skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previously there have been reported methods of accessing iPhones and Androids through via hardware hacking devices.

Many people stick their credit card or ID in the back of their iPhone case as well.

I used to when I didn't fully trust Apple Pay, and when ID apps werent fully available.
iPhone vulnerabilities are a dime a dozen. Even if it’s not breakable now all an attacker has to do is wait for the next 0-day and they’re in all your accounts, bank, etc. if my iPhone was stolen I’d be changing passwords and 2FA on everything ASAP. The value is your data not the phone itself.
That's an excellent point. I hadn't heart of furthest in the future, but it looks like it does solve step 1. Past that though, it doubt it can be used because each of the 6502's registers are different and don't support the same operations. It's a good idea though, and might work for some specific RISC architecture where all registers behave the same.
Hospitals kill people all the time. Especially elderly. Many treatments are invasive and cause complications. They won't catch the complication until it's too late, or now you have two compounding medical problems, and many elderly can't survive that. The medical bias is the sicker you are, the stronger intervention / medicine you need.
This makes logical sense. Pay for one, lend one.
This is pretty pessimistic. I don't know what kind of expectations you have about LLMs. Less than 10 years have passed since the original Transformers paper and we're seeing tangible and useful software out of it. I've seen far worse vaporware.

PS: Anyways, regarding your argument, yes, transformer-based models right now are "shit" (by whatever measure you are using, though I still don't know what you are comparing them with. I suppose human level intelligence), but more training data is not the only way to make better models.
Over the years as my perspective has become more global I've come to realize what a privileged position the US is in, economically:

* Ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific

* A very effective transportation system in between

* In the big growth sector where points 1 and 2 don't matter, tech, it's still #1 in the world anyway

* A market of 350 million high income people (by global standards) under one regulatory framework

No other country can compare. No one else has this. These in-built advantages are incredibly hard to beat.

There will be crises but the key insight for me was that because of these advantages the US is almost always going to be better prepared to weather those crises than the rest of the world. That is why it enjoys such a huge inflow of capital and immigration (currently #1 recipient of FDI in the world, most immigrants of any country in the world).

It's just a big risk to bet your money against the success of the US, no matter how dumb its leaders get.

It probably also helps that Americans tend to flip out and go full doomsday mode when anything goes wrong inside of their borders, I mean it's stressful, it's not very well planned, but it does make problems hard to ignore.
IPFS has some theoretical merits, such as not relying on discrete trackers (which is a point of failure), and at present we have a bunch of mirrors that speeds it up. However, BitTorrent has a better track record regarding resilience against interference (from copyright mafia) or other bad actors. IPFS has so far not openly supported this usage.
His answer is not incorrect. The amount of red balloons that the second child has is indeterminate. Any answer is correct.
The web app appears to be deliberately hobbled. It doesn't even give you access to the bookmarks you saved in the mobile app.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...
They very much do in cases of backups and even VCR/DVR recordings of live TV.

The courts have gone back and forth on this issue, and I would expect this ruling to be appealed by either side if they had lost.
as someone from outside the US I do love NPR and PBS. Awesome sources of quality content.

And then you compare it with fox news...
LLMs will generate data that already fits the model. You can't generate information out of thin air. But you can use a larger model or one with more training data to generate inputs for another model.

For image based networks, it's pretty common to increase the amount of training data by cropping, rotating, and adding noise to pictures and feeding them in multiple times. The larger the network, the less useful this is. It will quickly start to overfit and memorize the content of inputs that it sees multiple times. And I'm not aware of anyone doing something like that for large language models.
I’ve been using it to generate bash scripts because I don’t know bash scripting, and also have it generate regexes for me to search for code references in a programming language where the “find all references” functionality don’ doesn’t work quite well.
Generally these documents would be used directly. You can use the `doc q` command to query these documents with natural language questions.
I don't know how you progressed from not speaking to a cabal of secret lobbyists. Can you explain?
I find ChatGPT most helpful as a "what's that called" tool. A lot of my queries are finding/confirming the right idiom when writing something, or getting a specific name out of a vague description (JavaScript concepts, shell commands, CSS selectors).

Search engines with SEO are so reliant on keywords that it often feels like I'm suggesting answers rather than asking questions - it's so refreshing to be able to just ask again.
I would add FSF and/or EFF. FSF is more uncompromising with respect to their original principles of defending digital freedom, whereas EFF sort of shifts with time (gradually giving up grounds).
Thanks. I just donated to support them, and encourage everyone to do the same.
I disagree on this viewpoint entirely. You should not help the least, but the most. Collectivism improves society, which also includes individuals. Now, this isn't to say you should never take an individualistic standpoint. But to do so with balance.
By your numbers, the median American family could put their entire net worth towards a cramped condo and still be making payments. That is not the image of stability that you're pretending it is.
TIL: Disable spring server on rails development
because sometimes, other folks on your dev team put it back to Gemfile after you've removed the gem for good...
It's the same price but 2x-3x faster. What more do you want to know?
SVB was offering both extremely high interest rates and suffered a bank run.

