skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'We paid Neumann too much to exit quickly, because we knew the company prospects were bad and we needed an IPO to exit ASAP' probably isn't a crime, assuming there weren't errors on financial disclosures.

But it's certainly dubious enough to warrant a lawsuit to see if there were false claims made.
What if I prefer books with a 50% vividness, so bought the book that was to vivid for me and write a bad review or are online reviews also considered bad Silicon valley tech?

BTW do you write per hand or type writer or do you use word processors with formatting, thesaurus, spell and grammar checking?
I'm disappointed he went for "vividness" and not novelty. Judging text based on how uncommon the n-gram is/how much it differs from an LLM could be interesting for sure.

The better an LLM can complete your joke the worse it is, for instance. Important to have a good Letterman-MacDonald quotient.
Similarly, saying that something is not true does not necessarily make it not true.
I have yet to see a single example of a horror done under any modern human system that wasn't done under every system before and next to it. If I'm ignorant, it's a failure to persuade on the part of people who have a special hatred of communism.
Yes, but how can end users opt out of using Cloudfare?
Source? They've always been logless.

I think you have this completely backwards considering Proton maliciously logged and handed out customer IPs to police [0].

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...
There may be holes in this but:

1. |Router| -> Wireguard / OpenVPN -> |VPS|

2. |Device| -> Wifi -> |Router|

3. |Device| -> app -> |Mullvad|

= |Device| -> |VPS| -> |Mullvad| -> Internet

Can do various mixing and matching if you have more than one VPS. Again, it rearranges rather than removing the vulnerabilities, and it's pure window dressing against an organised, financed actor.

I've done this as an intellectual challenge more than anything else.
Street Complete!

https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
I have it bound to `$mod+c` and launched as a floating window in i3. It integrates very well into my workflow as I can just quickly launch, perform a one-off calc, and close it whether I'm in a terminal or elsewhere. Since it saves history, I can always relaunch it and continue where I left off as well.
> That's not dash, it's bash in POSIX compatibility mode.

I was under the impression that bash's POSIX mode was 'leaky': that a lot of non-POSIX stuff/extensions are available even though it's called as /bin/sh.

I know this caused a lot of our users issues when we upgraded Debian/Ubuntu during its switchover to dash. We told folks you could either rewrite those parts of the code or call /bin/bash.

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

* https://lwn.net/Articles/343924/
Yes, you are right, and I advocate the following: a detailed look at each of these technologies.

However, for practical purposes, a direct definition that encompasses every situation is not necessary, but can evolve. For now, I think we do not need a precise definition and we can start with the following: AI such as ChatGPT, LLMs, image generation tools like DALL-E and ohters, should be restricted.

As for YouTube's algorithm, I agree it is also dangerous. For now, I have restricted the use of direct content generation algorithms, in other words, all content can reasonably said to be human generated in terms of writing, composition, etc.

In other words: AI that makes any creative decision in making content should be banned. Other algorithms should be carefully debated.
Look, of course statistics isn't reasoning because you can't build a proof with statistics (or probabilities).

But, we have to wonder: when people say "reasoning", do they really, really mean, drawing inferences from axioms and theorems using some set of inference rules? Or do they just mean that they can ask a question and get an answer that makes sense, back?

I certainly think it's the latter. People are imprecise when they speak about reasoning, just as they are imprecise when reasoning. Most people who are going to be using LLMs will not be people looking for precise, correct answers derived by sound inference procedures. Those who need precision will seek it elsewhere, where precision can be obtained. The rest will be happy with "reasoning", quote-unquote.

Basically the use case for LLMs reminds me of a couple pieces of work that were published in the past, where people used neural nets to approximate the results of a precise calculation. One team trained a neural net to predict the chaotic motion of three astronomical bodies ("the three body problem"). Another trained a neural net to approximate an automated planner programmed to drive a drone around in a thicket of trees without crashing. In both cases the trained model could obviously only return approximately correct results, and it could only approximate results that had already been calculated classically, but, at least in the second case, if I remember correctly, there was a significant speedup of the operation of the drone, compared with the automated planner- very reasonably so, since the model approximating the planner didn't have to do all the hard work of actually, you know, calculating a plan.

My bottom line is that no matter what you (or I, or the article's author, or anyone else) can say or show about the true capabilities of LLMs to reason, people are totally going to use them _as if_ they could reason, and the job of proving that they can't is going to get all that much harder for that experience, misguided as it may be.

Ultimately the question of whether LLMs can reason is going to be, outside specialist circles, as relevant as "Does Netflix distribute art?". Sure, it doesn't. But people watch it anyway. Most people seemingly don't need art as much, and they don't need reasoning as much, either.

