skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically, I am not sure about the feasibility.

You request a one-time-certificate with a smartphone, then copy it on a laptop (already this is not automatic): once per website or page? That is a lot of certification requests. And that would be to access the content in the www? It creates a dependency stronger than DNS. And there should be full warranty that the issuer and the receiver cannot cross information (of the issued and the received - that would identify the user).

Plus, not everybody has a smartphone. Not everyone accepts Android or iOS at their current implementations. Do those people remain without access to the www?
It seems like this muddles things in precisely the way everyone expected, and quite a few even wanted, no?
It's not censorship if I control the AI and can turn it off at any time.
Maybe I'm biased, but in my opinion crime risk is higher in the US, where you have "no-go-zones" than ok most parts of Western Europe, where this concept does not really exist.
I guess an intuitive way to approach it given your background is by learning SVMs and how the kernel method is used to do non-linear classification. Or start with wiki article, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_method
There’s also a lot of people who willingly don’t have kids and some of them think children are dogs which talk and scream instead of barking. Another is the type of parent who has a couple children with the gene of compliance active and think they’re literally gods of parenting and if your child misbehaves it’s your fault.
IMO this has little to do with AI, and a lot more to do with people becoming more accustomed to the fact that war is filled with propaganda, and not just from 'the other side.' For instance literally all of the evidence for the Iraq War was fake. The high level insider was a taxi driver and thief [1], the rock solid evidence (receipts) of Iraq trying to purchase 'yellowcake' uranium in Niger was a forgery [2], and of course the "mobile biological weapons laboratories" were run of the mill hydrogen balloon refilling stations. [3] Literally all of the "Irrefutable and Undeniable" [4] evidence was fake.

But who'd have had the audacity to make such claims back then? Now it's a lot more justifiable to immediately doubt any piece of evidence, or even multiple pieces. And so when ever more people see some emotionally charged damning evidence, their reaction is no longer to race to the desired opinion. Even if AI image generation didn't exist, there'd be plenty of people doubting this right now, for good reason. And I think this is a very good thing.

This is perhaps the one and only nice benefit of a low fertility rate. With an ever aging population more and more people are going to have the wisdom of having lived through these events. With any luck it might even help keep us out of WW3.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_Iraqi_mobile_we...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/06/opinion/irrefutable-and-u...
Now gov site has a list of every website you've looked at.
Were it not for the new AI tools; these lies would not be told; honesty would reign supreme throughout human interaction. Nobody ever photoshopped pix by hand before this, in furtherance of a faked story. Right?

Perhaps the ethics are more complicated than that.
Does Onlink use any of the Uplink source, or is it written entirely from scratch? If the latter, it's definitely within your rights to open-source.
There was an article a while ago about how it costs OpenAI around $700,000 per day to operate. Could be north of $1M / day now.
I love types I just struggle with Typescript a lot because it seems to get in the way for me. I might like it more if I buckled down and really tried to figure it out. It’s probably the slowest language for me to grasp maybe outside of Objective C.
When you try to enforce typing on a language that wasn’t designed ground up with types in mind it just rubs me the wrong way. Python type hinting strikes a good balance though.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
We've had various cats that ate corn, melon, berries and our current crop of cats love our spider plants.
By that logic you could call regular ad blocking censorship, because it does exactly the same thing as parent described, only without AI and less effectively. I see a difference between algorithmic feeds that I have no control over that are designed to boost the companies goals, and an opt-in tool (hopefully an open one) running locally and modifying the content presentation to remove things I don't want in the first place
Have you ever seen M1 or M2 chip? here you go https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/09/teardown-a... and M2 pro https://www.ifixit.com/News/71442/tearing-down-the-14-macboo...

ram is ordinary POP, you got lied to by Apple marketing. If you acted on this marketing and spend money then re-programming will be very difficult with brain actively fighting on every step to prevent cognitive dissonance.
Don’t you need to pay each school per credit transferred? I hope you weren’t in the US.
As to #1... I may know a guy who can help.[0,1]

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-12/fake-p...

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-11/fake-part...
Watching this play out on Twitter has been fascinating. For days after the attack, there was almost unanimous support for Israel. Then the Harvard letter came out saying that the blame was entirely on Israel, infuriating most of Twitter. But then over the next few days, a steady stream of posts have been bubbling up which all carry the theme of making the reader question whether Israel is justified in its reaction.

It’s hard to say whether deepfakes are to blame. Certainly it’s a factor. But the underlying reason seems to be that people are willing to believe that Israel is overreacting.

Before deepfakes, there was good old fashioned propaganda. Both are lies, and it’s hard to tell what to believe. What’s changed is that information travels far faster now, and more widely.

