skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we get actual AGI, the price of land will go up relative to other things in the economy. This is because the other stuff will become cheaper to produce. If we keep the money supply fixed, that means the price of land will rise in an absolute sense.
Frigate: Open-source network video recorder with real-time AI object detection
Apollo also killed three astronauts on the ground in the posthumously named Apollo 1, and almost killed at least three more with Apollo 13. Apollo 6 (the final uncrewed test) suffered from pogo oscillations and also had two engines go out in the second stage. Apollo 11 had problems with the LM guidance computer, but was saved by Neil Armstrong's piloting skill.

This is all to say, Apollo was an extremely risky program.
Yeah. I don't care who Altman is cause he ain't the technical leader from a researcher perspective.

Altman is a CEO golden boy techbros.
Actually, that's a by-product of RLHF. A base model is usually not that verbose.
@dang is a no-op. Email at hn@ycombinator.com if you want to reach the mods.
I've desperately wanted a modern config management tool for ages. This looks nice, although I'd need to actually use it to be able to tell if would work for me. I've worked with both Ansible and Puppet and prefer Puppet's architecture, but it is an absolute beast of a tool.

Unfortunately, I think the production licensing here will limit the success. I can't see companies forking out $1,000 a year for an immature tool with no ecosystem when they could just use Ansible/Puppet/Salt. Not necessarily even because of the cost, it's just a lot of extra bureaucracy to get products approved in some places.
> p.s. you sure seem to say marxism a lot,

Marx is referenced constantly throughout all university curriculum on Critical Theory. He is a foundational thinker in the field.

I quoted one example in one of the above comments in this thread you are replying to, which you obviously did not read. Try actually reading something before replying.

https://crittheory.ucdavis.edu

To insist that Marx and his revolutionary ideology has nothing to do with Critical Theory makes you look incredibly stupid and ignorant here, especially to students and lecturers of CT.
Why would an seo expert want to work for you instead of creating traffic/revenue for his own projects?

Much better to learn the basics yourself and concentrate on generating good content or some other compelling offer that will get people coming to you of their own free will.

This will take time and will not be easy, hence why not everyone is already doing it.
Watching a few interviews of him, I don't really see the charm?
Do you mean outlandish scenarios should end up in survival?
Yeah, I agree there are two types:

1) repeating things he's reflected in or seen in the past (more like autocomplete), or

2) mixing two semantic concepts that he's seen in the past, and using it as a bridge to walk over to get to the next word/concept (which is back to autocomplete mode)

The second is like crafting in Minecraft, instead of just taking things out of inventory (but all of that is happening in high dimensional semantic space :) )
- there is no app on desktop ?

MS should make one, maybe electron app

- if stop 365 subscription, will lose all content ?
Anthropic is this alternative case with even more funding. How’s that working out for them?
It’s a tautology essentially. It would be weird for lousy leaders to have amazing success. So obviously great companies have great leaders because they wouldn’t have a chance of being great otherwise.
My assumption was that this would be attractive to businesses who have a need for some of the CSx suite but not the absolute cutting edge, and being a business only want to run legitimate software.
Federico Castelluccio
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sopranos-star-uncovers-paintin...
> It's blindingly bright and visually dark

Well put. You can easily see flicker if you wave your hand in front of a flickering light source. The trail of your hand will look discrete, rather than continuous as it does with natural lighting.
Most LEDs already blink at high frequencies to control power output. This idea just synchronizes the blinking.
I disagree. There is a simple test for consciousness: empathy.

Empathy is the ability to emulate the contents of another consciousness.

While an agent could mimic empathetic behaviors (and words), given enough interrogation and testing you would encounter an out-of-training case that it would fail.
DNS providers? How would they find out which DNS provider I'm using to find their addresses?
No information should be hidden. This isn't a "fragile world" technology.

If bad actors abuse the tech, then you make laws (or, in many cases, already have them on the books) against those behaviors.

The negative externalities of AI are called "crimes" and we have a framework for handling them.
And yet rich companies and government agencies still have computers which fill rooms. https://www.energy.gov/supercomputing-and-exascale

And those which are carried in our pockets are no longer capable of being home brewed.
That's just a re-assertion of cause and effect.

TFA: A doesn't cause B.

1: I see A and B together.

2: It may be that B causes A.

3: That doesn't matter, because A causes B.
In terms of trading exchanges, I'd say the ones with the best deterministic low-latency appear to be the Deutsche Boerse T7 ones, in particular Eurex.

This has led participants wishing to compete there on speed to use some pretty advanced custom ASICs.
Realistically though, you're never going to have a system where it's generally more attractive financially to spend a couple years on the beach than to keep working. That's a perverse incentive.

