skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It looks like a lot of dangerous research went on, and even if nothing bad happened because of that research, nothing was gained. A lot of risk for nothing.

Your previous comment is clearly incorrect as shown by the parent, something is a lot more than nothing.
As an aficionado of internal voices I would love to hear more on this subject. Especially the exact method by which the internal voices might be generated or influenced. Do you have something I could read?
That's still low, that's an E7/M2 salary, VP is at least three levels higher (D1, D2, VP1).
> Most fields have lots of rules, theories, ideas, and hunches. But laws – things that are unimpeachable and cannot ever change – are extremely rare.

This sounds like a rehash of Popperian epistemology. We should look forward to disproving existing theories (finding new problems), because it leads to new, better theories.
There was a community effort to make such a game since the original Spore came out.

https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/

Since this was too ambitious, they focussed just on the cell stage. They are working on that to this day.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1779200?updates=true
It is! Not exactly the same bento, but take this one from FamilyMart for example - https://www.family.co.jp/goods/obento/0616225.html

It is 498 yen (3.57 USD) and that is taxes included!
Is it just me or have we lost the ability to collectively move to competitors in social networks?

I remember the day when digg was overthrown, MySpace, livejournal... there's a long list. But in recent memory, Twitter, reddit, and more(eg twitch) are calling people's bluff and they seem to be at least partly getting away with it (at least they've maintained the market leader position).

Any ideas why?

One guess: These markets have matured into a monopoly with fragmented competition so that the only competitors that are in position to accept new users are niche products and not ready to absorb or capitalize on these collapses (eg federated products or alt right platforms).

Anyways, it's a bit of a pipe dream but I would love if we had something like a non-for-profit which could come in and create a better long-term home and single ecosystem to compete with these monopolies when they start misbehaving. I think signal did a really good job at this. I've been able to move a number of my messaging groups onto it. Pipe dream but Signal or Wikimedia foundation run social networks might be interesting.
The hype is not because what the status quo is today (think ARPANet), but because so many experts (not just investors) in the field believe that LLMs (and its multi modal versions) are on an exponential (quadratic?) improvement trajectory.

Before today, access to AI was gated by firms like Google, who kept the implementation to themsevles as a competitive advantage (but did publish copious amounts of research). With these LLMs being so general purpose and made readily accessible to other software shops at affordable rates, things are in for a dramatic shift as far as utility AI is concerned.

A vertical integrator in Apple just demonstrated how the tech is really coming together with its VisionPro launch. For an example closer to home, GitHub was right on the money with Copilot. Personally speaking, I've been using Copilot for some months now, and I can barely program without it. Not because I forgot how to program, but because it is so darn good that I'd rather not code without it. Surely, I can't be the only one that feels this way?

If the experts are right about the exponentials, then the world is going to look very different by the time GPT-6 rolls out, especially if the models get cheaper (even as good as free bar computer costs, in the case of open source models) as they get more capable.
We're in the "trough of disillusionment" now, but it doesn't mean it's nonsense - capabilities will keep rising.
Isn't that a growth removal?
I see what you mean and you're not wrong. However given that you hire good senior engineers and that you trust them, most companies can resolve these issues. Coordinating activities is a project manager's thing which should have to do with gantt diagrams and not with micro-managing engineers. Very few companies are having complex software similar to OS, therefore being in need of the management that you're referring to. It's astonishing how managers responsible for building a button are reading the mythical man month and think they are the same.
Plagiarizing a comment of mine from another post:

In general, cutesy UIs are fun only the very first time you use them. But they’re a liability in the long term because once the novelty of the cuteness wears off, you risk really annoying your users, especially in high-stress scenarios.

Expanding on that: Clippy is endearing now because it hasn't annoyed anyone for a decade+, but it was a real nuisance — difficult to disable and not nearly useful enough to justify its incessant interrupting.

Avoid cutesy UIs.
Nice, I hadn't noticed that! I'll add a mention to the article. Some do fail DNS resolution though.
https://archive.ph/ksVuF/
Tiny in scope, not tiny in size.

It says nothing about page size, but 80% of the comments are pointless bickering about JavaScript by grumpy HN readers that prefer their web experience to be permanently stuck in 2005.

I will never understand how do you never get bored of fighting windmills.
That target selection committee didn’t mince its words. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-...:

It should be remembered that in our selection of any target, the 20th Air Force is operating primarily to laying waste all the main Japanese cities […] Their existing procedure has been to bomb the hell out of Tokyo […] The 20th Air Force is systematically bombing out the following cities with the prime purpose in mind of not leaving one stone lying on another: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Yawata and Nagasaki.

