skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you elaborate more on why you think “none of this seems gruesome”?
To most people, experimentation on animals that results in such unthinkable suffering is abhorrent.
Is such practices simply “the norm”?

Besides that, the central argument of the article is it disputes the Neuralink/Musk’s claim that “the monkeys died due to unforeseen complications”. Instead, what seems more likely is Neuralink experiments were directly responsible for the gruesome deaths of their test subjects. None of what you wrote addresses or refutes the evidence presented in the article.
Hope you forgot the sarcasme sign.

Seriously doubt that every company needs "marketing". And refuse to believe that consumers need it.
It would get more complex with cross domain questions. Part of what makes LLMs feel magical is their ability to synthesize such disparate topics and information into coherent “thoughts.”

I would suspect what you have instead is a single model attached to data sources, where the model doesn’t have to have so much compressed fact, and instead can rely on higher level summary.
A large file size is incompatible with their claims of privacy? Also you aren't forced to use their client, you can use a wireguard or openvpn config directly if you want to.
And Obamacare created an entire industry of grifting Health tech companies that were creating the future of high tech information exchange and modernization
What an odd thing to do. I assume the US has no way to enforce this, so it's effectively just... a press release?

I also found this funny:

> “Today, we hold PLA hackers accountable for their criminal actions, and we remind the Chinese government that we have the capability to remove the Internet’s cloak of anonymity and find the hackers that nation repeatedly deploys against us.

And then:

> The details contained in the charging document are allegations. > The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The first part of this blog really resonated with me. Stuff is bad, fascism is on the rise, mega corporations control more and more wealth, those two things feed on each other, book banning in the US, war in Ukraine, my country is burning due to global warming, ... and all of this bad news damages the psyche.

I've been thinking of how I can help, that I should stop reading so much negative news, for my own mental health, and do something to move the needle back towards the positive.

"This time, I DO have some influence because I am a programmer. I can develop software ..."

It was jarring to see the blogger go to "I'm going to write a browser". This isn't helping, this isn't even "a way to push back" ... it's a hobby project, like woodworking. Pushing back would be helping out with one of the open source browser projects already out there or something else productive.

I mean, "you do you", it was just quite the twist.
I don't think cloud sync is fully to blame. They probably also should have been using hardware tokens instead of TOTP.

There are also password managers like 1Password and Bitwarden that can store TOTP keys and sync them while still providing multiple layers of authentication (...and hardware key support)
Seeing how there are bikes that cost as much as a used car, I think is a good move. Even for bikes that cost 500 euros or more. Here in Berlin if your bike looks more expensive than 300 euros, is gone if you don't have a super good lock, and even then.
set -euo pipefail causes more confusion than good, IMO. Not everything has an exit (or return, more specifically) code of 0 for success, which is insane, but it’s shell.

I’m good with -u on its own, but the others, meh… that’s what shellcheck is for.

EDIT: Read this [0] and weep/revel in its glory, depending on your POV.

[0]: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
There is no such thing as "late stage capitalism". If you have personal property and the ability to make money from your labor then you have capitalism. Like other human systems such as fire and vehicles usage is governed by myths, traditions, customs, and all manner of rules that enable the system to be used with relative safety. You can use fire without getting burned, and you can drive without flying off into the weeds. Back in the 1930s we found that out of control capitalism can be managed with high taxes on the rich, strong regulations on industry, and legalized labor unions and then in the 1980s we abandoned all of that. There is no "late stage capitalism" there, only human beings using systems irresponsibly by abandoning well known and long practiced rules for avoiding serious social harm.
The studies are now in humans, and any such gruesomeness that occurs there will be scrutinized. With the complex coverage Neurolink gets and the polarity of opinions on Musk, it will be interesting to see how patient enrollment goes.
https://archive.is/yCAEf
> "People who effortlessly shift from “web3 is the future” to “I will explain to you why ‘AI’ will replace you”"

to make money it helps to insert yourself between people and something they may want or need. this is how pretty much every business works.

