skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The basic idea behind the Darwin Awards.
https://archive.ph/e0yaC
It was profitable in the relatively recent past. I wonder if had it never been acquired, it could have easily gotten back to that with the same round of layoffs as the rest of the industry had and without all the chaos of added debt, lost advertisers, lost trust, etc.
Generative AI agents chat and plan with each other in a sandbox game SIM
As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors that is even more offensive to me
Have you tried seriously answering your own question?
We should really remove all warning labels, and let evolution pour a little bleach into the shallow end of the gene pool.

We’ve bubble-wrapped far too much of humanity, especially in western societies.

And while everyone is entitled to their own life (excepting some of the most egregious of murderers), what we are not entitled to is artificial insulation from the consequences of our actions and decisions.
Agreed.

I have no idea who "exoticsilicon" are or if they read HN but if they do, free-for-life rsync.net accounts for any of them that care to contact us.

I am already making good use of this particular piece of content:

https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/lte_ethernet_bri...
The problem comes when people actively don't want to further the training of AI. It's not so much about not accepting that you cannot own ideas as it is about not wanting to contribute to a thing that you believe is going to result in greater suffering for most people.
Yeah, well, so is every programming language ever created. When I write any code at all, it's to ensure the instructions are laid out in the correct order for the computer to execute.
> I mean you don't have to write it, most of these are just defederated Mastodons ... still expensive and tedious

Exactly this. Mastodon depends on relatively small instances federated together to scale, if you tried to run every current Mastodon user on a single instance it would fall over regardless of how much compute you throw at it. As the network grows it becomes exponentially harder to make it all work.

Also, while Mastodon is fine for early adopter use, it's much slower than Twitter and relatively unreliable.
Yes I taught middle school in Baltimore for a few years. The level of normalized violence is significantly higher than the middle class suburban school I went to.

Yes it's caused by parental neglect and poverty. Many poor urban schools are the highest funded but even then need significantly more resources than an affluent suburban school
Not at all. If some of them adapt to contaminated water, they'll be more hydrated than the ones with bloody diarrhea, and pass their resistance to their descendants.
I don't understand why they turned the water source off. There was a sign saying it wasn't intended for drinking. If people insist on ignoring things and get sick, too bad.

If I go hiking I will sometimes drink from a stream or spring. I know there's a risk to this and I accept it. If I'm going to be out in nature for longer I'm more likely to use a filter like a lifestraw or boil water.
I agree, in fact islands are a made up concept too. All landmasses on earth are surrounding water, although not simultaneously. There are only lakes.
What was the point of your previous comment then?
There is no privacy anyway. It's all smoke and mirrors.
I don't know many people who believe Twitter is "break even". Musk, who is not known for his fastidious accuracy in statements like this, has a lot of leeway to count and not count different parts of Twitter's cash flow to make a claim like that.

Another thing to keep in mind is the mind-boggling amount of debt service that Twitter has to deal with.
Can't we just love Nazis? How about no?
Ask HN: How would you write a ledger for micro payments without blockchain?
The only thing that really annoys me about this website is the fixed vibrant background images that interfere with the text. Otherwise, I find it quite refreshing to see something different. I have seen much worse typography on “professional looking” websites tbh.

However, it is not the most accessible of websites and I certainly wouldn’t want to have e.g. Wikipedia be designed like this (oof), but I don’t mind the occassional quirky rebellious web design adventure.
This argument is wrong. A "hot man" or "hot woman" can have many partners in a short period of time, sometimes at the same time. Less desired people, as you can see in this thread and pretty much everywhere this topic is discussed earnestly, can go a whole lifetime without even a single partner.

In my experience, women absolutely have an easier time getting partners, and there's no contradiction. It's just that a few men are taking all the girls - always been this way (notice how many places used to even enshrine that in law by allowing marriages between one man and multiple women - quite a few countries to this day) and probably will never change.
That was their problem, they weren’t willing to go full-blown nazi/white nationalist which is what their user base wanted.
But was it really to be a research subject? My guess is that no, it was not. And I am confident in that guess because I understand people and people's behavior.

