skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically almost all custodial crypto exchanges and services function as mixers, as they don't separate customer funds. Using Blockchain analysis you can see that certain transaction likely belongs to certain service, but to get the details you have to file a data request, and hope that the service has done the KYC properly.
The monopoly practice in this case is subsidizing a business with by leveraging a monopoly. Aka YouTube isn’t paying market prices on unused compute therefore Google is leverage its search monopoly to expand into another business.

Historically the concern was that railroads might get into say coal mining by charging competitors more to move coal than they charged themselves.
Same as with endless Spider-Man reboots.

And turning a single book (the hobbit) into a trilogy of movies.

Cash grabs.
You should consider filtering your HTTPS streams.
A few hundred miles in a freight vehicle is bullshit. Someone said build me a thing and none of the engineers had the courage to laugh in their faces and say no.

The stores are full of bullshit products. Just because someone is selling it doesn’t mean it works. Some of these so called tractors only get 170 miles? Are you joking?
How would package signing have prevented this?
The stoics apparently don't understand the significance of the number 42. Their philosophy is dead to me.
gluon is a terrible name for an e-mail library due to asymptotic freedom.

As soon as your e-mail leaves your server, it will spawn pions and be screened.
This isn't about cryptocurrency at all. It's about the obviously bad idea of transferable digital in-game goods [sold for cryptocurrency]. You don't need the crypto part to see why it's not a good idea, although the model described here (selling loot to other players?) is not the extremely silly one I've heard more often (buy a CSGO skin and wear it in other games!).
My experience:

> hey siri, play the art of fugue by bach on downstairs

> now playing Love The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna, by Eminem, on downstairs

And like have apple’s ML people just never even heard of Bayes or what? if i have, in the last few days, asked siri to play debussy, ravel, liszt, and chopin, and today I say “play debussy on downstairs” - and i have never, not once, played any kind of rap or hiphop - why would it... “now playing Ain’t No fun - by Snoop Dogg - on downstairs”?
The real Rorschach test here is who Julia Bliss Flaherty is meant to be: HRC or Sarah Palin (who was still relevant in 2015)
I strongly disagree with every line of that.

> straight up bad faith.

You do not know my motivations, so kindly do not question them.

> Google is a tech giant with immense marketing capabilities.

So?

So is Red Hat, for instance.

> They sell laptops which obviously outsell anything like framework/purism/system76/pine64

[1] Wrong: not only Google sells Chromebooks. In fact I submit that it is a minority vendor of Chromebooks.

[2] Obviously outsell etc.

Why is this obvious? What do you feel is obvious here, and why?

> they would even if the product was garbage.

Evidence, please? On what basis do you make this claim?

> mechanical consequence of what google is

What is a "mechanical consequence"?

> they happen to have a product running it

"happen to have" is bogus. This took years, major effort, and the people behind it had to fight for it.

> it doesn't say anything about chromeos.

It 100% does. It says that Linux is ready for the desktop, and that it has been for years. It outsells the only other rival product to MS Windows; how much more ready can anything be?

The year of Linux on the desktop came and went and the Linux world was, as ever, too busy squabbling and arguing with itself to even notice.

Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of consumers are happily running Linux laptops and Linux phones and just use it, all day every day...

And all the distros are a rounding error.
Best of luck. Hope it goes well.
Alexa, What Happened?
Honestly a very good summary.
Anyone who has read Cryptonomicon should remember that the hero protagonists went to a lot of effort to secure a large mass of gold to 'back' the currency they wanted to create.

The Baroque Trilogy is less clear as Isaac Newton mints new currency.

Does that mean that perhaps Stephenson's opinions were always that currency needs to be backed by something whether it is gold or national borders.
> MY feeling so far is more that laymen are less impressed of them than experts - because for people not from the field, the fact that they produce so much bullshit seems to trump all other aspects.

