skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose Ukraine may have had less to lose ... as Ive said here or elsewhere ... the only side of the river showing any actual damage is Ukraine. Anecdotally, I am seeing some less than reliable reports that russian troops got 'swept away' so maybe Ukraine had something to gain.
Truthfully though, I have no reason to hide disdain for putins russia as they are the invading force and have been since they stole Ukraines nuclear arms with a lie and then invaded Crimea and so forth.
The only parallels I can think of is “export grade” cryptography and how you can’t edit a photo of money in Photoshop.

Both cases are a legal compliance matter. The developers had no legal choice.

The LLMs refusing to obey ordinary commands is very jarring to me, especially when a Google search for the same request will generally succeed.

You’ll find instructions on Wikipedia for how to make an atomic bomb, and you could use Mathematica to run the simulation codes required for the design. SolidWorks would let you save the file with the casing model, etc…

Meanwhile LLMs will refuse to write a story with certain elements.

Similarly, many image generators will refuse to make nudes even thought a cursory Google search will yield terabytes of free porn. (Including fakes of celebrities!)

It’s as-if AI is exclusively made by Mormons.
Psychologically, I don't think the value of children has changed. Mourning the death of children is as ancient a literary trope as any.

But from a microeconomic point of view, children were more valuable in pre-industrial times. Most people worked in agriculture or the trades and lived in multi-generation households, and children were necessary to help with chores and eventually take over the main occupation and care for the elder parents. There was no retirement fund, just your children. Food and clothing were more expensive and childbirth was risky, so children represented a major investment. That they were sacrificed is a testament to how much value people placed on the ritual, not the lack of value of children. See also how valuable farm animals were sacrificed.
In uBO, it's under Settings > Filter lists > Annoyances > enable EasyList Cookies Notices and AdGuard – Cookie Notices to hide cookie banners.
Most content isn't all that high entropy I would imagine. So it would compress well.

I'd assume a lot of stuff isn't stored either.
And it's not like they don't understand the importance of mods' free labor to keep subreddits clean of filth and users visiting/contributing. I know somebody who worked there years ago, and it was understood that they had to preserve the good will and trust from mods of subreddits to keep Reddit in a functional and orderly state.
Ask HN: Is there anyone who documented their research process publicly
I want cases where someone carefully documented how they started a research and the methods they used during the research leading to a final paper. I have no experience with research and I am looking for efforts that have been made publicly to share research methods and approaches.
A few mistakes(he made and stuff to avoid):

- Know your workforce, Licht seemed completely oblivious to his staff and showed next to zero interest in any of them.

- Make yourself available to your team(open door policy) - Licht hid out on the 22nd floor and was intentionally difficult to find.

- Know your core customer - CNN is known as having bias against the political right, its audience skews very left. Licht having the debacle of a Trump town hall alienated its main constituency and further drove down ratings.

- Pick the right people for critical jobs - Having a heavy and controversial morning host in Don Lemon makes zero sense, people want mellow and light-hearted banter when they are waking up.

- Constantly bad mouthing the previous regime looks petty - Despite issues with CNN under Zucker it just looks bad and UN-professional to constantly put down ex-coworkers.

- Sometimes a ship is just going to go down - Leaders and managers love turning around bad companies and teams, but I think CNN is headed one way and its all downhill from here. Thanks to social media, partisan news channels(Fox/MSNBC) and just changing demographics(not as many people watch live TV anymore).
drexlspivey is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
> Sort of. Doing that would still be cheaper than nuclear power whose capital costs are insane. Does that count as profitable?

Yes. What do I get for $15B? How many GWh of storage and electricity generation?

> It would be cheaper still to throw pumped storage and batteries into the mix.

What pumped storate? Everybody is already about maxed out on hydro capability.

What batteries? The world is barely producing enough for EVs and other stuff, there aren't enough GWhs available for utility storage.
There is nothing better in terms of information and all-in-one knowledge, probably, but I have been using forums and some Discords (not much better than Reddit though) for my hobby recently and though it's annoying to check several places rather than one "front page", I still find I can engage with my hobby community perfectly fine. I lost a lot of top knowledge that's locked away on Reddit, but I honestly just spend a bit more time to research things now rather than having an answer at my fingertips with the search "{insert search topic} reddit". It's harder, but as I get older I find I have a lot more free time than I thought I had if I just ignore social media for most of my day. Hacker News and my hobby communities are my social outlet, because they aren't as bad for my mental health, though I have to avoid the more-political topics on HN.
I'm familiar with Java based tools for data processing, like Spring Reactor, Apache Beam, etc., and trying to figure out how I can Hydroflow instead.

