skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish people kept this in the back of their mind every time they hear about "Open"AI:

"As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes)."

-Ilya Sutskever (email to Elon musk and Sam Altman, 2016)
Thanks for bringing this up. We store the index encrypted on disk with a randomly generated key. The key is itself stored in the Keychain.
As easy as it is to "just" scale from a mouse brain to a cat.
I don't think it is weasel word. It is just a qualification.

Nobody really expects AI to save terminal cancer patients or 90-y.o. cardiacs. Unexpected deaths, on the other hand, are really nasty, both for the next of kin and the doctors themselves. If an apparently viable patient suddenly drops dead, everyone asks what went wrong.

Reducing such deaths by one fourth is a good job.
If employees at a company that I started wanted to unionize, I'd be wracking my brain to figure out why, since I'd make sure everyone is treated better than they could get with unions.

But if employees at Amazon wanted to unionize, I think the company could make several good guesses why, all of them true.
You could be right

After ABC news, "an AP photographer in the city of Sidon saw a mobile phone shop damaged after devices exploded inside".

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gold-apollo-p...
I've seen those same articles, but also ones saying that was largely a ploy. There were billions of dollars in subsidies that took some time to lock down, and the reported problems with American workers evaporated right after the money was committed to TSMC.
Interesting read. Although the "Update" section at the top finishes thus:

> Ultimately the worst thing Nebula has done is provide some misleading marketing spin. They’re still an infinitely better deal for creators than YouTube.
Euclid with Coloured Diagrams
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Do you get burglars multiple times a day? I bet not...
And I guess like in Gaza, civilians are de facto complicit. Plus they are Arabs and not Jewish so can we really apply human rights to them? Are they even actually humans? I guess it’s not genocide when it’s done to animals. /s
Anecdotally, only the people I know who can least afford it, use Uber Eats regularly. I know because they tell me so.

Directionality of causation is a fair question, but likely inadvisable to raise.
https://archive.ph/58kmz
RIP Ninjalicious.
Keep in mind I said that this is advice I give junior engineers specifically; they shouldn't be the ones responsible for designing distributed systems in the first place. For someone in that part of their career, this advice is meant to help to learn the skills the need to solve the problems they're dealing with, and it's not intended to be universal to all circumstances, just a useful thing to keep i mind.
I've wrapped R to python before. That was okay, a bit stilted but still could take to production if absolutely necessary.

You're 100% right that R is great for data scientists (my background) for frontier level academic implementations as well as toy/simple models. It's generally a poor runtime for computation and suffers from much of the same issues as Python for data quality and typing. Python is better for battle-hardened type stuff, has better debugging tools for certain.

R _can_ be done well, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze typically.
Yeah, but potential death of a patient is on a similar level of seriousness.
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Pager and Now Walkie-Talkie Attacks on Hezbollah
Don't worry!

Staying on the topic, I wonder how easy/complicated is to self-host Head scale, which is the opensource implementation of the TS server.
Turns out you have to jump a couple of hoops to create a Discord link which never expires. Should be fixed now, thanks for flagging!
I agree that if it is confirmed that these are primarily used by civilian ambulance crews, that would make a big difference. Of course, this isn't what the LA Times actually reported, but I'm not sure what "civil defense crews and administrators affiliated with Hezbollah" actually means on the ground.
You may be confused by the chip numbering. The A16 chip that they’re manufacturing is not the chip for the iPhone 16 (it uses the A18)
They needed capital to build what they wanted to build, so they switched from non-profit to capped-profit: https://openai.com/index/openai-lp/

We never would've gotten GPT-3 and GPT-4 if this didn't happen.

I think the irony of the name is certainly worth pointing out, but I don't see an issue with their capped-profit switch.
Lead and asbestos in housing and consumer products were similarly intractable, but we (mostly) banned them anyway. We're still dealing with removal and mitigation decades later, but at least those problem aren't getting any worse. At some point you have to say enough is enough and ban plastics in contexts where they're most likely to find pathways into the biosphere: food containers, disposable goods, clothes, car tires, water pipes, etc. Just because the problem will take centuries to resolve doesn't mean that we can't start now.
DNSSEC is an authentication mechanism. It does not encrypt queries or responses.

You might be thinking of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) or DNS-over-TLS (DoT).

There's also DNSCurve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve
idk about that. I picked an exemplary news story predating the Oct 7 attacks.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230130-israel-data-shows...
Russia is the single largest exporter of wheat in the world, followed by the EU, Australia, the US, Ukraine, and Argentina. China is a top producer but also a top consumer; nothing for export.

