skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in Germany - Capital One blocked access to my account unless I confirmed via SMS or tapping my card. Both of which I didn’t have with me.

Tunnelling into my home machine I was able to access the account and transfer money I needed.

Sure a VPN might be able to do this too but it’s nice being able to exit via a connection you control.

I can also watch Plex movies without exposing ports.
To test: https://chat.qwen.ai/ and select Qwen2.5-plus, then toggle QWQ.
> Given that a wallet is basically a bank account except it cannot be seized by a government

All wallets could become worthless in a weekend if a government makes the wrong stride in quantum research..

El Salvador is not recommending Bitcoin and found low interest in actual use.

Madoff also had a fund that could return very well. Satoshi just has to show up and cash out to ruin his pyramid or push the pyramid entirely to the US tax payers right now. Seems improbable like the chairman of NASDAQ running a scam..

These bizarre scams have no place in a real economy and we have to get rid of 0% interest to kill this garbage.
It just feels like a smear on his character: Imagine working on RL incrementally without any lofty goals or preconceived evil.

I do agree that there is some level of inherent safety issues with such technologies - but look at atomic bomb vs fission reactors etc: history paves a way through positivity.

Just because someone had an idea that eventually turned to have some evil branch off way further from the root idea doesn't mean they started with the evil idea in the first place or worse, someone else won't.
The article tries to label something objectively good as something bad:

>>One practical outcome is that government agencies find it harder to identify criminals behind particular IPv4 addresses.

lol, lmao even.

>>As a result, the agency says, investigations often involve examining and tapping the connections of many more people than really necessary.

just incompetence abound, the police should suffer if they don't know how to do their job more effectively
I always wondered why the climate impact of a recovering ozone was not taken into account when forecasting climate change?
Great argument. "I don't believe it has value, so it doesn't." Well, keep telling yourself that. I'm sure you feel just as smart as you did when you dismissed bitcoin at $1,000, and you'll feel just as smart dismissing it at $1,000,000.
Give republicans the coast line and see them go!
While I understand concerns about the lottery exploiting vulnerable people, one reason for having a state lottery is that it provides a legal alternative to illegal numbers rackets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game), which were widespread before state lotteries became common. Criminal organizations profited from these underground games, often operating without oversight or consumer protections. A state-run lottery at least ensures transparency and directs revenue toward public services rather than illicit enterprises.
Tailscale also allows you to issue valid TLS certificates (`tailscale cert`), which is crazy useful for certain local development tasks, EG developing SSO for a mobile application where the SSO provider mandates TLS and the mobile devices dont easily allow you to bypass self-signed certificates. They keep piling on awesome features, big fan.

The Tailscale k8s operator is also great.
> What viewpoint does it oppose?

The viewpoint expressed two comments before yours: human exceptionalism.
The elephant in the room is the continual creation of new money by the Fed by dumping it into the financial industry, while the legislative government itself has been hamstrung (and is now being killed) by this "debt" narrative (eg a good chunk of that debt is just to the Fed itself!). The consumer price inflation from the first Trump term caused the first spate of fiscal responsibility the Fed (and thus the government as a whole) has had for the past several decades. Going forward, the productive path is to tamp down on the monetary creation being done by the Fed, let the asset bubbles cool down, and be comfortable with the legislative government spending newly-created money for deliberate goals.
tailscale to expose a port is such overkill. just use ngrok for that.
that's unholy our lord and savior jesus dictated species and tribal/racial boundaries should be maintained
I find most child safety legislation borderline hysterical.

Fear of "algorithms" and such always turn into absurdist type laws.