To my understanding, I just implement small pieces of the processing steps and connect them through a common bus like Kafka. All those steps are just independent binaries. And to make the final processing flow I run multiple instances manually scaled depending on the task. Like to make an aggregation / reduce I just make sure I have only one instance of that binary is running. And so on. All can be orchestrated and scaled using Kubernetes or similar. Is that how I supposed to design the processing?
I don't think they're concerned so much by the people who don't know what a flat is, but by the people who do. There's more than a handful of bookreaders out there who are very protective of any difference between their national form of English and some other national form of English, who will get upset if a local publisher uses the foreign form.
That claim is often made, and never substantiated.
Reminds me of old Samsung phone I had. It had IR transmitter and some app to control it as TV remote.

But it wasn't Samsung's app, nor (I assume) one owned by them. Still installed as system app so unable to uninstall tho.

So one day the company decided to monetize on that and just started to display ads on lockscreen. No way to remove it either. So I rooted that POS and never bought any Samsung shit again...
I looked at their menu[1] and they appear to be missing an important scent: "1960s computer room". This is a not-unpleasant combination of warm electronics (another scent), light lubricating oil, and ink that was characteristic of a mainframe computing center of the 1950s-1980s. You can still smell it when walking into the 1401 computer lab at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. There it is produced naturally by two old mainframes and some punch card equipment in use.

[1] http://www.aromaprime.com/
Avast collects and sells your browsing history, among other pieces of your personal data. This caused a bit of a stink a while back when people discovered it.
With this wider perspective you can see the very wide range of fires producing smoke. A lot is getting funneled to the Northeast US but it looks like some of it is even getting funneled into the midwest on the other side of the weather system.
In the Finnish subs for The Royal Tenenbaums DVD, a character who says in English “There’s a dent in the car. There’s one here, too” gets translated as “There’s a dentist in that car. There is a dentist, too.”

A few years after I saw this, I entered the film translation business myself. Generally for anything Hollywood or otherwise big-budget, you can watch a copy of the whole film yourself to understand the context, and you can bill the client for the time spent doing that. Therefore, I tend to suspect that such cases of mistranslation are laziness or a company with an incompetent workflow.
Nice, numbers smaller than the ones I hypothesized.

Apple doesn’t compete on price, but it’s the difference between the next iPhone or the next Mac Studio. So will the Vision Pro be a pilot device for a segment specific to that minority of affluent upper-earners as a fun toy? Or is it really meant to bring AR/VR to the masses and fundamentally transform computing as we know it?
That may be true in California. In northern Canada there are very few populated places, I believe these are mostly in complete wilderness
Again, for those complaining about price - the current (and far less capable) Microsoft HoloLens is also $3500. I've personally used and interacted with the HoloLens and was thoroughly impressed, however the leaps in optics & tracking Apple has pulled off make the Vision Pro quite compelling.
As someone who reads fantasy fiction a lot, honestly I'd prefer if I read everything in American English. The biggest thing that gets me is e.g. "defence" instead of "defense" and other places where British English uses a 'c' instead of an 's'. It seriously diminishes the immersion for me, even if I've read probably 50+ books with the version I'm not used to by now.

It's never stopped me from reading a book before, but it does diminish my enjoyment quite a bit. For nonfiction, I don't care, I'm reading actively regardless. But when reading passively for enjoyment, it's noticeable and irritating.
To avoid scaring people which could lead to state overwatch.
> If an extension fails to disclose a change in ownership,

They would just change ownership and keep that a secret from the world. Avast would 'hire' the dev of this extension, and provide him with more engineers and ideas of features to implement.
The propaganda exists across the entire political spectrum. Americans have been pushed to fight against each other so that they're too tired, angry, and distracted to focus their efforts on those in power.
It's really an easy choice - it's orders of magnitude cheaper than rent and gives you access to always up to date maps, news, employers and friends (who can maybe take you in for a while). It may be counterintuitive but really is rational.
LMAO at the accuracy of your observation, and then realizing that I know a few non-LLM people who act in exactly the way you described.
My observation as a non-American (Canadian) -- is that Americans are very much freedom and liberty loving... until it comes to anything about their military, their foreign policy, and their associated intelligence agencies. It's a state whose first president was a general, where the military is treated with a reverence I've seen in no other country, and where I suspect the population is deeply aware that its own economic advantage is tied directly to its military advantage.

Snowden, despite the injustices he revealed, fell on the wrong side of American opinion in relation to the military, foreign policy, and associated intelligence agencies.
Thanks, this looks exactly what I want. Sensible interval origins [1] too (January 1, 2000 for months and years, and January 3 2000, a Monday, for weeks) and also configurable.

[1] https://docs.timescale.com/use-timescale/latest/time-buckets...
You're assuming integrations exist on day one.