But, yes, that's the thing with gardening leave. There are certainly some people who would be fine with taking a year off at significantly reduced pay--but not the majority.
Wasn't this one of the main security issues with the BeOS architecture?

It's not the same thing as what's being done here via Wayland. BeOS is more YOLO style direct access of the framebuffer contents, without solving any of the hard problems (I don't think it was really possible to do properly using the available hardware at the time).
Best examples come from medicine. There are many drugs that work, but we don't understand how they work. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Drugs_with_unknown_me...
Because not everyone uses Kindle? Or Amazon?
First person shooters. Vertical synchronization causes a noticeable output delay.

For example, with a 60 Hz display and vsync, game actions might be shown up to 16 ms later than without vsync, which is ages in FPS.
No human can solve the Riemann Hypothesis. Why do you expect an AI to do it before you consider it able to understand things?
please, more attendees. I can't eat all those pretzels and cake myself
How are you planning to do that?

I wanted to approach AGI (or at least LLMs) since I was 13 on my sinclair clone. I even had a "frontpage", written in basic with box/line commands, and some plans on how it should work too. The hard part was to make it work and create a list of words it should know.
This is basically prompt injection.
They gained what they had in a blue ocean. Their competitor is going to swim in a red ocean. Playing catch up with technology that may go self improving.

Microsoft signed a contract that reads like a Kickstarter project ("would be wise to view any investment as a donation") because of what OpenAI had.
I never understand the reason open sourcing a trading system, if it works.
> A subset of the actions or interests

Direction is the word you are struggling to find, but it is the direction of the group of people. You have not added anything drawing attention to this so-called subset. It changes nothing about the discussion. It's just silly wordplay to divert our attention from your grievous error at the onset.
Anyone know if this bad boy will run under wine?
- JetBrains PyCharm and RustRover
- FastMail
- Youtube
- A few Twitch channels
- ChatGPT
- MidJourney
Additionally, all the existing lightning cables would not make good mouse cords because of their length, flexibility, and lack of strain relief.

Apple chose not to allow people to keep a cable connected not just for the aesthetics but also to keep them from reusing existing cables (instead of an hypothetical lightning mouse cord) and getting a poor UX.
A rough estimate from Jonathan McDowell (well known for tracking lots of space objects and launches) is that the debris landed north east of the Turks and Caicos islands.

https://nitter.net/planet4589/status/1725873032244195495

Edit: a newer update shows direct evidence of the debris field area https://nitter.net/planet4589/status/1725917544114974995#m
I obviously have no data on this question, but there were enough copies around that price to suggest it was roughly the market rate.
We also shifted away from discussing what an end user needs (a recent OS, probably no compilers unless they develop software, and if they do, a recent one) to what one would need if stuck with a legacy hardware or software stack.
I didn’t say anything about making a choice. My point is that if you’re utilizing wartime powers to combat climate change, there are additional options left on the table. FWIW, there is a federal 30% tax credit for installing geothermal heat pumps. Not possible for everyone, but drilling vertical cores for geothermal ground loops is surprisingly accessible. However, I can’t get a driller to call me back.
My reply was calling out your ridiculous and hyperbolic claims of "genocide", and examining the reality behind the euphemism.
> Opaque State: [...] You can’t inspect your model represented by the CRDT without using the CRDT library to decode the blob, and you can’t just store the underlying model state because the CRDT needs its change history also. You’re left with an opaque blob of data in your database.

As someone who works on a CRDT library with opaque state [1], I agree that this is a big barrier to adoption. Features like partial loading, per-paragraph permissions, and accept/reject suggestions seem pretty easy to implement if each text char is just a row in your server's DB, but I would have trouble implementing them on top of e.g. Yjs.

For text editing, one idea is to separate the CRDT "positions" from the text itself, which you can then store as a map (position -> char) in your own data structures. I've made a simple (but inefficient) library along these lines [2] and would be interested in ideas for further development.

[1] Collabs - https://collabs.readthedocs.io

[2] position-strings - https://www.npmjs.com/package/position-strings
I experience the same "blinding bright but visually dark" on a battery powered light I own. I wonder if it depends on the length of time the light is off.

Most light that flicker below 400hz really bother me, but I still perceive the surrounding as illuminated. While this particular torch light feels like "blinding darkness".
My experience is that you don’t even need to physically remove the device for the tantrum to start. The battery has died and I have seen children explode and be unable to calm down until after the phone was charged back up or that parent gave their kid their own phone. I have only seen it a few times but going out to eat or to the zoo, I see kids glued to their screens all the time.

