skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT is a boon to surveillance and censorship. By controlling chatGPT you get access to what arguments sway the user, and likely in the near future the ability to scrub/remove information.

On the other hand, the models are small enough to ship around - you could run chatgpt on a moderately powerful server if performance wasn’t a concern. I suspect we’ll see a huge number of bit torrents for “trusted” llms
Maybe although it’s going to be harder to do anything on that front because a modem has to follow standards and so non-standard extensions on the radio side are tricky. And since that’s the case, landing really new features can be tricky.

I wonder if they’re looking to do a city-level mesh network that only iPhones get to participate in where your phone can simultaneously transmit and receive on LTE (although I don’t know what kind of regulatory things come into play for that idea).

I think the main advantage is power, security (QC’s software stack was a giant mess last I looked), stability (see previous point) and time to market for new standards into as many products (improving battery life, cost and size of wearables using their chip). I’m sure how long it took them to get LTE from QC in a fit and finish that was acceptable wasn’t a lost frustration (since that’s repeated constantly with 3g and 4g previously too).

Also, at Apple’s scale, I’m sure being able to single source a chip that is vertically integrated across billions of phones means the costs of integrating it into other smaller product lines is even more amortized so more things will get the option of a modem.

It also wouldn’t surprise me if at some point Apple became their own ISP and could really start to add non-standard functionality and not be tied to individual ISPs. Their SOS satellite play is part of that I think but I’m not yet sure how terrestrial internet and satellite will interplay - maybe they need to vertically integrate the cellular modem with the satellite piece to get things to work at good enough power? Or maybe they’ll have base stations repeating satellite internet via traditional cellular/Wi-Fi?
Versioning your events can help with this, along with a test suite that will complain if you change the semantics of events with older versions.
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You know -on second thought- maybe you have a point.

I've mailed LAION and I'll let you know what they say as well.
and the minute hand?
I agree with your perspective on this, but my hope is that it won't have a major negative externality at the end of the day--drum machines and drum software have really solid for well over a decade now, but plenty of people still learn the drums, learn them well, and find opportunities to play them.
> * If you write down what happened ("events"), and don't throw away said events, then you can always compare the current state of the system to how you think it should be (according to the events).

This, by the way, is the fundamental principle of accounting. When you hear “reconciliation” this is what they’re doing - comparing some data reflecting real events against a log of intended events. For example, a nonprofit might reconcile their bank account (actual $ amounts) against GL files generated from their CRM (expected $ amounts.)
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And then when you're not waiting for user input and you have a simple keystroke… how long is it taking you to show the result on the screen?
Expansion into previously unpopulated areas (logging the Amazon, for example) does have risks. Marburg virus likely comes from an animal living in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitum_Cave ; it's hardly implausible that expanding human habitation/activity into new areas may uncover more.

Speed of travel certainly makes things worse, but even in the 1300s diseases were able to spread widely.
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Incidentally the Republic of Ireland didn't have a nationwide postcode system until 2015.

Prior to that I used to address letters to a relative there as Name, Village, County and they were delivered! Turned out there were two people of the same name in the village but the postie saw the UK-originating stamp on the letter and ,delivered to the applicable one.
Can't wait until year 10000 when some alien planet invades Earth because DART happened to redirect this asteroid straight at them by accident.

That would be a fun sci-fi story.
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Helium-3 can be made on earth by fusing deuterium nuclei. Which is a lot easier than fusing Helium-3 nuclei, so if you can do the latter the former is probably a lot easier than going to the moon.
Users just want simple direct communications to work (yes, with more features than that, E2EE, image sending, and such; but those features are not the focus).

Companies want to get users into a walled-garden where they can target them for financial and political gains.

Democracy trying to push things away from the latter seems good. Do you agree?
> approaching a point in time of unverifiable reality and truth

Malicious groups spreading misinformation to destabilize society has been a thing since at least the ancient Greeks. Unverifiable reality has been the topic of religious debate for centuries as well. The recent language models are cool but they are not better at lying than humans.
This is not industry-wide standardization/requirements, it is targeted specifically at dominant players[1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34996473
> You can activate the voice assistant and ask "What year did The Godfather come out?"