Which is a tragic conclusion, of course. At least some of us are still working on AI whose purpose is to make humans better at thinking, not that takes away their motivation to think.
You get an hint that Python's import is not a simple "add name to scope" when importing a builtin package opens a web browser:

import antigravity

As others have mentioned, every line of code not in a function/class gets executed when imported, except if guarded with an `if __name__ == '__main__':` (only true when executing the script with `python xxx.py`). A related catch: functions' default arguments are also evaluated when imported the first time.

Try creating `fun.py`:

def evil():
print("Gotcha")
return 1

def abc(x = evil()):
print(x)

Now: `python fun.py` or `python -c "import fun"`
I'm not familiar with the details of such things, but would it be possible to "port" the Intel's open source Linux GPU driver to Windows? That would make for a working driver without this junk
Does LibreWolf take the "Microsoft approach" like Firefox now does and abruptly force you to close the browser to complete an update, even if you are in the middle of a browsing session? I had other issues like memory leaks/bloat, but that was the last straw that pushed me away from Firefox.

I have zero problems with Brave; I don't use the crypto bit (not for me) and I still use uBlock Origin with it as Brave + uBO seems to do the best job at blocking garbage that I've seen so far.
Of course, yeah Discord is a bit of a closed-source walled garden, but we're considering setting up a Matrix.org server some point soon as an open replacement for our current community.

We currently release all Alpha versions onto our site at https://liveg.tech/os/get, so there's no need to 'wait' as such to try out the system in its current state! As for being notified as to when we'll release the next version, we normally let everyone know through Mastodon, as well as on other social networks such as YouTube and even (dare I say it) Twitter — sorry, I mean X.

But it might be worth us setting up some sort of email-based notifier to let people know when new releases are available, so I'll take your advice onboard!
>That guy got incredibly rich creating a company that was clearly not viable and seems likely to bankrupt.

WeWork is an extreme case, but this kind of thing happens with tech companies all the time.

Why do you think people in Silicon Valley equate an "exit" with success? Because at that point the insiders are paid out. What else matters?

Look at companies like Uber, Coinbase or Snap. Even Tesla. Insiders have accumulated billions in compensation that dwarves the value generated by the companies themselves (as measured by earnings).
> I don't understand the issue in looking at the number of adverbs in a book with the help of a computer.

I think that authors see an issue with their IP being fed to an algorithmic black box that will certainly make a lot of money, but authors won't see any of it, and for which engineers say "don't worry, it is not stealing your IP, just let us make money the way we want and shut up".

What if OpenAI could prove that their algorithms are not stealing IP? I think it's easy: they just can't. They don't even formally know what their algorithm can and cannot do.

If I was an author or an artist, I would most definitely want a new kind of legal way to make sure that if I don't want my work to be used as training data, then it most definitely isn't. Of course that's not really possible, because who can audit the algorithmic black box and see if my work was used in the training?
If its fair use to find stats on a book/corpus of text, isn't it also fair use to run a transformer/something similar, since really its just predicting/modelling what that piece of text would output next, given context?
Ask HN: semi-old Firefox/Chrome can't update itslf, requires full reinstal, why?
I notice this once every few months when I need Chrome for something and then it says that this version is too old to auto update and shows how to re-download newest version. Same happens with the PC of some older relatives, they don't use it for a month or two and then call me saying that Chrome is again "broken"/"red" (the update button changes color to red when it hasn't been updated for some time) ...

My question is why can't a semi-old browser just update itself or do the re-download itself? Aren't they supposed to be "evergreen"? Looked online but couldn't find any answer.

Edit: this issue only happens when the browser hasn't been used in a while (like more than two months) and didn't have a chance to update itself. Then it refuses to auto update from an semi-old version automatically and tells you to manually re-download it.
Go to where the packagers are; the open source distros and related companies. Some of the distros like Debian have lists of consultants, or a jobs list:

https://www.debian.org/consultants/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/
It’s a novelty. If it’s just sitting in a drawer, would you want to pass it along? Could get a testing chain going… kick it along to the next person after two weeks.
For who/what do you mean?

You mean SPACs that actually acquired a company? SPACs where the initial SPAC investors (pre-acquisition) made money? Those that have a solid company behind them, regardless of if investors made/lost money on the price movement since it announced? People who bought SPAC shares post-acquisition where the price went up?

(For pre/post acquisition investors, I assume you mean retail investors).
I'd argue it's less of dog fooding issue, as Unity does use the engine and plenty of others use it too, than a badly organization issue.

For everything there are multiple immature solutions stuffed by different teams. This is clearly a sign of managers grabbing fiefdom nd no one from the top tries to control it.
I’m confused, the blog post backs up what you say but I can still set custom ports within my account page… And I’m currently running a service that needs to advertise out on a port to work from Mullvad.
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I assume I am safe using linux and the linux drivers?
I don't enjoy seeing compression artefacts or blur or other loss of detail.

