skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ackman and Musk stay on topic in interviews as far as I can tell. They may share viewpoints that much of HN disagrees with, but I don’t see them answering questions with completely unrelated responses. Altman however, dodges questions all the time, with vague corporate speak and generalities. To me it looks like he is avoiding hard questions, although maybe he just doesn’t know the answer and is trying to stumble his way through, or he genuinely wants to not give away confidential things like trade secrets.
One of her last pieces of work was in the excellent BBC series The Detectorists, where she played a character who was mother to her real-life daughter
If I read pagan Roman observations about life and people, they strike me as way, way more honest (sometimes brutally honest) than anything that we are used to for the last 1000 years, perhaps with exceptions like Machiavelli and some verbal jokes of the "unprintable" character.

In Christian theory, everyone is a sinner, but in a real Christian society, people try to cover up their particular sins all the time, at least against other laypeople (not the priest), which leads to the opposite of honesty - hypocrisy.
Primordial black holes are expected to be the mass of a small asteroid, and traveling at several hundred km per second. You would not be able to measure the gravitational effect of something like that passing through the solar system, even if it came within a hundred meters of your space station.
I believe if we taught philosophy in school to a non-trivial level we wouldn't have to rely on trust/faith.

I wonder if it's possible to get people to wonder why the one discipline that has the tools to deal with all of these epistemic, logical, etc issues isn't taught in school. You'd think it would be something that people would naturally wonder about, but maybe our fundamentalist (and false) focus on science as the one and only source of knowledge has damaged our ability to wonder independently.
Travel ads and air travel ads are not the same thing. If you put up a billboard showing some cool/interesting place, people will be fractionally more inclined to go there - although as I said above, I think people mostly think of places they want to go and then use advertising to help choose who to give money to to achieve that end.

Ads for airlines aren't encouraging people to fly so much as inviting them to choose one carrier over another. If you have X people going from Den Haag to Neu Amsterdam and there are multiple airlines serving that route, then airlines have to compete on price, comfort, customer service, etc. Nobody looks at an airline advert and then tries to think of a place to go in order to enjoy flying on a plane.
Thanks, I had wondered about that, though I was certain that the S didn't mean simple.
> I've also witnessed first-hand how people that manage to publish well adopt monopolistic strategies, sabotaging interesting grant proposals from other groups or stalling their article submissions while they copy them. This is a problem that seldomly gets discussed.

Agree. Everyone has heard about the extreme fraud cases, but the casual toxicity that the pressure cooker environment elicits is rarely discussed and probably a far larger problem. I say that as someone who has spent too much time in this environment and never witnessed outright fraud - that I know of.
I'd like to see a study on this, because I think it is completely untrue.
It has to be easier to pitch sovereign wealth funds on something that isn't even nominally nonprofit.
LLMs and many other models spend 99% of the FLOPs in matrix multiplication. And TPU initially had just single operation i.e. multiply matrix. Even if the MSIC is 100x better than GPU in other operations, it would just be 1% faster overall.
Would having a VM inbetween help in that case? It seems like protecting against malicious GPU workloads requires the GPU to off virtualization to avoid this exploit.

This is helpful in explaining why AWS hasn't been excited to ship this use case in firecracker.
I think it more likely that China will sabotage our electrical grid and data centers.
Clever.

A student once made a whimsical motorized alarm clock that could drive around the bedroom, the idea being that the drowsy person would wake up in course of chasing it.

Another student made an alarm clock on the computer, which would require them to be alert enough to solve a differential equation.
Controversial Windows Recall AI Search Tool Returns with Encryption
You know you wrote this on the Internet? The thing the government created to do science?
Airline advertising is about market share, planes in the sky are their own best advertising for going-to-other-places.
> I would hope that a default [OS] desktop installation would be secure enough to set up without a firewall.

The OS you have in mind is called OpenBSD, which has had two remote holes in the default installation in about 3 decades; and if you don't need to run Linux-only applications, it actually is a pretty decent desktop.

I don't blame Linux distributions however - both Windows and macOS are way worse. We've been living through a crisis of complexity, everyone is keen to call out Electron apps but we keep on installing and using them. As long as we accept this complexity, things will keep getting worse.
Successful people say no to almost everything
Wait, he wants his open product to be like a utility with low profits for maximized reach?

Or he wants his suppliers to be a regulated utility while he sells 100% margin products on top of it?

Or he wants all the greater fools now wherever they are so he can get out before the collapse?

It feels like this is a case of following the money to understand the real goals, since it's unclear to me that AGI is that goal.
It is really annoying because a common response is

"We know academia is bad. But this is the best we have and it is hard to improve"

when that is false on two counts.

