skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It downloads and executes a Python script to update the store page? Log4j/log4shell, anyone?

Just build a JSON API! It's not that hard! You don't need to RCE your game every time it launches just for microtransactions.
What does the backside say? I can make out the title at the bottom: "THE COMPUTER MANDATE", but not much else.
He should have an advice blog called Null's pointers.
I actually think PNVI-ae-udi is pretty good semantic model for a systems programming language, considering that it is the essentially only reasonable model on how to combine abstract pointers with low-level integer based pointers in a way that makes it work well. I am not entirely sure I would allow one-after points if I were to design a language from scratch, but I haven't made up my mind about it.
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This is proof that people will downvote to silence things they don't like. This is a gross abuse of the spirit of HN. The statement above was factual.
Because he has another separate jail term to serve after the current one ended
Soft power seems like mostly wishful thinking at best and a fraud on the taxpayer at worst. I don't think the noble savages feel forever indebted to their kind and wise master for throwing them a few scraps. Countries align with what interests them. Look how quickly countries all over Africa, South America, Middle East, the subcontinent turn to China and Russia. All the vaccines and condoms in the world aren't going to stop people and countries wanting to get the best price for the things they buy and sell.

USAID also has a fairly sketchy record in funding regime change efforts, so countries cooperate with it on a purely transactional basis, "trust" is zero.
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> This also opens the door up to an entrypoint on PS5.

Does he mean that this is potentially how one could install custom firmware on their console?

Curious because I remember reading somewhat recently that console vendors have locked their consoles down well enough so as to avoid any vulnerabilities which could be exploited to install custom firmware. It would be amusing if that was invalidated by game dev security and I start hearing about ways to install some modded firmware, which include a step of "install one of these games".

IIRC, the web browser on 3DS systems was exploited to install custom firmware rather than a game so it was rather easily patched with a system update (and, indeed, it actually was patched). I wonder if we'll be seeing Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft start to insist on certain security standards as a result of games being exploited to install custom firmware on the devices they sell, presuming the answer to my first question is affirmative.
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Any recommendations for platforms that attract top-tier open-source contributors?
Love the idea, sounds like a very fun and rewarding project. I just purchased one- I used a vertical video so I am hoping the binding is on the proper side (didn't see anything about that on the site).
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Feels like the Twitter transition again.

Hey remember when there was concern that he might not have time to effectively run Tesla and SpaceX. And then Twitter. And 12 kids. Or popping ketamine and playing Diablo 4 all night.

I guess he's got time to run the country too.
Young people should be happy to see more representation in the federal govt. Among roles of authority it's probably 65+ . They're spending your & your grandkid's prosperity every minute.

People under 55 should be happy about this situation.
Isn't accountability simply to prevent repeat bad behavior in the future...or is it meant to be punitive without any other expectations?

If meant to prevent repeat bad behavior, then simply reprogramming the computer accomplished the same end goal.

Accountability is really just a means to an end which can be similarly accomplished in other ways with machines which isn't possible with humans.
Ivory Coast flag being used for Ireland is another common one, though easier to spot. I assume because it's listed first alphabetically.

Doesn't help that most emoji fonts render all flags in the same aspect ratio.
> How about gun control? Kamala was all too happy to talk about how she's a proud gun owner.

On the contrary, they very much want to “control” guns out of existence. But they know during election season they have to tone down the rhetoric in the hopes that people forget everything they’ve said about guns during the last three years.
> I'll grant you idealism but might that be a consequence of naivete and inexperience?

Very possible too. I'll add that young people have less to lose, or so in their mind. In contrast, a grown-up will have family, kids, and their own pride to take care of. Tons to lose.

As for history, I'm sure there were many counter examples. It's just that I couldn't think of any. The examples I had in mind were Aung San Suu Kyi, Wang Ching-wei, and Thabo Mbeki. Wang's story is particularly interesting. In his youth, he showed remarkable courage when he attempted to assassinate a Qing's royal prince, facing death with heroic resolve. Before his expected execution, he even composed a famous farewell poem. However, in his later years, he underwent a dramatic transformation, becoming a puppet leader for the Japanese invaders. He steadfastly maintained that Japan would emerge victorious and that China's resistance was futile.
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It's rough enough to scratch the itch, but gentle enough to not break the skin.
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Yes Ashley Cervantes, who was finger raped by doctors at the same hospital as me by the same CBP did that.

She lost as judges ruled doctors basically become deputized and are non medical unofficial police when directed to a warrantless search.

https://holdcbpaccountable.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ce...

