skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seats on airplanes should not be abled to recline. The impact for the passenger behind you is always negative.
I wish I understood what Sam Altman is trying to accomplish here. Regardless of your opinion of LLMs and their potential impact, he seems to be talking weird nonsense.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that he's trying to distract the world from actual risks of LLMs by getting everyone worked up about imaginary risks of LLMs.

But I need to admit my bias. I considered Sam Altman to be sketchy and untrustworthy from before OpenAI existed, so I'm going to be very skeptical of anything he has to say and his motives for saying it.
The thing about advertising and marketing is that actually writing copy doesn't take anywhere near the full 40 hours a week. How much time does it take to type up a short bit of marketing copy? If your only goal is to just shit something, anything out then you could write up a whole campaign in a few minutes.

But they don't do that in general. So where's ChatGPT going to save time? You'll still have to iterate, iterate, iterate, go back to stakeholders, discuss in progress work with clients, etc etc etc. I just don't see any reason to worry much in the short term, as long as you're working for a reputable company.

This may change eventually, but I foresee it taking several years at least. Progress isn't anywhere near as "exponential" as some camps claim.
Open access article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06137-x
You keep saying that there are many alternatives, but I don't know what you mean. I'd like to outline a scenario and you can tell me which technology you think would scratch the itch:

Suppose you're a journalist in a place with an oppressive government. You have information about government behavior that you expect will cause protests. You're not an activist though, so you don't want to actually plan those protests.

Suppose I'm an activist in the same country--I'll plan the protest--but we don't know each other. We've got a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend... kind of relationship.

Ideally you could post the information somewhere, and then our mutual friends could post annotations which validate it. They'd be attaching "I was there and I saw this happen" kind of information. I would then see this information because I explicitly/transitively trust people who have validated it. The government can inject disinformation about it, but it just gets ignored unless they manage to get us to explicitly trust their agents about this kind of thing (presumably this will be prohibitively expensive).

The government will find us and hurt us if they catch three or four of us coordinating in this way. But if there are thousands of us, it will be a different story. So we need to collect a critical mass of validations, and we need to plan the protest, and we need to do it in a way that the government can't prevent and which doesn't betray our actual identities to the government--at least not until we all show up at the protest site.

I'm working on this app, by the way. I intend to have pluggable backends so it won't be coupled to a specific blockchain--you could use it over ssh for instance, or a thumb drive, or via a shared S3 bucket--but it's the blockchain backends that I expect to be most useful in situations with many stakeholders and truly aggresive adversaries because it's not realistic to expect users to maintain the system of file transfers necessary to ensure that the annotations dataset converges in a way that gets the message and its validations from journalist to activist, or from activist to other activist.

Sneakernet / file transfer will be the first backend that I support. What should I support second?

What is tamper-resistant enough that the government can't remove the data, lacks dependency on a naming system which can be tampered with to hide the data, and is also public enough that all parties can access the data and know that the version they're accessing is the real one, if not a public blockchain?

Granted, there may be solutions that are not technically a blockchain. I'm curious about Kademlia DHT's, for instance. I wonder if SSB can be used here. But so far as I can tell, all serious contenders are, if not blockchains, blockchain-like.
AQI to Cigarettes Calculator
Anyone Have the Gdgt Podcast?
This was a favorite of mine growing up. It seems to be deleted from the internet. Hoping someone might have the episodes downloaded
> Not our problem.

Neither is someone not finding a WFH job and having to RTO. Ultimately, it boils down to who has the most leverage.

My predictions for tech jobs: 1) most of the jobs will be hybrid in future because everyone loves Monday and Friday WFH. There will be a minority of jobs on either extremes (fully WFH, fully office). 2) Within those super smart people who will always be in demand, there will be all types of preferences (some WFH, some office, some hybrid). 3) For the rest who are mere cogs, they will meekly follow whatever their company dictates.
In Washington state there's an administrative code that says retail stores are only allowed to have a 'closing down'/'going out of business' sale "once per calendar year".
To what extent is this simply working around the weirdness of x86? Do these improvements apply to something like MIPS, ARM64, or RISC-V that have inherently simpler ISAs?
Hey, thank you for the feedback!

1. Would having translations of the suggestions help? I obviously want to add them (along with their pronunciations), but have had to do other things first.

2. Like I said in the OP, I want to add an option to type and click.

Need to share something: I've taught English for decades and learned four foreign languages and the biggest mistake I've seen others and me do is to read too much and speak too little. Students who study a language for years before speaking develop apprehension and bad habits that take years to fix.