1. If you had said the same thing before 2016 or covid, people would not agree that academia is rife with fraud or worthy of skepticism.
2. The same people saying the system dismiss how can it be improved are the same ones that would suffer from disruption as you say. They have the power to dismiss these arguments to begin with.
> Unfortunately many less bright people seem to interpret this as "never trust science"

Unfortunately many "smart" people insist on telling "dumb" people how to think instead of having the introspection and humility to examine where we've gone wrong and spending a lot of time and effort on fixing it.

No, easier to gaslight the idiots
So this is a real thing? As long as your app qualifies for that entitlement, you can do this?

Also, what about force-quitting the app? Couldn't users just do that?
> Ackman and Musk stay on topic in interviews as far as I can tell. They may share viewpoints that much of HN disagrees with

Makes sense. I'd consider Ackman issuing comments on politics off topic for a hedge fund manager. But I suppose he's technically on topic with a narrow view.

> Altman however, dodges questions all the time, with vague corporate speak and generalities

He has a documented history of dishonesty, correct?
Hey, this is real cool. Is encryption at rest the only benefit over, for example, injecting the secrets as environment variables into a running systemd service?

I ask because my research suggests that there's a class of security vulnerabilities where attackers can read arbitrary files - but since /etc/system/systemd can be limited to be only readable by root, and the services it runs started by other less privileged users, I wonder how bad it would be to store a plaintext secret right in the .service file would be in practice. Especially since it seems this credentials management thing seems to just create a directory for the process with the decrypted passwords readable anyway (although maybe that's still not readable by an attacker? Still trying to figure this all out myself).
This article doesn't address it for whatever reason, but any discussion of sports betting in the US is going to have to deal with the actual reason PASPA was struck down. It was found to be unconstitutional. That doesn't mean sports betting needs to be universally legal across the entire country, and it isn't, but if you're going to make an argument that it should be legally banned, that has to be done on a state-by-state basis. The US Supreme Court, as an institution, changes its mind over time, but I'm not aware of any notable instance where exactly the same court only six years later reverses its own decision. Likely a few of these justices would need to die and be replaced by someone with a different legal opinion before change was possible.

You can make these kind of consequentialist arguments anyway. It's worthwhile discussion. But the legal decision itself wasn't made on a consequentialist basis. The court didn't decide PASPA was illegal because it was socially bad and we'd have a better world without it. The proposed "just ban it outright everywhere" can't happen under the current legal regime. It's fine to propose things that can't happen but we should acknowledge this becomes a hypothetical discussion.
This discussion is seriously lacking in references to Koka language[0].

Koka is memory safe without using traditional GC, has effects, and is pretty cool over all.

[0] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
Yet, their “frontier” LLM lags all the others…
I'll never forget her in the Hook VHS I had growing up. RIP
Why do you need to go back 100-170 years, if it's an issue? Aren't there more recent examples?
Applied Semantics for $100m which gave them their advertising business seems like their best deal.
Given how slow AI inference is (and for training it doesn't matter at all), the advantage of it being a few milliseconds closer to the user is greatly diminished. The latency to egress to a regional data center is inconsequential.

Good point about at the very least not exposing placement to customers. That is a definite win.
I'm one of those people who has become convinced that device addiction has ruined the capacity to think or pay attention for an entire generation from the time they were most vulnerable, and we haven't even begun to realize the negative consequences of that. But yeah, gambling ads are bad too.
I have the displeasure of having acquaintances that have done some pretty bad things, of the fraud and bribery persuasion. They did so because they had no regard of the secondary cosequences. However, this didn't mean 'I understand this horrible secondary consequence is going to happen, but I don't care'. That would be evil. Instead, it's more common to not dedicate an iota of time at thinking of possible negative effects at all.

You'll see this all over risky startups. What starts as hopeful optimism only becomes fraud over time, when the consequences of not committing fraud also seem horrible. It's easy to follow the road until all your choices are horrible in different ways, and they pick the one better for the people around them, yet worse for everyone else.
I know it's fun to hate on media but CNN is actually really solid. I watch the broadcast rarely but I visit the site. They have enormous breadth of coverage that includes international news as well as fluff like celebrity gossip. They have a ton of real reporters and are on the ground everywhere something is happening. I see sensationalized stuff sometimes but they're still highly factual and fair. I'm not sure what people think the alternative is. We wouldn't know anything if not for commercially successful news businesses. None of the Internet media critics actually gather any news for themselves
owenpalmer, as I stated in my side note I will not be explaining myself, my sincere apologies for this.

You see there are some things that cannot be taught, or it cannot be easily taught more so for adults i.e healthy skepticism and questioning of statements/facts that come from authority figures ( example:science/religion etc). A person will have to make his or her own effort. External influences especially debates from the heretics will generally only delay that progress.