I don't want the internet to look like that F1 car to save a few milliseconds or $0.0000001 for the company sending the pic to me.

I certainly don't want my family photos to look like that.

I don't want the photographs on the internet to become much faster, much cheaper and much worse. I'd like them to become a bit faster, a bit cheaper, but also more crisp, vivid, emotionally engaging, and realistic.
I secretly root for Adam Neumann or any other entrepreneur that hustled their way into hundreds of millions and left VCs holding the bag in the free money era circa 2020...VCs were the ones doing the pump and dump for too long, and someone needed to give them a taste of their medicine.

I'll never admire Neumann because he squandered over $18bn(!), but there's a bit of poetic justice in how he took SoftBank for a ride..
Yeah. Up until recently my friend was employed in designing chips in this process.

But it's not like they're designing them exactly the same way as years ago - some advancements are not strictly related to feature size and IIRC these new-old chips are considerably more power-efficient.
The retro community is what drives the demand for these replacements.
Are there prebuilt binaries available for macOS? I'm running the GTK version on an m1 and it always takes a few seconds to get going.
That's tinfoil hat nonsense. The NSA aren't gods, wizards, or aliens. They don't have the best people (those are mostly at FAANG), and their total budget is a fraction of Big Tech's.

If you ever find yourself assuming that the NSA/CIA/etc. have magical knowledge that's decades ahead of everyone else, or have "assets" in every village on Earth, you know you've been watching too much TV.
It's not like temp office space companies didn't exist no one knew the risks. They'd been around for years and the pitfalls were well known. But this is what happens when you have lots of cheap money, low returns and massive fomo. Will they learn from this? Of course not, the AI bubble is currently being pumped up and I'm sure there's going to be a few more wonder industries to lose a fortune in just round the corner.
Absolutely, and I think the recent Oppenheimer movie was an excellent take on this exact subject. At some point, you don't get to throw up your hands and say, "technology is just neutral” and absolve yourself of any responsibility for what you’ve put into the world.
New Reddit.com website redesign is live.
Is anyone else seeing a newly designed Reddit.com that’s clean and not bombarding you with notifications to download the mobile app?

(I’m wondering if I’m being A/B tested or if this is the new Reddit. Hope it’s new Reddit)

EDIT:

This is what I see:

https://ibb.co/Hrvyx2n

https://ibb.co/wNHHS6R
War Music is the name of an incomplete modern translation of the Iliad by Christopher Logue.

It is without doubt one of the best poetic works of the past 100 years.

"Achilles saw his armour in that instant

And its ominous radiance flooded his heart.

Bright pads with toggles crossed behind the knees,

Bodice of fitted tungsten, pliable straps;

His shield as round and rich as moons in spring;

His sword's haft parked between sheaves of grey obsidian

From which a lucid blade stood out, leaf-shaped, adorned

With running spirals.

And for his head a welded cortex; yes,

Though it is noon, the helmet screams against the light;

Scratches the eye; so violent it can be seen

Across three thousand years."

The Caroline Alexander translation is much more "correct," but lacks Logue's spark of vitality and originality.
Sure, tell that to the relatives of the 4 million Ukrainians who died during Stalin's farming reforms, to the 2 million Chinese who died during the Cultural Revolution, or to the 2 million Cambodian victims under Pol Pot.
While "boomers" is sometimes used mockingly, it also describes an actual generation of people who do have a significant impact on society, and do have enough common ground to make discussion of that generation useful in sociological dialogue. So no, I do not stop reading at the word "boomer" any more than I stop reading at the word "millennial".
Given an upstream project with good practices, packaging is fairly easy these days, since most of it is automated. Most of the work is around reviewing upstream changes and fixing any issues found.
>A snapshot at that time could be used to argue they paid Neumann $x00 million to realise a multi-Billion dollar valuation and $1Bn+ growth in market cap.

This makes no sense to me.

Why would you pay hundreds of millions of dollars to someone for a paper valuation and market cap? It was all meaningless.
This is so coincidental! I just built this exact thing as a terminal program yesterday. Here's the demo: https://twitter.com/bamitsmanas/status/1688824051471687680?s...

What do you guys think of it?
Going all the way back to the Luddites, there will be those who seek to misrepresent their opposition as being “afraid of progress”.

Much easier to find a friendly podcaster than engage with the actual difficulties with what you’re doing.
DD? Softbank just throws gobs of money at companies with founders Masayoshi Son likes.