social media made it possible for anyone(?) to gain a following and so put themselves as a kind of authoritative middle man and act as a conduit for advertisers between people and thing they want

> "It was no longer about the actual qualities of the medium, not about videos or music or stories or essays etc. Everything one made was just content."

and the grift part came from the idea that the substance of the product itself doesn't matter as much as just getting yourself in the middle. getting a monopoly on eyeballs that are interested in the thing

a good example is those youtube farms that churn out history and economics videos where the presenter doesn't even know what he's saying, just reading words all day. content

at the end they are all selling the same thing, the idea of some happiness or entertainment
Do you know if there are any devices where the high FPS mode can be used not only for capture but also for the image analysis use case?
Cheers, mate!

> Today I needed to parse some JSON

You had some JSON blob, and you actually needed to glean something from it quickly and painlessly. To paraphrase Zawinski et al., you then found you had two problems.

In this age of big data, the debate between parsable and human-readable state has been resolved. JSON is an anti-pattern that requires supplementary tooling to make any sense of it, nevermind naive readability.
A Man Amazon (Wrongly) Erased
Sure is a lot of negativity and cynicism around at the moment.

Tools and tech aren’t bad, the way people choose to use them might be.
"forced to do RFCs on GitHub" The author has raised 1 RFC ever. Have you evidence they attemnpted to contribute more in the past? Proposals to form a steering committee? sponsorship? PRs?
On The Guardian for example it looks like I'm getting WebP for the photo collections and AVIF for the story images, both from .jpg URLs (in Firefox hit Ctl-I to see image info). Their photo galleries have been WebP for years. Firefox is clever enough to correct the suffix if you try to save it.
This seems very much like some sour grapes.

They aren't strictly saying IIT is wrong, just that they think it gets too much attention.

Does Bayesian Statistics get too much attention?

>"some researchers in the consciousness field are uncomfortable with what they perceive as a discrepancy between IIT’s scientific merit and the considerable attention it receives from the popular media because of how it is promoted by advocates."

Having some good PR isn't a good reason to say the underlying theory is wrong.
After many years as a subscriber this really brings the value of Amazon Prime into question for me. I no longer order enough stuff from them to make it worthwhile. I do use Prime Reading but the quality is mostly poor, "landfill crime" genre.

Such a compromised video service would quite likely push me out - I just won't watch ads on a service I pay for.
Ah, the holier than thou purists come out to play. The hypocrisy is pretty rich.
Cloudflare did a (phenomenal) series on pq safe (public key) cryptography; here are some posts:

- NIST pq candidates: https://blog.cloudflare.com/towards-post-quantum-cryptograph...

- Kyber in TLS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum-for-all/

- Other candidates for TLS: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-tls-post-quantum-experiment/

- For cert sigs (as opposed to kex): https://blog.cloudflare.com/sizing-up-post-quantum-signature...

If you squint enough, what Signal's doing is similar to Kyber in TLS, which takes us back to KEM (like with RSA-OAEP in TLS v1.2 removed from v1.3) for key exchange (kex) with ECDH, in a pq safe way of course.
This page is almost completely blank for me as I have the `wp.com` CDN blocked (I've seen more malware served from that domain than any other), this is the first time I've seen my blocking remove all the text though!
Archived/readable version: https://archive.ph/yCAEf
> implicitly dismissing the possibility that we simply disagree on the severity of the transgression

I do think we disagree, and very fundamentally. I wouldn’t personally characterize this even as a “transgression”, much less abuse. Depending on the kid’s age, I’d even call it responsible parenting!

Nevertheless, I doubt you believe monitoring your children’s texts is truly adjacent to burning them with cigarettes, molesting them, humiliating and calling them names, and so on. This is what “abuse” used to mean.

