skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this because films have promoted a bullshit view of various aspects of life with the defense of "its entertainment" but I think a lot of us (including me) have believed bits of it because we have no contrary evidence.

On a completely different note, my favorite fictional spy, Bernard Sampson, says something like this (can't find the exact quote) "experienced agents are like nervous old ladies - always worrying about everything."

Essentially that "brave" agents are either inexperienced or dead. Sampson is able to do things like shoot but overall he feels its a sign of incompetence if it becomes necessary.

If you haven't already, try the "Game, Set, Match" trilogy.
They're racing to AGI.
> In the movies, spies are usually ripped hunks who carry lots of gadgets, like James Bond and Jason Bourne.

Neither James Bond nor Jason Bourne were really "ripped hunks." Maybe an argument could be made for Daniel Craig, but really most Bonds and Bourne were just kind of handsome, charming men who knew their way around a gun.
But is that a sustainable model? Because it does not really solve the feeling of dread, particularly if others build successful companies on it. I don't have that feeling myself, but I talked _a lot_ to Open Source developers over the years and it's easy to feel disappointed when you yourself built something, but then you see other people build on VC funded companies on top.
The Perfectly Flawed Democracy
Every single bank and person conceals illegal activity by your final sentence. You probably have sold something for cash bought by a drug dealer and unknowingly laundered drug money.

The point here is that an unwitting actor is somehow guilty if they did not do KYC. By your standard basically every gas station near the border is a money launderer, since they know damn well much of the cash they take and transmit is drug and cartel money.

And that's the genius of this line of reasoning. There is nary a dollar in circulation that hasnt been used in crime.
I wanted to observe how great it is to see "ghastmaster" arguing with "stackghost."
WordPress has always had a phenomenal admin editing experience relative to what else existed. That on top of a dogmatic adherence to backwards compatibility made the free (and paid) theme/plugin ecosystem thrive.
Interesting. Do you then view the lawmaking process as nothing more than a chaotic and never-ending expression of the randomly changing emotions of the people?

No ongoing rational standards, logic, or objective argumentation is required or even relevant -- just might makes right, anything goes, whoever convinces the most people to agree through sophistic "advocacy" wins?

I suppose that such a system could exist in theory, but it seems to be heavily at odds with the constitutional legal system that the United States uses.
You can either take the route of doing financial software, data science, ML and web dev _for a game company_, or you can start making games in your free time and then attempt a pivot.

I think the first path is probably easier and more lucrative, but will have a much longer time difference in terms of getting you where you want to go.
Yes! The sponge technique takes a little practice to get consistent results, but it works well (at least for small boards), and lets you use microscopic amounts of etchant, which is good for cleanup. I find it’s especially good when trying to do relatively small traces, because you get such fine control over the process. (I have to say though, nowadays I’d usually rather wait six days for JLCPCB to do it for me.)
We took our kids to Disney World once.

When asked what their favorite part of the trip was, they responded..

The hot tub.

At the hotel.

My kids light up the most when I am fully engaged with them, fully present, entertaining their ideas, and asking questions.

Their favorite family trip so far? When we traveled to Arkansas to mine for crystals. AKA, dig in the dirt all day. They saw it on a YouTube video. They asked to go. So we obliged. I had never been to Arkansas. It's beautiful.

We stayed at a resort, Diamonds Old West Cabins, with a huge playground outside the cabins, archery, and a bubble party every evening at 6 pm.

They still talk about that trip.
There are some states that outlaw highway billboards, recognizing the blight they are on the landscape. It is IMMEDIATELY better to drive in those states.

Vermont is a great example, which banned billboards, and is adjacent to New Hampshire, a similarly sized and situated adjacent state. Driving into NH after being in VT for a while, it is immediately jarring just how offensive and ugly even a few billboards make the place.

It is a damn reasonable regulation, and more states should have it. No one is going hungry because they can't put up a billboard (especially the damn bright flashing digital billboards).
Shit storm, if AI is trained on the moral conjectures of arm chair psychologists and philosophers.

Morality is NOT a game of virtues. Morality CANNOT BE DETERMINED by choosing who dies in a runaway railcar scenario.

The fundamental a priori of morality lies in protecting the "innocent" (inculpable) from violation.

Out technology should be prepared to fail gracefully, at every expense of itself. Not to calculate virtue point values and moderate sums. These are contrivances which do not reflect morality in any real world circumstance.
> It does not. For example young women and girls, even when knowing that an image of a fashion model is photoshopped, still exhibit drops in their self body image.

In the natural world traits that are wasted on futile efforts are eventually not selected. In the human world, traits that are ripe for manipulation in a free market would result in lower purchasing power. Thus, less ability to afford children and pass on the traits. Subsidizing via regulations or direct support prolongs the subterfuge we are discussing here. Perhaps, in perpetuity.

