skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality, which people are not acknowledging here, is that what they did may not have been according to official policy but it has been normal and pervasive for decades. It isn’t partisan, everyone does it. This is how DC works and the American public just got an education.

As a consequence, any enforcement now would be viewed as extremely selective.

I have been exposed to a lot of classified information in meetings in DC that were supposed to be unclassified. This isn’t an isolated incident, it has been a systemic issue across every administration for as long as I’ve worked in DC.

People should focus less on the incident and more on why this has been normal for decades.

The underlying tension is that doing things the official way is extremely slow and speed matters. There is a longstanding bias toward taking more risks in terms of information exposure because being slow carries its own significant risks. Speed of decision making is critical and that has proven to be impossible if every interaction has to happen inside a SCIF. It is a tension the intelligence community is still grappling with.
I wrote a proprietary variation of this project for a large organization and used a similar approach to the author. The primary reason I used the browser for authentication was to take advantage of FIDO U2F (Yubikeys). Openssh does support U2F authentication, but it requires the user to sign a public key with the hardware device, forcing the organization to again store users' public keys.

The users disliked the redirects to and from the MFA provider just to log in and receive a signed SSH certificate, but there was no practical way to perform logins in the terminal without creating a whole new protocol and expanding the timeline of the project.
Isnt it against GDPR and they could get hit with large fines in Europe for every recipient?
I felt the same way at first, but even in my small project, I've come to greatly appreciate them—or at least what they seem to enable. I've found deeply nested bindings to work without a hitch, which wasn't always the case in Svelte 4.
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Bro, just use fish shell. They have done all the heavy lifting for you.
Garbage compared to Midjourney. I don't even know why you'd market this. It's takes a minute or more and the results are what I'd say Midjourney looked like 1.5 years ago.
I live near a rail yard, and there's a surprisingly high number of ADM tankers running through the yard. It's my understanding that they usually contain vegetable oil or corn syrup.

What I find most disconcerting is when I see milk trailers on the road. I've also seen Purina carry pet food ingredients in tankers, with a label that says "inedible" right under "pet food".
I know all my immediate neighbors, and am great friends with one, and amiable with all the others. You just have to not be shy, I have a type A personality so not afraid to walk over and say howdy. Most people are good with small talk if you open. Not everyone wants to be your best friend and I keep that in mind, but would rather say hello than a total stranger.
Just curious, where do you see the words "available today"?
Going through this today. I put a video online of my product and... no one cares. I knew it would probably be nothing but seeing nothing is something else
The speed of light is 1c and is a fundamental constant.

Humans choose to express it in metres and seconds.

A meter is huge if you compare it to the Planck length. Humans are pretty big creatures compared to fundamental particles, so we have a big basic unit of length. But seconds are gargantuan, because humans are absolutely glacial if you compare them to the time it takes light to travel a Planck length.

It's like a continental plate asking why humans zip around so fast.
What is your biggest concern about the mucosal tissues? Loss of taste/smell?

I remember folks making their own intranasal vaccines with research peptides. What is your analysis of that?
“We investigated ourselves and found ourselves not guilty.”
Anarchism in action, baby! (Not "the purge" style anarchism, anarchism in the "self organizing to build nice things" style.)

Turns out that this is the fundamental nature of people. People want to feel connected. People want do to nice things for one another. Bonding and socialization is the natural state for people.

Organizing doesn't have to be hard, and often, the best organizing is just doing something visible and inviting anyone who is coming by to participate.
That documentation refers to a much older and closed source version of opkssh.

> It seems like to use OpenPubKey you also need a fairly modern version of OpenSSH.

On versions of OpenSSH older than 8.1 (2019), you may run into issues if you have a huge ID Token. That shouldn't be a problem for standard sized ID Tokens, some enterprise OIDC solutions put the phone book in an ID Token and we have to care about that.

> It also requires that the user authenticating have sudo access on the machine, which doesn't sound great.

The user authenticating does not need sudo access. You only need sudo access to install it. You need sudo to install most software in on servers.

> It's not clear to me whether it's possible for the existing authorized_keys file to co-exist or whether that's just to stop access using existing keys

opkssh works just fine in parallel to authorized_keys. We are using AuthorizedKeyCommand config option in sshd_config, so opkssh functions like an additional authorized_keys file. My recommendation is that you use authorized_keys as a breakglass mechanism.
In the ML problem I'm working on now, there are about a dozen simple hyperparameters, and each training run takes hours or even days. I don't think there's any good way to search the space of hyperparameters without a deep understanding of the problem domain, and even then I'm often surprised when a minor config tweak yields better results (or fails to). Many of these hyperparameters affect performance directly and are very sensitive to hardware limits, so a bad value leads to an out-of-memory error in one direction or a runtime measured in years in the other. It's a real-world halting problem on steroids.