Lawyers involved told me they'd given up and wouldn't take my case. The trouble is it is medical when you challenge the police search, and nonmedical when you challenge the medical care. The judges and police created a catch 22.
> which removes the parasite

This is probably one of the big evolutionary factors they didn't mention. Scratching at mosquito bites after the mosquito is already gone might just be an unfortunate side effect.
The US has debt denominated in its own currency, a large and growing economy, vast natural and human resources, no prospect of a foreign invasion and debt declining relative to GDP the last few years (this last point is not even that important but just for the record).

I can’t even begin to tell you how far the US is from hyperinflation or any major debt issues - the only real risk the US faces is internal stupidity (I don’t only mean the current situation, idiocies like the ongoing debt ceiling nonsense apply too).

Look, prudence is not a bad thing, and it’s worthwhile to have sensible management. But talk of hyperinflation is either severe mis-calibration of risks, deep misunderstanding of how economies work, or intentional propaganda.
so then, neither can a crowd. not anymore, a crowd will be able to blame a computer now
> He might end up in jail in 2-4 years.

You think the Trump administration is going to prosecute the wealthiest person on earth? Attention and wealth are the currencies of Trumpian politics, and I would be shocked to see Trump try to fight someone with such a massive ability to direct attention (via control over twitter and through having hundreds of billions of dollars).
Which is exactly what many people want. OP said "small processor"
> How is closing the HQ and assigning Marco Rubio to run USAID illegal?

This framing seems disingenuous given the already far reaching effects of the frozen funding, the layoffs, the shut down of communications, the shuttered offices, and, apparently, giving non government employees unfettered access to its computer systems.

But yes, shutting down the USAID or trying to muddy the waters by saying it'll totally still exist, they'll just somehow run it out of the state department and not fund anything should indeed not be possible without an act of congress.
Does that also mean that for the last 20 years of living on a ketogenic diet and perpetually in ketosis that my fat cells retain a "memory" of my perfect non-obese weight.
Ultimately it's all a product of training data, mixed in with a few chemical global variables and some gate-level performance variation. The human brain is literally a thing that craves the input of new information, so feeling bad because that's what your brain is doing is a bit strange imho.
Most of Europe and the world don’t have as wide ranging protections for free speech or bearing arms as we do, either. So using that as an argument is not relevant, regardless of any spiffy smart sounding Latin phrases.

The text of the 14th amendment follows:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

For better or for worse, the amendment does not make any exceptions for denying citizenship to persons born of late term pregnant women who just arrived on the shores.

Marking lawful citizens as enemy combatants for simply being born in the US sounds like a very bad idea to me, and should be to you too. Why would I not be a potential enemy combatant for making this comment on hacker news right now?
Vacuous cliches this painfully stupid need to stay in high school theatre clubs where they belong.
This is in most small civil law areas and even summary criminal cases. They simply aren't important enough for the people in power to do their due diligence or give a shit. Nobody can force them to do their jobs either.
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I'm surprised the police doesn't have to pay for them. It's not that the tests were medically necessary.
Amazing work. Does something similar exist for Python? Would love to have something similar integrated for Python dependencies from pypi as well.
So US is trying Germany's austerity?
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thanks for the reply. the $200 is a rounding down from $220 for the average fee cost for a 1040 in 2021 according to the national society of accountants.

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> isn't this dangerous? isn't the efficiency given at the expense of safety and interpretability?

Final text is only a small part of model's thinking. It's produced from embeddings which probably have much more in them. Each next token depends not only on previous, but all the intermediate values for all tokens. We don't know them, they are actually important and represent inner 'thinking'. So, LLM is still a black box. The result is usually A because of B. Sort of explanation for A, but where B came from we can only guess.
Right, but as long as you have humans, you will probably need accountability.

If a human decided to delegate killing enemy combatants to a machine, and that machine accidentally killed innocent civilians, is it really enough to just reprogram the machine? I think you must also hold the human accountable.

(Of course, this is just a simplified example, and in reality there are many humans in the loop who share accountability, some more than others)
I didn't think he would live this long, but he certainly couldn't survive another 8 years, right?... right?
Even many of the lawyers encourage it with stuff like suggesting filing baseless protection orders.
Is this legal? Everything is done by the book?
This is a different case, if I don’t have permission to talk to the graphics card, sound card, even ram, I’m a restricted engineer.

> I believe they don’t get it/don’t care.

You’re right, anything that’s not obstructive is never worried about.

To me that says you’re doing a good job giving permissions, it’s also your job to manage those permissions, not the developers..

> It's just not their wheelhouse.

