skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In web, IO is heavily intertwined with business logic and mutation. In fact most of the computation is done via the database. Database code is mutation heavy and offloaded as IO away from the web application. The web application is in fact just a thin routing layer.

That's one way of writing a web service. It's not the only or even "normal" way - IME it's much more common to have the database act as a dumb CRUD key/value store, and put logic in the application layer (indeed many web services use a pure key/value store rather than a "database" as such).

You're right that if your logic is in the database, and it's an ACID-style "mutate the current state of the world" database then you can't really use pure functional techiques. The only solution to that is to not do that.
Thank you, good heavens...the other video is awful by comparison, besides just needing cleanup and being terribly compressed it was horizontally backwards and played at the wrong framerate (so common with silent film).
It sounds like you're making an argument about people's relationship to truth that pivots entirely around the unknowns presented by AI, and not around historical truths about how disinformation already works.
Compromised private keys is not uncommon, and in this case it is even more dangerous because you would normally trust that an iPhone in a shrink-wrapped box bought from an Apple store comes directly from the factory.
Right they aren’t aligned. Sun’s axis is aligned perpendicular to the ecliptic. Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees from that. So North pole is tilted towards the sun on June 21 and South pole tilted towards it on December 21—why there are seasons. Doesn’t affect timezones to my knowledge.
What will TV look like in three years?
Hey! I made some changes and now the game shows the top 2 similar tags between your guesses and the secret movie. I think the game really improved a lot with this. Feel free to test the game again, if you want to. :)
That's bullshit - it should be through the issuer. I have a half dozen different mastercards, plus variants for online wallets, all with distinct card numbers. IIRC, my Apple card has at least 4-5 numbers associated with it. (iPhone, Apple Pay on the web, Watch, physical card and i think my macbook)
Yes, that’s the basically the reason this paper gives for the large discrepancy between their estimate of the mass and prior estimates. The Gaia satellite measured the positions and velocities of billions of stars in the Milky Way, information we’ve never had before, so a new estimate being significantly different from the prior estimate is not _that_ surprising.

But the 5% number that I quoted above should not be taken as an extremely precise number. You can plainly see that it has only one significant figure; if the real number turns out to be 4% or 6% then I don’t think cosmologists will be too surprised.
There is so much baseless hysteria about this subject.

If society actually cared about this issue (spoiler, it doesn't), we already have all the required cryptographic tools (PKI, trusted timestamping, remote attestation) to create/record verifiably sourced content.

Nobody really cares though. But people sure do like to whine about it.
DRAM and NAND prices projected to edge upward in Q4 following production cuts
There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that robots that are so real they are indistinguishable from people will come about in our lifetimes. The amount of breathless speculation since OpenAI released a kind-of-decent text completion program is so far beyond ridiculous at this point.
> Cylons/Replicants are going to likely become real within our lifetime.

Great! So if me and some of my friends can afford to buy a few replicants together, we can agree offline on some gestures we will make using our replicants ahead of time and then we can witness important events with our replicants, and we will discretely gesture during the events. This will then allow us to determine if the feeds we are seeing from the eyes of our replicants are being fiddled with significantly.
Tech giants are hijacking the internet
The big clue that this is all a pretensious hustle is calling a TENT an "off grid shelter".

Critical Ignoring, engaged.
"Nobody cares" is the important part. The most recent X-Files reboot did an episode on this. The age of conspiracies is over; governments don't have to kill people to protect secrets because they can just dump them in public and nobody has any idea what to believe anymore.
Getting the congress to pass laws that say copyright is whatever you want it to be is cheaper for Disney than 2^100 dollars to keep the mouse under their control.
Why does that mean that the final price must the opaque during the moment of purchasing decision, though?

If the goal is keeping people informed, one can show various breakdowns, piecharts or any other creative infographic at the canvas of the bill.
Serving videos with interspersed ads or selling goods on the internet really are not complex business models. You can hardly call the fact that people choose to use these novel things - when replacements like cable TV and brick and mortar stores are still working just fine - slavery.

The EU really needs to drop their victim mindset about these American software companies and critically examine why their insistence on the grant-model for innovation has resulted in failure after failure in the software space. They’ll try to start a “Silicon X” where literally the only thing in common with Silicon Valley is they try to collocate the jobs they’re creating, which is like the easiest factor to replicate as it will mostly happen naturally if they address the actual other factors like attracting venture capital, letting employees take home a lot of money and switch jobs freely, letting companies hire and fire more freely, actually valuing the software work instead of glorifying nontechnical pencil pushers like project managers…
That Canadian news article clarifies that only a very specific once-a-day audio announcement on the CBC's main national radio network is being ended while the National Research Council will continue providing several other types of time signal as usual. The Hackaday article's title it very poorly worded.
Simple, the developers, planners, or other stakeholders do NOT care about the trees in your neighborhood they only care about theirs.

