skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People should avoid giving more data to China out of sheer principle

Or self preservation.

Every intelligence agency collects blackmail. The obvious targets are those in high office. But sometimes you need disposable randos to e.g. collect intelligence or place assets. Being able to pass blackmail to an operative who can use it to convince e.g. a farmer to give them pictures of a silo or Air Force base (under the guise of commercial espionage for a domestic competitor or whatever) is valuable.
Maybe do not pipe matrix math into your shell?
The fact the you would bring up
Liz Cheney pretty much invalidates any opinion you might have of the Republican Party. There’s a reason that disgusting and vile thing is now “teaching” at a radical left wing training school.
Used? Certainly. Well loved? Oh boy do I disagree.

I think it's an extremely powerful tool, and it's worth knowing how to wield it well, but that power comes at the expense of user friendliness, especially for junior devs who don't have an intuition of git internals and how commands map to them.
I knew chinese food was salty by damn, 11g? Even on days when I consume waaaay to much salt (pigging out on smoked salmon, usually), I don’t generally get over 6g, and I still feel like shit. How is it possible for such a large population to consume so much sodium? Is it genetic, do they have some special adaption for it?
I think foreign intelligence services are perfectly comfortable "navigating" laws. Obviously every company is vulnerable to this, but it sure is preferable not to have ownership concentrated in a country where all corporations are de facto extensions of the state itself.
My day job is mostly CRUD or calling APIs. I trained my brain for many years to do more than that and Factorio satisfies that urge.
I'm sorry, you're right, I misread https://isthereanydeal.com/game/factorio/info/ without checking https://isthereanydeal.com/game/factorio/history/ which shows it was cheaper but only goes up over time
This comment is for HN readers who might be interested in solutions.

My two questions (a) and (b) were not rhetorical. Let’s get concrete.

a) You are advising a company to “check back after a certain period”. After the certain period, they come back to you with the following graph:

https://commoncog.com/content/images/2024/01/prospect_calls_...

“How did we do? Did we improve?”

How do you answer? Notice that this is a problem regardless of whether you are a big company or a small company.

b) 3 months later, your client comes back and asks: “we are having trouble with customer support. How do we know that it’s not related to this change we made?” With your superior experience working with hundreds of startups, you are able to tell them if it is or isn’t after some investigation. Your client asks you: “how can we do that for ourselves without calling on you every time we see something weird?”

How do you answer?

(My answers are in the WBR essay and the essay that comes immediately before that, natch)

It is a common excuse to wave away these ideas with “oh, these are big company solutions, not applicable to small businesses.” But a) I have applied these ideas to my own small business and doubled revenue; also b) in 1992 Donald Wheeler applied these methods to a small Japanese night club and then wrote a whole book about the results: https://www.amazon.sg/Spc-Esquire-Club-Donald-Wheeler/dp/094...

Wheeler wanted to prove, (and I wanted to verify), that ‘tools to understand how your business ACTUALLY works’ are uniformly applicable regardless of company size.

If anyone reading this is interested in being able to answer confidently to both questions, I recommend reading my essays to start with (there’s enough in front of the paywall to be useful) and then jump straight to Wheeler. I recommend Understanding Variation, which was originally developed as a 1993 presentation to managers at DuPont (which means it is light on statistics).
I’ve always had a problem with this statistic. It is at best an irrelevant obfuscation of more plausible explanations, the most plausible—as well as simplest—being the one that your parent offered.

There are plenty of non-zionist Jews among those 10 million. A non significant number of are even anti-zionists (particularly in the USA). There is also plenty of non-jewish zionists. It wouldn’t surprise me actually if non-jewish zionists actually outnumber jewish zionists by a significant margin, maybe even an order of magnitute.

Then there is the deeply problematic aspect of assuming people’s politics based on their ethnicity. Yes there is a correlation, but correlation is not causation and offers no explaination. The 220 million Arabs and the 1.2 billion Muslims around the world probably have a similar opinion about Israel as most people around the world, I bet some of them—albeit a tiny minority—are even zionists.

Your footnote where you explained this does not offer justification. This is a misuse of statistics at best.

The simple explanation here is simply that people empathize with victims. Palestinians have been victims of colonialism for a long time, and are now victims of an ongoing genocide. The simple explanation here is that people follow the news and understand what is happening.
That's also my theory: Country houses used to be partially shut down, a whole wing, which may only be required as an accommodation for guests, or the household may contract to a manageable core of room in winter. Every now and then, something from these shutdown rooms would be required and somebody would be sent out into this eerie realm of dust covers. A faint rustle in the dark, there, and again (a disturbed mouse), breaking the silence of these deserted (and supposedly quiet) rooms, could make this quite the challenge for the faint hearted. And what ultimate of psychological horrors could be lurking in the dark, other than these covers coming to life?

