skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Um... yes...? I am really confused why people keep describing mind control as a defense of mind control.

Because at the current state of the art, it's no more "control" than from stimulating cochlear with a cochlear implant.

Musk does talk about a Culture-esq Neural Lace (which also covers "mind reading" to the level of being an offsite backup) but the neuroscientists I hear discussing the tech that really exists and that they think is likely to come any time soon regard this as bombastic nonsense.

The research into mind reading from (unrelated, human-rated and already placed) implants is interesting, and I think worth caring about with regards to privacy and security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcfC53c3tSc
Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go”
They can already see that on Android. Let's be honest, no one cares.
Considering beavers make wooden structures for their own benefit and survival, it's not really surprising that ancestors of Homo Sapiens did as well.
The thing is that copyright law doesn't protect against that processing.

The only argument is whether their information was scraped off the internet legally, and the supreme court has weighed in that scraping information that's publicly available is legal.

If you put a picture on the internet free and clear, I can save the picture to my hard drive, and I can use it in any way whatsoever sans reproduce it.

The only question is if making an AI that can reproduce it is in fact the same as reproducing it. I think the question is a very simple 'no', but we'll have to see.
No. 3 (only Apple-approved 3rd-party App Stores) is definitely not compliant.

No. 4 (legally obligated to give Apple cut) is flat out wrong. While it might be true that Apple's 30% cut is not ruled illegal, it's a far cry away from Apple having any legal mechanism to enforce a fee after a transaction has happened. Trying to ban 3rd party apps is going to get them into more trouble.
dang (our admin) says why right at the top of that thread
Is there any browser that can allow location just for urls under google.com/maps?

Firefox should do this
This surprised me. I don't. It added Workspace extension to my Chrome, then turned it on. I turned it off because I was concerned with privacy. Now the extension is gone. It must have been a bug that they've fixed.
To name a few:

* December 2016 Istanbul car bombing / suicide bombing near a football stadium, killing 44 people

* October 2016 Istanbul bombing - injuring 10 civilians

* June 2016 Istanbul bombing / killing 6 civilians

* March 2016 Ankara car bombing killing 37 people

* June 2006 Manavgat (in the province Antalya, a popular region for tourists) detonation of a bomb in a tourist site, killing four people

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2016_Istanbul_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2016_Istanbul_bombing

https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/pkk_fto.html
>> If 100 million people flipped 20 coins, 95 would get 20 heads

If they were starting out with $2 million and betting it on a coin flip, they would owe 37% income tax on the winnings of each flip.

And try finding someone to bet you $1 trillion on a coin flip.

Charlie Munger's strategy was not to start out with $2 million and bet it with a 0.0001% chance of winning $2 trillion and a 99.9999% chance of losing it all.

Some people invest money out of each paycheck, study how to best allocate that money between the investment options available to them, do that for many decades, and become millionaires. Some people buy a $2 lottery ticket and become millionaires that day. They both just got lucky, am I right?
No, long term we somehow get something magical like LLMs that swoop in and magically pull off these tasks.
My bad. Should be 45 to 50 between English and French. Either way, I'm sure you understand the point.
Low cost access to space also implies low(er) cost cleanup of defunct satellites and other debris.
Website has that slow, React-y feeling, unfortunately. Good name though.
I think you're giving C3PO too much credit for the bumbling idiot he usually is when on screen. Well aside from calculating the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field, but I'm sure GPT 4 will let you know what that is just as easily, as well as translating any language into any other language which is supposedly 3PO's whole schtick.

Also:

> can make plans and execute those plans

https://github.com/antony0596/auto-gpt

> cannot reason about the world, it does not know or understand the world it just assembles words

They can reason a surprising amount given that they only work with text. With vision/actuation encoding there's potential for far more. Remember, it doesn't have to be smart or conscious as long as it gets the job done with cold hard statistics while just appearing as such. A submarine does not swim but crosses the ocean just the same.
Is there a demo forum we can look at without having to set up an account? That would be a good idea.

Also please make sure it works without javascript, like discourse does. It can be ugly with JS turned off; people who turn off JS don't care about pretty.
It's what Clippy always wanted to be.
This is FUS. Replacing people with machines is the story of the entire Industrial Revolution, and yet we haven’t ever had widespread unemployment as a result. Quite the opposite.
Thanks for the tips! I'll take a look - requests are typically super fast, so perhaps the database is just under high load due to launch. I'll check now. (I run replicas in a couple cities on https://fly.io, so general latency should be low too.)

For the filenames - I'll take a look. I'm using some popular libraries for files, which I hope address things like this.
People are fine with AI learning stuff from others. People are not fine with AI trained on everyone's recorded work and then replacing everyone to make massive profits for just that company.