Long ago, my state we had a law (quickly suspended and later struck down) that made it a felony to sell a minor a "violet" video game. I don't think making some poor store clerk a felon is solving anything...
This is so overwritten.

tl;dr author was skeptical of a famous story about a writer who got scammed out of $50k cash she withdrew from her bank, because it's actually very hard to get any bank to just hand you $50k of your own money in cash. After months of diligent investigation, author established that writer was well off and was treated differently from regular people because her bank branch is in an upscale neighborhood with a lot of rich clients.
It's not as surprising to me given that this isn't really emergent in a bottom-up sense... its a direct response to being trained to be misaligned, albeit on other tasks. Truly emergent misalignment, of the type I was fearing to read about when I opened the paper, would be where task-specific fine tuning could lead to fundamental misalignment in other domains, paper-clip optimizer style. My company fine-tunes LLMs for time series analysis tasks and they are being taken pretty far out of the domain of their pre-training data, so if all of a sudden you take one of these models and prompt it with natural language as opposed to the specially formatted time series data it is expecting the results are hard to reason about... yes it still speaks English but what has it lost? I would be more surprised/worried if misalignment arose that way.
"banks allowing export of transactions" is only the start.

I deal with two banks for credit cards.

One (call it "Blue Bank") allows me to download a statement. I filter out a couple of things (payments mostly), check that it matches the paper statement balance, and post it. About 15 minutes start to finish.

The other (call it "Orange Bank") allows me to download a "statement". I filter out a couple of things (payments mostly), check my previous month's transactions to see which ones at the beginning of the file actually go in the current billing period (not already paid), stare at the last transactions to see which ones actually were posted to the current billing period (not after the cutoff), run the script to check the total (nope, doesn't match) then do that a couple of times until it matches. The time they changed the meaning of the "credit" column from "just confirming this is a credit" to "it's a credit, you need to flip the sign" it was 45 minutes.

But hey, it's all CSV!
My EcoTank didn't notice the day glo and invisible fluorescent inks I put through it. Amazing device.
Passion doesn’t have to be fixed. It can and should evolve over time as you grow as a person. And it’s okay if it’s a rabbit hole that leads to other rabbit holes.
Google IPv6 traffic hit an all-time high this week: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
I believe the term hallucination comes from vision models, where the model would "hallucinate" an object where none exists.
It's important to note that this pretty much never actually happened and is only repeated all the time because of some movie.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
Uk Govt wanted Apple to give them backdoor keys to all accounts. Not even just UK accounts, all accounts. Apple said no and said they will remove encryption from iCloud for UK users. Apple then sued UK govt to try and get the whole thing stopped so that they dont need to remove the encryption from UK. But some parts of the govt were telling other parts to use some of the encryption features.
And how much VRAM will Project Digits have?
For well-known games like "Pokemon Red" I wonder how much of that game knowledge would be "smuggled in" by an LLM in it's training data if you just replaced the external info in the reward function with it/used it to make up for other deficiencies.

I think they allude to this in their conclusion, but it's less about the low-hanging fruit and more about designing a system to feedback game dialogue into the RL decision making process in a way that can be mutated as part of the RL(be it an LLM or something else)
Mount Stupidity is the peak of overconfidence greatly outpacing your competency level. So, falling off is essentially being humbled by expreiences that make you realize you do not know as much as you think you do, and your confidence takes a major dive as a result.
I forgot about Micron, absolutely. TSMC is the supplier for all of these, so you're covering both memory and compute if that's your strategy (the risk is that US TSMC is over provisioning manufacturing based on the pandemic hardware boom).
Uncontended acquire-release atomic operations are basically free on Apple Silicon, which synergizes with the Objective-C (and Swift!) runtimes, where every retain/release is an atomic increment/decrement.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201119143547/https://twitter.c...
One part of the UK government is trying to force Apple to introduce back doors in cloud data encryption. The back doors are intended for UK government access to user data. This undermines the whole feature. Meanwhile, other parts of the UK government have been encouraging at-risk people to use the same feature, including to hide information from hostile foreign governments. The UK government as a whole has apparently realized that this is embarrassing and taken down the advice.
Sure, you can go launch it on pump.fun right now. But you still can't create any more bitcoins.
Wankers! Sorry that's not constructive. But that's what they are.

