skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but I want to get a bucket of popcorn and watch him try.

So some groups groups have been noting (over many months) examples where Ad X appears next to Creepy Crap Y on Twitter (for example, content from literal Nazi accounts) and it seems like it recently came to a head in advertisers being spooked, and now Musk is claiming it was a "misrepresentation" and "fraudulent" and promising to sue for... something? Probably libel/slander/defamation.

If he does that, then the defendants could win pretty easily if they can show "what I said is literally true", plus the defendants may also get access to Twitter databases in discovery, and that could reveal (unless Musk has already deleted the tables/reporting-data) more information that might not be favorable to Musk.

I think there's a chance cooler-heads at Twitter will point out this risk, and Musk will have to invent some excuse for backing down his angry promises.

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P.S.: I wasn't aware of this before, but Musk already has at least one separate lawsuit already going on [0] claiming that using the website's search box and taking screenshots is "scraping" and "hacking" and a violation of the terms of service, so a defamation lawsuit may be an extension of that.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/online-watchdog-ccdh-mot...
According to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Vancouver Specials are “front-gabled, two-storey boxy built on grade with very shallow-pitched roofs.”

Technically below-grade: The Vancouver Special originated as a hack in zoning bylaws, whereby any floor 18" below grade was as a "basement" and didn't count towards the floor area limit, allowing larger houses than were otherwise permitted.
> there is no pile of crap deep enough you cant peek under. no bug you shouldn't be able to find,

I mean, yea, technically? But when the codebase gets very big, it can become intractable to chase every issue down.

> given enough time.

Okay sure. One often isn't given enough time though, if it's for a job.
It sounded nice
First submission here, I just found it very interesting that the Calibri typeface had any part to play in the Panama Papers Case (no, not that one, the Pakistan one) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_case
Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues
Show HN: Music Visualizations with Python and Graphviz
A group exists united by a shared belief that struggle is the source of meaning in life because without struggle there is no feeling of accomplishment. The “strugglers” sabotage the AI in some manner.
Thank you for that. It's thorough, and obviously well-versed in the subject.

As she says on the first page of her translation, "Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times."

O tempora, o mores!
He took your advice, and posted slander on the next.js thread and caused a ton of people to start messaging me and harassing me and our project contributors.

The next.js mods review his claims and said that he didn’t have any grounds for a claim because he used an open mit license.

They locked the thread and said the matter was over.

OP blew it up and tried to take it further to other subreddits, and this stupid drama even pulled in Lee Robinson from Vercel.

I am making updates to my project based off the communities feedback.

Is there anything else you can recommend?
From what I've seen, Ilya seems to be even more concerned than Altman about safety risks and, like Altman, seems to see restricting access and information as a key part of managing that, so I'd expect less openness, not more.

Though he may be less inclined to see closed-but-commercial access as okay as much as Altman, so while it might involve less total access, it might involve more actual open/public information about what is also made commercially available.
It is not like Oberon, Plan 9, Inferno and Limbo were such a huge commercial successes.

Had those brilliant computer scientists not been employed at Google, it would have been another Oberon or Limbo.
Canada's Spavor Blames Fellow Prisoner Michael Kovrig for China Arrest
Good one. :-) SLS, anyone?
Even with microplastics, other microscopic things entered food and consumption too. So I am skeptic, but the world also greatly benefits from the use of plastics in medicine. The rate of Alzhimers is not increasing, which would say elements of the disease not all microparticles.
> Bob produces something with AI but claims he produced it himself and signs it with his private key. … because Bob can sign whatever he wants with his private key.

Whether or not to trust Bob is an entirely different problem space than being able to prove an image came from Bob. In most scenarios Bob would be “trustworthy news source” who cares about their reputability. The important piece here is that if someone shares something on e.g. twitter and says Bob produced it, that claim can be verified.

> crack any camera by any manufacturer can extract the private key and use it to sign whatever they want, which is inevitably going to happen … Since that makes the whole system worthless, what's the point?

Think about what happens today when a private key is leaked - that key is no longer trusted. Will it be such a large scale problem such that the day any camera is released the keys are leaked? Maybe. Even in that scenario though we end up in the same spot as today except with the additional benefit of being able to verify stuff coming from NPR/CNN/your preferred news source that is shared on third party platforms.
Expensive, yes, but difficult, not as much as you think.

I'm assuming they are operating in low earth orbit. Which means that the satellite could be around 200-300km above the earth. Apart from the atmosphere its direct line of sight.

