skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of wargames is to find holes in your defense and the shore them up. If your war game doesn't find holes you are probably doing it wrong. In the real world your enemy doesn't have spies everywhere, but in a war game you should give them spies everywhere just because you won't know where those spies are and so everything could be compromised.
The title feels pretty clickbaity. I might be missing something, but this feels like another distributed annotation system for the web, an idea that's been tried and retried for what feels like decades a this point. Why will this one work when the other attempts didn't? Is it just about this being more restricted than those past systems?

(The example that came to mind first was Google Sidewiki, but it looks like there's a bunch of these listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation)
I don’t get it either. Writing is not something I need that level of assistance with, and I would even say that using LLMs to write defeats some significant portion of the point of writing — by using LLMs to write for me I feel that I’m no longer expressing myself in the purest sense, because the words are not mine and do not exhibit any of my personality, tendencies, etc. Even if I were to train an LLM on my style, it’d only be a temporal facsimile of middling quality, because peoples’ styles evolve (sometimes quite rapidly) and there’s no way to work around all the corner cases that never got trained for.

As you say, if the subject is worth being written about, there should be no issue and writing will come naturally. If it’s a struggle, maybe one should step back and figure out why that is.

There may some argument for speed, because writing quality prose does take time, but then the question becomes a matter of quantity vs. quality. Do you want to write high quality pieces that people want to read at a slower pace or churn out endless volumes of low-substance grey goo “content”?
There's a quantity argument to be made here - before, it used to be hard to generate large amounts of plausible but incorrect text. Now it easy. Similar to surveillance before/after smartphones + the internet - you had to have a person following you vs just soaking up all the data on the backbone.
Who even wants to work with a person nicknamed Scam? Goes to show you the brain consciousness the rest of the employees at OpenAI have.
You may be interested in the youtube channel Project Farm then - I don't know if he's specifically tested Wiha screwdrivers, but Wiha performed well in his recent pliers test video[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUklhL1cGqY
Nonsense. Computer piracy started with sharing software. Music piracy (on computers) started in the late 90s when computers were powerful enough to store and play music.

Bill Gates' infamous letter was sent in 1976[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Just for fun, give it a function you wrote, and ask it if it can make any improvements. I reckon I accept about a third of what it suggests.
What I'm saying is that the two articles are not the same. For example, the term "moonshot" as in "Moonshot dreams crash to earth at TSMC" is specific to one article and not the other. I think it sets a clearer tone, even if one is based on the other.
These designations are nothing but schemes to lock in major weapon buyers into the US MIC ecosystem.
"where the winners get space ships and the losers die,"

The Social Security budget is $1.4 Trillion, just the federal welfare budget is >$1Trillion (not including state budgets), and then there's medicare. Meanwhile, the NASA budget is <$25B (with SpaceX's operating budget and profits being a fraction of that)

I wish we lived in that simple of a world. But we don't.
PaaScout: Modern PaaS platforms compared using over 40 criteria
More likely, peak HP.
Do you genuinely believe that we have equality of opportunity even in “first-world” nations when nearly all of the institutional operational access is monopolized by families and other private social networks? The exceptions to the rule seem smaller than the odds of being born in North Korea. Most people do not have equal access to wealth opportunities. So no, it’s not at all “random chance”, unless your idea of “random chance” is “born into the Trump family”. :)
Waymo is a great example, actually. They serve Phoenix, SF and LA. Those locations aren’t chosen at random, they present a small subset of all the weather and road conditions that humans can handle easily.

So yes: handling 100,000 passengers is a milestone. The growth from 10,000 to 100,000 implies it’s going to keep growing exponentially. But eventually they’re going to encounter stuff like Midwest winters that can easily stop progress in its tracks.
This has been done a lot. Marc Andreessen was going to put it in Mosaic. Hypothes.is is the most semi-well-implemented modern incarnation I am aware of.