The NYT literally just published an embarrassingly credulous account of how the Bing AI wanted to seduce the author away from his wife and commit various acts of violence, that fully took all of the interactions at face value.

The non-experts are imagining full-on sentience where the experts correctly recognize mere word association shenanigans. Your feelings, in short, are ass backwards.
Coherent is nice, but correct would be better.
No, because the chance of my child getting HIV is ridiculously low.

If you shift it to make my child really smart or really pretty, the answer might be different - especially if the parents aren’t especially smart or good looking themselves.
My password years ago used to be my counter strike buy menu keys when on the T team.
> The point of science fiction is to create a believable vision of the future

It isn't, but even running with that, he did. It was an enormously popular book at the time, and fits in with a lot of other utopian socialist visions of that era.

I understand that it doesn't fit with your personal ideologies and beliefs more than century later. But you were not his audience. A book with the same goals written today would be written differently.

Even good science fiction from decades later doesn't hold up by the standards you're expecting of it. E.g., Bradbury's Martian Chronicles is also shockingly unrealistic to today's reader. But that's nothing on Bradbury or the book.
Seems like a good way to validate it would be to have everyone play the same set of songs. Then to tell if the predictions work, see if it can find each different song each individual plays. I hope the design wasn't as bad as you say.
One imbibes spirit and then answers them. In vino veritas, and all that.
Oh, it's the emoji? I've just seen the domain name out and about so assumed it was Alien reference.
Give the RP2040 a look, assuming "locally" is somewhere with access to them. You can start off micropython-level and then go lower as you want.
To be fair, movies from the 80s look like movies from the 80s. Film stock has a lot to do with the visual look. But other things like the sound effects of weapons, the crappy car chases/wrecks/explosions add to just how 80s films stand out. You can tell a move from at least 2000s from the vast amount of CGI. Let's not forget about the wardrobe and hair styles. And the smoking.

LotR has to be acknowledged on how well it was produced regardless of how one feels about the treatment of the story itself.
$ Write an opinion article entitled 'AI chatbots are having their "tulip mania" moment'
It would definitely disincentivize false reporting, and make people think twice if they are not sure. Which would be good incentives. We have far too many people calling the police casually for non-emergency reasons and as a bad faith way to bring violence to someone they don't like, like SWATing. Every month another E-911 dispatch center complains they're overloaded. There's a subset of Americans who simply can't mind their own business and feel they have to go out and bully people, and the lack of accountability and consequences just encourages them.

Yes, there may be a handful of real crimes that go unreported, but I'm kind of neutral on that. It's not the public's job to tattle on each other by triggering a potentially deadly police response. Having strong accountability for the reporter would mean only the most serious, obvious, violent crimes get reported.
It feels slow to us but from past performance we still progress on this topic and have achieved already impressive results.

And more and more puzzle peaces are falling in place.

We can see were it is going.

And when you follow Nvidia with their digital twin topic, we are converging.
I'm somewhat outrageously bullish on cryptocurrency, but still lovingly refer to it as 'fake internet money'.
> "It's not just the currency that sets the value of the goods. It's the goods in the aggregate that set the value of the currency."

The currency would ideally facilitate trade. Even if it's not baked in it evolves. I remember Diablo 2 people would trade using a particular rare ring (Stone of Jordon). It was essential as you might find rare items that don't fit your character configuration

Ideally crypto would facilitate trade and not take away from the game. But I understand the incentives with the game company using a token as opposed to a natural market that evolved may be off
There's a really good 12 episode BBC podcast called "The Lazarus Heist" that details the extent of this state enterprise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvg9
Lol, sorry kid, we can't afford the minivan, you've got to go.
Odd, it makes sense on a technical level when it comes to these ZWJ characters, but hiding the implementation makes sense from Safari’s point of view. I’d actually prefer that as a UNIVERSAL standard, visible symbols vs characters. (When it comes to UI)

But I can also imagine this is problematic when setting validation rules else where and now there’s a subtle foot gun buried in most web forms.

