skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now with this bit of free free-time, the Lord might finally be able to convince YouTube to make their ads more bearable, so people don't have to install ad blockers to begin with.

I installed mine after YouTube starts to show 45 minute (yes, indeed) long ads to me, the entire pod cast session of it, AFTER I've watched the first ad but decided not to tap "Skip Ad".

If YouTube don't want to control the quality of what they are showing, then guess I'll just help them not showing it. And if doing so is a cause for a ban, then I guess just ban me :)
The board completed the "fuck around" stage, now they're in the "find out" stage.
something like below extension. Relies on crowd (end users submitting time ranges) to skip unwanted parts

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-yo...
> Perhaps in case of storage devices (although it would be far less efficient to do it that way).

That's in fact how it works for USB bulk transfers: The host learns about the checksum error having occurred and it will retry until it passes.

That doesn't seem inefficient to me, given the low error rates involved (many flavors of Ethernet do the same, for example) – are you saying there should be FEC?

> But this approach doesn't apply to e.g. high speed industrial cameras.

These usually use isochronous transfers, where errors are indeed only detected (and reported), but no retransmission is attempted.
The question feels irrelevant even for me as a full-blood engineer. Why would being a tech company be a thing?

Without doubt Google has created a lot of impressive tech and it's still using a lot of tech. I used them for search between 1998 and 2021. I used gmail since the beta and I still have a couple of accounts, although mostly as dump grounds for various purposes, I have not sent anything for years. At work we use paid Google office. It's not excellent, but certainly better than what Microsoft and others have to offer.

That does not hinder that it has become too big for functioning market economy a long time ago. I am not interested in the advertisement market at all, but I am pretty sure it is seriously disturbed by Google's dominance.

The mobile phone market is completely sick. Apple's products are not bad by all measures. But on one hand I prefer cheaper choices in many cases and often don't pay for premium products. And as a tinkerer or hacker I would certainly not pay extra to get into a walled garden. So the only "choice" I would have is to prostitute my privacy and let Google track my whole life. Sorry, but I can't help it: Google is evil and needs to be broken up.

P.S. I still can live 98% without Android. But it gets tighter all the time. Soon there might be no bank or at least no decent choice. I understand travelling in the US might a serious pain because getting taxi-type service without an app controlled by the duopoly can he very difficult. But luckily I have stopped travelling to the US anyway, since the creation of Homeland security and the Snowden revelations it's not a place I as a foreigner want to visit anymore.

The relevant question for me is: Is Google bad for humanity or not? And I think my answer has become more than clear.
I dunno. I always enjoyed the pictures of his white dog.
I've been using Frigate for about 6 months. It's significantly better than Blue Iris and zoneminder.
PS/2 ports are still there on high-end and "gamer" mobos.

This is also related to the fact that a lot of high-end keyboards/mouses are also PS/2.

They don't cost more than USB, are simpler in many ways, and if the mobo has dedicated ports for them, I think it make sense to plug the keyboard and mouse there to free up USB ports for other peripherals that are almost exclusively USB.
If you're accepting a dim star only visible through space instruments I imagine it happens near-constantly

Having it happen to a star you're actually aware of and can see tonight is pretty cool
And Novo Nordisk, Rolex, Heineken, Bose, and the NFL.
If you are familiar with WinForms, what about Avalonia? It too can run everywhere and using .NET in 2023 is a breeze. Far better tooling quality and dependencies situation (hello TKInter bugs, or making it work on macOS) than Python and far easier packaging than with Java.

https://www.avaloniaui.net
> I challenge the author to go find a wired keyboard or mouse that comes with a USB C plug. it’s possible, but not easy.

My Moonlander Mk1 does, it has C-to-C cable with an optional C-to-A adapter on one end. My mouse is type C, but it comes with C-to-A cable.