Honestly, I'd really rather they pull out their phone and break eye contact than do this. I find when people use their voice assistants like this during a conversation it's even more derailing. It's pretty much the same as them making a phone call in the middle of a conversation and having it on speakerphone.
I feel like we got lucky with COVID-19. It just wasn't that deadly. Not to be too cold about it, but it had the potential to be a good test run to see how we deal with a more fatal pandemic.

In some ways we passed the test pretty well. In others, not so much.

My question to HN is: what could we do better next time?

edit: to be clear, "we" in what could we do better = our global civilization and maybe separately in each user's country of residence.
That's not really urbex though. Not sure ancient times had closed down industrial and commercial sites like the ones we have now.
Yes this is important to note: while the RAS is a charitable organisation, the publication process is facilitated by publishing companies (primarily OUP). Though exactly how the fees are distributed and what the arrangement is with OUP with regards to publication fees is, I'm not sure.

OUP provides the administrative side, platforms for submission/review, hosting and other editorial services. It doesn't make much sense for RAS to reimplement all of this from scratch.
How must it feel to be pro-Elon Musk yet still be fired by him?

> Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, who oversaw the Twitter Blue verification subscription model, said she was "deeply proud of my team" in a tweet after being among those released.
We saw similar gains going from Intel to Graviton 2 on EMR: 15% to 40% speedups depending on the job. Saw similar gains in EMR serverless switching from x86 to arm as well.

The only issue I've had is actually getting enough on-demand instances in certain regions during peak times.

I can't wait for Graviton 3 to be available on EMR.
> The Cambodian Ministry of Health has swabbed 12 of her close contacts, and only her 49-year-old father has tested positive. H5N1 infections typically occur in people who have been in close contact with poultry, and so far, there is no evidence that this strain has spread between people. Investigations into how the girl was exposed to the virus are underway.

I imagine this is one reason for the low-key tone of the article. Had any of those other 12 close contacts, who presumably don't also have contact with the poultry on the farm, tested positive - this would be consistent with human-to-human transmission.

The father is more likely to have been in contact with the poultry, which could explain his positive test.

Still, knowing little about a risk is not the same as knowing that the risk is low:

> Everyone was quite concerned that the girl might have had the strain 2.3.4.4b, which is circulating around the world and causing major problems in Europe, North America and South America right now. 2.3.4.4b is a new viral clade, and we don’t know a lot about it.

Also, check assumptions before concluding that this is the result of encroachment into native habitat:

> We know that, in Cambodia, the pandemic increased the amount of backyard poultry farming. Many people, for example tour guides, couldn’t work and had to supplement their incomes and sources of food for their families. All over the world, people are still struggling, which has resulted in changes in agricultural practices that can increase spillover risk. And changes to people’s health, for example malnutrition or being overweight, can make people more susceptible to getting infected.
Give it a bit more time and you'll see people settling arguments with ChatGPT and acting like its the final authority in any matter.
Repairability isn't one of the top design requirements. The previous postal truck was the Grumman LLV (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV). Check out this article on the design requirements and testing procedures: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collections/object-spotlight/lon...

Because it was for (non-military) government use, it naturally sucked. No air con (but you got a tiny fan!), a dinky heater that didn't really help, the chassis of a Chevy S-10, a 3-speed auto, and the engine from a Fiero. But the parts were easy to source and cheap.
USPS generally contracts out long-haul.
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Nowhere in my contract or in anyone else's contract (as far as I know) it is written that I need to referee papers.

People do it as a service to the community. And I don't necessarily ask to be payed for that, I was just answering the point about "I want everything to be free all the time and never pay for anything". We pay with our work to referee the papers. Sure there are extra costs to host the papers, typeset, but they should be nowhere near 2.5k GBP per paper.
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In any case, it's better to keep the heat outside than letting it in then pump it out with an AC with some additional heat on top.
Just because we all realize that we can't remember the name of the director of the movie we were talking about doesn't mean somebody has to stop and look it up. But somebody will, and they'll miss out on the first minute+ of the conversation, possibly strangling it in its crib.

