skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, this is why we have consoles. We can have rootkits, or we can have cheating. Nobody has solved cheat prevention without rootkits. If you can, you’d make millions, if not billions. It’s not like the game creators want to have software on your system that has the potential to brick your system.
Misconceptions about using open-source products
I don’t think that’s necessarily true, that presumes that the cobbled together assortment of machine learning algorithms we have now will somehow get agi, if we need a fundamentally different way of doing things there’s no reason to assume it will use a language model at all.
Ask HN: Which accelerator/incubator has the best party culture?
What's wrong with "openssl enc"?
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> The direction of travel is very clear

And if we get 9 women we can produce a baby in a single month.

There's no guarantee such progression will continue. Indeed, there's much more evidence it is coming to a a halt.
I switched from a 2014 MacBook pro to a 2020 M1 MacBook Air, yeah the CPU is much faster, but the build quality and software is a huge step backwards. The trackpad is feels fake, not nearly as responsive, keyboard also feel not as solid. But now I'm already used to it.
Or alternatively you don't know how to use AI to help you code and are in the 2020s equivalent of the 'Why do I need google when I have the yellow pages?' phase a lot of adults went through in the 2000s.

This is not a bad thing since you can improve, but constantly dismissing something that a lot of people are finding an amazing productivity boost should give you some pause.
Is it Flux 1 possible to download and deploy to my own server? (And make a simple API on top of it?) I don't need fine tuning.
Any timing attacks possible on a virtualized system using dedupe?

Eg find out what my neighbours have installed.

Or if the data before an SSH key is predictable, keep writing that out to disk guessing the next byte or something like that.
Meanwhile Whisper is busy hallucinating while it transcribes you and your doctor's most recent encounter
They just have really good marketing. You fell for their pandering. If you really care about privacy use Linux. But Apple ain't it. Closed source and proprietary will never be safe from corporate greed.

>https://archive.ph/Z9z0H
You have to go into search options and select verbatim. But since they stopped indexing many sites it might not even be there anyways.
Protoc DevEx Sucks
it never works as you want. it's behavior across languages is inconsistent. you need buf CLI as a workaround
I built a separate Arch Linux box just for Steam gaming. I will never log into any of my sensitive accounts -- email, banking, etc. -- on that machine. It's a Framework laptop so I can physically keep the camera and microphone disconnected. I basically treat it like a public terminal.
Yeah, but the management achievement is to call 'autocomplete' AI.

AI doesn't mean LLM after all. AI means 'a computer thing'.
You don't need it to dedup writable files. But redundant copies in snapshots are stuck there as far as I'm aware. So if you search for duplicates every once in a while, you're not going to reap the space savings until your snapshots fully rotate.
>If you want to be treated as a customer instead of cattle, you ought then to pay for your services, including search, to align the financial incentives with your own. Advertising needs to die, for it is a root cause of most of the ills of the modern internet. If you can pay for streaming services or music,

People pay for their Windows license, yet Windows now has ads baked into the start menu. People pay for Youtube Premium, but most videos now have "sponsor segments" -- yet more ads (though admittedly not controlled by or directly profiting YT). People pay for streaming services, but last I heard, Netflix was adding ads. Ages ago, people paid for cable television, and it wasn't long before it had ads too.

These companies are going to treat you like cattle whether you're paying them directly or not.
> to a large extent, it's directly because of hardware based privacy features.

First, this is 100% false. Second, security through obscurity is almost universally discouraged and considered bad practice.
I just want to spam skill shot with ranged-heros on Aram 1-2 times a week. No way I am running vanguard for that!!!!
That's just a rounding error ;)
Koan like question that may have no answer:

If language communicates thoughts, thoughts have a relationship with reality, and that relationship might be true or false or something else.

Then what thought is LLM language communicating, to what reality does it bear a relationship, and what is the truth or falseness of that language?

To me, LLM generated sentences have no truth or false value, they are strings, literally, not thoughts.