Private owned GAI is a dystopia, shared GAI is utopia like star trek. The difference might seem tiny today, but people really don't want to go down the dystopia route.
I'd hire a lawyer that knows how to deal with them and knows how to say no comment.

I've always felt that the warrant canary is a nerd's gotcha designed to get out of a sketchy legal process (NSLs) and that judges would be very unsympathetic. But IANAL.
Typical HN pessimism, but I strongly disagree with anyone characterizing it as a huge letdown.

Even if you personally don't get much use out of it (honestly hard for me to believe if you give it a fair try), there are tons of uses that will be impacting you significantly within the next year. Contrast that with crypto.
Well, the Digital Markets Act has a paragraph Apple is going to drive a locomotive through in the courtroom.

"In order to ensure that third-party software applications or software application stores do not endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system provided by the gatekeeper, it should be possible for the gatekeeper concerned to implement proportionate technical or contractual measures to achieve that goal if the gatekeeper demonstrates that such measures are necessary and justified and that there are no less-restrictive means to safeguard the integrity of the hardware or operating system. The integrity of the hardware or the operating system should include any design options that need to be implemented and maintained in order for the hardware or the operating system to be protected against unauthorised access, by ensuring that security controls specified for the hardware or the operating system concerned cannot be compromised. Furthermore, in order to ensure that third-party software applications or software application stores do not undermine end users’ security, it should be possible for the gatekeeper to implement strictly necessary and proportionate measures and settings, other than default settings, enabling end users to effectively protect security in relation to third-party software applications or software application stores if the gatekeeper demonstrates that such measures and settings are strictly necessary and justified and that there are no less-restrictive means to achieve that goal. The gatekeeper should be prevented from implementing such measures as a default setting or as pre-installation."

Are we really sure that Apple won't argue that permitting only 3rd-party App Stores and not individual apps, and imposing contractual obligations on those third party App stores, isn't "proportionate technical or contractual measures"?
Yeah I hit submit before I was going to make that point.
I don't like Apple and have never owned any of their devices, but if I ever went blind or developed parkinsons or simply got quite old I would drop any other brand and go full in with them.

It's astonishing how they keep adding extremely useful things update over update buried in the accessibility settings. I guess they know they have a stronghold when it comes to serving disabled people so they do their best to keep that market sector extremely happy.
Very kind of you to say — thanks!
How was that car the only one to have vapor lock?

How was that the only occasion he tried to start his car that quickly after shutting it down?

Why did the family always buy ice cream by itself?
> Although the author gives themself an escape hatch with "augmented" because it seems extremely evident that almost everything will have some small level of "AI" input (arguably it already does... spellcheckers have been around for quite a while.)

(author here) i guess it could be viewed as an escape hatch, but fwiw I was just directly thinking about the HN Recap podcast, the inciting reason for having this interview in the first place - HN Recap draws its source material from the human writers and commenters on this site, and curation from the voters, but otherwise every word is AI generated. I would consider this a step above autocomplete and spellcheck and that passes my "it's an AI podcast" bar - particularly because there exist prior HN recap podcasts done by humans that did a worse and less consistent job.
Yes, it's called reinforcement learning.
> the idea that we could have a modern society with 40-70% of people shifting to agricultural labor is on its face ridiculous

I never said we'd need 40-70% of people in the agriculture. I've talked about the possibility of the increase upto aproximately 4% , with a pool of 40-70% people to choose from. Is it clearer now?

> you seem to be dead set on having an argument with me about something I'm not saying

Ditto :)

> If your proposal is to revert back to high land and labor input methods, then maybe it would make a difference insofar as a few billion people would probably starve. For my part, I'd prefer we try innovating our way through it.

This has triggered my response. I can't agree with that at all.

There's no need to revert to high land and labor input methods. I'll simplify a lot. We could grow more veggies and fruit, plant more nut orchards to replace milk, grow more legumes to replace meat, on smaller fields separated with rows of productive and nitrogen fixing trees (agroforesty) and reforest more lands to let biodiversity rebound and work with it, not against it ... nothing that is particulary hard and nothing of that means that billions would have to die. It would need new (smaller) electric machines and more workers, but maybe 1-2 times more, not 20 times more.
Now that's what we call gratitude on GNU's 40th birthday!
Especially since homeless encampments keep growing.

No one's personally choosing to be homeless or living with their parents out of personal freedom.
I don’t think that’s the same thing. Here people can see they don’t have to give up or change anything in order to get this functionality.