Now, if you're already open to the possibility that mainstream science could be very wrong, I can possibly nudge you in the correct direction. I have explored certain areas of biology (especially nutrition) but not all, each sub area of biology (or any of the sciences really) is vast, I have to rely on heretics who are 'experts' in their areas of specialization.
Development of crosslinked PVA nanofibrous membrane for microplastic removal
While this is true, in practice it's more secure than you'd see on most operating systems.

The reason being that the software is typically from a centralized, trusted repo that has been vetted by maintainers. The software is typically OS and it's not the app developer who releases it to you, the customer. It's the maintainer who packages it and will even apply custom fixes to it.

Yes, there's some trust here. But historically, there's very little examples of rogue Debian maintainers doing something naughty. Whereas on, say, the Play Store, the app dev distributes the App to you and the Play Store just does some preliminary black-box checks. They're not getting the code and packaging it like a debian maintainer would.

Some distros, like Debian, even FORCE app devs to use the system provided libs - they can't statically link their own library code. So they're pinned to a particular version of openSSL, libc, wlroots, libpng, etc. This prevents a huge variety of supply chain attacks. You can't bundle a compromised version of any one of the libs.

And lastly, in stable distros the software typically goes through many routes before landing on a customer device. For debian, you're looking at months of real-world usage in testing and unstable before you see the software. This finds out vulnerabilities - this is why, for example, debian stable never had to deal with the XZ vuln. This isn't true for direct-to-customer app stores.
Why would they go into a completely different region instead of their homeland?

Because they weren't invited by the folks living in the place they wished to settle (who in fact had been living there continuously, by and large, and in every metric were much more "native").

More specifically: the new migrants were more or less welcomed by the locals, from the Mamluk period onwards -- but once they started arriving in highly disproportionate numbers, post-1880, and signaling an intention not to assimilate, and pretending that they had a supremacist "right" to settle there based on what the region's temporary colonial occupier (the British) and the scribblings of some weird Austro-Hungarian ideologue told them -- that's when things started to get "complicated", and they began to find themselves not so welcome in their desired place of residence. As any group should naturally expect if they tried to settle somewhere where they could not trace reasonably close ancestry, and in very large numbers.

Also "homeland" is nonsense of course as applies to post-1880 migrants. We need to have some kind of a reasonable definition for what constitutes an "ancestral right" to live somewhere. The simple fact the component of ancestry that this group does have with historic Palestine lies with groups that were expelled or otherwise left in successive waves, ending the Crusades (but for most of them, back to the Roman/Byzantine eras), and which mixed significantly with other groups (far removed from the region in their origins) along the way.

I'm not saying this completely precludes any claim of "ancestral right"; it's a thorny question -- one which applies to countless groups all over the world, each equally deserving of consideration. We need to be human and forgiving and all, and in principle there should be a safe place for all of us in this world.

But not a supremacist right. And it is precisely this claim of a supremacist right to settle in their desired place of residence (fully trouncing the rights of people who in fact been living their continuously for millenia -- give or take migrations within successive empires); along with the successive wavs of violence employed to enforce this "claim" -- which lay the grounds for the post-1917 conflict that we are now stuck with.
I think the 2nd figure here in terms of per capita is more informative.

https://qery.no/new-2023-global-emissions-data/
Using Warren Buffett as an example is survivorship bias

'Just say no' overlooks or ignores that the other person also gets a vote. This can be worse than the downside of just agreeing.
Because they are literally the same thing. Any "apolitical" moderation stance is simply investing in a specific political ideology.
That doesn’t fix the incentives, people will just commit fraud when replicating results so they can perform more original research.
I'd be careful about that. Faking replications is even easier than faking research, so if you place a lot of importance on them, expect the rate of fraud in replication studies to explode.

This is a very difficult problem to solve.
Yes, according to Vox Microsoft is leasing all the energy from the Three Mile nuclear power plant and planning to construct more to power their AI training. People pointed out how much energy Bitcoin was (and still is) wasting, AI looks like it's going to dwarf that amount of energy use for an equally questionable product.

e: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/20/24249770/microsoft-three-...
This link is not working for me. (Big HTMX fan!)
It's a professional reference monitor not a TV so maybe there's an exception.
There's really no way back. AI is today helping design chips (check Google's report on how they use it for their own designs), drugs etc. And having a LLM connected to a simplistic enterprise app is a money printing machine. Really is a new ind revolution. And it's held back by not enough infra and power.
I was mostly thinking of the AS/400, where the database was built into the operating system platform.
It’s 1:1 +20g or whatever for typical evaporation in your cooker. If you make more rice you shouldn’t scale the 20g portion.
How's this for scientific method. The response to "not trust science" is the inductive step of a model that is validated by the fucking evidence.
Ask HN: How AAA game studios do manage the complexity of their big games?
they're clearly organized and acting to influence public opinion and provide policy suggestions to elected representatives. public advocacy and communication to elected representatives are part of the democratic process.

