skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm dealing with this at my currently. It is a fairly large org and has good people and not so great people like any large enough group will have. What they don't have in my estimation is someone who actually knows how to engage with individual contributors in a meaningful way so struggles with issues of communication and direction, again, not atypical. I've invested into building an internal "meet up" for dev+adjacent folks to hold a weekly tech talk session, and am slowly building trust in what was a relatively low-trust environment. I do all this and some more within approximately the normal amount of working hours as if I weren't doing this with some very careful scheduling. My philosophy is that if we need to be here then might as well find a way to enjoy it and get something more than a paycheck. The effort is also slowly paying of in getting the attention of recruiting and hr, in that they are trying to learn how to engage with technology more effectively. It is slow growing but has been a joyful experience getting people to come out of their shell and give their, sometimes first, presentation at a meet up.
This makes me think of the Lifestreams work by Freeman and Gelertner. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
Those people can't be helped by words, no matter how you label/describe the switch.
You can accurately describe a lack of knowledge with a high degree of confidence.
This would be fine if all the data was public, that is the only way to make public surveillance systems do more harm than good.
But some people argue that the trial was not fair. Evidence was withheld and his attorneys were intimidated to resign.
> I'm actually not sure what exactly is accomplished by toggling Location Services off.

I couldn't find an analogous article by Google, but Apple does a pretty good job of explaining this: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/location-service...
Humans handily outperform GPT4 handily on the task of "write a random string of length [x]" for any x > ~25.
Sentience != intelligence
Gemini uses ssl client certificates as its primary method of authenticating users and keeping track of user sessions. It works really well; a major benefit is that the user is in charge of how long their session exists for.
> I have now come down to a topic which is very distasteful; it is not sufficient to do a job, you have to sell it. `Selling' to a scientist is an awkward thing to do. It's very ugly; you shouldn't have to do it. The world is supposed to be waiting, and when you do something great, they should rush out and welcome it. But the fact is everyone is busy with their own work. You must present it so well that they will set aside what they are doing, look at what you've done, read it, and come back and say, ``Yes, that was good.'' I suggest that when you open a journal, as you turn the pages, you ask why you read some articles and not others. You had better write your report so when it is published in the Physical Review, or wherever else you want it, as the readers are turning the pages they won't just turn your pages but they will stop and read yours. If they don't stop and read it, you won't get credit.

> There are three things you have to do in selling. You have to learn to write clearly and well so that people will read it, you must learn to give reasonably formal talks, and you also must learn to give informal talks. We had a lot of so-called `back room scientists.' In a conference, they would keep quiet. Three weeks later after a decision was made they filed a report saying why you should do so and so. Well, it was too late. They would not stand up right in the middle of a hot conference, in the middle of activity, and say, ``We should do this for these reasons.'' You need to master that form of communication as well as prepared speeches.

I ran across this speech about 5 years into my software development career. These two paragraphs were a MAJOR game changer. Until then I could not believe that more than a minimum of soft skills were necessary being a developer and that my code would speak for itself.

After reading Hamming's words I started putting much more effort into things like presentations and status emails. The results were not immediate and I am not exactly "next VP" but I am definitely in a stable and comfortable position in my current company.

More importantly I am not frustrated when I write some cool-new-tool and nobody takes an interest. It almost certainly means there's nothing wrong with cool-new-tool and I need to better communicate what it is and why its useful. (Related: Hammings point about working on an important problem...your cool-new-tool may not actually be solving anything important).
"Colossus: The Forbin Project" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

I prefer this example.
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I was just wondering about this sort of work after converting my gaming PC to Arch to play steam games. Glad to hear there are people working on linux HDR and graphics in general. Many thanks to all involved.
There in the move fast and break things phase right now. I’ve noticed lots of small errors - reaction images not showing, small text alignment bugs, but they tend to be fixed very frequently after they happen. And the features stay.
And watching other actors pop batteries in and out of burner phones. "The network knows where your phone is" is a well established part of pop tech assumptions.

