skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Authenticating that you are talking to a human and not an AI" is just a proxy for something else, most commonly wanting to be able to rate limit something. Because otherwise, why does it matter?

A lot of people are suggesting things like, have the government do it. But that has two big problems. First is privacy. If you have to prove your identity any time you want to do anything, nobody can be anonymous anymore, which is Very Bad.

Second, it assumes the government has some magic incantation that nobody else can use, as if the Post Office knows who you are in a way that your bank doesn't. But they don't. To get a government ID, they just want you to show them some other existing ID. It has no way to bootstrap itself any better than anything else. And some of the IDs they accept are easy to get... without an ID. Because everybody has to start from somewhere. The system has to be set up in a way that it works for people who emigrate from a country with untrustworthy institutions as an adult or if your house burns down and you lose all your documents you can still get new ones. An AI is going to be able to BS its way into a government ID, even assuming criminals wouldn't be able to hack into any state's DMV (as they already have).

It appears that going forward, telling the difference between a human and an AI is going to be hard. Maybe instead of trying to get better at that, we should find a different solution to the underlying problem.

The simple answer is to make account creation cost something. Nothing big, so someone who needs one account isn't paying much, but a spammer who has 1000 accounts get banned every day is out of business. And that's not even hard -- it's finally something cryptocurrency would actually be good for. Because you want a way for people to pay for access to things, while still being anonymous.

The real hard part is, how do you charge for account creation without deterring account creation?
Cloud misconfigurations are a major cause of security breaches, yet statistics on their prevalence vary greatly. Managing cloud security is difficult due to the complexity of modern cloud environments, and CSPs should prioritize making their platforms more accessible to average users, offering pre-configured security controls, and providing basic vulnerability scanning services. In the future, turn-key containerized environments and moving target defense should be a focus.
I'm Norwegian, and I agree. We have deluded ourselves to believe our oil is "clean" and "green".

And while stopping the pumps would probably wreak havoc on our economy, we could at least stop looking for new fields while emptying the ones we have for some more years. So slowly wean off the oil tit. But every time that's suggested, the government says "develop, not stop". And use straw men like "we can't stop abruptly!!", even though that's not the suggestion on the table. And they've used the same excuse for a decade to not do anything. If we actually started transitioning away from oil a decade ago, we would be better off. And if we at least started now we would be better off. But that can just gets kicked down the road.
Nice writeup. It was enjoyable watching him re-invent the Apple ARP proxy solution. The first time I tried to figure out how an ssh request could wake a Mac, I was baffled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Sleep_Proxy
The article claims the preservation wave started in the 1960s.

That being said, home video certainly made preservation a lot easier, if only because rather than a select few copies being made for movie theaters you now were making possibly millions for home consumers. That, and extremely flammable/degradable media was not suitable for home use.
>> Description: Through a crowdsourcing social media campaign in 2016, several journalists and researchers demonstrated that augmented reality locations in the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go were more likely to be in white neighborhoods.

>> Alleged: Niantic Labs developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed non-white neighborhoods and communities of color.

> Crowd-sourcing is not "AI".

The offense was the 'AI system' which had a bias for placing those locations in white neighborhoods. The crowdsourced investigation of that offense was not the offense itself...
I don't think you do. The theoretical efficiency limit is 100% efficiency, same as charging a lithium ion battery. Reality is closer to this than what is in your head I suspect.
I'm not going to get upset if sexist jerks get a little readjustment.
I think we're getting a bit off-topic here, but in a nutshell: The current government of Sweden wants to build new nuclear power plants to scale up the power supply for the future.
True, that being said though, he had only gotten the plane the day before and practiced a few touch and go landings with it when he got it.

This was his first "real" flight in this plane.
Except that it can't make enough money to keep itself afloat. But maybe that doesn't matter any more. Maybe now startups are just funded by perpetual equity rounds. Though... I have to admit... I like the idea (of substack): make it easy for people to monetize content. (Also, nice link, thx for sharing.)
This tool called Divity will give you an extra day in your week. It's not a miracle, but it's the result of effective time management.
Ah too bad. The file chooser after GTK2 became absolutely unusable.
https://archive.ph/Y2lHm
It's more about policy than physical existence.

I have yet to see a definitive answer re true originals being kept vs iterations of transcodes as the preferred codec changes.

Or similar questions about deleted videos getting flagged vs scrubbed, etc.