But, obviously, this is chicken-and-egg kind of a problem. No one will build a cheap mass market keyboard with a C-to-C cable for a market (desktop computer users) where type C connectors are nearly non-existent. Extra components (adapters or extra cables) won't be worth it. If the majority of desktops will shift to have majority of their ports of type C, you won't find a type A keyboard anymore. Just like you will have some difficulty finding a PS/2 keyboard today (sure they exist, but aren't exactly widespread anymore).
Is not Lightcap retweeting the bigger deal as Greg already quit? It shows some serious level of support internally.
This exactly. Any text field is "checked" to see if it is getting submitted unprotected to a database. Every single one of them.

When you run a search engine you will see queries that try to look through every page of results for the search query 'input type="text"' typically this will either come from an API query or to a search page that is fronting another index.
My personal opinion is that there aren’t auteur directors either. Many are only as good as their corresponding editors, producers, or other crew. It’s just an image that people concoct because it’s simpler to comprehend.

Thinking of directors with distinctive styles like Hitchcock, Fincher, Spielberg, Wes Anderson etc… they’re maybe some who have a much larger influence than others, but I think there are very few projects that depend on that specific director being involved to make a good film, just not the exact film that was made. The best of them know exactly how to lean on their crew and maximize their results.

Taking that kind of influence, I’d say there have certainly been CEOs of that calibre. Steve Jobs instantly springs to mind. Apple and Pixar definitely continued and had great success even after he left them/this world, but he had such an outsize influence that it’s hard not to call him an auteur by the same standards.
It seems that OpenAI had switched to pre-paid billing. If anyone is interested helping, they can go and pre-pay. And support the non-profit.

I'd guess, OpenAI without Sam Altman and YC/VC network is toothless. And Microsoft's/VC/media leverage over them is substantial.
I think that’s dependent on the port, there are some I’ve plugged into with a very satisfying click and it felt very secure. But you’re right the cheap ones are pretty vague.
The OP would be the geenspun.com post or cute_boi, depending on context. The grandparent, in this case, is aslilac.
Exactly.

I can't speak about meta specifically, but from my exposure "responsible ai" are generally policy doomers with a heavy pro-control pro-limits perspective, or even worse-- psycho cultists that believe the only safe objective for AI work is the development of an electronic god to impose their own moral will on the world.

Either of those options are incompatible with actually ethical behavior, like assuring that the public has access instead of keeping it exclusive to a priesthood that hopes to weaponize the technology against the public 'for the public's own good'.
The board was likely stacked with people who were easily influenced by the big personalities and to check some marks (safety person, academic, demographic etc).
No, the most important really is "A source close to Altman”
This is how the Livejournal generation communicates. We don't have press releases or proper sit down board meetings. To communicate about a job loss or job gain we must have feelings and whatever music we are listening to right now.
It sounds like you're at the intersection of "tiny", "multiple network ports", "multiple M.2 drives", and "dedicated gpu". I wouldn't be surprised if that's a rare combination.
I’m pretty sure there are contracts, and one way or another, everyone would get a stay on everyone else and nothing would happen for years except court cases
I'm pretty sure Facebook is also an ad company, that just happens to use "scrapbooking" as a tool for livestock engagement.
Ordinary employees should never be the frontline defence against criminals.

That is what trained security guards are for.
Surely there’s a wholly uncensored chatGPT 5 at OpenAI running on some engineering sample H200 cluster with a Terabyte of video RAM or something.
GP means grandparent. It refers to the comment exactly two up.

Ex. From my comment, GP is the comment by pynappo, starting with "i think the GP was talking... "

Similarly, you can have GGP for great-grand parent, etc.

OP refers either to the starter of the post or the top level comment.
This is exactly how Elon Musk crushes competition.

His entire team including legal/hr/finance and not just engineering, has the culture of risk taking. Elon Musk is no genius, but his Material Science Engineering, risk taking and first-principle efficiency is unparalleled.