Despite all this, if it came to overthrow a surprise dictatorship tomorrow qI'd still expect almost everybody, myself included as well as a majority of hn readers almost as big as that amongst the general population, to naively show up at the street riots with their devices happily logged into the network. But not a single one of them would do so because they believed that toggling the GPS feature to off somehow protected them.
This is an improvement over how Berlin used to handle people who crossed arbitrary borders within the city, though.
As a Canadian, I am of two minds about it. FM radio is required to broadcast Canadian produced or performed music at least for 35% of the time. There are not too many, in absolute numbers, songs that are both Canadian and popular which results in few songs being broadcast to death. At least that was the case when I used to listen to FM radio. On the other hand, that legislation certainly helped Canadian artists.
This workplace sounds like a scary environment; this person presents themselves as someone who takes a lot of effort to try and make happy. Frankly it sounds exhausting. I don't get it; I manage 15-20 people and this stuff never comes up. They're visibly quite a diverse group and the rest of it has just never has been an issue, or any of my concern. I advocate for them against their goals and desires and have never considered their personal positions/beliefs/values/identity from a positive or negative perspective. This isn't because I'm some sort of amazing manager, it's because I'm lazy. It seems like so much extra work to discriminate against in these situations.
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Has anyone attempted to implement this into an existing Linux DE? Or a full screen web app experience?
Why is it surprising that a full interview is more nuanced than a headline?
Because it's a huge revelation that bitcoin mining has been an official, government operation for many years?
Vice was on its way out anyway and the world could do without such a clickbait-laden pseudo-news site down the trash bin.

Good riddance and nothing of value was lost.
Until some app requests permission to turn it on and they go back to clicking yes/accept on absolutely everything.
This sounds more like telling companies that sell to Canadians to put back into the Canadian economy and to support all Canadian customers, not just the easy ones. I'm sure it's nice to have Netflix pay Canadian taxes, but what is better is if Netflix helps create jobs for Canadians by using revenue that Netflix earns by operating in Canada. That seems reasonable to me for every country.
>You want to write an adventure, but want to keep it unpredictable. Ask the AI for ideas, there, the adventure is now a true adventure, not a fake mirage created by the writer.

I don't know if it's a symptom of Hollywood's sequelitis and nostalgia-wank, but the idea that consumers should be happy to consume art generated by a program that has simply taken the last 200 years of pop-art and averaged it all together is depressing.

When I read this it sounds like you've reduced art down to the labor and not the actual expression. Why would anyone want to read something where the character responses are simulated? Everything should at least be intentional.
Not to rain on your parade, but I'm concerned we'll have massive further spike in violent mobs of believers in a world conspiracy of pedophile space lizards and such, while people can still lose their jobs over dumb things they didn't even do 10 years ago, or get swatted or put on a no-fly list "just in case"...
You have a problem with work.

I know I'll get HR involved, they will help me.

You now have two problems with work.

Unless your goal is to get someone fired, I've never seen HR getting involved to be a positive action.
But LLMs do not solve natural language understanding in any of the meanings that the phrase meant before LLMs. Instead, they throw a completely new technique at it that completely sidesteps the need for language understanding and what do you know? For the purposes of responding in meaningful, generally sensible ways, it works amazingly well. And that is incredibly cool. But it doesn't solve the (all) problem(s) that more historical approaches to machine language "understanding" were concerned with.

But there is no world representation inside an LLM, only text (words, letters) representations, so nothing the LLM does can be based on reasoning in a traditional sense.

I would wager that if we build an LLM based on a training data set collection, and then we rebuild it with a heavily edited version of the data set that explicitly excludes certain significant areas of human discourse, the LLM will be severely impaired in its apparent ability to "reason" about anything connected with the excluded areas. That sounds as if it ought to surprise you, since you think they are capable of reasoning beyond the training set. It wouldn't surprise me at all, since I do not believe that it what they are doing.

LLMs contain a model of human speech (really text) behavior that is almost unimaginably more complex than anything we've built before. But by itself that doesn't mean very much with respect to general reasoning ability. The fact that LLMs can convince you otherwise points, to me, to the richness of the training data in suitable responses to almost any prompt,suitable, that is, for the purpose of persuading you that there is some kind of reasoning occuring. But there is not. The fact that neither you nor I can really build a model (hah!) of what the LLM is actually doing doesn't change that.
Why would one suing for slander need to that whatever slanderer invented he didn't do ?