Colonel Fisher also advised that the 20th Air Force existing operational plans pointed toward dropping 100,000 tons of bomb per month by the end of 1945.
Sometimes there isn't an idea, just outright lies and propaganda, and how is one supposed to engage when it's either bad faith or not even wrong?
Damn. It’s really impressive you were able to turn that treatment around into such a motivating force.

I often half-jokingly say I am raising my kids too cushy for them to ever create something extraordinary. Extraordinary achievements take extraordinary effort, and history seems to show the necessary drive for extraordinary efforts comes from brutal lessons that teach endurance and perseverance.

Or as the saying goes…

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.
I spent more time trying to make hallucinated code from ChatGPT work only to learn that what is claims is completely wrong than it would take to read the actual (out of date, incomplete) documentation and experiment for myself.
Have not read the book, have not read Tao Lin

This review might be better than the book. It's very very good.

Reminds me of watching In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai) and not liking it, but loving the movie after having it broken down by a teacher. The breaking down stayed with me more than any scene (it's not a dig at the movie or Wong Kar Wai, go watch it it's good!)
A consequence of monopolies and collusion.
Interesting psychological analysis XD
Yeah, I was taken aback by that too. It's pretty much textbook AI, being about asking computers to do something that is a "natural" part of human intelligence.
Dude, of course it’s explained away.

People who have chemical imbalances are more sensitive, and obviously crazy enough to talk about it.

We are not alone in our own minds.
It's somewhat concerning that Valve seems to disregard the importance of RCEs in server/client code, making them relatively easy to find.

There appears to be a lack of proactivity in addressing these bugs. Given Valve's substantial daily earnings from CS:GO through weapon skin sales, it seems their operational focus is more on maintaining the revenue stream rather than committing to quality engineering practices.
This is as bad as it'll ever be though.
I agree. I’m having a hard time thinking of a merger that was actually beneficial to anyone, first- or third-party.
I think this is where a lot of the divide in AI opinions comes from - focusing on many ultraspecific incremental improvements for X feature of Y model, without really understanding why we're driving so hard at improving the tech at a high level besides the fact that the math is interesting and the outputs stimulate our minds. What direction will the greater world move in as a result of being able to transfer the style of van Gogh onto a photo of a corgi in a few seconds? I don't think it's a question asked enough and the impact will be underestimated, more so than the words "a fluffy corgi in the style of van Gogh" let on. As you say I think the outcomes will be unexpected to some of the people involved in making it happen. And I don't think new AI research is incentivized to include humanities sections about the higher-order effects of their formula-heavy papers about optimizations and sampling methods.

Technological progress is kind of like a boiling frog scenario to me, where the temperature was ratcheted up with the proliferation of LLMs and diffusion models for many more people to take notice. And I don't want to use the two-letter acronym when speaking of technological progress specifically, since at this point it's too loaded a term. (I think some use it as a label for "tech that's progressed too far".)

But I also think this implies that past some threshold it leads to negative outcomes for some actions to be made too easy to accomplish with technological progress. The limiting factor of being stuck in a state of inefficiency prevented them until the moment those barriers were dissolved. Some of those barriers are implicit and invisible and I think will only be appreciated in hindsight when we become an advanced enough society to finally remove them and see what happens.

When the cost of copying public artists' styles was driven to near zero, suddenly thousands more people were taking part in what is deemed by some of those artists to be plagiarism. Only this time it's marketed with terms like "style transfer" and "artist prompt studies" and "democratization" and "hey, now we can create N new images M% faster with these matrix multiplications and these miscellaneous optimizations, and our paper will now discuss these in technical detail..."
If anyone has any more precise information on this, do let me know. I do suspect there's some kind of "protocol legel" fingerprint, as I can't find anything in the content that would be searchable so far.
> "We're creating God," the former Google Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat recently told an interviewer.

Ouch!
Show HN: I made a free, insanely fast, AI inspired logo maker
I have literally never seen a subway station “covered in feces and used syringes” - or even one single syringe in a station - in my life. How many times have you actually ridden the subway?
“ASCII for username identifiers is a good thing”
For me personally it is less about the caffeine and other compounds that act as caffeine so they do not have to list dosage of the combined elements, but rather the large amounts of inactive forms of B vitamins. It is funny that super-dosing inactive B vitamins can actually lead to a B deficiency as the active form created by the liver competes with the inactive form. The end result can be a myriad of serious neurological issues. I suppose the solution would be for all the energy drinks to add the active forms P5P or PLP, 5-deoxyadenosylcobalamin or MeCbl, FMN, TPP, etc... but that might affect the cost.