Your absolute bang on. And I can say from experience, it’s good you guys are there.
Toddlers are 1-3 years old. Huge difference in agency between a 1 year old and a 3 year old. 1 year old can't dress themselves let alone make choices about dress.
A stronger more egregious nearly identical case was lost against the same people a few years before so lawyers weren't interested.
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You fundamentally don’t understand either accountability or what people mean by “computers can’t be held accountable”. Who is at fault when a computer makes a mistake? That is accountability.

You cannot put a computer in jail. You cannot fine a computer. Please, stop torturing what people mean because you want AI to make decisions to absolve you of guilt.
Yes, I want "int" to wrap sooner, except not that it wraps but to get an error message to find the bug.

Your use of the term "field" might indicate that you are confused a bit.

That you can rewrite the example seems irrelevant to the point.
And USAID was then formalized as an independent agency by Congress in 1998:

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&...
I'm a noob hobbyist, but in theory couldn't SAEs or similar MI constructs learn to decode the "thinking" tokens into something more resembling the CoT they originally encoded? Or am I completely off the mark?
We should always be able to clearly understand and interpret all of the thinking leading to an action done by an AI. What would the point be if we don't know what it's doing, just that it is doing "something"
Agreed, building something is just the first step.

One of the marketing struggles I've had is just getting people to care. I did have a bit of an "If you build it, they will come" attitude because I had confidence in the quality of the work...but even that seems to be irrelevant if you can't get people interested.

As an introvert by nature (extrovert by necessity), I wonder what I'm missing that others seems to grasp innately, because the consequences are fatal for an entrepreneur if you can't convince others to at least try the thing you're offering.
Their lobbying to outlaw open models is the biggest threat posed by AI, and their crowing about alignment and existential threats is cover fire for their real objective: total market control.
"Since COVID" is a bad baseline, I would draw a parallel with someone who's condition "stayed stable since they entered the hospital a few days ago". It is too recent and the situation pre-COVID was quite bad. The US is the most indebted entity [0] in history. But it is not obviously the most productive; since that title may sit with China now. It is a precarious position.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_p...
I think you're confusing the tool with the user.

Improving the tool's safety characteristics is not the same as holding the user accountable because they made stupid choices with unsafe tools. You want them to change their behavior, no matter how idiot-proofed their new toolset is.
> wouldn’t be good at anyway is marketing and sales

Shift perspective: Consider these things to be an optimization problem. People buying your thing is the output from some undefined function. You get to supply inputs to that function. Now sales and marketing is revealed as being about modeling that undefined function such that you can pick more optimal inputs thereby improving the output. Now traverse the gradient.
Another way to look at that time series is that US debt as a percentage of GDP has doubled from 62% to 121% since 2007.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
but still.. 6% of a modern CPU...
The human that decides to use the AI that makes decisions is the one that should be held accountable.
My favorite technical debt is the off-by-two naming of quintilis through december from when they added Jan and Feb to the beginning of the calendar...
Medicare fraud perpetuated by individuals is u likely to be that high. Overbilling by hospital corporations and medical device companies could be possible. But corporations aren’t the target of DOGE.
US government debt doesn't exist as a line-of-credit agreement that someone could choose whether or not to "call in". It's primarily represented by Treasury bonds, securities which represent a promise by the US government to pay a specific amount of money at a specific point in time. It's true that the US can decide one day to default on these promises, but this doesn't have anything to do with military strength, nor can military strength mitigate the negative consequences for the (mostly domestic) investors.
>> is the legislative branch going to do?

Impeach. Subpoena. Then arrest if subpoena ignored. Pass laws (supermajority to bypass veto). Cut funding to executive office. Then go nuclear with things like amendment putting the armed forces under legislative control. Lots options. All require a united front.
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, that should say plenty.
This makes sense if the computer was programmed that way accidentally. If the computer is a cut out to create plausible deniability, then reprogramming it won't actually work. The people responsible will find a way to reintroduce a behavior with a similar outcome.
Very cool if you need a quick and dirty way to inspect the http/s call stack of an app. Personally prefer eBPF to get _everything_ but using this utility can help drill down what is important in the eBPF trace
there's the old joke

"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter."

Removing yourself to one or more degrees from decision making isn't only an accident but is and will more and more be done to intentionally divert accountability. "The algorithm malfunctioned" is already one of the biggest get out of jail free cards and with autonomous systems I'm pretty pessimistic it's only going to get worse. It's always been odd to me that people focus so much on what broke and not who deployed it in the first place.
Then why not just explain it? It would be far more persuasive than acting rabid.