I guess the thing to learn here is to not rely on maxlength=
Crypto solves no problems for ordinary users.

Literally and actually, with no exceptions, no consumer cares about a public ledger or any of its other features. They do care about being able to dispute a transaction if they are scammed or unhappy.

Crypto solves tons of problems for paranoiac techbros and get-rich-quick schemers.
<rant> I tried using Rust for a Nordic microcontroller project recently but ended up giving up. It was just too difficult to figure out how to do things in Rust as a beginner. For example, I couldn't find a (maintained) Bluetooth stack for the nRF52. I finally figured how to link to Nordic's proprietary Bluetooth stack but then I realized I wanted to use the Thread protocol. I couldn't figure out how to do that. Meanwhile there are entire sample apps and guides in C for what I'm trying to achieve[0]. It sucks because I love Rust and would much rather use it than C/C++. I guess this is less of an obstacle for people who have embedded programming experience, but I don't.

[0] https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/...
More supply-chain attacks, though these (clickbait package names, monetized with referral links) are certainly less sophisticated and less dangerous than the wave that hit PyPI (typos of common package names, monetized by altering crypto addresses in your clipboard / paste buffer). As they say, the best time to start mitigating these attacks was 10 years ago; the next best time is today.
If anyone would like to try this out:

https://codepen.io/Wowfunhappy/pen/dyqpMXO?editors=1000
Maybe a long shot but is there a course on “Geometric Algebra” offered by ASU by any chance? The founder of GA, David Hestenes is a former professor there (emeritus).
This is pretty basic stuff you learn in your first Econ class, no?

That the value of goods is collective but entirely personal. It is the basis of why we might trade away a cow to receive a sheep
And what about as the rock crumbles? Rocks are constantly eroding and re-amalgamating. What is it like to be sandstone? What is it like to be a magma flow?

Is there something it is like to be a severed limb? What about a clipped toenail? A pile of leaves? It is not obvious that just because we as humans identify something as “an object” that it must follow that that object has an internal experience.
I might be just stanning but crypto-currency is quite different to block-chains used for digital asset tracking. It's all about the fungibility of individual crypto objects.
And call it muskops! Musk now singlehandedly keeps twitter up!
Obviously I agree that good works are something that Christians should strive to have. But works are not saving, and anyone looking to their works to save them will perish, as Jesus clearly states in the Bible:

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many *wonderful works*?"

"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

Jesus is talking here about people that look to their good deeds as evidence of their salvation. When they meet Jesus they tell him all the great things they have done, but completely forget about the key to salvation which is faith alone.

Christian sects are not in agreement of this because some Christian sects do not offer a saving gospel. Catholicism does not offer a saving gospel, for example.

We'd all do good to focus on the Bible as the final authority, and not the teaching and writing of men.
Scammers also do this for searches like 'aircanada' (no spaces), including sometimes impersonating the official website while telling you to call a support number as the website is down.
> It's only true when all of the computers on it are too.

I was unclear. This is exactly the case I'm talking about. The network, and all of the devices on the network, are mine.

> What? No it doesn't.

It does. It makes it easier for bad actors -- mostly advertising networks -- to bypass my DNS filtering. They can do it all with their own code, encrypted through HTTPS to hide it, and never touch my DNS systems, nor be affected by browser settings.

> You're not supposed to be able to have control over what tools other people use on their own computers.

Again, I'm talking about having control over my own machines, not anyone else's.
I mostly agree - the noise would be annoying. But drones are less likely to kill my kids while they bike to school, which would be nice.
This is indeed a mater of great religious wars. https://cuberule.com ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30793622 ) is one such attempt to bring reason to it... though... reason might be too strong a word.
Hey that's not fair!