One thing’s for certain: traditional media seems hopelessly outclassed by social media when it comes to influencing peoples’ opinions. The news blitz leading up to the Iraq invasion ("weapons of mass destruction…" rhetoric) might be the last time that such tricks will work for getting wide-scale public support for governmental actions. If 9/11 had happened today, one can’t help but to imagine what a Taliban social media presence would look like, or whether there would be a large scale surge of support in their favor.

Apropos nothing, pg highlighted one of the more interesting takes on the whole situation: https://x.com/paulg/status/1712097145770156458?s=61&t=jQbmCk...
Maybe it’s semantics, but generally with fund allocation when you’re deploying more than 1% of your AUM towards a single thesis that’s a significant bet.
This seems like a well done talk, but part of me is tired of the same information repeated again and again in different forms. I feel like I’ve already seen [0] [1] [2] this talk about 15min in. Details tag, input validation attributes, the dialog element etc.

It’s a good message (look at these platform features!) but rarely am I seeing people that are surprised by the existence of the details accordion tag any more.

Comically I guess the <details> tag they’re (and myself is) familiar with is usually wrapped in an Accordion react component with the open close state saved in a hook, so maybe we haven’t learned.

[0] http://youmightnotneedjs.com/

[1] https://www.kryogenix.org/code/dont-need-that-js/

[2] https://javascript.plainenglish.io/sometimes-you-dont-need-j...
Replika is another take on "Her" https://replika.com/
Don't be a software developer:-)
That’s great to hear! Did you find it hard to learn?
Right now, it's mostly hardware costs.
For a more understandable open source Vault alternative, I’d recommend you look into Infisical.

Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders
Being in both academia and tech long ago convinced me that intelligence is very multidimensional and that smart people can be shockingly dumb in areas outside their core strengths and knowledge.

If they think they are smart this guarantees they will be idiots outside their core areas because they won’t make any effort to learn or have respect for other domains.

If you think you’re smart it makes you dumb.

Arrogance about one’s intelligence also tends to cause age related stagnation. If you think you already know everything there’s no reason to keep learning. I’ve seen 70 year olds learn fundamentally new skills and ways of thinking many times.

I’m convinced arrogance or complacency is the root of age related stagnation more than neuroplasticity decline. The latter just means it takes a bit more time and effort to learn, not that you can’t (unless you actually have a degenerative neurological issue).
Poison expert allegedly poisoned wife–with a shockingly toxic gout drug
Unfortunately, you're right. I can read it fine on my computer, but it's tiring to read on the Steam Deck. Tons of whitespace and a tiny font.
Well, I think we're not far away from having NN upscaling options in our window manager, which should be able to solve the issues for that game
Google and their also-ran AI. Pichai is the lame duck CEO, Brin and Page are the lame duck founders. Hassabis is a lego nerd.

Company hasn’t done shit but shutter products and piss people off, and the search engine is working about as good as AltaVista circa 1999.

Google employees downvoting me
We are assuming here (incorrectly or not) that since no PII is transmitted or stored, the GDPR doesn’t come into play, and the consent is just asking for permission and not “gdpr consent”

Of course it’s impossible to actually transmit anything anywhere without including the source IP in the http header - a fact we are ignoring completely. But that’s similar to the topic of this discussion: Microsoft does exactly this under the same assumption, that non-PII data can be sent (even via http) without gdpr coming into play. Otherwise they couldn’t have it enabled by default. If there is a ruling that says otherwise then everyone will need to change.

It could also be that first party servers (Microsoft app talking to Microsoft servers) is acceptable and then everyone would route telemetry to their own servers.
Does the AWS EC2 network filters UDP packets with a spoofed source? Is the firewall well configured?

Because it sounds like something spamming UDP packets with IP spoofing could take down all kubernetes nodes.

Maybe signing the kernel panic message could help too.
It might be clearer for them to say that Google could make another device using the same BOM as the earbud. The title made me think that it only required custom software.
Those Godzillas are incredibly hard to come by unless you've got a commercial fleet or serious bucks to spend over MSRP. I looked around a couple of times in the last few years nationwide and was having an absurd amount of difficulty. A few leads in the PNW but that's the opposite diagonal of the country from me.

Maybe buying used from someone's fleet. But then you're buying a used fleet vehicle...it was better for someone to sell it than repair and keep it in the fleet...

If you have a good relationship with a dealer they can order it for you, but they're just as likely to sell it to somebody else on receipt for more money than you were.

Honestly though I kind of prefer vans and I think discontinuing the E250 like they did after 2014 was an enormous mistake.
And of course, Linux has support for extattrs and the common Linux filesystems (ext, xfs, btrfs at least) support them.
Are you arguing that Gödel's incompleteness theorems are trivially proven false because VMs and emulators exist?
Palestine's forgotten oil and gas resources (2021)
Interesting detail about the TTS model generating a cough. Does anyone know what model/approach they’re using? I wonder if it’s transformer based like Bark.
It's not of course. But 'screening' news casts for 'inappropriate' content is easy and it is easy to point fingers when it doesn't meet 'standards'.

