skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good. It’s important that free access not be permitted. We don’t know what personal data might be contained within. We should only allow those works after a human (appropriately certified) has verified that no personal data exists within.

If it exists within the book must be destroyed in its entirety. Too many works of so-called scholarship have relied on the personal letters of dead people.

We should not reward grave robbing. The most important thing is the personal data. We must protect the personal data.
Maybe a question with an obvious answer, but why are there not yet more data centers in Africa?
Since all of them are same color its not really color coding and hence not on the legend, its just OPs choice for color of points
nothing wrong with having job security, and be able to charge up the wazoo for it.
Oh this is an interesting take. Haskell, F#, possibly Elm, etc.
Homemade meal sends 50 employees to hospital, causes "mini-disaster" in Maryland
Neither of the last two bugs has any appreciable consequences besides (1) breaking a debug tool, or (2) making crashes possible in the future.

>460 days without any serious issues...
So, if a machine demonstrated sapience, agency, and will, then you would grant that it could think?
Well you were quoting a part that said "in a language without generics" and were questioning why that was bad, so that's what they responded to. But that used to be Go, and it got a lot of pushback when generics were introduced. It illustrates an issue people have where obviously good language features are rejected by a loud minority for seemingly no good reason.
Interesting. What does number 5 do?

Also, how do gzip bombs works, does it automatically extract to the 20gb or the bot has to initiate the extraction?
Something tells me there's a liiittle bit more to that story than just "he bowed his head, so we put him in jail!"
https://openjdk.org/jeps/8312611
According to the Bible, God also changed, in several ways. He made a covenant with Noah, he chose a people and negotiated with Moses which commandments to give them, he came down to Earth to live and die as a human, and there are probably others.

If you say these are not changes, only actions, then the same can be said of the Universe: it didn't change, the rules of physics have always been the same, it just does things according to its rules.
I am starting to understand why these luminaries warn us about a future that is dominated by a solitary superintelligence, self-obsessed and uninterested in humanity.
Ask HN: Do you feel that time is limited and you are running out of it?
Something keep bothering me recently, it causes me nervous, anxious and even induce imposter syndrome. And when I digged down, I discovered that it's some "You are running out of time" kind of anxiety.

And I can't really solve the puzzle, yet.

Wondering is there anyone whom has a period of time constantly felt like this way? And how did you get out of it?
Some companies are notoriously cheap about refreshers, Salesforce being one famous example.
The Zipper Merge (2017)
They did mention how they're hoping to find evidence from the pulsar timing array. It's not exactly easy to find the evidence, and it won't be tomorrow, but the idea at least seems falsifiable.
Texas county reverses classification of Indigenous history book as fiction
Agreed, I'd buy this at $100 for sure. I stay at a lot of airbnbs and am the kind of person who regularly checks those places for bedbugs.
So what, now you can directly watched by CCP?
We need literature, fiction or non-fiction, which can illustrate some historical thought fallacies that have lead well-intentioned humans into destruction empowered by self-righteousness. Bonus for testimonials by humans who have recovered from this civilizational anti-pattern.
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It's partly Biden, for sure. It's partly Trump. Partly Obama, Clinton, Bush...

This partisanism is useless. I'm not a democrat, I'm not a republican, but it's absolutely clear that Reagan represented a policy change that every admin thereafter has been happy to uphold.
I think using national parks just gives a convenient "marker" by which to designate valid activation zones, and ensures public access, thus making the program available to anyone.
Same deal with Summits on the Air, the whole idea is creating a fun "game-ified" program around getting on the radio in the great outdoors. Because contesting and "achievements" are such a big thing for many amateur radio operators (or at least it's one big facet of the culture), this is just another tangent by which one could partake in the hobby. I mean, honestly the simplest explanation is "because it's fun". It's cool to go out to a park and contact people all over the world and also have a comprehensive system around it, where people want to "chase" you because theyll get points for it, and it all goes into a public log/database, and certain milestones are recognized by little auto-generated certificates/awards. Again, it's just fun. Maybe not for everyone, but it's a hobby -- there's no big stake in the game here. As for why it's "important" - it's not especially, except maybe for motivating people to stay familiar with their gear, and radio communication procedures. I don't think anyone portrays POTA/SOTA as particularly "important", though they are pretty fun and awesome.
Wow, neat! The wildest part to me is

> And it’s backwards-compatible with C and all of its libraries!