Especially when government ministers regularly accidentally delete everything and get away with it...
IMHO Lying means thinking one thing and saying another, hiding your true internal state. For it to be effective it also seems to require something like “theory of mind” (what does the other person know / think that I know).
The Hamachi UI and UX were great. I was very sad when it got bloated and then killed like a beached whale. I just looked and I guess it lives on as a whalezombie at https://vpn.net/.
Didn't Ben Franklin have his own printing press promoting his views?

America's political class got complacent and lazy, and forgot that they have to sell what they were pushing to the American people. They never even FOUGHT the battle of ideas. As they age out/get pushed out new Ben Franklin with their own printing press types will rise.
But - hear me out - if all of your servers did have wifi - and it was usually disabled - but you could enable it, move the server, then disable it - that might be something?

I know having a redundant server is better - but there's something to it.

Also, this reminds me of a post I read a while ago about them moving a server from one building to another without unplugging it or something.

[Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243]
Getting high on their own supply.

It's a problem when humans do this. That AI also do it… is interesting… but AI's failure is not absolved by human failure.
As I understand it (which might be incorrect), they don't want to tell people "use Apple encryption" anymore and e silently removed that advice from their websites. Probably due to the fact that they didn't get their Backdoor access to user data, so now they want people to just now encrypt stuff
> as of now, Bitcoin hasn't been hacked

We should be cautious about whether past precedent applies to future bitcoin, because the bitcoin halving mechanism ensures that bitcoin enters uncharted territory (with regards to the incentives at play) every four years for the next ~100.

Satoshi's design was that bitcoin would be used as cash and transaction volume would provide the funds to secure the network. That largely hasn't happened (it's a "store of value" now, lightning exists, etc.), so mining incentives are still ~95-98% funded from the exponentially diminishing supply of new coins.

Short of some institution stepping in to secure the bitcoin network by mining at a loss, it's hard not to imagine a 51% attack being relatively cheap on the time scale of decades.
Good. Even if they lose, they should make as much noise as possible before giving up on the UK market. Maybe it will start to turn the tide of public perception.
I think it's normal to invest authority in a report that someone else has prepared - people take what is written on trust because the person who prepared it is accountable for any errors... not just now, but forever.

LLM's are not accountable for anything.
Because it was dumb?
“…any hotel that bans minors in California violates California Civil Code 51 — also known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which provides blanket legal protections against discrimination in California businesses.”

Of course California technically bans adult-only public accommodation.

Wonder if the solution is malicious compliance or conversion into a non-public venue, e.g. “invitation only” or whatnot.
Now he has exempted autos, so you can in fact drive a tariff free truck through the border as well.

LOL
For planning purposes, could you look at a year's postings, then come up with "good enough" breakout allocations going forward?
> Isn't Apple also focusing on the AI stuff?

Yes, but not with their GPU architecture. Apple's big bet was on low-power NPU hardware, assuming the compute cost of inference would go down as the field progressed. This was the wrong bet - LLMs and other AIs have scaled up better than they scaled down.

> How has it not already made that decision? What would prevent Apple from making that decision?

I mean, for one, Apple is famously stubborn. They're the last ones to admit they're wrong whenever they make a mistake, presumably admitting that the NPU is wasted silicon would be a mea-culpa for their AI stance. It's also easier to wait for a new generation of Apple Silicon to overhaul the architecture, rather than driving a generational split as soon as the problem is identified.

As for what's preventing them, I don't think there's anything insurmountable. But logically it might not make sense to adopt Nvidia's strategy even if it's better. Apple can't neccessarily block Nvidia from buying the same nodes they get from TSMC, so they'd have to out-design Nvidia if they wanted to compete on their merits. Even then, since Apple doesn't support OpenCL it's not guaranteed that they would replace CUDA. It would just be another proprietary runtime for vendors to choose from.