And if you read the article, there is no mention of any conclusive research or any insight at all. But I guess it must have been _exactly_ 500 days for her to be in that cave for the scientists to finally start drawing some conclusions.
Boeing halts deliveries of some 737 MAXs amid new supplier problem
I've had this thought that the next generation of AI isn't a long "training" period, but rather it probably makes sense to to train a barebones version, and to give it a "sleep cycle". During this time it could use the context (think of it as short term memory) and then fine tune the parent model with it turning the important stuff into long term "memories", with probably a pruning type mechanism for rarely used stuff to keep the important stuff a priority. Would turn AI into individuals with specialized knowledge, but maybe that's more useful even? Like I don't need an AI with an expertise in law, I just want to use it to automate this specialized business process I have which isn't easily automated.
You can never capture the exact nature of anything outside of logic and math. That's too high of a bar. Philosophers who have worked on this problem like Wittgenstein talk about concepts in terms of family resemblances, not exact definitions. If I'm trying to understand whether a system is intelligent, I don't need a logical proof. I learn whether it is intelligent by testing whether it can successfully do many of the same things that other intelligent systems do.
In all seriousness, isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch qualifying for the record?
I haven't read anything about the AI in this case but I do know about AlphaFold and it works on a whole other set of verifications than LLMs like ChatGPT, so it's like comparing apples to oranges. Sure they are both fruits but still they are different
> LLM-optimization (SEO optimization for the world of LLM-assisted-search)

That sounds horrific... but maybe not that bad because the motivations are different. LLM scrapers dont generate ad revenue. Only first party advertisers would be motivated to LLMO, while any website that hosts ads has SEO incentive, unless advertising networks completely overhaul ad placement structure.
> It's just network connections.

Stealing someone's bitcoin? It's just network connections. Logging in to some admin portal with default passwords? It's just network connections.

> Why would they make a computer accessible to me if they don't want me connecting to it?

Why would they write bugs in software if they don't want to write bugs?
The late-night March 31 release of Worldcoin had the (unintended?) side-effect of making me think "a token to prove my personhood" was an April Fools Joke when I saw it the next morning and never thought about it again.
> there is no good and evil

> Revenge is a dish best not served.

If the first statement is true, then you have no basis for saying the second. I believe the second statement, not the first.
How is wanting to live near people “with the same values as me” a problem? My kids will pick up values from the neighborhood kids. Why wouldn’t I want to live in a neighborhood where people share my values?

Heck, in my experience as a brown guy traveling in some pretty conservative parts of the country, even most of the “race” stuff boils down to “values and culture.”
> Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. The business partner Bobulinski also considered it to be meaning Biden in an interview in mainstream media.

Again, this is not proof. You clearly want this to be true, therefore you don't need evidence. I can't "wake up" as you have, because I don't have the motivation to believe it the way you do. True things are awarded the title of true because they can be proven, with evidence. Not because they confirm the beliefs you already held.

Whoever Bobulinski is, you are quoting his public statements, which aren't under oath, where there is actual penalty for lying. He did sit with the FBI, but then he made a tour of right wing media making unrelated statements (as far as we know), which makes this a politically motivated PR campaign, nothing more. If he had given the FBI something to act on, they would have done so. They have no qualms about influencing elections:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499868601...

> ”In 2013, Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two with his father, who was then vice-president, on an official visit to Beijing, where the younger Biden met investment banker Jonathan Li.”

Right, he was on the plane. That's what is confirmed. You made specific accusations that appears to have come from Trump himself, which it goes without saying is not a trustworthy source. Who confirmed nature of the "deals" he made? What were they, when did they occur, and how do we know Joe Biden was involved? Actual evidence please.
Right. That's the definition I think doesn't fit. GPTs do not "understand", and certainly do not "experience" or have senses.

> Do you have a word that you prefer?

Nope. That's why I use "intelligence" despite the problems with it. "Intelligence" may be a blank slate on which you can write whatever meaning you wish, but at least it can stretch to mean something accurate.
So I am privacy purist
> There certainly are good and evil people.

An extremely small percentage of people throughout history have been purely good or purely evil. The vast, vast majority are somewhere in the middle.

Unfortunately, too many adults have been raised by Marvel movies and want to label everyone in the world as "good" or "evil" with no nuance.
What do Prions have to do with pig preperation?

No infectius prions have ever be observed in pigs [1]. Furthermore, it isnt like preperation avoids CNS meat from going to market. You can walk into a grocery store and buy pig brains and they are put into all sorts of foods.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-96818-2
> when all we can observe ourselves is P(A|B)?

No, we actually observe P(A | B -> A) where `B` is our body and `A` is some action we take on the world.

Hume was WRONG. Very wrong.

Statistical AI has the problem of induction; we have bodies, so we do not.

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As for notation, I'm riffing of Judea Pearl's do notation.

He'd say, P(A|do(B))

but his `do` operator is slightly more general

Google: do-operator, causal analysis, judea pearl, etc.
I used to think that revenge was a dish best served cold, but then I learned that it means "getting back at someone".
Crystal 1.8.0 Is Released
I hope it has lots of neatly partitioned meats and cheeses onboard.
> What are they optimizing for?