Thus they both really messed up and happened to get punished, but it really doesn’t reflect the wider banking system.
A while back, I mentioned in a thread that I have found ChatGPT to be quite useful for correcting grammar and spelling errors (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34781888).

Later, when they released their API, I developed a CLI tool for this purpose (https://github.com/pncnmnp/grammatical). Note that it is not flawless, but it works well. It has improved my writing productivity, both for blogging and emails.
Oh, of course, they too are fantastic delusion manufacturing machines.

Nothing to get too worried about though, if any of this was important surely you'd have been told by an expert of some sort by now.
I often use it as a thesaurus. "Words that mean X" or even "that situation X me and I was annoyed - give me options for X"

For programming, all sorts of things. I use it all the time for programming languages that I'm not fluent in, like AppleScript or bash/zsh/jq. One recent example: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/chatgpt-applescript

I use it as a rapid prototyping tool. I got it to build me a textarea I could paste TSV values into to preview that data as a table recently, one prompt produced exactly the prototype I wanted: https://github.com/simonw/datasette-paste-table/issues/1

I use it for brainstorming. "Give me 40 ideas for Datasette plugins involving AI" - asking for 40 ideas means that even if the first ten are generic and obvious there will be some interesting ones further down the list.

I used it to generate an OpenAPI schema when I wrote my first ChatGPT plugin, see prompt in https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/24/datasette-chatgpt-plug...

It's fantastic for explaining code that I don't understand: just paste it in and it will break down what it's doing, then I can ask follow up questions about specific syntax to get further deeper explanations.

Similar to that, I use it for jargon all the time. I'll even paste in a tweet and say "what did this mean by X?" and it will tell me. It's great for decoding abstracts from academic papers.

It's good for discovering command line tools - it taught me about the macOS "sips" tool a few weeks ago: https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips
I tried out the wxWidgets library recently and used GPT to generate examples on how to do things. Thought it worked excellently and got 99% of the code right.

In the past, I'd have used forums to find examples. There were still some forum posts about wxWidgets on Google, but I got the impression they were hiding most. Either way, GPT had them on demand.
as an fyi its hallucinated libraries for me when writing python code, importing things that dont exist.
Come talk to me when it can reverse engineer as good as Ken Shirriff, develop a complete understanding of the whole codebase, and generate authoritatively accurate and useful output. Oh, and uncover bugs while it's at it.
Ask HN: How to scrape restaurant/business data
Does anyone have experience accessing/scraping a dataset with restaurant/business details around a specific geographic location?

Should I just pay for Google Maps API?
In Case I Don't Write Here Again (2021)
>repurposing thin-client computer hardware

I was actually thinking of this a few years ago. My workplace was getting rid of a bunch of old Win7 thin clients, they had VIA x86 processors and 4GB of ram. Never acted on it though.
In my time in Laos the people were incredibly welcoming and open to foreigners. I spent most my time around Paxe which is very rural, but also around the most intense American involvement as well. It may be different further north near the capital but there was a lot less bombing and special forces counter insurgency. I think, while not justifying anything, it’s really important to note that the Chinese and north Vietnamese had invaded Laos and were actively destabilizing the government and led to its collapse, as well as invited the American bombing campaigns that were focused on north Vietnamese captured territories. It’s easy to lay the blame on the US, but it’s not like China wasn’t directly responsible for drawing Laos into that position by force through the north Vietnamese proxy. The US tried to keep the central government of Laos from collapsing while China actively subverted it and installed the government they have today. Prior to French colonialism China pillaged Laos ransacking and razing their cities repeatedly to the point of causing a significant labor shortage in Laos. France tried to solve this through forced migrations from Vietnam to Laos to repopulate the country, leading to further instability. So - it’s not just the bombing, it’s a major confluence of really shitty behavior by a lot of people over Laos primarily because of its strategic importance, but if I were to lay blame on an outsider for their problems, I would place it entirely on China. Laos has been a pawn in chinas ambition for hundreds of years and it has it under complete control and subjugation at this point in time. Finally I would note almost all the bombing happened in very sparsely populated areas. It’s not like Europe or Japan where it was a wholesale bombing of major population centers. There were no dresdens, no nagasakis, fire bombings of Tokyo - all of which happened to countries that have embraced the world outside them.
To anyone reading the parent comment : this isn't true, for multiple reasons.