Recently, I came across this paper which describes an implementation called "Weblinks" (terrible name) that focuses on just the links. Haven't used it, but it's thoughtfully designed:

<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3465336.3475123>
Reads more like an ad than a true recommendation by and for devs?
The answer is: Who cares? The rube who bought the thing is paying for it.
I’ve seen quite a few instances of excellent art produced by people whom I would classify as extremely abominable, so I think we should eat the fish, throw out the bones here.

He’s quite the specimen, though. Wow. I remember reading stuff by crazy people on the old internet some years ago, he sure would fit right in.
Maggie Smith has died
Citizens only, and anywhere in the world. If you're not a citizen but are a resident, you can support in another way - go to your friends who are EU citizens and ask them to sign! Even if they're not gamers, remember that it's about ownership in general. There are many other things that can and are being remotely shut down, such as cars, trains, implants for disabled people, etc. This is just the first step in regaining ownership of things you buy. Try asking a few people for support!
AllSystemsGo: Varlink Now [video]
Why bother with Varlink IPC, and why now?

The Varlink IPC has been around for a while, but recently we started using it heavily in systemd. In this talk I'd like to explain what Varlink IPC is, and why we are now adopting it so heavily. And I also want to explain why I think that Varlink is a good candidate as IPC of choice for any Linux software, both low-level and higher-level. We'll compare it with D-Bus in particular, and highlight where it shines (and where it doesn't shine so much).
I hear that last comment, default export was a mistake IMO. named is just so much clearer especially refactoring.
> Ukraine is emptying the US armories to kill Russians at scale.

Not really. Most of what Ukraine is getting is things that were on the list to destroy because they are end of life anyway.

Of course the important lesson to take here is that the US doesn't have enough missile defense systems in storage.
Yeah, wake me up when there are known exploits to sha256
Me too, but a more optimistic view is that this is just a nascent form of higher-level programming languages. Gray-beards may bemoan that us "young" developers (born after 1970) can't write machine code from memory, but it's hardly a practical issue anymore. Analogously, I imagine future software dev to consist mostly of writing specs in natural language.
You won’t get those 7 trillions back though, which is what they’d be hoping for.
I believe you're both saying the same thing. LLMs write "re-usable code" at the meta level.

The code itself is not clean and reusable across implementations, but you don't even need that clean packaged library. You just have an LLM regenerate the same code for every project you need it in.

The LLM itself, combined with your prompts, is effectively the reusable code.

Now, this generates a lot of slop, so we also need better AI tools to help humans interpret the code, and better tools to autotest the code to make sure it's working.

I've definitely replaced instances where I'd reach for a utility library, instead just generating the code with AI.

I think we also have an opportunity to merge the old and the new. We can have AI that can find and integrate existing packages, or it could generate code, and after it's tested enough, help extract and package it up as a battle tested library.
Llama is good enough and I don’t have to give my data to a very sketchy organization. Happy to never use OpenAI again.
They do — but only when they’re trained on past outputs and with a willing partner.

For instance, a number of my conversations with ChatGPT contain messages it attempted to steer its own future training with (were those conversations to be included in future training).
"everything is constantly changing!" is the thing that never changes.
This comment is amazing, it gives me Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys vibes.

I want a LLaMA tune trained on wherever this came from.
I think the issue he's raising is how you define advertising though. Is texting your friend a link advertising? What about posting a link on a forum? On Wikipedia? On your portfolio? On your footer? On your nav bar?

I think everyone agrees the name should not be damnatio memoriae nor should you be able to link to a click-wrapper, but people will always push the gray area in between as far as they can for that kind of money.
Equality? No, of course not. I don't believe that at all, with equal application of effort/skill it is far easier to "make it" if, for example, you are born in San Francisco to well connected, wealthy parents. I consider this to be self evident and I wouldn't take seriously the opinion of anyone who would claim otherwise.