That puts unreasonable level of burden on one being slandered (i.e. the victim) and would allow one doing the slander just make up stuff that is very hard to prove that the victim didn't do.
Greetings in Mongolian are fun because the question and the response are so similar.

- сайн yy?

- сайн, сайн yy?

- сайн, <...>

Took me awhile to learn to hear the various elaborations on that for different types of people.
This is like in the 60s when they would reimagine cars w/ out steering wheels. 60 years later and we still have steering wheels. Maybe one or two ideas will stick. that's it.
“It depends on what the meaning of is, is”
I do this all the time!!!

I yell out "Hey, What's up?"

And the person who hears me responds!!!

Maybe I should patent that!!!
What I mean is that basically nobody looks at two options and desires the more dense one simply because they find density attractive.

If offered to rent a large home on a 1/4 acre in downtown Manhattan, or a dense condo for the same price, almost everyone would choose the less dense option.

People want space, and put up with density because they have limited money and like the location.
Problem with biologics is that you can never really know how long you can take them. Some people who take them for years all of a sudden stop tolerating them and have to drop out of using them
>AI hacked nothing. We've been doing it to ourselves for ages. This is just another way of doing it

except much more effective.

Humanity barely managed to get over (if so) previous mind-viruses like bible and communism. Partially because of massive discussion around these topics. With current LLMs (not future superhuman AGI) it's possible to spoon-fed a personally tailored mind-virus to each internet user. And there would be no discussion just because every instance is so original. (In practice it's often enough to just rename all the keywords, as proven by numerous psycho/business-cource gurus.)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24366308
> So if everything you do is monitored, how do you achieve privacy in such a world? That is the question, I think.

Proposals that suggests users get better at managing their own security are doomed. Most people don't understand the absolute insecurity of their door locks, let alone the state of their digital devices.

One possible answer is noise. There should be "digital noise generators" that create fake digital fingerprints for you everywhere. The goal isn't to make the landscape more pristine, it's to make it so "dirty" that it has no value to anyone anymore.
Another article about fears of AGI. As a reminder, there is not a single LLM on the market today that is not vulnerable to prompt injection, and nobody has demonstrated a fully reliable method to guard against it. And by and large, companies don't really seem to care.

Google recently launched a cloud offering that uses a LLM to analyze untrusted code. It's vulnerable to prompt injection through that code. Microsoft Bing still has the ability to be invoked from Edge on any webpage, where it will use that webpage content as context. It's vulnerable to prompt injection. Plantr is advertising using an LLM in military operations. Multimodal LLMs offer us a new exciting opportunity to have prompt injection happen via images. And OpenAI had decided that prompt injection isn't eligible for bug bounties because "those are for problems that can be fixed", which is a wild thing for a company to say at the same time it's advertising API integration with its product.

But sure, let's have yet another conversation about AGI. The problem is that the only thing these articles do is encourage the public to trust LLMs more. Yes, spam is a concern; yes, the politics of technology on the workplace is always something to consider. But these articles take a naively positive tone towards LLM capabilities that glosses over the fact that there are significant problems with the technology itself.

In the same way that discussions about the ethics of self driving cars masked the reality that the technology was wildly unpolished, discussions about the singularity mask the reality that modern LLMs are frighteningly insecure but are nonetheless being built into every new product anyway.

It's not that these conversations aren't important, I do think they're important. Obviously the politics matter. But the failure mode for LLMs outside of content generation is so much worse than these articles make it seem. On some level they're puff pieces masquarading as criticism.

I guess the silver lining is that if you're genuinely losing sleep about GPT-4 becoming a general agent that does every job, don't worry -- that'll only last until it gets someone's bank account emptied or until some enemy combatant uses prompt injection to get a drone to bomb a different target. Unless this security problem gets solved, but none of the companies seem to care that much about security or view it as a blocker for launching whatever new product they have to try and drive up stock price or grab VC funding. So I'm not really holding my breath on that.
A similar law was passed in Venezuela in ~2005. It forced radio stations to play traditional Venezuelan music as a percent of all their airtime.

From the only article I could find in english [0]:

> The law can make listening to the radio an adventure in dizzying contrasts. One minute a disc jockey is playing American rap, and the next minute it’s flutes and fiddles from the Andean highlands.

