skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the noise to be intolerable on my Adder WS even at idle, but would agree that it's nowhere near the biggest problem. That would be software support. I have been using Linux laptops for ten years and the only one that has ever failed to reliably wake from sleep is my System76.

They're junk by every metric I know of. Expensive, too. They have nothing going for them.
> There's a reason Kennedy wanted to disband the organization entirely.

The quote people use to say he wanted this...might not even be a real quote at all.
The sexbots will get so good that real fluid exchange among humans will no longer be worth the effort.

all this "AI will kill / save us all" horseshit becomes tiring. Do the people writing these articles worry about other people's kids the same way? Have any of them read Frankenstein?
That was my comment. I intended it to mean the government shouldn’t be deputizing payment processors to do its dirty work. There were some good points in the responses and a few ridiculous scenarios. Even the ridiculous scenarios point out real issues.

In reality I don’t think there is any chance of a law requiring payment processors to process all legal transactions and definitely nothing about illegal transactions. If that were a possibility, I would back off my statement that they should be forced to process illegal transactions.
> Then remove all liability for payment processors.

Yep. If you make me liable on some legal matter involving some third parties that use me as a service, I have no choice but to brush up on law and defend myself the best I can.
It's really not reformable in the way people normally mean by that word. The incentives and constraints that create this environment are core to the history, identity, and civil-political mechanics of the systems themselves. The individual people acting within these systems are actively opposed to reform, and there isn't a mechanism to force it without their cooperation. The solution really is to scrap the whole thing and try something else entirely.
1968 was significantly pre-internet [1], even beating out the first of ARPAnet by a few months.

[1] https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=861
if we are talking about regulating something now, we must talk about capabilities now. there's no point in talking about nonexistent technology. should we also regulate teleportation? it's been done in a lab.

if AI actually is a threat, then it can be regulated. it's not a threat now, period. preemptively regulating something is silly and a waste of energy and political capital.
Some sort of coroutine solution is definitely on my list too. I'm actually not too passionate about which one it is, except for a distaste for async/await on the grounds the compiler ought to be able to do it for me. But generators, threads or actors cheap enough to use freely, coroutines, something that allows me to break out of the strictly hierarchical structured programming system and retain some degree of state within a function when I need to. It's possible to hack something together in a language lacking this, by moving all function state into a struct/object but all the manual scaffolding is painful and error prone.
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That would at least be an over-specific class though, as most colonialists are people. The issue here is that it's often not seeing people as people, and identifying them as animals. It would be more like if it ID'd white folks as cows or such.
It's originally a Latin word and, as many other Latin words, is now a medical term in English.
We don't need AGI to have an extinction risk. Dumb AI might be even more dangerous
TypeScript is much less readable than Haskell and OCaml, but you can easily find translations to TypeScript such as https://github.com/skeate/lambdata.
without the internet more people would have died from COVID simply because the information wouldn't have been disseminated about what it is to begin with.
Credit card companies have created a system where if you don't use them you are a loser, that's an example of what can happen. I can't prove OPs point about whether it affects you or not but in principle it might not, you might benefit from that status quo.
The CIA is the Fifth Reich.

The ideologues who survived WW2 escaped and now have created an impenetrable fortress in the very heart of their enemy, and are using it as the base from which to enforce fundamentally racist, totalitarian-authoritarian ideologies which ultimately result in chaos, death and calamity at massive scale around the world.
Edtech groups insist AI is friend not foe despite warnings
If your bandwidth is that low, how would this remote desktop experience feel good? It won't.
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I guess all we need now is an Epstein drive …
I’m just sad to see such questions in the top of Ask HN.

I considered HN a smartest online community where people can see through hype and BS etc.
and the P/E of the SP500 is ~22

https://ycharts.com/indicators/sp_500_pe_ratio#:~:text=S%26P....
Why TSMC is having such a low PE. Aren't they are the one producing all these chips other than Intel?
Do you have a source for the "fun" fact? What circumstances would ignite a war outside of striking first?
Intelligence cannot be 'solved', I would go on to further say that an intelligence without the option of violence isn't an intelligence at all.

If you suddenly wanted to kill people, for example, then could probably kill a few before you were stopped. That is typically the limits of an individuals power. Now, if you were a corporation with money, depending on the strategy you used you could likely kill anywhere from hundreds to hundreds of thousands. Kick it up to government level, and well, the term "just a statistic" exists for a reason.

