skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's kind of with the benefit of hindsight though. In 2020 we really didn't know if this stuff would kill everyone or just be a nuisance/deadly if you're vulnerable.
Solar, Wind Energy Get Hundreds of Times More Tax Incentives Than Oil and Gas
> featuring a lifelike facial expression

Notice that, although it was a completely alien culture in a very far away time, before agriculture and writing, we still know what a lifelike facial expression looks like.

Many things vary from culture to culture. Facial expressions, at least many of them, are consistent across humanity. If someone stubs their toe or tastes something delicious, you'll know without words.

Look up 'human universals' in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and in other fields. Donald Brown (see below) gives some opinionated background here, including a literature review (of Brown's own writings, and more):

https://literary-universals.uconn.edu/2017/06/25/human-unive...

The seminal book is Human Universals by Donald Brown:

https://archive.org/details/humanuniversals0000brow/

(I don't know how fully accepted it is; there seems to be at least some disupte over Brown's theories.)
I'm very paranoid when it comes to my work laptop. I work remotely, so I assumed everything that I did on the work laptop was key-logged.
Just a few comments on this late last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37712324
Next you're going to ask how high into the air I can piss?
> The problem is that you cannot make a hard distinction between hardware and software. An Intel CPU simply isn't going to run without microcode, and having to get rid of microcode would easily set back chip design by a decade.

Yes you can make the distinction, and no it doesn't require getting rid of the microcode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37731829

Simply put, if the microcode can be updated by the user or remotely by Intel, then it count as "software", and Intel should stop shipping it. But if those update are either impossible or require a factory recall, then it's "hardware", and Intel can happily continue to ship it.

The same logic applies to the USB cable, and even FPGA: if the bitstream is locked into the NVCM, that's hardware. If it's merely written in the rewritable SPI flash, that's software. It's not a property of the bitstream itself, it's a property of how it is stored.

Obviously the cost of micro-code bugs will sharply increase. That's kind of a feature though: now hardware vendors must be really careful.
I would be interested in those studies if you can link a few of them.
Next article: Journalists duped by Tom Hanks deep fake hoax renouncing association with dental ad.
Literally everyone who renamed their master branch to main thought it was good, that is why they did it. There isn't some international police force conspiring to strong-arm unwilling coders into renaming their default git branch.
Reconstruction filters in DACs are analog low-pass filters. They don't do a linear interpolation between samples.
> Why do they have to be ill-gotten gains? Someone could invest money they've earned through productive work.

Because your hypothetical was specifically about someone who doesn't do productive work?

> Suppose you have some money and you put it in some investment fund and then live off the earnings while having no real involvement with how the fund is managed. Meanwhile the businesses you invested in are off doing productive net-positive things with your money that wouldn't have been possible had you stuffed it in your mattress, while yielding you a positive return which is nonetheless smaller than the total amount of net good created by the business.

You're begging the question - why was it your money in the first place?

If it's value you've produced, yes you can partner with someone else to compound it. But if it's just privilege that you had, then you don't get any credit for allowing it to be used productively.

> The best you can say is that the returns are zero-sum, even if the act of investing is positive sum. But isn't that true of anything? If you get a raise, that's zero sum. Someone else would have had the money in the alternative.

If you do something that produces real value in the world then that's positive sum - if you turn some planks and nails into a table, that table is more valuable than the stuff that went into it, the world is better off.
This article has frames from the AI ad:
https://ts2.space/en/tom-hanks-warns-fans-about-fake-video-p...
Your guess would be correct [1]. Some samples [2].

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2624-599X/4/3/42

[2] http://www.harmjschoonhoven.com/mp3-quality.html
I suspect it doesn't matter whether they were being paid. Section 230, as best as I can read it, doesn't say anything about whether there's any exchange of value.

And at least IMO, what would the expectation be? That Facebook investigates every single ad to make sure that nobody in them is impersonating someone else? How would you do that? To what extent does Facebook need to fact check all of the details of all of the ads across its whole platform? That's exactly the sort of hassle that 230 was intended to prevent the need for in the first place.
When you're a tv network or radio station with only a handful of advertisers...it's easy to police. When you're Facebook and Google, who are willing to take money from anyone and everyone...they have to deal with likely tens of thousands of both advertisers and false reports....eventually the scale is too large to handle. Once things get that big...you kinda just have to yolo it and only worry about the big fires.
Also to be fair, Notepad was exploited to execute arbitrary code.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/major-security-flaw-...
Something something ads are free speech!!
I love the idea, and the simplicity of the site.
Searching for keywords like css, javascript... returns results from the actual source code, not from the content.
One of my favorite optimizations was the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Brocot_tree. One of the discoverers was a clockmaker who wanted to be able to produce simple gear ratios that would be very close to a precise real number.
A biostatistician who told this professional stats guy to go consult a statistician after taking a guess at a confounding variable. He could have run those numbers himself, but apparently didn't bother, because Silver took him up on it and Kulldorff was completely wrong.