By focusing on Musk's shitty personality, his critics always gets wrong about why he can still be successful despite Musk being a douchebag
Watching what? A 501c3 being publicly pressured to make key governance decisions for the commercial benefits of investors in the 501c3's for-profit indirect subsidiary rather than the board's good-faith interpretation of its charitable purpose?

Why would they care about that?
If coding is hard, then why is it constantly Devtember?

Could we make coding a little harder, please?
It certainly doesn't "look up" text data it has seen before. That shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how this stuff works. That's exactly why I use the example above of Alpha Zero and how it learns to play Go, since that demonstrates very clearly that it's not just looking things up.

And I have no idea what you mean by saying that it has no concept of true or false. Even the simplest computer programs have a concept of true or false, that's kind of the simplest data type, a boolean. Large language models have a much more sophisticated concept of true and false that has a lot more nuance. That's really a pretty ridiculous thing to say.
I think this is the relevant post with senior OpenAI folks reposting with heart:

Counted 52 OpenAI employees supporting @sama with more rolling in by the minute

https://twitter.com/FreddieRaynolds/status/17261100249827369...
Do they need to be viable? I think the point is that they are not motivated by this crap
I think you have a circle of highly intelligent people around you. I live in Austin and I have all kinds of folks around me and there are plenty of people that are willing to spew bullshit and back it up. I think it's good to have a barometer for bullshit.
They may have such an interest, but their misguided methods are absolutely destructive.
PHP was once an extremely popular language too...
check out https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
similar comment made on another post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38306613
Generally speaking for a base model this isn't nearly as important as it sounds because the specifics of the data don't matter as long as there's enough of it. You may remember this from high school as the central limit theorem.

For specific things like new words and facts this does matter, but I think they're not in real trouble as long as Wikipedia stays up.
Not really. Blue Iris has too many features that aren't really needed, and the lack of Linux support makes it a non starter in many cases. Also, the AI features on BI are far worse.
Had to double check this wasn't a Onion article.
"But there's no upside to you as a corporate lawyer if you advocate for taking risks. "

This is a great trope, but as anyone who ever worked with me or plenty of others would tell you, this is both totally wrong, and most good corporate lawyers don't operate like this.

Effective corporations have legal departments who see their goal as enabling business as well, and that requires taking risks at times. because the legal world is not a particularly certain one either.

There are certainly plenty of ineffective corporate legal departments out there, but there are plenty of ineffective engineering, security, privacy, product managmenent, etc orgs out there too.
> I just don’t see a reason as to why the board would resign

The golden rule. The people with the gold make the rules, and Microsoft has poured mountains of capital into the company. For their board to make an extremely consequential move like they did without consulting their benefactors was the height of hubris.

Merely being forced to resign would be merciful, I half expect Satya to find some way to have them thrown in prison.
I own several devices that won’t work with a C-to-C cable. Somehow something gets confused. You need to use a C-to-A cable and if you have a computer that only has C ports like me, then you need to use an A-to-C dongle. What a mess.
MMT ia utter garbage. It's wishful thinking rationalized by people looking at the current debt burdens and saying, "If things haven't broken under the current stress, the bifurcation point must be higher, and maybe so high indeed as to not be applicable."

The US is in an extremely privileged position in that it is the world's reserve currency, so most of the ill effects from QE haven't spilled into everyday products. At least until recently.

Mostly it impacted speculative assets such as crypto, equities, and real estate. Now it's starting to hit other sectors, jumpstarted by the supply side constraints introduced in covid.

The US is able to print dollars and exchange them for real goods. No other country can do that. But once foreign countries stop buyung treasuries and start demanding goods for goods instead of devalued dollars for goods, thr US won't have any goods to trade, and the MMG hypothesis will die with instant hyperinflation drovenby extraordinary supply side shocks to the US economy.
Ublock does all this. However in the first few weeks you had to manually update it. In Firefox it works flawlessly now.
How can a computer acquire a human retina and, say, driver’s license for generating the identity hash?
They already are part of stylistic sets. So, for example, if you download a combination of 0 and 7 (regardless of which one), there are ss01-ss06 stylistic sets that encode other options in it.