Or who might ever have access to originals in either case.
Is there something like Moore's law for LLM's that will eventually turn them into ubiquitus compute?
Toyota owns Lexus. Maybe they can be included as well?
Touch id is still available on iphone SE’s but those are for old people /s
“ The Stein collection contains over 1000 copies of the Lotus Sutra in Chinese, which were acquired by Sir Marc Aurel Stein in 1907 and 1914, when he visited the so-called ‘Library Cave’ (Cave 17) at the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang, in the present-day Gansu Province in China.”

Nice way of saying theft - Fuck colonialism!
paranoid and false.

The Root CA is generated by the sigstore community (five folks, two from academia). Right now github exchanges an OIDC token for a sigstore root chained cert.

GitLab are currently adding themselves, to have the same capability (several other providers are there as well).

https://github.com/sigstore/fulcio/pull/1097
Using it internally would not be a good idea, though. That amount of money fueled directly into the economy would make our inflation even worse than it is.
Alaska Airlines does away with check-in kiosks
Samsung Enables the Temperature Sensor on the Galaxy Watch 5
The hard problem of [consciousness and] feelings
well today I learned something interesting: Norway and Sweden aren't on the big grid that covers most of Europe.
This is wrong. Privateers, which is the more general class corsairs belonged to, were akin to modern PMCs and operated under similar constraints. They mostly obeyed the rules of war, were punished when they did not, and their conduct was similar to national ships in nearly every regard. They took prisoners of war and were taken prisoner in turn.

When one group is taking ships and killing every living thing on it then illegally selling the cargo and personal effects of the occupants, and another group is taking ships and dropping the occupants off at a POW camp then sending it to the admiralty to be legally sold, the latter is not doing the same kind of robbery. Arguably they aren't doing any kind of robbery at all.
Linux: We Need Tiling Desktop Environments
Damned if you do, damned if you don't... but I would pick encryption over not...
Two previous discussions from a 2009 ft.com article titled "The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19594153 (347 points, 129 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780108 (115 points, 81 comments)

Original 2009 article:

http://archive.today/2022.06.15-104752/https://www.ft.com/co...
It is, which is tragic when trying to preserve favorites and all trace is gone (including titles.)

I'll intentionally duplicate playlist entries (two different uploaders) as a buffer against rot.
There are cruder means to get rid of tooth aches. You can't think of a better example than that?
If it is as truly violent as the "piracy" label suggests, then is this not "war on drugs" in another vestige?
It is kind of like asking an orthopedist about the best sport. They’d probably pick something boring like water aerobics.

Reliability isn’t always the most important characteristic of a car, especially now that reliability across all brands is dramatically better than just 30 years ago.
Because humans understand stuff? Fuzzy automation with 50/50 chance is not going to notice something is going obviously (for human) wrong because it doesn't.
I agree, and have noticed that discrepancy, but I guess it is better than double dipping - profiting from environment-destroying products, and then investing those profits into environment-destroying products.

I can't really blame the Norwegians though - even if they care about the environment greatly, it would be hard for anyone to have a lifestyle based around their $250k income and to go back to a lifestyle based around having more normal $50k income.
2027 is likely to be better that 2035.
> Companies have a much stronger incentive to make AGI than deadly weapons. It will be incredibly profitable.

Are you sure? Various countries are throwing hundreds of billions of dollars on the table of weapons manufacturers. I think this market grew recently way faster than AI.

> We have zero historical examples of a species developing a technology that is smarter than it is to look back at and establish some sort of probability for how this will go.

We already have so many superhuman technologies under our belt that allow organizations, which I could argue are a form of soulless AIs to compete with interests of whole societies. I don't think neural AI will come to beat our organizations at their game just because if you pour into it significant fraction of our total computing resources might be slightly smarter than a single human. Our bureaucracies surpassed a single human with their cunning, and self-preservation and crushing power centuries ago. We already live in the world made by AIs for AIs. They are just made of humans not silicon.

> To say that "producing words got a bit cheaper" really trivializes what a massive impact AGI will have, and how soon it's coming.

I am not convinced it will be more unique than internet or printing press. I believe AIs will pressure us into changing some things just as any relevant technology have done before. Internet came with its own set of SF scares of hackers taking over entire world or brains fried by man machine interfaces that were supposed to be just around the corner. We lived through so many technological revolutions that impacted our way of life and work. I don't think AIs or even AGIs developed from what we have now will be much different. I think the example of self-driving cars shows us that pace of progress going forward will be more disappointing than anything else.

