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Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran schoolI don't think actual change comes from people lobbying for some bill or whatever. It comes from a far more imperceptible shift in the zeitgeist of society, that is then eventually formally reflected in some way or another. For instance the Civil Rights Movement only succeeded because society had already largely shifted… I don't think actual change comes from people lobbying for some bill or whatever. It comes from a far more imperceptible shift in the zeitgeist of society, that is then eventually formally reflected in some way or another. For instance the Civil Rights Movement only succeeded because society had already largely shifted, before it had even begun, in a way that made it viable. A Civil Rights Movement in Saudi Arabia isn't going to succeed, because it needs the widespread desire for such to already exist. And in this regard I think Snowden had a bigger influence on society than anybody or anything in my living memory. Prior to him there was a belief by many that government conspiracies couldn't happen because somehow if there were enough people involved, it'd show up on News at 9 or whatever. He made it clear that such conspiracies, far beyond the bounds of what even the absurd conspiracy theorist might propose, can and do exist. The NSA has friggin spies in World of Warcraft! That sort of skepticism played a key role in fueling an anti-establishment mindset. And that mindset is what fueled the rise of everything from Trump to the DSA. I'm certainly not claiming those are good outcomes, but merely part of an increasingly visible shift away from the old establishment. And I think this shift will be, in the longrun, good for America. And I think in hindsight, it will be clear that a lot of this change started happening with Snowden.view source ↗
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Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council MeetingWell, I suppose people like you are the reason the cameras are being installed. A bit ironic, but makes sense in hindsight. Well, I suppose people like you are the reason the cameras are being installed. A bit ironic, but makes sense in hindsight.view source ↗
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Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network ProtocolReading the blog, it sounds more like they were depending on libraries (both by Cyphernet, interestingly) and implicitly trusting them, instead of verifying. Which I can understand to an extent with large, high-traffic dependencies but these were really low traffic projects with like 10 stars on github and barely any d… Reading the blog, it sounds more like they were depending on libraries (both by Cyphernet, interestingly) and implicitly trusting them, instead of verifying. Which I can understand to an extent with large, high-traffic dependencies but these were really low traffic projects with like 10 stars on github and barely any development... Well, hindsight is 20/20.view source ↗
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Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a MistakeI read this article and was beginning to feel like it wasn't really going anywhere or making good arguments. Was disappointed, although in hindsight not surprised to find out that it was AI-slop. Stop upvoting AI-slop people! I read this article and was beginning to feel like it wasn't really going anywhere or making good arguments. Was disappointed, although in hindsight not surprised to find out that it was AI-slop. Stop upvoting AI-slop people!view source ↗
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'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employeesAnomaly detection is getting better. A small delta can still trigger it. Wether a human reviewed it is another story. But the post mortem will reveal all the signs in hindsight. Anomaly detection is getting better. A small delta can still trigger it. Wether a human reviewed it is another story. But the post mortem will reveal all the signs in hindsight.view source ↗
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Show HN: Hindsight: Automated Work TimelineTired of trying to remember what you worked on yesterday for daily scrum? Me too. So I used a VLM to automate it — it quietly captures what you do and builds a timeline. Your choice of model, and with a local one nothing leaves your device. Typical time tracker just knows which app I worked on, this one knows what I wo… Tired of trying to remember what you worked on yesterday for daily scrum? Me too. So I used a VLM to automate it — it quietly captures what you do and builds a timeline. Your choice of model, and with a local one nothing leaves your device. Typical time tracker just knows which app I worked on, this one knows what I worked on in the app. Testing a new web app spans across 3 tools like Editor, Terminal and Browser and it sees that as one task.view source ↗
