skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
`Has` or `has had`? -- I'm confused.

I probably shouldn't be doing this and it feels dirty but ChatGPT wrote:

"When has Congress (and what occasions) tried to investigate USAID?"

> Congress has investigated USAID (United States Agency for International Development) on multiple occasions, often focusing on issues such as mismanagement of funds, political influence, and the effectiveness of aid programs. Some key investigations include:

Cold War & Covert Activities (1960s–1980s)
USAID programs were scrutinized for allegedly being used as fronts for CIA operations, particularly in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
Example: USAID’s involvement in funding educational and media programs in Chile before the 1973 coup.

Post-9/11 Reconstruction Efforts (2000s–2010s)
Congress investigated USAID’s role in Afghanistan and Iraq reconstruction, particularly allegations of waste, fraud, and inefficiency.
Example: The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) frequently reported on USAID’s mismanagement of billions in aid.

Cuban Democracy Programs (2014)
Senate and House committees examined USAID’s involvement in funding “Cuban Twitter” (ZunZuneo)—a covert social media platform aimed at fostering dissent against the Cuban government.
Lawmakers questioned whether USAID was exceeding its humanitarian mission.

COVID-19 Response & Global Health Funding (2020–2021)
USAID’s pandemic response efforts, including funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) and vaccine distribution, were scrutinized by Congress.
Some lawmakers alleged mismanagement of funds and lack of transparency.

Ukraine Aid & Oversight (2022–2023)
House Republicans, especially through the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees, have investigated USAID’s funding for Ukraine, focusing on potential misuse and lack of accountability.
This inquiry continues, with some lawmakers calling for increased auditing of foreign aid.
Most journalists don't have a background in X when they are reporting upon X. This is normal. That said, he is very open that he does not have a cybersecurity background (trained engineer), but he does rely heavily upon a network of experts. Again, a reporter working on a story about geopolitics is unlikely to have past experience as a high ranking gov't official in state dept/foreign ministry, but will rely heavily upon a network of experts. Do you have any specific concerns about this?
I get your reluctance to do things you can't take back, but it seems like the emotional response to thinking your comment's being down weighted but not being told that's happening, or not knowing why, might be helped by being told why. eg if I'm calling people names but don't know or don't realize that's not accepted behavior here, someone with a persecution complex is going to think you're personally out for them and not their behavior.
To be fair, musk is a pretty outrageously successful and interesting person. I’ve seen very little criticism of him that isn’t thinly veiled jealousy
Maybe they were thinking the Russian solution. If it crashes fast enough nobody finds out what happened
I sit corrected
My statement was “whose logo is a dot or dots?” But someone at my SB party, who isn’t a techy said the same thing you did “isn’t it Cisco?”
The Drunken Plagiarists
I wonder how much of this arithmetic confusion comes from software versioning numbers where the decimal character is actually a tuple-delimiter.
I would personally appreciate a setting alongside showdead that disables the greying out of posts. It makes it very hard to read them. I am more than capable of ignoring things that I don't want to read.
>Ensuring that the benefits of AGI are broadly distributed is critical. The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most of the metrics we care about (health outcomes, economic prosperity, etc.) get better on average and over the long-term, but increasing equality does not seem technologically determined and getting this right may require new ideas.

I don't see why we should trust OpenAI's promises now, when they've broken promises in the past.

See the "OpenAI has a history of broken promises" section of this webpage: https://www.safetyabandoned.org/

In my view, state AGs should not allow them to complete their transition to a for-profit.
yup, I think thats the answer … we’ll cancel globalisation and close all airports - problem solved
Rome took about a thousand years to "fall" so it might be tricky to attribute any particular "feeling". In some ways, perhaps it still exists, just in a different form (not unlike how the current People's Republic of China might be considered a more contemporary manifestation of the Shang Dynasty)
Doors with crash bars are kind of that. If there's too many people, they'll push up against them and force them open.
In the US it's how we're taught as kids in gradeschool. We only switch to dot later on during algebra once "x" shows up as a variable.
Most conversions are things like casts to enum types or aliases I think, which never are O(n), like:

dur := time.Second * time.Duration(2)

headers := http.Header(map[string][]string{})

httpDir := http.Dir(filepath.Join(parts...))

In all of these cases, it's just a type-cast which is zero-cost, and I think that's what makes it feel surprising that casting between strings/runes specifically incurs more significant computation than any other cast.
> all people care about is the state not wasting money. - completely dismissing worries about data exposure

A tangent here, but: Gas taxes paying for roads. There is a relationship between inefficiency and privacy.