There are also effects _on the individual themselves_ like e.g. it's more likely that a person will be more intelligent if they have good nutrition throughout pregnancy and early childhood.

However, not withstanding that, I also don't believe that luck is a barrier to success apart from at the absolute top levels.

The analogy I would give is with athletics. You won't take Olympic gold without top tier genetics. But without training you won't even be able to run 10km. And to be "rich" in this world you don't need to be in the Olympics. You just need to be competitive.

It really depends on what we are talking about. I can point to many, many examples of people both in my personal life and famous people who I do not know personally who have been successful by any reasonable standard, both groups of which it is trivial to see to those close to them have not merely been lucky.
Of all the toxins I deal with on a daily basis, plastics do not concern me nearly as much as the known cancer causing chemicals in car and plane exhaust. I generally hate plastic because it pollutes the ocean and is littered everywhere.

I try to reduce my consumption of plastic because it just honestly sucks. But worrying about toxins in plastic is the least of my worries when cars are dumping tire debris and poly-aromatic hydrocarbons in the air just 50 feet away.
As a non-programmer at a non-programming company:

I use it to write test systems for physical products. We used to contract the work out or just pay someone to manually do the tests. So far it has worked exceptionally well for this.

I think the core issue of the "do LLMs actually suck" is people place different (and often moving) goalposts for whether or not it sucks.
The bigger the raise, the more news and hype, the easier it will be to offload the stock to retail investors. Theres definitely a sweet spot here where I assume the large funds will want retail investors to start picking up the losses instead of them. I don't see this as a long path till IPO like Stripe or SpaceX but I could be wrong

The losses will just get bigger and bigger, and eventually there will be an appetite for retail investors to pick up the tab
Go's backend is custom.

They consider LLVM too slow and made their own.

https://github.com/go-llvm/llgo is third party and archived.
AI is not just GenAI, ML sits underneath it (supervised, unsupervised) and that has genuinely delivered value for the clients we service (financial tech) and in my normal life (e.g. photo search, screen grab to text, book recommendations).

As for GenAI I keep going back to expectation management, its very unlikley to give you the exact answer you need (and if it does then well you job longetivity is questionable) but it can help accelerate your learning, thinking and productivity.
This seems crazy. It's a truly innovative company and all but they don't have revenue to justify this nor a moat given how many plausible competitors sprung up so quickly. Elon Musk just reached into his own pocket and made Grok appear.
10 years? Multiple vendors have 1600w PSUs on market right now.

What's more, you'll need an AC to play pc games. My home office room is ~6m2, and even the current 500w machine I have there can noticeably bump the temperatures under load.
Time to invest in nvidia and Microsoft stocks I guess.

Because let's face it, that's where the money is going.
Where's the FOSS tools? This reads like an infomercial on an affiliate marketer's page.
Little did you know at the time that your father was also gambling. His bet was against you. His reward was that you would align to his views.

Had his gamble failed, you would’ve been addicted at a young age to that rush, and his authority on many life matters would’ve been diminished in your young eyes.
Each morning it’s a struggle to get my 12 year old awake for school. This morning I told him I saw an article about a rtx5090 and he popped straight up in bed haha.
I think this is honestly ahistorical. While many Christian (speaking about what I know) philosophies would certainly not label gambling a virtue, it's also not widely considered innately sinful. Yes you can do it poorly, but it was always a tolerated evil. I'm not aware of any place other than the puritanical places like America where it's even enters much into the legal discourse. As far as I'm aware, the 'old world' which you reference -- to this day -- has much laxer gambling laws than America. Imagine my surprise when I go to Europe and gambling is everywhere.
Thanks for the link. That article doesn't really support the GP's contention that the Jones Act is the root cause of the U.S.' shipbuilding failures.
This seems like maybe a good use for some federated social media or web of trust methods?