Hell you're assuming that an API even exists for people to build integrations against on day one, rather than the company just providing it's own UIs/APPs and scaling into APIs when it's ready.
It is interesting, I was trying the VR desktop by Simula on a Valve Index, there was some "text needs to be focused" issues I experienced but it does introduce lag in your workflow. I guess if you got used to it... but it is different, rotating your head to look at windows, positioning them just right (could save it). And it won't be as crisp/clear as an ultrawide 4K display maybe in the future.
Yeah, the definition of “lockdown” varied wildly. In many parts, any employer could make the case that an employee was “essential” if they had a job worth paying for.

Recreational activities (even solo ones) faced the harshest enforcement.
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They have also built two real time operating sytems, one for their car project and one for the Vision Pro. I was curious how much code they shared?
With a name like "I don't care about cookies" it does kind of make sense that it would just auto-accept everything. After all, they don't care about cookies
Exactly 1,000 feet is 304.8 meters, but "or about 300 meters" would have sufficed given the context. "About 1000 feet" already implies not being exactly 1000 feet.

Of course, exactly 6 ft is 182.88 cm, but the precision is unnecessary there too. 189 cm if it was right on the 6 ft mark.
Whatever they did doesn't seem to work here on my Firefox. I click the link from Hacker News and I get the blog post exactly as if I typed in the URL myself.
That's completely tangential to the stated problem though.

That sounds like your own personal beef, which as we can see from Reddit would not hamper user growth.
The basket of goods doesn't look random, and I wonder if it was chosen specifically and wrongly to make that point.
A dustbin is I believe called a trashcan in North America, ie: it’s what the Classic Mac OS Trash / “Wastebasket” icon shows. A (usually) metal cylindrical container for rubbish with a lid, usually kept outside. Nowadays in the UK mostly replaced by wheelie bins…

It's still internally .Trash, as that isn't user visible I suspect it's the same for all localisations of Mac OS.
> who has no obligation to know of Lincoln whatsoever

Part of being a decent translator is having a knowledge of the common cultural references of the source-language’s country/countries. Films very frequently generally play on local history or previous films or literature, and you are expected to be able to deal with that.
Did you made the account just to advertise the company ?
Sites work much better if you just say yes to everything. Devs never test the 'no' path as well, and half the time you'll find embedded videos/maps/tweets won't display or are buggy.

Since I care about a fast efficient web experience far more than I care about leaving digital footprints around, I choose the extension that says yes to everything.
> Except you can't.

Some of these objections sound like saying we're not really listening to music on our phones, I guess because there's not really a band playing, or because of the lossy sound encoding or something.

In fact, we _are_ listening to music, in a way that people seem to enjoy and which has been democratized far beyond previous possibilities for listening to music.
This is great! Also seems like a simple code engine.

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The problem is that 99% of users will not be bothered with deciding anything regarding updates or any computer administration. So you either get automatic updates and situations like the current one, or you get out of date/exploited software.
Ask HN: Is the rate of progress in AI exponential?
I've frequently seen the claim that progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence, particularly with respect to large language models, has been exponential over the recent past. This arises often in discussions around the existential risk posed by artificial general or super intelligence, but even those more positively disposed to such technology seem to believe in rapid advancements.

My problem is that I just don't see it? I see progress, yes, but not exponentially accelerating progress. Focusing on large language models, it took several years to go from the invention of the transformer architecture to a broadly useful autoregressive text completer. Between March of 2022 and March of 2023 OpenAI went from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4; a clear improvement, but not a transformationally massive one. GPT-4 remains the most capable model widely available and that shows no signs of changing -- it's not clear at this point if GPT-5 is even a glimmer in Ilya Sutskever's eye.

Further progress towards more capable large language models requires either ever-increasing amounts of data and compute for marginal gains, or (IMO) the development of new approaches that better leverage available data. But the research and development I'm seeing is all about:

1. Better ways to prompt LLMs (chain of thought, tree of thoughts)

2. New LLMs that use less compute than GPT-4 (but are almost uniformly worse, e.g. Bard)

3. Better ways of running smaller (i.e. worse) models on commodity hardware

4. New software tools that employ LLMs (document search, web search, etc)

That stuff might be important, but does it count as exponential progress? I think it only seems exponential because ChatGPT seemed to come out of nowhere and now LLMs have sucked all the energy out of the room, but high interest and activity aren't perfect indicators of rapid progress; precisely how many versions of "use embeddings to search through documents" do we need? If progress were truly exponential, I would expect something noticeably better than GPT-4 on the horizon, if not already released. But I'm not even sure such a thing is at all imminent. Heck, OpenAI can't even keep up with the GPT-4 demand right now, let alone a more compute-intensive successor.

Maybe something like GPT-5 comes out tomorrow and makes me look like a fool, I just don't see any indication that it will.