My pet theory is that this escalation in language has been part of a social feedback loop, where people have become more sensitized and less able to cope with relatively minor nuisances.
> and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in our lives

Just so I'm clear, are you actually trying to say that ads are good for viewers? Do you personally like ads? Do you use an ad blocker? Are you happy when you see an unskippable 15 second tax on your time?
You have to wonder as a species if we have too much entertainment, all the endless tv shows, movies, it's hyper production of mostly forgettable noise and variations on the same few recycled themes. Instead we might be better of with less but better quality content or turn to various activities and socializing for fun.
Let the browser become a user agent in the full meaning of the word. Few web sites need their own styling or navigational structure. Finding information would be much easier for the user if all websites are presented in the same format, completely decided by the user.

I've changed my browsers to load all websites in reader view by default, and it is shockingly better than the old way. You get your text, hyperlinks, images and even embedded video in a clean and legible format. Sites that need more advanced functionality can be added as exceptions, such as HN.

There is a reason why people are spending almost all their online time inside standardized experiences. It is easier and better. That's why people look at images on Instagram and shop on Amazon.
The Strong Songs Podcast had a really excellent dissection of this movie.

https://strongsongspodcast.com/episode/talking-heads-stop-ma...
The whole point of me paying is to make it easier for me. If you’re going to fuck me over even more for paying then I’ll just go hack to pirating 4k rips of the content for free.
Harnessing the Power of Apache ECharts in Your Deno Fresh Project
Structured proofs as advocated for by Leslie Lamport are more reminiscent of natural deduction. One obvious difference with sequent calculus is that natural deduction only admits of a single goal for each proof step (though with multiple antecedents or conditions), whereas sequent calculus generalizes this to multiple goals which are understood disjunctively i.e. "at least one" has to be true. (The latter works well with the inherent duality of some types of logic, such as ordinary classical logic or linear logic. It doesn't seem to come up all that much when doing math practically, especially in areas close to CS where "direct" proofs are generally preferred.)
The EU did have a mandate for government services to use IPv6, but the programme it was part of got replaced by another that didn't include IPv6.

The European Commission did advocate for IPv6 use, but, the EU being the EU, motivated their recommendation by complaining that law enforcement had issues tracking down people behind CGNAT, and made clear that they wanted every IP address to point to a specific person for law enforcement reasons.

So, yeah, I don't think we should let the EU deal with the specifics of network infrastructure just yet.

I think it's hard to make an economic argument for IPv6. Yes, it's obviously a superior technology, but ISPs can CGNAT for cheap, consumers can still access every server, and the €40 per year a business needs to pay for an IPv4 address isn't exactly breaking the bank either.

Perhaps the EU should force the issue, but I think countries like Lithuania ,where there is practically no IPv6 available (0.58%, according to https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6-zoom, but who knows how accurate that is), will protest any mandate that will force their ISPs to buy new networking equipment.
That article about OpenAI exploitation of kenyan workers hits me hard.

OpenAI and most AI companies ahead of their pack can only exist in the American wild west.

Also, current generative AI models is more akin to a compression algorithm than real intelligence (that can invent and discover stuff...). I don't believe so many people drank the kool-aid from Sam Altman. Much worse is seeing people that spent their whole life in the academia unable to discern this silliness and jumping on this bandwagon.

I guess everyone wants that $1 million salary from OpenAI, or that NVidia stocks go high.

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Serious countries with real data protection laws would make those companies either cease to exist, or take many more years to get to where they are.

It won't take long(maybe a year or so) until people understand that they are building not an "AI" or intelligence, but an atomic bomb.

We need this though. This will enlighten ourselves more about technology and it's uses. It will also completely destroy most big techs, as they're all about collecting people's data.

I hope this is the catalyst that the congress needs to explode Alphabet, Meta and so on.
Featuritis...the drive to add "features" because other sites do.
Show HN: Modle, a Machine Learning Guessing Game
Hi all, I've been working on this project on-and-off for the past couple of weeks and wanted to share it here. It's a little game where you are shown the decision boundary of a ML classification algorithm and have to guess which algorithm did the classifying.