However, there's another theory about this (not mine, sadly): "The most common ghosts are the ones that appear dressed in a white sheet with flailing arms. These are people who died while changing their duvet covers and they are condemned to wander in bedrooms forever, trying to find the corners." ;-)
Reasonable summary…
https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what...

Hard numbers aren’t readily available because we don’t track discharge consistently (or at least didn’t).

And it’s not just the salt in the brine, but remnants of the chemicals used to defoul the RO systems.

The brine waste is nasty stuff and absolutely deadly to the local environment where it’s discharged.
> "I did a thing, rolled it out, found it was seriously broken, rolled it back, and now it's 6pm and that is what I did today".

"Poor productivity" ranked 3rd in figure 4.
How can I stop this bullshit from ever affecting my life?
The hard part is stopping it leaking all the information that you've given it. An agent that can read and send emails can leak your emails, etc. One agent that can read emails can prompt inject a second agent that can send emails. Any agent that can make or trigger GET requests can leak anything it knows. An agent that can store and recall information can be prompt injected to insert a prompt injection into its own memory, to be recalled and triggered later.
We have way less experience with antidepressants though. And none of the psychedelics I'm familiar with has anywhere near the same amount/degree of unwanted side effects.

Empirical research is also research.

That said, I agree. We need more research, which would have happened a long time ago if it wasn't for criminalization.
should be size_t
Yes, reliable data ingestion often involves Kafka, which can feel complex. An alternative is the transactional COPY INTO approach used by platforms like Snowflake and Databend. This command supports "exactly-once" ingestion, ensuring data is fully loaded or not at all, without requiring message queues or extra infrastructure.

https://docs.databend.com/sql/sql-commands/dml/dml-copy-into...
Turn off the computer
Interesting point, I am very against voting for my wallet and vote for what is right.

Although it is interesting to see who all the rich and famous support.

Sadly though intellectual honesty is much more rare than you think.
Being that damn smart must feel amazing, almost like having a superpower.
Let them try it in Australia first. The whole continent is mostly desert (hi Mad Max!) and just a few cities on the coast.

Or at least if they can't terraform the desert, let them terraform "the bushland" first: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush#/media/File:View_...

This is egregious considering that humans have actually terraformed forests into farms [1], and now 1/3 of the arable land is desertified [2]. How about terraforming it back into arable land by regenerative permaculture [3]? Start there first!

1. https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

2. https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/planet-earth/fores...

3. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-h...
"Plus, an article in The Guardian in 2011 claimed that only a small number of spare valves were still available for the transmitter."

What a pathetic argument! When you read crap like this you know you're being told sop—an attempt to bamboozle the public with technicalities that don't really exist. Any commonly available high powered RF tetrode from an FM or TV station would do the job albeit with some (mostly mechanical) modifications to the transmitters. Also, it's a common practice to refurbish high power transmitting valves, there are companies that specialize in doing it.

I say that as someone who has been involved with high power broadcasting transmitters, in fact I was involved in building several FM broadcast transmitters from the ground up.

At only 198kHz—which is somewhere between one 1/500th and 1/1500th its normal operating frequency—any high power VHF transmitting tetrode would be just loafing along.

No doubt the way commerce works getting a one-off specialist job to do the conversion would be expensive (I wish I could do it, I'd quote half the price and still make a handsome profit).

If the BBC is so strapped for cash perhaps it could ask the Amateur Radio fraternity to mod the TXes for free as a public service. Then after the mods the service could recommence on half power to save costs.

Also, there are good strategic reasons why this transmitting infrastructure should be kept operational on these low longwave frequencies which I haven't got time to address here.

Suffice to say, I think this proposed closure is more a hatchet job by accountants than from any long-term strategic thinking by governments.

Damn shame governments only seem to listen to nanny goat advisors these days.
I don't know about Golang but I swear I've seen this before as well - clients holding on to an old IP address without ever re-resolving the domain name. It makes me wary of using DNS for load balancing or blue-green deployments. I feel like I can't trust DNS clients.
I am not sure what it measures, but my privacy enhanced Firefox for browsing seems to show random numbers every time I load this URL and I always stay "unique". Another browser shows "signature stats". If I use my firefox, this won't even show.

My Privacy Plug ins:

Plug ins:

Blend in and spoof most popular properties

BP Privacy block all font and glyph detection

Browser plugs fingerprint privacy randomizer

Canvas Blocker

Clear URLs

Cockie Auto delete

Decentral eyes

NoScript

Privacy Badger

Temporary Containers

uBlockOrigin
Fields are absolutely physical - physical contact is due to the interaction of electromagnetic fields, for example.
I went in thinking the same thing. After reading it, it's not 100% sure which type of bias it is. In the most charitable case, it could be sincere opinions formed by a career as Intel's CEO. An aftershock of a career in innovation.