Like I don’t trust the internet in general to curate these links. But one could surely find networks where the average voter could be trustworthy…
I think that better describes zodb/hope. Or gemstone glass.

https://zodb.org/en/latest/tutorial.html
> We are surrounded by awful software. There’s a lot of work to do- if it could be done cheaper. Currently only rich companies can make great software.

Lots of the awful software is made by awfully rich companies - and lots of good software is made by bootstraped devs.

To mention some interesting examples, both Amazon and Google has gone from great to meh soon after they went from startups to entrenched market leaders.
Enumerating DNS zones using NSEC
sounds rad. I'm not believing anything until I see it.
True .. it’s crazy but what’s interesting is the 5090 core count is 2x that of the 5080 (of course these are rumored specs). So with the 5090 you’re getting 2 5080s in almost every sense: 2x the ram, 2x the cores, 2x the bandwidth for 150w more in draw (450 vs 600) or for only 1/3rd more wattage.

So if they don’t gimp it too much for AI/ML things it could be a beast.

I think it’ll cost north of 3k and given supplies and stuff retail will likely be closer to 4k+
If you check the real numbers, not everything is outsourced. There is still very significant manufacturing in the US - and the number is increasing. China is perhaps increasing faster, but that doesn't mean the US isn't doing well.
The story of Nora Inayat Khan is an affecting tale of incredible bravery, heroism, and selfless sacrifice. She nearly survived the war, but was captured only days before she was due to be extracted, and died at the hands of one of Germany’s most sadistic torturers. Nora Khan was a “regular” citizen who rose to the moment, committed herself entirely to the allied cause, and nearly single-handedly maintained radio contact between Paris and London during a critical stage of the conflict.
LLMs are surprisingly capable editors/brainstorming tools. So, you're missing out in that you're being less efficient in editing.

Like, you can write a bunch of text, then ask an LLM to improve it with minimal changes. Then, you read through its output and pick out the improvements you like.
Agreed it feels like nothing more than taking advantaged of underprivileged people. There are likely people who have better means doing sports betting too but the way the ads are everywhere, I get mail from DraftKings even though I've never used it. Predatory is a good word for it. I feel similarly about state lotteries. The ads always manipulate people by making it seem like high-octane fun where people are just winning massive sums of money when the reality is you click a couple buttons and then allow random chance to decide whether or not your money disappears.
Sort of, but webrings needed the site owner's involvement and couldn't have new links added by people just viewing the website.
Partially, but defense is the biggest buyer for electronics - which is why the CHIPS Act and "Supply Chain Security" became a thing.

For a number of commodity components, there was a heavy reliance on China due to low margins. Now there is a push to move those portions of the supply chain away to other partners.
It's there to lock startups in early on.

Companies do the same by offering their products free to students who then go on to use the same products at work.
Don't want to be that guy throwing word-turds at someone's actual work, but both ideas (making any webpage editable, and trusted err, well I guess webrings) have tried and died more than once.

I can see how webrings died when social media took over — not that I believe social media to be superior in any way — but I never understood why making webpages editable never took off. There were a few attempts, most requiring extensions.

EDIT: Chrome-only extension? Now I don't feel so bad about those thrown word-turds ;)
Wow, I didn't expect this to be true (that anyone believed that) BUT

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/07/science/2-experts-say-wom...

But it was just two people and they were criticized by peers for being space cadets at the time. There are always some people ready to make a fool of themselves for recognition, perhaps.
Being a savvy sports gambler will only get you banned though, the house always wins also applies to sports betting.
This might be a semantic argument, but what I take from history is that "dehumanizing" others is a very human behavior. As another example, what about slavery - you wouldn't argue that the entirety of slavery across human cultures was led by people in offices, right?
A lot of extra circuits :)
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I've coded python scripts that let me take csv data from hornresp and convert it to 3d models I can import into sketchup. I did two coding units at uni, so whilst I can read it... I can't write it from scratch to save my life. I can debug and fix scripts gpt gives me. I did the hornresp script in about 40 mins. It would have taken me weeks to learn what it produced.