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Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)I share your sentiment. What you're describing here was also very eye-opening to me when I first realized it. I'll restate these ideas in a more explicit claim. All symbols are defined via one's own subjective experience. One's own understanding/definition of every word can be traced back to personal experience. Imagin… I share your sentiment. What you're describing here was also very eye-opening to me when I first realized it. I'll restate these ideas in a more explicit claim. All symbols are defined via one's own subjective experience. One's own understanding/definition of every word can be traced back to personal experience. Imagine your life as a timeline, like a video, from birth up until now. You can seek that timeline to find the moments/clips that contributed to your definition of any given word or even mathematical symbol. To give an example, when I say "apple", the corresponding idea in my head is based on every apple I've seen and every instance of the word "apple" I've seen being used or being taught to me in the past. Even when we try to define the phrase "this specific apple" while looking at the same apple on the same table in the same room, the light bounces off of it slightly differently from my angle of view vs yours, and we did not see the same sequence of "video frames" about the apple, and so our mental models of that apple would necessarily be slightly different. This is probably why the hard problem of consciousness / unified theory of physics appear forever out of reach. If no two observers/observations are fully identical, then you cannot even define what an ideal observer is. But we tend to assume such an ideal definition exists. This seems almost trivial in hindsight because "identical" can be defined as 1) "one and the same", based on one thing OR 2) "mostly similar", based on pairs of adjacent things one has seen in the past. And to sort of echo the original post, it seems to me that a lot value comes from the interactive nature of argumentation. But I think the specific medium/modality of those interactions don't matter for most things, and even when it does, like in this case, valuable insights can still fall out of a discussion in text. I derived the precursor ideas which led to this conclusion of definitional non-equivalence in past offline argumentview source ↗
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What happened to the Snowden archiveI think they're currently victims of a genocidal effort, but also like most conflicts it's one where both sides can be wrong. The narrative of good guys and bad guys is always shown to be nonsense in hindsight. I think they're currently victims of a genocidal effort, but also like most conflicts it's one where both sides can be wrong. The narrative of good guys and bad guys is always shown to be nonsense in hindsight.view source ↗
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What Sun got wrongWith the benefit of perfect hindsight, which is a bit silly? Open source Solaris as early as possible. Really compete with MIPS, ARM, Motorola, etc. in the embedded space. Don't even try to make it a huge financial win, just get the SPARC architecture and dev tools out there with good Linux support. Consistently suppor… With the benefit of perfect hindsight, which is a bit silly? Open source Solaris as early as possible. Really compete with MIPS, ARM, Motorola, etc. in the embedded space. Don't even try to make it a huge financial win, just get the SPARC architecture and dev tools out there with good Linux support. Consistently support Solaris x86 and frequently release new generations of Intel and AMD workstation-class hardware. Partner with TSMC for SPARC production a lot earlier. Since we're just having fun here: acquire Nvidia in 1999, at which time it was pretty obvious workstation graphics was going to be commodified, and Sun could have bought them with their pocket change.view source ↗
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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMStill, a stupid governmental policy cost them at least 100 million people compared to the expected spontaneous development. Probably more. That is the sort of punishment that omnipotent governments sometimes visit upon their folk. I don't believe that even the CCP itself, in hindsight, considers the one-child policy to… Still, a stupid governmental policy cost them at least 100 million people compared to the expected spontaneous development. Probably more. That is the sort of punishment that omnipotent governments sometimes visit upon their folk. I don't believe that even the CCP itself, in hindsight, considers the one-child policy to have been a good decision. At the very least it should have been ended some 15 years earlier.view source ↗
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A Model for Winning SurvivorIn none of those cases did the market converge as a result of the insider betting, it was only discovered with hindsight that someone had placed a suspiciously well-timed large bet. So that's where "they limit their bet amount for other reasons" comes in. I guess it's difficult to get a large loan for "I know a secret … In none of those cases did the market converge as a result of the insider betting, it was only discovered with hindsight that someone had placed a suspiciously well-timed large bet. So that's where "they limit their bet amount for other reasons" comes in. I guess it's difficult to get a large loan for "I know a secret that will allow me to double my money in a few days, honest!" so they have to make do with their savings instead.view source ↗
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What happened to the Snowden archiveOnce again, there was no flex. We aren't judging the morality or ethics of the situation in any direction. We are simply looking back on historical events with hindsight. We also don't have to flatten these historical events into one good side and one bad side. Reality tends to be more complicated than that. It's ok to… Once again, there was no flex. We aren't judging the morality or ethics of the situation in any direction. We are simply looking back on historical events with hindsight. We also don't have to flatten these historical events into one good side and one bad side. Reality tends to be more complicated than that. It's ok to recognize that Snowden maybe made some mistakes. That is neither an endorsement of the US government's spying or an accusation of ill intent against Snowden.view source ↗