Curious if anyone knows of energy drinks that already do this using the active forms of B vitamins
> even though they may well be very intelligent. In fact, intelligence may well be a net negative: you're going to see a lot of stuff in society that is extremely frustrating

Further than frustration: the rational individual will be overburdened in the attempt of digesting the unbelievable load of "irrational" that this world presents - personalities leaning on rationality will "desperately" try and make the instances of the irrational fit into some organic framework which would make them manageable. The intelligent will be under a staggering amount of internal fatigue, if somehow incapable of "leaving puzzling absurdities aside".

(Edited to better explain what is meant with "digestion".)
It’s in the article, they’re desoldered and reballed like normal and then socketed: “What makes the attack possible, he said, is something called a conductive elastomer IC test socket.” The cryogenic pick and place robot then moves the now-socketed chip from the board to the test fixture at runtime.
I recall in the late 70s that my high school also had a teletype terminal and an IBM card reader that connected to a mainframe for the whole school district. As a student I had some awareness that it was unusual. I was also working PT at a Radio Shack at the same time and saw the first arrival of a TRS-80 to our store.

Despite that early exposure to computing technology I went other directions for the next couple decades.
Blame the state and local governments (and especially the disparity among them) for that. Amazon and other big realtailers just said it's not fair that we have to deal with sales tax if smallecommerce.com doesn't.

Sales tax is a perfect example of how the government will never give up tax revenue it has come to depend on. The original proposal is that sales tax was fair, because the local business is using local resources (land, employees, infrastructure). Obviously not true with an out-of-state web store. Delivery companies already pay local taxes for the actual shipping, so there shouldn't be any claim against the retailer itself. Use tax, in many areas, was already designed to handle this case, but the government decided that it's easier to go after Amazon than to rely on taxpayers being honest.
On windows, debug symbols are distinct files that match with a specific version of a binary. When your crash reports get sent off to Valve, they have the appropriate PDB file to match and have full source level debuggablity.
One thing that I noticed in reporting AI from both sides are the lack of falsifiable statements. Extremists of one side says AI will replace every job without the timeline, and the other side says AI is a hype, stochastic parrot, couldn't ever reason etc. without defining what they mean by reasoning and example of reasoning that could prove that someone is reasoning.

Obviously there should be room for opinion, but not saying falsifiable statement only reinforces the people who falls on your camp and moves the other camp people away. Ideally the aim should be to convince people from other side of their blindspots.
I can’t help but reflect how much of the tragedy, conflict, and war in human history has been caused by these agencies run amok.

What’s striking about these MKUltra type programs is the magnitude of horrible things stemming from a relatively small number of clandestine operatives doing insane experiments on the population.

Based in the article in The Times yesterday, I’d say we can confidently add global pandemic to this list, and a reminder that the US doesn’t have a monopoly on this particularly deranged form of violence.

Up until 2019 I’d say the USA was the worst offender, but let’s hope no one ever catches up to what China did in Wuhan.
So these can “help?

This secret was revealed to me later in life, after living a full life, so my mind was already well developed before this infestation set upon me.

Have none of you heard of creeper culture? Where people report being “gang stalked?” Where mysterious mobs of apparently random strangers appear to stalk and harass individuals?

These are signs of controls messing with you.

of course anything that can be said has a perfectly easy to blow off response, that does not make it untrue.
Paper: https://wootconference.org/papers/woot23-paper3.pdf
I don't see how?

Assuming yashg has long term memory and will talk to coworkers and other acquaintences in the future about this topic, the one case of being duped will lead to hundreds of potential customers being more skeptical of GCP in the future.

The one missed sale here undermines the future prospects of hundreds of possible sales.
I hope not. I've just entered my poetry site for their consideration.
I really don't get why people are being so weird about this. People are writing papers about Llms, and citations aren't only for "knowledge" that you're referencing.
WW2 ended 77 years ago. Surplus guns like the M1 carbine (“assault rifle” equivalent) were available mail order, no background check, for $20.

A lot of time and other things changed in culture before mass shootings and crime took off. Television for one, deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, drug culture, immigration reform, Vietnam war. If you believe that latent school shooting desire was always present, and just lacked a tool, you’d probably see it manifest in some way.
Nice, I couldn't load the page without enabling a bunch of useless JavaScript. Maybe we have different definitions of "small".
Phone Upgraded to Debian 12
I’m sure with all of the sensors it would be technologically possible, but I’d be interested to see if there is an augmented dark mode (dim the lights in a bright room) or night/low-light vision mode (use the IR depth sensors to add light into a completely dark space)
What a terrible article.

“Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very sick with influenza.”