I'm not necessarily arguing that this means we shouldn't worry about the risks posed by AI. Disinformation is still an issue, and it's possible that jobs will be automated by GPT-4 (though I think such job losses will be marginal for the time being). I just don't see the rapid progress that I'm apparently supposed to be seeing, and I don't know if I'm just missing something obvious?
How is your comment different from:

"Combustion turbines for 100% hydrogen are not commercially available today."
You didn't read past that clearly.

If we can't even agree on the simple understanding and general meaning of a word or term it's kind of hard to have a useful discussion.
There’s a lot of paying customers the parent companies would refuse to accept. For example:

Russian government wants to pay for AI-generated propaganda to influence the 2024 US election

Organised crime wants to pay for a fine-tuned scam AI which will trick people into handing over their Internet banking details, becoming drug mules, participating in money laundering, etc

Startup wants to pay to use the model to bootstrap their own competing one. The first two refusals would be legally obligated - but this one is all on them.
To add - one reason to get the book and read it is to learn the names of the parts. It’s much easier to search when you know you have a leaking p-trap vs a leaky sink.
Did they actually do anything yet, or is it just assumption that they will because why buy a popular extension these days if that's not the goal?
No, there isn't enough lightning. Global lightning output is around 1% (or less) of global energy consumption. There is nothing about the technology that unlocks lightning bolt harvesting as a new feasible power source. We could do really similar things with simple lightning rods that have been around for centuries.
It might be a protest but it's also a move to preserve their revenue stream -- ads baked into their content -- which is now (soon?) forbidden on the Twitch platform.
Between GDPR warnings and ubiquitous site notification pop-ups (side question: has anyone ever intentionally clicked "yes" to a site notifications request? can the browsers just admit this was a horrible idea and move on?) out-of-the-box browsers are basically unusable on just about every website. Leading to extensions and situations like this.
> in theory, Google could make a signed blob that unlocked secure boot if the government really wanted it anyway

Iff the design is secure with regards to storing the secret used to unlock user data, then Google signing a blob to unlock signed boot for a new arbitrary image still wouldn't allow that new image to spill existing user data. (I have no idea if this is actually the case though)
Sure, why not? Unreleased games need to be ported to macOS too.
This is great advice, thanks. I have the means to pay someone instead, if that's the way the market works.

I should clarify: I bet a high caliber person would consider it a hobby project. It might be more appropriate for an amateur. It's about plain text documents. Storage might be able to be local only (this is where I need help). If there is ever a server to offer, it would likely be for a synchronizing feature like Anki.

I started down the road of learning Swift to build it myself, but with a full-time job, a family, and other hobbies competing for my time, progress is slow.
Live for both today and tomorrow because today is here and tomorrow might not come. Or not come as you wished it did. And there is no undo.
NuBus was also used both in Apple products, and the TI 1500 series of 68000-based UNIX minis.

I installed both 1500s, and the previous Xenix-386 1300s in franchise dealerships in the early 90s.

Is the TI machine in the parent article also a 68000?

EDIT: Hey, get a load of this!

"The NuBus was first developed commercially in the Western Digital NuMachine, and first used in a production product by their licensee, Lisp Machines, Inc., in the LMI-Lambda, a Lisp Machine. The project and the development group was sold by Western Digital to Texas Instruments in 1984. The technology was incorporated into their TI Explorer, also a Lisp Machine. In 1986, Texas Instruments used the NuBus in the S1500 multiprocessor UNIX system. Later, both Texas Instruments and Symbolics developed Lisp Machine NuBus boards (the TI MicroExplorer and the Symbolics MacIvory) based on their Lisp supporting microprocessors. These NuBus boards were co-processor Lisp Machines for the Apple Macintosh line (the Mac II and Mac Quadras)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuBus
Enh, sort of. You can write an Automod rule to always remove content from one or more specific users.
I used the word "qualitatively" because you're right — most of the concepts we see in Apple Vision Pro aren't unfamiliar, but the implementation/execution is radically different.

For example, the Quest has a passthrough feature, but as of Monday it seems incredibly quaint. From reports, the Apple Vision Pro completely sells the "mixed reality" effect.

"My first moment with Vision Pro seeing the physical room viewed through the headset's display in passthrough, I looked down at my own hands and it felt as if I was looking at them directly. This was a powerful moment, more powerful than any previous 'first' I'd experienced in VR. I feel the need to reiterate. I was looking at my own hands reconstructed by a headset's sensors and it felt as if I was looking at them directly." https://www.uploadvr.com/apple-vision-pro/
The code by itself is portable by definition. This is just a container to run it. Otherwise, just put it in a github gist.
We know the costs and they’re ridiculous. Under the new pricing the average user of one third party app (Apollo) uses $2.50 worth of requests per month.
> I remember politicians were condemning these type of actions done in authoritarian countries

I don't remember it. Do you have some citations that would jog my memory?
>explain why you think that

Because his right to a fair trial has already been violated.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/07/icxh-j07.html
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