Whereas with wikipedia, unless a dedicated team of editors who are contracted or liable to vet _every_ change. Possibly only for the UK, who get a special 'only with vetted edits' version or some such, I don't think wikipedia would be interested in making such a thing.

Separate from that, wikipedia has various pages on (conditions related to) our sexual organs, as well as lots of articles about politically contentious things. I don't think they are particularly interested in filtering that either.

In contrast to news channels, most of which would have no particular complaints about a bunch of rules about content. As a rule your 9'o clock news isn't going to just casually show frontal nudity (except e.g. Germany because they're fine with it).

One obvious problem is all those words in single quotes: Who gets to decide? Evidently you aren't happy with whomever decided how far you can go with the content shown on the news, and I concur that it goes quite far. But the point isn't about the current standards being applied. The point is whether _any_ standard can be applied at all.

To news: Yes. To wikipedia: Not in a way wiki foundation would accept.
Discussion seems incomplete without mentioning AppleSingle and AppleDouble which allow the resource fork to be preserved outside of HFS/APFS:

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

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/AppleDouble
> in order to make this service a reality it must be local

Absolutely. AI should be local and under our control at all times. Local models that run on our computers is something I want very much.

> What we need is data poisoning.

Agreed. Anything that reduces their profits is valid. Ideally to zero or into the negatives. Their "concerns" are irrelevant.
Much more powerful entities are going to be in control. The "beauty" of AI is that it's a black box, and you can't directly check its biases. Guess who will win the people control battle? (If we are speaking of the illusion of control, it's a different matter of course)
People lie. Helping people lie more convincingly is still a thing that should raise ethical red flags.
I try to sleep 11pm-7am. Not gonna lie, 11pm is sometimes 11:30, sometimes 1am. Don't insist on the "rules" you set for yourself, look for the results :)

I am in tech, for the next couple years I feel secure I will have a job. If my employer would want me in the office, I'd quit so that I can work somewhere where they don't want me in the office. I deliver more than the average, but I also spend less time on commute than the average.

Don't go back to the office, that's my suggestion. YOLO, wasting time at the water cooler is stupid in my eyes. I do meet friends almost daily during summer, I have a ton of time for myself, and let's be honest, if I fail only half of my own list on a given day, I still did more for my well being than most of my colleagues.

And you know what: I DO "fail" the schedule, quite often. :)
go on vacation for a few weeks
IIRC was not a military testing with lasers as a offensive weapon? Could a laser beam have a wide enough width that it could incinerate something in front of it?
That’s more or less what most people did a century and change ago every day. Being bored is somewhat of a lost art nowadays. Good or bad I’m not sure but I definitely feel the tug of the smartphone when faced with boredom.
What Is Login.gov?
The problem now is that AI generated content, because of how easy it is for humans to generate, poisons the well of information further than previously. There are more lies spread online now and these additional lies make a bad situation worse.
It gives me force field vibes.
Nice to hear. It's really a job for the clueless or the insane. Everyone else's humanity gets fucked up by the mindless machine that is the post modern corporation.
What was descartes’ works, for the lazy and uninformed?
Hah. Sorry for the empty comment, but it’s so funny that you and I both simultaneously pointed out the Iraq war was based on fake information. And I just realized that 20-somethings today didn’t get to experience what that was like firsthand. Your point about lived experience is fantastic; hats off to you.
I don’t think 2B is too little. Anthropic already has a competitive LLM they lack a competitive dataset I think and need to scale. 2B can allow them to do this. I don’t know that Google wants Claude to be theirs they just don’t want Microsoft to own the generative AI market
This. Apple really, really, really cares about color accuracy. The only reason the glowing apple logo was allowed is because it takes a very, very bright direct light to affect the screen at all.

BTW, the reason this was ditched on the newer MacBooks is because they wouldn't have been able to fit a diffuser capable of preventing an apple-shaped sun spot from appearing on the display outside.
OP here - I wouldn’t have anything like the same reaction to books, even though it might be argued that they’re the same as an iPad in being a technological distraction device. I don’t think they are at all, being a world of artistry created by the author, and requiring mind and imagination to decode. If my child needed a book all the time, I’d be pretty pleased about it. My general point was toward both the iPad use as some kind of defeater for the child being bored AND the content on those iPads - every one I see seems to be rapidly flashing, multicoloured simulation of barely even a cartoon, just some irresistible schema of child-directed content. Books are a world away from this. I’d encourage the book reading, it’s a different thing for a child to be engrossed in reading opposed to hectically distracted away from thinking and acting by an irresistible supernormal stimulus. I hope your child grows into a great writer one day.
It's data, then loss, and then, finally, architecture. And including some additional conditioning or metadata to help prediction will often have higher value than an architecture change...
That's still only $365M per year – $2B would last you 5+ years.
Ah, I miss the days before I was a parent and had strong opinions on parenting.
Because rising a child is genuine hard. And it's only getting harder everyday. The cities are crowded. People are less tolerant to noisy children. If your parenting is not what people expect they will judge you on social media (instead of a very small social circle like before). Many once common parenting practices are literal crime now. And housing and school are only getting more expensive.