Try cutting down your mayor's favorite tree in his yard. See how he feels about that.
How does Mistral 7B outperform Llama 2 34B models?
Yes, the problem already exists, but we are approaching something uniquely different in magnitude that is significantly different than prior.

I would add the caveat Post-truth is not the moment disinformation exists, but rather the point where the threshold is crossed where truth is no longer discoverable for the majority of content.
There may be other reasons besides "they don't care". For instance, it's pretty dubious to say "they don't care" about the results of an election. But we still don't use encryption or really crypto at all for election results for reasons like logistics.
> Nobody really cares though

You've come full circle and pointed out the exact problem
Up to you. Personally before deciding to hate something or somebody as much as you seemingly do, based on the words of others, I'd like to ensure that what they're saying is at least true. Otherwise, you risk just becoming a hate fueled tool, literally no different than Germany circa 1935.
"Simulation and Simulacra" was an instruction manual to some people.
In the 90’s, the internet was cool, but you went to the library to do research.

For about 20 years, that flipped. I think it is flipping back. For me, the eye opener was trying to diagnose a roof vent issue. The small local library has two relevant books, each with 2-3 pages of information.

Those pages were more informative than a 6 hour internet search.
I disagree. The same could be said for client side scanning child pornography. This is about the potential capacity for abuse where there was not capability previously.
> Any economics or statistics student could do be a better job. And certainly, no statistician worth their salt would compute anything with the methodology that BLS uses.

So every bond trader, Fed observer, academic economist, investment bank economist, pension fund, union, etc, are all aware of this bad methodology in the BLS CPI, and are saying nothing? All these people with heaps of money on the line in one of the most looked-at statistics published are… ignoring the problem?

> Hardly anyone knows how these numbers are computed. Hardly anyone cares that they are unscientific trash. Pretty much everyone stops at the title associated with the number.

Really? Because MIT's Billion Prices Project (BPP; an index of internet prices, scraped daily) found the CPI and the BPP are very tightly intertwined:

* http://bpp.mit.edu/usa/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project
If you're interested in learning more I recommend you watch "dark matter is not a theory"[1]. We consistently, across many measures, observe the effect of substantially more mass than we expect using traditional understandings of dynamics. People have been aware of it, under different names, for about 90 years now.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmJkMhmrVI
It's funny reading articles where the author is directing smug superiority at an ML model. "Haha, Toyota Camry! You may be able to move faster than I can run, but can you move up a ladder?"
This scheme seems to protect the largest companies with the largest bank accounts the most. Why would we want a system like that?

I actually have the opposite view: I'm more worried about a small-time author that say, makes living on a low-volume text or training book, than I am protecting Mickey Mouse.
Eh, what?

Anti-vaxxers believing there's microchips in vaccines, 9/11 truthers, flat earthers, NFT peddlers, gamestop investors, moon landing deniers, qanon, believers in a shadowy cabal running the USA because there's an illuminati-looking eye on the 1 dollar bill...

These did pretty well without GPT4 and SD.

People need education, critical reading skills, reasoning skills. And they need at least the lower 2-3 rungs on Maslow's pyramid satisfied. That protects against misinformation, not controlling or detecting where content originates.

Memes will spread if the conditions are right, no matter how much tech or legislation you throw at society.
Add tipping to this, and it becomes very tiring as a tourist in the US trying to figure out what anything costs.

If I have $20 in my pocket, I have no idea if that will cover a $15 lunch deal(after taxes, service charges and tip).
I have tried to ask at resturants before ordering what a meal will 'actually' cost me and only recieved a blank stare.

Of course, if you are a business, having your market tolerate obsfucated pricing models is a feature, not a bug.
Just to be clear: those two teenagers intentionally killed someone on a bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIFlQaIAIQ

https://apnews.com/article/bicyclist-killed-teens-vegas-murd...
Haha - I simultaneously wrote my own comment that recommended the same video! I think acollierastro makes really good, accessible physics content.
The article linked includes OOB verification as a scenario in TOFU. From the perspective of the ssh client it's TOFU (no CA chain for the client to perform a check), sure, that just means it's up to the user to do the work and use ssh safely (either the server has a site posting the fingerprints like GitHub/the AUR or you're setting up the machine and have physical access, or maybe you're using SSHFP).

>If no identifier exists yet for the endpoint, the client software will either prompt the user to confirm they have verified the purported identifier is authentic, or if manual verification is not assumed to be possible in the protocol, the client will simply trust the identifier which was given and record the trust relationship into its trust database.
In fact, you should feel no shame about actively preserving your particular copy of those games. You never know who has a release that has not been preserved.

