skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
superintelligence is quite possible, you've got Da Vinci, Von Neumann, Einstein, and a couple of folks / gals being superintelligent right now.

Those are the real life blackboxes system demonstrating the feasibility, eventually we could reverse engineer simple AGI, then improve it to super AGI.

It's a bit dangerous to deny that AGI and super AGI are possible, we - simple talking meat bags - could miss when some system begin to show signs of General Intelligence, and get trown under the bus of a sudden non-singularity-but-close event.

Very simple intelligent - or even fully automated -system connected to open society could spark chaos beyond the supposed limits of the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash

Yesterday read about the Dead Hand the russian guys still run, and someone mentioned it has "AI" somewhere inside, just checking everything in its world goes as usual business, ready to trigger WWIII if not. So, not worried at all, yeah.

Call me crazy, but just in case, I'll place giant transformer models farms far from open internet and close to an EMP device.

You should have at very least, a big red button to shutdown analogically and certainly shut the thing off right away.
Texas famously has its own electrical grid (for better or worse) that is built with this concept at least somewhat in mind. But MN and WI and IL do not have a grid built to charge (maybe) 60 million automobiles. CA even more so. Even in Texas, the issue of getting sufficient amperage to residents of the state's larger cities is non-trivial, not necessarily because of supply but because of physical access.
indeed, but still a 0day :)

edit: I personally think the author did a great job finding & publishing it.
Are you completely ignoring that I mentioned WhatsApp? They brought end2end encryption to the masses.
'...As Wimmer pointed out, only 2% of cars in the world are EVs. That’s a tiny sliver, yet automakers and governments are acting like the EV formula has been cracked. The problems Wimmer brought up before the Senate, refueling infrastructure (power grids), battery availability, consumer acceptance, and affordability are huge constraints which must be figured out before the industry goes charging headlong in the EV direction'.

This is without the reality that meanwhile ICE powered vehicles have never been cleaner or more fuel efficient, while tire pollution issues have never been greater, arguably the most important issue around transport. I think Toyota are wise to remain conservative given their stellar performance creating efficient hybrid vehicles (ceurrently circa 35% of vehicle markets). Priuses replaced diesel Mercedes as the world's taxis.

I'd back Toyota on this, we have a very long way to go before BEVs are practical or viable except for the VS crowd.
Yeap, same here. I live in an EU country, and I receive like one spam call every quarter usually from an energy provider.
> To me the most interesting leak/investigation that can come out of NSO is what happens once a 0-day is patched, is there downtime? do customers need to wait for a software update? is there automatic rotation of exploits?

I'd have to think NSO Group has the finances to bank at least a few 0-click, zero-days. It seems that the price of such vulnerabilities is increasing however. Zerodium, a large zero-day broker, is paying up to 2.5 million USD for 0-click Android and 2 million USD for iOS: https://zerodium.com/program.html
> It's diffeq solvers will almost certainly be worse than Julia (Julia is SOTA there)

Worse in what sense? Speed? Almost certainly not, since you would be implementing the solution directly in C++, so it will be as fast as you need(since you can use inline ASM). In Julia the really good diffeq libraries are not built in and this is not a diffeq solving library, so you would have to implement them yourself if you were just using this(so you can use almost exactly the same algorithms, and with more control over memory management in C++ you can maybe have it be a bit faster).
Can't tell if this comment is tongue in cheek. 40% is crushing and overwhelming? Like, maybe next time all those other supposed hidden supporters of independence can be arsed to get off their butts and show up to the most important vote of their life (at least if it was binding or legal according to Spanish law).
The stereotypical angel, though, is usually encouraging you to make the incrementally best decision in any situation. That's not really the message RMS sends. If a proprietary software developer says "hey, RMS has inspired me, I'm going to make sure users have lots of control over this new feature I'm developing", have they done a praiseworthy thing? I think so, and it sounds like you might too, but I don't get the sense that anyone in the free software movement would agree.
Having recently looked at Toyota offerings over here in Australia, what is strange is I can't even order a plug-in hybrid. I would have naively thought there where no challenges whatsoever adding a socket so the battery can be charged from an external source.

So many people I talk too are keeping their junkers running 'just a few more years' until non-luxury EVs or plugin hybrids come on our market. I think there are only two EV models available under the luxury car tax threshold, both nearly double the price of comparable petrol vehicles.
Isn't US operators filtering spam and scams?