> In many cases these two things are the same, due to the prevalence and efficacy of lobbying

The reason there are lobbyist is because we have granted those being lobbied control. Take away the control and the lobbying is pointless. More rules and regulations = more lobbying.
> I'm this case, the license explicitly allows everyone to use the software for free.

Has absolutely 0 to do with open source. The software was, and is, GPL.

This is about using free web APIs. Yes you will get banned for that, on absolutely any service. Don't believe me? Try it out.
> but nothing has ever come out of it

Have you ever seen the inside of a modern car factory?
I think there are two types of developers: those who are most excited about building things, and those who are most excited about the craft of programming.

If I can build things faster, then I'm happy to spend most of my time reviewing AI code. That doesn't mean that I never write code. Some things the AI is worse at, or need to be exactly write and its faster to do them manually.
So there are no objective standards possible or even relevant in the lawmaking process -- it's purely a question of might makes right, whoever can marshal the most people to their team through sophistry should win?
I find it interesting to think about this while listening to historical content like the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Tl;dr, if you want something to survive for millennia, it needs to be carved in stone or you need to arrange for monks to keep transcribing it
Bold statement :

"In fact, it might be better said that Yao is meant to be:

As powerful as C,As flexible as Lisp,As easy as Python,As provable as Ada/SPARK,More reliable than Rust,With the time semantics of HAL/S."

Edit : more details here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41671034
Binance was not really about Bitcoin, it was more like a shitcoin casino and a money laundering machine.
> that people now depend on and walking away is probably causing a lot of anxious moments, possible security breaches, and downtime.

This is the mistake of the people who depend on something out of their control, not the person who made some code public, with the promise that there is no warranty, the software is "as-is" and more, which is fairly common in FOSS licenses.

The right answer is for people to start understanding the license of the things they use and depend on, and if "no warranties what so ever" isn't good enough for them, it's up to them to find a project using a license they do agree with.
This exchange is a great example of two people arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty! You're clearly both right, in your own way.
There's _a lot_ of poor quality engineers out there who understand that on some level they are committing fraud by spinning their wheels all day shifting CSS values around on a React component while collecting large paychecks. I think it's only natural all of those engineers are terrified by the prospect of some computer being capable of doing their job quickly and efficiently and replacing them. Those people are crying so loudly that it's encouraging otherwise normal people to start jumping on the anti-AI bandwagon too, because their voices are so loud people can't hear themselves think critically anymore.

I think passionate and inspired engineers who love their job and have very solid soft skills and experience working deeply on complex software projects will always have a position in the industry, and people like that are understandably very enthusiastic about AI instead of being scared of it.

In other words, it is weird how bad the status quo was, until we got something that really threatened the status quo, now a lot of the people who wanted to tear it all down are now desperately trying to stop everything from changing. The sentiment on the internet has gone in a weird direction, but it's all about money deep down. This hypothetical new status quo brought on by AI seems to be wedded to fears of less money, thus abject terror masquerading as "I'm so bored!" posturing.

You see this in the art circles, where established artists are willing to embrace AI, but it's the small time aspiring bedroom artists that have not achieved any success who are all over Twitter denouncing AI art as soulless and terrible. While the real artists are too busy using any tool available to make art, or are just making art because they want to make art and aren't concerned with fear-mongering.
Reading their terms, I'm guessing it's due to:

> 3. Eligibility: The Challenge is open to legal residents of the United States. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older as of their date of entry. The Challenge is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law. Employees and contractors of the MTA, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and directors (collectively the “Employees”), as well as members of an Employee’s immediate family and/or those living in the same household, are ineligible to participate in the Challenge.
Update: v1.1.0 supports macOS 15.1, and adds an optional MDM profile (self-contained) to suppress the alerts globally.
Static chassis with no flex that explodes realistically on rough landings and does a pretty good job hugging the surface without much input.
I had a subscription to the Wall Street Journal for awhile and while I can't say that's what the GP is referring to, it absolutely sounds like the kind of deluded crap a WSJ subscriber would say to justify spending $40/mo on that crap to themselves :D
Demand for compute will skyrocket given AGI even if AGI turns out to be relatively compute-efficient. The ability to translate compute directly into humanlike intelligence simply makes compute much more valuable.
And yet, coding styles do not prohibit it and there is no compiler that has a warning.
The targets included non-combatants intentionally. Was trying to hijack a plane and hit the Pentagon not a terrorist attack then since the Pentagon is full of military members?
The above poster speaks to the crux of the issue. CNN, Forbes and other sites are doing things that a normal webmaster could be nuked from orbit for, after a "manual review". Yet, these are the manually curated sites which Google claims have high trust signals.