Piracy is preservation. The only reason works are preserved tomorrow, is because somebody is pirating them today.
I thought this was the point of project managers, they're supposed to harmonise various types of specialist when no one generalist can do everything.
What were the convenient lies in 4th century Rome?
It's sad when any sort of ritual comes to an end, but I mean... with cell phones sync'd to the tower's time, and temp controlled time crystals (like in the apple watch), are we technically missing anything without this?
There's a lot of FUD about Web Bluetooth in here. The problem with that is Web Bluetooth isn't theoretical. It has been enabled by default since 2017. Where is the flood of predicted exploits? The fears are way overblown.
I guess it starts by abusing a document system to develop interactive applications instead of using an actual application SDK.
Did you think these people just stopped existing when crypto took a dump? Blockchain all the things… LLM all the things!

At least LLMs have a very obvious use from day1… but an OS is not one of them.
23andMe Sued over Hack of Genetic Data Affecting Thousands
Maybe people will someday learn to not trust arbitrary companies with their genetic and other data.
This, I guess, was a minor disaster with the iPhone 15 launch. I bought one the weekend they launched, and the employee told me "don't upgrade to 17.0.1, it breaks transfering from another device; wait for 17.0.2". By the time I got home 17.0.2 was out, but people that bought this the 2 days before probably had a bad time.

I suppose you could test your patch releases even if it's launch weekend, but having the ability to have a known-good version out of the box is nice.
> But people sure do like to whine about it.

That is the minority of people who comprehend what is happening stating their observations.

Cryptography has been proposed, but implementation details are problematic. There are still methods of subversion, but they do get harder. The other issue is that having every hardware recording device in existence implement cryptographic capabilities will also result in a regulation battle more likely to result in DRM state controlled devices.
Apple owns the firmware.

They could enable 24/7 recording, lie to the OS about what is happening and trickle the data back server-side within harmless iCloud requests. It would be pretty much undetectable.

And the point of CSAM client-side is that it is more secure and private than them doing it server-side.
That's a whole lot of "nothing" it has to do with randr:

https://xcb.freedesktop.org/manual/group__XCB__RandR__API.ht...

But, yes, software using Xcb does have to actually do it correctly for it to work, like nearly all aspects of software development.
You mean it'll fuck up SEO? The web is unsearchable already, anyway.

And people have their attention already saturated, this is the bottleneck. Not the amount of bullshit society can produce.
It's not that people don't know what to believe. They'll just believe what already confirms their worldview.

Indoctrinating children is the battleground. Kind of always has been though.
And here I am with a fresh iPhone 13 that I was hoping would come on 15.4.1, but actually came on 16.6.

Staying put, hoping for a jailbreak one day.
> I think the observational results are caused by something else that's not understood or seen yet.

Since it's not seen or understood, we could say it's "dark" for brevity. And since it's clearly affecting gravity let's just say "matter" for short.
Western Union was the de facto way for fraudsters to send funds for many years. They didn’t ID the recipient when picking up orders under 700 or 800 dollars. Scams were easy to spot, they t shears try to get you for something just below that threshold.

Gift cards are not fool proof either, anyone who touches it along its existence can extract funds, as everyone who touches it would see the card number and pin. so there is implied trust what dealing with them.

Cloned valid cards are where it’s at nowadays.
I think this is true, but even still, having pure communication-overhead roles will probably never outperform a team of generalist ICs. (edit: just my opinion - I have no data for this)
I guess my question is if that actually makes things worse. The people who were likely to believe falsehoods unquestioningly probably already do. How much does the ease of making new convincing falsehoods ensnare new people vs. causing the wary to just get paranoid and unlikely to believe things without overwhelming evidence?

At some point, getting people to believe things, let alone care about them, is already something that is generally known to hit diminishing returns, mostly in terms of reach. The percentage of the population that even is following wherever you're posting your fake content isn't 100%, even if you're so convincing that it gets onto major news sources.

Post-truth always feels like it's brought up as "And then anarchy follows", but it's unclear to me that it's that different than what things were like in pre-internet society where "fake news" was just someone in your town telling you something they'd heard from someone the town over about something happening hundreds of miles away. It can be a regression, but it's unclear to me that it's necessarily worse for people, since it's not clear to me that the fact that I know about some natural disaster in Laos is good or important.
Barbara Ehrenreich did that: https://a.co/d/esYwAgq
How do cryptographic tools help against fake imagery?
PaLI-3 Vision Language Models
Oh it's Yuri Rashkovskii, one name I actually remember from the olden times.