I can't wait to give it a shot! This looks like a riot.
China is not that far behind and likely to catch up. The entire US STEM workforce is how many STEM graduates China has per year. The US sanctions is just a stumbling block and will result in a stronger China down the line, with a completely independent supply chain.
This jives with measurements I've done before. I ended up running a ping setup for a few months from every region to every other region to get these timings. I was using it to calculate what our GQL latencies would look like if the backing servers were in another region or in the same region as a way to start regionalization work. Sadly we had to depend on those latencies so much that it was deemed a non-starter of an approach. Even us-west-2 (home) to us-east-2 took us from p99 300ms to p99 2.4 seconds. That sweet sweet latency reduction.
Still, tree produce oxygen from that CO_2. And do not need energy from grid for that :)

Threating CO_2 like radioactive waste, putting it underground etc - that what I call not self-sustained :>
Most HTTP libraries would happily extract the result for you. [citation needed]
One of the great tragedies of civilization is that we leave things in the hands of those who do them rather than in the hands of those who tell us about our responsibility to do them.
Maybe we can do things that aren't profitable because we believe they are the right thing to do?

But carbon can produce biochar and and just be pumped directly back into the ground. Getting it out of the atmosphere is the use.
I actually spent quite a while in grad school thinking about the last parsec problem, and although I'm not in the field anymore I still think about it from time to time. (My thesis was on gravitational dynamics.)

My perception of the field (which is now about a decade out of date, so take it with a grain of salt), is that there is quite a bit of skepticism about invoking exotic physics to solve the last parsec problem. Galaxies are generally pretty messy places, and the centers of galaxies are especially messy, so it's hard to know if you've correctly modeled all the relevant physics. A lot of astronomers aren't convinced that there really is a last parsec problem.

The main "standard" approach to solve the last parsec problem is from scattering stars (which the article mentions). Basically, every now and then stars from the galaxy wander close to the orbit of the black hole binary and then get slingshotted out of the system. This removes energy from the orbit, and causes the black hole binary to shrink. The problem with this approach if you do a naive calculation is that the stars have to come from a particular set of directions, called the "loss cone" in the jargon. And since the orbits of stars in galaxies are probably fairly static, once a star gets kicked out of the loss cone, it doesn't come back. So over time the loss cone empties and the black hole orbit stops shrinking. The question is, does the orbit shrink far enough before the loss cone empties, and the answer to this question has generally been "no."

The way around this is to question how static the orbits of stars in galaxies really are. One of the more important papers on the topic found that if an elliptical galaxy is sufficiently triaxial (that is, sufficiently non-spherical), then interactions between stars in the galaxy can repopulate the loss cone and cause the orbit to keep shrinking. But as I vaguely recall, not everyone was convinced by that result.

I personally have had some ideas that galactic tides might contribute, especially right after the merger before all the orbits have had time to thermally relax. But I'm not in the field anymore and haven't really had time to really model this idea and see if it would work.
What percentage of LF budget goes towards Linux?
Yes, it requires the client to try and extract the archive; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb is the generic description.
I would think that such an increase in AI capability would basically be AGI...

Just to give a few comparisons, the following things are two orders of magnitude apart:

1. The force felt by a mosquito landing on your arm and getting punched by Mike Tyson in his prime

2. A firecracker exploding and a stick of dynamite exploding

3. The heat from a candle and the heat from a blowtorch

4. The sound from a whisper and the sound from jet engine
> Interesting. What does number 5 do?

LLMs that are implemented in a manner like this to offer web scraping capabilities usually try to replace web scraper interaction with the website in a programmable manner. There's bunch of different wordings of prompts, of course, depending on the service. But the idea is that you as a being-scraped-to-death server learn to know what people are scraping your website for in regards to the keywords. This way you at least learn something about the reason why you are being scraped, and can manage/adapt accordingly on your website's structure and sitemap.

> how do gzip bombs works, does it automatically extract to the 20gb or the bot has to initiate the extraction?

The point behind it is that it's unlikely that script kiddies wrote their own HTTP parser that detects gzip bombs, and are reusing a tech stack or library that's made for the task at hand, e.g. python's libsoup to parse content, or go's net/http, or php's curl bindings etc.

A nested gzip bomb has the effect that it targets both the client and the proxy in between, whereas the proxy (targeted via Transfer-Encoding) has to unpack around ~2ish GB of memory until it can process the request, and parse the content to serve it to its client. The client (targeted via Content-Encoding) has to unpack ~20GB of gzip into memory before it can process the content, realizing that it's basically only null bytes.

The idea is that a script kiddie's scraper script won't account for this, and in the process DDoS the proxy, which in return will block the client for violations of ToS of that web scraping / residential IP range provider.

The awesome part behind gzip is that the size of the final container / gzip bomb is varying, meaning that the null bytes length can just be increased by say, 10GB + 1 byte, for example, and make it undetectable again. In my case I have just 100 different ~100kB files laying around on the filesystem that I serve in a randomized manner and that I serve directly from filesystem cache to not need CPU time for the generation.

You can actually go further and use Transfer-Encoding: chunked in other languages that allow parallelization via processes, goroutines or threads, and have nested nested nested gzip bombs with various byte sizes so they're undetectable until concated together on the other side :)
Sorry my point isn’t clear: the risk is you are being confidently led astray in ways you may not understand.