Still, plenty of it out there, at this point it's more due to local disfunction more than anything.
You’re rewriting history to suit your point of view. The Japanese state was uninterested in capitulating after the nuclear bombs. It’s the declaration of war by the Soviets and rapid invasion of then-Manchuria which led the Japanese to accept unconditional surrender. They trusted the West to keep the emperor more than the Communists.
I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm very happy there's no investment angle in peertube, big fan of the "product" as it is.

And I understand full well why it's not an option for NJB. For starters because they were very clear about it when they wrote about it on mastodon. :D
I don't work in tech either and completely agree.

These processes aren't cyclical, they are non-ergodic, one off regimes that once we visit a specific regime, we will not return to that regime.

As someone who has done quite a bit of t-bill and chill investing this regime, I don't see how we can afford to lower interest rates anywhere near like we did the last decade. I am good with 50 bps but it can only go so low this time to keep US government debt attractive.

Then I think of how I could have been a really shitty front end React developer circa 2019. There is no way I could ever get a job doing that now when I see what I can do with Cursor/Sonnet as the same shitty React dev.
It's a tough time to be a manager in tech
It's especially rich coming from Facebook who was all for regulating everyone else in social media after they had already captured the market.

Everyone tries this. Apple tried it with lawsuits and patents, Facebook did it under the guise of privacy, OpenAI will do it under the guise of public safety.

There's almost no case where a private company is going to be able to successfully argue "they shouldn't be allowed but we should" I wonder why so many companies these days try. Just hire better people and win outright.
AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say
I think it's prudent to point out that the article's title is quite 'clickbaity', but to address it directly, the correct answer is (as it usually is) is 'it depends'. In my view, it depends on the answer to the question 'safe for who?', i.e. what is the threat model to which you are trying to guard against? If it's the US, then of course not, as the code is well-known to the US and I would expect that they have known vulnerabilities that they can leverage to ascertain the users of their service. The fact that TOR is, 'on paper', non-governmental doesn't really matter these days with the merging of private and public (and non-affiliated open-source communities) inside the security community. I would say that even the fact that it's open source isn't much of guard against such attacks, given that it relies on proficient oversight (which many eyes may not guarantee). Against other 'nation state' type adversaries - I'd wager that the more prominent who have the capacity to host a large number of relay nodes, and have access to very large computational power, will find it possible to decode portions of the TOR traffic. Against less technically proficient adversaries, such as 'run of the mill' police forces and minor nation states I'd go so far as to say it might be secure but only if you are using it for something uninteresting to them, but I ask 'how hard is it really to do a man in the middle a TOR relay?', and in terms of the most general case, 'what about the endpoints?' which of course aren't secured via TOR. Ultimately the best defense against 'snooping' in my view is to use a pre-agreed communication protocol which is undocumented and is known only between the communicators and is unusual enough to be hard to recognize or hard to work out what it means (preferably with a key to those communications known only to the two parties), but then I suppose you could use any communication protocol...
The west has the same work culture when the industry and the pay demand it. The difference is that it may well be the woman who tells the man she's on the way to the factory. Or the wife who tells the wife. Thank goodness for liberalism.
One advantage of building in house is that you're only building for your own company. This is significantly less work than building commercial software for multiple clients (which I have also done). I can't overstate how much less work this is and how much of a better experience it can be for users.

As an example, for calculating annual vacation entitlement, we have some pretty complicated rules. But every company in every country has their own set of rules so most HR software doesn't bother calculating it -- you just figure it out manually and input it every year for every employee. But because we just have one "client" our rules are just code that we can change as needed and can arbitrarily use whatever information we have. This saves HR a ton of manual work all the time. But this only works because it only needs to be one set of hard-coded rules.
If you upgraded to 7.4, then redis switched to a proprietary dump format, and if you want to use those dumps you'll have to use a third-party tool to dump the data and put it back in valkey.

