skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can back that question up one level to "what are the biological effects of plastics?"

And the answer is, broadly, they mimic hormones. Compounds in plastics can activate endocrine receptors because they are similar enough to hormones which are more or less everywhere across the animal kingdom.

Sometimes it can be hard to pin down the specific negative effects in isolation, but there are some pretty clear metrics.

"A review of the endocrine disrupting effects of micro and nano plastic and their associated chemicals in mammals" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/
Representing the letters "nsa" in "unsafe" since 2006.
https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challen...
> We never would've gotten GPT-3 and GPT-4 if this didn't happen

Well, of course. But we'd get similarly powerful models elsewhere. Maybe a few weeks or months later. Maybe even a few weeks or months earlier, if, say, OpenAI sucked up a lot of talent and used it wastefully, which I don't find implausible at all.
Hm. If a company uses Strawberry in their customer service chatbot, can outside users get the company's account banned by asking Wrong Questions?
>This is a collection of anonymous user stories from people who rely on Tor to protect their privacy and anonymity. We encourage you to share their experiences with your network, friends and family, or as part of your work to promote the use of privacy-preserving technologies like ours and help us defend strong online protections.

https://community.torproject.org/outreach/stories/
OP said tyranny prefers to use safety as a façade, not that all safety is a façade for tyranny.
You already have your solution. You typed it out.

You ask questions. You stop them and circle back to the overview and context. Ask them about the high level. Ask them for the pretty pictures PPT.

If they deviate from what you need, stop them politely and put them back on track with the excuse of "it will help me understand this better so I can provide a solution".
> The flipside of this approach, however, is that concentrates more responsibility for aligning the language language model into the hands of OpenAI, instead of democratizing it. That poses a problem for red-teamers, or programmers that try to hack AI models to make them safer.

More cynically, could it be that the model is not doing anything remotely close to what we consider "reasoning" and that inquiries into how it's doing whatever it's doing will expose this fact?
> Tesla chargers are CCS.

This is misleading and not entirely true.

Older Tesla chargers did not use CCS to communicate. My 2019 Model 3 doesn't support CCS at all. When I plug into a Supercharger, it's not using CCS to communicate with the charger, it's using Tesla's proprietary CAN bus protocol. Teslas made before 2021 need an ECU retrofit to support CCS.
You still call it Facebook?
NLP and especially 'computational linguistics' in academia has been captured by certain political interests, this is reflective of that.
If the goal is to save money, isn’t it reasonable to axe the most senior people which are probably also paid more than junior ones? And I’m not saying it’s a smart strategy, it’s probably idiotic. Just saying it’s not really ageist.
No.

Modern man is a grub in the dark, awaiting illuminant flame.

You and yours are ignorant, confused, lazy, apathetic, usually a waste of your humanity.

The enlightenment isn't that its all so cool and we deserve it so much, it is that our finest hours must be carved out of our resistant, underprepared selves.

Behold, the lightning is the ascendency of Man

- thus spake Zarathustra

I take this to mean we must go beyond ourselves, and it is the illumination of our minds which close this gap.
This tells me that the page does not exist (apparently because I'm in a GDPR region that doesn't allow this behavior from LinkedIn, I understand now from reading this thread).
You may be surprised to discover that services will filter traffic by location.
Anyone remember "The Great Firewall of China?" And how providing workarounds for people suffering official congestion was a good thing?

Is there a difference between that and this?
The skilled labor to set that all up, especially in a way that TOR won't notice and shut you down will be worth much much more than $5k.

People that have such a sophisticated and resourced team actively hunting them down, likely know about it, and are using many additional layers of security on top of TOR. Even just for personal use out of curiosity to "see what the darkweb is," I used 1-2 additional methods on top of TOR.
I think you're unlikely to have a very good experience with Tailscale behind CGNAT if you're doing anything high bandwidth like video streaming from a Plex/Jellyfin server.

