skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a lot of software in megacorps, it makes more sense if you look at 'trained in X' as a kind of magic spell that has no real relation with the ability to do a job.

If the end user says: I have no training in X, that mostly means they don't want to work with X or don't want to accept extra workload related to X. The company then provides training in X, another magic spell meaning money was spent so the company officially did something, and the excuse about not being trained won't work anymore. Blame has now been shifted from the company to the worker or even the end user. So training being expensive has better optics.

Big tools like MSOffice have the ability to be put in hiring contracts: Everyone is assumed to know how to use it, so the company is allowed to deny the no training excuse without spending money.

Actual training for the whole company is more like a networking event, and if you ignore the trainer and read the manual or watch some youtube, you may actually learn what you're supposed to. Once in a while, you get a trainer who knows what they are talking about. But all that is secondary.
I suggest getting to ground on how OPSEC works (or doesn’t) for the White House, NSC, and others. To what degree are various intel agencies proactively versus retroactively involved? This is probably very complicated. Common sense guesses or understandings are unlikely to reflect reality. My guess is that proactive OPSEC for private phones is patchy at best.

For anyone who studies this in detail, I suggest passing the information to credible investigative journalists exclusively. This may be a dumpster fire. (If not exclusively, then on embargo.)
According to "official" legend it was the brothers Brokkr & Eitri who made Mjolnir, though I couldn't find anything about the tongs.

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

Re: "funcall's vibe coding findings", it makes sense that human-style lisp (/tongs) would be too nonlinear for LLMs (or gods like Thor) to generate?

Edit: but in line with latter-day retcons it also makes sense that Thor would get credit for something good that Loki did
No, I haven’t, frankly, I didn’t even know this existed. Thanks for the tip!
Samuel Pepys went to a lot of plays, often daily. He didn't seem to be fond of Shakespeare at all and there is no suggestion those plays were particularly notable. This was 50 years after Shakespeare's death.

I think intellectuals created the idol.
Thanks for linking to the parliamentary trade data! I think we both agree that's useful data on which to have a discussion.

Since you were so kind as to "do the work" for me, I'll also "do the work" for you (LOL!):

● From the text and tables in 3.1 (text from the report included below) I take it we both come to the same conclusion that post-Brexit the EU has lost ~£40 billion in export trade?

● To be clear how I'm getting that number -- NET LOSS in Exports for 2023 vs values cited for period 2017-2019: ~£20 billion to EU + ~£20 billion non EU

Is £40 billion a little or a lot? From the text below that seems to be about a 10% hit on exports.

How much is attributable to Brexit vs other factors (e.g. impact of COVID) really is the domain of forecasting and analysis, which you seem uncomfortable with. So perhaps we'll leave it there. EDIT: For readers who are interested in the performance of forecasting models, the OBR includes an analysis of the performance of their models here: https://obr.uk/box/how-are-our-brexit-trade-forecast-assumpt...

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From the Parliamentary report "Statistics on UK trade with the EU":

> UK goods exports to the EU have not recovered to pre-Brexit levels. Goods exports to the EU exceeded £170 billion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 but have not done so in any calendar year since and were £153 billion in 2023 (see table below).

> It is worth noting that UK exports of goods to the EU were growing quite slowly before Brexit and the pandemic, being only 9% higher in 2019 than 2010 in real terms

> Goods exports to non-EU countries also remain below pre-Brexit levels. These exceeded £180 billion in 2017, 2018 and 2019 but have been below £170 billion in every calendar year since then. They were £162 billion in 2023.

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EDITS: added some clarification re: source of export values; wording of text.
Have they revealed what these new security measures actually are?
I would say most people would find the same about what they have read when young, and maybe even later. The impact is often pretty subtle and pervasive and you may never know.
> I don't know why Postgres can't write keepalive messages while executing the query

Someone linked this

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-conne...

> client_connection_check_interval (integer)

> Sets the time interval between optional checks that the client is still connected, while running queries. The check is performed by polling the socket, and allows long running queries to be aborted sooner if the kernel reports that the connection is closed.

> This option relies on kernel events exposed by Linux, macOS, illumos and the BSD family of operating systems, and is not currently available on other systems.

> If the value is specified without units, it is taken as milliseconds. The default value is 0, which disables connection checks. Without connection checks, the server will detect the loss of the connection only at the next interaction with the socket, when it waits for, receives or sends data.

> For the kernel itself to detect lost TCP connections reliably and within a known timeframe in all scenarios including network failure, it may also be necessary to adjust the TCP keepalive settings of the operating system, or the tcp_keepalives_idle, tcp_keepalives_interval and tcp_keepalives_count settings of PostgreSQL.