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The LLMentalist Effect (2023)>I acknowledge that he has predicted some things in a falsifiable way and turned out correct, but this isn’t one of them. You’re reading hindsight into the text. I read that blog years ago. Believe me, my opinions are not hindsight. >Incorrect. He was speculating on what would happen if one gave GPT-2 “near-infinite tr… >I acknowledge that he has predicted some things in a falsifiable way and turned out correct, but this isn’t one of them. You’re reading hindsight into the text. I read that blog years ago. Believe me, my opinions are not hindsight. >Incorrect. He was speculating on what would happen if one gave GPT-2 “near-infinite training data and compute.” It’s a thought-experiment, not a prediction. Near-infinite amounts of anything is a fantasy. Thought experiments can generate predicitons. His claim was essentially: If you scale data and compute sufficiently, this technology can learn enough of the underlying structure of mathematics to write proofs. This is meaningful when others around you are saying this is a dead end and that the technology is fundamentally incapable of this regardless of degree of investment and scaling. It shows a much better calibrated sense of the potential of the architecture than those who said otherwise. If your objection is that "near infinite" makes it insufficiently quantitative to count as a falsifiable forecast, then fine. But at that point we're mostly arguing over what deserves the label "prediction" rather than whether Scott correctly identified an important capability the architecture could develop. And i'm not trying to say this makes Scott (or the lesswrong crowd) geniuses.view source ↗
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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year agoI think OP, as said on Reddit, wanted to get a lot of investment and ride the wave but did not know how to. This was said as such on Reddit today by them. This is indeed a shame especially it was a year earlier but indeed a lack of marketing; many people on Reddit told what to do in this case, in hindsight, it’s worth … I think OP, as said on Reddit, wanted to get a lot of investment and ride the wave but did not know how to. This was said as such on Reddit today by them. This is indeed a shame especially it was a year earlier but indeed a lack of marketing; many people on Reddit told what to do in this case, in hindsight, it’s worth checking it out imho.view source ↗
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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthyYes, it's possible. For me it went like this. 1. I learned enough vocabulary in a very short time to be able to more or less be able to read with the assistance of a dictionary on an e-book where you can click on a word. I spent ~2 weekends of Duolingo 8 hours a day, but I'd use flashcards in the future instead of that… Yes, it's possible. For me it went like this. 1. I learned enough vocabulary in a very short time to be able to more or less be able to read with the assistance of a dictionary on an e-book where you can click on a word. I spent ~2 weekends of Duolingo 8 hours a day, but I'd use flashcards in the future instead of that. It sounds a bit crazy in hindsight, but I feel like it was easier to stay strongly motivated for a short period of time than drizzling the words over a period of time. All other attempts where I did not do this, failed. The limit of learning words for me is ~50-200 words per hour if using flashcards. It depends a lot on the language and how similar it is to the languages one already knows. 200, if it is similar to my native language, ~50, if I don't know anything similar at all. I'm also almost guaranteed to forget 80% of the words, if I don't use them in the next day or two, but its possible to cram a lot of them very fast and then move on to stage 2 to use them. Important catch (for me at least), is that I can remember nouns far more easily than verbs or other more abstract/structural words. Those absolutely need to be in a sentence when learning. There's pretty much no point for me in trying to cram them on their own. I just cannot remember them in isolation at all and also which words they are used with differ per language anyway. Eg "to put" won't necessarily be used for all nouns in a different language even though a dictionary might say that's what it means. The good side is that knowing the nouns helps a lot in deciphering. 2. After the initial cramming I read a couple of short/simple books over some months in the evenings before sleep. I tried to listen to videos & to talk to some people a bit now and then, but it was extremely hard and boring as I understood too little. In hindsight I should have listened more to videos, but the good ones are surprisingly hard to find, if you don't live in the country that already speaks the language one isview source ↗
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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brainI learned of the Triune Brain through Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden . It was an engaging, story-telling approach to a somewhat, in hindsight controversial concept. It sounds (oversimplified) like the paper the article describes here is an embryological validation of this model. I learned of the Triune Brain through Carl Sagan's book The Dragons of Eden . It was an engaging, story-telling approach to a somewhat, in hindsight controversial concept. It sounds (oversimplified) like the paper the article describes here is an embryological validation of this model.view source ↗