AFAIK Tailscale only supports 2 modes of connection: direct connect or relayed over WebSockets with their DERP protocol. CGNAT is going to limit you to DERP, which is not designed for transmitting a lot of data. For one thing, that could get rather expensive for Tailscale.
Which HN discussion guidelines would you change (add, remove, modify), and what about dang's moderation gives you concern?
If it is (apparently) easy for humans to tell when content is AI-generated slop, then it should be possible to develop an AI to distinguish human-created content.

As mentioned, we have heuristics like frequency of the word "delve", and simple techniques such as measuring perplexity. I'd like to see a GAN style approach to this problem. It could potentially help improve the "humanness" of AI-generated content.
Don't know if it is still used much. There is SecureDrop to facilitate communication between investigative journalists and sources/whistleblowsers via Tor that was at some point deployed by several prominent news organizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDrop
A lot of US resources ban traffic outside the US. Or, at least, from "suspicious" or "sanctioned" locations. Some ban EU due to GDPR.

You never know such things when you are in US though...
I still think the IC, and especially the state department, benefits from having Tor fulfill its actual design goals most of the time. There are operations and state department goals that can benefit from Tor working properly. It's the same with encryption in general -- the IC benefits from there being strong and bug-free crypto implementations. That they have in the past backdoored some of them doesn't change that they've also hardened others. I'm sure they come up with and deploy various attacks on Tor all the time, same with foreign nations (whom the state department would like to thwart). I'm skeptical though that they can do working attacks at any time and against any set of people.

For your AMA, if you want: How's the job? What keeps you working there? How's patriotism these days?
> how is this not considered terrorism on Israel's part?

Terrorism is variously defined [1]. People are debating whether this was "random or indiscriminate nature" relative to other terrorist attacks. But relative to any wartime strike on an enemy capital, it's been highly precise.

The reason it's open to intepretation is we don't know Israel's motivation. Is it to mark Hezbollah members? A prelude to a strategic strike? If so, it's not terrorism. If it's to scare Hezbollah and the Lebanese, on the other hand, it does start to look like terrorism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_terrorism
Yeah, sure, what could possibly go wrong? :-P

But seriously, it's harder to accidentally make a USB cable that fries your equipment. The more common failure mode is it fails to work, or wears out too fast. Chargers on the other hand, handle a lot of voltage, generate a lot of heat, and output to sensitive equipment. More room to mess up, and more room for mistakes to cause damage.
Everything is made of plastic now though including those fuzzy blankets and pillows people love.
You're misusing probability and ignoring critical information.

There's 1000 red marbles added to a jar with 8000 blue marbles (9000 total).
Take three marbles from the jar randomly, one at a time.
The odds of getting three red marbles is ~0.14%. That's all.

Tor nodes are not randomly picked marbles.
The Tor network is not a jar.
> What would reporting it to the skip level achieve?

They exist for this sole reason: if your manager is not behaving correctly.
Might be pertinent to suffix this with (2023), though I see there are still recent replies
Yes, it's become extremely politicized and its very tiresome. Tech in general, to be frank. Pray that your field of interest never gets covered in the NYT.
This just feels like VHS vs. Betamax. VHS won because it was the better format, but Betamax fans took a value out of context and kept whining about the loss for years.

(VHS was better. Not only was it cheaper, Betamax's smaller cassette meant that feature length movies used a slower tape speed than VHS, negating claims of a better picture.)
PBS is not, at least nominally, advertising-supported.

YouTube very much is.
The Many Lives of James Lovelock
LLMs are still computer programs btw.