This is not to even mention more complex design decisions, like the architecture of the model, which can't be captured in a simple hyperparameter.
Is there a technical paper released about the model architecture? Great resolution points to diffusion style generation rather than just token based?
I have seen the exact opposite also succeed.

Truth is, the only metric for success is how much do you care about something. I'm convinced that the wildest, most broken ideas and processes can also be successful because the founder cared enough.
Law is a tool, and some tools are appropriate for some contexts and others are not. Do you think there is such a thing as "International Law"? If so, I would ask you what you think that actually is and where its legitimacy comes from and who enforces it? Politics and Law are two separate spheres of human conflict. You actually degrade the law by trying to weaponize it for political purposes. I would hope the past 10 years have shown that to everyone.
UNE is a great option if you're looking to enter university as a mature-age student. The requirements differ widely between universities for mature-age entry, with some of the Go8 universities excluding mature-age students from certain degrees altogether.
As much as I appreciate Svelte, the React devex is unmatched. I built a client-side app using Wails with Svelte 5 and I found myself wanting React's seamless devex and vast ecosystem. Once I migrated over to React it was like a huge handicap was lifted.

Svelte is great. But if you're in a time crunch and you don't have a specific technical requirement that makes React a bad match, I don't think Svelte is worth it. A big part of the Svelte ecosystem is still using Svelte stores, and I found the "one component per file" paradigm to be a bit limiting.
Haha, I came here to post this and I was beaten! This is one of the clearest expressions of anarchist praxis I've seen in a while. (Of course, people will not understand this, because anarchism is seen as a weird, deviant, punk subculture.)
Similar to regular LLM plagarism, it's pretty obvious that visual artefacts like the loadout screen for the rpg cat (video game heading) which is inspired by diablo, aren't unique at all and just the result of other peoples efforts and livelihoods.
love it. Will be bookmarking this page
Linux newbie here. Jumped into the Linux world after getting tired of Microsoft's BS with Win 11. Running Linux mint on my laptop and desktop. Looks like 'atop' is not installed by default, but regular 'top'. Anyone know which distros I should be worried about that have it? Also I have been dabbling with proxmox, I checked and looks like 'top' is the default there too.
Because I'm emphasizing the vacuity of simply asserting "the law" as if it's something we all agree on. It is not. I would be as if I said "the Pope" or "the King" or "God" says. I'm sure you would acknowledge that "the law" itself embodies conflict and there is constantly in flux, so how can anyone appeal to it in good faith as if it had an obvious meaning.
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It’s straightforward logic though.

1. Trump’s team was spied on by the FBI.
2. Government employees have access to government systems.

Conclusion? There is a possibility that Trump’s team again be spied upon through the government systems and consequently have sabotage done upon them. Therefore, avoid government systems as much as possible.

Calling this unfounded conspiracy theory is just running away from this very straightforward and simple argument.

Also, is there proof that these government systems are completely secure? Without that proof, why should they be using those systems? (He who controls the null hypothesis and all..)
The new model in the drop down says something like "4o Create Image (Updated)". It is truly incredible. Far better than any other image generator as far as understanding and following complex prompts.

I was blown away when they showed this many months ago, and found it strange that more people weren't talking about it.

This is much more precise than the Gemini one that just came out recently.
Without getting into the question of what it means for the pandemic to be "over", I think it's relevant to point out that at least some of the cancelled grants are not studying COVID per se, but rather are studying things relevant to preparing for the next pandemic. Jeremy Berg (a former director of NIGMS) has some commentary, and mentions that the AVIDD program was among those that were terminated: https://bsky.app/profile/jeremymberg.bsky.social/post/3lla4k...

This was a large program that funded general research into antiviral drugs- again, in preparation for next time.

Going on the experience of the last couple of weeks, and what we have seen in terms of grant and program terminations, I would not be surprised if they did a big grep for the substring "COVID" and used that as their starting point for finding things to cut, without actually paying attention to what the grants were really studying.
> We should feel lucky that merely an American journalist was added by mistake.

This time. We also have no idea how many times this has happened without the unique circumstances where the person incorrectly included would draw attention to the leak as part of their job as a journalist.

Generally speaking, if something like this can happen once, it has probably happened more than once.

We probably are very lucky that the time it very publicly happened was fairly early on in the tenure of this dumpster fire of a Presidential cabinet.

Of course instead of them seeing it this way they are certain to keep going after the journalist in an attempt to make him the bad guy of the story to project blame away, because that is what incompetent people do.
You're trying to reason with the unreasonable. There are some very short memories on here. Or people being willfully obtuse.
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At the bottom of the screen you will find a pulldown that lets you show up to 5000 entries.
Tangent, feel free to downvote but I want to (lightly) rant.