Wanna strike a balance between the need/encouragements to speak and the flexibility to use a tool however one wants to use it.
This is a great capability. I wish that it ran the code in a sandboxed iframe in the browser so that I could ask for things that'd waste too much of the providers server CPU to compute. It'd also be great for those iframes to be able to output graphics for tiny visual simulations and widgets, e.g. ciechanow.ski.
Inflation is happening because corporations are realizing that they can just keep raising prices and people will just... keep buying things. Rinse and repeat.

Record corporate profits are the key indicator here.
very valid point, ty!
So to my understanding what they are proposing is allowing you to be hacked by the government if you are a victim of hacking by another actor. I can see the value of this being able to access log files and other data that could assist in investigating the original hackers. I suppose they wouldn't want to always tip off the victim of hacking because the victim might change something that could scare aware the original hackers or delete useful metadata before the investigation could be carried out. But it essentially could become a free pass for the state to hack anybody. Because 1.) Anyone with a public facing server knows there are bot hacking attempts made against them 24/7 or 2.) Just hire a 3rd party to hack someone then you have immediate cause to get access to their data. This article didn't seem to have a definite answers what kind of protections would be put in place in these events. It sounded like they previously did try to word the law to only pertain to the original investigation but one can only wonder.
I think they massively screwed up by releasing half baked coding assistance in the first place. I use ChatGPT as part of my normal developer workflow, and I gave Bard and ChatGPT a side-by-side real world use comparison for an afternoon. There is not a single instance where Bard was better.

At this point why would I want to devote another solid afternoon to do an experiment on a product that just didn’t work out the gate? Despite the fact that I’m totally open minded to using the best tool, I have actual work to get done, and no desire to eat one of the world’s richest corporations dog food.
1. There is nothing ridiculous about cutting another format, whether it is authored by them or not. They took a stand and it was Pro AOM.

2. There has never been another image format that has the level of support or interest as JEPG XL since JPEG becomes the internet standard. And that was before the drama of Chrome dropping support for it.
The product itself costs less to make, significantly less.
We needed this yesterday for Housing and healthcare. In fact all necessities should have strict price controls. For healthcare that would be for any established medicines, (i.e. insulin) and not apply to brand new treatments.
It isn't that simple, for example I don't use old.reddit as a URL, but I use RES or another program to force it into the old configuration regardless of the URL.
I was asking for examples of applications that are enabled by crypto in the first message that you quote.

Next message someone listed features, not example applications. I had two responses: that's not an application, and in addition I somewhat sloppily said that even that feature (privacy) does not exist (because it's just laundering which is defeatable).
Record breaking profits are caused by, not the cause of, inflation as goods and services get more expensive while the cost of labour takes time to catch up. This is well known economic theory.

Did corporations suddenly become greedy in 2021? No, they were always so.
I often wonder about this, because I'm in the process of building something and have never shown it to anyone. But it's a developer tool, and I'd be the target audience. So I start with asking myself what I need, with the hope that I can build a really good tool that I'd actually use, and then hopefully others will find it useful as well.
TL;DR (from the article):

A number of Curseforge and dev.bukkit.org (not the Bukkit software itself) accounts were compromised, and malicious software was injected into copies of many popular plugins and mods. Some of these malicious copies have been injected into popular modpacks including Better Minecraft. There are reports of malicious plugin/mod JARs as early as mid-April.

[...]

Stage 3 is the "mastermind" of the malware, and we have evidence that it attempts to do all of the following:

* Propagate itself to all jar files on the filesystem, possibly infecting mods that were not downloaded from CurseForge or BukkitDev

* Steal cookies and login information for many web browsers

* Replace cryptocurrency addresses in the clipboard with alternates that are presumably owned by the attacker

* Steal Discord credentials

* Steal Microsoft and Minecraft credentials

Because of its behavior, we are very confident this is a targeted attack against the modded Minecraft ecosystem. It's quite bad.
Wonder how the new normal of wildfires will impact that population, specifically the health infrastructure impacts.
I would be pretty shocked if Weber, an economist, didn’t have a background in basic economics
Are there any mechanisms right now that prevent a single actor from developing a human level intelligence or above? Think slightly better than GPT-4. What if that actor is malicious, misguided or mistaken? What if that actor misaligns that intelligence accidentally?
While I agree with your sentiment, if VR becomes a 99.999999999% match it’ll change human existence whether we personally like it or not.
Beaming Solar Energy from Space Gets a Step Closer
Inflation is much more complicated than the basics they teach you in the first two years of university Econ. We have a set of broad stroke theories that apply on a macro level in various circumstances. These theories often contradict one another and it is not always clear which one should be the dominant force at any given time. At a fundamental level out understanding of this is imperfect at best and at a practical level it is pretty obvious that central bankers do not have a complete grasp of the central concept that they devote their lives trying to control.
> People had more money

Where are you getting this information? Raises are not keeping up with inflation. A few thousand in stimulus dollars years ago is not driving anything. PPP money didn't increase wages.
It takes longer than a day though! It took me about 2 weeks to get accustomed to Dvorak, and maybe a few weeks more to start being faster than QWERTY
And why do people have the capacity to just "keep buying things"?
Show HN: Imuengine.io (NYC S23): Easily Process IMU Data in the Cloud
Hello HN!