Softbank's "investment strategy" would've ended the company decades ago if it didn't buy a quarter of Alibaba for $20m, a share that would end up being worth over $100b a few years ago.
>> Certainly something interesting is bound to come out of quantifying things?

> In science they call this trap P-hacking. Even data "scientists" know to be wary of overfitting. We're really good at finding patterns, but few of them actually mean anything.

Quantifying things is not always p-hacking. When people do experiments on novel materials or structures they quantify the data, make readings and record them, and then look for patterns. For example measuring the electronic properties of a new novel nano structure or molecule.

When I think of p-hacking[1] I think of using the same static data and doing various data analysis over and over again until something potentially interesting is found and ignoring the risks of false positives as you do so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging
At this point just use a CAS or a TI calculator emulator.
No need in italic font and other passive aggressive stuff. Ask any old hardware enthusiast if they prefer an actual exact silicon level replica of SID or modern fancy shmancy FPGA replacement thing - I guarantee you majority would want the precise replica. Because why people content with these FPGA ugly looking quasi-substitutes, cause there is no actual period-accurate substitutes are available.

In any case a "Commodore 64" made entirely from components invented in 2020s should be called C64 anymore. It is a replica, a decent one, but not the real thing.
Sadly I can easily imagine a future where mullvad suffers because big tech simply rangebans all their datacenters (already happens to some degree between cloudflare and individual admins - people are seemingly even banned from using chatgpt if they connect over it, or at least it's involved) and you need the shady residential proxies to actually be able to connect/scrape anything.

A self hosted VPS may also work if the company is small enough to avoid the coming BlanketBans, but only time will tell.
Masayoshi Son is a gambler that invests more on gut instincts than fundamentals...most of his investments seem to fail, but a few have kept SoftBank going for so long, e.g, Alibaba, Sprint, etc.
Cells within cells within cells within cells. Hour by hour. Cells within cells.

Sounds like it’s obsession with keep going hour by hour is similar to the overworked nurse or worker who is just counting the seconds until their shift is over, but staying positive about it by mentioning how much they have done, grown, or accomplished in that time. Burnout is real people. You burnout and you start sounding like GPT-3.
Multi-party computation is (sort of) changing the game
Then you can trade-off processing power within reason. Modern websites are so heavy, it's not unusual to need a gigabyte of memory to use some of the heavier webpages. Using some megabytes (150MB I'd consider an upper bound of where the advantage will have leveled off for the coming years) is not typically impossible, and even 4KB is a lot better than no memory hardness at all.
Are you really so strapped for disk space that 70MiB impacts your user experience?

EDIT: The parent comment is disingenuous: the application isn't even 70MB. It's only 70MB if you download the windows edition with vendored libicu (unicode, 31MB) library. It weighs around ~20MB on linux distributions, which is insignificant.
The response to this undermines my ability to take the “backlash” against AI as anything other than innumerate, mob idiocy. It’s hard to prevent myself from being negatively polarized against the backlash when people in the backlash defend outrage against obviously innocuous things like this.
(Edited)

No, he didn’t say anything about them. People side against their interests all the time, finding a few writers that like this is trivial. Are those people the majority opinion on this or are we just trying to prove how wonderful this technology is?
I'll definitely do the keyboard, actually I'm using the breadbin keyboard here because I think it looks neat. Commodore were pretty good at keeping things compatible. The motherboard was intended for breadbin as well, but fits fine in the C case.
How is it worse when Google wants to implement something that Apple already did? I mean it's bad but being number two to implement it seems like the regulators should look at Apple first, not Google.
Famous last words: "There are more important things to worry about than privacy".

If you've read history (and maybe you have, or not) privacy is a human right. When privacy goes away, then everything else goes away. Ask anyone over 60 in Germany or Romania (that was not WITH the army or the Police/Security services) and they will tell you how nice life is without privacy.

But hey, sure, 1) privacy doesn't matter, 2) you got nothing to hide, etc etc.
Yup. If you have name recognition, even in a niche field, you'll be inundated with nonsensical resumes and/or desperate people. We get hundreds of applications per position, and many of them are downright nonsensical. No, we can't sponsor a visa for a developer from a different country for an entry-level analyst position. We're a hospital.
Traditional Chinese medicine
What about the youtube speech to text AI that creates automatic CC transcripts for the hearing impaired? What about the AI that translates transcripts and comments into other languages? (translation certainly makes use of creativity since not every word maps 1:1)
FWIW. Spectre/meltdown really caught the hardware development world off guard. Speculative execution was well-trodden ground and we thought it was fine. After these attacks, we had legacy designs that we needed to patch in a hurry, and the performance costs of not speculating were unfathomable. A lot of work went into mitigations like new kinds of barriers. But hardware designs are enormous and there is state lurking absolutely everywhere. It’s just a really hard problem.