Take the simple "user:how much is two plus two? assistant: two plus two is four". It may seem trivial, but how do ascertain that that statement maps to 2+2=4? Do you make a leap of faith or argue that the word plus maps to the adding function? What about is, does it map to equality? Even if they are the same tokens as water is wet (where wet is not water?). Or are we arguing that the truthfulness lies on the embedding interpretation? Where now tokens and strings merely communicate the multidim embedding space, which could be said to be a thought, now we are mapping some of the vectors in that space as true, and some as false?
Could that T cell depletion have been caused by isolation and masking during the pandemic rather than covid directly?
The implicit context that the poster removed (as you can tell from the indentation) was a function definition:

def factorize(n):
...
return prime_factors
> because we've decided we can't be bothered with traditional search

Traditional search was only Google, and Google figured out that they don't need to improve their tools to make it better, because everyone will continue to use it as a force of habit (google is a verb!). Traditional search is being abandoned because traditional search isn't good enough for the kinds of search we need (also, while google may claim their search is very useful, people rarely search stuff nowadays, instead prefer being passively fed content via recommendations algorithm (that also use AI!))
If you have GPUs on your server that can handle it.
Maybe don’t put ads between every paragraph on your blog.
The only "80's" thing I see here is someone trying to start a programming language flamewar
You can safely omit word 'back' from the article title
I spent last year in an off-grid home and had to care for three acres of unmaintained pasture filled with patchy and matted fescue. I used nothing but a European-style scythe to do so. I actually wished I had had more pasture to care for because of how deeply satisfying and meaningful it was to do.

For example, it's one thing to have an idea of the Grim Reaper, but it's another to viscerally experience the reality of what a scythe does to grasses. Thousands of beings anonymously ended, their lives cut short.
Top result in AI overview and 4th in the general search on Brave Search

https://search.brave.com/search?q=best+books+on+the+battle+o...
Art is what you can get away with. (Andy Warhol)
What I was trying to say is that there is no 128b limitation for PCs.
In my experience, that was always the case with gpt3.5, most times the case with gpt4, some times the case with the latest sonnet. It’s getting better FAST, and the kind of code they can handle is increasing fast too
It's true every single time.
Lazy/off-line dedup requires block pointer rewrite, but ZFS _cannot_ and will not ever get true BP rewrite because ZFS is not truly a CAS system. The problem is that physical locations are hashed into the Merkle hash tree, and that makes moving physical locations prohibitively expensive as you have to rewrite all the interior nodes on the way to the nodes you want to rewrite.

A better design would have been to split every node that has block pointers into two sections, one that has only logical block pointers and all of whose contents gets hashed into the tree, and one that has only the physical locations (as if it were a cache) of the corresponding logical block pointers in the first section, with the second section _not_ hashed into the Merkle hash tree. Then BP rewrite would only require re-writing blocks that are not part of the Merkle hash tree.

But as it is you can't get BP rewrite to work on ZFS, so you can't get what you're asking for.

Well... maybe. Perhaps on read hash mismatch ZFS could attempt to locate the pointed-to block in the dedup table using the hash from the pointer. Then ZFS could reallocate the dedup'ed block. The price you'd pay then is one pointless read -- not too bad. The impossibility of BP rewrite generally leads to band-aids like this.
I'm with the debaters on this one, the energy levels of a bound quantum system are predetermined to change in quantized intervals irrespective of if they are coupled to a classical or quantum field. What theory of gravity is this experiment intended to falsify?

It would be great to have an independent gravitational wave detector though.
> people who can do it will be high status

They don't have high status even today, imagine in a world where they will be seen as just reviewers for AI code...
That was PageRank flexing its capability. There were lots of sites with reams of honeypot text that caught the other search engines.
Reminds me of the robots from the Sirius cybernetics corporation. “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with.”
I don't believe a court would tell Google it has to provide a service for free.
Sadly it’s equally useless as OpenAI models because the terms of use read “ 3.6 You will not use the Services for the following improper purposes: 4) Using the Services to develop other products and services that are in competition with the Services (unless such restrictions are illegal under relevant legal norms).”

For the billionth time, there are zero products and services which are NOT in competition with general intelligence. Therefore, this kind of clause simply begs for malicious compliance…go use something else.
> ... writing report summaries.

Hallucinated report summaries could go quite badly if used uncritically by decision makers.

Especially if they're ingested by AI systems further up the decision making chain(s).
Do you use Google anymore? It has gotten so bad, I regularly can't find things on it anymore, no matter how I search for things it will keep showing the same results. You seem to have blinders on. How do you explain the site getting less and less traffic over time?
What is the name of the tool that he is using on the 2nd link you shared? You know for science.
I am pretty sure Claude 3.5 Sonnet can reason or did reason with a particular snippet of code I was working on. I am not an expert in this area but my guessing is that these neural nets (made for language prediction) are being used for reasoning. But that’s not their optimal behavior (since they are token predictor). A big jump in reasoning will happen when reasoning is off loaded to an LRM.