There are a few disparate incentives. One is a political desire to buttress the "official truths" of the legacy media. The other is a market incentive for the dying legacy media sites to earn revenue.

There is a third, related market incentive for the dissatisfied media consumers. CNN isn't as compelling as it was two decades ago. Eyeballs and ears are naturally straying towards the perceived value of alternative media sources. Therefore, to continue the ancien regime, it becomes necessary for Google to prop up CNN and others.

There is a possible world where Google creates value by indexing and sorting through a decentralized and open Internet. This chain of events does not support that. The trend is for gatekeepers to panic. The search results have been sabotaged as a result.

Is Google more valuable as a gatekeeper for established institutions? Can that amount to more value than the potential ad revenue of a larger web? Time will tell.
I tend to agree that many explanations of raft dont get into the useful details and handwave some of the hard problems. But the original paper does do a good job of this and is pretty accessible to read IMO.

> I read "once the leader has been elected", um, hangon, according to whom? Has node 1 finally agreed on the leader, just while node 3 has given up and started another election?

The simple response I think to "according to whom" is "the majority of voting nodes". When the leader assumes its role, it sends heartbeats which are then accepted by the other nodes in the cluster. Even if (in your example) node 3 starts a new election, it will only succeed if it can get a majority of votes. If node 2 has already acknowledged a leader, it won't vote for node 3 in the same term.

There's some implicit concessions inherent there around eventual consistency, but I don't think thats novel to Raft compared to other distributed consensus protocols.
>for inadvertently storing some users' passwords without protection or encryption.

The egregious nature of the issue seems to undermine any measures they may have done to retroactively fix it.

A first year CS student could tell you this is a fundamentally bad idea. For a FANG company this is inexcusable. Fine is justified.

A company of such size will have to disclose it purely because if an employee left and blew a whistle -- the fine would have been much more. They cut their losses and will accept responsibility.
I'm pretty sure that he also has personal BTC stash. Maybe not billions though.
IMHO AI tools will (or at least should!) fundamentally change the way the education system works. AI tools are - from a certain point of view - really just a scaled version of AI now can put at our fingertips. Paradoxically, the more AI can do "grunt work" the more we need folks to be educated on the higher-level constructs on which they are operating.

Some of the bigger issues you're raising I think have less to do with technology and more to do with how our economic system is currently structured. AI will be a tremendous accelerant, but are we sure we know where we're going?
I think the AGPL is complicated and it requires further investigation before picking it. And AGPL with and without a CLA is a completely different beast, and if you take contributions then you really need a CLA unless you, yourself are okay with the implications of the AGPL.

(I wrote I about about my challenges with the AGPL recently here: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/9/23/fsl-agpl-open-source-busi...)
I walked into the local convenience store the other day and it dawned on me that it exists solely to serve addictions. Nicotine addiction? Cigarettes and vapes galore. Sugar/fat addiction? Dozens of options. Gambling addiction? Multiple lotteries, scratch off, and a couple of video machines in the corner. Alcohol? Plenty of options there too.
> To add GPU support, the Google team introduced nvproxy which works using the same principles as described above for syscalls: it intercepts ioctls destined to the GPU and proxies a subset to the GPU kernel module.

This does still expose the host's kernel to a potentially malicious workload, right?

If so, could this be mitigated by (continuously) running a QEMU VM with GPUs passed through via VFIO, and running whatever Workers need within that VM?

The Debian ROCm Team faces similar challenge, we want to do CI [1] for our stack and all our dependent packages, but cannot rule out potentially hostile workloads. We spawn QEMU VMs per test (instead of the model described above) but that's because our tests must also be run against the relevant distribution's kernel and firmwares.

Incidentally, I've been monitoring the Firecracker VFIO GitHub issue linked in the article. Upstream does not have a use case for and thus no resources dedicated to implement this, but there's a community meeting [2] coming up in October to discuss the future of this feature request.

[1]: https://ci.rocm.debian.net

[2]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11...
> a world where we can not trust any free resources

Or paid ones, really. If you think a company is trustworthy, that means a) you believe it cares about losing you as a customer, or b) you believe the company has the obligation or the luxury of acting with integrity (or the people working there do).

Especially with news media, none of these things are likely to be true. For paid news I’d just expect less typos but not more integrity.
Yep it’s quite easy for a moderately talented spammer to undo the good work of a million people if they have a fast connection and mission to sew chaos and try to make $5
You are singling out accidental replication and forgetting it was triggered with fragments from the original material. Almost all LLM outputs are original - both because they use randomness to sample, and because they have user prompt conditioning.

And LLMs are really a bad choice for infringement. They are slow, costly and unreliable at replicating any large piece of text compared to illegal copying. There is no space to perfectly memorize the majority of its training set. A 10B models is trained on 10T tokens, no space for more than 0.1% to be properly memorized.