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/issues/845#issuecomment-...
WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats disappear for all
Plastics need be banned from clothing and food.
Vidzy AI
I recently was messaging a host on airbnb and noticed some small papercuts like the Enter button not sending a message (adds a newline instead) and sending a message doesn't scroll to the bottom so I sent the message multiple times unknowingly

So given this, I assume well for their bottom line but not as well for UX
I see what you're getting at, but in your analogy, Leonardo da Vinci (the creative and intellectual driver of the overall work) maps to the black-box LLM behind an API, where the boilerplate web app wrapper maps to the Mona Lisa's constituent oil paints, and perhaps also the backing poplar panel and frame. In other words, wrapping an LLM is like updating the frame around the Mona Lisa.
The top% doesn't have income. To be in the top 1% you need something like $20M.
'CloudImposer' attack targets Google Cloud services
“Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps – objects that civilians are likely to be attracted to or are associated with normal civilian daily use – precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon today. The use of an explosive device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate, using a means of attack that could not be directed at a specific military target and as a result would strike military targets and civilians without distinction. A prompt and impartial investigation into the attacks should be urgently conducted.”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/18/lebanon-exploding-pagers...
Then see my point about the UK/metric/Imperial. ;-)

Incidentally, in that link there's a very common example of bad usage namely the volt/voltage. 120V is shown as bad usage and 120 V good. One sees the former usage on machines, appliances, in printed material etc. so often that it's almost a de facto standard.

I'm inconsistent in my use too, one time I'll include the space at other times not.
> just like you wouldn't judge a blind person's intelligence for not being able to tell if an image is red or blue.

I would judge a blind person's intelligence if they couldn't remember the last sentence they spoke when specifically asked. Or if they couldn't identify how many people were speaking in a simple audio dialogue.

This absolutely says something about their intelligence or reasoning capability. You have this comment:

> LLMs don't actually "see" individual input characters, they see tokens, which are subwords.

This alone is an indictment of their "reasoning" capability. People are saying these models understand theoretical physics but can't do what a 5 year old can do in the medium of text. It means that these are very much memorization/interpolation devices. Anything approximating reasoning is stepping through interpolation of tokens (and not even symbols) in the text. It means they're a runaway energy minimization algorithm chained to a set of tokens in their attention window, without the ability to reflect upon how any of those words relate to each other outside of syntax and ordering.
Just like you can’t call your company “organic candies” and sell chemical candies OpenAI should be banned from using this name.
You got me thinking and I simplified the whole block. Removed the .bss part and just calling what goes in there "data".

Thanks once again for the feedback :)
DoH and DNSSEC don't use ECH (encrypted client hello)

From what I remember, only DoT uses ECH

https://media.ccc.de/v/chaoscolloquium-1-dns-privacy-securit...
Meta Extends Its Ray-Ban Partnership into the 2030s
I have switched to (cup-style) deli containers for 90% of food storage now. They are cheap, stack great, hold up well if you drop them, and easy to wash and store.
>device whose exact location could not be reliably known would be unlawfully indiscriminate

Nope, artillery shells are not illegal and you can even miss where you are aiming! We once obliterated an entire French coastal village with naval gunfire on D-Day because information in war is imperfect.

Accidentally killing civilians is not illegal in war! If you have a "valid military target" who takes a cab from the airport, you can airstrike that cab and not violate the Geneva Conventions.

Consider that a nuke that you detonate in the center of a military base that also "just happens" to wipe out the entire city that base is in is not a war crime!
Isn't this yet another example of if they have your physical machine, it's already game over?
Earth will soon have a temporary second moon
This article seems to be more about warehouse workers than corporate workers. The warehouse workers have no choice but to come to the office. I do think they deserve more pay and benefits though. Amazon is pointing at what they’re providing as being competitive or industry leading, but that hides the reality of working at a grueling warehouse where everyone is pushed to physical limits and measured in brutal ways. That type of work takes a toll. And I don’t mean just the people who have experienced injuries and filed lawsuits, but everyone. They will probably all have some lasting health impact. They should be compensated much more for how Amazon runs those warehouses.

As for the return to office aspect: if employees - especially those with families that live in homes that are only affordable or available further away - have to lose 1-2 hours commuting each way, then yes they do deserve additional compensation to make up for the RTO policy. I’m sure Andy Jassy won’t recognize that or offer it up though. He and Jeff Bezos share a view that work life balance is “debilitating” (https://www.savvydime.com/jeff-bezos-believes-work-life-bala...) and Bezos has used code phrases before that suggest he favors young workers - which may be why this policy will hurt older workers and those with children the most.
and for most of its history didn't eat wheat
Yes. At least references are still part of the variable type and therefore likely to be closer to the call site.
Right, my point was more that healthcare isn't optional.

Folks think that removing the "profit motive" will somehow cripple the whole system, or hospitals will try to save any penny they can (spoiler alert: they already do)
Don't quite get it - why doesn't CCC share information with the Tor Project maintainers?
Tupperware files for bankruptcy as its colourful containers lose relevance
And their pagers exploded?
Just a brief exchange here:

https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/11277626354576...

