skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>when non-white, non-men raised the alarm about LLMs previously, they got much less media coverage than Hinton, et al, are getting

This is a direct instantiation of "the medium is the message".
Yes, I haven’t seen front drums in at least 20 years
My heart truly bleeds for companies who face the insurmountable task of printing "may contain sesame" next to the rest of their allergen information.

Wheat was already on the major allergens list, the regulatory burden of keeping aerosolised flour from contaminating other products doesn't seem to have been much of an issue.

The article also seems to make the case that sesame allergens were making their way into foods, with presumably disastrous effects but that was fine because companies didn't have to think about it.

The preferred solution to the intentional adulteration of products should be to fine the companies and throw their executives in jail. It might make them more amenable to complying with the spirit of the law. In fact, society would be better off in general if executives went to jail more often.
> Sure, one can take your condemnation to heart, and reject working for most corporations, just like an individual back in Nazi Germany should have avoided helping the Nazis. But the fact is that most people won't.

I would argue that one reason most people don’t is because we are not honest about these issues and we give people a pass for making these decisions on an individual level. Increasing the social stigma of this behavior would make it less common. It is our society that led us to the notation that human suffering is value neutral in a corporate environment. That isn’t some universal rule.

I understand blaming society might not be seen as a productive solution, but the cause being so large does not mean any singular person is helpless. Society, like a corporation, is made up of individual people too. Next time you are in a meeting at work and someone suggests something that will harm others, question it.
I'd love to see some facts backing this up. It might be true that wearing slightly off prescriptions could train eyes slightly worse over time, but for most people going without them is a far worse option.

Also, the skillset required to prescribe glasses and contacts is something that can be (and is in some countries) effectively on the job training, not necessarily something that requires a specialist doctor with years of education. In most of Europe your average glasses shop can put you in a machine for a few minutes, and spit out an accurate prescription.
This is a bit of a tangent from the original topic, but I've pondered the same thing. I'm often amazed by how clearly some people appear to be able to remember events that happened when they were very young. For me, I barely remember stuff that happened even a decade ago, much less when I was a child. The mortifying memories probably stick longer than the pleasant ones do, but ultimately they all fade. It used to bother me, especally when sharing with partners who found it a reason to pity me, and for a period I wondered if I actually had some kind of trauma that I was hiding from myself. But eventually I stopped caring, because worrying about holes in your memory is just wasting time you could have spent thinking about things that are productive or entertaining or actionable in the present. I have come to think that my mind just works a bit differently to the folks who are more focused on their past. For me, now, I accept that if something no longer appears useful, it gets garbage-collected. Doesn't mean it wasn't worth experiencing in the first place, just means I acknowledge it was a fleeting moment of joy (or pain) and that's fine. I would be a lot more worried if I started losing actually-important memories like language skills, motor skills, general knowledge and so on.
>we really don't have anything to loose to go for AGI

There is no bottom to worse. I don't want to figure out how low that bottom is as my chemical constituents are being turned into paperclips.
Credit where credit is due. It was bipartisan legislation that was signed into law by Trump.

Rollout and re-regulation was very slow, with additional hearing aids being made available over the next few years but with the FDA seemingly maintaining a fairly strong regulatory hand.

The Biden administration pushed the FDA to fully implement the law and gave a 120-day deadline. I'm sure work was already in progress, but the FDA pushed and met the deadline which brings us to today.

IMO this is a case where politics worked. Biden gets a "win" by touting this as more affordable healthcare and helping the middle class. Trump will I'm sure take credit for signing it into law, and republicans will highlight it as a win for deregulation.

In the end though, this should be an unvarnished good for millions with hearing impairment that can't afford hearing aids, but also for many companies who can now innovate without onerous FDA testing requirements.
You just want opinion correct?

I think you would have to provide a lot more information on what it is, what’s unique about it, what your goals for it are, who the target user is etc.

Like, maybe your ideal user doesn’t care whether it looks unique? Or maybe the fact that it looks familiar is exactly why they go with it?

Or perhaps making or modifying a design system is something you actually really want to learn about personally? Or you see that as the only reason why someone would choose your app?

Personally - I would try acquiring the first user/s by focusing as much as possible only on what it actually does, ie. productivity. Then I would try to base those kinds of decisions on what they actually tell you. And on what you see them doing with it.
> Yeah, don't depend on a permanent global conspiracy for your security. Someone always defects and accidents often happen long before that.

But then we still also have things like Crypto AG.
Yeah… I just pull up Finder and delete it there.
>and what recourse do I have if my unique name is taken?

Add a number. Before your unique username was your name + a 4 digit number. You could do the same thing here with your name plus a number.
Spiderman 2 will probably come on PC in a few years.
> They spent an entire generation trying to win their own fanbase back after the missteps with Kinect and always-online.

