skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you implying humans will go extinct because of climate change?

What’s too late? Why are the doomers wholly unable to provide a solid claim or example of a prior claim of catastrophe that has come to pass?

Stop saying it’s too late, and use words to explain exactly what you’re saying. Otherwise it’s fear mongering and that’s all this conversation ever is
Hi. French here. I may be wrong, but I really feel like you are overestimating us.
These prices are being set by an industry-wide bottleneck around online human verification. The cost just shot up because of LLMs.

This is only a temporary reprieve for Reddit, Twitter, et.al. The LLMs are going to start simulating user agents and work around this. Well-intentioned alternative user agents like Apollo are collateral damage.

The root fix is a solution to online human verification. All these web products are just trying to hang a "Humans Only" sign on the door.
Small issue:

Peak > Peek
I wonder why there's no LimeTorrent on this list.
Advanced surgery could hardly exist or be even close to efficient without drugs used to treat/reduce infections.

And when somebody says the thing about sewing heads nothing else that person says can really be taken seriously or be worth discussing.
In Russia you can get a key-certificate pair (x509, perhaps with GOST algorithms) signed by government CA and then sign documents with it.

How different this OpenPGP key stuff is, minus the "OpenPGP is so bad we decided to sunset it" vibe?
Considering Twitter Blue isn't ad-free, not that surprised. I'd rather have ad-free paid option than what I get currently with Blue.
A year back or so I built a thrust vectored model rocket with two stages using an Estes E12 and an F15 motor for the second stage. The flight computer had logic in it to only light the second stage if the first stage had been successful to lift off the ground and the rocket at some vertical angle plus/minus some degrees and the velocity was positive upwards and non-zero. Luckily this first attempt worked out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPtFv-cwcfQ

The first stage was designed to be pushed out by the second stage and a bit before the first stage was completely out or the rocket would lose too much control authority.
Lots of nice UI and UX improvements, great to see.

I hope

> we’ve started a prototype of a next-generation Zulip mobile app in Flutter

means that the same will happen to the mobile app - it's badly in need of a UI reboot.
or you could log in and set your UI preferences to the old and then it's always that look. Stop lurking!
I'm not that great at APIs.

Is client_id something you have to register with reddit?

So you can't, for example have a client_id per user?

What if you as the app maker forced all your users who want to use your app to go register for their free personal client_id for their own personal API use, and then you have them give that client_id to the app along with their OAuth with they log in?

I am just trying to understand why a third party app can't just be a "software shell" that individual users can use to access reddit through their own personal free API limits as if they were just some individual accessing reddit through the API.
> Electricity, the Industrial Revolution, the internet, gene editing/bionengineering also came with unknown existential risks.

In a way, all of those things have led to where we are now. And might I point out that a form of bioengineering may have caused the latest global pandemic? Not taking these things seriously because "they haven't killed us all yet" seems a little shortsighted.
Why does anyone care if it isn't killing bystanders? Self driving is the same as other vehicle performance enhancing features in one major respect. More risk, more reward.

If you purchase and use the feature, you should be aware that vision systems have limitations and operate accordingly.

IMHO, they should remove the guardrails and tune the system to prioritize bystander safety. Otherwise, I'm going to stick to my motorcycles.
I always make sure to give those too. This is by no means to say this covers all bases.
Let's not attack people through their looks.
Do you think the laborers in china understand all the words in this instruction set when they assemble electronics?
I'd be interested to know where the fine goes?
These are not random hypotheticals. Which is why we cannot reasonably call your listicle that doesn't give proper citations or even hyperlinks "data".

55% of all EEOC complaints were about "retaliation", that's not 55% of victims, as the headline shows. That's 55% of all reports. Which means there are definitionally more reports of retaliation than reports of incidents!

Additionally, you have stuff like this: https://www.the74million.org/article/ed-department-sex-discr...
> Conquered and defeated empires

These are the cultures that do this most. Pointing to a mythologized and stolen past greatness is a coping mechanism for the insecurities of a flagging present.
Is OpenAI actually losing market to open source models? And have they proposed any specific regulations that would shut down (current or similarly single-device) open source models?
Single interest web-bbs systems is a definite option. Can always self-host discourse open-source. There's also many other options, including the Lamernews (HN clone) app.
Atlanta Police Arrest Bail Fund Organizers
I don’t understand the mentality that API ought to be open and free

If you’re building something on someone else’s property, are you not prepared for the reality they may say you no longer get access to the property?