I wouldn't suggest viewing it on mobile at this point, but it should work on tablet or computer. If you see any bugs, please let me know either here or on GitHub (link on the page). I hope you like it!
Real people might not speak every dialect of English. They may not be well versed in local grammatical oddities.
> notion of human rights nearly 900 years earlier

Yeah, no. Magna Carta wasn't recognition of _human_ rights (we still had literal slaves and also separately serfdom), it was basically a bunch feudal lords insisting that the courts which the King owned personally treat any case against the King himself with the same regards as any other defendant.

Both sides reneged very quickly, leading to one of the many English Civil Wars that UK history lessons completely ignore because it's not as exciting as Cromwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barons%27_War
> Stuff is bad, fascism is on the rise, mega corporations control more and more wealth, those two things feed on each other, book banning in the US, war in Ukraine, my country is burning due to global warming, ... and all of this bad news damages the psyche.

Turn off the news. We are living in unprecedentedly peaceful and prosperous times, and it's only getting better day by day. That is a fact. If you feel otherwise, that means you are consuming something not based in reality that is causing you to feel that way. Most likely mainstream news.
I'd settle for zero sum at this point, as other scenarios lie in a range from authoritarian militarization camouflaged with smiley faces all the way to mismanaged plocies leading to a nuclear exhange.
I just love how versatile that word is :)

And yes, this one is a great example of how you can turn your paying customers into being the product that you sell (in addition to charging them) to satisfy your greed.
Show HN: SheetMonitor – Track changes to Google Sheets over time
A lot of small businesses use spreadsheets as an effective DB + CRUD app, where the content of the sheet represent the current "state" of the data. An example could be a sheet full of orders, or customer queries, or current products for sale.

While running analysis on the "current" data of the sheet is easy, its very hard to see how your data changes over time as rows are added/removed and cells altered. For example, in a sheet full of customer support issues, maybe you want to see how the number of "open" tickets changes over time, to see how your queue grows / shrinks.

So I built this tool that allows you to simply select a google sheet you have access to and create trackers to monitor the columns you want to. It uses the google sheets api to poll the sheets daily, storing aggregated data in a time-series DB.

Unfortunately it requires sign-in via google for obvious reasons, but it has a free trial if you want to test it out.

Any feedback appreciated!
Yes, it's incredibly cruel when we realize that sometimes forgetting or not keeping them alive in our thoughts is the only way to keep on living without being burdened by the sadness of what may or should have been.
I mean, if you look at a slow-mo of any pro pitching, you'll have no questions why their elbows are getting messed up. While the speeds they achieve are an impressive feat, the amount of torque and the way it applies to the elbow is just insane. Everyone familiar with ballet for example knows that the dancers slowly but surely destroy their bodies for their art. The question we need to ask is if we want baseball to be the same way.
"late stage capitalism" was defined over 100 years ago.
The story is like one from a Sherlock Holmes novel. Quite fascinating :)
Biking smarts in Berlin is a combo of having a grungy-looking bike and simply not going by bike to certain places such as busy squares and main stations.
I care less about pro players who hurt themselves, and more about the 16-21 year olds. Anecdotally, our area has a ton of travel baseball teams, which start at kindergarten. Highly competitive leagues. These kids tend to have daily practice starting in kindergarten.

There are three local high schoolers who have had Tommy John surgery. It's like they're proud of it.

An it's terrifying. If the pitch clock comes into these leagues (and it will because why not treat 6 year olds like they're pro-players so the dads can live out some weird fantasy) we will see more and more youth with injuries.
Imagine the gunk collection in said hole. Yuck!
I'm lightly amused by the choice to include the word "limited" in the headline.