I have negative experiences with mindless scrolling youtube or reddit as an adult and understand that I have an unhealthy relationship with them due to the addictive nature and I feel my attention span has reduced over the years. If adults can have unhealthy habits with technology, why can’t small children?

Reducing the child’s dependence on a screen to stay entertained or to behave in a public setting is more like cutting your child off after a few cookies and not letting them just eat several dozen cookies for dinner than taking the bottle away.

Phones aren’t necessary like a bottle of milk is for babies.
> I don't see anything from critical theory there

This is how it ends up with Critical Race Theory being force fed into people that end up writing these Children's books. This is how it is in practise in the real world.

> I don't know what cultural Marxism is?

Critical Theory IS Cultural Marxism, at least part of it.

The academics in this field are openly and proudly Marxist. It is a Marxist field of study.
That doesn't come from ChatGPT though, that comes from expectation of much more products in the future and the possibility of them beating Google.
Possibly the thing I do most is read comments on the internet, I'm not convinced it makes me a better writer, tbh.
Ed Mead's Warden Game
Ed Mead, founder of the George Jackson Brigade and a former political prisoner, recently passed away.

Mead designed the Warden Game in 1987 to “help players understand the contradictions of prison life in an age of mass incarceration”
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If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(Submitted title was "Adobe gave away it's Creative Suite 2 software 11 years ago".
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Do we know if BYD have any plans to sell vehicles in North America?

Why wouldn't they?
Curious what your experience has been like and how seriously you take it.

What do you do for work where you are able to not work on a screen? How do you communicate with family and friends? Etc…
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What are you even asking when you're asking why it works. Ultimately, it works the way it does because that's the way things are. I'm not sure what sort of answers you expect when asking why physics acts in a particular fashion.

Also here's Feynman ranting about why questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA
The problem with all these privacy preserving cryptographic breakthroughs is they are never deployed in practice.

Just look at cryptocurrency. We've known how to create a privacy preserving, truly distributed, cryptographic replacement to cash for decades, and what we end up with instead is Bitcoin and the like, which is pseudo-anonymous only and ends up being centralised anyway to interact with the fiat world.

Theres no demand for this tech in current society.

Sigh
Yes, and not to diminish it in any way, but keep in mind that they need 33 of them per.
"I predict the opposite with apartment complexes. Apartment management companies love additional streams of revenue.

EV charging companies will offer revenue sharing (if they aren't already) so that the apartment complex gets a cut every time a car is charged."

Yes, this is exactly how it works at my (sort of) condo.
> “The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company,” Musk said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Got a real Trump vibe here from Musk.
Why will they not be able to pay them well? Why can they not measure it unless you are a partner?
This seems likely to me as well.

> To me, this level of fragmentation, coupled with the nature of content-centric TV apps, suggests that a server-defined UI approach might work well.
Some would say we’ve reached AGI when a bot can write code as well as the average software engineer. (OpenAI is nowhere close to this but let’s leave that aside for now).

What you’re saying is, the bot needs to be 1 million times better at writing software than John Carmack to reach OpenAI’s definition of AGI, because it needs to be able to produce software that no one else has even come close to producing. That’s a much higher bar.
For what it's worth, having pay-pornography channels next to Local 4 news has inspired a lot of letters to Congress in the past. I don't think that fostered any more of a "fertile environment for Congress to act" than the Christian Moms Against Seedless Watermelons movement.
No, I didn't mean to say that it was necessarily bad, just that this sincerity/charm is simply power. And we should rightfully be wary of power. And least this woman was, and I agree. Predicting how it will be used (good vs bad) is a significant part of our work in the world :)
I’m more bearish of the idea of a major paradigm-shifting Chinese EV incursion to the US.

The US automotive market plays a completely different game than the rest of the world, with a bunch of protections and quirks that have a great potential to stifle a disruptive innovator.

First: the products themselves are regionally unique. The #1 selling vehicle in the US is the F-150, a truck that is a completely insane purchase for most of the rest of the world’s population. Japan may have disrupted the US market, but many of their vehicles they sell in big volumes are designed in America built in America sold primarily to Americans. BYD can’t sell the Qin Plus in America, they need to sell something more like the Rivian R1T. That means BYD needs a US factory to avoid the chicken tax…

Second: The US already shows high willingness to “chicken tax” EVs. All the vehicles that qualify for the EV tax credit are Ford, GM, and Tesla vehicles with high domestic part counts. The government can play this game until the cows come home giving the big 3 ample time to catch up.