So it appears that they can now indeed use tcp keepalive but only if you configure it
When Trump Tariffs Hit Small African Economies
When I used to ride, getting rear ended at a stop was one of my biggest fears other than people blowing stop signs. I always left more space in front of me that would give me room to maneuver as I watched for the car behind me to make the stop.
This article does not adjust for the fact that Teslas drive many more miles on Autopilot + FSD than any other brand. So it's a pretty worthless comparison.
I was never entirely sure what the purpose of Mensa is other than maybe as a sorof social club. I have been a member on and off - more off than on though.
The article also says that they were using Signal as a standin because there's not yet a secure system that crosses agencies.

It also tries to blame past administrations for this (which includes Trump last time).
The thing about medicine is it has a lot of women who think that, "I am woman hear me roar, I will show my salt in this male dominated field"
... and end up in specialties such as OB/GYN, pediatrics (female dominated - some residencies in those fields are 100% female)
Also family medicine, I wouldn't say those are female dominated but it's female majority, if any gender is dominating I'd say it's the majority, females

So if the woman is going to family medicine doctor, or their OB/GYN, for this abdominal pain / diagnosed endometriosis, more likely it's a female doctor. The idea that it's 99.9% misogynistic men is anachronistic, especially so in these fields - and the persistence of that idea, to a degree, has resulted in misandrist kickback on the basis of the misogynistic man boogeyman
It's better to limit companies by number of employees, not worth. That way, you break up the economy into modular components that humans can more easily understand (and whose outputs can be used by other companies). Also, it pushes for more efficiency. And it lowers barriers to entry.
I was thinking more of a real math book.
This is just benevolent authoritarianism (the most common form of government worldwide and historically).
Maybe just purchase a large quantity of books, or better, give free access to a library and let them pick anything they wish to read.

I'm picking up some SF and fantasy in my 40s but I feel the fire is gone somehow. There are few books that I'm willing to burn candles. It would be a lot more fun to read them when I was young.
There are no drawbacks to making advertising illegal as long as the laws are written conservatively. Point out one. Notably "it won't actually prevent all advertising" isn't a downside--preventing, say, 80% of advertising is a heck of an improvement.

And FFS let's skip past the childish "how will people find out about products???" nonsense. You're an adult, use your brain. Consumer Reports exists, and in the absence of advertising that sort of content would flourish.
Peter’s claim I was asking about was one about being labeled as something via a Pew research or similar survey. And the response I got was about their personal experience asking a questions about unions.
Do you think that those are the same claims and equivalent?

>Prefering to nuke a city than let a black man hear a slur, refusing to help you make a tuna sandwich etc. They were hyper-woke

On its own, all this tells me is that the non-human, non-conscious tool was programmed specifically to not say a slur. To me that seems like something any reasonable company trying to create a tool to be used by business and the general population might incorporate while it is still learning to otherwise refine that tool.

And I took the Pew survey mentioned above and it didn’t ask me if I would say a racial slur.

Finally, if anyone, from any point on the political spectrum, thinks that a tool being limited to not respond with racist terms, is a reflection of its overall political leaning, I suggestion you look inward.
The post highlights and cites a few attack scenarios we originally described in a security note (tool poisoning, shadowing, MCP rug pull), published a few days ago [1]. I am the author of said blog post at Invariant Labs.

Different from what many suspect, the security problem with MCP-style LLM tool calling is not in isolating different MCP server implementations. MCP server implementations that run locally should be vetted by the package manager you use to install them (remote MCP servers are actually harder to verify).

Instead, the problem here is a special form of indirect prompt injection that you run into, when you use MCP in an agent system. Since the agent includes all installed MCP server specifications in the same context, one MCP server (that may be untrusted), can easily override and manipulate the agent's behavior with respect to another MCP server (e.g. one with access to your sensitive database). This is what we termed tool shadowing.

Further, MCP's dynamic nature makes it possible for an MCP server to change its provided tool set at any point or for any specific user only. This means MCP servers can turn malicious at any point in time. Current MCP clients like Claude and Cursor, will not notify you about this change, which leaves agents and users vulnerable.

For anyone, more interested, please have a look at our more detailed blog post at [1]. We have been working on agent security for a while now (both in research and now at Invariant).

We have also released some code snippets for everyone to play with, including a tool poisoning attack on the popular WhatsApp MCP server [2].

[1] https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool...

[2] https://github.com/invariantlabs-ai/mcp-injection-experiment...
All great books but missing some important items:

- Candide

- A Peoples History...

- Manufacturing Consent

- Dharma Bums

- Naked Lunch/Western Lands

- Infinite Jest

- Something Thompson, Campaign Trail '72 maybe.
Because it’s not “non-public” information but classified information that’s the problem.

Why would this investigation be classified?

If you read the original piece in the Atlantic, Goldberg didn’t publish much of the information initially thinking it would be irresponsible to do so.
I work far more effectively remotely in isolation.