I see this overreaction as an attempt to strengthen copyright, a kind of nimby-ism where existing authors cut the ladder to the next generation by walling off abstract ideas and making it more probably to get sued for accidental similarities.
> end up doing business

That's the point, they weren't doing business.

They were issuing presumably hundreds of thousands of requests a day and not offering a penny. You will get banned for that on absolutely any service. Any of them, GPL or not.
Why is WP.org entitled to selectively blacklist one downstream consumer and not others? Have they demonstrated that WPE is putting undue load on the infrastructure? Have they even alleged it until just now?

If wp.org is part of the foundation, then they have a legally binding mission, and "acting in Automattic's strategic interests" is not in there. If they're not, then a8c is intentionally obfuscating their ownership of wp.org, thus placing the credibility and legal status of the foundation in jeopardy.
I wonder if we should come up with a term for an attack whose goal is to sow fear and distrust rather than accomplish a concrete military objective.
"Tech CEO declares major breakthrough is within reach, less than a handful of a billion seconds..."
Just because they say it doesn’t mean we have to believe it.
I believe these vulnerabilities only allow RCE as the 'lp' user (which is able to access parallel ports and USB devices that identify themselves as printers). In addition the process will be confined by MAC policies (e.g., on Fedora/Red Hat I think they're confined by cupsd_t).
My wife is opening a drive-thru restaurant which serves these (among other Asian foods like musubi and lumpia and such). Pricing as of now looks like $3 a pop, which is comparable to the pricing at the local Mitsuwa. Convenience store onigiri in Japan are of course generally a lot cheaper (especially with the current exchange rate).

https://www.tsunagujapan.com/16-top-selling-items-at-lawson-...
> "Breaking the sovereign state’s monopoly on violence" would seem a good thing only if you think that distributing violence more widely should be a social goal.

I think that a reasonable and useful distinction can be made between

"Breaking the sovereign state’s monopoly on violence"

and

distributing violence more widely should be a social goal.

The first would be every ideological 2nd amendment supporter (as opposed to criminal, practical, contrarian or stick-it-to-the-libs 2nd amendment supporters).

The second would be criminals.
Most of Europe is more secular / less religious than America, so I don't know why it would be surprising that they have more lax gambling laws. That only supports my point. It has nothing to do with the geographical Old World.
Well played.

Tbh it will be curious to see next steps.
The early days of StumbleUpon were great! I think it might also be a perfect example of why a lot of the comments here are pessimistic about content quality staying high over time.
Joseph explains the algorithm on YouTube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjbEG7COj7o

It's great work, combining the best of OT and CRDTs.
What's annoying is that this tech already existed for LCD screens. It supposedly had deep black that OLED brings but at LCD prices. If the quality is similar / no better, it's frustrating to see tandem tech never made it out of China.
RE "...with little or no first-party oversight or involvement..." and "...without close oversight or involvement of the host site..."

Why do you think there isn't oversight or involvement from CNN?
Enisa 2024 Threat Landscape Report Warns of Increasing State-Sponsored Supply
I’m just curious - if you were to try making a decentralized currency as a fun project, what mechanism would you use instead?

I’m someone who doesn’t really use it, but was fascinated with it before “blockchain” became a buzzword.

edit: proof-of-work. I have been out of the loop for years :)

My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it?
I have a quick question for you
I would like to create a one-click e-commerce including the winning products (taken for adspy tools)

I feel like the idea is a dumb idea?
> I wouldn't be so quick to trust a one-sided limited set of screenshots from various conversations.

I am/was a Matt fan but the texts strike me as clearly passive-aggressive and threatening and inappropriate. To me, anyway.

He's always portrayed this "kind monk" persona, but to see him attempt to maintain this persona while also spewing fairly poisonous rhetoric is really turning me off.

> I'll also add that Mullenweg's communications and actions mostly come across as rash and without much thought. Certainly not polished spin.

100% agree and it's surprising, given what I know about him. These incidents are making me wonder if Matt is having other stressors in his life right now. He just recently got back from a self-described sabbatical.
I didn't say that either, maybe you should reread what I did say.
My point was that drawing arbitrary lines for what's legal isn't the new invention you acted like it was.

This most recent comment has shifted the topic entirely, and I'm not going to address it because it's obviously either written in bad faith or just painfully unthoughtful.
Presumably you could just cut it off from the internet by dns filtering or setting up a vlan to only allow it to communicate to your locally hosted plex/jellyfish instance.
It seems to me like the most targeted attack against terrorist organization.
That's pretty much certain: First the pagers, then after they have a chance to switch devices the walkie talkies were detonated the same way.
It’s fairly common for (at least) specific things to get worse and then never improve again.
Yeah it's called math class.