I just checked my texts going back two years, and there is not a single unsolicited, spam or scam text. The same is true for phone calls.
I think you mean tomorrow. Just keep waiting for it. It'll be worth it. I promise.
No, just read the "history" of countries or events in different languages on Wikipedia, they are completely different.
The repo doesn't contain any exploit code nor further technical details of the vuln, so I guess this is only semi-irresponsible-disclosure?
More likely it means most people were sleeping when it posted. The information in the comic is well documented at this point.

Telemetry of any sort needs to be consensual, regulated, and enforced with an iron hand such that even Google would be rapidly and thoroughly crushed if they didn't comply. Dark patterns and sneaky gotchas shouldn't be an option. The harvest and sale of user data has to end.
While not in Germany, I haven't had a single legitimate cold call since I disallowed all major calling companies a few years ago and since then it has become illegal to cold call so that was solved.

Now I get 1-2 a month from scammers abroad and with "private numbers" which is highly annoying since those aren't even legitimate. As a solution I asked my phone company to block all foreign numbers: won't do (they didn't say the couldn't they just won't). They also profit from you calling/accepting a foreign number so just get a fine from them and see how long it lasts would be my solution.
> You don't become a billionaire by thinking of other people

I'm not making a claim of the veracity of this statement, but wouldn't a system that made this false be the best system?
> If we have minimum age for participating in politics, there should be a maximum age. Set it at like 70% of life expectancy.

As if the people who actually vote are going to disenfranchise themselves. Also, your 0.7 of life expectancy is about 55-57 in the US and UK. Is that really where you think people are probably incapable of making decisions for themselves?

Seems silly.
I hear the same thing from some of my friends, what do they have in common? They don't block trackers while surfing. Haven't heard it from people who block those. If it were really voice recognition, it shouldn't have an effect on that. I think what most people don't want to admit is how predictable they are and how easy it is to make predictions based on lots of data.
The entirety of that organization should be sold for scrap and handed over to the Sandy Hook families. What he did to those people is absolutely unconscionable.
> I think your solution is to watch and plan on firing many people within 30 days, which seems worse for everyone.

Why did you add the word "many" where?

I didn't use it. I can count on one hand the number of people who flat-out lied to me about being able to program and I needed to fire them for it, and I've been managing and developing software for around thirty years or so.

Do you think that's a lot? Or do you think people lying about what they do is common?
Or it’s not that simple and that explanation is only a component of reality, and not the complete reality

Lets stop giving these apps a pass. We already know some abuse privileged signing keys to access permissions without asking or a permission is used for other things like third party packages
I really don't get this. I use eXpurgate which works by monitoring thousands of email addresses for incoming similar emails and rejecting emails during SMTP delivery. I have seen zero spam mails in 20 years and there have also been zero false positives that I know of. So it seems to me that spam is in principle a solved problem, it's just spam filters that try to classify individual emails by machine learning that to this day do not work reliably. Still most providers insist on using filters that work this way.
> A lot of movie productions infamously do not have positive cash flow.

This is a nuance of an accounting trick used specifically in Hollywood and isn't relevant to this discussion whatsoever.

> It’s usually pointless to look at reported profits from growth oriented startups

Uber isn't a startup anymore. It's a publicly traded company.

> It’s much better to look at unit economics.

It's not. Unit economics are commonly used to drive an overall cash flow / profitable capability of most startups because their profitability is usually highly irregular when they are subscale. Unit economics are usually a proxy / indicator of gross margin and gross margin is an indicator of operating cash flow and/or net income.

> Just because the product is labor driven and low margin doesn’t mean it cannot be profitable. Amazon is a fundamentally low margin business as well (retail). The margins don’t matter so long as it can scale well,

Generally true, but there's a few things here that are important to consider:

- In most recent years, Amazon has started driving overall profitability via AWS profits which far outsize their retail/ecomm profits.

- What you're referring to specifically is free cash flow. From Bezos: "“When forced to choose between optimizing the appearance of our GAAP accounting and maximizing the present value of future cash flows, we’ll take the cash flows.” Jeff Bezos is very focused on this “absolute dollar free cash flow metric.” You will see many people talk about Amazon’s focus on “growth” vs. margins, but the right focus is instead absolute dollar fee cash flow."[0]

[0] - https://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...
No one knows why the most used spacecraft propulsion system works
Although there are plenty of examples of great physicists with very early output, most typically continue to contribute substantially. Even Einstein's major breakthroughs in general relativity didn't come until his late 30s. Modern theoretical physicists like Ed Witten often didn't get started until ~25 and most of their contributions come much later.
> Mostly to see what kind of an absolute beast of an oscilloscope can keep up with the data rate.