First, to nitpick: we know that most oil is from plants (marine phytoplankton especially), not dinosaurs.

Now the real point: in the 50s soviet scientists had the idea that abiogenic oil could exist, then found some. The fact that all oil does not come from biological life is accepted by the scientific community since at least then. It's a small fraction of proven oil reserves anyway, and take around the same geological time to get formed anyway, so this is more of a curiosity than useful knowledge.
Completely off-topic, but do you like prisma, and how are you using it (scale, complexity, solo vs team, etc).

I toyed around with it a while back, and it looked potentially awesome, but different enough that I was worried about using it on a work project in case it failed in some use case.

Im so sick of the SQL ORM situation in Typescript, but Prisma might have an answer.
From the bits I have seen, congress didn't do worse than usual and the ceo gave a lot of dodgy no-answers.

For example one congressman asks if titktok used wifi of users to track them and ceo replies something like "titktok needs wifi to work" which may have you go "oh look dumb congressman" but the congressman was asking about how tiktok scans devices in your wifi and collecte that information for tracking and who knows what else (he clarified as much afterwards).

He was also very dodgy and distanced himsef from bytedance which is a weird thing to do.

Some of the big chinese APT breaches are related to data about people. E.g. OPM hack or equifax credit information. This tells me they want information about americans so they can use it against americans. This means to manipulate social groups but more than that you can target people based on their habits and interesrs and turn them.

Even if they couldn't just order bytedance to do stuff you are a fool if you think hacking a company they have physical proximity to or implanting operatives there is difficult for them.

In other words, I am not concerned about teenagers being tracked or looking at some video but rather being made sympathetic to CCP propaganda and against their own country's interests. And it doesn't have to be brainwashing either, you can pick people based on psychological profiles and give them propaganda or just money and use them as assets like the CIA does except you have young people who will go into military and academia soon. And keep in mind, China doesn't care about the next few months they care about the next few decades.

Based on the reaction in support of tiktok I have seen, I believe if a conflict between China and Taiwan is developing it will become like vietnam with many americans protesting against a war and being anti-military. China will win the war before it even starts because even though they would lose a conventional war, the US cannot fight a war without the support of the people.

In crude terms, you will always have propaganda. The US military needs to win over americans using its own propaganda more than CCP, if anyone is going to brainwash you and turn you into an assett it should be your own government.

And to clarify, I mean no moral superiority here. China does what the US does and will do against Chinese citizens. But the fact if the matter is, China is the biggest enemy of the US right now, not russia or isis or whoever else. They have already succeeded in turning the global south against the US and are carefully watching the Ukraine conflict to time any move for Taiwan to be at the moment the US is most worn out with Ukraine and with whateve chaos the election season might bring. 2024 in my opinion would be the best time to invade Taiwan (Xi basically said that's a too priority for his new term).
It's a very good doc search. if you are working with new systems, it's insanely efficient for learning
I like IA for what it is, but I would prefer a more hardline stance like this too. However, there is a place for an organization like this to attract good will. It would be much better to just have a backroom deal between IA and libgen to upload everything it have there in a plausibly deniable way, though.
Intellectual property is an unnatural, made up construct that will one day be seen as ridiculous as absolute monarchy is today. If we are going to allow it and penalize people who are doing natural human things like sharing with friends, there has to be a specific benefit to society in every instance. For example, pay taxes on copyrights and patents, increasing every year to reflect disturbance caused to society.
I could send a login OTP to the phone number and read the 6 digit OTP on the lock screen (most don't disable this).

I've worked in netsec for 2 years and know the weakest link to connected security is usually the users
Same. It started to feel joyless around that time and the Trump era really did a number on their national product.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
I enjoy writing good docs, it feels like just another kind of programming to me.
Very much agree, what worries me though is the low capabilities in thoughtfulness even when people are at their best.
I saw this coming. A few days ago, I read that IA's lawyers argued fair use in part based on "transforming" the content by making copies at scale. I was surprised & astonished that they'd try such sophistry, since a verbatim copy isn't transformative at all. I felt IA's lawyers were grasping at straws if they were making that fair use argument.

Everyone would do better to lobby Congress to change the law to allow for limited digital lending kind of like what IA did (notwithstanding the "emergency" lending).
if there's a scan to order you would leave?
Democracy will one day be seen as ridiculous as absolute monarchy is today.
> Even ignoring that, I'm suspicious of your numbers. Have you actually measured it? Do you have something to show that your off-the-cuff figures match what people will actually experience?