It would be less egregious if it has been a bunch of random people. It was someone who really should have known better. Instead, it provides more evidence that Kulldorff is seeking to confirm an ideological position and tossing his medical and biostatistical accomplishments aside to do it.
avclub.com is unusable and unreadable on mobile. Ads, just ads. Scroll scroll scroll, more ads. Nope. “Funny” though cause it’s an ad-ridden article about ads!
This is the primary reason I root and install greenify. To prevent these spammy apps, that I sometimes use, from running in the background and sending notifications. Unless I open the app in the forground specifically.

Too bad greenify is not being maintained anymore
Well.... sort of. Yes and no.

It looks very similar to social engineering for humans and some of the same techniques work or appear to work, but there are differences that get into how LLMs are trained and what they're actually doing behind the scenes. For example in my experience, arguing with an LLM or following up after it refuses a task at all should be avoided -- just rewind or scratch the conversation, because you want to discourage patterns. See also some of the auto-generated prompt-engineering articles that came out a while back where the jailbreaks almost look like gibberish.

But it's close-ish to social engineering and there seems to be a lot of overlap and that overlap makes it accessible in similar way to social engineering. And I think the general point about intelligence holds -- LLMs are attacked using quirks of how LLMs specifically are trained, but if you made a non-LLM AI that worked exactly like humans and had human-level intelligence, it would very likely be vulnerable to social engineering. The theory from corners of AI research is (or was last time I checked, maybe something has changed) that susceptibility to certain kinds of attacks is an inherent consequence of general intelligence.

I tend to push back a little bit at the term "social engineering" because I think it encourages more anthropomorphism than is warranted, but it's not a terrible term and it is sometimes helpful to think about it that way.
You are scratching so many past wounds with that good-looking infrastructure...that shows my age lol!

Oh how I miss my system administrator days, where things were a bit simpler than what we have today; let's say that cloud and I can't get along for some reason.
The USA is not just CONUS.

Also there was a Japanese plan to unlease the plague on San Diego - it was ended by WW2.

Not...quite sure how much of a threat "attacked Hawaii, allies under attack, plans to send plague to San Diego" all groups up to be, but yeah it was existential.
I think this pendulum will keep swinging. We won’t go back to that exactly, but things will always consolidate, explode or die, reconstitute into new things, consolidate, repeat.

There was a time when AOL felt like it would be around forever. And Yahoo. And ICQ. And Earthlink.

And today it feels like Google Search, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok will be around forever.

Something new is coming and it is hard to imagine, but we wont be going back.
Microcode can be non-configurable.

I'm willing to sacrifice the business model of game consoles.

I hate OEM deals, it just propagates the current monopolies and oligopolies. I'm okay with forcing everyone to buy their phone or laptop separately from the OS.
Could do worse.
Once cars start being designed for robotaxi use, it makes economic sense to be much smaller: most rides are one-passenger. (Though who knows what crazy outcomes you end up with under the regulators.)
Mostly but not always.

I don't know much about the Laos | Vietnam area and any evidence there, but I can reference the Sahul (Greater landmass creater by the lower seas and joing of PNG - Australia - Tasmania) and Sundaland.

If you look at the coastline graphics in the linked wikipedia articles you can see that in various places the coastlines almost aligned - additionally various islands of today were hilltops near the coastlines of old.

Dated remains on a modern island can line up with hilltop dwellings with views of the coastline of old.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland
The downvotes were due to the complete lack of context in the vaguely derogatory post.
Tom Hanks posted 16 hours ago, on a weekend.

What exactly is the timeline you're looking for here?
100% know the experience you're talking about. As for getting it back..

I was at a fair/market the other day and someone said "check my latest stuff on Instagram. My website is outdated. I normally put new stuff up on Instagram because the website is so hard to update".

With that being true, and the audiences that are on these walled-gardens, I don't think we're ever getting the old web back.
There's also this one: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...
which is summarised here: https://www.facebook.com/econometricsguru/posts/pfbid0wtvVjJ...
i do! i got a steam deck recently, and picked up a bunch of big name games on sale, but i've been spending all my time playing "brotato" and "dust: an elysian tale" because they are the distilled essence of fun gameplay in a way the bigger and ostensibly higher quality games are not.
Obvious question: why don't Google/meta/etc have this problem?
Maybe getting rid of Brendan Eich wasn’t the best idea.
I knew who the author of this article was just by reading the title.
The real issue nowadays is that you shouldn't record or master at 44.1kHz (or multiples) and go for 48kHz instead.