> Can you give an example of where Metal wants you to write something yourself whereas CUDA is pre-rolled?

Not exhaustively, no. Some of them are performance-optimized kernels like cuSPARSE, some others are primative sets like cuDNN, others yet are graph and signal processing libraries with built-out support for industrial applications.

To Apple's credit, they've definitely started hardware-accelerating the important stuff like FFT and ray tracing. But Nvidia still has a decade of lead time that Apple spent shopping around with AMD for other solutions. The head-start CUDA has is so great that I don't think Apple can seriously respond unless the executives light a fire under their ass to make some changes. It will be an "immovable rock versus an unstoppable force" decision for Apple's board of directors.
Maybe they know a guy[1].

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/victims-cryptocurrency-sc...
False Plateau Syndrome
Also, their building up on top of a 'platform' is wonderful: funnel, exit nodes, sharing, ssh, drive etc.

I wonder if they can figure out a way to distribute compute eventually via their network (not just clunky ssh): 'my' storage is already shared with 'my' nodes, why not 'my' compute? :)

Seems like a great company/business.
Part of the personal issue also. Notably, not especially Democrat or Republican related. Both administration groups for years.

The Defense part especially seems crazy. Per USASpending.gov [1], last year the federal government spent $9,700,000,000,000. Despite all the talk that Covid budgets were short term event, they never actually went back down. Dropped to $9T in 2022, and then started rising again. Post-Covid surge was $6.6T in 2019, then jumped to $9.1T in 2020. $10.1 in 2021.

[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

At the same time, post-Covid, the Defense Department budget has been rising at about $100,000,000,000 / yr for the last three years. 2021: $1.1T 2022: $1.2T 2023: $1.3T 2024: $1.4T

(To be fair in comparison though, the largest other single items, Medicare / Social Security, have also been rising fast. 2021: 1.4 / 1.2, 2022: 1.5 / 1.3, 2023: 1.6 / 1.4, 2024: 1.6 / 1.5 )

However, with the DoD, what have we got from that much spending? Incredibly depressing slides from The War on the Rocks like this one about the incomprehensible gap in shipbuilding capacity? A factor of 232x? The US only has 100,000 tons of shipbuilding? That's a single neo-Panamax cargo ship. [1]

[2] https://www.twz.com/alarming-navy-intel-slide-warns-of-china...

Or this one from Military.com, that the government does not know where $151 million of $225 million collected from soldiers for food supplies on garrisons was actually spent. [3] Fort Stewart, 87% of funds redirected. Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, 63% redirected. All but two bases left more than half of the money for food unspent. $225 million doesn't mean almost anything to the government, yet $460 of mandatory / month deduction in paycheck for a Basic Allowance for Subsistence that then goes "somewhere" matters quite a bit to individual soldiers. And the defense budget rose $100B every year for years.

[3] https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-featu...

Anyways, specific examples of the issues I have with current government spending and the way it's allocated.
There is an issue of the time scales involved, after all if you take it far enough oil and gas are just undoing what geological epochs did, and will do again.

Personally though no I don't think a wood burning stove is an issue, other than the raised cancer risk for the owner/operator, and that isn't my problem.
I use Tailscale a lot. I don't fully trust anybody but I trust them more than I trust myself to set it up properly.
OG: https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js/
yeah, they're going to have to build a new NATO-like alliance and go it alone. Seems like it would be a good thing if the EU had some military teeth of their own to give them more leverage in all the Bad Things going on now.
I have worked in the Instagram ios source. It is FUCKING AWFUL.

They’re impressive in their business success given their code quality.
> Shameless plug, but some of the Nebula team (including myself) works on https://www.defined.net/ (proprietary managed Nebula networks.)

My one objection to Nebula is that its Android app is proprietary, and your response is to plug the even more proprietary way to run it?

> Also, ZeroTier is "open-source ish."