You can prove a cable faulty without being able to fully observe/measure the entire frequency range at once.

> Also I don't understand why people are disagreeing with you. If a cable is not within spec it absolutely possible for it to work in one circumstance because for example the port is more lenient and completely fail with a port that is more strict.

I’m kinda baffled too. I thought this was common knowledge among the folks on HN, but maybe not?
HFC is unlikely to win over because of how inefficient it is if you consider carbon free sources of hydrogen. If you don’t consider carbon free sources then why not just stay with gasoline? Hybrids have not been “jumped over”. You’ll find plenty of hybrids in the market, more so than electric. However in the long run we’ll have to eventually more to zero carbon, and pure EVs are already starting to be as useful as hybrids.
This reminds me slightly of the recent Razer 0day [1] when plugging in a mouse.

[1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/razer-bug-let...
I was just talking to my girlfriend about this the other day. Even in our low Tesla usage state the chargers are increasingly occupied. We pull up and now 6/8 stalls are being used. What happens when even a fraction of all the gas cars switch over? What happens when 100% of the population needs them and needs to charge for an hour? I don’t know.
The EG.25 (Pinephone modem) baseband (not the Linux firmware (and of course, not the application processor OS)) blob source was up on Github for a while. I read through part of it. I think they managed to get it taken down with a DMCA request and I haven't seen it since.

I really wish I had cloned it locally, I don't know why I didn't.
Another possible explanation could be that your extended family searched for Y Smith after the event and facebook listed it seeing that you are friends with both.

Contrary to others’ experience, I couldn’t reproduce the “talk about X and wait for an ad on X” experiment, I believe it is mostly just the mentioned Frequency illusion, or perhaps some network level thing like A and B talk about something, B later searches for that and “rightfully” get ads on it, and due to A and B’s similar profile or something A also get recommended said product.
In my experience lots of unwanted mail comes from credit card offers, insurance, etc. Turns out that unless you have an account with them, all these financial service companies get their prospective mailing data through the credit bureaus. However there is a 2003 law that required the bureaus to create an opt out mechanism, which is available here: https://www.optoutprescreen.com/

Doing this has cut out 99% of my spam paper mail for the last year. Would highly recommend for sanity and as an easy way to cut down some on environmental impact. You can opt out for up to 5 years through the website or permanently by writing a paper letter. I did the latter through one of the "you write digitally, we'll send physical letter" services you can find on google and it's been great.
I would love to hear your evidence for that opinion, because everything I've seen is that HFC is only likely to succeed in long haul trucking.
> Some companies legally moved headquarters from Catalonia to other regions, and some new investments were reduced, but those are mainly motivated by the legal insecurity about what was going to happen (and also, take into account that businesses are led by people with their own ideologies and biases of the situation).

This happened in Montreal. It was the business capital of Canada until the referendums. Now Toronto is.

So it goes.
I get zero spam texts, have gotten zero robocalls in my life, and my inbox correctly sorts spam to probably less than 1 in 10000 miscategorized, meaning I effectively see no spam email.

This is in Europe, so is it just a regulatory difference that makes me feel that spam is a non-issue since for the last decade almost?
Agree on most of the points here and the PDF.

The only problem with me is that, the PDF itself is unnecessarily lengthy, which kind of weakening the point author is trying to make. Would be nice if it is in one or two pages.
This is why I'm a big proponent of E-bikes, for most commutes they are a really good fit. However the USA is tricky, Telsa took cars electric, hat tip to musk, but it's not like he tackled the more complex part of over consumption. Look at the cyber truck!

As for raw inputs, Australia is building and will supply a lot of capacity in this space, the Russian impact won't be forever.
Happens all the time. The tiny digital versions of you residing on all the servers are a better version of you. So good, they know what you want before you do. Accept that you're being surveilled, accept that you can't do anything about it and don't listen to the people who claim it's a coincidence because they're still connected to the machine.
worth to add that this is a text-based app, there doesn't seem to be a lot of benefit to the flutter way of rendering things
If you are in the Apple ecosystem, you can do custom domains for $1 / month using iCloud+.
A vector is a vector :) Imagine someone with just user privilege to a machine needing admin access to install more pervasive RAT, this gives them a way.
I think there are plenty of legitimate callers who will just hang up if they get the robo screener. "Must have been a wrong number." "Weird, I got the operator." "I'm not dealing with this."
One thing is that this library has built in support for H-matrices(last I checked Matlab did not), so it can be arbitrarily more efficient if your problem decomposes in a nice way(most matrices in practice have large low rank sections, so this may be a very large class of problems).
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If those who repent of evil can't be forgiven then none of us have hope.
Another important limitation in the article that is not mentioned is that how 'green' electric cars are isn't determined by the engine, it's determined by the energy input. The lifetime emissions of an electric vehicle are still about ~70% of a conventional one in most countries.

