skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to sympathize with Hersh; being on the outside yet being taken seriously by some has to be hard on you. Paranoia strikes deep; into your life it will creep.

He used to be credible. Then unfortunately a lot of shady people learned they could manipulate him and get away with it, and so they've done. He can publish something like this and when anyone says, "prove it" he can't. Because Top Secret.
A podcast would come up in a discussion about addiction to podcasts and other media.

But also thanks I'm gonna add this to my list as well.
I'm actually expecting AI training data to turn into a snake eating its tail. I've been spending the last month not sleeping so I could try to get up to speed on deep learning, and my understanding is that AI trained on AI generated output becomes crap surprisingly quickly, and AI generated content is already starting to proliferate. I have no idea the extent to which this will hinder new models being generated, but I could see it becoming quite the problem.
I don't get the HN hate of Google as a search tool. Yes, SEO has made searching more difficult, but Google is still by far the best search engine provided that your searches are focused and you use search tools (e.g., excluding terms, focusing on certain sites, etc.). I've tried other search engines (e.g., DDG, Bing) and they just aren't as good as Google.
Guessing you didn't watch to where he said "We tried to get scientists on the jury. That's how we won".
It casts doubt on the unverified claims that US is responsible for the sabotage of the gas pipeline and raises the possibility that it’s a planted piece by Russian propaganda ops.
"Filipinx" introduces non-gendered terminology in an already ungendered language, using letters not even in the Tagalog language. I don't know any Filipinos who use it.

Not only is it ignorant, it's literally racist white cultural and linguistic imperialism. Wasn't the enslavement, rape and murder of my ancestors over centuries enough for you all already?
You're making the mistake of extrapolating from your own personal experience.
besides bigInt...

What numbers in javascript are not actually doubles (what js uses under the hood for every number)?

You can convert them from doubles to 32-ints apparently by some bitwise hacks like (I'm pretty sure they still are 'doubles' though - and it just does some rounding tricks)

```
|0 //signed
>>>0 //unsigned
```

So any webapp (google sheets) will likely have problems related to floating point math.
I wouldn't call it harassment either, but it felt annoying to me (much like some other comments on that issue). People can and should take their freedoms seriously, they have the freedom to fork and make changes and publish those changes themselves and that's about it.

Beyond that, I think they should respect that no means no and not bother authors because they take themselves or their freedoms (too) seriously.
As long as it's easy to see the list of web results so I can go there instead of just relying on the model. Also because there are reasons to go to sites other than just getting a summary. Like maybe you need or want to use that site to do something.
If you're right, I'm sorry. Normally I'd have doublechecked that but I'm rushing out the door atm, so have to go with the usual pattern match.
3D imaging of a nuclear reactor using muography measurements
It does seem like the title could use a "might have" as in "How America might have taken out the Nord Stream pipeline."
I think that's a reasonable spin. And I'll admit that there's a repressed neocon in the back of my brain that secretly wants to believe that the US is still capable of taking decisive and effective action in defense of world order.

But... this is just really, really thin. Hersh had no editor on this, it's literally a self-published blog with one entry[1], created for just this article. No one else wanted to run it, one has to assume. There's one source, with only the thinnest of descriptions[2] and no independent verification described.

Everyone wants to lean hard on Hersh's reputation from My Lai and Abu Ghraib. But those stories had evidence! The vietnam story was about a covered-up-but-very-real prosecution of an actual person for actual crimes. Abu Ghraib had the famous photographs and people willing to go on record with their own names. This isn't the same at all.

I mean, maybe it's true. Again, the Freudian Neocon would like that. But realistically this could also be someone feeding Hersh a fake story sourced from anywhere. I don't think this really tells us much of anything.

[1] When I saw this the first time, I immediately thought it must be a fake!

[2] Just "someone familiar with the planning", I mean, were they even looped in on the execution? How does that description square with all the Tom Clancy prose about operation processes?
It's possible to select a preferred language for each app in System Preferences / System Settings since macOS 10.15 (or 10.14? anyway since some years ago).
One of the best AI + search implementations ever
My father uses excel and puts all the hvac room temps in it, and then tweaks it for maximum power savings. Its an older building, and then when workers complain he can tweak it. I think an AI that can learn and tweak manual inputs (until its automated) in an excel plugin would be very useful for all kinds of production/real life uses.

World runs on excel, or now more common smartsheet.
I can tell you're a lawyer-type-person. Sharp and harsh. Those are always fun to debate with! ;-) Do note that we are not in a court of law here. I'm not here to try to win legal arguments in a debate. I'm here to share knowledge and intuition. This also necessitates a different form of discussion. Getting down to it:

I was not making a positive statement that machines can think. Rather I was refuting yours by arguing that whether or not machines can think is irrelevant.