Sorry, "limited" ads are still ads, no matter how you try and downplay it!
60.73 roentgen? Not great, not terrible.
I like what he wrote at the very bottom:

> ... this is fallaciously anthropomorphizing machine learning, reasoning about the model as though it were sort of like a new consciousness that just blinked into existence, absent the context of its creation. Instead, I'd offer an alternative mental model: generative AIs are tools, devised and deployed by corporations to operate at scale, laundering content the corporations generally do not own with the active intention of reducing the need for, and the value of, human labor.
I once sat down and ran the numbers of what it would cost to host logs myself on the "fanciest" cloud hosts I could find: "storage optimised" Azure Lasv3 series VMs that have AMD EPYC CPUs and 8x NVMe SSD drives.

It worked out to be something like 20x to 30x cheaper than any of the cloud solutions such as Splunk or Azure Log Analytics.
It's only more efficient in screwing over the customer, you are paying the same amount for less of the video you want to watch.

It's a shame really, my family had Sky TV about a decade ago and it always baffled me how you pay for the extra channels and then they still have ad breaks.
>But you’re not going to fit a really good lens on the laptop screen without an annoying bulge anyway, and for 99% of people it would be a waste to spend resources on it anyway.

It can be done without a bulge. But designers gonna design and make something ugly. Smartphone CMOS sensors are not bigger than the usual stuff in Laptop bezels.
Yeah there is like one rule that I often try to fix, the “no non-null assertions” rule (some.property!), because it often leads to bugs. I kind of wish you could just disable non-null assertions at the compiler level really. Maybe strict mode should do that.

I can’t think of any other lint rules I find valuable. For the giant mass of node_modules you need to run eslint, I think its cost-benefit is pretty darn terrible.
I wonder what the economics are of a massive centralized desalination plant in Africa powered by a Sahara mega-array of solar panels. Oil is transported via pipeline, what about water?
Starlink doesn’t have capacity for a large urban area. There’s only so many satellites available per square mile, and if you have a sizable fraction of a major city using starlink, they’d all be bottlenecked on a handful of satellites at best, even with the huge number of satellites. Starlink only makes sense for low-geographic-density deployments, where the number of customers on the same satellite is (relatively) low.
The entire tech industry is going through some massive enshittification. This ads nonsense is everywhere now. Why the f should anyone pay for a subscription if they are going to be shown some ads?
> There is no "late stage capitalism" there, only human beings using systems irresponsibly by abandoning well known and long practiced rules for avoiding serious social harm.

What do you think "late stage capitalism" means exactly? Because it sounds like you are describing a situation that fits the definition but saying it doesn't exist...
at this rate it is coming for sure!
I don't really see AI as an existential risk (nor something that'll single-handedly starve people nor "go rogue" - unless one defines that as something like "having CVEs").

This is less about AI, per se, and more about corporate -vs- personal IP rights. Historically, IP law has bent to benefit large corporations while citing personal IP rights as the raison d'être (& never fulfilling on that justification). What OpenAI (& many others) are doing here is just very flagrantly demonstrating how that justification was only ever an excuse, & that restrictions imposed by the Berne Convention, et al, have never really applied to corporations at scale (outside of small case-by-case exceptional examples).

The livelihoods being stolen are not being stolen by AI - rather it's a further reinforcement (scaling up) of a system that has been doing so for well over 100 years.
There's a crucial difference between what Netflix did and this.

Netflix added a new lower-priced ad-supported option, leaving existing subscribers as they were.

Amazon however is pushing ads onto existing subscribers and adding a new ad-free option to which one has to upgrade.

This burns a lot of goodwill. It just ain't nice. I will be cancelling the subscription once this hits my country as a matter of principle.
>Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality.

But prime's not free. Also the video quality is terrible.

>Imagine having to pay for every single service/website we use daily

Then that's their fault for having an untenable business model, not the user's fault for expecting the free service to remain free.

Anyways, in the AI age user generated content has an intrinsic value as training material so submitting posts to social media sites is basically a transaction.
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