The most tolerable alternative is simply not to have children, and it will just be more and more common.
Why would I prefer contemporary paintings or movies?
It boils down to effort/cost vs value.
We disable all kinds of backup data on our android app, including local favorites (should be backed up imo) and auth data (should not be backed up). It's just a hassle to implement, handle, maintain, test and no one ever asked for it.
We had it enabled at some point but then had a bug only occur when a user was restoring data from a backup, crashing the app instantly on start. Of course then it gets decided to completely disable it, instead of spending say 1000€/month to maintain/test this feature 'noone' wants.

Same as with portrait/landscape mode.
I’d be interested to see actual statistics on this.

I encounter anti-fraud challenges fairly regularly just because I have the same name as another family member and we once shared an address. Years ago.

A number of clients and friends have reported constant hassles wrought of poor anti-fraud implementations.

Older folks and less technically inclined are particularly at risk of falling through these cracks, as are frequent international travelers.

The 99%/1% thing is a good colloquialism but I don’t think the numbers would be there.

Loads of people are using VoIP numbers everyday for perfectly legit purposes. I’m not saying you’re making up your troubles. Just that clearly there are assumptions in anti-fraud technology generally that impact wide swaths of people, whether they understand why or not.
The closest equivalent to "AUM" for a company like that would be the market capitalization, not cash reserves, so over 1.5 trillion.

Then again, shareholders usually have less risk tolerance with companies than investors with hedge funds, so the two aren't really comparable either. (But I assume your 1% number is for more risk-averse funds? Hedge funds regularly make much bigger bets than that)
Windows:

ipconfig /all

macOS:

ipconfig getpacket <interface>

Linux:

cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases
Could it be more to prevent monopoly by their competitor Amazon becoming the biggest investor?

OpenAI gave Microsoft a competitive edge and this could just be a hedge to prevent Amazon from getting even further ahead.
Web Design as Architecture
This isn’t about enjoying the explanation now, it’s about the academic success and open doors one could have had if their teachers had been better communicators. Math doesn’t get studied in a vacuum, it’s the biggest selection criterion for STEM education.
What caused the volcanic tsunami that devastated a Greek island 373 years ago?
It’s an interesting notion that we are forced into buying better, newer hardware, more often, because of “capitalism”.

It’s an interesting thought that, given the perfect software, one might run Fallout 4 on a Radeon HD 5750 or Cities Skylines on a Pentium 4.
I stopped doing that. I realized that in half a day to a day I can set everything up again manually from simple backups. And I spent more than that on Ansible and the maintenance costs are not negligible, plus the fact that the day you need it something broke and you need to fix it.
Don't be too sure, that's not how it played out for Martin Shkreli.
The gausses and ramanujans still have the same basic architecture though - we're measuring outliers in the same family, not comparing across families.
Messy license
Yeah, even for my simplest projects, like single-file scripts directly modifying HTML, I'll use `tsc` to compile .ts into .js, just so that I can get better IntelliSense while I'm working
It is very high for UK, that's the point. You can't just convert currency and compare numbers, things don't work that way
> It’s hard to say whether deepfakes are to blame. Certainly it’s a factor.

I don't think that's certain at all. It's really as simple as people not wanting to bomb densely populated areas. The longer that goes on, the more the tide will turn on Israel. I think there's also an element of education, most people in the west don't know the history of Israel. Once people start looking into what happened in 1948, they start to see the reality of an occupying force and colonization.

Mainstream media has lost control of the narrative.
Yes. I'm with you on that, notice there's a video there though. Also there are other sources e.g. guardian mentioned it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/oct/13/israel-ha...

Reuters doesn't mention it but it did mention that the Hamas explicitly told residents to stay home:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-tells-gaza-r...
> But who'd have had the audacity to make such claims back then?

Dominique de Villepin, famously.
Not in an empty universe.
I think the comment refers to Descartes idea of solipsism, where we can't know the truth, because something might be beguiling our senses. From there, Descartes derives his famous "cogito ergo sum."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito,_ergo_sum#Discourse_on_...
I never understood the meaning of using "tm" with "blazing fast" and "it just works", is it a joke that is well known in tech?
Google literally invented the Transformer architecture, so yes, an impressive dropping of the ball.
Rape is violation of the body without consent. My mind is part of my body. I feel violated.
“Descartes’ world” implies radical doubt, even doubting what seems obvious.
Relevant to AI and fake videos undermining trust in evidence.