I often encounter some libertarian-types complaining about this, that they should only be taxed for the construction and maintenance of infrastructure they personally drive upon. Indirect benefits aside, I try to point out that the billing-system they're asking for requires a creepy surveillance panopticon, something far more ripe for abuse than any gas tax.
I'd say my favorite 2600 game is Super Breakout in progressive mode. Warlords is also pretty fun with four people and two sets of paddles.

There's a lot of games out there with really tight gameplay loops. Much fewer with deep gameplay, though. So it kind of depends on what you're looking for.
I may not be communicating it clearly.

Take file storage for example. Going from one server, to one with backups, to N, to big-N, are all points of inflection where significant engineering is required for on-prem/self-hosted file storage. With a cloud solution none of these are inflection points, none require additional work, they only require additional money.

Assuming you have infinite time, you can just funnel money into things like hardware upgrades and hiring engineers to build these things, but if you don't assume infinite time, time is often as strong or even stronger a factor than money.

At my last company we had a bunch of servers in colo, and could not throw money at solving problems there. Getting a new machine took 2+ days and a bunch of emails, not an API call. We moved to the cloud mostly because the opportunity cost, i.e. the time spent by engineers on toil scaling things on physical machines, was higher than the monetary cost that we could pay on a cloud provider.

This won't be the same for everyone, but the point is that money is roughly the only consideration in cloud, but not the only consideration on-prem, at least when you discount common factors between the two.
I'm not convinced it's even a marginally useful metric for measuring LLM performance.
I really like this concept, and am working on a similar product for my own self-study.

I would like to see more language support. For me, I'd like to study Korean

The UX around card navigation needs some work. It took me a long time to figure out that after I chose a smiley face, that I was moving to a new card. This was especially true if the next card is similar to a previous card.
So, a Chinese Unitree robot and Chinese reassmeblies are suddenly Ukrainian...
Correct, residential internet. I mostly tried doing this to see if I could it to work, and this is just a side project so I'm not too concerned about it from a stability standpoint. I'd say the biggest thing I've learned from it that would make me not choose the selfhosted route again is mostly security. I have everything pretty well quarantined off on its own, but that's really the only thing that keeps me up at night.

If the project were more serious or had decent traction then I'd probably first move it to VPS and then start considering cloud options. That's actually been kinda the point of this though: keep it simple and cheap early and if it gets some traction then ramp up the infrastructure beyond being selfhosted, but in the meantime selfhosting it is so cheap: it can just run @ the cost of the power it uses, which the M1 uses very little power.
After all the database leaks I've seen in the news, we should probably assume all SSNs have been leaked by now.
Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising
"“Yes this is a shit show but please have civil discourse” just doesn’t work anymore."

Why not? Do you think a violent discourse would work better?

(also I have not seen dang making any concrete statements about the topic)
I’m sorry that happened to you, that’s terrible and a pretty shameful thing to do to another innocent person. I would have raised hell if I was treated that way, especially for a class I was paying a load of money for. Unacceptable.

Edit: I would have also raised hell if I saw someone else getting treated this way by a professor.
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I think you would be a bit surprised with both the university programs that teach it security, and also which companies that look to employ them.

IT security can be admins, it can be programmers that focus on exploit vunerbilities, it can be reverse engineers, it can be pentesters, it can be red teams, and it can be people with high domain knowledge in a very narrow field related to security. IT security is a very wide field.

IT security programs focuses a bit on everything, but as in my university, they gave the person responsible for the program a fairly free range to focus on what they thought was what the market wanted. Different universities will focus on different aspects.

The organizations that seek such employees are also quite wide. The military, the intelligence agency, large software companies, large companies with internet assets (like banks, but also game studios), government departments like the tax office, and then naturally we got all kind of IT security firms with red teams, pentesters, consultants and so on. A big hire of my class was also a network company developing network finger rules for deep packet inspections, which wanted people skilled with reverse engineering and decompiling (they may or may not have employed people who had experience cracking games).
No, data centers require very minimal staffing. Like a few dozen people to staff a data center serving hundreds of millions of users
As described in the Mentour Pilot video, LEAP-1B engines have an issue in which bird strike events that result in fan blade damage can lead to engine oil entering the bleed air system. On the 737 MAX, the left engine bleed air primarily supplies the cockpit while the right engine bleed air primarily supplies the cabin. The automated logic in the engine only shuts down the bleed air valve if the engine N2 drops below a certain threshold. This means that in a left engine bird strike event, the cockpit can quickly fill with smoke, which may only stop once the pilot pulls the engine fire handle. The fire handle can’t be pulled right away because safety checklists must be followed to avoid shutting down the incorrect engine. In addition, pilots are unable to complete checklists right after takeoff when very close to the ground due to the high workload. Although a software fix may be underway, the issue can also be prevented (prior to any bird strike) by turning off the number 1 air conditioning pack prior to takeoff. In the Mentour Pilot video, Petter advocates for this change to 737 MAX procedures as a stopgap solution to the issue. The solution wouldn’t be perfect since bird strikes can still occur in other phases of flight. However, the pack could also be disabled when close to landing.
Bro come on
They exist and more are being built currently.
Luckily most home computers of the era plus the Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive used the same joystick port and wiring so many better controllers have been made and some are still being made.
That’s insane lol. Is there a clip of that? Can you provide more context?
They just need to hoodwink an investor to give them enough money to buy a factory producing magnets in China. Then they are going to slowly back way from their claims of doing anything special.

