skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did Google and Facebook suffer tons of attrition very early? The drumbeat of departures calls into question OpenAI's ability to stay ahead of its competitors.

Then you have the fact that Facebook is giving LLaMA away for free, which gives OpenAI Netscape vibes.
[dupe] More discussion on the details post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662596
It depends on the definition of "interaction". AFAIU Alice doesn't need to print anything supplied by the attacker. It's enough if she prints anything.
I scrolled over the dossier and there nothing significant there, most of it is bunch of things he said, his investments, property, donations, tickets, taxes and so on.

Most of the information can be found online, this is just complied into one PDF file.
Numberwang is the true OG
What do you do with a a lot of money past a point? A corporate controlled AGI being just a stop on the way to build another private space agency seems like a...letdown.
> It is a crazy concept, because taxes are coerced by governments under the threat of violence, whereas the freedoms of FOSS software are intended to be entirely non-coercive.

In doubt, you will have to enforce the freedoms of FOSS by going to a court (i.e. use the governmental "violence enforcement system"). On the other hand, if you pay your taxes "voluntarily", you won't be coerced by the government.

In other words: in both cases threats of violence are involved.
Launch: Pollox.ai | AI Real Estate Agent
Of course he doesn't want the money, he's only getting money to shut down those conspiracy theories.

/s
Sure, but humanity has been able to make additional human-level intellects since basically forever by having sex. The dream has always been to make superhuman intellects.
We don’t know that they will be interchangeable forever.

Just because they share a near identical interface does not mean they will always have identical capabilities
Maybe, maybe not. If I understand correctly, you still need to print something to the printer to achieve RCE via foomatic-rip.
An interesting summary, but I don't think the article really answered the headline. In particular, I'm left wondering which is the bigger problem: Is it that the US ship builders aren't competent and have turned what should have been a fairly straightforward modification of an existing design into a huge boondoggle, or is it that the government requirements are poorly thought out and/or overly ambitious, resulting in costly redesign efforts that aren't really necessary?

Put another way, are we spending all this time and money to fail at simply building a ship that is functionally identical to one of these ~$300m Finnish ice breakers, or are we claiming we need something more sophisticated?
Appalachia is particularly cursed by geography. Mountainous areas can't support much large-scale economic activity beyond subsistence farming, resource extraction, and tourism. It's just too expensive to move things around. We see the same issues in other countries as well.
I question whether Milwaukee and Chicago are outstanding examples. I looked at a few reputable sources and those cities nor their states seem to be extremes in terms of car theft rates. Most of these law enforcement agencies are not specifically breaking our carjacking.

Random presentation of car theft stats comparing Chicago to a handful of others. We hear a lot about Chicago because many have a vested interest in deflecting discussions about crime. When was the last time you heard about the insane motor vehicle theft rate of Dallas? https://public.tableau.com/shared/W2KZH4JC7?:display_count=y...
they already do see

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2024/0...
But at least we got all the byproducts.
That's why they were functional, though.

US nuclear forces have extremely strict procurement and change control processes. You don't just swap out an 8" floppy drive for a 3.5" drive in a missile silo; the change has to be considered, components procured, a migration strategy defined, and the change implemented.

... more importantly, if it's working without issue, why change it?

They're also not going to be using the latest-and-greatest tech at any point. Why should they? It's much better to use older tech that's well-proven, tested, and for which replacements don't rely on foreign industry.

8" floppy drives may be old, but they worked. We may not make them in the US, but the tech is so old that I'm sure it was cheap and easy to buy and store enough to last multiple human lifetimes.

Hell, the F-14's last flight with the Navy was in 2006. As far as I know, it still used one of the very first truly modern digital computers to control the wing sweep angle. It worked. Why change it, and risk it not working the same way?
Yea I saw the drones pushing eachother. Perhaps I was exaggerating when I said it was all cgi. I just found it amusing that they bothered filming a cart falling down stairs as if its a common everyday problem people encounter and needs some explaining to understand.

To me this is similar to the flying-cars companies.
They all have some weird prototype that can fly for 5 minutes but you never see an actual use or product for them.
The ground survey provides good confirmation that there was some human-created formation, though maybe what exactly they depict is harder to figure out.
So in short the US only builds a tiny number of them once every two to three decades, so nobody has any experience. And letting someone with experience build them is out of the question because then it wouldn't be built in the US.

This seems like a reoccurring story when talking about anything vaguely infrastructure related in the US.
No. This is not a thing.
Sometimes the crime in case isn't actually that bad, so they have to dig for a lurid description of a different crime entirely.
we do live in a society
I don't doubt this will get flagged, but not for the reason you think. I think it's important that this meets the criteria of spurring 'curious' discussion, of which this might just devolve into flamebait and arguments without much intellectual curiosity to be found.
> A third theory is that the state shouldnt be in the position of playing nanny or parent, influencing behavior. If it is illegal, prevent it from happening. If it is legal, it shouldn't it shouldnt interfere.