The reason why we have a "font configurator" is because lot of terminals/IDEs/tools/OS, etc haven't got a full support for OpenType features. So we let users configure it as they like and it just works.
You'll likely have fewer issues distributing .net than python as an application. You can do the latter, but it means shipping the interpreter and modules and libraries and doing it in a different way for each platform. With .net winforms you'll have issues with compatibility, but you could keep the runtime and use for example AvaloniaUI for the cross platform GUI. (It's closer to wpf than winforms in design though)
oh yeah. remember what i wrote about this 7 years ago https://dercuano.github.io/notes/wwiii-genesis.html and that was before agi, spacex, the unfolding of brexit, the us huawei sanctions, or the solar energy explosion

not that those are necessarily bad in all ways but they sure do contribute to unpredictability
Wrong by what metric? What if they believe the only way to fulfill their duty to the charter is for open ai to die? Why would it be wrong? Is it worse that it living to be the antithesis of itself? Just so the investors can have a little more honey?
Every detail in this story makes me feel better about my mental health than I did before reading it.
They had proof the Uber guy took hw designs and source code
BI is windows only. Frigate is mostly used on Linux.
Robert miles kinda covers this

https://youtu.be/L5pUA3LsEaw?si=b-koyR9ZMoEj17Zo
That's a very blanket statement that I believe is quite wrong.
Agreed. It took me years to accept that it's ok for coding to be my hobby and not my career.
He needs to negotiate an employment contract with a poison pill termination clause.
Nature's Design Paradox: Aging as an Inherent Software Flaw
While you're at it, also don't accidentally plug a computer's Ethernet port into an rj45 wall plate that connects to an analogue pabx, it will fit and it will fry the NIC.

Don't put shit in the wrong hole is really one of the most basic lessons we should teach people in life.
Given the shitshow the current board of open Ai has managed to create out of nothing I'd not trust them with a blunt pair of scissors let alone deciding what alignment is.
I guess the beauty stops when looking through a microscope.
That’s from a single person most likely, who used sqlmap to test for sql injection. I haven’t seen internet wide attempts of testing sql injections.
The paper uses BMI to measure overweight/obese, which is an approximate metric as it does not distinguish fat from muscles.

Based on my BMI, I am overweight.
Based on my body fat percentage (measured by DEXA scan), I am athletic.

Conclusions from BMI are not exactly "Garbage in - garbage out," but I suspect that if the body fat percentage were used by scientists, conclusions would be more accurate and insightful.
> You need to remember that most people on this site subscribe to the ideology that growth is the only thing that matters

I'm not sure that's actually true anymore. Look at any story about "growth", and you'll see plenty of skeptical comments. I'd say the audience has skewed pretty far from all the VC stuff.
My best guess is they turn off the commercial operations that are costing them the most money (And that they didn't want Sam to push in the first place) and pump up the prices on the ones they can actually earn a profit from and then try to coast for awhile.

Or they'll do something hilarious like sell VCs on a world wide cryptocurrency that is uniquely joined to an individual by their biometrics and somehow involves AI. I'm sure they could wrangle a few hundred million out of the VC class with a braindead scheme like that.
It would be a coup if the board placed themselves in power, which they didn't. They just did their job description.
thing is they can team with people that probably have that data already. Say Microsoft switches teams to a hypothetical SamCo AI most of the internet has already been indexed by bing and wants to be indexed by bing as its the number 2 search engine. that mean they either have cached or access to pretty much everything SamCo could want to feed said AI. Reddit or Twitter for example would never cut bing off as it would cut off users. Microsoft could though block openai from further access to things like github linkedin.
Is it just the model that needs to be open source?