If they do not, they will run out of money and close after expending whatever capital they have.

Rinse and repeat and brrr goes the money printer.
It's distinct in that these groups aren't isolated from each other, there's member overlap and subgroups splintering from each other due to trying to avoid authorities.

It's also distinct in the type of crimes. Sextortion involving young kids/creation and sharing of CSAM merging with extreme political beliefs and encouraging those beliefs, with a specific focus to target young kids particularly those vulnerable enough to not have parents immediately notice. The criminals are often also on the younger side, like 19 year olds leading sex cults[1].

"The Com" goes by other names due to these groups being in a lot of different regions under different monikers and subgroups. 764 network, cvlt network, harm nation, etc. All the same general type of crime and target groups.

Here's some resources warning people about them:

https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2024/08/rcmp-reminds-canadians-about...

https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

[1] https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile...
Citation? They're not monitored or anything closer than normal cleared people.
Depending on Slack is, well...

What about based on Jabber/XMPP, or even better, pure email?
Thank you for the book recommendation.

It is true younger people may have less overt knowledge of this, but I am old, and I mainly spend time with older Chinese, people who would have been postgraduate students or early career academics in '89. Some of them have memories of being sent to the countryside in prior times, a cohort of phenomenally skilled, motivated mature students passed through the Chinese tertiary educational system when things normalised.

The party and government, senior leadership across state enterprises, are not under 30. That's why I talked to how institutional practices using AI like this interest me: the recipients have finely tuned bullshit filters, and state planning based off lies don't last very long.

But you make a good point: I probably overstate how widespread a certain cynical self interested cone of silence based on realism exists.
I really would like to see an OS-level disablement switch for Starlink, regardless of carrier.
Playing home arcade ports doesn’t have much appeal to me except for nostalgia when you can just as easily emulate the “real thing”. Activision and Imagic titles at least have some originality. River Raid(s), Atlantis, Cosmic Ark, Demon Attack, Alien Brigade, etc.
Oh yes I'm screenshotting this for the textbook
I Blog with Raw HTML
Yes! Would love a solution to this.
it is not the case :) you are trying to apply common sense with people commenting on this thread that have none
I suspect it's because it's a label put onto the workhorse of modern crime syndicates, not a vanity title like a gangs have. It's a web of disparate barely connected mercenary dots, so I imagine most people in "The Com" don't actually realise it's a phenomenon that has been named, and that they are a part of it.
I use Anki a lot and thanks for these, this is great

oh yeah for improvement I think you can add shortcut keyboard so I don't need to hover around my mouse or bigger accessible button outside card area
> exact duplicate submissions do get redirected to a single canonical item

Not always.
There seems to be some issue with the exactness match.
I haven't reported it because I presumed it was intentional.
Well, that and there's no obvious bug submission process.
I don't really want to comment on most of this post, but I want to address your final point:

> You are part of the "smug left"[0]. It's no wonder Joe Klein says this about the Democratic party ""The intellectual corrosion is comprehensive; it is only matched by the self-righteous arrogance.". I'm not sure about the first part, I avoid calling people stupid, but the latter point about the arrogance of the left is spot on.

Where the fuck did conservatives get the idea that they can say whatever they want and people will always be nice to them? The "smug left" stuff comes from the fact conservatives will hitch their wagon to so much stuff that is, in so far that this can be objective, very stupid.

For example, when I was a teenager, Conservatives were really trying to push for Creationism being pushed in schools. Creationism has no scientific basis, it has no business in a science classroom, it's based on an extremely stupid set of books, and yet this is the hill Conservatives wanted to die on.

Sometimes I decide to push back, even politely, but frankly it's exhausting. Creationists are just wrong, how many times should I be expected to have the same polite argument when they clearly have very little desire to actually learn anything?

This might come off as "smug", that's fine. I'm ok with being considered "smug". If you're really making your political decisions based on how polite some people are to you, then that's a lot more telling of you than me.
Have a MiSTER but for Super Nintendo games I picked up the Analogue SuperNT.
You can impose a timeout on a fetch with a one liner:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AbortSignal...