Even if they saw android as having this, that’s a high switching cost.
I actually really loved his show. It does a good job of showing how hard it is. He farms a bit conventionally, but he's also keen to try things that are regenerative – from his hedge rows and pollinator crops, to his second season quest to create a locavore restaurant that would support the farmers in his area. He's constantly playing up his persona of petrol-powered gear head to set up a joke at his expense that says, "actually, maybe this sustainable approach _isn't_ so bad." Say what you will about Clarkson the person, but the show seems to have done a lot of good in raising awareness around the issues that farmers are facing, particularly in a post-brexit UK.
Sweden Holds Grim Warning for the $4B Padel Craze
I mean, I'm a fan of EU forcing Apple's hand here; but Apple can (and does) hire the best lawyers money can buy, I don't think "you have to file a report explaining why you think you're complying with the rules" is a significant headwind for them.
Some sort of loading indicator(s) would be good. Clicking around and I guess its loading but I think its getting hugged pretty hard by HN right now.
https://archive.ph/VWuVx
Having witnessed this debate maybe 50 times now, my view is it is purely about semantics.
They have a physical growth spurt before boys do, that's got nothing to do with "society".
I didn't create them myself, to be clear, I originally got them from here and have adjusted over time (some comments on this thread / other similar threads discuss the changes necessary due to breakage): https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/143mdqv/code_...

I'll come back later when at home and post the rules I currently use as I've had to manually block other things (new carousels showing up in recommended, etc)
Yeah, I still think not having every pest and weed from Asia helped as well. Most of the weeds and pests on my property are some combination of Japanese/Chinese/Asian ____.
Isn’t that the hallmark of the Turing Test?
Email had the tree view decades before HN existed. If your email client doesn't show you that, find a better email client.
California orders bottled water firm to stop drawing from natural springs
This is _unlikely_; but you're being unfairly downvoted — AFAICT that's the EU's stance to GDPR — that it applies to EU citizens _worldwide_, as well as EU _residents_ so a pure region/geolock is not going to cut it.
this is true unless you can use large pretrained models, which are very simple to use, are very resistant to ask sorts of noise, & would get ultra high accuracy with just logistic regression on the output of the model
> Cookies for functionality that's necessary, i.e. expected by the user, are completely legal without any consent or notification.

No that is not the case, though it's easy (and common) to mistakenly think that - in part due to the confusing nature of the various regulations and in part due to how frequently companies and websites purposefully misinterpret them for their benefit.

Firstly, there are legitimate reasons to ask for consent to store user data that relate to providing a service (eg if the service is storing a user's personal medical records, or many many possible functions within many services).

Secondly, even without personal information being used or stored, and therefore no GDPR to worry about nor consent needing to be sought, cookies are a separate matter. A different EU law (the 2009 update of the "ePrivacy Directive") requires EU users be notified of any cookie use - even something as obviously reasonable as providing the functionality of a "keep me logged in" checkbox, if you're doing it with a cookie (edit: or even something equivalent like using fingerprinting on the server side to remember people) you need to notify the user.

See, for example, the UK ICO's (the relevant department for dealing with UK's implementation of GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, etc) guidance on it:

> This means that if you use cookies you must:

> - say what cookies will be set;

> - explain what the cookies will do; and

> - obtain consent to store cookies on devices.

> PECR also applies to ‘similar technologies’ like fingerprinting techniques. Therefore, unless an exemption applies, any use of device fingerprinting requires the provision of clear and comprehensive information as well as the consent of the user or subscriber.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-pr...

A cookie being necessary for actual core functionality does allow skipping over requiring consent, but not skipping the notification part. Which is why 14 years ago, years before GDPR arrived, EU sites all started putting "cookie banners" up, most of which didn't ask for consent and just appeared on the first site visit for each user even if they didn't actively dismiss it, since showing it once was widely considered to count as having notified.

Sorry for such a long comment, but the fact that these topics are so widely misunderstood means I think it's important not to make things worse by accidentally spreading misinformation like that in your comment.
Dunning-kruger of CS orientation.
People bought shovels to look for gold, not to dig ditches. Selling shovels doesn't make you better at finding gold mines.
Shoving a gen ai tool into another tool doesn't really tell us anything about the market dynamics of the Gen ai stuff.
It's fine to leave it in if you like those features but many people couldn't care less about them and hate the distracting popups, spying, and auto-updates that change functionality.
It's also a factor that many boys are growing up without a present father whether it is a single parent family or a multiple parent family where the father is working all the time, not emotionally available, etc. If they are not getting that role model it is all the more important that they get another role model.
Well they're going to get their clicks from that title......

FYI it's about e-waste
I’m not convinced of that inevitability. I’ve had Republican Americans argue with me until they were blue in the face about how great the free market is for internet service here in America, and absolutely refuse to entertain the idea that other places do it differently and it works out way better for the consumer. That’s just one example. I guarantee you that once this goes through in the EU there will be a huge pile of news in the US about how the Communists are forcing Europeans to install malware on their iPhones, and that it’s really great how Apple has the Freedom to prevent that from happening here.
That's a valid point about complex parsing. I remember being very concerned about adding unnecessary overhead to each packet during encapsulation.