Your statement was ... "Given that these are algorithms and not sentient beings capable of thought, it's clearly the case that [only taking the style or genre from a work] is not what is occurring."

This does not follow: you don't need to be a sentient being to do things that sentient beings also do. All through history people have made surprising mechanisms that have done things that were previously thought to be the domain of human intelligence. In fact, typically those mechanisms did those things very differently than humans did them, but that made them no less capable.

Simply stating that a system is not sentient is insufficient to prove that it is capable or incapable of doing X.

What the machine is actually doing here needs to be determined separately. But the particular argument "the machine can't do that because it is not sentient" does not hold.
> Telemetry has been around and matured and benefits users.

Does it? Telemetry mostly seems used to justify removing features I need on grounds that they’re little used.

As an other user noted, if telemetry is your yardstick, the average backup software removed the “restore” feature because that’s barely ever used.
if you turn off typing and inking in privacy settings, does the start menu stuff stop?
Considering people still go to Bing just to type "Google" I think the answer is no.
All the more reason not to conflate copyright infringement with the BitTorrent protocol.
At my workplace I moved almost 30 computers from Gnome to KDE, because we were fed up with Gnome's "simplicity", and nobody has complaint anymore. Not a single bug in three years. Maybe you are just unlucky?
This is an incorrect assertion.

We have to ask for permission on our SaaS products to collect this data as it's not necessary to collect it for the product to function. The EU GDPR mandates this.

Russ Cox is suggesting that there is no permission step and that the data is collected by default.

That is the issue.
> (incentivized to do what??)

to route traffic. NKN is a CHORD overlay on top of the internet. clients connect to nodes and nodes route traffic from one node to another until the packet reaches its destination. clients stay anonymous (no IP leakage). end-to-end encrypted communication. "Proof-of-Relay" algorithm for mining. consensus via MOCA.

the only state of the art blockchain technology I know of. and they dont even pay me to say this.
This is a tad bit insensitive. I have excelled at public school for the first years, then there was a rough patch in life caused by parents which TANKED my grades and social life for years.

I recovered and eventually got an excellent Master's degree in Bioinformatics but it is condescending to assume that everyone was dealt the same hand as you in life and that anything at all is fair.

Maybe schoolwork isn't so easy if you're being abused by a parent once a week?
> a) I don't understand the relevance at all to Hacker News. There are plenty of interesting things going on in the tech world that aren't making the front page.

It's possible the tech stack for the detonator was written in Rust.
OnLive was 2009, PS Now was 2014, and Geforce Now launched in 2015.

Stadia might have been well executed from a technical standpoint but AAA game streaming wasn't exactly a new and innovative idea in 2019.
I haven't seen anything like Bing + ChatGPT since the Road Runner's rocket powered roller skates.
man, those were the days. I actually played it on my Atari 800
Aside some AAA title and rare edge caves, gaming on Linux is quite good. Some tinkering necesary and of course wine, but it works.

Sincerely, a fresh Linux User with not much knowledge.
It looks like a good device, but I wonder about how much data collection is going on.

A look at their privacy policy by Mozilla was something of a mixed review. (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/steam-d...). They said the policy didn't raise any huge privacy concerns, but that the policy was vague, Valve was unresponsive to questions ("We emailed Valve three times with our privacy and security questions and haven’t heard back from them"), and that ultimately Valve reserves the right to collect and share (read sell) "anonymous" data, aggregated or not, with third parties.

I expect them to track what games you play and when, but what about desktop mode? If you run applications or browse the web how much of that activity is collected by Valve? Anti-cheat software works with the steam deck and that too is often highly invasive recording files on your system or other running processes.

The device also comes with two internal microphones, and I'd probably want to remove them (hopefully that's as easy as it is for PS5 controllers) and has bluetooth which is hopefully easily disabled while traveling.
> How many people are installing and using open source software but couldn't understand a pop-up explaining what data is collected and asking if they'd like to submit it?

I’ve taught probability theory using randomized response[1] as an exercise problem, and while people can understand it given time and motivation, it’s not immediately obvious. So I’m not exactly hopeful that a prospective Audacity, Blender, or even Free Pascal user (to take an arbitrary set of examples) would get what I mean if I say “I’m collecting no more than 10 bits of information about you using RAPPOR”[2], and I’m not willing to engage in comforting bullshit such as “all collected data is anonymous”, as I’ve been all too close to situations where the difference between the two might be one between freedom and prison.

> Is the non-technical nature of the user the problem or is it just that when you have an opt-in option most people make the choice to opt-out?