Probably engagement. The more clicks, the better.

I've switched to Tidal. It pushes some ads too, but not nearly as badly. The discovery algorithm is slightly worse but pretty close. Most importantly it doesn't keep playing the same 3 songs (at least it's more like 30).
How source control used to be done:

>> the students shared a source tree over NFS and shouted "I'm editing this file" when they were changing something
POWDER: Platform for Open Wireless Data-Driven Experimental Research
There are plenty of ways to source "raw water" safely from mountain springs. It's not strictly a bad idea like raw milk or something. But if you're below the treeline, there's a 100% chance you'll be drinking animal shit.
Look at it this way, if I repeatedly deposit $9999 into my bank account to avoid regulatory oversight for depositing $10000 then I'm still breaking the law by trying to avoid the regulatory trigger. This is called "structuring" and it is a criminal act.

But if I do this in a stock context and buy 49% control of multiple companies over and over, with all the same obviousness of my intentional avoidance of the regulatory trigger, it's considered a smart move and pretty much the status quo.

Yes, the practice of law says Microsoft does not own openai. But it's also obvious what's going on when companies do this.
Thank you for the amazing work indeed!

I know that at one point the idea of using a non-v8 JavaScript engine was floating around, due in part to the V8 build complexity and the API breaking changes.

Is this still something that is up in the air?

I know that Bun decided to use JavaScriptCore as a recent example.
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There's give and take here. For example, we see that US, UK and other NATO countries have their constituent special forces on the ground in Ukraine. For the United States this requires a literal act of Congress if US troops are on the ground for more than 30 days.

This is at a minimum an indictable offense by a sitting US president, though it is not without precedent.
In my experience, it can certainly be coaxed into discussing novel concepts that transcend existing knowledge. I'm having fun getting it to explain what a hybrid of a Nelson Enfilade data structure combined with a tensegrity data structure is and if that system is novel and brings any benefits, very interesting and novel afaik.
Guess for a lot of us spotify users that'd mean stop paying for their service? am pretty close to doing so after almost a decade of paying for spotify.
It is however, delicious.
The "Net" in NetBSD (the first open source BSD community to coalesce after the lawsuits settled) refers to that, it's the network operating system. And not really in the sense of an OS for networks (though it certainly is that) but one from and of the network.
If it was known, it could be error, deceit, laziness, etc.

But the true nature of reality isn't known it is only believed, but human belief tends to be considered (appears as) knowledge once an adequate amount of people in a society believe something to be true - 100 years ago religious beliefs were the dominant truths, now science is the top dog.

Specific object level beliefs change over time, but human nature seems to be much more immutable.
So the first third took millions of years, second third took roughly 6-7k years, and the last third took 200 years?
Simple Script Integrates Hubot with OpenAI's GPT API
I couldn't find this myself, so whipped up a quick version this morning. If you're familiar with Hubot, you should be able to add this into your scripts pretty easily. If you haven't played with Hubot before, it's quick and easy to get going.

https://hubot.github.com/docs/
2008 ass edgelord shit I've been reading this for decades and its never made any more sense. This pseudo-rational malicious superiority complex is such a weird affectation where do you all even learn this stuff is there like a school or. You are just openly and frankly advocating for more preventable harm and death this is not normal behavior.
I'm not against fluoride in tap water but even I can recognize that there's a big difference between something that's in the water you drink vs something that's in your mouth for 2-3 minutes.
I'm not really expecting anything, it's just my experience developing commercial desktop applications on Linux that you inevitably end up having a startup script that sets LD_LIBRARY path before the main process starts. And even then global symbols with the same name collide so you have to be really careful about what gets loaded into the process.
One of the things that's changed in recent years is that free databases like PostgreSQL have far more security features. You can grant fine grained privileges on individual objects like queries (via views), individual table rows, stored procedures/functions and so on.

In the demo app, I use a simple approach to security: users don't have permissions to directly access any tables. Read access is via views and could use row-level security (RLS), and write access is always via stored procedures. Stored procs can also act as queries, and they can be written in any supported extension language, so any access control and privacy policy is implementable.

Still, security in two-tier apps is a nuanced topic. Some things get better and other things are worse.

Some of the remaining things to solve are:

1. RDBMS engines tend to be written in C. They're good code and fairly trustworthy, but still, web servers tend to be written in memory safe languages and databases aren't.