Accelerating electrification when all you've done is move the resource consumption from the car to a conventional power plant isn't really that helpful.
My living room still has 3 TVs but I have regrets
assuming it would be the ultimate version of what we, the Poles, had known and liked since the 90s

That's generally not how fast food chains work. When expanding to a new country they don't just sell the same recipe they use at home. They do market testing and tailor the recipe for maximum appeal to local tastes. For most people fast food is always going to taste best at home.
That's a gross simplification of how the market of games works and why people buy them. Plus, you're claiming that both AAA and mobile are money-grabbing schemes where performance and features affected by performance don't matter, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Not to mention that very often good gameplay also requires appropriate performance. This is still critical in titles not targeting high-end hardware, but also in AAA. Frame render time matters, and lack of performance can affects the work of not only developers, but also artists.

Even in mobile games performance could make a huge difference: something with low performance might not run in some mobile phones and you'd lose a huge chunk of audience (and no, before you say it, it's not just people with iPhone 16s that are a target to make money).
I was never really bothered by the rain in seattle, it was the overcast that did me in. Everything felt so muted with no crisp shadows.
Morgan Spurlock did a sequel to Super Size Me (Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken) and it's a great deep dive into the chicken industry. He describes the growth of chickens that this article touches upon, but you can see the size differences with the chickens he raises. He buys the broilers as chicks and raises them for a few weeks until slaughter, touching upon "cage free", "free range" and all the other buzzwords. Most surprising to me was just a few minutes where they talk about the chickens becoming so big, so fast, that a few dozen die before slaughter from heart attacks, broken legs, or just suffocation from their sheer size.

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> To conflate and compare and equivalate unethical behaviours like theft with true evils like slavery or murder is beyond unhelpful.

I'm not saying those behaviors are all equally bad. I'm saying they are all bad, with an unspecified amount of evilness. I wouldn't help anyone do any of them. I won't help someone steal, even if I think murder is more wrong than it, because stealing is already wrong.

For Stallman, nonfree software is also wrong. You can argue with that, but you can't expect him to help someone write nonfree software and still hold that view.
The loss of humanity in Russia and Eastern Europe surrounding (not just during) WWII is astounding.

If you weren’t persecuted by your own country you might be by an invading nation… and then again by a second invasion…

It seems like if you were at all prominent or notably educated someone would be suspicious of you.

And if you weren’t you still had a risk of random events.
Hydrogen is often used to make arguments against battery cars and for hydrogen cars (not large transport vehicles, planes, industrial applications with no alternatives, etc.)
That was what irked many Canadians during the trucker tantrum. The nitwits intentionally walked and even pissed on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa.
Their points are not insurmountable and apply even more strongly to HFC. However, Toyota is still lobbying and advertising heavily on HFC, so it is hard not to question the good faith behind their arguments
Sure, but even now with the greater visibility we have, these claims are never taken seriously en masse. One group would call you a traitor, and another would call you a conspiracy theorist.

I do not have a solution, but I'd just like to point out that if someone on HN makes a comment like the one GP did, they 100% understand that this isn't "new". I also don't think we should just accept this as a part of life because "it was all happening before", because the level of spying the internet has enabled is orders of magnitude worse than it was without it. We should be afraid and upset.
I think this is "zero day" in the sense of no patch is available, not in the sense of skipping responsible disclosure.

This has a CVE number allocated (CVE-2022-29072) and the README mentions 7-zip disputing that this is their problem (rather, some underlying Windows component).
A Better Compressed Bitset
It seems that 7-zip opens the .chm help file using the HtmlHelp [1] WinAPI call. This API call does not even seem to run `hh.exe`. How does this privilege escalation actually work?

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/htmlhelp/...
We've been getting weekly deliveries in Toronto from The Stubborn Farmer [1] for many years and have found their chicken to be both delicious and not freakishly oversized.

[1]: https://stubbornfarmer.com/
> I read that more to mean that by playing games that are non-free ...

If it has to be interpreted, it is poorly communicated.
But then you can't access your data outside your local network. That may be acceptable depending on your use case, but at that point it's not a 1-to-1 alternative to cloud services.
This was a few years, it does make me wonder if I had a malicious app on my phone.

Now on Android there is a green light when the mic is on so presumably that would catch this? Unless it is at the OS level