Another thing is that people vastly overvalue intelligence. Tiger might be less intelligent than human but it will still tear a single unaided human to shreds. People concerned about AIs should focus less on how intelligent it is but instead of how large physical claws are we willing to equip it with.
Yes, but why would Fox “settle” for something harmful to their business that Dominion could not, in the worst case, win in court?

A settlement might contain something that wouldn’t be on the table in a court judgement if the value it adds to the side that gets it is disproportional to the cost to the side providing it — so that it is win-win compared to a compromise within the scope of potential court outcomes — but this is the opposite, less valuable to Dominion and more harmful to Fox than money.
Excellent blog post serie about floating point compression.

All those (lossless+lossy) floating point compression algos including 1D/2D/3D SIMD transpose with integrated xor and zigzag delta are available in the TurboPFor [1] Integer Compession package.

There is a benchmark with the same dataset available in [2] with a comparison to zfp and blosc with the new bytedelta.
TurboPFor functions compress/decompress faster with better compression.

The bytedelta described in the blog is suboptimal and might not work with other datasets.

Download icapp from [3] and make your own tests with your data.

[1] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression

[2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression/is...

[3] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor-Integer-Compression/re...
Related:

Indiana Bell Building was rotated 90° while everyone inside still worked in1930 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30544635 - March 2022 (2 comments)

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90° - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29441670 - Dec 2021 (122 comments)

In 1930 the Indiana Bell Telephone Building was rotated 90 degrees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26534718 - March 2021 (2 comments)

Indiana Bell Building Move (Of 1930) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26530546 - March 2021 (9 comments)

Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468788 - Nov 2019 (24 comments)

Rotating the Indiana Bell Building (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901264 - Sept 2019 (5 comments)
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oh dear, my handwriting would be so terrible I'd fail.

I'd have to ask for a typewriter.
bc, cc, dd, df, du, ip, jq, nc, ps, ss, su, tr, wc, xz are some I use regularly. There are others. But it's not coincidence that the basic file operations you've mentioned are very short: they're the most common used commands in the interactive shell.

> Those two-letter commands are only really needed because UNIX started on paper ttys and follows "ed" in its "don't show current context to the user" philosophy

Today they need to be short so they're just quick to type. You can set $PS1 just fine and it shows you as much (or as little) context as you'd like.

It's only scary to people watching over the shoulder, because it's just faster than anything else. Close second place is Windows 95/98 "Start" menu and "Explorer", both of which also can be operated with keyboard, thought only for browsing directories deeper — and some Linux DEs like Cinnamon menu can also be worked in similar fashion.
(My words, not the article's)

The fix is to go through the front door, not the back door.

Whatever deserialisation library/technique you use, it should have to use constructors just like everyone else, because that's where you can put your logic to make sure all your invariants hold.
> Did an AI write that title?

No, worse...
Neil Cicierega's Ariel Needs Legs somewhat infamously had the audio corrupted on its YouTube upload over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH6ya5g2-s

It actually seems better from when I last looked at it, but you can you still hear skipping and audio jitter around spots like at 0:18. I've seen similar behavior on Twitter video uploads over the last few years.
I doubt there would be much funding for a kickstarter that didn't promise to be open source.

> people are essentially just pre-paying for a product

I think this is what the 4 nines of the user space wants. A pre trained, open source, model to work with.
My guess is a leapfrog would have more to do with how LLMs are integrated into an operating system, rather than just coming out with a better model. I don’t think we’re gonna get a substantially more capable LLM than GPT-4 anytime soon, but fine-tuning it to sit on top of the core of an operating system could yield results.
I think this really highlights the attitude - don't invest money because it might harm the money. Money is for putting in foreign assets, so that rather than a large amount of money now, you can have a small trickle of money later.
Windows NT is 3.1 and above
We've reverted the title now. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "Crashing Mario 64 by precisely walking into a wall for 39 days, by pannenkoek12")
My lamen understanding is that at a high level the transformer model is performing mathematical operations on the data, based on a complex series of formulas (the "model") derived from the weights set by training.

Then it's able to take in new data, perform the math, and output what it thinks comes next. Is it a big stretch of the imagination to think that maybe such "models" (mathematical formulas) exist also in our brains and maybe we have unlocked one of them?
Is this MS responding to Elon launching a ChatGPT competitor?
Regarding 2)

It's a python library for stitching together existing APIs for AI models.

Regarding 3)

It means that rather than training a new model that does your thing you use existing models and combine them in interesting ways. For example, AutoGPT works roughly like this: Give it a task, it then uses the ChatGPT API to create a plan to achieve the task. It tries to do the first item in the plan by picking a tool from a preconfigured toolbox (google search, generate an image using stablediffusion, use some predefined prompts, ...) afterwards it assesses how far it got and updates the task list and loops until the task is done.