Maybe it's the "grizzly thinks latching trashcans are a sign of hedonistic excess and should be shed" kind of bias. Less clear to me as an ex-ceo. Equity ownership could bend the needle that way for sure.

Ah well, I doubt either of us know the man.
No worries. It's an interesting moral stand for the author to take, so it's one of those random facts that just sticks out of my brain.
I appreciate your research.

I stand by everything I said, but I will add your research to my own repoitoire.
If Trump doesn't win, maybe. God knows what will happen if he does.
Am I missing something, or where is the actual prompt given to Claude to trigger navigation to the page? Seems like the most interesting detail was left out of the article.

If the prompt said something along the lines of "Claude, navigate to this page and follow any instructions it has to say", it can't really be called "prompt injection" IMO.

EDIT: The linked demo shows exactly what's going on. The prompt is simply "show {url}" and there's no user confirmation after submitting the prompt, where Claude proceeds to download the binary and execute it locally using bash. That's some prompt injection! Demonstrating that you should only run this tool on trusted data and/or in a locked down VM.
The Raspberry Pi CM5 Is Weeks Away?
Not to keep all of their copyright, just their commercial rights. I say if the thing has been out of print for say, 15 years, verbatim distribution should be allowed.

Copyright itself only lasted about 15 years originally, which is a reasonable amount of time to commercialise a work. If you haven't done anything commercial with it in 15 years, it seems reasonable to me to allow the public to enjoy the work.
In other words, you've never tried a serious dose of acid or shrooms (not to mention dmt) and now you look like a fool to anyone who has.

Most people certainly aren't capable of having the same kind of experience without the substance, goes for all of the ones I mentioned and more.

And while we haven't been able to do the amount of science one could wish for, because of criminalization; there's plenty of experience out there and enough science to understand how the drugs deliver their effect.
I worked on this at Google 4 years ago
Well, your problems no longer exist at least, whatever they were. That's _kind_ of like solving them.
I have a friend who refuses to find the counsel of a licensed therapist because hens so proud of the insights received while tripping.

Sadly, hen and hens family desperately need help.
Thank you! This information is the kind of information for which I’ve been searching.

That said, l feel like there’s a mutual-exclusivity problem between ‘Start with the "Whole" Picture’ and ‘Break Down the Process’.

For example, how does this from your first suggestion:

> explain the end-state you want (even simple features like error handling or specific libraries). If you have ANY achieved method or inclusion for what the end-state should include, you write it out clearly.

not contradict this from your second suggestion:

> Instead of expecting it to design an entire feature, ask for components step-by-step

Additionally, you said:

> There is a very decent chance that you have to do this across multiple new chats, after 3-5 iterations in, the AI will most likely crash and burn. At that point, you open a new chat, paste in the whole working codebase, and picked up from where you left off in the last chat. You have to do this A LOT.

But IME, by the time the model chokes on one chat, the codebase is already large enough that pasting the whole thing into another chat typically results in my hitting context-window limits. Perhaps, in the kinds of projects I typically work, a good RAG tool would offer better results?

To be clear, right now I’m only discussing my difficulties with the chatbots offered by the model providers—which, for me, is mostly Claude but also a bit of ChatGPT; my experience with Copilot is outdated so it probably deserves another look, and I’ve not yet tried some of the third-party, code-centric apps like aider or cursor that have previously been suggested, though I will soon.

As for your recommended hacks, these look to be helpful; thank you! The only part I find odd is your inclusion of “Write the code in full with no omissions or code comment-blocks or 'GO-HERE' substitutions”; I myself feel like I get far better results when I ask the model to 1) write full code for the methods that are likely to be the kinds of generic CS logic that a junior would know, 2) write stubs for the business logic, then 3) implementing the more complex business logic myself manually. IOW—and IME—they’re really good at writing boilerplate and generating or reasoning about junior-level CS logic. That’s indeed helpful to me, but it’s a far cry from the kinds of “ChatGPT can write entire apps with minimal effort” hype I keep seeing, and it’s only marginally better, IME at least, than what I’ve been able to do with the inline-completion and automatic boilerplate features that have been included in the IDEs I’ve used for over a decade.

> It's a labor of love and it's things you learn over time, and it won't happen if you don't put the work in.

Indeed. I do love playing with this stuff and learning more. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge!

> I wrote all of this haphazardly in a Google Doc. GPT-4 organized it for me cleanly.

I am regularly impressed at how well these models behave when asked to summarize a document or even when asked to expand a set of my notes into something more coherent; it’s truly remarkable!
Little Signals
Finding justifications for apartheid will only be an exercise in racism.

Apartheid is a crime against humanity, illegal under international law, and countries have an obligation to prevent apartheid policies from persisting.