We're finally pulling the copper from the walls.

I don't think we're imminently about to fall to fascism but I see the UK about 50 paces down the path from us wrt gutting public services and investment in any kind of future that operates better than today.

Our country voted for this, eyes wide open. This ain't a fluke.
I agree. There are official channels that already exist for discussing sensitive information, and it does not appear Signal is one of them. These officials using any device or software not approved for that purpose constitutes a serious breach of protocol.

Signal probably shouldn't be approved for that purpose because it does trade some foolproofness for convenience. Secure communication should also be limited to dedicated devices, which probably wouldn't have journalists stored in their contacts.
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I didn't quite read parent's comment like that. I think it's more about how we keep moving the goalposts or, less cynically, how the models keep getting better and better.

I am amazed at the progress that we are _still_ making on an almost monthly basis. It is unbelievable. Mind-boggling, to be honest.

I am certain that the issue of pacing will be solved soon enough. I'd give 99% probability of it being solved in 3 years and 50% probability in 1.
https://archive.is/gGX1h
Those were generalizations covering 100M+ people in each category, just in America, and my guess at what the original author meant by the statement that GP was surprised by.
Where did you see signs of control by Russia or China? The project's github repo states that the project currently has one maintainer, and that maintainer has a very Dutch name and a .nl website.
author here; Claude use here was pure laziness - and personally, I found it quite funny that it worked. We could sample pixels and try and build that detection, but $<1c per run to write a prompt and get some json was too hilarious not to ship to prod.

Maybe it needs to have more complex logic/detection and we need something more complex down the road. But it's like easy and cheap OCR for now.

what was kinda funnier was that I tried to get Claude to generate its own Go client code to upload the image and run the prompt; it totally totally hallucinated on that part :).
The pandemic is over, just like the Spanish Flu pandemic is over, but the virus is still in the wild, and it will be, probably forever.

By now, most people either were infected at least once or got one of the vaccines.

Seasonal variants will occur every year, just like with the flu, people will get sick, but in the vast majority of cases, no internation will be needed unless in the cases of people with comorbidities and other vulnerabilities that make most common respiratory infections potentially challenging for them. It sucks, but it is life.

Medical research investments as with everything else in health need to take into account the cost-benefit ratio of every decision. Spending lots of money on SARS-COV-2 probably in lieu of other more urgent issues probably doesn't make much sense now.

People need to emotionally detach themselves from COVID. The adventure is over.
btop gives you a more holistic overview of the system: individual disk stats, network stats, graphs of mem/cpu/bandwidth usage over time, etc.

I think it's handy having everything on one screen, but if you know your way around all the individual builtin tools for these, more power to you, no reason to change.
So I spent a good few hours investigating the current state of the art a few weeks ago. I would like to generate a collection of images for the art in a video game.

It is incredibly difficult to develop an art style, then get the model to generate a collection of different images in that unique art style. I couldn't work out how to do it.

I also couldn't work out how to illustrate the same characters or objects in different contexts.

AI seems great for one off images you don't care much about, but when you need images to communicate specific things, I think we are still a long way away.
I've generally been best served by NAVY: never again volunteer yourself.

Others will advertise for you... or simply pay attention when you do well. Being reliable is outstanding, a true rarity.

Plenty of folks will want to take advantage. Assuming you weren't actually hired to work alone in a closet, there will be opportunities to shine/get put on speed dial... if you really want that.
Discussion (54 points, 21 days ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261218
> If they were more powerful, most uses of X Macros could be replaced by just having a single macro do all of the magic

While this is probably true, I once used this pattern in Rust, which has way more powerful macro system (and also a powerful generic system).
It's a bit strange to talk about stuck when the most recent breakthrough is less than a year old.
First of all, btop is included in the default repos of most Linux distros, so you don't need to worry about security. This also applies to htop and glances by the way.

In terms of tangible feature benefits, btop also offers disk I/O stats, network throughput stats, partition usage, and even GPU usage (if your distro compiled it with GPU support).

In terms of "nice" stuff that's non-essential, the overall UI is a lot more user-friendly and in many ways, better (subjectively). Eg there are visual graphs for various metrics, you can filter process names by substring, get detailed stats of a specific process, see the tree view of all the processes, easily show/hide various parts of the UI (eg you can focus solely on the process list if that's the only thing you're interested in).

There are also some distinct advantages the UI offers easier to send specific signals to processes. Eg in btop I can just select SIGSTOP from the menu, whereas in top, I'd need to remember or lookup the numeric equivalent (eg 19 for SIGSTOP).