You have the advantage that you are not really trying to decode data, just figure out where something is, so you can use a large phased array antenna to electronically sweep an area. Because you're in orbit, you can localise a RF source as you fly over.

in terms of RF power, GPS is transmitted at ~40 watts from ~20200km I haven't done the maths, but as its inverse square, I'd punt that GPS signal is weaker than a phone signal at 200km
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Can someone furnish evidence that ordinary cell phones are actually trackable... from space? When 5g is typically 200 ft, at best ~4km; LTE being ~100km at best... and the literal record for the lowest satellite orbit (Tsubame; which merely sustained it for 7d) being 2711.5km?

Yes, sure, maybe at the obscenely low signal received in space, one could pick up some kind of signature as opposed to it being even marginally usable for tx. But to infer that some kind of high-fidelity tracking could be done with that? Come on.
> Isn’t that a bit like stealing from the for-profit investors? I

https://images.openai.com/blob/142770fb-3df2-45d9-9ee3-7aa06...
Yes, it was not for high bandwidth applications.
Nevertheless when you can receive something like SMS it seems possible to locate you phone with similar technology.
I think the author is being a little too harsh on himself. It’s totally okay to struggle or feel like you can’t solve something right away. There’s no need to be so hard on yourself. The most important thing is that you have fun with what you do :) You don’t need to be the best for everyone, just be the best for yourself and enjoy it!
Being leader himself is the value, first and foremost.

It is like saying Jobs doesn’t make iPhone, so he is not useful either. I don’t like the Sam is the new Jobs narrative but here it fits.

OpenAI is no small company now, it needs a head to pull itself in a single string.

In real world, power or trust goes to the person people who actually trusts. A manager isn’t a manager just by calling oneself manager. Without trust, people will find or form other decision centers around them. The result is execution became watered down or outright not being executed.

That is how I see the value those high level executives really offer. They are the center of trust and accountability. If people trust them, people beneath him will make sure things happen fast and hold themselves accountable. On the other hand, you just end up with an ineffective company
Bold claims require bold backing.

It's also in the country's favor to overclaim their capabilities.
Certainly Microsoft's GPTv4 infrastructure is still eye-wateringly expensive:

> GitHub Copilot has reportedly been costing Microsoft up to $80 per user per month in some cases as the company struggles to make its AI assistant turn a profit.

> According to a Wall Street Journal report, the figures reportedly come from an unnamed individual familiar with the company, who noted that the Microsoft-owned platform was losing an average of $20 per user per month in the first few months of 2023.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-reportedly-losing...
The Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blower as a Metaphor for Industrial Society
When you download you get pick what zero or 7 you want.
> a situation where four of the six board members execute a coup against the two most powerful and important board members (the CEO and the chair), the company looks like a shitshow

Umm, if it's "one human, one vote" then the board was working exactly as designed.

Being "important" may not save your job. Been there, done that.
I've been coding since I was 15, am now an industry professional with 7 years software development experience. I just spent close to 15 hours debugging a really simple HTML/CSS issue. Why? Because I've never touched HTML/CSS before beyond some CS 101 labs. I'm sure an experienced web dev could have fixed it in 10 minutes.

In my experience programming is less having it all in your head and more where and how to look things up. Because pretty much no one has it all in their head, and the ones that do are hyper-specialized workaholics and would be just as slow as anyone outside of that specialty.
I understand it fine, I just don't agree with it.

The whole point of an economy is NOT to encourage people to produce things. The point of producing is to satisfy a demand for consumption, and individuals choose their level of consumption according to their preferences and budget constraints. They don't need to be encouraged to consume. That doesn't make any sense.
Why do you assume someone with an art degree has “zero experience with technology”? I assume many artists these days are highly sophisticated users of technology.
The "50s tech" was not based around easily reusable systems. It was all based on explosive bolts, solid fueled ullage motors etc.

On top of that the fuel was much easier to work with and did not involve needing to be able to handle pressurization and sloshing during flips.

It's 50's tech only in the same way that a Ryzen CPU is 70's tech.
> It would be dumb for him to do anything that…

I admire you but these days dumb is kinda the norm. Look at the other Sam for example. Really hard to keep your mouth shut and do smart things when you think really highly about yourself.
https://lynk.world/ And AST and Starlink are all working on it for consumers which is far more complex (actually pushing a 5G signal to the phone and getting a response back in orbit). Just identifying that there is a phone transmitting is far simpler.
I exposed "AI" logo makers stealing fonts
Hey HN this story is from 2018 but I always wanted to share it.

I had just launched my first SaaS, it was 100% funded by my student loans (I don't recommend anyone do this ). I was extremely lucky that the launch went viral on Hacker News, Producthunt, and Twitter which resulted in 4-6 paying customers a day.

After about a month the paying customers were dwindling to around 2-3 a day and I needed to find a cost effective way to bring this back up. My SaaS was a website builder called Launchaco and it was impossibly expensive to acquire customers via paid ads. I landed on making a free / open-sourced AI logo builder as a loss leader when I realized a lot of our users were paying for “AI logo makers”.