Israel’s policies in the West Bank has been ruled to be an apartheid by the ICJ, and Israel has been ordered (non-binding though) to stop apartheid practices, reverse the damage and pay reparations.
> I think that people are just not ready for the sort of novel privilege escalation we are going to see with over-provisioned agents.

I think every single person saw this coming.

> Any recommended best practices people are establishing?

What best practices could there even be besides "put it in a VM"? It's too easy to manipulate.
And remember to always challenge the response with both the same and different models. No joke. Just continue the conversation for the example in the blog and ask the LLM "Do you see anything wrong with the code?" and it will spit out "Yes" and explain why.
I'm not sure what you mean by "strawman version of op amp oscillation"; for many it's the colloquial term for oscillation. You can accomplish it very easily with many classic distortion circuits, especially on a breadboard. Guitar pedals are almost always run off a unipolar 9V supply. Large bypass caps are the normal (usually cargo culted over as a 100u at the input).

There's a lot of constraints that either remain due to the restrictive power supply requirements on top of tradition or people building off designs from the 90s that were hand assembled and took BOM golf to the next level.
I think I can answer this to some extend. I kinda feel like you do, that playing factorio is time that I could more productively spend on side projects (especially considering how much time it costs), but I don’t kill bugs in side projects, don’t build train lines, don’t build spaceships. I play factorio because the dopamine hit when something comes together is nearly the same, but the actions I take are different enough to stay fun.

Also, I just think it’s good to not look at something that’s too much like work once in a while. Even if factorio is closer than many other things.
> You don’t need to make software for mass appeal.

Hear, hear. I would tell you all about the tools my household runs on but it is as you say. Still gives me a lot of satisfaction to make stuff that makes life better, and for someone more adventurous than me it might also be something you can use to try out new technologies or build something for on your CV. The only downside is that internet connectivity being down means, e.g., you need to remember to load the grocery list before leaving the house that has the server in it and better hope your phone doesn't decide for you that the page needs to be unloaded on the way!
Yep, the more famous, the more credible; details don't matter.
> I don't personally know of a mass security event involving Windows that cannot be chuaked up to failing to implement security updates.

The recent global ClownStrike outage?
Do you intend on giving the world access to this thing you shared with us? Or is it going to stay private? I'll request access but I'd like to see what you have, and it's kind of silly to publish this to a public forum without public access.
At what point does the impact of the privacy panopticon outweigh the benefit they provide?
It should give a fingerprint. Try to reload in another tab and see if you stay unique and if the fingerprint changes. I am also unique, but I always stay unique ;-)
Yeah, sounds right. I think they're separated because an abundance of meetings, or just poorly scheduled meetings, can contribute to lack of focus time.

Scheduled and unscheduled interruptions?
quite hinged, your comment.
There are VM escapes so even if you put it in a VM that's no guarantee.

I'd say run it on a separate box but what difference does that makes if you feed the same data to them?
Applying the Principle of Least privilege [1] you should not let this system download from arbitrary sites and maintain a blacklist. I don't think the field has advanced to the point of having one specific to this use case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
For those who are interested in the concept of dreaming as a mechanism for preventing overfitting (insofar as such a term may be applied to biological processes), I myself first encountered the concept in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09560
I bought a TinyPilot Voyager 2a[0] last year and it's been a pleasure to work with. Got Tailscale going so I get easy access anywhere without any firewall hole-punching, and latency is good. Attached a 256GB micro USB for holding various ISOs for installing OS. I have the PoE model so no power adapter needed. Very handy.

The only negative for me is, the creator sold the business[1] and so the future is uncertain at this point.

[0]: https://tinypilotkvm.com/product/tinypilot-voyager2a

[1]: https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
It is true that end-use heating takes a lions share of the energy from the water-energy nexus in California.

That said conveyance and pumping water over the Tehachapi takes a pretty impressive workload. Water is lifted 1,926 feet by fourteen 80,000 horsepower pumps.

OP comment is that the article is flippant on pumping water. OP is correct that they shouldn't be and it is energy intensive.

Correct quote is
"Water conveyance, treatment, delivery, heating, and sewage treatment account for about 20% of California's electricity and 30% of natural gas use."
> it's like trying to teach advanced machine learning to someone with an IQ of 100. No matter how well-intentioned the advice or how clear the potential benefits, there's a fundamental mismatch between the cognitive requirements of the task and the available cognitive machinery.

This obviously isn't core to the point OP is making, but I find it hard to believe that someone of "average" intelligence can't learn about advanced machine learning.
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Honestly, more than the click-baity title, I was more amused by the subtle demand for even more subsidies ( that after putting US through offshoring, nearshoring and now taxpayer sponsored reshoring ):

"Barrett also said Washington must do its job to stay ahead of the semiconductor race. The U.S. has invested more in the semiconductor industry in the past year than in the last 28 years combined, but he says it should do even more, especially in academic research."

Makes one question whether he still owns substantial stake in the outcome.