It pushed some local artist to get creative and come out with some electronic traditional music, which frakly, sucked.

Oh, and radio stations worked around the required quota by playing the mandated music very late at night.

[0] https://archive.is/TTQjG#selection-1173.443-1173.639
Sorry ... I thought the "fact" was interesting but I guess I should have found a better source.
100%, I learned this early via that in a comanager.
Have you looked into Sailfish? https://sailfishos.org/

I'm not affiliated (nor have I actually used it) but it looks like an interesting alternative approach to phone UX, and one that you can actually use!

I'd be interested to hear any stories HNers have with it.
And some people hand-write Makefiles for some simple projects. But those are the output of configure scripts (or CMake files), so hand-writing a configure script (or CMakeLists.txt) isn't hand-writing the resulting Makefile. Writing Makefiles by hand for a single platform and target is easy, I do it for task automation, but it's unusably complex for multi-platform software with multiple build configurations.
Look forward to seeing the same thing on YouTube, Twitter and other online services from now on in Canada. At least 30% of the videos your feed contain will be from some Canadian "influencers" that the government approved. Regulation will continue being created to force content upon you until you start liking the content.
Attention is ultimately limited. It doesn't matter how much content is being created if it isn't being pushed.

The problem hasn't been content creation for a long time.
I mean seriously, when you start talking about "Messaging people over sound", you really need to get up from the computer and go outside...
I mean it depends. If you document your communications thoroughly and the company is sufficiently sloppy, then backlash from HR could set you up for a lucrative lawsuit.
Meh, it doesn't really help Canadian artists, it helps the Canadian version of artists that want to produce something the government wants to support. Same as all business subsidies in Canada. We're just a pretend economy of government spending. Companies playing startup, people playing artist. None of it is viable or valuable outside the government spending bubble, and we'd all be better off if it just stopped. Except for the few ologopolists that want to keep their fiefdoms and ensure no real competition ever emerges.
I think it's kind of wild that you can just take a latent or otherwise inaccessible source of power and now convert it into money.

And it doesn't really matter what the price of BTC is for something like this, as the resource is more or less entirely unused. It's just sitting there, doing nothing, so any value you can make out of it is better than the nothing they're already getting.
More like we already know the switch is a lie
Short-term? Maybe.

Long-term? Definitely not.

Development in this area takes a lot of money. China has plenty to spare. The US, not so much.

If Taiwanese chips are taken out of the equation, China is already more self-sufficient than the US is. TSMC will not survive any conflict between the US and China. And one US general has recently stated that that conflict is only 2 years away.
Great idea in theory but in practice it would be trivial to bypass. You’d just need one cheeky proxy to MITM the connection and you end up in a worse situation than you started (from a security standpoint).

Rather than limiting access, what we really should be doing is limiting the negative harm that social networks can cause. For example YouTube Kids is a vast improvement over regular YouTube with regards to younger audiences.
Good, I hope they fail. Lazy clickbait reporting and shock value editing. Long history of screwing over their most well known journalists also.

Above all, the Co-founder of Vice is Proud Boy..good riddance
I enjoyed the specials and daily shows they had on HBO years ago.
If you follow Major Jason Lowery at all, https://twitter.com/JasonPLowery, this seems to align with his thesis of bitcoin proof of work mining becoming a form of power competition and warfare between sovereigns.
This is already the case, but it's not based by location but by languages. Spanish-speaking internet is vastly different from the English-speaking one, and so is the internet for Chinese, Russian, French, Portuguese speaking population. Every major language have their own corner of the internet.

Anyone who is bilingual can tell you the same :)
Thermodynamics says that you can't decrease entropy in a closed system. Whatever life does, however it does, like any process, will not decrease entropy - and generally, will increase it over time. That life seems to generate and maintain order locally only tells you that it shoves the entropy it produces somewhere else, out of sight (ultimately it becomes thermal radiation).

It's like with a heat pump: it does not generate cold, it merely transports heat against a gradient, and in doing so, adds more heat of its own. It may seem like it creates cold, but that's only because you're sitting in front of the cold end, while the hot end goes to ground or atmosphere - i.e. a thermal sink so large that your contribution to it is almost unmeasurable.
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