Human brains are sure big but they are inefficient because a big portion of the brain is going to non-intelligence stuff like running the body internal organs, eye vision, etc…

I do agree that the money is not well spent. They should haver recognized that we are hitting s local maximum with the current model and funding should be going to academic/theoretical instead of dump brute force.
>When scopes creep and requirements change, simply refactor.

Congratulations, you just refactored out a use case which was documented in a knowledge base which has been replaced by 3 newer ones since then, happens once every 18 months and makes the company go bankrupt if it isn't carried out promptly.

The type of junior devs who think that making code tidy is fixing the application are the type of dev who you don't let near the heart of the code base, and incidentally the type who are best replaced with code gen AI.
I took a look at the code, and the file based code is basically the worst case for the file system, accessing about as many files as it can.

Additionally, it's doing a lot of unnecessary work. It's using buffered I/O to do a full file read, and throwing away the buffer immediately, which is an expensive way to add an unnecessary memcpy. It's opening by full path instead of openat, which incurs a path lookup penalty.

I think the file based code can be quite a bit faster, if you put a bit of effort in.

I think in serious use, the gap would narrow, not grow.
I bet it's North America bias—we roll our time changes across the continent one TZ at a time, at 2am local time (which also explains why the default is "/2").
ok Microsoft, so you are trying to make something useful out of LLMs. But now that you have one hell of a reputation to overcome, the questions are: Is this happening on device? Without sending anything to the internet? And is it going to be REALLY FUCKING CLEAR when you change that in the future? with the option of FUCK NO instead of "maybe later"?
Mars may have been habitable much more recently than thought
'Global time' is a perennial HN comment on articles to do with time handling, and a truly terrible idea.

Try selling East Asia and Australia on the idea that they should wake up at 7pm, go to work on Friday, finish their workday on Saturday, and then go to bed at 11am -- for the benefit of people on the other side of the world who can't be bothered figuring out local time.[0]

Will it fix software issues around time handling? Why not, I'm sure things like having trading days on the Hang Seng stock exchange that run over overlapping two-day periods (the Nov 11-12 trading day, the Nov 12-13 trading day, ...) won't cause any unexpected issues at all. Quick, what's T+2 settlement for a trade on Nov 12?

And how would Europeans react when the global majority vote to move the suddenly-meaningful Prime Meridian to much more populous and economically important regions than London, and it's now Europe that gets to experience that kind of day, for the benefit of Tokyo and Beijing?

[0] Not to mention, 'global time' won't help with scheduling at all, since the question "what time is it there?" just gets replaced with "when do they work and sleep there?". 10am local time gives you actionable information about whether people in a given place will be awake or not, 10am 'global time' does not.
EV code signing with .pfx in 2024
Or tricking someone else into creating value for you to take.
Occupational Licensing Roundup #1
> ?tbs=li:1

Thank you, this is almost life-alteringly good to know.
> Do you mean the hash-possessor weren't specifically informed it was illegal to possess said hash?

This is literally the doctrine behind the good faith argument and qualified immunity. If they have not been informed that this specific act, done in this specific way is not allowed then it is largely permissible.

A stupid but equivalent defense from the possessor would be “it’s in Googles possession, not mine, so I had a good faith belief that I did not possess the files”. It’s clearly wrong based on case law, but I wouldn’t expect the average person to have a great grasp of how possession works legally (nor would I claim to be an expert on it).

This is effectively what the good faith doctrine establishes for police, even though they really ought to at least have an inkling given that the law is an integral part of their jobs. As long as they can claim to be sufficiently stupid, it is permissible. That is not extended to the defense, for whom stupidity is never a defense.

> But, no, if the cops in good faith make a mistake, there's centuries of jurisprudence behind not letting people go free for it, not novel with this case.

Acting in good faith would be getting a warrant regardless, because the issue is not that time-sensitive and there are clear ambiguities here. They acted brashly under the assumption that if they were wrong, they could claim stupidity. It encourages the police to push the boundaries of legal behavior, because they still get to keep the evidence even if they are wrong and have committed an illegal search.