I think you have a good project on hands, happy to see you could establish it as a tech startup. Over the years my mind keeps wandering into this place where an apps are much tigther integrated with the database. Where a full class of engineering tasks (and bugs caused by them) is eliminated completely. I'll be checking your progress.
Post-truth society has already arrived in the mid-2010's. Making fake content was never expensive or difficult to produce to begin with. Misinformation is already expensive to tackle and in many cases nearly undetectable without invasive data collection. Generative AI doesn't change the equation and was never a requirement to successfully manipulate public opinon. Hell, most of these problems with misinformation are probably as old as the emergence of sedentary human societies.

Also, what's up with throwing some random unsourced statement about robotics/replicants in the middle of an article?
The first sentence is true, but the second raises the question: are we so gullible that the robots don't need to be indistinguishable in order to fool most people?

While the tech is great, if anything I feel like what OpenAI has revealed to us is that we're still a bunch of superstitious apes that are just not cognitively equipped to reason about what we've created.

It feels like a new age of religion is dawning in which we construct myths about the tools we build, instead of myths about the forces of nature. At one point we blamed bad weather on the gods. Our gods now are technological. The cryptocurrency movement was more belief than tool. The AI panic is more belief than tool.

We are apes and we have always worshiped falsehoods but now the falsehoods we worship are unknowable artifacts of technology, Arthur C. Clarke was prescient when he said - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
You can play Zork in COD Black Ops (and ColdWar I think) ;)
Dif you not see the article arguing for two seat manned aircraft with cannons in the modern era? Claiming they could shoot down migs with flechette cannons?
97% of us always believe what we're told by the authorities of the hour. Moving in conformity with the hive like a pebble embedded in a glacier. Evidence, recorded or otherwise, makes no difference.
Disinformation is a complete red-herring.

It's about presenting people with content that they want to believe. All sides are engaged in it.

The facts have never been either-or/black-or-white anyway.

It has always been more important to teach people to think for themselves, how to empathize with people who are different from you and have a grounded moral-center. I think if you find yourself completely agreeing with a major narrative in the media, you're probably missing one of the above three. Tribalism is cancer.

"Disinformation" is just a reframing of the narrative to pretend that only one side has all of the facts. The people shouting at you about how dangerous it is are the ones playing you.
This essay equates "human-generated" with "truth." That doesn't match to my current experience online; more than half of what humans generate is already false.

What if it ultimately doesn't matter if the source is human or machine-generated?
The law explicitly permits making copies of computer programs for archival and backup purposes.[1]

You will run into legal problems if you try distributing those archives/backups, but simply making them for your own use is perfectly legal.

Obligatory IANAL.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
That's fine but obviously not having a wire is very useful for many situations.
Logistics, and the hard constraint that we can collect the votes without being able to tie a distinct vote to a distinct individual. That last part puts some hard limits on what we can use for validation.
million dollar startup idea.
No, generally these companies had productivity plummet during covid. Just my experience at a few companies that transitioned to remote.
https://archive.md/PprNl

Some "Social" media have removed all restraints on hate speech and MSM produce much negative content. Such content gets the most emotional reaction, i.e. attention.

You can't swim in this stuff and not smell bad.

You are not a media pawn. Build and strengthen healthy relationships. Get a hobby like music or photography (without that nagging cellphone).

Spite the media and strive to be positive and happy. They'll hate you for it.

Good.
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Hey all, I’m the lead author on this work. Thanks to the OP for posting, and for all the interest and feedback. To clarify a few points: the goal of this work is to investigate the extent to which an LLM can manage memory and different memory hierarchies, applying lessons from operating systems to extend effective context lengths. All of our code is open sourced at https://github.com/cpacker/MemGPT so you can try it out yourselves!
I wonder if I should delete the old ones. I bought a 4T external SSD exactly for LLMs.
> How much will it cost, what will the free version lose, what data of mine will be sold, etc?

It is open source, so you can run it yourself.
Yes, somewhat a different topic, but so much information now exists in video form versus written due to the ease of video recording.

So many videos on YT that could be 2 lines of text are 5-10 min videos of someone talking about something irrelevant until we find the part where the problem is discussed.

I suppose AI might actually be solution to this. Allowing efficient video search.
Wow thank you “mind prison” for this revelatory call to action. We should indeed all “share with others” when it comes to this blog
The signing of an update prevents non-Apple sources to install their software. It doesn't prevent a malicious actor from installing an Apple update. (Suppose a user has a phone with iOS 16 but does not want iOS 17.)
You can play Zork with chatgpt
Maybe you're much sharper than I am, but I am thoroughly convinced that what already exists could fool me for a long time under the right circumstances.