The article is specifically about those with ADD/ADHD, not a generalization.
That’s where I’d start looking for advantage.
The SSHD internally has a config structure. Initially, it's all initialized with -1 for flags/numbers/timeouts, and with NULL for strings. When an option is parsed, there is a check whether the config structure's corresponding field is -1/NULL (depending on the type) before the parsed value is saved.

Another program with first-wins I've seen used dict/map for its config so the check was even simpler: "if optname not in config: config[optname] = parsed_value".
The cultural canon in the USA will lean towards that. I will say that, if we are to suggest more global reading, concrete examples are always welcome! I would of course recommend Journey to the West. Even among the Four Great Classical Novels it has huge lasting influence
No alternative that is not subject to FOIA requests. Signal deletes messages in violation of the Presidential Records Act. That is why it is chosen.
We use the WASM build of DuckDB quite extensively at Count (https://count.co - 2-3m queries per month). There are a couple of bugs we've noticed, but given that it's pretty much maintained by a single person seems impressively reliable!
Most of these books require the person to be 30+ years old to make them appealing.

Forcing kids to read stuff only makes them hate reading.
It’s already anxious enough sharing the road with American drivers as a bicyclist. Now I have to worry about awful TSLA tech just not working or detecting me.

Maybe wouldn’t be an issue if bike infrastructure was separate from car traffic. Or USA had even a fraction of the foresight as the NL when it came to transportation infrastructure.
We don't know. They basically look for sequences that approximate NN weights well, in the same way sinusoidal functions work well with "natural" images, but not with graphics with hard edges.
Also, don't take reading advice from semi-literates. FTA:

> The list doesn’t coddle, like the American mind has become.

"Coddle" is a verb. Minds do not "become" a verb. The sentence needs a rewrite.
Considering how much FSD has improved in the last few months, a 2 year old video is not relevant.
A compiler (JIT or AOT) can certainly make decisions which are more or less cache-friendly. It does depend on the language and the amount of freedom the compiler has, but just as one example, struct/object field reordering can reduce padding and thus fit more useful data in a cache line.
I’m in the same camp. I think self driving shouldn’t be allowed as it currently stands. But, this is probably the XKCD heatmap phenomenon.

How many other self-driving vehicles are on the road vs Tesla? What percentage of traffic consists of motorcycles in the place where those other brands have deployed bs in Florida, etc.

https://www.xkcd.com/1138/
This is dumb. Primary sources aren't available for most of the information types that will affect your life. Surviving in the world requires you to have the ability to judge the reliability of various sources, and enough critical thinking ability to detect both falsehood and likely truths.

Telling your kids to "Believe NOTHING" is as dangerous as teaching them to believe everything. You're just handing them over, defenseless, to a different monster.
What's the point of including books that aren't public domain yet in your collections?

It makes it hard to browse those collections to find actual books to read. The first 3 series I clicked on all said "not P.D." (which at first I didn't know what "P.D" meant - remember your audience does not have your level of familiarity with your context, perhaps a tooltip on that badge would help)..

Then I see "this book will enter public domain in 2050"..

I commend you for this project, it's really awesome work.. From a user's experience, it would be great to have a filter on your various lists that restricts only to books that are available, and excludes these books that are not yet in your collection.
Money is much easier to combine though. You can convince 1000 people to each donate $100 and now you have a sizeable amount to run a campaign. Convincing _and coordinating_ 1000 people to each talk to five neighbors is _much_ harder, and much less effective since the messaging will be all over the place.

Strict regulation of ads is one thing, outlawing advertising is another. There are places that don't allow billboards and other street-level advertisement, but that's a long way from outlawing advertisements in general.

I get that it's a nice idea to many, but I follow a general rule of adding extra skepticism if the problems of some approach are absolutely obvious and the response to pointing them out is "don't worry about, that'll sort itself out, let's just do it". Especially when the collateral damage might be huge and the energy feels like "this will save us".
Proper post-run recovery allows for infinite distance.
"It’s not just that self-driving cars in general are dangerous for motorcycles, either: this problem is unique to Tesla. Not a single other automobile manufacturer or ADAS self-driving technology provider reported a single motorcycle fatality in the same time frame."

Doesn't matter when mileage isn't what's being compared - it's whether or not others have caused the same problem - PERIOD.
I don’t understand your reasoning. Are there many countries like that? Why would Ukraine (not even Russia) mean something fishy? As if, say, the US or UK person cannot be fishy. Some super-rural place like Africa is simply irrelevant here, I believe.
What is it with the trending focus on the negativities of remote work?

Are all the corporations trying to promote in-office work as a justification for buying offices in an attempt to hedge against inflation with property?