By all means if we want to treat social media as some public utility let’s do it, but as it is this line of reasoning makes no sense to me
I really admire Asim's work probably know him for his Go microservices thing. I was quite excited about the developer platform he was building and the microservices platform before on the same link but it took a strange turn. Anyways always like how he can keep things very simple with everything and will go ahead and give this a try. Hopefully this is the final product iteration of micro.mu, Best wishesh :)
This was a serious Threadripper machine in 2018. And yes, running BSD.
>You have six hours to get your point across before the thread dies

It used to take longer for a thread to die, but comments have always solidified rather quickly.

This was fine, anyways, because each thread was an archive of the state of mind of the people involved at the time. If the conversation continues, it should continue in an entirely different thread, and if you're new to the conversation, you can backtrack over the previous threads to get up to speed with everybody else. There was a real hivemind-like (in a non-derogatory sense) stream of consciousness that everybody could participate in.

This is impossible now, though, because of moderators preventing multiple threads subjectively "related" to one another being on the first 5-8 pages at once.

Worst of all is the "megathreads", which aggregate literally over a hundred links to external sites into a single post, where people can't even vote on them individually. The entire benefit of the format of Reddit is user-filtered content, so you don't have to read literally the entire internet to find your way to something useful.

With all the hype around AI, I feel like there is so much low-hanging fruit in the realm of "human algorithms" that everyone has failed to explore over the last 15ish years of stagnation (and decay) in social media. People need useful processes and structures, not magic question-answer machines, or recommendations based on "who they really are inside."

Just imagine, for instance, if HN allowed you to vote specifically on backlinks to previous threads for each individual post. As of now, there's no easy way to know how far a discussion on a particular topic has advanced in the past, and judge whether you're about to say something redundant. If users could easily post a related thread and get some signal back about whether it was helpful, it would occur to them more often to re-post relevant discussions. Thread-backlinks competing with fresh comments and other links is just too much noise.

If you look at the discussion around the "Clean Code, Horrible Performance" article, there is a followup which addresses some of the claims the commenters made about the original. Then, in the comments for that article (across all platforms), you find people claiming that nobody would ever actually say those things.

Eventually people are going to realize the UX provided by AI isn't actually that great, and rediscover that DAGs are really useful.
Absolutely not. Dinner just got here, but tl;dr gpt4 is 0.03 per 750 words in 0.06 per 750 words out. People except the history to be included as well
The way I see it is that the existential risk comes from humans losing control. Here is a very abstract argument for why AI is relevant here.

Right now, there is no central entity that has supreme control. Rather, humanity is guided by a hierarchy of organizations made from individual humans. The decisions and behavior of these organizations is determined by both the desires and needs of individual humans (basic needs, status, community), as well as dynamics acting directly on organizations (competition for survival, selection pressure for increasing control over resources). The system is in a somewhat stable equilibrium because no organization can achieve domination due to a balance of power and due to many individual humans not wanting that to happen.

AI does two new things. First, it allows for potentially immortal agents which have much completely stable goals, which they will pursue with no regard for anything else. This is something individual humans cannot come even close to. Organizations can come closer but still not that close. Second, fast progress in AI allows for a temporary large imbalance of power. In particular, AI has the potential to enable scalable and effective technologies for monitoring and controlling humans. Using such means, an organization (whixh then naturally ends up partially controlled by AIs) may outcompete others and consolidate control.

The danger is that this consolidation may be completed for the first time in history. No organization has ever achieved world domination, though a few have come somewhat close. I would say one of the strong factors that prevented this from happening was the difficulty of maintaining the organization's goal of domination, while influential people die, change their minds or pursue their own goals above those of the organization. Systems involving human organizations have slack. Systems of organizations made up of or controlled by AIs may be very different.

The crucial point for the "existential" part of the existential risk is that we all used to believe world domination is obviously impossible. This must be carefully reevaluated with AI entering the picture. Even a small danger is worth considering and large mitigation efforts because a failure may be permanent and irreversible.
ElectroBoom has entered the chat ...

Seriously though, there's enough energy in those numbers to seriously mess you or your electronics up. It's not quite like a bottle of old nitroglycerin, but it's definitely enough energy/power that you must respect it.
Somewhat related: wonder if using a local LLM could make it more feasible to federate reference documentation by translating various doc formats into a common one.
The moment they kill old.reddit.com I'm out.

I only use Reddit on desktop and the SPA React app they made is still garbage.
Ha! I was hoping to see some web.py / Aaron Swartz code. This is cool too, though.
> This, my dear friends, is Abrahamic privilege at work

I mean, yes. There are idiots in the world, and they're not limited to one religion. We generally decry putting them in positions of power, particularly over eduction.
In my mind those put you head and shoulders above the majority of other employers out there already - or at least with the 5 I've worked with in my career. :)
Just a reminder that power delete suite exists, but will probably be killed off eventually as well: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

This is a tool to purge your reddit comments. It first edits them to something else, then deletes them. Reddit admins have claimed that this is a true delete, as opposed to setting a delete flag.
Poe, I’m in the same boat btw
C.f. Roger Penrose’s 3 worlds theory of reality, which distinguishes the platonic mathematical world from consciousness from material world. Navigating the platonic world of forms might not require one to “have a nous” but be constructed from it.