A lot of things are only able to be legal because they are regulated in some way.
I absolutely want the state in the position of "playing nanny" when it comes to things like telling companies they can't dump a ton of toxic chemicals into the rivers or how much pollution they are able to spew into our air.

It's legal to sell tobacco, and it should be, but I'm very glad there are rules against selling cigarettes to children. It's legal to drink alcohol, but it's a very good thing when the state influences behavior like drunk driving.

Nobody wants arbitrary laws restricting private individuals for no reason, but communities should have the power to decide that some behaviors or actions are harmful to the group and are unacceptable. Communities have always done that in one way or another. We've just decided that rather than stick with mob justice we would put away the tar and feathers and allow the state, our public servants who are either elected by us or appointed by those we elect, to enforce the rules for us. I'm glad we did. I've already got a job and can't go around policing all day.
“Decisions like the one from Jassy are a big reason why I don’t want kids. I don’t need others to impose rules that ruin my quality of life.”

Long time lurker but had to sign up and comment on this statement made by the amazon worker.

The fact that he is not having kids is precisely due to rules imposed by people like jassy. And so do many workers in the western world. The fear of being controlled is just as bad as being controlled. You truly free once the fear, and the actions caused by said fear, are non existant.
It is literally an amogus.. an among us crewmate in the exact format of the meme
Like the ultimate case of pareidolia it has been spotted in trashcans, egyptian hieroglyphs as the god Medjed, now here. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was fake due to this meme alone but the sources I see all look completely legit, the image credit guy alone seems almost famous in wikipedia
Microservice maximalism.
I think this issue is complicated and I have no answers. However, I do feel Wordpress is much more central to WPEngine's business than e.g. FreeBSD is to Sony's.
Yes, good point, university networks are particularly vulnerable.
Plants keep viruses from passing to their progeny
ah yeah. they didnt quite address my concerns in that post. but they know better than i.
Ok but taxes that are invented on the spot by an all-powerful ruler, and imposed by surprise, under immediate threat, do not have a great history in modern society.
Thanks, I missed that. But that still leaves us with only 300 thousand exploitable instances in the whole public IPv4 address space. This is nowhere near a universal GNU/Linux RCE. Of course it's still a big deal to those affected servers, but it's nowhere near even RegreSSHion.
Oh, well that’s cool!
> * As part of funding, the non-profit would grant exclusive, irrevocable rights of it's IP to that for-profit venture.

This is the part that should land people literally in jail. A non-profit should not be able to donate its assets to a for-profit, and if it's the same people running both companies, those people must be sent to prison for tax evasion. There is no other way to preserve the integrity of the "non-profit" status with this giant loophole.
Free speech for his (Elon: Right Wing) ideology, not for everyone.
The good ol’ “Tell me you store passwords as plaintext without telling me you store passwords as plaintext”

The other message I get from sites like this is, “Our developers have no idea how to escape SQL parameters even though this has been standard since the 90s [80s? 70s?!] so we just do “‘“ + password + “‘“ “
Hum... Save some money for the shareholders, or keep personally going into that vendor-paid luxurious retreat twice an year?

Hard choice.
Authors and editors should be able to live from their work and libgen et al should exist as well. I don't think it's so incomprehensible to imagine that reality because we are living that reality right now. We can also save a lot of money if we get rid of publishers. People will always buy physical books that will be enough to sustain authors, on top of that we can subsidize from taxes. You have to remember that not everyone is a liberal.
This is why no major media outlet ran this story when the hackers offered the documents a month or two ago: there's literally nothing in it. It's a standard opposition research report. The Harris campaign has a document just like it on their own Google Drive. It isn't even directionally interesting; it records every line of attack the GOP could imagine Vance facing (they missed "childless cat ladies", though!), and so calls out places where Vance is in line with Trump as well as places he isn't.

All the real stories about this piece are going to be from people like Klippenstein and Musk beclowning themselves over it.
This is how I feel. Most research in hitech is bullshit. I see the pattern of ai voiced cgi video and it looks cheap and inconcrete.
So yea, I'll keep feeling like that, thank you very much
Robbery is also ilegal and yet, each month, the government takes about 50% of my wage in taxes.
This vulnerability seems to be pretty hard to actually exploit, but for those of you who are running Ubuntu on their desktops, consider enabling a firewall, which is as easy as:

sudo ufw enable

Beats me why this is not the default.
WordPress vs. WP Engine
Command line spinners: the magic tale of modern typewriters and terminal movies
> There is nothing I have ever seen, or that science has ever collected data on, to indicate that such a thing is plausible.