At the time “AI Logo makers“ were quite literally just vertically aligning icons + fonts with fake loading screens saying "generating logos with AI", and then charging between $20 - $250 for the resulting logos. From the get-go the business model of these logo makers seemed sketchy at best, but when I started to dig into how they were licensing their fonts that’s when alarm bells really started to go off.

For those unfamiliar with font licensing, the short of it is that not all fonts are licensed to use as logos, and a handful of our competitors were ignoring this (some were profiting 100’s of thousands from fonts they didn’t have a license to distribute). I made a massive spreadsheet of all the biggest logo builders, dug into their source code to see what fonts they were using and manually checked if they were properly licensed. The result was hundreds of improperly licensed fonts across several very popular logo builder tools.

Fast forward 2 months to the launch day of our logo builder, I sent emails to about 100 different font foundries and independent typographers showing them how these logo builders were abusing their fonts.

Not coincidentally some of these companies temporarily shut down for a couple months after I sent those emails and some are still being sued to this day. All the fonts used for Launchaco’s AI Logo Maker were creative commons and we attributed the author per logo downloaded, we also open-sourced the brain behind our AI Logo Maker; we were excited to ship an Open-Core product for the first time & it was well received!

Post launch- Launchaco was getting a dozen or so paying customers a day and eventually was acquired by Namecheap. I recently left and now am working on a free / open source api docs tool which you can check out here: https://github.com/scalar/scalar :)
I, for example, could not start up my own data provider on the side and then as a decision maker at a fintech company, encourage us to become licensed customers. Or invest/advise a database startup and then become a customer. Etc.

Meanwhile you have CEOs front running their own company or treating staff from different companies as interchangeable. It's funny governors have been thrown in prison for example taking free renovations on their home in exchange for contract work with the state.
Judging from this thread, yes.
This is benign compared to ubiquitous camera phones with unbelievable image resolution and location data, being uploaded for "free" to services with cutting-edge facial recognition capabilities, among others.
There isn’t a way to connect biometrics to key pairs unless the key pairs are generated using biometrics (very insecure) or the Orb attests that they are unique from a hardware signature to Worldcoin (which means Worldcoin is a central issuer of identity and controls global identity).

Since the Orb's signature is trusted, it could just attest that you recovered your identity and here is the new key pair. Doesn't matter how hard you audit the hardware, it is a problem with the design.

Whoever has that key can use an emulated Orb, and sign your identity away.

It's a fatal design flaw, and I don't see why not many people figured it out. Proof of personhood needs another way.

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A lot of people will say, well doesn't government IDs operate in the same way?

No. Government ID is issued with a photograph. And Government IDs are used when you are there with your ID. Anyone clearly can see if you are that person or not (we cannot nanobot our faces to look like others). And when you use your ID online, it is tied back to your address, and sends mail to that address, and you clearly know when you have access to your local state account or if someone stole your identity, it is an easy recovery process.

If someone created a false government ID, worst you could do is immigrate into a country that you do not have citizenship for, for at least a while. Every other occurrence is tied to matching your ID to your face in real life, where a human evaluates.

If someone created a false Worldcoin ID, try and go to the Orb to recover it, but the next day it could issue the identity again and the process never ends.
Has the US ever stated or followed a policy of neutrality and openness?

OpenAI positioned itself like that, much the same way Switzerland does in global politics.
I feel like I could've wrote this myself. I've been dabbling with programming for about 20 years. Much of that time though I was managing other programmers and doing very little programming myself. I was also working on unchallenging (but profitable) projects for far too long. Only in the last few years have I felt like I've had breakthroughs and actually begun to feel confident. I attribute this to the fact that I've decided to do the work myself and take on more challenging work. However, most importantly, I've removed distractions from my life. The initial and intermediate learning curves of programming are certainly hard and I don't think it's possible to have any breakthroughs if you are not in a good place in your life. For me, it was the people I had chosen to surround myself with whom I realized were not supportive of me or my goals. Once I fixed that, I had more time and energy to focus on becoming good at programming. I still don't think I am "good" at it but I am certainly improving now. Don't give up, OP. I certainly never will.
> They don’t have enough to control OpenAI

Especially since the operating government effectively gives the nonprofit board full control.

> They don’t have enough to control OpenAI, but does that mean the company can actively steer away from profit?

Yes. Explicitly so. https://openai.com/our-structure and particularly https://images.openai.com/blob/142770fb-3df2-45d9-9ee3-7aa06...
"HawkEye’s current constellation of 21 satellites is trained to locate the sources of electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths ranging from roughly 2 meters down to 2 centimeters, with “Signals of Interest” including satellite phones, walkie-talkies, cellular towers, and GPS."