Another thing that really wrecked the Xbox One was their original intentions of locking discs to consoles to prevent game resale. It was a PR disaster of the highest order that they never recovered from, even after backtracking relatively quickly.
Haiku isn't intended as a server OS. It has solid networking (contrary to what another poster wrote), and you _might_ be able to run a cut down version of it as a server OS, but that's going way out of the normal use case for the OS.
Apparently the meaning of 'surface' depends on the article. From wikipedia " The exact meaning of surface varies according to the measurement method used, but it is between 1 millimetre (0.04 in) and 20 metres (70 ft) below the sea surface." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_surface_temperature

My understanding of this came from an article Karina Von Schuckmann, for which I can't find the PDF right now, which said they were measuring the top few millimeters.
Typescript is one of the most popular languages in the world at this point and continuing to grow (see Stack Overflow developer survey for the last 3 years). It covers the majority of the mature ecosystem on npm by now. Characterizing it as a trend is beyond incorrect. For all intents and purposes, JS is now statically typed.
> Hinton has a much, much higher profile and much, much larger contribution to the field than those axe-grinding self-appointed “ethics” researchers

They were appointed by the same kind of people who appointed Hinton, corporate management (in several cases, the exact same corporate management who appointed Hinton.)

The primary difference (leaving aside the demographic difference that has alread been raised) is that they were pointing out real, current, measurable harms that are inconvenient for people selling the technology, and Hinton is pointing out the same fantasies that are being used by major players in the field to argue for anti-competitive regulation and against openness.
>I'm not saying the pundits are wrong in general

The pundits are wrong. The FDA follows the instructions given to them by Congress.

What went right is that there was broad bipartisan support for the 2017 FDA reauthorization act which permitted them to do this.

What went wrong was that covid delayed the rule making process by about 18 months.

Every single rule/regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations can be traced back to a law that originated in Congress with the words "the Secretary shall..." in it, with the secretary being the head of a government agency.

Prior to 2017 the Congress said "the Secretary shall regulate medical devices" and under the definition created by Congress hearing aids were medical devices, so the FDA did.

After 2017 the Congress said "the Secretary shall regulate medical devices but also make a category for OTC hearing aids" so the FDA did.

Also, rule changes take a long time either because of changes in the laws telling federal agencies what to do or laws already in 5 U.S. Code that define the rule-making process.

There are many federal agencies that would like to wave their hands and create or eliminate rules but for better or worse (I think mainly better) they can't.

Many, though not all, pundits don't realize what the process is.
> US law states that intellectual property can be copyrighted only if it was the product of human creativity, and the USCO only acknowledges work authored by humans at present. Machines and generative AI algorithms, therefore, cannot be authors, and their outputs are not copyrightable.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/03/16/ai_art_copyright_...

So the images can also be used commercially, and this holds as much for Microsoft as for Midjourney. (Though note that Microsoft isn't denying the usage for commercial purposes, though they made it sound as if they did.)
It's all about turning a commodity into a luxury; an extremely regressive policy tantamount to throwing gasoline on the inequality fire. If use of cars is to be curtailed, they should be banned for everybody. The rich should not be allowed to buy their way out of these changes.
Refraction'ing light
Is it inconceivable that folks might come from places where the H in hotel is silent?
What's wrong with synchronous permanent-magnet DC motors?
I think that's just a variation on locality sensitive hashing. You can find lots of articles online.
The point is that it's more difficult and acts as discouragement. Ditto for the elusiveness of the word "support" --- it can mean anything from "nearly impossible" to "it works but we don't want you to".
>LLM’s are merely tools.

LLMs are tools.

An AGI would be a "Purposeful System".

There is a MASSIVE, MASSIVE difference.
Ask HN: Are Google's Android and Apple's iOS “too big to fail”?
Just a honest question.

As a starting point I'm thinking about the global market share of mobile smartphones being split between just 2 companies: Google's Android (X manufacturers & X vendors) and Apple's iOS (1 manufacturer & 1 vendor).

If any of those two companies would cease to exist...

(for any reason/event, it doesn't matter what would be the reason/event or if it would be predictable - e.g. Apple getting a crazy CEO that makes a continuous series of bad decisions or Google becoming outdated because competitors deliver better search results with their Artificial Intelligence frameworks, whatever - something like this happened to some established companies in the past, no reason to believe that the future will be different)

...then we would probably have an impact on a planetary scale due to the amount of users that each party/company has?

This gets then linked as well to the services that they offer (not just on mobile phones) like e.g. 2-factor-authentication, email, hosting and/or data-processing, whatever - a LOT of people/businesses rely on those companies for one or multiple reasons.