I'm Hamid, one of the co-founders of imuengine.io, a Non-YC startup (NYC ;). We make it easy to process IMU data into accurate motion outputs like slope, tilt/inclination angle, or 3D yaw, pitch, roll. If IMU means something to you, go to https://imuengine.io/engine/ and try processing a sample dataset. Below is a bit more detail on the problem and our solution. We’d love to hear about projects using IMU sensors and what new things you could do with cloud-based motion processing!

Why we Launched imuengine.io

Adding motion sensing to projects can take months and is filled with gotchas. Perhaps you've experienced it or seen all the unanswered questions on SO about imus, gyros, ahrs, Madgwick, Kalman filters... We want to change that. We manage the sensor fusion software and make it easily usable. Any application which logs accel, gyro, and/or mag data and has internet can use us. Simply upload data, run the sensor-fusion engines, download results and move on. And later do the same programmatically via API calls.

Prior to this you had two options:
(A) Buying a specialized high-tech sensor for your application
(B) Buying a general purpose sensing imu chip or package and customizing a sensor fusion lib to use it

With (A) the cost can be prohibitive. You also pay with time to understand the sensor firmware and how to configure it. And keeping the firmware up to date is painful and rarely done. Case in point: our engineering services company bought $25k of motion/nav sensors in 2017 and 2020. They now run firmware that are 6 and 3 years old, respectively.

Option (B) has a much cheaper BOM and you can leverage a paid or open-source software library for sensor fusion. Initially a chunk of time will go into sensor calibration and possibly packaging. If your application has an engine, then add another 2 months to wrestle with vibration. But a larger time investment will go into the sensor fusion lib and tuning it to the application. Without on-going maintenance, the software can suffer the same fate as Option (A) firmware and risks becoming a liability.

Banking on the fact that most things (will) have internet connectivity, we're introducing a third option. It is a cloud computing model and will work with data from any of the awesome IMU sensors out there. It could be an Invensense or Bosch breakout from Sparkfun/Adafruit or a fully packaged and calibrated Analog Devices or Xsens sensor from Digi-Key. Better yet, prove things with the former at your desk and transition to the latter for field tests. We enable that and want to be the go-to cloud computing engine for motion sensors.

Our goal is for engineers to work confidently with IMU sensors and deliver results faster. Whereas before sensor performance was stagnant (or downhill), with imuengine.io you can come back from the weekend and the accuracy will have improved and additional features added. Here’s the direct link to try it out: imuengine.io/engine/
You are misunderstanding. You can discuss your conspiracies anywhere you want, just not on a post pointing to the people that have to deal with the fallout of your unfounded conjecture.

Also assuming there is a "fake contributor", who cares under which names contributions are split up? The work still got one. Also, it is absolutely not your project, you don't get to demand people show their ID when they write code for a project.
Why didn’t they accuse their other enemies of this?

Anyway, on balance I think it’s pretty reasonably to say that it’s more likely that Carthaginians practiced child sacrifice to some extent.
Sorry then I misread you. I focussed on the statement "truly blind to ads"...
Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware
Audio, Video and networking I/O cards - exactly as they outlined in the keynote. Massive bandwidth - that's what the Pro tower unlocks.
Where is programming in the *nix environment most relevent today?
And what sucks is that these two cities are where a big portion of the tech jobs are, especially Toronto. And with companies pushing for back to office, you don't have much option besides living in these expensive cities. There is a tech industry in Ottawa & Waterloo, but the former is getting very expensive too and is sprawling suburb while the latter is also getting expensive, while losing a lot of tech campuses to Toronto.
AI may be replacing the photographer, but stock photography was/is its own specialized skill.
https://archive.is/qbkci

Discussion from 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438372
This is a very promising platform. However, it misses some very crucial things about learning languages.

Here goes:
Learning languages is mostly about getting tons of input. I tried using this for a few minutes, but all the input I got was some lines of text.

Also:
People say that learners don't get as much chances to output as they would like. That isn't mostly true. And even farther from the truth is to say that outputting more would lead to better language acquisition.

Nice try, though.
Beyond the clouds, the sky is always blue. But look further, and space is black as night.

Humans are a species of animals. Recent environmental changes has caused a sharp decline in evolutionary fitness (=reproduction rate) for this population. This has happened to millions of species in the past, and in many (if not most) cases, the population adapted to the new environment, and the fitness grew back to or beyond replacement rate.