So we’ve established that if you’re selling big volumes in America, you are producing cars in US factories. In that regard, China has a weak record of success. If they want to sell trucks in America they’ll probably have to have a UAW factory. The documentary “American Factory” comes to mind for me.

At best, this means that China won’t get the typical labor cost advantage that their entire export economy thrives on. What is their competitive advantage at that point?

Third: the dealer network. Operating in the US means dealing with independent dealerships often enshrined by law. Tesla had to fight an improbable battle to get to the scale it is now without independent dealerships.

Fourth: the incumbents have good tech and are high volume producers in their own right. BYD is big. You know who is bigger? Volkswagen. Toyota. GM. Ford. Even Tesla is bigger by global revenue. 17 other global automotive companies pull in more revenue than BYD, and 9 pull in more revenue than SAIC.

By the way, the “$5,000 used car killer” has been a legend for decades and will never happen in developed markets with strong safety regulations and demanding living standards. Americans literally do not buy city cars, new or used. Get back to me when the Cherry QQ more closely resembles the Ford Maverick.
The argument “a sufficiently capable autocomplete must contain a level of general intelligence” is correct but also not very useful. It is a lot like saying “a sufficiently fast horse can fly”.

It is technically correct that when you take things to the extreme you can accomplish great things, but we may not reach those levels. We may require completely different technology to reach those levels of autocomplete, and we have simply reached a new plateau at this point in time.
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If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(Submitted title was "Microsoft is a minority owner of OpenAI Global LLC")
Making accurate predictions in a specific domain doesn't imply understanding, sure. Universal autocomplete can make accurate predictions in all domains. Apples to oranges.
Maybe they put pictures of cats in: https://twistedsifter.com/2013/01/hidden-images-embedded-int...
In fairness, taking any thing away from children and having them scream in response has been pretty standard fare since time immemorial. At least that's always been my impression. As an adult, I'd be pissed if someone decided to take away the Macbook I'm typing on because of their subjective opinion that I did a naughty thing.
> Should there be a kind of surrogate shareholders who the board answer to?

Boards do answer to shareholders. The structure is execs answer to the chief exec who answers to the board who answers to share holders. No one else is relevant.

Are you suggesting confiscation of their property? That’s a terribly dark path. The government doesn’t exist to steal private property. It exists to create regulations and legal frameworks for them.
At least in software, my base salary is ~2/3 my comp right now (ignoring stock growth). If I could take say 50% base (so ~33% total) to quit working for 6 months - 1 year, you bet I'd take that deal. Put me on garden leave for as long as you want.
That's exactly what happened. This is the original intent for subsurfaces. A bunch of Wayland developers got together and wrote the spec a long time ago. The only thing happening now is Gtk making use of them transparently in the toolkit.

Subsurfaces didn't have bug-free implementations for a while, so maybe some people avoided them. But I know some of us emulator programmers have been using them for output (especially because they can update asynchronously from the parent surface), and I think a couple media players do, too. It's not something that most applications really need.
What watermarking libraries for images, audio, or video is HN using?

We've found a number of them, but the good ones are GPL3 [1]. I might email the authors about getting a license if there isn't anything equivalent.

[1] https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark is fantastic
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It also contains exclusive crypto option data aggregated from the top 5 crypto option exchanges including trades, prices, greeks etc.

I launched it recently and have been working on it for about 3 years on my spare time.

Please give me your brutal feedback, would love to slowly keep adding features that people might want / fix bugs I didn't see yet.

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Also - wanted to ask about the nominal value projections for market share. Do you some how normalize or weight/calibrate this data? Thanks
In addition to the other answers, any situation where you want to prove identity but want to preserve privacy at the same time. For example you could prove you're an adult citizen with ID without revealing your ID number, picture, or any private information whatsoever.
GOOD!

Noncompetes without a proper wage commensurate of the position is just slavery.

And after the US civil war, a whole lot of slaveowners were also really upset in losting their slaves... But even they got reparations for losing "property".
…sorry, how much exactly do you think quants make?
And thanks guy from 1280 who made it possible in the first place.
One should consider the fact that in this case the ex CEO is independently wealthy so clearly wasn’t doing it for the money. In addition he started it with partners as originally as a non profit. Finally he didn’t own any equity in the company despite being one of its core team and founding members, in addition to its very public face. How many of us in the same position as him could be controlled given that the only thing one has to lose is their ability to have influence over the other board members and he seems to have lost that anyway.
This blog post is not talking about Mutter, GNOME's compositor. GTK's hardware acceleration had already been using dmabufs before adding this graphics offload feature.
Lawyers will advise you not to do this. It exposes you to accusations of IP theft and barred competition.