But from that little, I'd interpret (!!!) that

a) It's much less of a hassle to use nebula, and

b) economically and power-wise, they see nebula like a creators' union.

It makes sense to me, I don't have grief with this. :)
You are implying that the context that matters is equal to the context where Israel hasn't done anything wrong. If you don't know you're doing that, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you're used to entertaining a much less observant audience on this topic.
Tor was literally developed by the Naval Research Lab. Not a part of the IC.

I know because I work there. AMA (edit: about tor. Because people say a lot about it without actually knowing much. But now I should put my phone down so… too late!)

To protect our most sensitive communications and vulnerable communities , Tor usage should be normalized so it is common and not notable.
I'm from the project.

There shouldn't be any caveats of replacing Redis 7.2 and early to Valkey 8.0. I've talked with a few folks who have migrated and none so far have hit any issues, one even migrated from Redis 2.6.
I think this could be a somewhat reasonable argument for the position that open AI just shouldn’t exist (there are counter arguments, but I’m not interested enough to do a back and forth on that). If Facebook can’t produce something safe, maybe they shouldn’t release anything at all.

But, I think in that case the failing is not in not taking the liability for what other people do with their tool. It is in producing the tool in the first place.
Was Bloomberg reporting that "thousands of pagers and walkie talkies had been tampered to explode via a remote command" for a decade? Without any evidence?

If Bloomberg had evidence of chips being tampered with, they could have produced that evidence.
Thanks for the comment and for taking the time to read :) I fixed it and it flows much better now
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I wholeheartedly agree, the 'dragnet' methodology is already documented and well-known and that should factor into your security assessments.
I can confirm that this is a pretty good way. Building out a basic distributed tracing solution with OTEL, jaeger and the relevant Spring Boot configuration and dependencies was quite a pleasant experience once you figure out the relevant-for-your-use-cases set of dependencies. It's one of those nice things that Just Works™, at least for Java 17 and 21 and Spring Boot 3.2 (iirc) or greater.

There appeared to be wide array of library and framework support across various stacks, but I can only attest personally to the quality of the above setup (Java, Boot, etc).
Extracting and Storing Energy from a Quasi-Vacuum on a Quantum Computer
I don't think it's a red flag, but I do think it's odd. Why should the user care what language it's implemented in? (For libraries and such, such a naming convention makes sense, of course).
The management want return to office and that's it.

Why does there need to be something "driving the decision"?

You may as well ask why I want my cleaner to descale the bottom of my taps. There may well be no reason beyond aesthetic preference.

Maybe it's not more profitable or less profitable. Maybe it's within margin of error, and maybe the people running Amazon for the most part prefer working in an office.
That's why we need more bittorrent-like decentralized internet, like they were making on the show Silicon Valley.
Switching to a low level integration will probably not improve the speed, the waiting is primarily on the llama generation of text.

Should be easy to switch embeddings.

Already playing with adding different tags to previous answers using embeddings, then using that to improve the reasoning.
Less liability.
Here is an expert saying there is a problem and how it killed its research effort, and yet you say that things are the same as ever and nothing was killed.
Weird that no one explicitly added embedded ascii/utf-8 directly to LLM training data for compression. Given that high dimensional spaces are built as vector spaces fully describable by basis vectors, I would assume somewhere these characters got added.

Perhaps it's an activation issue (i.e. broken after all) and it just needs an occasional change of basis.
On top of that, digging into their manifesto in the page above, I found this startling and horrifying stance the PSC has

> CUNYFirst will be part of the arsenal by which CUNY Central shoves Pathways down our throat

Basically, the CUNY PSC is opposed to a unified core curriculum, allowing students at all CUNY institutions to transfer between each other.

This is something that is diametrically opposed to student well-being.

Basically, the PSC at the time opposed NYC community college students from taking courses at CUNY's 4 year universities and vice versa, and was strongly opposed to interoperability and transfer of credits.

California's equivalent system (ASSIST) has had a massive benefit in allowing Californian community college students to transfer to CSUs, UCs, and private schools like USC and Stanford.

CUNY's faculty union (PSC) on the other hand is completely opposed to a similar system being adopted.

The whole point CUNY PSC was opposed to the CUNYFirst system was basically because the PSC was completely opposed to allows simplified inter-college transfer.
There's a power asymmetry between large and small firms and it doesn't favor small firms in term of patents and IP. IP and patents protect big firms from competition.

Patents doesn't guarantee you business success. All it does is give you a seat at the negotiating table, the ability to countersue if one of those firms come after you. Otherwise, patents are worthless to small businesses.