Therefore, in my opinion, Google and Apple (their OS + their services) are "too big to fail", maybe even more than "too big to fail"-banks are => what do you think?

Cheers :)
It’s still a console that sells an enjoyable experience. But the “war” is over if the top competitor is doubling the next top.

I don’t think the end of the “console war” necessarily means going out of business or abandoning hardware altogether.
To the one who said he was sinking, in a post that was deleted[1]:

First thing: Your condition is not your fault. I'm going to say that again, because you may need to hear it more than once: Your condition is not your fault. You don't need to feel shame for what it not your fault. It's misplaced.

Please, overcome your reluctance to see a therapist. You deserve more than slowly sinking until you drown. You deserve to heal, to live a life that is actually living.

Is there anyone at all, from work or a bar or a church or a neighbor or anyone you can turn to, and say, "Please help me find the strength to go to a therapist. Please go with me to the office the first time so I don't back out. Please help me remember that this is not my fault, and that I don't need to feel shame in seeking help."

If there's nobody else, tell us your location. Someone here will probably be around, and willing to go with you, if you're willing to accept help in that way.

Please, please, please. Find a way to get help. You're worth more than this.

[1] Yes, I remember the author's username. I'm withholding it out of respect for their privacy.
Matthias Wandel posted this a while ago, he didn't censor the number of views or earnings (apparently YouTube doesn't like people doing that): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXYd4aZOhJ0

His main channel is about wood-working: https://www.youtube.com/@Matthiaswandel and he has another one where he tinkers with stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@matthiasrandomstuff2221
you can play the new Zelda game on PC right now though
Well, if there would be multiple TypeScript implementations available, especially ones that are faster, Microsoft would suddenly lose their moat they gathered by getting TypeScript to be wildly used.

Keeping the spec moving fast and breaking it with new updates servers multiple purposes, not only to make the language itself different, but to avoid competing implementations.

When I say "spec" I main the Microsoft TypeScript implementation, as they don't actually maintain any actual specification anymore.

> The spec is now an "archived" artifact and we won't be tracking defects against it anymore. - https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/15711
Thanks, I'm not seeing these lines in the eventlog, thats good. Are these the only things that could brick my laptop, or are there any other known "security features" that vendors implement?
I remember a lot of stuff, especially since the third grade, which is when my primary career aspirations formed, that persist to this day.
So when a LLM writes a credible epilogue to an existing novel [1], that's not "intelligent?" Sounds a bit like a god-of-the-gaps argument.

1: https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b-storywriter
It's extremist but unfortunately also an opinion that seems to be nonsarcastically becoming more popular.
literally any of it? it's my shit, don't steal it
> refactoring anything with any confidence short of covering your whole app in tests

I don't have any confidence in refactor large swaths of code without widespread tests, with or without TypeScript. Types covers such a small area of where we (I) usually introduce bugs.
That's entirely subjective. I vastly prefer the Playstation controller layout myself.
Can We Make Life? Full Episode – Nova Wonders America
In reality apps would keep their own cache and indicies of your data for faster and more reliable access.
I'm looking for similar - I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this
Here’s a paper that constitutes the state of the art in this domain in 2018. [1] They trained a model on a corpus, and the results were about 50% accurately executed commands. That’s only single commands (not complete scripts) and you couldn’t go back and forth with NL2Bash to fix mistakes.

I think this is a great example of the strides of LLMs. It’s absolutely leaps and bounds ahead of what was unwieldily cutting edge just 5 years ago.

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/nl2bash-corpus-...
I'm writing a fairly basic social media app, right now.

The target demographic is very security/privacy-sensitive, so we have discussions about stuff like this, all the time.

If you block someone, they have no idea, except that you disappear from their radar. Even that, only came about, after a long discussion. Before, blocking someone simply meant that we could not see them, but they could see us.

My location is something that I can force off (meaning that no one can find me in location searches). Even when it is visible, it is "fuzzed," so that the location anyone (other than you) can see, is a random one, within a 10Km square.

All visibility/security is enforced at the server. If possible, in SQL, so it never even makes it into the server code. Having API access buys you nothing.
Oh wow. I thought I was the only one. Like I wasn't abused, not to that extent, but I remember my parents fighting, or the time my mom hit me because I couldn't spell a word, stuff like that.
Differences in files loaded across environments or even the order of loading has been the source of some of the most annoying bugs I've seen. Fundamentally untestable.
TypeScript would have to become more popular than JavaScript for your last part to become true. And it's nowhere near of getting there (outside of SV/hip development world).