It's actually the third real world use case, behind getting better drugs than from your local dealer and the entirety of the ransomware industry.
Edge cases like this will just get more common as unicode keeps getting more complex. There was a fun slide in this talk[1] that suggests unicode might be turing complete due to its case folding rules.

I miss when Unicode was just a simple list of codepoints. (Get off my lawn)

[1]: https://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/20171027_brainfuck_...
> I don't know why you feel the need to give people your background/ability/level to bolster your argument. I'm sure you can string together a coherent argument without the need for an appeal to authority. I'm not calling you a junior engineer, merely observing that the quality of the argument you are making being worthy of a junior engineer's rant.

You dispelled them as giving a rant that denotes inexperience. They gave their experience as a counter.
Ask HN: Feedback on this AI safety idea
There are lots of smart people working on the theory of ai safety, big future problems.

There are fewer people working on ai safety on things that are currently happening, small now problems.

It seems hard to get good at many things without doing them in practice, no matter how much theory you know. Maybe AI safety is one of those things.

Also, path dependence seems like a big thing - the better we can make the present, the better the future is likely to be.

Overall, seems hard to get good at things without contact with reality.

Someone could make an organization that does the boring one off work to help anyone that's suffered harm as a result of AI (and probably any software, because AI will only amplify the results of software):

* Deepfake assistance - helping people get their deepfakes off the web

* Hack recovery - helping people and businesses recover from cyber attacks

* Job retraining - helping anyone who was fired as a result of automation

Hopefully the org would be funded by some of the big AI players and would be a non-profit, and all of the recovery work would be published openly eg as videos where possible, so that it's somewhat scalable. And then eventually you add in automation so you have software that helps all of these people more automatically.

Side note: When society faces challenges that are in our zone of frustration, we get better. When we face challenges that overwhelm us, then we can get ruined. Many small challenges = good. Few big challenges = bad. So for people working on foundation models, consider finding ways to do more frequent but smaller releases, so that people and society can adapt in smaller batches, rather than having to do fewer bigger adaptations.

Tell me what you like and tell me what you think isn't going to work (and ideally, tell me an idea for solving that challenge, too).
This is an chicken-egg problem.
Wisdom is not quite portable – how advice turns into “insight porn”
Ah yes, be accepting of everyone, except when they disagree with you, then can make games to simulate shooting them.

I wonder how Transenstein 3D would go down, or would that be hate speech.
On what data is based atheism spirituality since there's no book?
You can endanger yourself (do hiking or parkour or extreme mountain-biking), but there are no legal activities to mutually endanger each other. You can't have a box fighting or chicken race to death legally. But why not?
I don't care if they are flat 99.99% of the time. Also, of course your statistic is invented on the spot and not warranted by any kind of research. Even a slight possibility of hierarchy is a no-go. Because someone will use it. And then it will create a new nightmare of dependencies.

If I wanted that, I'd be using Java.
"This real thing reminds me of this fictional thing that was possibly based on it" is definitely a thing that you can say.

Anyway though wasn't a major theme of the back half of that book that this practice was always wasteful and unbeneficial. That there is no situation where a community becomes stronger by losing a cunning leader to merely a stronger fighter. That this was possibly one of the ways their culture had been manipulated to make them fragmented and susceptible to control.
Ericsson to lay off 8,500 employees
There are a variety of Eye Tracking Communication Devices on the market.

I am not listing the manufacturers since most of them are also involved in either/or/and military and marketing applications and I am done supporting surveillance and murder capitalism.

But the eye movement interfacing tech is there and becoming more and more wide-spread. The major players have pilot studies at hospitals and r&d medical facilities across the world.

With the implant the concept is that with further development, it can be used for connection to locomotion etc. The proposed future potential of direct interfacing is larger, so to say.

An exoskeleton with direct input from a fully paralyzed wearer can significantly contribute to rehab, just one scenario.
Startups in Cyprus
Yes, there's a lot of hype around AI right now, and yeah sure it looks like some crypto grifters rotated into AI - but overall, I really don't get how people can look at all the progress and think there isn't something important here?