Other top alternatives also offer similar feature sets. Glances also shows the most recent warning/errors from the system logs), as well as container resource usage which would be handy for some folks.
Same here: My problem of choice is the 100 prisoners problem [1]. I used to ask simple reasoning questions in the style of "what is the day three days before the day after tomorrow", but nowadays when I ask such questions, I can almost feel the the NN giggling at the naivety of its human operator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_prisoners_problem
>So I can't explain why it picks tokens likely to elicit an empathetic response from a human reader.

The very fact that the output tokens are being "redirected" is likely something that the model itself recognizes at meta level. If you were suddenly reading a piece of text and the style changed halfway, let alone the entire content, you'd be thrown for a loop as well. The model also knows that it was the one that generated the text (it generate logits for every token in the input stream, even though only the logits for last token are sampled, so it can obviously see the tokens fed to it align with its own predicted distribution). Now put those together: it recognizes that halfway through writing something it suddenly started outputting gibberish. If it were a human, you'd think he was having a stroke.

Also that circuit breaker paper makes me sad on multiple levels. Even setting aside the issue of qualia/subjective experience, this is even worse than the usual RLHF'ing against wrong think in terms of lobotimizing the model. Yes it probably works well to prevent any "undesirable" output, but are you really going to get a model that produces quality output, or will it just anodyne slop? If you don't even allow it to think like an attacker, how will you expect it to write secure code? One man's reverse engineering is another man's exploit development. You simply can't neuter one without affecting the other. (I think DeepSeek's models will maintain their lead for this reason alone.)
I have a web extension I made as a pet project that does something useful to me (in the spirit of selling my work, it's called Favioli ).

It's free/open-source and will always be free. But the idea was inspired by my friend's code. When I made a blog post about how I made the extension, he reposted it on his relatively popular blog + Twitter.

Because of that, the extension has had around 1000 users since the very beginning, and I've gotten some prs and improvements here and there. And it feels good to have solved an issue for some people other than myself.

I think this is what the author means by "selling". I'm generally the type of person who doesn't self-advertise, because my mindset is that I don't want to bother people. So if my friend hadn't publicized it for me, the extension would probably have 5 users. So maybe 995 other people wouldn't have benefitted from my work. I think this article is not saying that you "have" to sell your work, but that if you're proud of it, don't feel ashamed to tell people that it exists.
That is some wide gap!
Bayes would like to have a word.
That sounds like an interesting feature to write. Is there an open issue for it?
Agreed. Using Claude Sonnet 3.5-7 with Aider produces significantly better output than any other models I have tried.
There's plenty of commercial products you can use to enhance the antiviral protection of your mucosal immune system. Zicam sells one. It's a goop. you rub in your nose preemptively. I'm also in the no covid club (over 150 negative tests) and I put a lot of credit for that on the nose goop.
Maybe this JS one by aem1k? https://aem1k.com/qlock/

This Ruby clock by Yusuke Endoh is even cooler imo: https://youtu.be/pgAHW8OpcTY
I typed 'atop' in my Linux Mint 22.1 laptop/desktop, says it's not found but can be installed. So I think Linux Mint is in the clear, I tried my Ubuntu 24.04 server and same thing there as well as my proxmox home lab instance. I checked that Repology link and I did see Ubuntu, but I guess that is for Ubuntu desktop but not sever edition?

ps. If I said anything wrong, please correct me. I'm a linux newb who jumped from Microsoft's world after getting fed up with their Win11 BS. I'm still learning quite a bit about linux daily.
Missing from their output is an upvote and downvote button. Or a debug function that forces it to divulge where it obtained the data.

Wait, now that I think about it why are there Fact Checkers for humans and not for AI?
Hey so that is when you would install our GitHub app, which listens for changes on your codebase and similarly opens PRs. Optionally you can use our AI powered markdown editor, to edit and review the markdown in the PRs. Happy to help set up free trial credits for that use-case if you want to reach out.
Random data? Why not "recipes" that just say "Bezos is a pedo" over and over ?
It may indicate a Tick-Tock [1] process.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick%E2%80%93tock_model
apparently it's not diffusion, but tokens
Gemini refuses to answer any questions on poprtional swing models or anything related to psephology on the grounds that it has to do with elections. Neither Claude nor ChatGPT nor Mistral/Le Chat are that neutered.
The UAT is a pretty weak result in practice. A lot of systems have the same property, and most of them are pretty poor approximators in practice. It may very well be that no reasonable amount of computing power allows approximating the "function of consciousness". Plus, if you're a certain kind of dualist the entire idea of a compact, smooth "consciousness" function may be something you reject philosophically.
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what it would take to create a sort of “friends and family” Internet using some combination of Headscale/Tailscale. I want to feel free and open about what I’m publishing again, and the modern internet is making that increasingly difficult.