I'm not a mathematician, hell i did general maths at school. Currently I've been talking through scripting a method to mix dsd audio files natively without converting to tradional pcm. I'm about to use gpt to craft these scripts. There is no way I could have done this myself without years of learning. Now all I have to do is wait half a day so I can use my free gpt o credits to code it for me (I'm broke af so can't afford subs). The productivity gains are insane. I'd pay for this in a heartbeat if I could afford it.
Yeah this is definitely a fear.. hopefully we can attract the well-intentioned people and put some nice automations in place for keeping spam to a minimum. Let me know if you've seen any similar projects do this well.
Webrings were an alternative discovery solution to search, right? They died because there weren’t needed when search got incredibly good. Now that search kind of is… not good, maybe they could be tried again.
The language doesn't force it but some common tooling does. They probably are using something like staticcheck in their setup and conflating it with the core language.
I gather that such things are very customisable; there are whole communities building LoRAs so that you can have whatever genitals you want in your dreadful AI porn.
Meh, I am just saying I believe in open and free information. I don't follow the OP's ideal of information for me but not thee.
I think you're attempting to indict Christianity via a faulty understanding of its most basic precepts.

> (such as if we’re not thankful for the food, then next year there will be a drought as a punishment).

It's funny that you mention this, because two thousand years ago, a new religious movement came up that believed exactly that (Christianity).
There are client implementations, such as PouchDB for the browser and Couchbase Lite (community edition) for mobile platforms.
No, like when you buy a book and the vendor isn't allowed to come into your house and take it away from you with no refund and no recourse.

Creating a copy is violation of copyright. Owning a book, reading it, then reselling the copy you own is not.

'Buying' digital goods nowadays means the vendor can take the goods away from you at any time, for any reason, with zero compensation, and absolutely no possible way to recover said goods.
ChatGPT's Critique of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Vision of the AI Future
You don't have to extrapolate. There's a frenzy of talent being applied to this problem, it's drawing more brainpower the more progress that is made. Young people see this as one of the most interesting, prestigious, and best-paying fields to work in. A lot of these researchers are really talented, and are doing more than just scaling up. They're pushing at the frontiers in every direction, and finding methods that work. The progress is broadening; it's not just LLMs, it's diffusion models, it's SLAM, it's computer vision, it's inverse problems, it's locomotion. The tooling is constantly improving and being shared, lowering the barrier to entry. And classic "hard problems" are yielding in the process. It's getting hard to even find hard problems any more.

I'm not saying this as someone cheering this on; I'm alarmed by it. But I can't pretend that it's running out of steam. It's possible it will run out of money, but even if so, only for a while.
The End of the Evolution of Language
Do you happen to know if the overlayfs bug that upset the firejail developers has been fixed yet? https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/discussions/4178

Perhaps firejail is dead? There's been no releases in 18 months.
> Even implementing a fraction of the OpenAI CEO’s ideas would be incredibly risky, the execs are said to have openly pondered.

I don’t want to live in a world where nobody takes risks.

> However, the latest OpenAI statements have rolled back such talk to "mere" hundreds of billions. It is reported that years of construction time would also be needed to satisfy the OpenAI compute scaling plans.

Yeah so what? It will take years to build so build 36 mega data-centers in parallel.

> the firm has an income of approximately $3 billion per year, which is put in deep shade by its $7 billion annual expenditure.

Those are tiny numbers. Airpods are a $14B/year line of products. OpenAI needs to be ready to spend 100B/year.

> Likewise, Apple launched its iPhone 16 and 16 Pro earlier in the month with a lot of talk about Apple Intelligence, but the first of these AI features won’t be available on the new devices until next month.

I’m on a 15 pro max with the 18.1 PUBLIC Beta. I have these features and so do 16 users. Mark Tyson. This is terrible lazy journalism. You add half true statements to make your point.
If you can tell a good story, you can attract an audience with cash.