I see a spectrum of responses to GPT, but the really important thing is the rate of change. Even if GPT somehow doesn't impress you currently, why do you think things won't be improved in 6 months? What about 5-10 years from now? I can understand thinking that transformers are maxing out on their sigmoid curve of progress, but every time people complain about perceptrons, RNNs, CNNS, etc - another team invents something new and blows out all the benchmarks. These things won't get worse, so even if you assume a pessimistic rate of change, how different will things look soon?

The observation that these AIs are "mere text generators" is a testament to how insane they are IMO. The fact that they're just predicting the next token and are still this powerful is paradigm-shifting for how I viewed human intelligence. I don't think these things are sentient, but if they can replace me at work in 10 years or less, who cares?
> We'd all do good to focus on the Bible as the final authority

Which edition?
Did Bitcoin switch to proof of stake while I wasn't looking?
It's mostly correct most of the time. That's pretty good.
With all this recent attention on HN around imap, smtp, mail servers and the like....i also expected something more modern to be announced - either JMAP or somrthing else altogether. I'm not disappointed because the more, the merrier...but nowadays with so much of my time in the matrix world, i somewhat xpected to start hearing anouncements of alternatives to email.
Purely on visuals side of things:

- Tron released in 1982: one of the first movies with extensive use of CGI

- Terminator 2 released in 1992 with first partially CGI character and realistic CGI human movement

- LOTR in 2003 had it's own important firsts like AI driven CGI characters in massive battles

There have been advances since, but not comparable to TRON to LOTR jump. Another important factor is that a lot of effects were practical and not CGI and those will always age well.
I have them in my bookcase, the extended editions, but I will probably just grab a well-regarded unaltered copy from some torrent site when I introduce them to my son in a few years. Of course, should that prove impossible by that time, I do indeed have the DVD's.
This would be a case where it's important to remember that in everyday conversations absolute statements should usually be interpreted as relative statements.

>> The UK no longer makes anything

≈≈ The UK has a weak manufacturing sector OR

≈≈ The UK does not manufacture much.
These remind me of the posters you’d buy in weed dispensaries that came with a free “gift” in places like DC where possession was legalized but sale was not.
Significantly increasing production for a temporary benefit is going to require significant investment. Since it is a temporary benefit, it's probably not worth that significant investment. Because eventually the demand will falter.

And yeah, the weight loss benefit is a temporary benefit. It may last a few years, but it fades. This is not a new drug class. The weight loss aspect to it is also not new (Saxenda, the weight loss variant of Victoza, released in 2014). Liraglutide was in trials for weight management when I started Victoza. That was a decade ago. I'm on Mounjaro now for glycemic management and it works great for that. But it's not doing anything for appetite, delayed gastric emptying, etc.
Did it really generate that essay in 1 prompt? If so, that makes me a little uneasy for some reason.
Dunning–Krugerrands
Yes, I've installed my own cert to negotiate HTTPS connections, then proxy through software to check the contents being sent.

Basically the same process that some companies use for similar purposes.
Jack and the Beanstalk is such a well-known story that as long as crypto has existed, there will have been people who dismissed it as magic beans.
WUG? SOJs
If they could do that they already would have.

Frankly, I think you're massively underestimating the difficulty in what you're describing (assuming what you're describing would actually work, and I'm not sure it would). To do what you're suggesting, you'd need a human to evaluate and feed into one of these LLMs every known fact. Good luck with that.

And that's ignoring the issue of maintaining that model as those facts change.
With our current state of cybersecurity (total shambles), we worry about NK stealing rather modest amounts of money. While relying exclusively on cybersecurity to prevent SkyNet scenario.

Fun times.
I don’t know if anything in this story is true. But if this was a story I needed to write, this would be a great potential starting point.

Comparing them to tulips just seems naive.