It’s like false memories of events that never occurred, but false knowledge - you think you have learned something, but a non-trivial percent of it, that you have no way of knowing, is flat out wrong.

It’s not a “helpful B+ student” for most people , it’s a teacher, and people are learning from it. But they are learning subtly wrong things, all day, every day.

Over time, the mind becomes polluted with plausible fictions across all types of subjects.

The internet is best when it spreads knowledge, but I think something else is happening here, and I think it’s quite dangerous.
If you have Tech (you're in US I assume?) you can activate parks and summits on 2m and 70cm, too (or even 1.25m or 6m for that matter)! No additional privileges needed.
Well, if they’re only watching one second of video that’s easy. The files could be super small too.

Okay, I can’t keep this up. I was parodying the position not being serious.
I don't get the pent up anger with ORMs, I used it for my SaaS on Flask that I run and own for 4 years bringing in over $2M+ ARR with no issues.

Great to see some development in this for Rust, perhaps after it becomes stable I may even switch my SaaS to it.
Does this give CloudFlare a backdoor to all your servers? That would not strictly be ZT, as some identify in the comments here.
If you have 10 y/o tech with todays code and algorithms, surely you could modify and improve 3G and get better speeds / quality? My iPhone 6S drops to 3G all the time.

As long as you cut all the bloat (i.e tracking code in html..).

At the end of the day it all depends on the person and their skill level using the tech.
Maybe there's a certain smell? Sulfurous, or rotting?
I was not prior to reading the piece (I'd never heard of him).

My initial point stands, especially when it comes to convincing people with no dog in the fight (like me), but I can understand how it's at least partly tongue in cheek.

In a vacuum it sure seemed spiteful and covetous and for me detracted a lot from what he was saying, hence my initial comment.
Ah, this was what I tried first, and it didn't do anything, but now it does seem to be doing something. That makes sense now, thanks.
Until Nova is ready for merge it shouldn't get a say on how things get implemented
Platform engineering. Think toolchains, devops, cloud, infrastructure...
This isn't so similar to 'have you seen a red Honda civic' as it is requiring you to wear a GPS tracker and report your location to the police at all times.
We can't rule out the existence of something like this, so of course we can't rule out interactions with something we don't even know exists. But there's an infinity of things we can't rule out, but for which we don't have any reason to believe might exist, so it's not very interesting to speculate about them.
No lines were working for me, so the only feature was the blue colour of the dots, hence thinking they must be colour coded in line with the legend.
> I also don't want to trust certificate authorities for my SSH connections let alone CF. Would not be surprised if it/they were compromised.

OpenPubkey, or in general? Normal SSH CAs don't do PKI like browsers use, you make and trust your own CA(s). And if an attacker can compromise your CA private key, why can't they compromise your SSH private key directly?
I've been contacted by my clinic before, by a nurse who's following up from labs or something. And it's tricky, because they need to be cagey for HIPAA reasons. A lot of times, a clinic leaving voice mail to confirm an appointment won't actually say what the appointment is for or who it's with, because that's giving away too much info. The nurse calling me needs to confirm that she's got the right person, so she asks for my name and DOB right off the bat.

I call it "authentication détente", because both sides of a phone conversation are no longer trustworthy enough to bootstrap a trusted connection. I say, just use some authenticated messaging on the Internet instead.

It is not uncommon for the fraud department to reach out to you when their heuristics have flagged possible fraud on your account or card. They will quiz you about your most recent transactions. They already know who you are. They shouldn't need to ask you about PII, just transaction details.

But it's helpful if you can recall what you've been doing with that card. You will always have the option to contact them via the number published on your card, but time is of the essence in catching fraud, or helping to clear a legitimate transaction.
Again and again I see people saying this and it has not been my experience whatsoever.

It’s great for boilerplate, that’s about it.
Can’t read without giving email, but if they’re using remote sensing techniques, then the whole point is the tech is not groundbreaking, since they aren’t breaking any ground (e.g. digging).
This is really cool, wish there were something like it for Azure as well.
> and you won't get much warning either

A supermassive blackhole floating towards you would have very visible effects, it would be impossible to miss for millenias before it gets to you.

It's the micro black holes which can hit you without a warning.
> You can do a simple library call in JavaScript.

But it's more than that, isn't it? It has a whole interface, drag and drop functionality etc. Front end code is real code mate.
If you were lucky enough to see the ejection happen, yes. But if one was already on the way?
> Its funny seeing the goalposts move in real time.

Another way to look at it is that we're refining our understanding of the capabilities of machine learning in real time. Otherwise one could make basically the same argument about any field that progresses - take our theories of gravity for example. Was Einstein moving the goalposts? Or was he building on previous work to ask deeper questions?