> Why would we be talking about this if we didn't care about the truth of it?

Mentioning something in passing doesn't make it either the subject or the point of a discussion.
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Would this actually look like bright white paint? Maybe because they're also trying to reflect light outside the visible spectrum it might not be as bright in the colours we can actually see.
100% of CEOs and VCs want a bigger yacht. There's your more entitled group of people.
It doesn't need to be USPS specific, but that is an interesting thought. Many new neighborhoods have spots for postal workers to park and distribute the mail on foot. This is typically faster in my experience. I don't think it's a big leap to also have those dedicated spots have chargers.
I really think the fact that these chatbots have been made public and are being given such high-profile treatment is a really positive thing for AI safety. The public results thus far have created some real skepticism of AI, which is one of the best safeguards we can have. If ChatGPT was 98% accurate and Bing didn't threaten users, people might just readily embrace it and not notice inaccuracies that would lead to serious problems. Instead, we're starting from a place of societal distrust, which is probably more helpful in preventing rogue AI than a lot of technical solutions would be.
SCOTUS has said it is okay to close a place of business to avoid unionization of workers. Frankly I think this is fine, you can't compel someone to operate a business.
We've already had a few decades that had the technical potential to start working less over time. But it did not happen. If anything, we started working more, especially when seen from the unit of a family.

Why? Because the market will continuously invent new "wants", no matter how useless. It's supply driven, not demand driven.
I feel that the big mid-2015s transition was that shaming reached such critical levels that a whole chunk of public figures flipped to shamelessness, like antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

"Oh you're pointing out something I've done that doesn't align with my stated value system or common decency? Who cares, and I'll do it again"
Really? I would think that the risk was higher when almost all humans lived in close physical proximity with their livestock - as in slept, ate, etc. in the same structure. What has changed now is that zoonoses are being spread all over the world in a couple of days.
And yet the chances of some do good scientists opening more labs and refining crispr and playing saviour to stop the next pandemic means that the odds of another lab leak is increasing much faster than natural spillover.

In natural spillover, the disease gets a single shot at infecting and then transmitting.

In a lab leak, the disease has been kept alive and cultured with human cells for hundred of generations. Then undergone various genetic tweaks to see where if might attack and take hold in humans. If it can escape the lab, it has astronomically better odds of surviving in humans and transmitting to other humans.

I'm doubtful we see more than 2 or 3 natural spillover events in the next 50 years. I'm expecting a dozen lab leaks in that time the way technology and collection efforts are going.

The 2030s are going to be a shit show. The crispr tools available.... OmG
... you realize that we just bumped a smaller object orbiting a larger asteroid so that it has a VERY slightly altered orbit, right? It's not like we drastically changed the orbit (let alone gave it escape velocity from the solar system).
While it's true is a combination of several factors, they have metal that's been wearing for close to a hundred years physically supporting transmission infrastructure. It fails, and when it does wires fall. This is PG&E's direct fault.
That's not as bad as CNN issuing a "Breaking News" report that the "Titanic sunk 102 years ago tonight" (at the time of the report).

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Technically speaking this demo is close to brilliant, really well done. Most polished AI music generator I've seen yet.

But the marketing copy really feels off to me.

"Bringing the joy of music making to everyone."

The joy of music making involves taking an active role in the creation of the piece. The joy of music making is not getting a finished piece delivered to your door without any effort. The joy is in the process, not the outcome -- especially if everyone can generate the same result as you. There is no emotional investment.

And I say this as someone who plays acoustic instruments as well as program drum machines, and writes DSP and MIDI sequencers. Whether you're playing a piano or programming a cool drum beat the joy comes from taking an active control of the creation process and finding something new to create, unlocking secrets new and old.

I would accept a marketing angle like "generate free to use background audio for your podcast / video / video game / commercial / whatever".

But IMO there is no joy in pressing a button.

Maybe their other products mentioned on their primary brochure page let the user go a bit deeper, and that I think has potential. Garageband is a great example of giving the user creative control but simplifying a ton of the complexities of finishing a song.
There should be a browser plug-in that makes ChatGPT check whether your comment is against HN guidelines, upholds standards for a good discussion, and whether the argument is sound or not.