I like the question though — and of course, these are new ideas. Who knows? Do you think it is a halfway reasonable justification for AI understanding?
For educational reasons I'm going to suggest Usenet. Sure you have to pay $ for a few providers to obtain most 100% but it has everything that torrent has if not more.

Not as convenient but you do get decent download speeds and if parts are broken you can normally repair with PAR2 which itself is alien tech.

Provider backbone/list: https://svgshare.com/i/oti.svg
OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal
> Electricity, the Industrial Revolution, the internet, gene editing/bionengineering also came with unknown existential risks.

Did they? I've never heard about electricity creating fears about human extinction.

The industrial revolution does pose an existential risk: climate change.

Did bioengineering garner worries about existential risk? It certainly had and has a lot of people worried about various risks. And then lots of countries banned human cloning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning#Current_law

> Evidence? This has been stated in sci-fi books from before I was born

Yes, many sci-fi authors of the past were very forward-thinking and predicted future technologies... that's sort of the point.

> and I don’t see any proof that we’re building something remotely close to this

Again, this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the risk.

1. We are building AI. AI is possible.

2. We are advancing AI. AI advancement is possible.

3. We have not built superhuman AGI. But superhuman AGI is probably possible.

The fact that AGI doesn't exist today is frequently argued as a reason we won't have it in the near future, but it's a non-sequitur. We will definitely have more advanced AI in 5 years than we do today, and we can't say what that AI will be capable of. Therefore, it's possible it will be AGI.
How about touch instruments like GeoShred? https://apps.apple.com/de/app/geoshred/id1064769019
The Steuer-ID is now intended to be used as a global identifier. The law is already enacted, but there are still some technical questions open.

See https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/DE/202...
Police and empowered prosecutors prevent crime.
Remove a criminal from society and they will not commit a crime again.

The broken window theory is true, arrest and prosecute minor crimes to prevent larger ones.

Perfect example is Jordan Neely who was killed in NYC.
He was arrested 40+ times for assault and the prosecutor kept letting him out to continue to terrorize the population. Eventually it ended the only way it could; with his death. Removing him from society would have kept him alive and resulted in a child not being traumatized after an attempted kidnapping and an old lady would not have had her face broken. Daniel Penny was simply the end result of ineffective criminal justice policies.

Cops are an important part of the solution but they can only do so much without a DA willing to prosecute and incarcerate.
The license and the "modern" ISA is so much important, I am ready to pay the price there (non performant critical anyway, should be fine and increase risc-v momentum).
I wish there was no fight, just rational discussion lacking most of emotions. We humans have enough fighting these days already, in literal and every other sense.

This topic needs some quality discussion taking some time, so ideas permeate general public and folks have time to form an opinion. Not just be shock-pushed into an opinion by sudden dramatic arrival of something completely unknown and its sudden ubiquity, which can go very easily wrong even without nefarious parties taking advantage of situation, like they always do.
It doesn't have to be a full rewrite. It can just be option if/when you feel like it. Life is long, priorities change.
Governments: "Whoever buys over X GPU hours must register with a state identification"

Amazon: "Can do"

Government: "Any projects that pool GPU resources will also be against the law and you must prevent it"

Amazon: "Ouch"
Go + Ansible
What gives a false sense of security is to say an OS is updated and connected to the internet is secure.

Or maybe should be used the term less-safe? in such case, why don't let the user with an old OS to decide by itself? because MS want the people to use a more monitored SO, and every body is following such wishes.

Are they telling us that at the same moment that a trojan is executed in Windows, this super updated Windows won't get access to any system? Or perhaps it would be better to say that the antivirus programs pre-detection are the ones that keep things more or less under control.

Is it due to the open services? maybe such users have firewalls and all the useless windows services down and blocked. Which is much safer than running one of those updated services in the last Windows OS, waiting for the next 0-day.

All is a non-sense, and those who are helping to corner Win7 are settling a bad precedent that even they themselves will suffer at future... so I wish all of them, bon appetit.
Why have no platforms launched an ad supported API?

I realise that it's ripe for mis-use as clients could always just not display ads, and analytics would be hard as even if the client isn't actively malicious, it may fail to display an ad that it records as visible which is effectively ad-fraud.

Nevertheless I feel like there are unexplored options here, including SDKs rather than web APIs, select partnerships, and maybe more. I would imagine if it could be done it would work well for Twitter, Reddit, and potentially even Facebook and Instagram.