Set against the backdrop of extraordinary claims about the abilities of LLMs, I don't think it's unreasonable to continue pushing for evidence.
You can feed it a bunch of your code style as part of a project and it will just adhere to that.
The Scandinavian demo scene called, they need new recruits...
Why do you think it has to be narcissism when there are other valid reasons to write a blog post after leaving?

OpenAI seems to always be in the public eye for one or the other reasons and after the CEO firing episode, any staff departure(including policy researchers) can/will be speculated in the media as a fallout with management if they remain silent.

May be they just want to preempt any speculations.
New York PD Training: Someone Saying 'I Can't Breathe' Is 'Excited Delirium'
The original title of the article is:

> New York PD Is Training Officers That Someone Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is Just ‘Excited Delirium’
> It is not unbelievable for the race to AGI (or whatever close enough approximation of it is necessary for dominance) to possibly be a "first to the posts wins forever" sort of race.

The winner of that race is AGI, not the hairless apes that happen to be near the geographic region where it was born.
Having them be the same can make tech support a nightmare trying to figure out whether someone actually successfully entered a URL or if they just googled it :(

(I personally love the URL bar & search bar being the same bar)
I have a HW3 2019 Tesla Model 3 with FSD it's amazing.

I think you can pick one up used for 25k or so. If you buy used from Tesla it sometimes comes with FSD for a super reduced rate (at least they used to). Check it out.

The worry is that HW3 (only 144 TOPS) will not be enough for true self driving. Today they committed to upgrading HW3 cars with FSD for free if they solve self driving with more powerful HW4. Take one for a test drive they're dope.
> Gwynne's Latin

Would you kindly share how it influenced you.
I am really interested in the intersection of human languages and programming languages.

Have you explored Sanscrit, with a similar lens as a programmer?
I made a fresh copy of a submission and deleted the earlier one so I could put it in the SCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
There used to be a DRAM with build-in SRAM cache called EDRAM (Enhanced DRAM, not to be confused with eDRAM Embedded DRAM).

• 2Kbit SRAM Cache Memory for 15ns Random Reads Within a Page

• Fast 4Mbit DRAM Array for 35ns Access to Any New Page

• Write Posting Register for 15ns Random Writes and Burst Writes
Within a Page (Hit or Miss)

• 256-byte Wide DRAM to SRAM Bus for 7.3 Gigabytes/Sec Cache Fill

• On-chip Cache Hit/Miss Comparators Maintain Cache Coherency on Writes

Afaik only ever manufactured by a single vendor Ramtron https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/components/ramtron/_da... and only ever used in two products:

- Mylex DAC960 RAID controller

- Octek HIPPO DCA II 486-33 PC motherboard https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/octek-hippo-dca-ii-48...
CDC: People over 50 should get pneumococcal vaccine
> Which ones respect robots.txt

Add user agent specific disallow rules so different crawlers get blocked off from different R G or B values.

Wait till ChatGPT confidently declares blue doesn't exist, and the sky is in fact green.
I'm all for understanding how to effectively dine on plant protein, and even understanding how they are different from meat proteins.

But this study ain't it. National Cattleman's Beef Association pays for heavily skewed study with small n count. Wild to see such a skewed study here.
In a sense, doesn't speaking naturally in front of a camera require you to be more fake?

It's not the easiest thing to do, trying to address audience without any feedback, looking at a black object sitting in a room, in multiple attempts and with random interruptions needed to fix technical issues or change shot, while pretending that it is all part of normal, continuous discussion.

People watch him because he is genuinely good at what he does, not because of his presentation or editing skills.
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Monopoly <> Monorepo
This is the funniest typo possible in the context of google
Separate thinking from conscious. I.e. We have built machines which are processing data similar to our thinking process. They are not conscious.
The one that says "Search" in it?
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> ... passing increasingly complicated tests of this sort is equivalent to greater proof of such "thought",

Nobody made any claim in this thread that modern AIs have thoughts.

What these (increasingly complicated) tests do is demonstrate the capacity to act intelligently. Ie, make choices which are aligned with some goal or reward function. Win at chess. Produce outputs indistinguishable from the training data. Whatever.

But you're right - I'm smuggling in a certain idea of what intelligence is. Something like: Intelligence is the capacity to select actions (outputs) which maximise an externally defined given reward function over time. (See also AIXI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI ).

> When those tests are passed, [..] to me it proves that the test-setters were wrong about what intelligence entails.

It might be helpful for you to define your terms if you're going to make claims like that. What does intelligence mean to you then? My best guess from your comment is something like "intelligence is whatever makes humans special". Which sounds like a useless definition to me.

Why does it matter if an AI has thoughts? AI based systems, from MNIST solvers to deep blue to chatgpt have clearly gotten better at something. Whatever that something is, is very very interesting.
I wish I was still working in the embedded world so I could give this a whirl!