another kind of bit-rot : where so much text is generated by LLMs that it pollutes the human natural language corpus available for training, on the web.

Maybe we actually need to preserve all the old movies / documentaries / books in all languages and mark them as pre-LLM / non-LLM.

But I hazard a guess this wont happen, as its a common good that could only be funded by left-leaning taxation policies - no one can make money doing this, unlike burning carbon chains to power LLMs.
Applying paste when you have a stencil is easy but I recently tried fixing the FPC connector on a Nintendo Switch and hand-applying solder paste is messier than hand soldering.
Retrowin32: Redoing Syscalls
Why are you accusing me of posting an LLM reply?!

I just shared that I enjoyed using and contributing to OpenTelemetry. I never used an LLM. Do I really need to prove that I'm human?

- a couple PRs I posted to the Rust impl: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust/pulls?q... I also participate to issue discussions in this repo and others.

- OpenTelemetry tracer config in the web game platform I'm working on: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/eternaltwin/-/blob/main/crate...

- A somewhat cool thing: an OpenTelemetry proxy impl handling authentication of traces: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/eternaltwin/-/blob/main/crate...

- Node usage: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/labrute/labrute-react/-/blob/...

- Java usage: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/dinoparc/dinoparc/-/merge_req...

- PHP usage: https://gitlab.com/eternaltwin/mush/mush/-/merge_requests/20...

This is all 100% handcrafted, as all my messages ever.

Now that I proved that I actually used and contributed to OpenTelemetry, may I express that I like it overall but regret that the auto-instrumentation is brittle and hard to debug? I can expand on the particular issues I've hit or why I feel that it's still not mature enough.
> JetStream went Generally Available in NATS 2.2.0 the documentation is now in the core NATS documentation.

https://docs.nats.io/jetstream
Any "comparable" struct, which is to say any struct where '==' works. No, you can't override '=='.

This will not work for the average struct, and if you do use it, you now no longer can include any, for example `[]byte` fields in the struct or else it will no longer compile.

I always find it funny that `string` is comparable, but `[]rune` and `[]byte` are not.
Imagine a LARP group out of Williamsburg.
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> I'm optimistic SAML will be dead soon

Get used to disappointment.
Unfortunately XML signatures are also widely used in Polish government APIs which citizens/companies are required to use :(
Another annoying one is bank apps being unavailable from other countries. For example Australian bank apps when you're in the UK. Or the Vodafone app the other way around. People travel, it's ok to install an app abroad.
Except you don’t need down, you can simply loop them. The quality of such system will measure in how much it can do in a particular compute budget and theoretically can even self-stabilize by roi feedback.
Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low
> would technically be on the wrong side of the GDPR, but I think it's very unlikely that anyone would complain about it, legally speaking.

The American in me says that sounds like "someone will definitely complain about it, eventually, if only because they're hoping for a payout".
I'm not sure I understand why this is "asymmetric warfare". I think that's a term that actually doesn't mean a whole lot, and mostly means "the things weaker adversaries use to level the field against stronger ones". I think a lot of what USSOCOM does/trains falls under the definition of "asymmetric", or would if you discarded the part of that definition that said "weaker opponent". Almost certainly†, conventional military tactics would kill far more civilians in Beirut than will ultimately end up dead in this attack.

I have another theory as to why we have very long threads on HN about how distressing these attacks are, but we don't need to dig into it on HN.

† Again, I'm cognizant that we're still getting details about this attack.
In the enthusiast community, I suppose. It's not too late to adopt clearer terminology- this will be important as those things try to reach mainstream users.
I mean, doesn’t all that sound like something fine tuned LLMS would be great at? Well constrained tasks, if else statements,
runbook -> automation.
So does OpenAI, the nonprofit, own a for-profit corp that does everything?
Appreciate the further details, thanks! This is a huge undertaking, good luck, and I'll be checking back in here and there.
The author writes:

With my last shell, Atom, I had accomplished some of the coziness that bash was missing, but I also introduced a lot of really fatal flaws in the syntax and the type system.

I would be interested to read more about this -- what the author learned from that experiment.
One similarity it has with fonts specifically designed to counter dyslexia is that every character looks different. The handwritten look introduces more cues for the reader to pick up on than a more precise font.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545215
I mean, they are leaders in genetic use restriction technology in crops. This runs counter to millennia of the farming practice of seed saving for very small farms.

That feels pretty bad guyish. Unless I'm missing something?
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If they want to be for-profit because that's how they get the investment to build GPT-4, fine, do it from the start. That doesn't justify the switch.
Old content can make money now and will be more valuable why wouldn't it happen more frequency?
Because the people creating and selling these solutions are charlatans who have probably never debugged a gnarly Linux issue; more importantly, they’re selling it to people who also don’t know any better.

SRE as a term is effectively meaningless at this point. I can count on one hand the number of SRE coworkers I’ve had who were worth a damn. Most only know how to make Grafana dashboards and glue TF modules together.