I thought the big secret sauce is the sources of data that is used to train the models. Without this, the model itself is useless quite literally.
Kinda weird to have lane markers on the bottom when the wall is cut out for the stairs in the Stadtbad Neukölln banner pic. I'm guessing the outside lines are more popular in this pool.
On the street, don't drive fast, drive precise. Come to a stop at a particular crack in the road, with you mirror exactly aligned with a signpost or mailbox, etc. They sell "bumper whiskers" which make it a fun game.

When approaching a light, learn how to lift and coast in neutral so as to time things so you dont have to touch the brake. (this aint great in traffic but there's often opportunity to do it without being rude).

drag race starts up to the speed limit are also rude but sometimes ok; but you can do things like time your pace up to or between speeds in terms of time (1 squirrel slider, 2 squirrel slider) or visual landmarks.
If only the board et al. could have acted professionally and done some planning and communication before such a drastic decision...
Closed AI
Which part is “better for humanity”?
It would be interesting to make a SQL injection honeypot that behaves like a database in most responses but is designed to maximally frustrate the attacker.
Compliance is sorta widely-acknowledged to be useless paperpushing.
What are you talking about use what? It's all in the open already anyway.. And someone like China even has more data to build from
Not at a bank
> I’m pretty sure there are contracts

Which one side or the other would declare terminated for nonperformance by the other side, perhaps while suing for breach.

> and one way or another, everyone would get a stay on everyone else

If by a stay you mean an injunction preventing a change in the arrangements, it seems unlikely that "everyone would get a stay on everyone". Likelihood of success on the merits and harm that is not possible to remediate via damages that would occur if the injunction wasn't placed are key factors for injunctions, and that's far from certain to work in any direction, and even less likely to work in both directions.

> and nothing would happen for years except court cases

Business goes on during court cases, it is very rare that everything is frozen.
I think it’s even simpler than that. They’re engineers, they’re used to reading the “specifications” and then assume that’s how things work. In this case they read whatever a 501(c) non profit is and now can claim they understand exactly how it works because they read the spec.
I'd be far less charitable and say that even if it's done well (Which let's be real, it wouldn't), it would still be useless in preventing reckless speeding. You could simply disable one or both of the internet / GPS connections and the car would function as normal ("oh no! My GPS module recieved some water damage, how inconvenient!").

The article also links to a ford article that claims "Speed limit signs may be a thing of the past", as if they plan to enforce having every single car in the US to be made post 2024 and have a mandatory always on internet DRM determining exactly how fast you're allowed to go. Ridiculous idea.
It's also very easy to bodge together a USB-C connector in a pinch that only supports USB 2.0

USB-C is an extraordinarily flexible connector and is super backwards-compatible. If you wanted to provide the exact same support as a USB A port, it's not any more complex. Just finer pitch to solder, but not any finer than anything else on the motherboard.

An A to C cable is also entirely passive. I think it's ok to rely on them. The future is now, time to move on. It's been 27 years.
Say I make up a conspiracy theory that wheelerof4te is secretly the alt account of Putin. This theory explodes into the public consciousness. Pretty soon the US and European press is talking about it. Putin goes on the record "Hacker news what?" Server logs show that the user is connecting from a ISP in the UK. Someone bribes your ISP for your physical address. The international press descends. You give a press conference where you admit you are the user in question. People show that the same pseudonym is used on other sites that all trace back to you. 1/3 of the planet now knows your name here and your real name. The evidence is obvious and conclusive.

Then for another 40 odd years people randomly spout off did you hear Putin posts as wheelerof4te on Hacker News.

The reason they don't get a strong refutation with evidence is that merely by opening their mouth metaphorically they have proved they have very little interest in reasonable argument. For the record you being literally Putin, crazy as it is, is actually a more reasonable theory than the moon landing being faked.

On a related note Russia due to its anti western propoganda is one of the few places this isn't a massively fringe theory.

You are unlikely to buy any of this I'm aware but have you ever found yourself arguing with a young earth creationist? It's the same feeling.