So it's not FOSS.
Really? Doesn’t that describe every kind of store where you don’t create the product yourself as an arbitrage? You’re just buying items from a supplier and reselling to make a profit
It's also just clearly a powerful and interesting tinkering project, which there are valid arguments for, but this can just chill out on your desk as an elegant general productivity machine. What it wouldn't do that the tinkering project could do is be upgraded, act as a powerful gaming pc, or cause migraines from constant fan noise.

The custom build would work great though, and even moreso in a server room and as well continues to reveal by comparison how excessively Apple prices it's components.
> submit an INSERT into the database with you as the winning number at a predetermined date/time in the past

If you have this capability then why not just insert all number combinations into the db well before draw time?

Makes me wonder how money flows from lottery terminals back to the lottery itself. I imagine there's some rigorous bookkeeping involved.
I take it more to mean "people who have to be technically inclined to a degree to get online in the 90s" don't really exist as a category that is self-selecting.

The other thing you mention is huge, too, of course. All the "famous" things from the 90s were basically labours of love by individual hackers who then looked for ways to fund it. Now everything is all about ad-revenue dollars.
This take horrifies me. Furthering personal knowledge is not even in the same class as driving money on machines calculating random hashes for the sole purpose of proving they are calculating random hashes.

I believe strongly in the power of education, an educated populace that is able to deeply hone it's craft and practice it's interest is the path to prosperity.

I recoil at the kind of outlook you need to have to believe what this post seems to believe.
You were explicit. "I'm most other ways crypto isn't that great". Were "other ways" is in juxtaposition to "being limited".

But being limited isn't great either
I have a brand new color laser printer on the latest firmware and have no such problems running aftermarket toner.

> Rossman created a Wiki page breaking down the reported issues, including “printers continue to function with third-party toner but print at degraded quality unless OEM toner is installed.”

People are probably overreacting when their knockoff Chinese toner fails in the machine and the Brother rep's official response is "Use genuine toner".

Especially when there is an equal number of complaints that are essentially "I bought the cheapest knockoff toner I could and the print quality went down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_windshield_pitting_epi...

The irony is here is that the mass paranoia created by inferior knockoffs is exactly why the evil printer companies justify their ink/toner restrictions.
Your AI hallucinated. It probably confused the KOSA in question (Kids Online Safety Act) with a local children's soccer league called "KOSA 14/15" (https://www.redrosearena.com/team/102420). You're arguing against something nobody proposed.
You are talking nonsense. If you borrow $100 to buy bitcoin, you owe the $100 + interest to service the debt. The govt is planning to hold the BTC forever, interest is 4% a year, currently. That debt will be paid either by your taxes, or by money printing, leading to inflation. Sure, maybe btc will go up. Or maybe it won't.

Is it the government's job to speculate on crypto. If you think it is, why only crypto? Why not shares? Why not property?
rich people stuff is so fascinating to me my family went on one vacation my whole life i wonder why jesus made us poor because i loved school so much
For very different reasons, though: If the check bounces, the bank potentially takes the loss if the depositor has already withdrawn/spent the funds.

In other words, this is a direct credit risk to the bank, not the more indirect reputational or relationship risk of potentially unwittingly or negligently facilitating a scam described in TFA.
Considering that a modern Ryzen is 1375 times faster than a VAXstation 4000/60, and a VAXstation 4000/60 is around 1280 times faster, at least in clock, than an AGC, that would mean the M4 would need to be about 5.6 times faster than that modern Ryzen.

Hmmm... The M4 might be ten million times faster than the AGC, depending on the instructions per clock of the AGC and the VAXstation 4000/60 with which we're comparing it.

https://zia.io/notice/ApcPNCgTyrYXpUQU2S
Back end coder for about 18 years.

I don't have one, and no employer in an interview has ever really expressed interest in something like that.
> Just slashing staff left and right is malpractice

All businesses above a certain size do that, because there's no other practical way.