There's the program that scrapes, the program that trains, the program that does the inference on the input tokens. So it's hard to say exactly which part is responsible for which output, but it's still a computer program.
Twitter was a botnet long before LLMs and Musk got involved.
Yes, but our outer layers and bags are all synthetic.
this… is a dril tweet

https://x.com/dril/status/464802196060917762?lang=en
I own walkie talkies. So does any large retail store in the US, they're given to staff to communicate. Every film set with more than 10 crew members uses them. I could go on. I'm amazed people come to a web community about technology to broadcast such ignorance.
My theory is lots of people who want to circumvent Iranian internet censorship rely on tunnels/VPNs hosted on Hetzner, which correlates those IPs with `Accept-Language: fa` and GPS locations collected from Android or other similar behavior.
I wrote this guide for configuring the Dock, Finder, and System Settings for macOS Sequoia. I'm posting it here for feedback and further suggestions, if you'd be so kind.
The most common elephant foot gun in the room is buggy processes letting queues grow.

RMQ immediately slows down (due to mnesia causing delays) and processes start dropping messages despite having system resources to grow.
> Yeah, it's about as Israeli as chicken schnitzel. It's just a regular Iraqi eggplant sandwich.

Ask any Iraqi if they know what a Sabich is, they'll say no. Show them a picture, they'll say they have never seen it. the "idea" was created in Iraq doesn't mean what you're trying to say it means.

> these newly developed dances haven't reached any level of mainstream success save for the Horah

That's a very funny way to read "In spite of the many changes in the values, dreams, and ways of life of the Israelis, many dances of the 1940s and 1950s remain popular. However, some of these dances are no longer danced. It is hard to specify which dances have fallen out of favour, but the Hora remains common".

But honestly - I think we're done here... It's been a pleasure giving you a taste of our culture. It's unclear to me why you think it's outrages that Israelis want to maintain a majority of Israelis in their country, while every other country does the same, and why you think it's weird that our food is inspired by our neighboring countries, even though that's true in literally every country in the world, and why you think it's a problem that we don't dance exactly like we did in the 50s anymore, even though, I sure hope you don't dance like your grandparents. But cheers! I don't know what country you come from, but I'm getting the impression that manners and respect to others isn't exactly part of the culture there.
The point ranking on comments, which is private, would be of interest to parties training an LLM and want the data annotated, but your point stands.
Mossad didn't spread them. They sold them to Hezbollah. Hezbollah runs many hospitals in Lebanon.
> the person complaining will say "unless you can guarantee a greater than 50% chance of that happening in the period we're budgeting for, we're not going to bother with all of that work"

If you've worked at a medical-device manufacturer, please blow a whistle. That isn't normal and could seriously hurt people.

The reason it isn't a broad issue is the cost of approval revocation, or even suspension, is existential for many companies.
Move Smooth and Fix Things (tm) is our nonprofit corporation’s version of this atrocious motto.
I like the comparison between nerves and systemd. I'm always a little confused by the label "embedded" in the context of nerves cause in the end you need like 100Mb in RAM and to run linux. That seems like beyond the line of what is usefully called embedded?
Python itself doesn't follow that at all, ignore it.
>it will be the key to resolution of many conflicts in that region.

If you're broadening the discussion to the wider context, how do you reconcile this opinion with the origins and current stated goals of Hezbollah and other groups involved in these many conflicts?

Hezbollah is fundamentally against the existence of Israel: "It's destination is manifested in our motto, 'Death to Israel'." --Hezbollah secretary general Nasrallah circa 2022

I don't know why you keep mentioning Camp David if you are thinking in terms of Palestinian statehood. Hamas has the destruction of Israel baked into its founding charter. In fact that charter specifically calls out the Camp David agreement from 1978 as treacherous and outright rejects any negotiated peace, especially of the "Camp David" variety: "These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters." (Chapter 13 of the Hamas Covenant)
I am one of those people that is very bad at explaining. Please let me know if you have any additional resources for explaining things better.
Yes. And particles down to 0.3 microns.

My understanding is that the health benefits are most pronounced from avoiding smoke and fine dust particles which don't necessarily have a lot to do with plastic, but it's a good recommendation regardless.