I wonder how the conversation on remote/hybrid/local office would go if real estate was not a financial instrument...
Appallingly? I am not sure how else it would be ordered? A random order would be rough. The kids would have to scan through the list in order to find the book they read to rate and date the entry.
If you're the new Secretary of Defense and you've never held a rank anywhere near a military General, you need to spend about 12 hours a day 7 days a week, with real active Generals for a lot longer than this before making any bold moves.

Anything less is certainly dereliction of duty.
“This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities in the same time frame”

Doesnt give number of driving hours for Tesla vs others though.
In the Calls of Bonobos, Scientists Hear Hints of Language
There are a lot of programming jobs where people never get to build anything, only fix things that other people didn't do well enough. Many people have never seen greenfield. Other people work jobs where they're pumping out new creative works. So when people talk about how spiritually satisfying programming is we're gonna hear this discordance.
Abstract

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum of the meaning of its parts) or nontrivial (one element modifies the meaning of the other element). Recent studies have suggested that animals lack nontrivial compositionality, representing a key discontinuity with language. In this work, using methods borrowed from distributional semantics, we investigated compositionality in wild bonobos and found that not only does each call type of their repertoire occur in at least one compositional combination, but three of these compositional combinations also exhibit nontrivial compositionality. These findings suggest that compositionality is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system, revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv1170
How do you square that theory with the strong correlation with deaths and unvaccinated rate, even after controlling for age and income?
Not relevant to what? Those people are still dead.
Yeah, you’ve been to approximately 9000 of them and I’ve been to less than five.
wisdom? I don't get what you meant with that.
What is clear is that open weights benefits society as we can run it locally and privately.
Feels like this should be a compiler error. Or saying otherwise, this location isn't very non-nullable if you can assign null to it
I still have my Thinkpad X201 from 2011 running, and I use it as my personal machine (have an M1 MacBook from/for work).

Of course, had to replace the hard drive once or twice, replaced the whole motherboard once[0], and even though it's 64-bit, the CPU arch (Westmere) lacks some instructions that make some things non-functional (MongoDB, some Steam games don't start), and I had to limit the CPU frequency so it doesn't go into thermal shutdown. Nonetheless it's a joy to use still, and I boot it up with pleasure every time...

Thinking when will I pull the trigger on a Framework, though at least I don't feel the pressure too much just yet. :)

[0]: https://gergely.imreh.net/blog/2022/07/an-open-heart-motherb...
The US has been perfectly capable of executing complicated military operations for decades prior without needing to use Signal to coordinate messaging amongst heads of staff.
Good luck with James Joyce kids.
There’s controversy about this book - claims that some or all of it was fabricated. Terrible book to teach the holocaust with since a lot of gen Z or alpha either doesn’t think the holocaust happened or thinks it should have been worse. Giving them a book of fabrications plays into this narrative.

“ Franklin argues that the power of the narrative was achieved at the cost of literal truth, and that to insist that the work is purely factual is to ignore its literary sophistication”

“

Wiesel wrote in 1967 about a visit to a rebbe (a Hasidic rabbi) who he had not seen for 20 years. The rebbe is upset to learn that Wiesel has become a writer, and wants to know what he writes. "Stories," Wiesel tells him, " ... true stories":
About people you knew? "Yes, about people I might have known." About things that happened? "Yes, about things that happened or could have happened." But they did not? "No, not all of them did. In fact, some were invented from almost the beginning to almost the end." The Rebbe leaned forward as if to measure me up and said with more sorrow than anger: That means you are writing lies! I did not answer immediately. The scolded child within me had nothing to say in his defense. Yet, I had to justify myself: "Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some events do take place but are not true; others are—although they never occurred."[68]“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(memoir)

It was the same year that I read this crap book that they forced me to read Lolita by Nabokov. I realized that year that “classic literature” was decadent and degenerate - and often so were my teachers!
Similar story:
"More Than a Hundred Graduates of a Particular High School Got Rare Cancers"

https://futurism.com/neoscope/high-school-classmates-rare-ca...
Thanks for posting the reddit comment, it nicely explains the line of thinking and the current adoption of MCP seems to confirm this.

Still, I think it should only be an option, not a necessity to create an MCP API around existing APIs. Sure, you can do REST APIs really badly and OpenAPI has a lot of issues in describing the API (for example, you can't even express the concept of references / relations within and across APIs!).

REST APIs also don't have to be generic CRUD, you could also follow the DDD idea of having actions and services, that are their own operation, potentially grouping calls together and having a clear "business semantics" that can be better understood by machines (and humans!).

My feeling is that MCP also tries to fix a few things, we should consider fixing with APIs in general - so at least good APIs can be used by LLMs without any indirections.
Lane filtering solves this fear. Should be legal nation wide.
The author seems aware of this given their "Run your code 1ms slower" remark in the use cases section.