We tend to have laws around these behaviors, but they are typically punitive. The law realizes that humans, and human systems will unalign themselves from "moral" behavior (whatever that may be considered at the time). When the lawgiver itself becomes unaligned, well, things tend to get bad. Human alignment typically consists of benefits (I give you nice things/money/power) or violence.
What's the story with saleforce?
Maybe people see all the dark patterns around the web or commercial OSes and associate them with "UX researchers not doing a good job". It's like if devs were to be judged by sluggish code written to satisfy bad requirements. Devs should understand just as well, it's management's fault, and things will get worse if there's no one to do the actual leg work.
GNU wants to recreate a 1988 Unix. That's not necessarily a bad thing – I'm an old Unix beardy type myself as well – but it's not really how you stay at the forefront of computing, yeah. Also didn't help Stallman alienated the GNOME and GTK people so they're not longer GNU projects (and they were independent for a long time before that anyway).

There are still some important GNU projects though, GCC, GNU libc, and Grub being the most notable.
libav was the fork [1], and libav is dead now [2,3] (and many developers returned to ffmpeg).

libav was forced to rename their project because Fabrice Bellard, still owner of the trademark and the ffmpeg.org domain, did not hand it over. ffmpeg put in much effort retain compatibility with libav, mostly by merging all their changes wholesale, while libav ignored ffmpeg, including and most crucially, their security fixes [4].

[1] http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html

[2] https://www.libav.org/

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Back-In-Debian

[4] https://j00ru.vexillium.org/2014/01/ffmpeg-and-the-tale-of-a...
Waco is more an example of the FBI doing something it should have been doing, but doing it incompetently. Which is certainly a discussion to have, but intervening against the Branch Davidians seems well within the mandate of law enforcement given what was going on there. It shouldn't have happened the way it did, but that doesn't mean the ATF or FBI were over-reaching.

The FBI's history of over-reach and wire-tapping goes back to the 40s and was well-known [even in the mid-80s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies).
Techno Union 1 Hour Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DZhQTLdUaM
> UX and QA should be speaking up

as long as only human subjective criteria have to be met, this is easily handled with marketing. 


"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -R. Feynman
My perspective is this, and disclosure: I've been working with the FBI on numerous occations.. The FBI is a large organization of around 35 000 - 40 000 employees with 50+ field offices.

The FBI's mission is to uphold the consitution and protect the U.S from foreign intelligence, espionage and terrorism. Note that the U.S. population is ~ 332 million right now.

I think the FBI's dilemma is "damned if you do, damned if you don't", constantly having to find the right balance with regards to "what is too little, what is too much?".

There is also the classic services-dilemma of.. if you get attacked.. everybody will yell "where was the FBI??". If an attacked is stopped in it's tracks the majority of times you won't even know about it.
There should be an exemption from the Captcha for users with strong passwords. And if this spreads maybe we can just annoy everyone into good security practices.
It's not "partisan" in the sense that it is for Democrats or Republicans. It is partisan in that it's libertarian (small l) leaning. That's not as bad, viewing a civil item through a civil libertarian lens doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong.
TSMC seems real low for a company with a 100% share of the high performance chips market, with a really high moat, and lots of hype that chipmaking will be getting lots of government investment and lots of demand with AI wanting massive amounts more compute...
An Addictive Alternative to DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations)
This is a pretty good introduction to Midinous -- which is a grid-based non-linear MIDI sequencer usable with any Digital Audio Workstation or hardware that accepts MIDI messages. Interestingly, it was written by someone as (evidently!) their first programming project.
Just take a look at COINTELPRO. It's been way longer than Ruby Ridge. One might even say it's been like that since day 1.
Most people would love for an organization like the FBI that possesses their reach and oversight to protect their values and authority, although particular means may vary.

I’m coming to feel like there are too many ambiguities in regard to anti-State, surveillance, security, etc. sentiment.

A lot of the kind of talk like in this article boils down to disputes over power and its preservation.

I’m not familiar with the Register’s ideological bend, if they possess one at all, nor that of the author’s. Nonetheless it’s worth taking into consideration the liberty and agency that this article is seeking to defend in response to the state’s.
U.S. Govt Launches Consultation on Future Anti-Piracy Strategies
I took that to mean that if you fail to continue to be productive then your colleagues will cease to be polite to you, is that correct?
Oh.. then, yes--this was unabashedly a (positively) triggered reaction (fortunately or unfortunately).
Is LiveView like ASP.NET Blazor Server?

It seems to look very similar but I didn't see whether LiveView has the "sticky" websocket server requirement like Blazor. With Blazor all of the user's state is in memory on one specific app server. And if a connection is lost the app is completely unresponsive.

It's a great dev experience but I've seen comments about scaling and interaction latency concerns. Seems like it'd be great for intranet corp apps.

Is anyone running either tech as a public facing service?
> Like, you could make the same argument that protobuf shouldn't output C code.

The case at hand is an 8MB static array of integers. Obviously yes, of course, absolutely: you choose the correct/simple/obvious/trivialest implementation strategy for the problem. That's exactly what I'm saying!