There is significant evidence linking PM2.5 concentrations and health (which is a common metric about fine particles in the air of a particular size, in this case 2.5 micron range)
The cost/productivity balance is supposed to have been considered for hiring and promotion; when a layoff predominately targets a specific division or pay level it means the strategy leading up to that point had been wrong.
None of that bans urban fighting. While the Conventions strive to minimize civilian deaths they (even the effectively optional 1977 Conventions) do not ban civilian collateral as it would simply be unrealistic and have the rest of Conventions not taken seriously.
I'm pretty sure many people use Tor for other things than journalism and CP.

Tor is a privacy tool. Much of what we do in our lives is on the internet, and privacy is important. Tor helps people enjoy privacy in a medium that they are increasingly dependant on.
If Herodotus is to be believed, ancient persians might've read their HN replies twice, either sober then drunk, or drunk then sober, before hitting the "reply" button.

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
Business "Immortality" and the Art of Focus
14 Dead as Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode in second, deadlier attack
do you have an autosuggest api for city search?
interesting so there is no more free support for rabbitmq is what im seeing here for the most part.
Is this local js only or can you compile the c code and serve it to a client to execute in the browser?
This is your kindly reminder that if you're not the customer, then you are the product, with an added caveat that, when it comes to social networks, you are always the product.

I say that as a happy product, uhh, user of every social network out there.
> As soon as generative AI has the capability to take someone's job, that is political.

What is political is people enshrining themselves in chokepoints and demanding a toll for passing through or getting anything done. That is what you do when you make a certain job politically 'untakable'.

People who espouse that the 'personal is political' risk making the definition of politics so broad that it is useless.
https://blog.torproject.org/tips-running-exit-node/
> can now never be trusted commercially for its software or hardware

Obviously not if you're an enemy or adversary of Israel's. If America and China go to war and Chinese equipment shuts down or starts exploding, that's fair game under the rules of war.
I call this program in one's head "suspended comprehension" as it has a degree of transience and fragility that requires effort to resume where you left off.
Yes this is exactly my point. Simple lifestyle changes are really all that's necessary. I still see kids walking around drinking soda, I have to fight tooth and nail to prevent my little one from being given sweets and fizzy drinks on an almost daily basis (we moved to Czech republic, I don't want to be rude about my adopted home but the truth is they are quite behind on children's health and nutrition)
Yeah, but GP gives the example of a 33% chance for true positive. That's more than enough to keep you on your toes.
> We can’t even keep the eight year olds off

Because there's not really a service for that. However, there are turnkey plugins for keeping <18 year olds off your site.

> Raising the age likely just means more hassle

It either increases the hassle, or increases the effectiveness- not both. If you're not verifying ages, then who cares what the number is?
s/ERP/any other business software product/

...and yet there are all kinds of segments where customized tooling is more the norm than otherwise. It just depends on whether the deviation from the norm is a competitive disadvantage or a competitive advantage. There are a lot businesses where in at least one case, it is an advantage.
> used 1-2 additional methods on top of TOR

Curious: what did you do and what were you hoping to mitigate?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-human-rights/inside...
You’re making an exclusionary argument to discredit mine and use the rewrite history point. Come on. My point stands as do your secondary points. But that was a principal contributing factor.
In an atom, the electrons orbiting the nucleus are only allowed to be at discrete energy levels (the energy levels are "quantized"). In a classical model of an orbit, the energy level of a spaceship orbiting a planet can be thought of as the speed it has that allows it to orbit at a certain altitude, assuming no friction or other effects. Velocity is energy in that case (E=m*v^2 in classical mechanics). Unlike electrons in an atom, the spaceship can be in any one of a continuous range of energy levels (up to escape velocity).

The proposal in the article is (I think) that bosons orbit certain black holes in quantized energy states, like electrons would orbit an atomic nucleus.
Those apps and the system's accreditation requirements limit my choice to a particular vendor's ecosystem so yes, they do.