The rate of hospitalization among 18-49 year olds with flu in the US was 54.1 per 100K in 2019-20. It’s rare, sure, but that kind of absolute statement from an anonymous researcher doesn’t instill confidence.
Hard to take this seriously when “artificial intelligence” is presented in quotes, as though it’s a thing that doesn’t exist.
Why not build a thermocouple into the RAM package and program the operating system to overwrite memory with random data on detection of a sudden temperature drop?
This is false, citadel is top of market. Google doesn’t pay that well
If I sort. Atleast on mobile. How do I figure out the lowest annual salary? I can’t. I don’t understand how anyone can defend this data. Either collect and provide good data or don’t bother at all.
It is cleared in the text that its size (in diameter) is almost 28 domesticated sheep, and that seemingly corresponds to a diameter of as much as 50 meters.

Later on, a Michigan university is cited for stating that domesticated sheep can, on average, grow to as long as 1.8 meters in head and body length.

Anyone wanting to convert them to a more common "school bus" unit?
A UK government adviser went on TV to say AI Models will be killing people in 2 years... - https://news.sky.com/story/ai-could-help-produce-deadly-weap...
> ChatGPT doesn’t do that. And so I think it should almost never be cited.

I usually try to get ChatGPT to give me a source for its answer. At least for me in most cases it gives non working URLs. It's very frustrating. Or it was very frustrating, I've since stopped using it where I need to quote sources.

ChatGPT is not a useful source since its inability to tell you where it got the information from is no different than asking a family member and citing "Bob, my uncle"
Working at Egghead was great. Commission was basically based on the size of the box. Miss you PageMaker.
You don't need to ship your debug symbols to have stack traces. You just need to uniquely identify published binaries, and link them to stored debug symbols. See also breakpad, of which Chrome and Firefox use a variant of.
A Denver woman was on a crusade to improve her RTD bus shelter. Now, it’s gone
Isn't that common?

"As a continuation of my work presented in [1]..."
The fact that it compiles is due to the TypeScript’s goal of being pragmatic rather than sound. If an instance isn’t derived from the class Dog, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t conform to the type/interface Dog, yet TypeScript assumes it means that for the instance of check. It has more to do with TypeScript being a bolt-on over JavaScript that has to take into account existing codebases rather than with TypeScript being structurally typed.
I remember when this was first released, everyone clowned on it (including me) for a few reasons the biggest one being the classic problem with these sorts of Bayesian analyses. That being, the individual weights per piece of evidence are pretty arbitrary.

Meanwhile, it seems quite likely to have produced the correct results so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> The meme of installation being hard needs to die.

I think that meme is just people trying to come up with rational reasons for the death of native apps where there are none. The reality is that it's more expensive and takes longer for a big businesses to build a different native app for each OS, so they push web apps. It also takes longer for smaller devs to build multiple native apps, so they push web apps.

That's what it comes down to. If you're building an app like Discord, you can write native clients for macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android, OR you can write a single React app, throw in a bit of React Native and a few OS-specific tweaks, and you've got all 5 platforms covered.

There's no big conspiracy. Desktop apps aren't worse. It's just business.
Can you please cite this because I don't think it's actually true. Park avenue is free but other areas charge you money per hour to park a car
'Regulate it before we're all finished': Musicians React to AI songs
Strange article. I thought it was going to show that these features interact in some unexpected way that causes weird bugs, but it all seems to work as expected.

So the conclusion, I guess, is that code doesn't make a whole lot of sense when it uses every available feature for no particular reason and foreign languages for variables names?
Our minds may be entangled as our consciousness is a quantum phenomenon (I know, I know, something else you may refuse until “science” explains it to you.)

History does have fascinating accounts, though spread out and easily dismissed as occult nonsense.

Heck, just google the snail telegraph and consider humans through decades of specialized training can fully navigate entangled networks of our minds.

This is not “telemetry”, it is entanglement which persists at a distance and may be navigated.
Judge denies Amazon’s, Apple’s motions to dismiss class action price-fixing suit
Traffic is bad, but fossil traffic is strictly worse than EV traffic. So again, it seems possible to advocate both less traffic and that the remaining traffic should be better.
not "/person" but "/host", right?
Yup! It’s not enough to do something that’s hard to obtain a good life - there needs to be more open roles than people able to fill them in your line of work.
Yes, AWS being patient with both customer fault (common) issues and even out of scope for support tier level is crazy - it’s got to be a purposeful cost center expenditure. I like some things about google w project model but we spend on AWS (not too much).
> Well, my original point was the legal precedent. Invading another country without the need for self defense. (Or were there any indications, that Iraq was about to attack the US at all?) So at no point I said it is the same.

This legal precedent stuff is rubbish and just more justification of Russians brutal crimes. Not to mention that Russia was doing this brutal razing and raping of civilian centres far before the US invaded Iraq.

> And regarding torture and rape, you might have missed Abu Ghraib and similar institutions?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...

I didn't but I missed the part where they involved children.