It is, yet again, rules for thee but not for me. Frankly, with the asymmetry of responsibility and experience with laws, the police should need to clear a MUCH higher bar to come within throwing distance of “good faith”.
Mental Health Credentialism Costs Lives
is there a way to detect and block substack?
Checking my Search Console Tools recently, the number of "Crawled - currently not indexed" pages across all my sites has risen sharply recently, especially on sites where the age of the content is more than a few years.

I put a fair bit of time into trying to improve the sites with JSON-LD and breadcrumbs and what not. It seems to have helped just a little bit.

I don't make any money off any of it, but it's still kind of irritating that no one can find it.
The main radical in a character usually dictates how it’s read. General language familiarity tells you which of the readings to use. That’s accurate most of the time, and when it isn’t there’s furigana on the word.

For example, 青 is read as “sei”, and characters that use it as a radical are either read as “sei” or “jou”, such as in 情熱(jounetsu) or 清潔(seiketsu). So when you run into a rare character in a word that uses this same radical, you can assume that it uses a standard reading. For example, the word for fairy, 精霊, isn’t one you run into very often, but when you do you can assume that it’s read as “seirei” based on the radicals, and you’d be correct.

I’m explaining this in length here but with native level proficiency this process happens instantly, as you’re reading.

Japanese should not drop kanji. The only people that think that are foreigners that failed at learning the language. This is not a shared sentiment among japanese speakers.
The real question is can they do a good enough job quickly and cheaply to be valuable. ie, quick and cheap at some level of quality is often "better". Many people are using them in the real world because they can do in 1 minute what might take them hours. I personally save a couple hours a day using ChatGPT.
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No CPU gets slow after any amount of years. That's not how it works. I think what you're trying to say is: Software gets more resource-intensive.
Also because ranked choice has multiple rounds, it allows for splitting the vote in unexpected ways. This happened recently in France (I think) where the majority would have approved of either of two candidates, but the third was the one that won because of how the second choices were split after the first round. That can't happen with approval voting.

Also, with approval, there's an additional much more hidden advantage: There's no limit to how many you can vote for, so you can vote for your ideal candidate and an acceptable moderate without feeling like you're throwing away your vote. It makes it more likely for moderates and third parties to win over the more extreme candidates.
It also turns out that there are hundreds of local / regional cultivars grown for a variety of specific purposes (way beyond today's mass-marketed four or five varieties). Many farms had an orchard, which consisted of a few to a few dozen trees, each with different cultivars cloned by grafting. Different varieties were good for different purposes, such as eating directly (dessert apples), baking, storing, cider, producing early or late, etc. These varieties really do make a difference. I spent one autumn picking apples and we could take home a bag every day, and it was really interesting as the season went through the varieties. One day, we had a few Wolf River trees to pick; they were huge like coconut-sized (no exaggeration), and bred for baking. Indeed they tasted not good, but I brought three home and my mom made two pies - everyone thought those were amazing.

There are a number of efforts in the US and England, both govt (e.g., USDA) and private, working to preserve these often rare cultivars. One is in Bolton Massachusetts, New England Botanic Garden’s Historic Apple Orchard [0]. They sometimes have to hunt in very obscure places to find just a twig of an old cultivar, bring it back and graft it to a rootstock. They are doing a lot of fascinating DNA analysis and cataloging, and it's a pretty big data management project too, to keep track of who has examples of what cultivars, in what condition, etc..

[0] https://nebg.org/orchard/
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Of late I have been imagining tears of joy rolling down the face of the person who decides to take it upon themself to sing the paeans of Apple Privacy Theatre on a given day. While Apple has been gleefully diluting privacy on their platforms (along with quality and stability of course). They are the masters at selling dystopian control, lock in, and software incompetence as something positive.

It's most dangerous that they own the closed hardware and they own the closed software and then they also get away with being "privacy champions". It's worse than irony.
I'm very interested in checking something like this out for getting to grips with a local codebase of unfamiliar SQL and assorted scripts and reports.

I have a few tabs open that I haven't had a chance to try:

https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox

https://github.com/saeedezzati/superpower-chatgpt
Look at Animal domestication - see neoteny in domestic animals for eg - is a manipulative process too. People do use those techniques on each other and at mass scale via communication/advertising/marketing. Yet there are regulations and red lines and people regularly get throw in jail.
You don't use LLMs.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6722e41d-6b20-8002-8cbb-3012cd9179...