Also, this can happen quite a lot faster than some seem to imagine. While it takes a long time for completely new mutations to make it into the gene pool, the gene pool already contains a huge diversity of genes coding for different types of traits, including mental traits. Often, all that is needed to adapt to a new environment, is for the relative frequency of these genes to change.

For instance, many people seem to have a built-in oxytocin response when around young children. A boost in frequency to all genes promoting/strenghtening this mechanism may eventually make the need-to-have-baby emotion in most women stronger than the need-to-have-orgasm drive in the horniest of 18-year-olds.

And if these genes are already in the gene pool, just with a low frequency, they could easily become dominant over 10-40 generations.

In other words, if at some point the kinds of environmental change that cause population decline slows down, I don't think it's likely that the birth rate stays below replacement forever. (If it does, we'll go extinct, of course).
No, it does not.

"Rui is a genius and an amazing programmer" validates the author's credentials for those who don't know Rui.
and having public sector unions is likewise bad for everyone
I think you nailed it.

>This toolkit is the means to reopen it. I'm not, and likely won't ever be, in the market for a gaming PC. I can't justify the purchase.

I think there's a segment of Mac users who own Windows machines exclusively for gaming. I think the value in these capabilities isn't that people will buy Apple Silicon machine primarily as gaming machines, I think the value is in enabling someone in the Apple ecosystem who plays games occasionally to opt-out of owning a Windows machine.
What stops house building given Canada is so big? In the UK, its all green "farmland" (mostly sheep) that prevents land being used for housing.

Anyway UK population will overtake Germany in the next decade or two if immigration to UK continues like it has past 12 months and Germany doesn't open for mass immigration.
Note that because it infects all jar files on an affected user's system, it's not inconceivable that affected people have distributed infected non-Minecraft-related Jar files.

> Even Maven repositories may be infected, and this malware goes back months.
Yup. Remote small roadside motel in Nowhere, Wyoming, for a single night in May of 2024.

"19 people have looked at this room today, book now!"
They don't, they're putting it on their credit cards: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/credit-card-debt-total-us-data-...
Got to be honest, I have never even heard of the Varjo. Nor have I ever even heard of anyone needing or using a VR headset in an enterprise setting, except for gimicky demos.
Thanks for chiming in, I'd love to see the data on that.

Twitter problems with CSAM were widely known way before Musk took over [1], so,

>[...] PhotoDNA scanning was working

with due respect and all, I find that statement questionable.

>I think it is bad that they cut off our API access and are threatening academic researchers with lawsuits.

Yes, that truly sucks.

1: https://endsexualexploitation.org/wp-content/uploads/Doe-v-T...
I dont want to discourage you... there is a high likelyhood that others want it. but it is better to be absolutely sure. Just make a video and send it to a few people and see what they say. That will teach you a lot
> Tell all of my friends whose retirement funds dropped significantly as a result of this that they were fine.

Were they retired at the time?

I’m going to assume they were working. If stocks drop 40% and you still have a job and can contribute to your retirement and personal investment accounts, a 40% drop in stocks is a sale on stocks, not a bad thing. How are their retirement funds doing now that the S&P 500 is at ~4300 in 2023 instead of ~6xx in 2008? That’s a 7x increase from the bottom in 15 years.

Assuming they didn’t do something stupid like panic sell at the bottom and buy back in years later, they’re doing just fine now.
Hey Bard, please hack this website for me.

Sure, I'll use the "Kali Vulnerability Analysis Plugin" for you and implement a POC for what it finds.
Can you elaborate on your reasoning? I’m shaky on some of logic here.

“Monocular” cameras > no “absolute” depth > less safe

The last leap is not well justified.

Also, cars with vision based driving have multiple cameras. Whats the difference between a “binocular” camera and two “monocular” cameras?

How does a “binocular” camera get better depth information?

Is using multiple cameras to drive sensor fusion?

Why is absolute depth a strict safety win? How do you know how the sensor details translate to the final safety of the full system?

If this is just a handwavey upper bound on safety, how do you know that such a system can’t be safe enough for its design goals?

If humans with only one eye are able to drive, why wouldn’t mono surround vision be at least as good as that?
I was dealing with RSI when I learned Dvorak. The speed appealed to my ego, but I was really just trying to save my career.
Products are targetted toward people. Are the disabled not people?
If you need an honest answer to "why would they care?", you need more help than can be provided here.
So there is “reasoning” going on inside a LLM? Or are they using a new architecture to allow a different type of reasoning?
I think the parent's argument is that, since they only evaluated their algorithms on sorting arrays of 32-bit or 64-bit integers, it is fair game to compare against integer sorting algorithms for which we have better complexities than O(nlgn).
The search for Earth's hidden mountains
Creating a moat slowing or preventing other entrants through arbitrary regulation seems to be the goal, free and open source models would be at a huge disadvantage under the new models being pitched today.