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0n50hxv,%2... (last 12 months worldwide)

Last datapoint: TypeScript - 10, JavaScript - 82
Gandalf – Lakera – Prompt Injection Challenge
This is a weird third party AI generated speech video. Does anyone have a link to the official NVidia video where they are getting all these clips from?
mainly research/googling

Most option ROMs are signed by the same set of Microsoft keys, You can make sure to enroll this keys alongside your custom platform key (e.g. the tool sbctl can do so for you). While this does tend to work it has one drawback which is if someone has that key they can break your secure boot chain, i.e. it weakens the benefits custom platform keys give you.

Option ROMs signed by vendor keys are somewhat rare, but sometimes (parts of) firmware update tools are signed by vendor keys, in which case you can choose between not updating your firmware, disabling secure boot while doing so or hoping you can find the (pub)keys for the keys they used somewhere on the internet.

In the end you probably want to see if someone already tried it and had success.
100%.

On a related note, I could see Apple improving the AirPod Pro's ability to protect hearing through improved isolation combined with a modified Transparent mode. Such a "concert mode" device would effectively moderate the volume to a reasonable decibel rating but keep the audio sounding pure and unmuffled, improving over even concert earplugs. Current devices are almost, but not quite there[1].

Making health or safety claims often risks running afoul of FDA regulations; I don't know if that's the case here, but the more open hearing aid FDA rules may allow such use cases with lower risk. IMO this, plus hearing aids, make an "AirPad Pro+"'s market too large for them to ignore.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/can-airpods-pro-prot...
Innovators dilemma
One of the hardest truths I've had to accept is that pointing things out to them doesn't help. I have spend a lot of time and energy trying to rationalize their thinking in some way, but I think it's a fool's errand.

I would similarly struggle to remember specific events, and at one point I even started voice recording them yelling. But showing them later only lead to more attempts at gaslighting and victim blaming. However, it was eye opening to see 3+ hour long runtimes on the voice memos that I couldn't remember anything about.

Emotional abuse is every bit as harmful and affects your brain in the same way as other kinds of abuse.

I hate people that try to apologize or convince you that they deserve forgiveness because they meant well or "they're your parents/family". It gets hard to push back without being disrespectful. And regardless of how old you get, the power dynamic of parent and child follows you. After a while you stop sharing completely.

Separating their behavior from who they are as a person is the hardest thing I've had to do. But it's the first milestone in rebuilding a relationship and helped me seperate myself from their behavior. Being aware that their behavior is a consequence of their upbringing earned empathy from me, but I think forgiveness requires empathy in both directions. I think it's equally hard to accept that you hurt someone you love.

Cultural norms can cause a lot of people to stay quiet, even if they decided to cut all contact, because talking poorly about your parents is seen as one of the worst things you can do. Regardless of what that thing was. I couldn't finish reading it in one sitting and I still had to skim parts of it. But I appreciate this being writted and shared publicly.
here’s a TestFlight beta testing link

https://testflight.apple.com/join/WYT0giJd
They were only using 5% capacity of their datacenter GPUs. They could have trained their deep learning models close to 20X more, etc. He mainly just said it was a signal of their inefficiency as an organization and was a final straw, not a sole reason. He detailed many other major misallocations of resources throughout his time there.
And what about the possibility of lines of research like Dr. Michael Levin's "Xenobots" converging with RL at some point in the future after further advancements have been made?

If autopoiesis turns out to be necessary for AGI and we embody these systems and embed them in the real world, are they still going to be fancy calculators?
An example of an internal Apple "devkit" for the original iPod Touch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg62JpqJGBg
Uh, they don't fund the research, they don't pay the reviewers, and they charge money to publish. They provide exact formatting rules and documents for all submissions, and reject if improperly formatted.

I'm not sure where you get this idea that they are doing any significant typesetting, or that their administrative costs are anything remotely reasonable - even the journal editors are also largely unpaid (because being the editor of a journal can be helpful when trying to get a job in academia).
Speaking of which, there's a movie coming out. Trailed dropped 4 days ago. Another big win for Sony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVPzGBvPrzw
It's sarcasm, I'm fairly sure.
Advanced citizenship is about not needing revolutions, it is a sustainable governing process existing, one that integrates citizens in their daily lives. So far, I've seen shittier governments take out better ones, because they have more might. I don't think what is currently on Earth is by any means close to ideal because governments spend so much resource on worrying about other governments taking them out.

I'll agree that the citizens of France feel empowered while Americans feel disempowered. And empowerment is a natural consequence of identification with control of larger structures.

Most Americans don't feel like they have any control over larger structures in their countries.
All of the stuff I care about is in my carry on. Who wants to steal someone else’s clothes that probably won’t fit?
Pirating videogames is clearly unethical. It's a form of freeriding.
There's an off by one error in the above statement. Not sure if it's the right or left hand side.