Both, because confirmation dialogs, especially privacy-related ones, have been thoroughly poisoned in users’ minds. But confirmation of obscure actions, however beneficial their consequences, is problematic in general—if I go on the street and ask people if they’d like caffeine in their tea or ascorbic acid in their apples, I expect (but have not checked) that the majority will say no, nevermind that both are normally there and intrinsic to the experience.

(The possibility of meaningful consent from a non-specialist is the subject of much discussion and few good answers in med school, or so I’ve heard.)

Whether the ultimate answer is to grant or deny permission, I’m not sure I can present the question in a way that will actually have it made on the basis of merit and not on “scary permission dialog, better say no” or “yes, yes, just let me through to my dancing bunnies[3]” or “yes, if I say no the installer will just tell me to GTFO”.

(In that respect the “Send crash report to vendor” button is unexpectedly good, because you’re not actually interposing yourself between the user and any prospective bunnies. But personally I don’t like to spend time and effort in order to send “feedback” into an unmarked hole where I’ve no idea if anybody will ever look at it. From that point of view, it is background data collection that’s unexpectedly good.)

And even if, for the purposes of this question, it would be best if people took the time to learn the necessary maths, computing, and operational security to make an informed choice, in reality I’m not sure that’s the best thing they can spend their life on.

So it may be the answer is that you simply can’t do telemetry well for the social reason that users won’t ever end up making an informed choice, or that the well has been poisoned so thoroughly that the rational choice is to reject everything. It’s just that I know that it’s basically possible in a technical sense, so I don’t want to give up that easily.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response

[2] https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/06/15/what-is-...

[3] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-dancing-bunnies-problem/
ADHD is underdiagnosed, especially in women.
I think it's more that touchscreens are superior for certain kinds of activities, like consuming information in the form of feeds, videos, and images. Mostly because the screen is larger for the same device size. Buttons are more accurate for typing, and often (I believe, without citation) faster for typing as well, even compared to swipe systems.

One is not superior to the other over all, but each is better at certain things. The difference is that more people will pay money to maximize their user experience scrolling through feeds and watching videos, compared to typing emails.
If you look at the list of top sellers, new arrivals, upcoming games, and games on sale, most if not all of them have native Linux support, which is something you absolutely could not have said just a few years ago. In my experience, at this point bad Linux ports are more of an issue than a lack of them.

I agree though honestly, if Proton works fine and the game runs under it, I'd much rather have that than a bad native Linux port. Plus, I have a lot more trust in Proton to keep things compatible than Windows.
I find your arguments pretty weak.
- War is enough of a force majeure, literally the first case. There's no need to sabotage infrastructure. Or at least do it on land, where it's easier to fix.
- One very weird way to escalate. I can think of a couple of more effective ways.
- There was no wedge after all. Germany got a bloody nose, the Russians as well. Did anyone dare accuse the US immediately after the explosions? No, but they're starting to now, probably judging that there will be no retribution.
They are kind of forced to keep up or die now, not a good place to be in. It feels like everyone always just assumed they must have super advanced AI behind closed doors. Perhaps that was a wrong assumption because they never actually seem to *do* anything with it, but we will probably know that for sure very soon.
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

This was a second-chance pool collision.
I’m not a crypto expert, but you can get 8 bit Atmel / Microchip AVRs with AES units on them (for example), are “special” lightweight algorithms actually needed, or should we just be encouraging the use of MCUs with suitable accelerators for proven algorithms?
What I don't get is the risk of an accidental signal triggering it. The system as described sounds similar to some existing tech used to communicate with submarines when they are under deep cover... presumably those comms come with both strong encryption and strong authentication off the rack. seems unlikely that random noise would be a concern for a trigger...

A more likely rationale for a fixed time line would simply be a concern on the life of the battery in the receiver, and the diplomatic fallout that would happen if the battery died, and an intact detonator was recovered on a later routine inspection that could be traced back to the USA.
It will be hilarious. Chat GPT is standing on the shoulders of there being no AI-EO, a bit like Google 1.0 did.

AI will be a victim of it’s own success too. Or it will need to be human researched and curated rather than just letting an algorithm run freely across the web.
How do Sheets and Excel differ in this regard? How did using floats cause some number to be odd?
GP is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_polynomial

Build a table left[j] of product-of-ratios for i < j, and another right[k] for i > k, each in linear-time, and combine the two to find the product-of-ratio for i != m in linear time as well.
I saw an LED display at IKEA the other day, branded "teenage engineering." It was obnoxious, only displayed 5 preprogrammed patterns without any apparent means to configure it.
That would be outright war, they don't need to threaten that at all, if it got to that point they might as well just nuke Berlin.
I don't agree with any censorship, but in this case I find the idea of text censorship especially scary. It's a short trip to google not letting you see "misinformation" without being logged in
Editing PDF files with Acrobat was always non free.
>your searches are focused

are what?