But not because it sounds better. Simply because 48kHz is what your computer and phone natively clocks its audio codecs at. It's done because that's generally an integer fraction, but the why doesn't matter as much as the fact itself; PC "HD Audio" and phone codecs are 48kHz.

Yes you can resample, and yes you can resample without it being audibly noticeable. But it's an extra step where you're at the mercy of whoever implements it to do it right. Doing it wrong may also include noticeable delay, breaking e.g. A-V / lipsync.

Can you build HiFi systems that support 44.1kHz and maybe dynamically switch their clock source as needed? Sure. But what's the easiest way to build a HiFi system these days? You just stick an off-the-shelf embedded device in it, which likely uses standard PC/phone tech…

So just ship 48kHz.

(Similar argument for video recording in 50Hz countries btw - unless you are recording for TV/broadcast, you should always shoot at 60 / 59.94fps. Because that's what PC and phone screens run at…)
Lisa needs braces!
Design-by-committee doesn't sound half-bad if it can standardize a single serial cable that doesn't have licensing fees. Doesn't resemble an unreasonable use of government power at all.
Go Becky Teppy
You aren't wrong that government support of automotive transport is immense. But that government support comes from decades of popular electoral support for those policies from all across of the political spectrum. Why? Because cars give people more convenient and independent transportation then just about any other mode. And people push their politicians and representatives to support that kind of transportation.

If you want to undo the car centric culture and economy, you cannot just ignore the broad base of popular support it enjoys.
> You actually can implement LLM guardrails by "just asking" it to not do X in the prompt.

Except it keeps being proven that with current LLMs, guardrails implemented that way are both quite weak and make the performance of the system worse for things that aren't intended to be excluded.

Further, because of the way LLMs scale, an instruction that fails to a hostile customer request of a particular form will do so every time, while one intern that is subject to a particular exploit won’t imply every similarly situated intern having the same vulnerability, so an exploit which works once won't be easily and reliable repeatable.
The lab where it's being built: https://mirrorlab.arizona.edu

Pre-covid they offered tours of the lab (looks to be coming back next year), and if you were lucky they had one of the spinning furnaces going.
So take excess mortality. Surprise, nothing changes. Did you read the article, the part where it mentions all the little things people try and bring up on the path to confirmation bias?
As I understand it, in that case it is by dating the age of the materials the wood in question was buried in. The minerals are dated using luminescence dating. That tells you when those particles were last exposed to sunlight.
god do I hate the "pet" analogy

yes this server is special to me. No, I cannot move workloads somewhere else and shoot the server in the head. Because customers are running GPU workloads there, I cannot transparently migrate them
Right, and they had the "advantages" of having no limitations on government power, and assigning no value to individual freedom. If they couldn't do it, it's lunacy to believe that anyone else could.
Yes, composing self-contained parts is mere multiplication: if you have two sequentially connected components with m and n states, the composition has no more than m × n states (in practice much fewer).

But if you have two tightly coupled components which can arbitrarily jump into each other's code, you have (m + n)^2 states.

A four-stage Unix pipe is easy to split and thus analyze and understand, step by step, because each step is reasonably small, and has only one input and one output (presumably). Spaghetti code may be impenetrable, and only work by coincidence.
Most professional (i.e. cinema or public address) amplifiers have an SNR of around 108db. A properly functioning amplifier is never a likely source of noise.
I don't get the comparison to TV shows though. TV shows are at an all time high with streaming platforms allowing creators to break free from cable tv norms.
That's a nonsense non-sequitur and you know it.
> I read a post on Reddit a few months back saying that everybody's body language in the office was being fed into a machine learning algorithm

That was
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35958286
Do not underestimate notepad please. It has (had) code execution capabilities.

https://x.com/taviso/status/1133384839321853954?s=20
> None of this is over, and we are so, so fucked.

Humans used to be "so, so fucked" when...

- the volcano on the island erupted,

- the harvest failed for the third year in a row

- the neighbouring tribe learned to ride horses and started a campaign for domination

- some strange curse fell upon the land killing ⅓ of the population which left the fields unworked and the land barren

We're still the same species with the same instincts for survival, the same alarm mechanisms for detecting impending catastrophic situations and the same urge to act upon impending disasters. Modern society has - especially since the introduction of antibiotics - largely done away with those traditional doom scenarios. We're no longer starving, no longer dying in droves from infectious diseases, no longer totally at the mercy of nature... but our alarm mechanisms are still in place although they are differently tuned in different people. In some people - you seem to be one of those - these mechanisms are so finely tuned that they pick up minute signals which are amplified until they trigger the 'impending catastrophic situation' alarm (we're so, so fucked) where those same signals do not even register for others. The same is true for other triggers like 'climate change', 'migration', 'systemic ...-ism' and others where some people are completely taken over by their alarms going off where others don't even hear a single bell. Many of these triggers - 'systemic ...-ism' and to a lesser extent 'migration' being prime examples - are intentionally amplified because those who do the amplification stand to gain power (and money) by doing so, others - 'climate change' - are being used by third parties for monetary gain ('greenwashing' and the multitude of 'green' scams like 'carbon offsets'/'carbon credits') or political power.