In the case of protobuf (static generation of an otherwise arbitrarily complicated data structure with reasonably bounded size), code generation makes a ton of sense.
Ppl are so easily manipulated by media and hype. TSMC has low margins and probably bc they are not involved in the application side
> It's probably 10x more efficient than a possible JS implementation, tho.

And you make that claim based on what?
cool - so AI is gonna dramatically reduce the number of emails that get misunderstood... still gonna still be sending those emails tho.
I wonder if any agency will use that list to track other cybercriminals aswell.
I feel like you used to be able to add .ics files from safari but then scummy advertisements would create calendars with fake virus notifications disguised as events, which would result in a bunch of notifications on someone’s phone.
I'm replying in agreement with someone who already pointed out the obvious flaw in labelling any questioning of the inspirations or motivations of AI researchers as "Bulverism": none of the stuff they're saying is actually a claim that can be falsified in the first place!

I'm unconvinced by the position that the only valid means of casting doubt on a claim is through forensic examination of hard data that may be inaccessible to the interlocutor (like most people's bank accounts...), but whether that is or isn't a generally good approach is irrelevant here as we're talking about claims about courses of action to avoid hypothetical threats. I just noted it was a particularly useful rhetorical flourish when advocating acting on beliefs which aren't readily falsifiable, something CS Lewis was extremely proud of doing and certainly wouldn't have considered a character flaw!

Ironically, your reply also failed to falsify anything I said and instead critiqued my assumed motivations for making the comment. It's Bulverism all the way down!
The meta-problem is that both liberal and conservative politicians are on board with with cracking down through the financial system for one reason or another.

If you see comments calling for payment processors to be dumb money pipes free of liability, those are likely coming from libertarians.

:)
At number four in the list is 'Fifty shades of Grey'. A bit surprising choice for training material given GPT4's prudish mindset. But then again it's often those people you'd never suspect that secretly read such stuff.
I really enjoyed this 8 hour solve of a 17×17×17 Rubik’s cube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4BrzJbtRZg

Also the ones of the Titanic sinking in real time, although they are “only” around 2 hours 45 minutes, they have the same feels as the absurdly long ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGKpT1oGAnQ
I'm on board with assuming that the intent of Google / the engineers who built the classifier is not racist. However the outcome — labelling a black person as a gorilla — certainly is racist. What makes you think otherwise?
> TypeScript is much less readable than Haskell and OCaml

That's like saying that Norwegian is much less readable than Italian. It is in the eye of the beholder. They can both express the same concepts but which one is more readable depends on which one you already know.
By going off the gold standard paper currency is no longer a debt instrument.

There is intrinsically no difference between deciding gold is the scarce thing that we all accept as money, or some specific hard to duplicate paper money. They both serve th same purpose.
It's an interesting connection, your attention as your soul.

Consider the implications of "temptation". Consider "bound soul", "free soul", "damned soul".

Consider a soul, and a body, in a subway car, diddling with its phone, on the way to work.

It really sheds light on the subject.
It is a super complex topic. On one hand the digital nomads bring a ton of cash to the places where they stay for a couple of months. But it also incitate the owners to create more and more AirBnbs and that push the people outside of their cities.

Lisbon has experienced this and started to limit it a few years ago, Bali will probably do the same in the next few years…
Beware the press reporting inaccurate information on anything nowadays. Especially something that threatens the very fabric of their business models and requires time and patience to master.
It’s not just random text, they are predicting writings and documents produced by humans. They are “language” models.

Language is used to say things about the world. This means that predicting language extremely well is best done through acquiring an understanding of the world.

Take a rigorous, well-written textbook. Predicting a textbook is like writing a textbook. To write a good textbook, you need to be an expert in the subject. There’s no way around this.

The best language models (eg GPT-4) have some understanding of the world. It isn’t perfect, or even very deep in many ways. It fails in ways that we find quite strange and stupid. It isn’t capable of writing an entire textbook yet.

But there is still a model of the world in there. It wouldn’t be able to do everything it is capable of otherwise.
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Of course this is reality.

There are just many privileged people here that are so insulated from reality they confuse their insane social media political talking points with actual reality.

The counter argument is always some straw man pulled from news headlines.
Monero-like fungibility will never be added to bitcoin. The core devs are specifically against it.
Agreed. It's like the librarians who responded to the Patriot Act by putting up "The FBI has not been here" signs.
Ask HN: Good admin panels (read-only) for SQLite and Node.js?
I'm running a NextJS application with sqlite as the backend. Would be useful to have a dead simple admin panel where I can view all the data in the database.