Despite the headline, the system does NOT track individual cellphones or GPS receivers. Cellular signal from a personal cellphone isn't strong enough to register at satellite altitude. The same goes for non-milspec walkie-talkies.
The scenario usually bandied about is AGI self-improving at an accelerating rate: once you cross the threshold to self-improvement, you quickly get superintelligence with God-like powers beyond human comprehension (a.k.a. the Singularity) as AGI v1 creates a faster AGI v2 which creates a faster AGI v3 etc.

Any AI researchers still plodding along at mere human speed are then doomed: they won't be able to catch up even if they manage to reproduce the original breakthrough, since the head start enjoyed by AGI #1 guarantees that its latest iteration is always further along the exponential self-improvement curve and therefore superior to any would-be competitor. Being rational(ists), they give up and welcome their new AI overlord.

And if not, the AI god will surely make them see the error of their ways.
Actually, I'm offended on behalf of Western civilization.
Literal wishful thinking ("powerful technology is always good") and vested interests ("I like building on top of this powerful technology"), same as always.
The statistic you cite show exactly what one would expect: Bicycles are less safe than cars. Mopeds and e-bikes are mixed in with bicycles, so it's impossible to tell how safe or unsafe those are. It's important to look at the statistics per trip or per mile traveled, rather than absolute numbers.

Cars are around 20 injury/total collisions per 10,000,000 trips. Bicycles (which includes mopeds and e-bikes) are about 10x that, at around 15 injury collisions per 1,000,000 trips.

My city doesn't release similar statistics, but I suspect they'd be worse. Does your city enforce traffic rules for e-bikes? Mine doesn't. They run red lights and are a menace. At the same time, they don't take the same skill as riding a bicycle, so there are many idiots out there. I would guess they're about 10x less safe than bicycles in turn (here).

As a footnote, your trucks are crazy scary. Do you know why? They outnumber all other vehicles _in absolute numbers_ for collisions, despite being a tiny portion of the trips.
Get a 1-on-1 mentor/tutor.

It's possible the things you're trying to do are just too difficult, but you are incorrectly assuming that they are easy and that everyone can do them. (This is especially common in game development - someone wants to create a 3D open-world MMO, not realizing that such projects typically take years to develop, even for teams of dozens or hundreds of engineers and artists.)

It's possible there's some fundamentals of programming that you never properly mastered. People sometimes go through multiple programming courses, but still have a shaky understanding of how basic control flow works, then wonder why they are struggling in their higher level courses.

It's possible you have some other weakness without realizing it, like (for example) trying to code from memory rather than regularly referencing the documentation (some people have this weird notion that you're supposed to memorize what every function does, when that actually couldn't be further from the truth).

Without working with you directly, it's hard for me to say what the exact problem is. You should have someone sit down with you and help you identify what's causing you to struggle.
Because of compound interest, the total tax will equal original land value in about 70 years, assuming simple interest. But the utility of land is worth far more than 1%.
As a replicant, chasing other replicants as dangerous?
Same experience.
I'm guessing Altman had a bunch of experienced ML researchers writing CRUD apps and LLM toys instead of actual AI research and they weren't too happy. Personally I would be pissed as a researcher if the company took a turn and started in on improved marketing blurbs LLMs or whatever.
Hey Andre, I apologize for any grievances or ill feelings you have towards Elegant or my team.

I’m sorry for any miscommunications or misunderstandings, and I would be more than happy to take this offline and resolve this without continuing to pull in the development community.
Tribela: A new try on social media
A big point from the podcast isn't that the goal is to identify you or your car later as you might think. It's that they can "rewind" the footage and trace where the offender came from and show up at their doorsteps within minutes/hours. It's as much about traceability as identification. A vinyl wrap won't help that.
They “should have” but if the board was wildly surprised by what was presented, that sounds like a really good reason to call out the CEO for lack of candor.
This would be treating a hypothesis as fact. That isn't scientific enough, it would be good to isolate a demographic where plastics are least used and a demographic where plastics are highly used with similar populations. Try to remove or invalidate external effects or properties and calculate the health of the individuals. Health not just alzhimers, because everyone varies differently. This would be almost an impossible task.

I'm sure there are more scientific ways to do a study.
As for free, monospaced fonts, there is also FiraCode.

Fira Code: free monospaced font with programming ligatures

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

EDIT: @airstrike beat me to it. Anyway, that's my favorite.
The point is precisely that it's not always easy to figure out which instances are problematic.

If you think about it a bit, given that bugs are relatively rare in a mature project, it's going to be difficult to find a use of unwrap that's definitely bad.