Otherwise I could avoid Linux entirely if I so chose, and make the systemd consideration irrelevant.
My servers ban huge swaths of IPs from certain places that originates enormous amounts of spam, scanners, and other nefarious traffic. It's very effective
> That’s absurd.

It's hardly absurd, it's a common pattern in nations and online rhetoric.

> By that logic Europeans would also have defended Chat Control, but that wasn’t the case.

Just because people may defend one thing out of tribalism doesn't mean they would defend everything out of tribalism.

It's specifically EU users on HN I see trying ti shift the blame to corporations. I find it bizarre, honestly. Correlation isn't causation but in this case I do think there's a link.

> No, you choose to see it that way.

Meh. I believe it's a reasonable position backed by evidence.

> Being legal does not mean being right, moral, or generally good.

Yeah, this has nothing to do with the actual root point being discussed though, which is which entity gets the blame/credit for the popups.

That's the EU, no question. You don't like the data collection practices or consider them immoral? That's fair and reasonable, and we can talk about that, but it's a separate albeit adjacent issue.

> Slavery was legal at one point and then it wasn’t.

This is why you shift the goalposts. Now you're talking about slavery. The original point you made in this thread and the topic being discussed are the popups, regulation of an activity not the activity itself.

Slavery is not analogues to popups. An analogy involving slavery would be if there were government mandate signage every 100 feet in town centers advising slaves are people and should be treated humanely (which obviously didn't happen, but it's hard to twist such a bad faith example to still make a point).

> That’s becoming more common now,

It's been common, i.e. the norm, since the laws came into effect.
Apple isn't doing certificate pinning, it's the apps verifying the certificate chain themselves by baking in public keys (or hashes/fingerprints). So there's not really a way for Apple to break this.
Tim Cook seems to have done okay with what a bunch of tech pundits said was a risky move compared to sticking with Intel.
I put "[fixed]" in there temporarily but if that's not accurate we can change it again.
Absurd argument. Do you think off-duty military personnel never go to grocery stores or the like in other countries?
Needing to trim the title forces unfortunate tradeoffs. No editorializing, I mostly agree with due to drawbacks of opinionation in a large group.
JavaScript Engine in WASM – JavaScriptCore on WebAssembly
Herodotus can suck it. I think I prefer plan (A) though!
Like it or not, it is currently one of the alternatives. Wasteful, expensive, rented - pick one.

If it helps, I also like the first half of the grandparent comment more.
Reserved mine 2/29, received yesterday.
US sanctions prohibit transfer of goods, technologies, information, etc. to Iran.

As a company, this means BSTS (better safe than sorry) CYA (cover your ass) measures for good or worse.
Oh yeah it's not going to be very fast, but for general usage that doesn't involve large transfers it's fine.
by complying with the block it sets a precedent that is bad for their other customers in the long term, not the short term.
The aesthetic is spot on.

What is the intro sound to each clip? Feel like I heard it before somewhere.
It's not name calling, it's a description. He is actively selling tech he doesn't fully understand, that is fundamentally not capable of doing what he is selling it to do. LLM's have a place, they have for decades at this point, but they are not intelligent, not in the way he goes out of his way to evoke with what he says, and certainly not in the way his audiences believe. I don't know enough to have a proper opinion on whether true AI is possible; I have to assume it is. But nothing OpenAI has shown is that, or has the potential to be that, nor is it worth anything near 150 billion dollars. It's an overvaluation among overvaluated companies making up an overvaluated industry and when it goes, not if, when, it will have ramifications throughout our industry.

I'm sure it won't though for Mr. Altman. He's done a fantastic job failing-up so far and I have no reason to assume this will be any different.
Not taking the piss, it's my genuine position after seeing this discussions on HN for years.

> It's about a _GENERAL_ data protection act that prevents companies and jobsworths having free rein to your personal data.

The context here is limited to assigning blame/credit for the cookie popups.

> This has sweet FA to do with patriotism as you know perfectly well.

Tribalism then.