Given that this is an estimate could you estimate what kind of thing you would have to see or what shape of data collected by science that would make you reconsider the plausibility of the existence of a supreme being?
> an ongoing timeshare scam that spans at least two dozen phony escrow, title and realty firms

If you’re savvy enough to run a scam like this, shouldn’t you be savvy enough to find an honest way to make money?
I can't overstate my love for Tcl, yet I had only a little chance to use it when writing XiRCON IRC scripts back in the late 90's. Such an elegant language: simple, easy to learn, flexible. I call it Lisp for humans. I wish it were more popular. So glad to see that it's still alive and kicking.
As long as that user can talk to the printers' device nodes (and/or the network), it needn't so far as I know.

The original "system daemon vs. user program" dichotomy offers a much broader range of interpretations than this, though, and it was more the implication of "this can and should be an evanescent program invoked by individual users, implicitly persisting little or no state between invocations" to which I sought to object.

(That said, I take another nearby commenter's point regarding the need, and existence, of a more evanescent and safer option on systems that will never see more printing than one user does two or three times a year.)
It is absolutely fair to continue to point out his ongoing hypocrisy.

“If we have a choice of either our people go to prison or we comply with the laws, we will comply with the laws.” in 2023.

Here he is on Brazil just a few months ago [1]:

“We are lifting all restrictions. This judge has applied massive fines, threatened to arrest our employees and cut off access to in Brazil.

As a result, we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there.

But principles matter more than profit.”

If we have to risk employees going to jail, then we will follow the law.

We risk employees going to jail, so we will ignore the law on principle.

Literal opposites. He is just a free speech opportunist who realized that you can say “free speech” to get people to overlook your selfish goals and get the benefit of the doubt when you deserve strict scrutiny.

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1776739518240170254
> I would be more empathetic if publishers gave the same lending rights to ebooks as they give to physical ones. As it is, the publishers basically extort libraries to the point where offering ebooks drains coffers way more than physical ones.

Publishers give you no lending rights on physical books; legislation and common law give you rights to lend that stem from the first-sale doctrine where I live. Push your legislators (or courts) to establish first-sale doctrine over digital content and there you go.
It makes perfect sense, actually. Putin's kind of "sense".
Relying on composition rather than inheritance often feels much more natural in my experience. C, Basic, Pascal, etc. are all missing inheritance and generics, are they similarly unorthodox and difficult?

Java-style OO has a place, but it’s not always a perfect fit. Java, C#, and arguably C++ have taken a kitchen-sink and grafted any and all constructs found in other languages so long as they look remotely useful. The result often is useful, but it also results in a more complex language.

While Go isn’t a perfect language, nor is it a great language, I /have/ found it to be a productive language in ways that Java, python, ruby, etc. are not. I attribute this productivity boost to the simplicity of the language (if not the runtime) and to the conservative approach taken to add new features.
Three are extensions and tools that reveal the dislikes - they are still there even if Youtube doesn't expose them by default.
> The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks

Straight from the Wordpress trademark page that was just recently changed to talk shit about a competitor:

https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/
We should do more to expand access to healthcare in rural areas, but healthcare services beyond the basics (immunization, antibiotics, trauma care) do little to increase lifespan at the aggregate population level. Causes of death are mostly chronic diseases brought on by lifestyle factors and even the best treatments for those conditions usually only delay death by a little.
Not hard to bypass it at all: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/faq-encrypted-client-he...
Technological knowhow is one thing, but the real problem is that we can’t build any kind of ship anymore, neither commercial nor naval:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456073
> Verifiers SHALL verify the entire submitted password (i.e., not truncate it).

That'd be a nice world to live in. I love making an account with a service just to not be able to log in because the password that the sign up form allowed is too long for the log in form.
This isn't the first time it happened. It won't be the last. Heck, it's not even the first time Altman pulled it off.
I'm not gonna spend an hour poring over the thing for an SSN, but it does have his unredacted home addresses in both Ohio and DC.
I just want a car that is as dumb as it can be while meeting all federal regulations to the highest degree. How hard can that be?
The phenomenon started in Milwaukee (the "Kia Boys" challenge), and I happen to live in Chicagoland, which experienced a huge wave of carjackings immediately afterwards. I have one of them recorded on my Nest camera in the alley behind my house. Nothing in particular about those two cities otherwise.

As the sibling points out: it's a broader issue than just carjackings --- but the carjackings themselves were novel, scared the shit out of people in a way that stochastic-seeming strong arm robberies don't. The headline here is: it was a gravely negligent thing for Kia to have done; I hope they lose their shirts.
Now do it for the other VP candidate let's see what happens. If your theory is right he should not ban it right?
With military technology, I did not meant US export controls, but other countries. Any weapon used by an enemy is a fair game.