2. DDoS defense companies have more options for protecting web apps (sending js challenges and captchas). If you have a mobile app then you're exposing raw APIs anyway, so this is maybe not a big change.

3. You have to set resource quotas to stop malicious users submitting expensive queries. Of course this is also a concern with web apps, just translating HTTP to PG doesn't make it impossible to spam servers with expensive queries.

4. Data can be protected with ACLs pretty well, but schemas not so much. So you could leak an upcoming feature via the appearance of new object names. Web apps sometimes have the same issue with leaking info about new features in their JS though, and the sky doesn't fall.

For many app types the above concerns don't matter much. Any app that's internal or business-to-business for example. If you build auth around client certs then unauthorized users never get to connect at all.

Also! Consider that this design also eliminates many kinds of security issue. The talk goes into this. For example, XSS and SQL injection are eliminated by design! Those have been two of the most common and destructive bug classes over time. Also, web servers do not exactly have a track record of being unhackable, especially as wrapping SQL with HTTP handlers introduces many new places where access checks might be forgotten or incorrectly implemented. A SQL GRANT statement is pretty transparent and the implementation is well tested compared to app specific logic that might have been written by one person and never properly tested.

There's also other security-related benefits, for example, certificate expiry routinely causes massive and eye-bleedingly disruptive outages, but is eliminated as a problem entirely by this design. It works because code signatures are timestamped so don't break when the cert expires, and the db connection can be then be encrypted using a self-signed certificate that never expires. To rotate the key you roll out a new client.
Do you really believe him when he says Twitter is breaking even when he's not paying his bills, and probably not paying his loan interest?

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-stopped-paying-rent-...
... 4.6bya - a good chunk of how long the universe even existed.
> I have no doubt that at some point this technology will make it to our actual computers instead of being sioled away in some corporation's servers.

thankfully Moore's law is dead

> That way there's nothing they can do about it unless they up the tyranny 1000x and destroy our freedom to execute any software we want on our own machines.

I'd probably prefer this to a world where all knowledge workers become permanently destitute

and I suspect the vast majority of the world's electorates will agree

(do people prefer being able to eat over some ability to run software on their computer? I suspect so)
For many years, until GPT-2, my main worry was that the progress in AI is not fast enough. I was afraid I will not get to enjoy the benefits AGI will bring us during my lifetime. Those worries are gone now. I'll be proud to tell my kids I helped change the world (even though my contribution is small).
You keep saying this all over the thread but there is literally no evidence that wild boars can transmit prion diseases.
Oh fascinating, thank you.

I wonder then if the metal was just for appearance (looks more expensive), or if it contributed to the longevity of the type ball, or if it improved how the ink transferred to the page?
It's not diarrhea it's a detox. Your just getting the bad stuff out of your body that's why it smells so bad.
This article is a goldmine of old, classic stuff and lots of information I have not yet read. Great read and nice of the author to share the experience, I hope people with these kind of experiences continue to share their subjective views on history.

Unrelated but fun highlight from the mentioned newsletter:

> Linux News #3

> Issue #3, October 18 through 26, 1992

> ** Highlights in this issue

> - ed is here, editor wars are over
Wait, what? :googles around: Ahhhh - the number living in my head from EE classes back on college was much, much higher - but apparently that's overall, not transmission:

https://www.enerdynamics.com/Energy-Currents_Blog/How-Much-P...

Thank you!

> infra & maintenance

Right, right. My first expectation is that residential power usage is less on cloudy days, since lower AC needs. But, you're right to point out what you're pointing out - the drop in rooftop solar might be much greater than the corresponding drop in AC usage.

My second expectation is that residential CA solar is almost entirely in places that don't get "winter" - which I guess in this case means 1) storms covering the sky and/or panels, 2) cold enough that heating power usage is significant, and 3) sun being lower in the sky means a reduction in power (I don't know how much tho)
Looking at our handy solar system delta-v map[1] it takes 2.5 km/s of delta-v to get from the Moon's surface to an Earth intercept course (you can aerobrake to a landing) and 14.6 to get up from the Earth surface to the Moon's (no aerobraking, you have to use rockets to land). Also without an atmosphere you can use railguns and such to take off on the Moon, if you get more than a few km/s of boost on the Earth that way you'll burn up.

[1]https://i.imgur.com/WGOy3qT.png
https://www.patreon.com/ is a solution. but I was wondering if there's a p2p way to deal with it.
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Ooooooh so that's why he wanted everyone else to stop any further research and experiments on AI for at least 6 months, to give him time to catch up with his new company!!!
My favorite framing of that is that in homo sapiens, life has only been proven to have a mortality rate of 93%.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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