Part of the awkwardness in the post is also mixing what looks like express with promises. I think using an async function as the handler with express 5 would probably feel a lot nicer.

I agree about CORS being frustrating. I think we should have allowed totally anonymous fetch requests across domains for saved to home screen PWAs (or with a permission prompt.) Missing that feature means you end up needing native apps for a lot of things that otherwise are totally reasonable web apps. CORS does make sense though because the alternative is drive by attacks against your local network from random web pages. And since the S in IOT stands for security that seemed like a bad idea at the time.
I'm blogging with Raw HTML since the beginning of this year. The biggest missing piece is probably RSS support which makes me sad.

I can write a script to generate that from the list of article but I'm not sure if there's better way.
Off-topic: just one look at that homepage, the icons in particular, brought back such fond memories of the pre-flat design time. Those halcyon days when it was normal for buttons to look like buttons. (Maybe I'm just using the wrong apps these days.)
Politicians are notorious for only seeing as far as the next election.

Shareholders are notorious for only the seeing the business as a speculative asset to be flipped for a profit.

Governments clearly can handle long-term thinking, as can private companies. But only if they're left alone to do that.
I'm curious, what do libertarian types think of the per-mile car insurance deals that require the driver to install a surveillance device on their own vehicles?
I went thru the TS/SCI w/FSP for a 3 letter top tier agency and it was a joke. They interviewed my mom, sister, old coworkers/bosses and old teachers. Then just asked me normal questions. They asked my mom and boses normal questions too. It's nothing like in the movies/TV shows and plenty of bad apples get thru lol.

The former head of the DCSA and FBI NYC field office both got caught doing bad stuff. The process is broken and honestly isn't that good . It gets people who aren't committed out, but also makes tons of good candidates go with other jobs, because it takes at least 4 months to do. Mine was 9 months long + 3 months to get an offer initially.
The question i quoted about the humming bird anatomy? That is the point. That is why this evaluation explicitly decides to not go down that route.

Nobody (well, not me anyway) wants to convince you that it is usefull. That is the kind of question the authors of this evaluation looked at, they also felt what you are feeling, and decided to do something which doesn’t require that kind of deep and specialist knowledge. And that is what they describe in the paper’s title as “PhD knowledge not required”.
Hello dang, out of curiosity: is this way of thinking directly connected to some specific religion or group of some kind? - you mentioned a jargon.
I wouldn’t be opposed to an executive branch that implemented audits and took the results to congress to advocate for policy changes and department refactoring.

I’m very opposed to an executive branch that audits programs they have political problems with, and use these no-oversight audits to kill agencies. That’s just authoritarianism.
Not without pain. Housing correction would lead to foreclosures. Bumping UBI would lead to mortgage rates rising due to the ensuing inflation
1 is plainly false. Enormous ressources have been poured into models since the end 2023 and the "intelligence" (for lack of a better term) has stayed roughly the same, around the level of GPT-4. Nothing has happened since then.

You need to spend some quality time with o1-pro and/or Gemini Pro 2.0 Experimental. It is not the case that there has been no progress since GPT4. CoT reasoning is a BFD.
> I don't think anyone can truly understand what power does to the human brain in general and their brain specifically

But you purport to? :)

Power is such a nebulous term and can mean a lot of things. Of course, persuasive power, such as by reputation or actual charisma (not the case here), is a thing. But I think also in this case, at least as much as I can glean from others, Musk already had them at hello.
That same statement applies to literally every moment the country has existed.
An LLM’s mechanics are algorithmically much closer to the human brain (which the LLM is modeled on) than a TI-83, a CPU, or any other Turing machine. Which is why, like the brain, it can solve problems that no individual Turing machine can.

Are you sure you aren’t just defining reasoning as something only a human can do?
To clarify. If everyone in the US is given an extra 5k a month do you believe that the price of goods and services remain the same as they are at present?

If my landlord is charging me 2k for rent, does she not increase it knowing I now have an extra 5k of UBI monthly?

Or, if there’s a bidding war on a home that might typically sell as high as 300k, does that still hold true now that everyone has an extra 5k, or does the house sell for more?

Will a plumber still charge $30 an hour when he has a guaranteed 5k on top of what he’s making? Or will he start to bump his price up to make it worth his while?

I really don’t see how prices don’t just climb and re-equalize so that we’re back at square one. And your response didn’t address that concern.
Which itself is derived from the logic-defying diagram of the holy trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity
I’m pretty sure highways already have enough actual surveillance cameras that the marginal threat of surveillance from toll-collecting hardware is tiny.
>Training on all papers does not mean the model believes or knows the truth.
It is just a machine that spits out words.

Sounds like humans at school. Cram the material. Take the test. Eject the data.