What ? This is the time required to download GraalVM and then configure your project. This is a ONE-TIME setup. Strictly speaking, if you omit a build tool like maven - you don't really need it for a native binary - then it is simply one additional install - get Graal native image and compile your code to a binary using the CLI. Why would I even bother measuring this ?

The fact that you are even asking for "measurements" without providing corresponding "measurements" for the Golang setup - something the article never even bothered to mention is ludicrous. Why would one even consider the one-time cost of installing one additional tool ?

That way lies silliness - I should then consider Java superior because Go requires additional command to install godoc for example while Javadoc comes with the base JDK.

> Major irony—assuming bias on my part (where there is, in fact, none) without realizing that doing so broadcasts evidence of yours.

There is nothing ironic in pointing out your double-standards. I develop in both Go and Java. Both languages come with their advantages. The strict advantages Go has over Java is goroutines, more feature-packed stdlib and reduced memory footprint at runtime. (The goroutine advantage has also gone away now with virtual threads in Java).

But single file deployment is NOT an advantage Go holds over Java - since several years now.
Which is so common it's basically what's called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I understand the expectation, but I am definitely in the "I'll see it when I believe it camp." Which is not to say that I am not impressed by what it can do now. I am. There is just no way I would trust it without first thoroughly examining the code it produced.
I was trying to figure out what an uncommented piece of code left by an old vendor actually did and so I asked ChatGPT. It instantly took me line by line through the code and saved me probably 10 to 15 minutes.
People who are worried about this should be even more upset about OpenAI than everyone else is.

What we've discovered is:

- LLMs are really hard to align and are prone to random off-script behavior.

- LLMs are extremely difficult to map and understand.

- LLMs are extremely vulnerable to prompt injection and instruction tampering on multiple axes, and nobody really knows how to solve that problem. It is trivially easy to get an LLM to go off-script and ignore previous instructions.

- LLMs are prone to "hallucinating" information (sometimes even after they've been presented with correct information), and when they're not aligned well they'll even argue with users about those hallucinations and then threaten them and berate them for disagreeing.

- LLM prompts often have strange results that are unpredictable.

- OpenAI has bad security practices.

- The intersection of AI and Capitalism has led to a huge explosion in hype with very little (if any) regard to safety mechanisms and best practices.

- Every company and their dog are all getting into launching bigger and bigger models and wiring them into more and more systems, and the only concern any of them have is who will be the first to market?

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So if you're worried about a superintelligence, then:

- You probably shouldn't want that superintelligence to be an LLM at all. You should probably want people to be researching completely separate training techniques that are easier to align. It would be better if that superintelligence is not built on a foundation that is so volatile and unpredictable and hard to reason with.

- You probably shouldn't want OpenAI to build it, whatever it ends up being.

- You probably shouldn't want Silicon Valley to build it either, because the entire culture is based around rushing products to market and disregarding safety.

- You probably shouldn't want it trained on random globs of Internet data.

- Basically, you should be terrified of who is currently building those AIs, how they're being built, and why they're being built.

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I'm not personally worried about OpenAI inventing a superintelligence; I think a lot of people are doing a lot of anthropomorphism right now and this increasingly smells like a hype bubble to me.

But if I was worried about OpenAI inventing a superintelligence, I would be criticizing the company's security and bad practices and reckless rushing to market even harder than I already am right now. OpenAI would be an absolutely horrible company to entrust with an AGI. So would Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Apple. If I actually believed that those companies had the potential to literally end humanity, I would be doing everything in my power to make their initial AI products fail miserably and to crash the AI market.

If you're fearful about the existential risks of AI, you should consider the people complaining about the current-day less theoretical risks as if they're allies, not out-of-touch enemies. All of the current-day risks should be treated as alarm bells signaling larger potential risks in the context of a superintelligence.
This is not broader?
Lots of tasks that I understand, but where I'm not familiar enough with the details to be productive. Anything that's easier for me to read than to write. Anything where I'd otherwise be stumbling around trying to build a template for myself.

Here's an example capturing a session from earlier this week:

https://twitter.com/JoshCMandel/status/1638723030154203138
Phones are frequently snatched out of people's hands in London. They are sold in countries that don't blacklist them, mainly in Africa.
>Should I just pay for Google Maps API?

Short answer, yes. It is at least a clear path towards quickly getting that sort of data.
I haven’t seen the auto DND but putting DND in my calendar events (and could be included with invites/wallet tickets which we would then accept) is a pretty nice idea too.

True it is ripe for abuse, hence why I was suggesting a geofence which requires setting up a physical waypoints around the enclosed space — not just a Wi-Fi hotspot telling your phone to keep it down. They could require a key purchased from Apple which then could be reported for abuse. Probably cheaper than foam case locks.