What would happen if US went to war with Iran, and Iran would destroy Starlink constellation?

They already have rockets that reach such heights, and Kessler cascade effect would destroy all satellites on LEO!

Couple that with undersea optical cable disruption... We have global communication blackout!

I really feel we need stronger separation for military/non military infrastructure!
In Kubernetes, pod affinities (not taints) are the typical and preferred mechanism used to ensure pods are scheduled on the same node as their dependencies.
One example from the document:

> Consider the naive attempt to clean out the /tmp directory.

> cd /tmp

> foreach f [glob *] {file delete -force $f}

> A file ~ or ~user maliciously placed in /tmp will have rather unfortunate consequences.
The record player eliminated 90% of musicians jobs.
Most of what I'd call the UI - all the toolbars and pseudo-floating-windows - is basic bread-and-butter Tk stuff. The 3D context and CAD kernel would be the tricky bits. There are extensions floating around to work with OpenGL (or whatever), but I don't see doing the heavy CAD-kernel lifting in Tcl - that would likely have to be in C, or whatever. (Just as it presumably is for Onshape.)
mssql is a great rdbms. t-sql is... different... in certain places but all in all if cost isn't a big issue you really can't go wrong by picking it.
My recollection is that the main hypothesis among these crowds (where's the conspiracy?) is that the lines are human made, but in response to 'visiters'.
I'm going to give a shout out to NaviServer [0], prior called AOLServer [1]. This web server has been battle-tested and is bullet proof. When something has been used power AOL back in the day, what can you say.

OpenACS [2] is the main project of, which has existed since 1997 and that alone is highly powerful in what it can do with. Especially when coupled with TCL. It's still maintained and now supports TCL9 too!

Javascript, TCL and NaviServer (and which has it's own modules such as DNS Server, LDAP, Mail really makes an powerful tool.

If you're looking to get in to TCL and Web Development, you can really create fun with the two combined. I highly recommend that if you wish to dabble with something on the side for easy learning and plentiful features. Go take a look.

[0] https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/NaviServer

https://github.com/naviserver-project/naviserver

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35648805

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6164

[2] https://openacs.org/about/history

https://openacs.org/
His holyness Elon
I don't want to be a hater but according to the UN about 61 million humans die per year, so that only comes out to ~167k per day rather than millions. Most of those will die from old age too, rather than "being killed".

Your main point is true though, even superhuman AI would have a rough time in actual combat. It's just too dependent on electricity and datacenters with known locations to actually have a chance.
With the small difference that Twitter is a for-profit company, unlike OpenAI.
What did you start using, instead?
I can recommend The Terror first season series, despite its shortcomings, for a beautiful depiction of the struggle of breaking through the north passage in the mid 1800s.
> I've also thought that math syntax is very poorly structured and places enormous cognitive load on the user.

This is a common sentiment coming from programmers turned mathematician.

Math notation is made to exactly describe ideas between mathematicians (read: other humans) not for implementors to have an easy time.

As a programmer first, I tend to agree, but I’ve spent a long time learning how to think like a computer and not like a mathematician.

It’s very reminiscent of the old hacker attitude of “the code is the documentation”
Depends on how much money you have
That is what is being done with the next class of US Navy frigates [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate
The Duckbill Guide to AWS Reserved Instances
> Anybody using it for something else and can speak to why you’d use it today?

It was often used as an embedded language (e.g., in F5 load balancers), especially in the pre-Lua days.
Or maybe he is just a gready lier? From the outside looking in how can you tell the difference?
x is a private company and it can do what it wants
Unsafe Impedance: Safe Languages and Safe by Design Software
Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, 32GB VRAM, 512-bit bus
I resonate with the entirety of the first paragraph.
But what can I do about it?
Free speech on privately owned platforms will always be an illusion at best.
Is Klippenstein self-beclowning? He readily admits in the piece that it's pretty much a nothingburger.
In some places it never went away :)
> We also see the same cultural issues that we saw with American shipbuilding more broadly. There seems to be a lack of motivation to take maritime issues seriously or treat them as important.

This is the meat of the article in my mind. The US has globalized away its maritime industry in general and we now lack the institutional knowledge, infrastructure, and labor force needed to operate even semi-independently on the maritime front. Just look at our domestic shipbuilding capacity vs. China: https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/chinas-shipbuildi...

WA state has the same problem trying to get ferries built for the Puget sound. Every decade the fleet gets more dilapidated and the replacements get more expensive and farther behind schedule. The legislature has ditched the requirements that the boats be built at a WA shipyard and they still can't find builders.
> As the article says, you don't need an active subscription to be vulnerable.

OP was talking about not buying a car that requires a subscription to activate, not about whether the subscription makes you vulnerable.