Ideally, I could just plug it into my existing express server. Googling around, there don't seem to be a ton of good options.
Only as a steping stone to Hoersch-Kessel ion engines. For FTL, I propose Kearny-Fuchida jump drives.

Honestly, I just wanted to nerd out.
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Aside: what is the shared url doing with 3 slashes?

https://www.interactions.org/press-release/lhc-experiments-s...
> I understand you have to pay the bills

You mean like the 5 mil per year CEO salary? Not sure if theat is really a need and not a want.

We need an open source browser that's not operated like a paypig for a for profit company. Funding should be handled via seeking grants and donations, not by selling out the users.
Well, Rees co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, and has at least been thinking and writing about these issues for years now.
Sam Altman On AI X-Risk (2015)
Whisper is now outclassed by Facebook's MMS https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/exampl... though the integration work to make it a turnkey solution for a wider audience hasn't happened yet. (E.g. https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/issues/950 is still open.)
Is does seem to be a bit of a sticking point.

Perhaps the UK might be persuaded to relinquish Prince Andrew?
the fact that NVDA has a larger market cap than basically all other chip manufacturers combined is hilarious. big TSLA energy here
Show HN: Gather Prospect Intel with GPT-4
I participated at a Hackathon last year, hosted and sponsored by a big telco at the country I'm living in. Me and my team had an idea for the topic "urban mobility improvements", where every transport app (Uber, nextbike, public transport) would be put together in a single app where you could buy tickets, call a cab, rent a scooter/bike in a single app.

We pitched this idea to a mentor at the hackathon that worked for the sponsoring company and had worked with UX. The question he asked "how are you going to make your app sustainable, how are you going to keep a steady flow of new users?".

We replied: "because it's convenient", and he immediately replied: "normal users don't care about convenience, they won't stop using 5-10 different apps because it's convenient for them to use a new app where they can find everything they need. They need other incentives to use your app".

At that point I couldn't reply back to him saying "well I am a user, we are users of these apps and the UX is simply terrible, if you think this is okay then sorry but you're a dumbass", because we had to finalize our business pitch and we were in a tight deadline, so for nervousness I couldn't say it to the guy that he is wrong.

I don't hate UX. I hate people that think it's totally okay to hide important or common things behind 3-5 clicks AND screens. This is the golden standard for UX nowadays: making things complicated for the end user. I don't know if I am just tired of this bullshit they shove at our faces, but a LOT of new major products have a terrible UX now.

Examples? I use OneDrive for storing my files. I mainly use the web interface because there's no native Linux client and I keep forgetting about rclone. I used to access office.com, login to my uni account, click on the OneDrive icon on the sidebar and it would redirect me to my OneDrive.

Microsoft changed the layout recently, now to access 1Drive, you need to click the sidebar, click on the menu icon, select OneDrive, to a point it will redirect you to a OneDrive page, and then you have to click "My files" to get the default view where all your files are listed. I hated this update and I have no idea what Microsoft was smoking to think to hide the OneDrive button under extra actions.

Another example? FIFA 2023. You have lootboxes that contains player cars and utility cards. You can get these card packs by completing objectives. You can complete objectives by doing actions on the main menu (organizing your team, buying a player, etc) or inside a match. And guess what, there's no button to collect all of your pending rewards. And if you have lots of card packs to open, you can't just click a button to open them all, you need to open them one by one. Oh and to make things worse, if you go to any other Ultimate Team menu option, you need to go back to the main Ultimate Team menu, click Store, Packs and then you can open your packs. The game costs $70 and has terrible UX.
Related:

https://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of...

Also related is the occurrence of the golden ratio in nature:

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/p411--growth-of-plants-an...
Yes, I agree. I don’t think that method could be used if the manipulator was the person taking the photo or the one doing the initial processing. I’m (personally) less concerned about the true raw image vs lossy compression (i.e. JPG), and more concerned with things like the OP where an existing image was changed to show detainees smiling and that image was then used to manipulate the public.

The way it is now, it could easily have turned in to a “he said, she said” situation with each side claiming that their pic is the real one and the other’s was manipulated. In a case like that we could (theoretically) look back in the record to see which hash was recorded first.
Here's an idea: an app that forces you to solve a fairly complex mathematical puzzle every time you try to open any social media app. This is lifted from Larry Niven's Ringworld sci-fi novels (specifically, a wirehead addict uses this approach to limit their consumption).

Mobile devices don't seem to make this very easy to do, though, you need a app wrapper of some kind which seems fairly case-specific.
You know that’s not true, tromp. All CT approaches incur an intrinsic 10-30x validation cost and similar (though decreasing) witness cost.
Oh dude! is not the full crab but at least a big claw of it lol, congrats on the work is awesome, hope it gets through some more stable versions so we can build more on top of this