Are we 'fucked'? That depends on who you ask. Ask me and I'll say "only if we want to be". Is SARS-2 going to be with us for the foreseeable future? Yes, most likely. Is that a big problem? No, not really since it has rapidly mutated to become 'yet another Corona-related upper airway infection' while our species has developed a form of natural immunity which has taken the edge off the disease. Upper airway diseases are annoying and lead to a loss in productivity, sure, but they tend not to mail or kill. What remains is the long tail of the initial pandemic and even more of the (over)reaction to it, especially in those countries which had strict lockdown regimes. Recovering from the damage caused by those measures will take a lot of time and money and it can only be hoped that a lesson will be learned from this experience.

As to returning to 'normality' I can safely state that we have done so quite a while ago here in Sweden [1].

[1] https://www.thelocal.se/20230310/fact-check-did-sweden-have-...
> Yeah, but that's no different than a human that can be instructed to violate previous instructions with careful wording in a social engineering attack

Its different because human fallibilities aren't identical between instances, while instances of a particular LLM (with the same toolchain) are. Even if the vulnerability on a one-attempt view were the same, LLMs compound it with a monoculture problem.
Ouch. I'd be interested in digging into that more deeply. I wonder which and where these are.
This game is super fun! I've never really gotten into one of these games before but this one sucked me in. Made me want to get a handheld or something :).

How do the different opponents work? Are they using some sort of known strategies? Seems like they would follow a pattern and once you figured it out you could defeat them. How far does it go?
Are you suggesting Stallman should create a new kind of licence for SaaSes?
Plots are such a basic expectation for stats that I don't see why I should be required to write more about it..
Nah, they didn't, when Jobs said someone has stealing his code, he meant that someone did something similar. Like "stealing his ideas".

Also in 90's, there was no applescript support on macos classic qt, and third party players like vlc didn't exist yet either (not that they ever ran on classic). I know, I was mac user back then and I remember.
Compensation for the lack of a sugar rush?
I'm not too cool for MySQL, but PostgreSQL has been the default anywhere I've been in fifteen years. Is anybody aware of something equivalent for pg? I see a lot of old projects that aren't getting updates anymore.
> the focus on EVs is a distraction

Tire particles have been a problem since forever but recently its a big concern now that EVs are rapidly dethroning combustion cars. I'm suspicious
They should allow for DMCA takedown requests like sites that inadvertently have pirated content or YouTube with background music.
What Makes Open Data Hard
Actual warning: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2023/PSA230929
Go vs. Rust vs. Swift vs. Crystal for data processing
Go surprisingly tops the chart in this data processing benchmark.
I recently had the pleasure to vacation on a car-free island (few thousand inhabitants including tourists).

Only motorized vehicles allowed are a handfull small electric transporters for logistics (and construction vehicles, ambulance).

Turns out the space gained from lack of car infrastructure increases space efficiency by a lot (not that that wasn't obvious from theory).

It really was bliss and it makes me despise the status quo so much more fervently. Paradise is so close and yet so far away...
They're happy to handle DMCA takedowns for content, wouldn't the same thing apply to ads?
…keep the investors happy*
Apple has a great feature called "Notification Summaries". More urgent notifications are shown immediately, but notifications from apps of your choosing are all bundled together into two daily summaries.
Most people don't even know how to mentally frame the problem. It's the number of life years lost that matters, not the number of lives, e.g. the death of a child with their whole life before them is worse than the death of an elderly person who's already on deaths door. Current statitics focus solely on number of deaths rather than expected years of life lost so we can't even make a fair assessment of the trade-offs involved in different policies.
Better and more images though.
I work for clients at 6-12 months stretches as an independent contractor. Sometimes longer. And when I part with them I usually stay around on a monthly retainer. The retainer then keeps me in the loop with them, and I often get billed for smaller tasks their team can't address, or needs extra capacity on.

Through a lot of trial and error, coming up from sites like Upwork, Fiverr, etc. That's the only way I feel that "freelancing" works for me. Where I am deeply networked and have already build rapport with the clients.
They should be held liable. Just like a TV ad needs to be reviewed, vetted and is ultimately monitored and people can be fined for missrepresentation, why is social media which is not streaming video content any different?
You can't really sell software for running a braille display on its own, for example. As for interest going up, I doubt that very much, as linux is still lacking good vision accessibility, such as a screen reader that doesn't brake with every update to the gnome desktop. windows and macOS figured that one out years ago, and the only decent open source screen reader is windows only.