Issue is ChatGPT is too politically biased for many discussions unfortunately.
> wonder why they chose that form factor instead of like direct-serial

Because MiniPCIe is a common formfactor for cellular modems, so this could be swapped in to existing devices with no hardware changes and minimal software changes.

The slot carries not only a lane of PCIe but also a channel of USB 2.0 and SIM connections. Most cellular modems entirely ignore the PCIe and just use it in USB mode, which I assume this is doing as well.

Personally I'd have chosen M.2 as MiniPCIe is outdated, but I also would not at all be surprised to find that the industrial IoT world they're targeting has kept using the deprecated standard because some major vendor got a great deal on MiniPCIe connectors when the mainstream computing world switched to M.2.

Considering how many devices designed well after the introduction of MicroUSB or even USB-C I still come across with MiniUSB connectors I feel like that's a common thing in the niche computing device world, intentionally and knowingly making new things using the obsolete connector to save a few cents per unit.
It's not open discussion though. All avenues are closed except ones that can lead to figuring out a piece of trivia about someone who isn't there!

I guess it works if everyone is equally into a subject but that's pretty rare and by this point I've been put out by it so many times even if I am interested, I'm not interested.
The problem is that SMS is nowadays a poor fallback, lacking support for a number of widespread features that are part of the EU's required baseline for interoperability.
Zoonotic diseases are more frequently associated with animal husbandry. Also this encroaching has been being walked back in North America and Europe for a long time, and China more recently. In the coming decades India will follow suit and Africa will bring up the rear. Demographics are not a one way street and economic development means most people moving away from the countryside and into cities.
> There's no scarcity of information and media.

There is scarcity of information and media of the kind people find valuable. If there is a sense in which the broader statement is true, it is irrelevant for that reason.
The reality is a bit more complex than this, although it is certainly the case that the Front End world has a lot of hype and, in my impression, some snobbery derived from the second-wave web-design world when the broader design community started taking an interest in the web (which was net a good thing.)

The main reason the JavaScript era happened is because HTML ceased to move forward as a hypermedia. This pushed people into more and more scripting to achieve user experiences, which eventually required the use of frameworks to manage the complexity. If HTML had continued to increase in its hypermedia expressiveness, a lot of pain and anger could have been avoided.

(full disclosure, I have a dog in this fight: https://htmx.org)

The fact HTML stalled as a hypermedia was then coupled with the fact that first-wave web thought leaders got interested in "web services" (aka APIs) and ended up going down the JSON-APIs-are-RESTful[1] rabbit hole meant that hypermedia, the only real alternative to JavaScript-maximalism for more elaborate user experiences, floundered as a concept.

Meanwhile, say what one will, but the JavaScript-maximalist community was making progress and talking about it loudly.

[1]- https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
It's almost like there are systemic issues that keep certain subsets of the population from participating effectively. Weird huh
They can, but usually not on the relatively short timescales we use in archaeology. It's not what happened here, for example.
> You can not put it in the container as it degrades the signal too much. On the outside it is a harsh env.

My first thought was to put the device itself inside but the antenna outside. But I suppose there are reasons why that won't work either?
> Accounts with per SMS billing were unlikely to have mobile data for comfortable Whatsapp usage, so I doubt that was the substitution.

But I could jump onto coffee shop WiFi to negate that.
I would have guessed long dropbears instead of spiders.
Oh wow I thought everyone used third party client apps on mobile..! My experience with Octal on iOS has been really nice. The lack of a dark reader extension on iOS makes the regular site even harder to stomach but perhaps I should give it another chance.
Apple needs to just let the iPhone SE die
That's really funny: https://beatbot.fm/song/31ceb9260d7f48f2a2a9feb300667313
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Hard to put your finger on Realtor corruption. Not listing houses and selling to their own contacts etc...most home sales go through a monopoly.
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Here in Europe, creativity interpreting the law is usually rewarded with creativity setting up fines.
Written by Chatbot? Not a lot of specifics here.