they have already achieved their first policy goal: the UK no longer issues new oil and gas drilling permits.

https://juststopoil.org/2024/07/10/paint-the-town-orange-jus...

they have set another policy goal, and i expect they won't change a winning formula.
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Wow, I'm glad I clicked this. Feels kind of like you buried the lede not giving the title: "Subliminal acoustic manipulation of nervous systems"
Amazing how quickly history was rewritten. Israel didn't have to go to "literal war" with Britain, because if they would have, they'd have lost immediately. They just went to war against their new neighbors and handily genocided them. Israel started as a terrorist state and remains one to this day.
Not clear whether it would be a net benefit, adding constraints and complexity to the scientific process which will be skipped whenever possible by underpaid labrats. Also, GIGO.

Need to tackle the incentives directly.
Can people who mention golang explain? I tried it briefly but just thought of it same as for any other lang - it becomes useful once you do a deep dive, so what makes it stand out?
It's all part of the Sam plan to make as much money as possible before whatever happens next.
Back in the 2000s I had English professors slobbering all over his books and essays. I'm so glad I'll never have to write another paper about "Broken Windows" theory.
What I am always missing in these posts: How do they limit network bandwidth? Since these are all multi-tenant services, how do they make sure a container or isolated browser is not taking all the network bandwidth of a host?
"When the stakes are international relations"

And what are the stakes in practice?

Meetings of the G7 probably have a real impact on international relations. But in this comparison, the UN is cargo cult politics (they pretend really hard to be doing it) and Guterres' travel to Tonga a barely masked vacation at someone's else's dime.
Did you know that HDMI cables have Ethernet running over them?
Does anyone know why Intel would pick Minix? I can understand not picking Linux, from a licencing perspective, but surely some BSD would have been easier to hire for and more likely to have a modern upstream.
Enabling Memory Safety of C Programs Using LLMs
Interesting, using the under-age argument to ban these ads generally - guessing this is how smoking ads where banned - seems like a good technical way to ban them generally to the overall population.

And even if we look just at under-age audiences, a ban for them make sense, since that for a decent-sized portion of teenage boys, sports is an obsession. Having them pummeled by sports-betting ads at an age when they are often exploring new things is probably not a good idea, as it will make betting (and for some of these, betting addiction) a part of their lives while they are young.
Around 30% is climate levy and similar taxes, plus there’s 5% VAT.
It is relevant, because it demonstrates it's both possible and common. Therefore, complaints about this not working in Android speaks more to insufficiencies in the file picker, not true capabilities.

A lot of people are arguing you need more powerful permissions due to hard requirements. Well, it's not a hard requirement in this case, it's a defect with the Android file picker and it should be fixed THERE. If the Android file picker does not currently work this way, which I bet it does.
> Is our society built on trust?

A good part of society, the foundational part, is trust. Trust between individuals, but also trust in the sense that we expect things to behave in a certain way. We trust things like currencies despite their flaws. Our world is too complex to reinvent the wheel whenever we need to do a transaction. We must believe enough in a make-believe system to avoid perpetual collapse.
Sorry but this seems like bit longer version of 'do your own research'.
No, AP sells stories that other outlets choose to buy and run based on editorial judgement, Marketplace buys access to brands with reputation and publishes its own material under those brands; its not at all the same model.
It's really a matter of perspective. On the one hand, it's creating a situation where a user cannot uninstall the app. On the other hand, it's _allowing_ a user to prevent themselves from being able to uninstall the app under some circumstances. Whether this is ultimately a net increase or decrease in user freedom is an exercise in judgement.
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Life may be more than politics but all of life is inherently political.
To elaborate, you need to give equal value to well implemented studies failing to replicate a result, as you do to studies replicating a result.
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> Just look at investment capital stats

Is it fair to say that's part of American culture then? Very few people are involved in making new private industries, and the regulatory systems don't seem well aligned with the general culture.

> how much profit

How much profit would have been lost if a company was public about supporting blacks and upsetting the white supremacist culture of the time?

That's why I say you can't really disentangle culture and regulation.
I’m in that boat with you! But my family planning decisions do not excuse me from the shared human endeavor of morality.

The question stands: what will you tell the kids visiting us in the nursing home?
> Cloudflare isn't the bad actor perpetuating these DDoS attacks

How do we know that? Who else benefits from most of them?
that's cool to know. I've not heard of bootc before!
A strange game - the only winning move is not to play.