I guess it probably comes down to it being a hard problem with little perceived benefit over owning the customer interface, but the backlash to these things always feels significant (in my bubble at least), and I'd be surprised if these companies didn't feel it was an unqualified positive change.
“When asked by reporters in Ottawa if there is any evidence that the labels will deter smoking, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said: ‘Every possible tool works.’”

Um… What?
Use whatever terminology you prefer, however, you cannot ignore the overwhelming amount of evidence around us in the fossil record.
Maybe we should stop pretending that computers can fix problems that have nothing to do with computers.

This entire forum is a testament to people who are so up their own ass they think we can "innovate" our way out of societal issues, as if the problem with the Luddites was that they didn't know javascript.
> Google will cut you off...AI...will be used by such businesses to give their CS the appearance of being better

True in a fair number of cases...but, based on their actions to date, I doubt that Google cares enough about appearances to bother.
I did fairly standard web dev and devops for 10 years before finding work at a Lispy place. Best of luck to you!!
He will get a better deal. If he has to shut down, he can turn Apollo into a lemmy.ml client and migrate a huge part of his 500,000 power users. Reddit cannot risk that lemmy.ml becomes mainstream.
People are actively trying to make it happen! This is literally the mission statement of DeepMind, OpenAI, etc. Obviously things that nobody is trying to make happen are not likely to happen, and sufficiently difficult things that people are trying to make happen might take a while (e.g. fusion). But AGI is a thing that people are trying to make happen, and are making progress on, and basically nobody predicted in advance the progress that has been made so far.
Just the other day he posted about how they were able to modify the one member of the family identified in their paper which is not an aperiodic monotile into one that tiles without reflections.
Primarily because google has become completely useless. I get more accurate search results with Yandex, Brave, and bing, in that order. That’s how bad it is. And I hate Yandex. They’re always making me do captcha challenges.
The version of GPT 4 with 32K token context length is the enabler for a huge range of "killer apps", but is even more expensive than the 8K version.

And yes, parallelism and loops are also key enablers for advanced use-cases.

For example, I have a lot of legacy code that needs uplifting. I'd love to be able to run different prompts over reams of code in parallel, iterating the prompts, etc...

The point of these things is that they're like humans you can clone at will.

The ability to point thousands of these things at a code base could be mindblowing.
UFOs: What we learned from NASA's public meeting
That's a neat little project, but as almost always nowadays, don't even expect to save any money by building an inverter yourself, unless you have the expensive parts (transformer, mosfets, driver board) lying around anyway. Otherwise, the 30$ mentioned in the article wouldn't even come close to cover all the parts in the list.
You do realize we're not training high end LLMs with even a few GPUs, but massive piles of them, right?
It's actually not my words on this one. The Nintendo Switch uses a completely homegrown microkernel, that a single open-source developer (SciresM) was able to reimplement from scratch single-handedly. This would normally have a performance impact, which is partially mitigated by having the Switch permanently reserve 1 core for the OS and many other optimizations. However, the microkernel design is intrinsically much more secure than the monokernels used by Xbox (NT) and PlayStation (BSD).

Outside that tiny kernel, everything runs in a sandbox, in userspace and not kernel space. Graphics drivers? USB drivers? The games themselves? All in userspace, confined to minimum functionality, and W^X. Exploits in the USB drivers, WebKit, and games are actually fairly easy to find on the Switch, but useless for launching homebrew from. The last exploit bad enough to launch homebrew in Nintendo's software was over 4 years ago.

Some commentary from the developer (SciresM) who reimplemented it from scratch (everything below comes from https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher...):

"It is a completely unique microkernel with a cooperative (non-preemptive) scheduler. The kernel is secure -- so far as I can tell (as a reverse engineer and hacker), it has zero security bugs. They throw out years of backwards compatibility (they're not POSIX/UNIX), and they really, really benefit from it from a security and modularity PoV."

"Horizon's the only meaningful RTOS with a microkernel that I'm aware of (other than Fuschia). Everything's in userland -- filesystems, gpu (and other device drivers). The OS is capability-based and conceptually all about lots of different processes/drivers ("system modules") that host microservices.
The fact that Nintendo designed such a rock-solid, modular, custom operating system for their consoles fascinates me."
Well, at first I would have to go thru a compiler, but ultimately, risc-v should be an assembly code sanctuary since it will probably become the worldwide, royalty-free, open and standard ISA.
If you've a small team, it doesn't make sense to have docker/established stack, and managing k8s needs experience and still is a pain.

You could get away with copying artifacts over ssh for a while.

Deployments could still be via Github actions or any other CI/CD tool or even scp.
I don't have that mentality that this must be the case, for what it's worth. It's just what is most attractive to the end-users usually. And it's what many products do to attract them.