As for the SG, it primarily authenticated the Xbox machine account using Kerberos and then maintained a security association, accepted heartbeats, authenticated and decrypted incoming ESP-UDP packets into IP packets that it forwarded to the backend servers. Responses from the backend would be encrypted, authenticated, and encapsulated before sending back to the Xbox. I don't think the SG had any knowledge of higher level connections running through it, such as TCP or HTTP, so it would not have manipulated HTTP headers as they passed through.
The people seeking to exclude numerical vectors as being possible to be involved in consciousness seem to me to be the ones that you should direct this ire at.
"This would be analogous to sending UDP packets. Messages are sent without confirmation of delivery. After giving these instructions to the riders you realize you don't know when or if the letters arrived at their destination."
Well, the photographed prompt says do you want to review them, not do you agree to them. My guess is that in Big Corp. Inc.'s mind, you don't have a choice about agreeing to them—er, ahem I mean you agreed to all possible future updates to our Terms & Conditions when you purchased the vehicle. Oh and your agreement is subject to forced binding arbitration — see here, in your contract, in 0.2 pt font?
Its used heavily throughout the show, but yes. I sort of dont like that idea though, because itd be hard to see stuff pretty frequently. Also, there was no power source that was visible, which i never understood
> we don't have any maps of neuron connectivity

We do for a at least one classic, small-scale example: C. Elegans. Despite mapping the roughly 300 neurons, the simulation attempts I'm aware of weren't very fruitful.

> with nearly the resolution required to do so.

I agree this may be part of why. Accurate simulation may require replicating subtle behavior outside the neuron body. Further maps or simulation attempts may have since been made, and possibly with better results. Given I don't remember headlines about this, it's likely that any improvements weren't groundbreaking.

I don't know enough about the roles of glia and inter-neuron (not interneuron) behavior to discuss this further beyond wild speculation. Nor does anyone, as far as I know. Gaining that knowledge would probably be necessary to build connectomes with sufficient accuracy for simulation.
Absolutely love the logo. I'd like to see more projects/startups choosing logos/themes with this level of personality.

Project looks rad too, but I'm just here to appreciatively bike shed.
Food production should be strictly regulated and prices protected. If food is treated like a generic commodity, the capitalist incentives end up destroying flavor, nutrition, variety, and the environment (read: your soil, your water, anything that lives in or near soil or water). People will always buy the cheapest possible thing, even if it's the worst thing for them and everything around them. We shouldn't give people and corporations the choice to slowly destroy everything. Not if we want to survive long term.
Go ahead and try to sell a product to enterprises where the creation of violent and pornographic images is possible. I promise you that you'll get zero sales. This isn't censorship nor is it about "progressive" values. This is capitalism.
It appears as though it was just fixed. I don't think it was really malware, it was probably some technical error on some Chrome team's part.
"True AGI" is often used in a way that means "human-like intelligence, but faster, more consistent and of greater depth". In that case, knowing that embodied agents are the way forward is quite trivial. We've known for a long time that the development of a human brain is a function of its sensory inputs - why would this be any different for an artificial intelligence, especially if designed to mimic/interface with a human one?
woops, yeah I should have linked the DisplayLink article and whitepaper both probably, was just going quickly

DisplayLink Article: https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...

Direct whitepaper link (warning: PDF): http://www.emcesd.com/pdf/eos93.pdf - if people prefer to search themselves and not use my direct PDF link - it is entitled "A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications" by Douglas C. Smith, from 1993
Implicit reactive `let` statements make the code harder to understand for humans AND the compiler. This new explicit state pattern even simplifies designing. Now reactive state can work outside of components and across files as you would expect. It was tricky in all three ways.
Smart is neither necessary nor sufficient to do well in trading, as well as luck. It mostly requires being rigorous, disciplined, rational, and obsessively focused on the pursuit. “Smart” and “luck” are lazy thinking ways of explaining why they do well and others didn’t. In my 30 years or so in the industry working in quant and traditional trading spaces as well as high tech startups that did very well, I’ve not seen smart beat discipline, or luck replace rational obsession. The fact is they’ve all faced enormous bad luck at some point or another, but kept plugging away. I’ve seen that almost anyone if they have a strong self discipline and a clear rational mind can do very well in trading, but it also requires obsessive focus - to the extent that most people can’t match it. I’d note this isn’t unique to trading though. I’ve seen in tech the smartest people languish around ivory towers, but the most mediocre of intellects develop the most useful systems and software that’s widely used. Again, discipline, rigor, rationality, and obsessive focus are the key factors.
It would make the footer too long. /lists is there as basically a &rest pointer to everything else.