Regarding 4)

Some can run on your machine, some run in the cloud and you'll need to pay and get an API key.
It's a magnificent plane. It's very unfortunate that they launched the "shortened" version. The design and engineering was done for longer fuselage, so it actually has extra structure (and extra weight!) and larger wings than necessary. And it launched just before engines got a lot more efficient. The upside for passengers is that it's still the smoothest flying experience, even in turbulence.

Boeing's 747 was incredibly profitable at the time, so it cross-subsidized other aircraft like the 737 (which competed with the A320). Launching the A380 countered that effect, and it made all segments more competitive.

It's unfortunate that the largest aircraft are going out at the time when demand for flying is higher than ever. On the upside, the A350 has many of the A380's technologies, and is a great competitor to the 777 series (and is also a very good competitor to the 787 series!)
I wish my country would make "stupid" investments to the tune of $250,000 per citizen set aside for a rainy day (or decade).
Agreed. It may not be a perfect meritocracy, but over the course of a life a little effort and competence go a long way.
There are still some people salty, that Gtk3 was breaking themes (not API or ABI, but themes). It was communicated explicitly that themes are going to break, the theme engine implementation was not fully ready when Gtk3 was originally released and that themes are not considered part of the public API. Yet, some people didn't take that warning seriously, and eventually found out the hard way that it was meant seriously.
What's all this we? How about Mr. Noah Smith since it's his idea. He could take one into his own home. Maybe a few of them. If he really wanted to help refugees though a better idea would be to go down to the local children state ward. Lots and lots of his own citizens who had to flee their homes. The state even pays you monthly for taking them off their hands! Won't get that for an adult Chinese person.
We (Norway) do have cables connecting us to UK and Europe. They've been a hot topic the last year with the high energy prices. We're making bank on selling our hydro power when gas got scarce. But that skyrocketed our own prices.

It's a difficult topic. It's probably a net win for Norway, as we can produce when price is high, and stop our hydro and import when prices are low. The problem is just that the benefit ends up making the government and the electric producers (again owned by government orgs mostly) rich, but us people have to pay more for our own energy use. So using that extra money earned to help the people is needed.
I get what you’re saying but the reality is many industries just can’t do this. I have strict data residency and sovereignty requirements - there are potential criminal charges. It’s a non-starter for lots of industries
I find most of them boring to drive, which is exactly what most people want. If you have to ask, you probably fall into this category.

It's going to get me there. It's going to keep running. It's not going to leave me stranded someplace.

I like adventure, so I keep buying 15 year old German cars.

What code will it throw today? Will it start? Will it run? Will something important fall off? Why are there electronics burning in the dash?
I think you'll be paying a cloud provider instead of an API company, but it'll still be a monthly service charge for the service

I don't see small/medium companies getting into acquiring hardware for AI
I find hitting my head on the wall is essential for learning. Hitting my head on the wall helps me learn where the boundaries of functionality are, or where the actual operation of the thing differs from my intuition.

If I just learn some example use cases that work, that tells me something but I won't really have mastered whatever it was that I set out to learn.
Bitcoin’s 'Store-of-Value' Narrative Is Real but Not a Price Mover
Yes, so long as this appeal to a higher authority is about preventing localities from passing legislation that makes it impossible for residents to engage in ordinary economic activity and not instead about central planning by other means.

We've made it impossible to build housing for about 70 years. Let's stop doing that for a while and see what happens.
Someone's gunna lose the private key for all that DRM media and then whoops.
It's more likely MS responding to Elon tearing down their API and making their site worse.

It's not worth their time or money, I'd bet that that API integration helps Twitter more than it helps MS.
Right, you put the complexity inside the Jotai
Sure there are, there are lots of NAS appliances boxes from the likes of Synology/QNAP/Aliexpress Special that can run double duty as servers built on similar low power CPUs. Some of them even have decent networking options.

The problem is that a lot of the commercial products are woefully underspecc'ed for the price and you outgrow them quickly. Spinning disks also eat a lot of power, relatively speaking, so they kind of eat into the "low power" usecase.
That description sounds very similar to the Farfetch'd Pokemon [0]. Was that the original influence?

[0]: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Farfetch%27d_(Pok%C3...
"Yellow Journalism" - a contemporary appreciation might have gone a long way
You're telling me there's movies on Netflix DVD that aren't available online? Or specifically its hard to find the physical dvd.