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsHere is the peer reviewed publication in Nature Neuroscience: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 The peer reviewed publication is linked to from the press release. The press release's headline does somewhat overhype up the actual finding though. The actual finding is that different parts of the brain ar… Here is the peer reviewed publication in Nature Neuroscience: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02433-7 The peer reviewed publication is linked to from the press release. The press release's headline does somewhat overhype up the actual finding though. The actual finding is that different parts of the brain arise from different neural ectoderm progenitors, which explains why it’s so hard to get a forebrain neuron to behave like a hindbrain neuron and vice versa in the lab. The paper then postulates that this difference in progenitors resembles being two different organs evolutionarily, but this is not really the most important part of the paper. BTW I suspect that this finding comes as completely unsurprising to biologists and the medical field generally. I'm not in either field, but even in high school biology we learned that the brain stem is behaviorally and structurally radically different from the rest of the brain, to the point where it seems almost obvious in hindsight that it's a different cell line and potentially has a different evolutionary history from the rest of the brain.view source ↗
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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in RustWhen I started what you did was nothing but set up DMA streams to set registers. DMA sets registers, hardware reacts by rasterizing triangles. In the GeForce3 era, the registers got complicated enough they resembled tiny "pixel shaders", but under the hood it was still a small struct held in registers. Vertex shaders w… When I started what you did was nothing but set up DMA streams to set registers. DMA sets registers, hardware reacts by rasterizing triangles. In the GeForce3 era, the registers got complicated enough they resembled tiny "pixel shaders", but under the hood it was still a small struct held in registers. Vertex shaders were 1 to 128 asm instructions executed strictly linearly. In the G80 era we got "general purpose shaders." But, they still depend heavily on the fix function pipeline for their dispatch/scheduling and I/O. These days, everything is basically a dressed-up compute shader. The shared-memory SRAM is front-and-center in your attention. Dispatch and scheduling are manual and complicated. GPUs are transitioning into tensor evaluators. So, maybe today we can start considering talking about planning committee meetings about stability. But, what I've observed is that this has been a request for a few decades now. And, in hindsight it would not have worked out in the past. Moving forward, maybe it would work out OK today for a while. But, I don't see the rate of change in GPUs slowing down any time soon. Wouldn't be surprised if we're racing towards some Cerebras + Tensor Cores + FPGA near future.view source ↗
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. BehaviorOf course criminal negligence is a thing but you should look into the bar required to prove it. For one, it requires the highest standard of proof. Then there are at least 4 very specific elements that need to be proven, and it would be interesting to see how that could be achieved without the benefit of hindsight, giv… Of course criminal negligence is a thing but you should look into the bar required to prove it. For one, it requires the highest standard of proof. Then there are at least 4 very specific elements that need to be proven, and it would be interesting to see how that could be achieved without the benefit of hindsight, given that we've seen no technology like this until just 4 years ago. If there was a case to be made for criminal negligence, I would say it would be with the AI-assisted suicides, and lawsuits are pending but we've not seen anything come out of that yet. > Go look up the facts of weev's case. weev's intent was very obviously benign and prosocial. Oh I'm very familiar with the case, which is why I know the investigation revealed detailed chat logs where weev and his accomplice discussed multiple ways to illegally profit from the breach, including shorting AT&T stock, selling the data to spammers / phishers, or organizing a spamming / phishing operation themselves. I am very curious about what sources led you to associate the words "prosocial" and "benign" because weev is very, very, very clearly a noxious, antisocial person who spends a lot of his time harassing people. I would recommend you feed "weev criticism" into a Google AI overview. Random quote from his wikipedia: > In early October 2014, The Daily Stormer published an article by Auernheimer in which he effectively identified himself as a white supremacist and neo-Nazi. He is known for his "extremely violent rhetoric advocating genocide of non-whites", according to the SPLC. And as you said, he got off on a technicality. That case was heralded as a triumph of justice purely because it followed the rule of law despite the obviously unlawful intents of the defendant.view source ↗
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Sex, AI, and the ApocalypseRevisiting after 10 years, it was nice reading through all those virtues again. Thank you for sharing the link. After more than 2 decades of continuous building and problem solving, I see a lot of good things in that article and a handful of places where it goes wrong but was not apparent at the time. But the content i… Revisiting after 10 years, it was nice reading through all those virtues again. Thank you for sharing the link. After more than 2 decades of continuous building and problem solving, I see a lot of good things in that article and a handful of places where it goes wrong but was not apparent at the time. But the content is solid as a general path to correctness and truth. In hindsight, a lot of those virtues were not just good, but correct. The nameless void at the end is the most potent of them all.view source ↗