>I don't get the HN hate of Google as a search tool. Yes, SEO has made searching more difficult, but Google is still by far the best search engine provided that your searches are focused and you use search tools (e.g., excluding terms, focusing on certain sites, etc.). I've tried other search engines (e.g., DDG, Bing) and they just aren't as good as Google.

What if their search is better just because way, way way more people use it?
How could they have left such a massive gap in their product. They literally have the model and resources to revolutionize search. We all know LLMs will hurt their ad revenue, but regardless they have to have known this was coming. This is so similar to FB getting caught off guard by TikTok. There was a gap in the utility of their product (TikTok enabled grass roots content creation), and they just left it wide open.

Its some combination of:

1. ChatGPT is so much better than previous versions that Google themselves was stunned by the utility.

2. Incompetence/Gross negligence across Google

3. No way for them to reconcile the lost ad revenue, so they released nothing. This case is hard to argue for, as they would know theyre a sitting duck.

Regardless I am hoping for a massive Google failure. Theyre the ones responsible for the SEO content waste land that is the modern internet. We have all suffered at the feet of their ad machine
How do you play these? I tried ONI on steamdeck and it felt clunky compared to KBM...
In non-Pro/Enterprise editions of Windows the software still generally (though not always) respects the registry keys in HKLM\Policies, they just remove the tools to configure local group policy and (obviously) you cannot join a domain to set them through AD. You can still use third-party tools like PolicyPlus combined with the freely available ADMX packs that Microsoft ships for installation into AD forests to set whatever the hell you want.
As someone else said, the problem is ChatGPT lies straight to your face, whereas at least Google's answers are based on structured data by someone. It's traceable, whereas I would not trust ChatGPT ever to tell me the correct temperature to cook a steak.
I’m not suggesting smoking is fucking up the planet. But I am suggesting that in general, there are tons of policies in place that further contribute to climate change, which will also only affect younger people and on. Except those are even worse, because one cannot simply reverse climate change by passing a new bill.

So, I get your point, and I don’t necessarily disagree. But if we agree on that logic, then I care far more about stopping climate change, for the sake of future generations democratic welfare, than I do about allowing them to smoke.

Having said all that, I don’t know how NZ ranks in terms of climate policies, perhaps they are already the best in the world.
Yeah... there's nothing wrong with growing up with a bit of a bubble, but yikes by 24 you'd think this person would start to be aware that their experience wasn't exactly universal

As other comments pointed out, a large portion of society doesn't go to college, let alone "stress out about extracurriculars to make sure my app looks extra good"
It forbids the user from using the software in illegal or unauthorized manners, whatever that means.
There are components of windows that completely bypass the hosts file so it can 'phone home'.
My daughter hit her teens in2012. It was a horrible couple of years not just for her but from about 8th grade up.

Our HS had a suicide wave. Many attepts (my daughter being one) and quite a few of those attempts were successful later. Thankfully my child responded well to therapy.

This was in a high competitive HS IN NORTHERN VA.

My thoughts on factors:

Crazy parents pushing kids to try and get in TJ who had no business there. (We did not)

Peer pressure to over perform at everything
(If you did t have a 4.5 gpa you were stupid)

And the big bad social media really started going for teens then. And it was brutal

Over scheduling for activities. We played travel soccer. Super competitive. We had girls that played travel basketbal,soccer and softball. One of those is almost year round. Three? Your never home

We balanced it all with camping. It helped so much. One weekend a month minimum. No excuses.

Rambled a bit but from about 2011 on kids have been fucked.
The more I learn, the more I realize how rarely I've thought of a "new idea." In fact, I'm not convinced such a thing even exists. An idea is generally a set of connections between pre-existing ideas, so perhaps a novel subset of those connections would qualify as a "new idea," but one could argue it's more of a rearrangement of existing concepts. (What was the first idea? The first thought? Does thought require language, and if so, is consciousness an emergent property of language?)

When I realized how rare it is to have a unique thought, I reframed my approach to evaluating my own ideas. Instead of worrying about novelty, I worry about relevance.

If I can't find a pre-existing similar idea, I assume I'm on the wrong track unless I can identify a compelling reason why I'm in a unique position to have an idea that nobody has ever thought or at least felt like communicating publicly.

If I can find such a pre-existing idea, then I know I'm on the right track, and often it validates a pattern I identified between a subset of connections in my previous knowledgebase, solidifying the pattern in my mind. Regardless of whether I can label it a "new idea," I can use it to work toward the next step in whatever line of thinking caused me to notice the pattern in the first place.
If you carefully read my previous statement, I said that LLMs use similar technology to tools such as Stable Diffusion (which I have been playing with recently), not necessarily similar technology to the human brain.